SUMMARY

• 13 Years of IT Experience with 5 Years of Scrum Master along with 4 Years of Product Owner in large product based financial organization with Digital Transformation product development teams.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM, SAFe Agilist) and Certified Product Owner (CSPO) with 13 years of experience in Retail, Banking & Financial domain.
• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP - PMI).
• Experienced in implementing SCRUM Framework and adoption of Agile Methodolgies.
• Highly organized, methodical, and skill at overseeing daily incremental progress toward sprint and product goals across high-performance teams. Well-versed in Agile planning and facilitating Agile ceremonies.
• Experience in Prioritizing features by estimating techniques like Agile Poker, T-Shirt Sizing.
• Proficient in using Agile tools like JIRA, Confluence and CA Agile Central (Rally) for managing User stories and contributed in Scrum Ceremonies like Release Planning, Backlog grooming, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Retrospective.
• Proficient in resolving impediments hampering team progress and quality of product.
• Used Sprint Burndown Chart to track velocity and Assisted Product Owner in creating Definition of Done, Definition of Ready, and Acceptance Criteria during the Product Backlog Grooming ceremony.
• Efficiently collaborated with Business Owners, Business Users, Product Owners, Project Managers, third party vendors and other stakeholders.
• Experience in facilitating Scaled Agile and Scrum ceremonies including Program Increment (PI) planning, Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospective and Backlog Grooming; Prioritization at portfolio/program/team level; cross team dependency management; features and user story writing workshops and coached multiple scrum teams to achieve project milestones.
• Interacts and collaborates with stakeholders on key product considerations and aligns with product vision, features and roadmap.
• Prepares the business for the change and provides tactics and metrics for benefits, adoption, and risk. Leverages existing change management routines, as needed.
• Establish Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Objects and Key Results (OKRs) for the product team and ensure alignment with senior leadership.
• Ensures product adheres to the highest quality standards, including releasing security patches not linked to customers.
• Experience with developing product strategy and alignment with interfacing products.
• Manages the product backlog working collaboratively to prioritize features/stories and understand cross product dependencies.
• Ability to effectively facilitate discussions at various levels and suggest alternative approaches.
• Ability to effectively manage challenging situations through negotiation and conflict resolution.
• Provide vendor management and collaborate with other product teams on required integrations.
• Collaborates with Product Manager(s) regarding long-term product strategies and roadmaps. Identifies and researches new product opportunities to increase sales and revenue.
• Regularly provide updates and solicit feedback from the platform’s executive sponsor and firm’s broader stakeholders/executive leadership through storytelling.
• Proficient in the data manipulation using SQL for the retrieval of data from the relational database.
• Experience and Understanding of Automation Frameworks and CI/CD Pipeline tools like Trident, Selenium with TDD and BDD approaches.
• Experience in various domains like Banking, Payments, Cards, Retail and Telecom.
• Certified in ISTQB (Foundation) and IBM SOA Fundamentals Certification.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Agile Frame Works: SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming.

Agile Tools: Jira, Confluence, Rally, Miro Board.

Business Modeling Tools: MS Visio, Lucid Chart, Mockup Screens.

Testing Tools: Selenium, Cucumber, SOAP UI, RIT, J Meter, Perfecto, SeeTest

Defect Tracking Tools: HP ALM, JIRA, Bugzilla and IProman.

Programming Languages: Java, VBScript, Microsoft .NET, XML, HTML, SQL, PL/SQL

Database: DB2, Oracle10g, SQL Server, MySQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, IL

Senior Scrum Master/Product Owner

Responsibilities:

• Creation/Updating of Miro Board on daily basis with various inputs like Team Capacity Management, Leave Plan, User Story Status, Any Adhoc tasks the need to be take care like analyzing incidents, trainings etc.
• Facilitation Daily Scrum meetings and Walk through on the announcements in Miro Board and User story status in Miro and Jira Boards.
• Facilitation of defect meetings post huddle and discussion on any technical work by the team.
• Participation in Story Grooming and Sprint Planning Meetings.
• Applied Agile methods and processes to promote a disciplined and transparent project management process.
• Responsible for arranging and conducting the Agile ceremonies like Daily stand-up meeting, Sprint planning, Inspect and Adapt demo sessions and Retrospective meetings.
• Story points-based estimation using Relative Story Point Estimation.
• Responsible to preparing the sprint level plans and sprintmetrics.
• Collaboration with other application teams and third party vendors in order to understand features.
• Created Sprint Release Plans with input from development teams.
• Manages sprint readiness by providing clarification for User stories and features and to resolve bugs.
• Understanding features with thorough grooming and assisting product owner to break down features into User Stories with proper Acceptance Criteria.
• Interacts and collaborates with stakeholders on key product considerations and aligns with product vision, features and roadmap. Leverages customer insights, feedback, financials, compliance and risk data to define product features and roadmap in partnership with other SMEs.
• Establish Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Objects and Key Results (OKRs) for the product team and ensure alignment with senior leadership.
• Owns definition of Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and features/user stories for delivery product roadmap; in-line with the Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) of the greater product vision.
• Holds meetings with the product team to continuously update product backlog. Ensures product features and processes align with applicable compliance and risk management standards. Ensures product adheres to the highest quality standards, including releasing security patches not linked to customers.
• Works with Data stewards in their respective LOBs to ensure required Data quality controls are identified and implemented. Inspect and evaluate product progress through each iteration.
• Builds a culture of accountability and ownership by empowering the product team to make decisions as close to the work as possible.
• Understanding Test automation scripts for API and UI using Selenium with Serenity framework.
• Execution of automated scripts and generate Cucumber reports through BDD process.
• Creation of Jenkins Pipeline for CI/CD and run the Jenkins job.

Confidential, IL

Senior Associate (QA Lead)

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing business and functional requirement documents to create Test cases for System testing
• Coordinating with business Users, Developers and discussing issues in interpreting the requirements by following Agile/Scrum testing methodology
• Attending Daily Scrum meetings and participation in Story Grooming and Sprint Planning Meetings.
• Execution of test cases Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Cross browser Compatibility Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing and UI Testing
• Execution of REST API using Automation Tool like IBM Rational Integration Tester and SOAPUI.
• Execution of responsive web pages using Cross Browser Testing Tool and mobile applications using cloud-based Perfecto Tool.
• Has Knowledge in automation of web applications using Selenium.
• Involved in providing the Testing Effort estimates and providing the timely feedback on progress of the testing activities while daily scrum meetings
• Reports defects through defect tracking tool HP ALM.
• Preparing and enhancing the test cases according to the functionalities to perform test execution
• Tracking the status of the defects with the development team and coordinating with them in retesting the existing defects after the new code deploys
• Generated the execution results and sent it across to the team, by way of gathering and analyzing the Test metrics for the purpose of reporting.
• Coordinating with Offshore Team and communicating on daily basis.

Confidential, IL

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing business and functional requirement documents to create Test cases for System testing
• Coordinating with business Users, Developers and discussing issues in interpreting the requirements by following Agile/Scrum testing methodology
• SOA Automation using J-Meter.
• Execution of test cases Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Cross browser Compatibility Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing and UI Testing
• Involved in providing the Testing Effort estimates and providing the timely feedback on progress of the testing activities while daily scrum meetings
• Reports defects through defect tracking tool JIRA
• Preparing and enhancing the test cases according to the functionalities to perform test execution
• Tracking the status of the defects with the development team and coordinating with them in retesting the existing defects after the new code deploys
• Generated the execution results and sent it across to the team, by way of gathering and analyzing the Test metrics for the purpose of reporting

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing business and functional requirement documents to create Test cases for System testing
• Coordinating with business Users, Developers and discussing issues in interpreting the requirements by following Agile/Scrum testing methodology
• Automation of services through SOAPUI tool using Groovy script.
• Validation the data using JDBC test requests.
• Involved in providing the Testing Effort estimates and providing the timely feedback on progress of the testing activities while daily scrum meetings.
• Preparing and enhancing the test cases according to the functionalities to perform test execution
• Tracking the status of the defects with the development team and coordinating with them in retesting the existing defects after the new code deploys
• Generated the execution results and sent it across to the team, by way of gathering and analyzing the Test metrics for the purpose of reporting
• Preparation ofdefect and daily / weekly status reports.

Confidential

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Taking ownership of the project for delivering the services
• Coordination between the offshore and onsite team.
• Test requirements analysis, Effort estimation, Test design Test script preparation/review, Test execution and verification,
• Automation of services through SOAPUI tool using Groovy script.
• Validation the data using JDBC test requests.
• Preparing and enhancing the test cases according to the functionalities to perform test execution
• Tracking the status of the defects with the development team and coordinating with them in retesting the existing defects after the new code deploys
• Generated the execution results and sent it across to the team, by way of gathering and analyzing the Test metrics for the purpose of reporting
• Preparation ofdefect and daily / weekly status reports.

Confidential

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Functional Requirements.
• Involved in writing of Test plan, Design of Test Cases through Functional Specifications.
• Preparation of Test Traceability Matrix.
• Execution of Test Cases through Functional Testing, Compatibility Testing, System Testing and Regression Testing.
• Reported defects through bug tracking tool Digite (IProMan) and Bugzilla.