SUMMARY

• Over 8 plus years of experience.
• Experienced Scrum Master with Scrum Master Certification.
• 5 plus years of experience in Software Testing and Quality Assurance in HealthCare, Insurance and Banking Domain
• Experienced in following SBOK from SCRUMSTUDY and PMBOK from PMI
• Experience e in all phase of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Waterfall, V - model and Agile development methodology
• Experience with guiding Scrum team follow Scrum Principals and Prioritize Backlog list
• Experience with Training the Scrum Team.
• Worked extensively in planning, organizing, leading, and facilitating cross-functional, matrix organized teams
• Excellent analytical, communication, written, organizational and interpersonal skills
• Strong ability to work well both in a team as well as individually
• Experienced in using Project management and agile tools such as MS Project, Rally, IceScrum, Agilefant, VersionOne

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management Tools: MS Project, Rally, IceScrum, Agilefant, VersionOne

Testing Environment: Java, .NET, Mainframe

TestingTools: ALM/Quality Center, QTP, JIRA, Clear Quest, Bugzilla, IBM RequisitePro

Microsoft Tools: MS office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio), MS SharePoint.

Operating System: Windows 95/98//NT/2000/XP/7, UNIX, Mainframe

Languages: Java, VB, C, C#, SQL, HTML, XML, Java Script

Database: Oracle, Microsoft Access, MySQL, SQL Server2005/2008, and DB2

Protocols: HTTP, HTTPS, TCP/IP, DNS, SOAP, Telnet, VPN and FTP

Browsers: Internet Explorer, Netscape navigator, Firefox, Chrome, Safari

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Conduct daily stand-up meetings
• 4 week sprints with Scrum team with 5-8 people.
• Worked extensively in planning, organizing, leading, and facilitating cross-functional, matrix organized teams
• They have 2 other Scrum masters- each Scrum master is aligned to one team.
• Work with Product owner to write good User Stories.
• Scrum team follow Scrum Principals and Prioritize Backlog list.
• Backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition.
• Manage Sprint Burn down charts.
• Create value of commitments to delivery made by the Scrum team
• Worked with Developers, Project Managers, Business Analysts, Product Owners, Scrum Team
• Used principals of SBOK to implement Scrum Principals.

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Defined project scope and objectives through internal project management methodologies.
• Facilitating the daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.
• Established effective communication for the department with consistency across development and business management. Presentations, recommendations and updates provided regularly to the Director office.
• Provide visibility to team impediments/risks and halps eliminate them.
• Coaches and mentors agile team members and provides constructive performance feedback
• Trained and coached a development team of 6-8 and management team of 12 to utilize Agile Methodology with Scrum
• Encouraging the team for self organization to boost the efficiency and coordination
• Working with stake holders / product owners to prioritize the requirements for sprint.
• Encouraging the team to come up with reusable elements and use the best practices.
• Helped the product owners to come up with set of stories for better understanding for estimate and development.
• Motivated the team to come up with quality shippable product and meet the product goals.
• Tracks and reports status and other metrics against goals on an ongoing basis
• Ensured task completion to specification, on time and within budget.
• Representing the team to report overall project status and upcoming risks and suggest solutions about it.

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Gathering Epic, user stories and create Test Strategy and high-level Test plan.
• Analyze the user stories and assigned to the sprints.
• Analyzing the sprint with current flow with Product owners.
• Working closing with product owner for Sprint planning, Review and Backlog refinements.
• Prepared Sprint Burn down chart and shared to the entire team.
• Creating and communicating the Sprint impediments to the team.
• Conduct sessions for entire team about new changes and business impacts.
• Working closely with Product owner for Automation Tool identification.
• Prepared a Chart and Report on current Scrum status.
• Resource planning and identify the Manual and automation scope.
• Engaging the team members for the project with required skill set.
• Allocate the task to the Manual and automation team.
• Closely working with offshore manual and automation team.
• Plan, monitor and track test execution progress on a day-to-day basis.
• Prepared Test Release Note and publishing to the Management team.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the business requirement and developed test strategy and test scenarios
• Created test cases for approved business use case and requirements for System and UAT testing
• Executed the test cases in Quality center and documented the test results
• Created daily test execution report and shared it with the project team
• Opened defects in the Quality Center defect module and assigned it to the developer
• Retest the defect fix and closed the defects
• Worked with Business analyst and development team to resolve issues with the requirements, code and design
• Attended daily defect status call and created daily test progress report

Environment: Windows, VB, C#, .NET, ASP, Visual Basic 6.0, IIS, Quality Center, UNIX, Oracle, Quality Center 9.2

Confidential, Horsham, PA

QA Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in discussions about business rules, functional requirements, business requirements, test scenarios and application testing with Business Analysts and Product Owners
• Involved in reviewing business and functional requirements to develop test strategy and test cases
• Responsible for creating Test effort estimates for a particular release.
• Involved in creating the UAT test scenario matrix, to include all the business and user related scenarios.
• Responsible for creating UAT, SIT & Regression Test cases in the test plan module of Quality Center 10.0
• Responsible for Test Lab setup & importing test cases from the test plan.
• Actively involved in Manual & Functional Testing, Smoke Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, User Acceptance and Regression Testing for every new build released.
• Involved in cross-browser testing.
• Responsible for enhancing and version controlling of Test cases based on Change Requests.
• Responsible for Defect logging, Defect tracking & Defect Management in Quality Center 9.2
• Attended Daily Scrum Meetings, to discuss defects, progress, issues that need to be addressed and the best methods to fix issues.
• Attended Defect Triage Meetings and worked closely with software developers and business analysts to determine target release, priority & severity of open defects.
• Participated in generating Execution Reports, Status Reports, Defect Reports based on their priority, severity and status.
• Documented all the best testing practices followed for a particular release.

Environment: Quality Center 9.2, SOAP, SQL Server 2005, Waterfall, XML, HTML, JavaScript, Web Services, Windows XP

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed test cases for Integration, System, Retesting and Regression Testing.
• Executed test cases and reported the defects to ensure a bug free application by using Test Director.
• Extensively tested the Graphical User Interface components.
• Test Director was used for creating coverage between requirements and test cases and also for documenting and communicating test results.
• Modified test cases when changes in the application or on new build were made.
• Enhanced and modified the cases the test scenarios.
• Involved in development, testing and implementation phases of the project.
• Prepared user manuals, user training and support.
• Interacted with the system operators to get their response at the time of User Acceptance Testing.
• Participated in QA Team meetings and walkthroughs or weekly QA testing reviews.

Environment: Test Director, Win Runner, Visual Basic, Windows NT, Crystal Reports & Oracle