Scrum Master Resume
Chicago, IL
SUMMARY
- Over 8 plus years of experience.
- Experienced Scrum Master wif 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 wif guiding Scrum team follow Scrum Principals and Prioritize Backlog list
- Experience wif Training teh 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 wif Scrum team wif 5-8 people.
- Worked extensively in planning, organizing, leading, and facilitating cross-functional, matrix organized teams
- They has 2 other Scrum masters- each Scrum master is aligned to one team.
- Work wif 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 teh Scrum team
- Worked wif 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 teh daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.
- Established effective communication for teh department wif consistency across development and business management. Presentations, recommendations and updates provided regularly to teh 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 wif Scrum
- Encouraging teh team for self organization to boost teh efficiency and coordination
- Working wif stake holders / product owners to prioritize teh requirements for sprint.
- Encouraging teh team to come up wif reusable elements and use teh best practices.
- Helped teh product owners to come up wif set of stories for better understanding for estimate and development.
- Motivated teh team to come up wif quality shippable product and meet teh product goals.
- Tracks and reports status and other metrics against goals on an ongoing basis
- Ensured task completion to specification, on time and wifin budget.
- Representing teh 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 teh user stories and assigned to teh sprints.
- Analyzing teh sprint wif current flow wif Product owners.
- Working closing wif product owner for Sprint planning, Review and Backlog refinements.
- Prepared Sprint Burn down chart and shared to teh entire team.
- Creating and communicating teh Sprint impediments to teh team.
- Conduct sessions for entire team about new changes and business impacts.
- Working closely wif Product owner for Automation Tool identification.
- Prepared a Chart and Report on current Scrum status.
- Resource planning and identify teh Manual and automation scope.
- Engaging teh team members for teh project wif required skill set.
- Allocate teh task to teh Manual and automation team.
- Closely working wif 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 teh Management team.
Confidential, Chicago, IL
Senior QA Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Reviewed teh 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 teh test cases in Quality center and documented teh test results
- Created daily test execution report and shared it wif teh project team
- Opened defects in teh Quality Center defect module and assigned it to teh developer
- Retest teh defect fix and closed teh defects
- Worked wif Business analyst and development team to resolve issues wif teh 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 wif 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 teh UAT test scenario matrix, to include all teh business and user related scenarios.
- Responsible for creating UAT, SIT & Regression Test cases in teh test plan module of Quality Center 10.0
- Responsible for Test Lab setup & importing test cases from teh 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 teh best methods to fix issues.
- Attended Defect Triage Meetings and worked closely wif 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 teh 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 teh defects to ensure a bug free application by using Test Director.
- Extensively tested teh 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 teh application or on new build were made.
- Enhanced and modified teh cases teh test scenarios.
- Involved in development, testing and implementation phases of teh project.
- Prepared user manuals, user training and support.
- Interacted wif teh system operators to get their response at teh 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