SUMMARY

• Results - driven, action oriented Technology Management professional, with extensive experience in Program/Project Management and Systems Integration areas.
• Technical background along with management consulting experience enhanced the ability to rapidly adapt to various roles and challenges.
• Sociable nature promotes ability to collaborate effectively with various client and subordinate teams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• MS Office
• MS Visio
• Expert
• MS Project
• Expert
• Jira
• Expert
• Rally
• Expert
• Quality Center
• Expert
• Clear Quest

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Leading daily scrum meetings for the developers and working with team leads and developers to assign user stories and tasks
• Facilitating Scrum of Scrum for offshore Scrum teams in United States, China and India
• Manage a team of 2 design architects, 8 developers and 8 testers on site and 8 developers, and 4 testers offsite
• Collaborated with the development team on defects raised during integration tests and UAT testing phases
• Facilitating Daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.
• Working with Product owner On Artifacts Such as Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Sprint burn down, release burn down
• Led and conducted UAT and Regression Testing.
• Work with all sub-systems to ensure proper assignment of system problems and allocate resources to work and fix bugs
• Documented software requirement specifications (SWRS) and make sure test scenarios cover all requirements.
• Prepared traces from system requirement specifications (SRS) to software requirements specifications to make sure all specifications are covered and traced all software requirement specifications to test cases to ensure test coverage.
• Perform SDLC analysis of business rules, business and system process flows, user administration, and requirements to ensure compliance...
• Requirements Analysis and understanding the Business flow of the application
• Test Scenarios and traceability matrix preparation
• Managing and daily communications with test teams spread across multiple countries with execution of verification procedures
• Defect tracking and reporting of daily progress in Jira & QC on a daily basis for tracking progress of deliverables
• Improving process flow and working with the customer to manage deliverables.

Confidential, Orlando, FL

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Defined project scope and objectives through internal project management methodologies.
• Facilitated the daily scrum meetings, spring planning, spring review, and spring 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 help eliminate them
• Coach and mentor agile team members and provides constructive performance feedback
• Trained and coached a development team of 6-8 and management team 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.
• Track and report status and other metrics against goals on an ongoing basis
• Managed offshore teams in different geographical places.
• 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, Jersey City, NJ

Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of the requirements (Agile methodology requirements comes in form of iterations) and prepared the analysis documents.
• Managed mid-sized project teams coordinating with teams spread across globally.
• Worked across multiple cross-functional teams to execute full system, interface and end-to-end testing.
• Extensiveexperienced in handling projects in the areas of Functional, Integration, Regression and Acceptance Testing.
• Experienced in preparing the Technical documents, User Scenarios, User Documents, Project Process documents, Gap Analysis, Impact Analysis, Change Request Proposals documents.
• Experienced in preparing, reviewing and executing project related documentation, Test strategies, project planning, test plans, metrics, estimations, functional, integration, system test cases, tracking and delivery.
• Coordinating the work of test teams and monitoring their performance.
• Managing the gathering of results and compiling test metrics for management.
• Streamlined the process and overall quality of the deliverables by introducing Agile methodology.
• Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of major initiatives with effective utilization of Jira.

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Leading a team of Six, Participate in Project Estimations and Proposal creations.
• Analysis of the requirements (Agile methodology requirements comes in form of iterations) and prepared the analysis documents.
• Coordinated with the Development and Business Analysis teams located at various locations to acquire application knowledge / discuss Issues.
• Capacity planning - resource on boarding process, resource availability,, etc.
• Hands on experience in Python scripting, python STL.
• Used Python scripts to update content in the database and manipulate files.
• Build domain knowledge on the application and manage plans
• Prepare communication protocol and sign off methodology for each phase of testing
• Preparing, reviewing and executing project related documentation, project planning, test plans, Traceability matrix, estimations, metrics, functional, integration, system test cases, tracking and delivery.
• Preparing, reviewing and executing Test Cases using Microsoft Test Manager and also creating the defects while executing the test cases and while doing Adhoc testing.
• Analyzing and manipulate data in a database by using TOAD.
• Cross-train on-site and off-shore team members
• Developed and managed Defect Management using Quality Center.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Java Application Development using Spring
• Writing JUnit and Integration test cases based on requirements
• Fixing code defects and bugs found during software testing,
• Code defects fixed during static and dynamic code analysis
• Analysis of the requirements
• Understanding the Business flow of the application
• Designing application units based on client requirements
• Developing the program based on client requirements
• Preparing and maintaining test cases
• Executing the Test Cases in Quality Center
• Defect tracking and reporting in Quality Center on a daily basis
• Ad-Hoc Testing of the applications
• Knowledge sharing with team members