SUMMARY:

A dynamic and results - driven Scrum Master /DevOps Engineer / Project Support with over 7 years of experience in areas of Project Management, Change Management, Business Analysis, Software Validation, Technical Documentation and Agile Coaching. Serving in several sectors in IT Banking, Electronic Commerce, Mobility, Educational and Government. Proficient in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC, STLC) including requirements gathering, risk analysis, Development, testing, defect tracking, test management and reporting.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Quality Center, Beyound Compare 4.0, QTP 11.0, UFT, JIRA, Bugzilla, TP, Test Director, QC, Snagit

B2B Ecommerce: Hubris, Omni-channel commerce solution

Programming Scripting Languages: C, C++, C#, SQL, VB Scripts, Java, Java Scripts, XML, HTML, ERP SAP R/3, ECC 6.0, SAP Net Weaver

Operating systems: Windows XP/NT/2000,DOS,Unix,IOS,ANDROID

Databases: SQL, Oracle,DB2,Tomcat

Methodologies: Waterfall and Agile, XP

Workflow Tools: Spec Flow, Google Sheets, MS Office, MS Outlook, Lotus Notes, MS Visio, MS Project, MS SharePoint, Draw.io, Diff Checker, Smart Sheet, Project Manager, Pivotal Tracker, Pentaho

Other Technologies: VPN, PuTTy, Notepad++, DiffMerge, WinSCP, VMware, Studio SKD, Source Tree

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Bartlett, IL

Sr Scrum Master / LifeRay Management DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyze Design, Develop and Test the new application “Portal” in Liferay Portal environment using Java/J2EE and Liferay Portal Technology.
• Coordinated all aspects of agile development to achieve Iteration goals and commitments planning, sizing and estimation, monitoring velocity, managing project scope, and financials.
• Working with JIRA across 50 people on Team as well as 5300 people Across Campus.
• Created and delivered several Agile training courses to over 600 employees
• Daily Standup meetings as well as Sprint planning and /grooming.
• Working with 24 Developers and 5 QA’s on testing needs
• Working with offshore Team and on site teams
• Managing environment from Development, testing, Post production and UAT
• Client updates with status reports and UAT testing
• Responsible for creating, maintaining and publishing project plans/schedules, milestones, timelines, statuses to executive leadership and senior management.
• Working with burn-up, burn-down graphs to see the progress of development
• Involved in business plan and gathering the requirement test plan for the new project implementation.
• Implemented Theme, Hooks, and Layout in Liferay Portal and worked on current project architecture and Inter Portal Communication.
• Proficient in setting up Confluence Spaces and permissions
• Proficient in conducting presentations, holding stakeholder meetings and documentation.
• Worked with LDAP integration in Liferay.
• Responsible for design and implementation of various modules of the application using Struts-Spring-Hibernate architecture.
• Responsible for writing Struts action classes, Hibernate POJO classes and integrating Struts and Hibernate with spring for processing business needs.
• Proficient in setting up Git/Bitbucket repositories
• Used Struts Validation Framework for dynamic validation of the user input forms.
• Improved Auto Quote application by designing and developing it using Eclipse, HTML, JSF, Servlets and JavaScript.
• Help with Information Technology and Communications Services (ITACS)
• Engage the SCRUM team during the Sprint Retrospective sessions to gather valuable lessons learnt from previous sprints to help with the future sprints.
• Worked with SAFe for Agile software development.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Scrum Master/DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master Managing two separate SCRUM teams consisting of 6 developers, 3 BA's, and 3 QA's delivering to our Product Owners on time and within budget major functionality.
• Currently managing a 2-week Sprint Cycle and delivering Business functionality, Defect Remediation, Technical Debt Reduction as well as driving an Internal User Acceptance Testing of our brand new application.
• Ensuring the development team is practicing the core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.
• Analyzing multiple sources of information (high-level requirements, wireframes, and change requests, CMS information) to understand exact requirements for very complex projects, with the purpose of translating those requirements into user stories. facilitate Stand-ups, User Stories, Technical, & Defect Backlogs, Sprint Planning Meetings (Planning Poker,) Retrospectives, Review/Demo, Code Reviews, Story Board, and Story Writing.
• Conduct and coordinate UAT sessions.
• Proficient in setting up Git/Bitbucket repositories
• Facilitated the team in identifying and managing interactivity dependencies within product development
• Assist in task identification, resource allocations and schedule estimates for staff on assigned project in order to help keep project resourced appropriately and on track. Take lead on small segments of the project.
• Identifying and removing team impediments, and preventing external distractions as well as identifying risks.
• Coach team members and client on Agile best practices.
• Maintaining all Backlogs (User Story, Technical & Defect Backlogs) in TFS (Team Foundation Server)
• Expertise in maintaining appropriate Project Documents with emphasis on compliance with company policies and guidelines.

Confidential, Chicago IL

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the team to come up with overall release plan and break down of features, epics and LOE and identifying high level technical challenges and business priority up front and plan the release accordingly
• Responsible for Daily Scrums, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective sessions.
• Managed 1 month sprints with employee offshore and onsite and successfully incorporated the comments from the retrospect
• Identifying and removing team impediments and effective utilization of the sprint resources facilitate Stand-ups, User Stories, Technical, & Defect Backlogs, Sprint Planning Meetings Retrospectives, Review/Demo, Code Reviews, Story Board, and Story Writing.
• Responsible for testing the complete data flow from CMS to the front end audit application.
• Has good knowledge and experience of testing on documented basics and architecture, XML, DQL queries, Content model structure for documented.
• Responsible for creating, maintaining and publishing project plans/schedules, milestones, timelines, statuses to executive leadership and senior management.
• Performed complete integration cycle between CMS (content management system) and corresponding version of the Engagement management system
• Extensively used X-metal Thick client for editing XML files, Documented WebTop interface, EMS client to end-to-end testing.
• Extensively used HP Quality Center for creating and executing test cases.
• Experienced in testing compete software technology update project and making sure the new upgrades from the different external vendors which are incorporated to the existing CMS application correctly.
• Experienced capacity planning, managing team onsite & offshore and responsible for overall quality of the project from testing side
• Proactively managed multi-million dollar accounts across geographies. Responsible for Vendor Management, Rate Negotiations, Contractor Selection and Client Relations on multiple projects
• Comfortable working independently within competitive and demanding settings; Strong skills in problem identification, analysis and resolution
• Experienced in preparing test strategy, Test execution plan, and sending report to the higher management
• Worked with operation and infrastructure team and external vendors to trouble shoot issues and followed defect life cycle.
• Perform testing, focused on Confidential concept of finding defects at the earlier stages by following the quality best practices, and actively participated in initial user story discussions, review meetings
• Experienced in Agile methodology, scrum, sprint planning, story point estimation, review and retrospect
• Experienced in testing new data mart built for reporting solutions

Confidential, Rosemont, IL

Sr. QA Analyst / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Played the role of scrum master. Conducted daily standup / coordination calls.
• Maintaining product backlog along with product owner.
• Planned and executed 1 major releases, 4 drops (sprints)
• Conducted estimation sessions for future stories
• Project team size was 45 resources located at different geographical locations.
• Achieved completion of all requirements with zero defect Developing SQL Queries to check the database validation on various mapper output files and reports
• Ensured test plans were complete, comprehensive, and up-to-date and that changes to test plan were tracked
• Created and executed testing scripts using QTP
• Executed Manual tests for Integration, User Acceptance, Positive and Negative, Functional
• Executed the regression test cases manually before it was handed over to UAT
• Experienced in developing Test Plans, Test Cases, Defect Tracking/Reporting and preparing test summary report
• Extensively used QC and QTP as testing tools
• Involved extensively in Functional Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, Smoke Testing and Regression Testing Quality Center, and TFS
• Involved in automation infrastructures development in Quickest
• Participate in UAT, ensure post production validations, Integration testing
• Shadowed the Lead Scrum Master to learn and perform Scrum roles and responsibilities
• Strong experience in utilizing Traceability Matrix to ensure test cases met requirements
• Testing in Agile environment/Scrum
• Performed data preparation for assigned test cases. Trained new employees to perform data preparation.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. QA / POS-Data Management SAP

Responsibilities:

• As QA Analyst involved in Documentation of Integration, Regression and Security testing
• Assures accurate analysis and design of SAP POSDM that meet specifications and requirements of projects and overall business needs
• Assures accurate implementation of applications and systems to support the environment that will provide up-to-date information to all areas and levels of the company
• Conducted entry validation tests on all the online Applications - both positive and negative Tests
• Identification of Test data and validation of Test environment
• Involved in Automating testing using QTP with the help of manual test cases
• Involved in creating the Scenarios for single and Multi-lyer test
• Involved in creation of low, medium, and Peak load scenarios
• Involved in Data Migration testing used old data and checked the validity of the data
• Involved in documenting Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Procedure using Business requirements document and Functional requirements document of the system
• Involved in generating scripts for the load tests as per the requirements
• Involved in Integration testing (end-to-end Cross-Functional process chain)
• Monitored the status of bugs until they were sorted out
• Performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Validation Testing, Smoke Testing
• Prepared training documents for end users of application
• Provide on-site subject-matter expertise to implement SAP POSDM on SAP HANA
• Recording of various tests and stored in the database for reusability
• Reporting of bugs using Test Director
• SAP POS DM configuration in a SAP BW / SAP Retail environment, including POS DM profile building
• Tested Android and IOS devices for client facing
• Testing of Client/Server environment in SAP DM module

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Software Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Created test data sets for available promotions, validate coupons/Vouchers and product details by conducting positive and negative test for Confidential online shop
• Perform the tasks of testing in inventory management system at the back end as well
• Performed data preparation for assigned test cases. Trained new employees to perform data preparation
• Performed integration testing with web application and mobile application, verified all functionality are correlating appropriately on high speed network, if not I performed troubleshooting for the respected through puts as per requirements
• Responsible for testing the e-commerce solution of shopping cart software at front end
• Testing of Hybris e-commerce solution
• Worked with Hybris ecommerce tool in customizing the business requirements to create, modify, update, and delete products and offers in order to publish & manage the content

Confidential

Functional Analyst / Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Conducted review meeting with Business teams to review test scenarios and test cases
• Created Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) from Functional and Technical specifications to ensure that all the requirements are covered by the test cases
• Developed test cases and test scripts to check the login page requirements when they are applying for the loan on website
• Followed agile methodology for software development and testing
• Participate in the weekly status, business review and defect triage meetings with the team
• Participated Daily Test Activity Defect Status Meeting. Produce test results documentation using Test Directory's graph wizard for easy-to-understand analysis
• Participated in creation of Traceability Matrix
• Participation in System Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing and Regression
• Performed Data Validation Testing, Black Box Testing and User Acceptance Testing
• Applied risk assessment techniques to facilitate project completion with limited resources