SUMMARY:

• Looking for a Scrum Master / Project Manager role, as Certified Agile Practitioner. Experienced in handling small scale projects and performed as Lead QA Engineer in Video Platform, Telecommunication and Ecommerce IT Implementations.
• Certified SAFe 4.0 Practitioner with proven abilities to Initiate, Manage, and Implement new technologies and Innovative solutions in large and complex environments. I bring to the organization strong Management and Interpersonal Team Building Skills to achieve business objectives. Experienced at aligning team goals to the organizations strategic goals, and meet expectations of the business partners.
• Strive to make a team better through Leadership, Metric Measurement, and Process Improvement.
• Looking for a Mid - Level Project Management/ Scrum Master role with over 6 years of Technical experience.
• Previous experience in Manual Testing of both client server and web-based applications in various phases of testing like Sanity Testing, Functional Testing, GUI Testing, Upgrade Testing, Regression Testing, System Integration Testing (SIT) and End to End (E2E) Testing and UAT (user acceptance testing).
• Experienced in liaising between business and technical areas to achieve on-time and on-spec project completions. Able to merge business requirements, technical knowledge and logistical considerations to help meet project deliverables.
• Experienced in Agile (scrum) Software development life cycle with thorough testing knowledge of entire SDLC, including version and change control and new software rollouts.
• Involved in Project Co-ordination under Senior Technical Manager for entire Project, beginning from requirements development phase to final release of the product in market.
• Assisted in defining Epic Plan, Sprint Breakdown and Work Breakdown Structure. Experience in bug reporting tools like JIRA (iTrack), Quality Center and Rally.
• Knowledge of defining and developing Test plans, writing Test cases, Test scripts, Test procedures by analyzing Business/Technical Requirements, System design documents and use case documents. Executing them and performing defect reporting and tracking them through the entire life cycle.
• Involved in developing and maintaining Requirements Traceability Matrix, Burndown Charts and performing Gap Analysis to ensure that all business requirements are fulfilled and there is adequate test coverage.
• Analyzed Enhancement Requests and Modification Requests to access impact on existing systems and define solution and testing strategy for the applications.
• Result oriented and can adapt to the environment quickly. Demonstrated success in many projects under aggressive schedules and deadlines.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Specialties: Project Management, Scrumming, Test planning/Analysis, Testing, Software development lifecycle methodologies (SDLC), Ecommerce application testing, Mobile applications testing, Video Platform Testing, Results-oriented Testing, Problem solving

Management Tools: Atlassian Confluence, MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), MS Visio, Slack

Analytics Tools: Conviva Touchstone, Neilsen, Comscore, Omniture, Crittercism, Flurry, Apptentive, New Relic

Business Skills: Business Requirement Documentation, Epic Planning, Wire Frame Development, UI/UX documentation, Sprint Planning, Business Process Analysis & Research, Functional Requirement Document, Use Case Scenario, Requirements Gathering

Testing Tools: Logs Debugging, Charles Proxy, VPN Spoofing, MRA Tools (API testing), Manual Testing, Eclipse

Test Management Tools: JIRA 6.1, Arcade iTrack, Rally (CA Agile Central), HP Quality Center 10.0, HP ALM

RDBMS/DBMS: SQLite, SQL Server, Oracle 11g, MS Access

Known Scripts: Java, C, VB Script, XML, JSON, HTML, BrightScript

Operating Systems: Roku, TvOS, Chrome OS, Mac OS, Windows 2000/7/XP/Vista/7

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

Jr. Project manager

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with other Project Managers, System Team and shared resources in the ART (agile release train).
• Create project Reports, Sprint Reports, Regression Health check Reports, and keep track of Client releases.
• Participate in PI planning meetings and performing the task of Prioritizing stories, allotting Points and calculating the capacity vs velocity of the team.
• Coordinating with other Scrum Masters and the release train engineers in Scrum of Scrum.
• Foster normalized estimating within the team.
• Helping teams operate under architectural and portfolio governance, System level integration, and System Demos.
• Facilitate process and Meetings including daily Scrum calls, Iteration planning, backlog grooming, team Demo and Iteration retrospective.
• Foster adoption of Agile technical practices.
• Ensure delivery of quality and on-time products in sync with the release Train.

Confidential

Lead Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Set Quality Assurance policy to support business objectives. Identify and report metrics to support a continuous improvement initiative. Build strong, successful, white and black box test teams. Manage groups of offshore resources and collaborate with onshore resources. Leverage past experience to provide the processes and tools to give leadership a view of the current quality of code and work with partners to improve it.
• Create Test Plans, Test script and Test Metrics using Technical design documents for testers to implement.
• Execute Manual Test cases using JIRA and Regresses bugs.
• Create test plans from a technical design document and/or requirements document with moderate supervision.
• Attend Bug triage meetings and help in troubleshooting and debugging of issues.
• Assist Junior Members in creating Test cases, Regression suites, Sanity Suites and Feature Testing cycles.
• Assists in the review of Technical Documentation by working closely with Development & Product teams.
• Test New Project features and create Regression suites for QA to test each release.
• Sign off Regression builds and create Regression Report before each Release.
• Perform Sanity, Smoke and Regression Testing with each deployment.
• Perform VPN enabled Spoof Testing to check various local streams across US locations. Also perform testing on various Cable Brands for NBC.
• Test Configurations file code supplied by developers and perform sanity check each time new configuration File is deployed to Production.
• Effectively prioritize and deliver quality testing on time, achieving department and business goals.
• Explore, recommend and implement solutions to optimize testing efforts.
• Work with other internal QA teams to define clear responsibilities and hand-off.
• Help implement best practices and procedures for quality assurance, including project structure, process improvements, documentation, code management, and deployment methodologies.
• Perform Risk Analysis and developing Mitigation plan for QA Implementations on GMO Project.
• Attend Change Control Request calls and perform Sanity Tests to make sure in-Market Product is not affected.
• Use Atlassian Tool to log bugs and document processes. Create JIRA Dashboards, plan Sprints for team Members and pull Status Reports using Zehyr for management to review and streamline QA efforts.
• Use debugging Tools including Charles Proxy, Anvato Tool and Telnet Logs to trace bugs.
• Use Postman to Check Configuration file deployment, and sanity test the user flow in production post deployment.
• Use Analytics tools like Conviva Touchstone and Neilsen to gather user data.
• Use GitHUB code Repository to develop and branch VPP Configuration files.
• Be a point of contact for Offshore QA Team and Work with Internal Product leaders, Business leaders, Partners and Technology stakeholders to ensure QA goals and procedures meet business requirements.
• Manage offshore team of QA Analysts and provide guidance/help as and when needed.
• Participate in Sprint Planning, Sprint Demo and Retro and communicate Management feedback with offshore team.
• Display Strong concepts of Quality Assurance and Agile Methodology.

Environment: Atlassian- Zephyr for JIRA, Confluence, Manual Testing, Microsoft Excel and Word, SQLite, Notepad, Charles Proxy, Conviva Touchstone, Postman, GitHUB, Splunk, Roku, TVOS, Debugging Logs

Confidential, Middletown, NJ

QA Software Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Epic Plan (All Versions), Sprint requirements, and UI/UX documentation to understand requirements. Also helped in creating high level Website Wireframes and User Interfaces.
• Authored Test Scenarios and Test Cases based on Test Coverage plan and individual Sprint requirements.
• Co-ordinated via daily scrum calls, between the Management, Development and Test Teams in Tampa, Tel Aviv and New Jersey to make sure all are synced and working towards a similar timeline.
• Performed Client-side Manual Testing of major functionalities and areas that were unable to be automated like Image quality, Streaming quality, Dynamic Add insertion, Showcard scrolling to grids etc., based on the initial development side Code.
• Helped in Executing Automated Tests on Functionalities like: Launch and Login, LiveTV, HomeScreen, Guide, Parental Controls, VOD, Recordings, Favorites, Settings TVoD etc. using Appium.
• Attend regular meetings with Testers and developers for deciding major milestones like finalizing Test Framework, timelines for code development and Release Plan.
• Responsible for daily Environment Testing on all platforms, and sending out Environment Testing Reports to the Management and Development team.
• Performed Sanity Testing after individual sprints using post installation check and release notes.
• Inspect API calls from Log files during root cause analysis to figure out the root of bugs.
• Coordinate with Development Team, Business Analyst and Product Owner to understand and consolidate requirements and develop End to End Test Cases.
• Involved in System Integration testing with External & Internal Interface team by providing Data and performing E2E Testing.
• Performed the UAT and Final Regression Testing before the pre-launch (Internal launch for Company staff) and final Public Launch in November 2016.
• Helped Technical Manager with planning Effort Estimation and Work Breakdown. Created Sprint Timelines and Status Reports from previous sprints. Got involved in balancing work effort across all sprints as per resources and Time available.
• Performed dry run of automated scripts prior to the final regression Test, to make sure the scripts are bug free and run as intended.

Environment: Rally (CA Agile Central), JIRA, Java, Manual Testing, Microsoft Excel and Word, Oracle Database, SQLite, Notepad, Eclipse 4.4.0

Confidential

QA / Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Major Functionalities of Concentration were: Launch and Login, LiveTV, HomeScreen, Guide, Parental Controls, Explore, Recordings, VOD, eSSD, Wearables, Second Screen, Favorites, Notifications, Settings, Search, Pairing and remote, Record Button, Subaccounts, Navigation and Header, Sponsored Data.
• Involved in entire S oftware D evelopment L ife C ycle process of Uverse application, which includes: Interacting with Cross Functional teams to Develop System Test Plans and fulfill End User Requirements.
• Used Agile Development methodology with daily Scrum meeting throughout Project Life Cycle.
• Strong experience in Ad-Hoc testing, Sanity testing, Functional testing, Feature testing, System testing, System integration testing, Re-testing, Upgrade testing and Regression testing.
• Developed Functional Test Cases / Scenarios using Testing methodology and reviewed all test scenarios with internal/external team.
• Involved in meetings with Developer and Project Owner to understand design of application, process flow and assisted development team in unit testing.
• Performed Regression Testing before every Major Market Release and intermediate Sanity Testing after individual sprints using post installation check and release notes and identified installation / code problems.
• Performed Testing on Individual Bugs and User-Stories to identify code problems.
• Communicated with Project Management to establish LOE of each phase of SDLC and planned testing strategy with peer team.
• Identified Business Requirement Gaps and their impact on Application Functionality by reviewing BRD and worked independently to prepare Functional specifications.
• Tested UNIX based functionalities like verification of log file, properties file and data using UNIX commands.
• Performed Defect Analysis to identify root cause of problems, interacted with appropriate team to resolve Blocking defects and Critical Bugs.
• Assisted production support team on Release Night to complete the testing.
• Involved in System Integration testing with External & Internal Interface team by providing Data and also performed E2E Testing.
• Assisted Marketing team to execute SIT/UAT phase of testing before final sign off.
• Developed Plan for Cross-functional Training and Knowledge Transfer. Developed local procedures and demonstrated new project functionality to QA team.

Environment: Arcade iTrac Powered (JIRA- Defect Tracking tool), Windows XP, UNIX (HP) and Oracle Database, SQLite, Notepad++, Java, Charles Proxy, MRA Tools, JSON, XML, Crittercism, Flurry, Lattice (Internal Automation tool), Eclipse 4.4.0

Confidential

QA / Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in E-comp Web Portal project from the conception phase through the Test development process.
• Attended project kick-off meeting and initial workshops to understand the Design and Architecture of E-comp Portal. Was involved in the Test planning phase.
• Involved in developing the framework for Automated Test Suites in Selenium, and writing Test Scenarios in TestNG.
• Helped Technical Manager with planning Effort Estimation and Work Breakdown. Helped Create Sprint Timelines, work allocation and previous Status Reports to balance work as per resources and Time available.
• Performed dry run prior to the final Regression Test to make sure Tests are running as intended.
• Attended regular meetings with Testers and developers for deciding major milestones like finalizing Test Framework, timelines for code development and Release Plan.
• Attended Bug Triage meetings to discussed the discovered defects and perform root cause analysis.
• Helped in Manual Regression Testing during initial release of the product.

Environment: Rally (CA Agile Central), Java, Manual Testing, Oracle Database, SQLite, Microsoft Excel and Word.

Confidential

QA / Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathered User Requirements and authored User Requirement Specification, Functional Requirement Specification and detailed Test Cases based on URS, FRS and High level Business Charter. Also, reviewed test cases developed by peers, attended review meetings with Project Manager, Developers and Testers.
• Developed and, Maintained comprehensive Test Plans and Test Scripts, Test Cases, Test Scenarios and Test Reports, for new development efforts and existing functionalities.
• Worked closely with Product Owner to understand the User Requirements and make sure the final product meets all Acceptance Criteria.
• Involved in Conducting Functional Testing, Smoke Testing, Sanity Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing, End to End Testing, Cross Browser Testing. Used HP Quality Center 10.0 for Defect management, test case design, test case execution, and capturing Test Results
• Involved in Bug Triage meetings with QA Lead, Development Team and Business Team to determine the severity and priority of defects. Created and Updated Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to track requirements across all STLC documents.
• Enforced and adhered to QA goals, processes and instrumental in delivering product on time and within budget.
• Implemented Test Scripts for testing payment functionalities of credit card and PayPal methods, UI Testing and Regression testing.
• Involved in updating Status reports with the QA Lead on periodic basis, adhering to department standards of project life cycle. Assigned work to team members and compiled Team status reports.

Environment: Windows XP Pro, Manual Testing, MS Office Suite, JIRA, Oracle, SQL, HP Quality Center 10.0