PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 12+ years of experience in Coach, Scrum Master, Test Manager and BA/QA. Ability to take complete ownership of business critical and sensitive projects.
• Experience coaching and explaining Scrum principals
• Organize and facilitate Scrum ceremonies (Planning, Retrospective, Review/Demo, Pre - panning, Stand-ups, Affinity sizing, etc)
• Skilled in Scrum, XP and Kanban framework to support complex product development.
• As a "servant leader" help the Scrum team to follow the process.
• Help product owner understand how to create and maintain the Product Backlog.
• Work with the scrum team to evolve the Definition of Done.
• Support Product owner in creation, refinement and prioritization of the backlog elements and release planning
• Ability to work in an Onsite-Offshore Model and manage teams spread across different geographical locations.
• Good experience in managing multiple projects of varying technologies.
• Well experienced in Project Planning, Execution, Tracking and Prioritization of Work Assignments.
• Experienced in Estimation, resource management, Client, Vendor Communications and Offshore Coordination.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills, providing daily/weekly status, Production Readiness, End Of Test Summary reports to all project stakeholders.
• Experience in estimation of test effort and coordinate test schedule with overall project schedule.
• Mentoring team & providing testing directions. Worked with management ensuring testing is comprehensive.
• Good knowledge of Quality Processes and on Test Management tools such as Test Director, QC and ALM.
• Plan application and hardware compatibility tests according to the product's target region
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows 98 / 2000 / XP / Windows 7, Microsoft - Vista

Test Management Tools: HP ALM, Quality Center 11.0, Test Director 8.0, TFS

Defect Tracking Tools: Bugzilla, Team track

Version Control Tools: VSS, Clearcase, SVN

Database: Oracle 8, SQL Server 2000/2005, MSAccess

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Boston

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Organize and facilitate Scrum ceremonies (Planning, Retrospective, Review/Demo, Pre-panning, Stand-ups, Affinity sizing, etc)
• Helping team to address impediments. Shielding the team from addressed impediments during the Iteration and removing it that affects the team.
• Supports the core Agile team and the Product Owner. Working closely with Delivery Manager.
• Using highly disciplined approach facilitates various Scrum activities and ceremonies.
• Support Product owner in creation, refinement and prioritization of the backlog elements and release planning.
• Helping the team maintain their burndown chart.
• Coaching team on best Agile practices.
• Motivate the team and create conducive environment.
• Promote courage and empowerment. Protect team from negative influences.
• Organize the planning/kick-off meeting and define the Strategy
• Prepares the metrics dashboard at the weekly/end of a phase or at the completion of Iteration.
• Work in an Onsite-Offshore Model and managed teams spread across different geographical locations (China, India and US)
• Maintaining dashboard with latest updates (DoD, DoR, Vision, Burndown chart etc)
• Helping team to maintain velocity

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Organize and facilitate daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
• Shielding the team from impediments during the sprint and removing it that affects the team.
• As a "servant leader" help the Scrum team to follow the process.
• Help product owner understand how to create and maintain the Product Backlog.
• Work with the scrum team to evolve the definition of Done.
• Facilitate the team through the Agile transformation.
• Estimate and obtain management support for the time, resources and budget required to perform the delivery.
• Helping the team maintain their burndown chart.
• Support the Product Owner(s) with backlog maintenance, internal and external communication, improving transparency and broadcasting information, and prioritization and resolution of defects/bugs
• Coaching team on best Agile practices.
• Organize the planning/kick-off meeting and define the Strategy
• Prepares the metrics dashboard at the weekly/end of a phase or at the completion of sprint.
• Develop the plan for the tasks, dependencies and participants required to mitigate the risks to system quality and obtain stakeholder support for this plan.
• Work in an Onsite-Offshore Model and managed teams spread across different geographical locations (India & US)
• Prepare Daily/Weekly status reports, Summary report. Manage project execution on time along with delivery of all releases on time.

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Understand the testing effort by analyzing the requirements/stories of project and maintain in Jira.
• Organize and facilitate daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
• Shielding the team from impediments during the sprint and removing it that affects the team.
• Estimate and obtain management support for the time, resources and budget required to perform the testing.
• Helping the team maintain their burndown chart.
• Support the Product Owner(s) with backlog maintenance, internal and external communication, improving transparency and broadcasting information, and prioritization and resolution of defects/bugs
• Organize the planning/kick-off meeting and define the Strategy
• Jira - Creating and maintaining stories, issues, tasks, Generating reports, Maintaining backlog, creating iterations.
• Develop the plan for the tasks, dependencies and participants required to mitigate the risks to system quality and obtain stakeholder support for this plan.
• Work in an Onsite-Offshore Model and managed teams spread across different geographical locations (China, India and US)
• Uploading applications to handsets using Mac mini- configuration utility for Native. App can be accessed on Mobile, Mobile browser and web browser.
• Cloud-based mobile applications (like SDN from Microsoft) across multiple platforms touching the full stack across the web. Used CAN, DET tools to verify data transformation from TCU to cloud.
• Mobile app s behavior under various interruptions: battery strength (full/medium/low), incoming calls, SMS, video calls. Track location testing.
• Testing different version on different versions of Mobile app and cloud based testing.
• Prepare deliverables like System Test Plan, Test strategy, Understanding document, Issues and risk tracker, test summary reports, estimation etc.
• Review Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Data before Sign-off.
• Mobile app testing on iOS and Android (Native as well as browser)
• Analysis/Estimate and plan regression test suite. Verifying requirements with acceptance criteria’s.
• Ensure content and structure of all Testing documents / artifacts is documented and maintained.
• Ownership of defect triage calls. Defect Reporting, tracking and follow up on daily triage calls.
• Prepare Daily/Weekly Reports, Summary report, End of test summary report. Manage project execution on time along with delivery of all releases on time.

Scrum Master/Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Ensure content and structure of all Testing documents / artifacts is documented and maintained.
• Organize and facilitate daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
• Document, implement, monitor, and enforce all processes for testing as per standards defined by the organization.
• Shielding the team from impediments during the sprint and removing it that affects the team.
• Organize the status meetings and send the Status Report (Daily, Weekly etc.) to the Client
• Attend the regular client call and discuss the weekly status with the client.
• Ensure the timely delivery of different testing milestones.
• Prepares / updates the metrics dashboard at the end of a phase or at the completion of project through Jira.
• Scrum stand up, Sprint planning, retrospective.
• Requirement analysis/Clarification directly with Client. Descriptive writing of stories and acceptance criteria’s.
• Prepare deliverables like System Test Plan, Test strategy, Understanding document, Issues and risk tracker, test summary reports, estimation etc.
• Review Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Data before Sign-off.
• Mobile app testing on iOS and Android (Native as well as browser)
• Analysis/Estimate and plan regression test suite.
• Meeting with product owners to plan for story creating. Defect Reporting, tracking & follow up on daily triage calls.
• Prepare Daily intelligence Report, attending the Daily stand up meeting.
• Groomed on AGILE - Scrum concepts.
• Fiddler is used capture the time the application responds.
• Deliver each daily deliverable of AGILE (For Ex. Daily intelligence Report, daily burn down chart etc.) with minute accuracy.
• Testing different version on different versions of Mobile app.
• Handle 2 teams - Manual plus Automation for same project.
• For Client Value add - implementing best practices proactively like KT plan, release notes etc.
• Browser compatibility for the website URL
• Database testing for data validation in application.
• Driven UAT testing events for end users.

BA/QA Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Understand the testing effort by analyzing the requirements of project.
• Estimate and obtain management support for the time, resources and budget required to perform the testing.
• Organize and facilitate daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
• Organize the testing kick-off meeting and define the Strategy
• Interacting with Project Team on daily basis.
• Manage daily Testing activities such as Scripting, execution, defect tracking.
• Create Test Strategy/Test plans; decide testing strategies and understanding the requirements from various business documents.
• Responsible for preparing test deliverables like test cases for unit level, functional and integration testing.
• Implementing Quality Milestones throughout all the phases of the projects.
• Provide Testing direction for Offshore Team. Transitioning Mortgage knowledge with team and getting work done.
• Providing the Testing estimations and Resource planning to the Project Manager.
• Managing a Defect Triage calls, Native mobile apps testing
• Effective defect tracking and reporting to Client management team to improve communications and reduce delay.
• Performed testing on Web based and Client/Server applications
• Review Peer test cases and provide suggestions and review comments to testing team members.
• Responsible for uploading all the test plan and test scripts in Quality Center.
• Extensively use Quality Center for bug reporting reviewing and defect tracking.
• Responsible for investigation and collecting information on software defects and reporting the same to Development Team.
• Manage requirements and design phase towards identifying mutually agreed solutions with technical teams and business partners.
• As a Project Lead at Onsite responsible for effective transfer of business knowledge from Client contacts to offshore team.
• Responsible for effort estimation and timely testing delivery within deadlines.
• Identification and creation of test scenarios.
• Responsible for making sure the application is enhanced with the latest changes and reporting the critical bugs at client place.
• Involved in direct interaction of client as an onsite co-coordinator for Key bank Credit card segment.
• Efficiently manage a team comprising six members at offshore.
• Responsible for all process related activities.
• Involve in KT phase, quality gate review meetings and also responsible for planning and execution of the project.
• Involve in the requirement gathering, analysis, design, testing and deployment phases.
• Play a key role during the integration and system testing.
• Play a key role in technical aspects of the project by architecting and designing the enhancements, developing few key components, conducting test deliverable reviews and bringing about best practices.

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Test Planning: Testing approach, estimations
• Analysis: Application understanding, Query resolution from business, Preparation/Modifying of Functional Test plan, Test strategy, Prepare detailed Test Case Execution schedule
• Testing: Client meeting for queries/issues resolution, Generating and reviewing the Test Scenarios, Test Case Design and Execution of Test Cases for business sign off, Requirement Traceability Document, Ensure Requirement coverage and test coverage, Raise defects in QC and track each issue, Regression testing, Preparing End of System Test Report, Integration Test Report.
• Process: Assigning and maintaining the track of daily task for offshore and communicating to client and vice versa, daily and Weekly Status reports, Management activities as Leave tracker, C20, Monthly Report PPT

Tester

Responsibilities:

• Test Planning: Project Scope, testing approach, estimations
• Analysis: Application understanding, Query resolution from business, Creating and modifying Test plan
• Testing: Client meeting for queries/issues resolution, Generating and reviewing the Test Scenarios, Test Case Design and Execution (Integration, System and Regression) of Test Cases for business sign off, Requirement Traceability Document, Ensure Requirement coverage and test coverage, Updating Test Cases in QC according to change request, Raise defects in QC and track each issue, Preparing End of System Test Report, Integration Test Report.
• Process: Daily and Weekly Status reports, Management activities as Leave tracker, Vendor KPI, Timesheet activity for complete Private Banking team

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Test Planning: Primary level estimations
• Analysis: Application understanding, Participation in walk through of requirement and functional specification, Query resolution from business, Creating and modifying Test plan
• Testing: Client meeting for queries/issues resolution, Generating and reviewing the Test Scenarios, Test Case Design and Execution (Integration, System and Regression) of Test Cases for business sign off, Mapping Test Cases with requirements, Requirement Traceability Document, Updating Test Cases in QC according to change request, Raise defects in QC and track each issue, Preparing End of System Test Report, Integration Test Report
• Process: Logging and tracking review comments in Prolite, Maintaining defect spreadsheet in VSS, Involved in Defect prevention plan, Daily Status reports and maintaining Timesheet activity for team and Updating minutes of meetings in VSS on regular basis

Scentric Software

Responsibilities:

• Requirements Analysis
• Testing - Scenario Identification, Test case Design, ensures test coverage, execute test cases.
• Involved in the performance testing and measuring the parameters like Time and Memory usage
• Status Reporting - Generate execution and defect report from Test director
• Track Issues - Tracking the issues related to Application on a timely basis with the onsite coordinators and get them resolved.
• Client - Worked closely with the GHA, US for the features update
• Team - Lead a team of 2 people. Assign the task to team members. Reviewing the deliverables like Test cases, test logs, release notes
• Setup Test Environment - Installation of Product on clean environment. Perform initial level of connectivity testing,
• Baseline the OS configuration and maintaining the ghost image of the machine