SUMMARY:

• Help team apply the Scrum framework and principles of agility to benefit the team & business
• Remove impediments that are preventing teams from accomplishing their goals
• Facilitate events and activities as necessary and ensure teams and the business realizes value from them
• Coach team in implementation of adoption of Agile Practices.
• Work with the Scrum Team and Product Owner to negotiate minimum viable product for delivery.
• Work with the Scrum Team to make an effective and efficient decision, track issues and remove impediments
• Facilitate in transforming development team to Agile methods.
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies; grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand - ups and DEMO meeting
• Empowered teams to be self-organized and grow cross-functionally
• Communicate with the management team, engineers, product managers and specialists on product issues.
• Lead daily stand-up calls for multiple scrum teams.
• Embody agility using a servant leadership approach and leading by example
• Work with Product Owners, Business Analyst, Developers and Testers in delivering the product
• Track and effectively communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress to affected team and management
• Engage with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Agile Scrum.
• Extensively worked on JIRA and Confluence- Certified Scrum Master.
• Extensively worked on Scrum and Kanban agile methodologies.
• Managed resource sharing and distribution and prioritize workload as project needs.
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, and other Scrum-related meetings
• Fluent in creating issues like epic, stories, task, bugs and new projects.
• Created burndown charts, velocity charts, average age charts, pie charts for analysis and reporting
• Involved in sprint planning, backlog grooming, creating and closing sprints.
• Extensively used Confluence for documentation and project collaboration.
• Involved in Jira administration, creating projects, issues, permissions and issue workflow setup.
• Involved in prioritizing and estimation of issues.
• Extremely organized and capable of handling multitasks ensuring all tasks are completed in a timely
• Coach the Development Teams and teams-of-teams in self-organization, continuous improvement, cross functionality, risk identification, dependency management, conflict resolution, and software craftsmanship.
• Experience in Requirement Gathering, Maintaining Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM), Effort Estimation, Testing Scope, Test Strategy, Test Planning, Scheduling.
• End to End experience of Estimate, Plan and Manage Functional testing life cycle- for leading healthcare Payer
• Experience in designing project plan, Test Strategy and Test Approach design for Integrated System Testing and Regression testing. Understanding business requirements and preparing Business Test Matrix
• Experience of working in onsite-offshore model, Managed offshore team of 25 members. Managed large enterprise projects with dynamic and ambiguous requirements.
• Worked in the fast paced BDD, TDD, Agile/Scrum (methodology) projects.
• Performed Feasibility study (analyze Change Requests) & Requirement Analysis for Functional Testing (SIT & UAT). Test Execution Reviews and Status Reporting
• Good experience in validation and review of Operational, Technical and Functional documentation to assess scenario requirements
• Performed Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Risk and Mitigation Analysis Reports, Software Configuration Management (SCM) activities for client.
• Experience in Knowledge acquisition, Transfer and retention process
• Comprehensive knowledge in writing documentations including Requirement Specification, Use Case Narrative, Feasibility Analysis, Risk Analysis, Test Plans, Testing Metrics, Effort and Schedule Related Metrics
• Experience in Performed Cross Browser Testing (Compatibility Testing), RBT (Risk Based Testing) approach

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Certified Scrum Master: Agile Framework. JIRA, Confluence.

TESTING TOOLS: HP Winrunner 6.0. Certify 7.4, QTP 9, QC 10.0, SQUIDS, TEST DIRECTOR 5.0, JIRA, BUGZILLA, SVN TORTOISE

DATABASE: SQL SERVER 2008, DB2.

TESTING METHODOLIGY: AGILE and SCRUM MODEL, V-MODEL and W-MODEL

BUSINESS DOMAINS: Confidential Billing, Healthcare payer, provider, claims, insurance

MANUAL TESTING SKILLS: Functional Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing

DEFECT MANAGEMENT: Defect Reporting, Defect Tracking, Defect Summary, Defect Analysis.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Scrum Master / QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated and participated in daily scrums, Backlog refinement, grooming, sprint planning meetings,Sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Worked on Scrum and Kanban boards.
• Worked on creating issues like epic, stories, task, bugs and new projects.
• Created, managed and collaborate the meeting notes, blog posts, project documents in Confluence.
• Created Burndown charts, Velocity charts, Average age charts, pie charts for analysis and reporting.
• Created dashboards and used gadgets to track and monitor the project/sprint status.
• Worked on reports and customized dashboard for clear visibility of projects to stakeholders.
• Created the Jira tasks status workflow as per project needs and requirement.
• Involved in creating and finishing the sprint using Jira with demo and lesson learned.
• Proactively prioritize and estimate the issues for sprint planning.
• Excellent knowledge of keeping team self organized, team coaching, motivation and to follow agile practices.
• Participated in Code review meetings with teams.
• Fully involved in planning tracking and releasing the deliverables.
• Proficient in project and business documentation.
• Used GitHub with Jira for check in checkout and committing the changes to the code.
• Coordinated with product owners to review backlog items and to understand the requirements.
• Followed the agile development practices, ceremonies and artifacts.
• Involved with various aspects of the project life cycle from requirements and implementation design to development, release and QA/troubleshooting.

Confidential

Scrum Master / QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated and participated in daily scrums, Backlog refinement, grooming, sprint planning meetings,Sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Worked on Scrum and Kanban boards.
• Worked on creating issues like epic, stories, task, bugs and new projects.
• Created, managed and collaborate the meeting notes, blog posts, project documents in Confluence.
• Created Burndown charts, Velocity charts, Average age charts, pie charts for analysis and reporting.
• Created dashboards and used gadgets to track and monitor the project/sprint status.
• Worked on reports and customized dashboard for clear visibility of projects to stakeholders.
• Created the Jira tasks status workflow as per project needs and requirement.
• Involved in creating and finishing the sprint using Jira with demo and lesson learned.
• Proactively prioritize and estimate the issues for sprint planning.
• Excellent knowledge of keeping team self organized, team coaching, motivation and to follow agile practices.
• Participated in Code review meetings with teams.
• Fully involved in planning tracking and releasing the deliverables.
• Proficient in project and business documentation.
• Used GitHub with Jira for check in checkout and committing the changes to the code.
• Coordinated with product owners to review backlog items and to understand the requirements.
• Followed the agile development practices, ceremonies and artifacts.
• Involved with various aspects of the project life cycle from requirements and implementation design to development, release and QA/troubleshooting.

Confidential

Scrum Master / QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated and participated in daily scrums, Backlog refinement, grooming, sprint planning meetings,Sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Worked on Scrum and Kanban boards.
• Worked on creating issues like epic, stories, task, bugs and new projects.
• Created, managed and collaborate the meeting notes, blog posts, project documents in Confluence.
• Created Burndown charts, Velocity charts, Average age charts, pie charts for analysis and reporting.
• Created dashboards and used gadgets to track and monitor the project/sprint status.
• Worked on reports and customized dashboard for clear visibility of projects to stakeholders.
• Created the Jira tasks status workflow as per project needs and requirement.
• Involved in creating and finishing the sprint using Jira with demo and lesson learned.
• Proactively prioritize and estimate the issues for sprint planning.
• Excellent knowledge of keeping team self organized, team coaching, motivation and to follow agile practices.
• Participated in Code review meetings with teams.
• Fully involved in planning tracking and releasing the deliverables.
• Proficient in project and business documentation.
• Used GitHub with Jira for check in checkout and committing the changes to the code.
• Coordinated with product owners to review backlog items and to understand the requirements.
• Followed the agile development practices, ceremonies and artifacts.
• Involved with various aspects of the project life cycle from requirements and implementation design to development, release and QA/troubleshooting.

Confidential

Scrum Master / QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Scrum and Kanban boards.
• Worked on creating issues like epic, stories, task, bugs and new projects.
• Created, managed and collaborate the meeting notes, blog posts, project documents in Confluence.
• Created Burndown charts, Velocity charts, Average age charts, pie charts for analysis and reporting.
• Created dashboards and used gadgets to track and monitor the project/sprint status.
• Worked on reports and customized dashboard for clear visibility of projects to stakeholders.
• Created the Jira tasks status workflow as per project needs and requirement.
• Involved in creating and finishing the sprint using Jira with demo and lesson learned.
• Proactively prioritize and estimate the issues for sprint planning.
• Excellent knowledge of keeping team self organized, team coaching, motivation and to follow agile practices.
• Participated in Code review meetings with teams.
• Fully involved in planning tracking and releasing the deliverables.
• Proficient in project and business documentation.
• Used GitHub with Jira for check in checkout and committing the changes to the code.
• Coordinated with product owners to review backlog items and to understand the requirements.
• Followed the agile development practices, ceremonies and artifacts.
• Involved with various aspects of the project life cycle from requirements and implementation design to development, release and QA/troubleshooting.

Confidential

PLATFORMS: JAVA, Oracle, Windows and LINUX

Scrum Master / QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Scrum and Kanban boards.
• Worked on creating issues like epic, stories, task, bugs and new projects.
• Created, managed and collaborate the meeting notes, blog posts, project documents in Confluence.
• Created Burndown charts, Velocity charts, Average age charts, pie charts for analysis and reporting.
• Created dashboards and used gadgets to track and monitor the project/sprint status.
• Worked on reports and customized dashboard for clear visibility of projects to stakeholders.
• Created the Jira tasks status workflow as per project needs and requirement.
• Involved in creating and finishing the sprint using Jira with demo and lesson learned.
• Proactively prioritize and estimate the issues for sprint planning.
• Excellent knowledge of keeping team self organized, team coaching, motivation and to follow agile practices.
• Participated in Code review meetings with teams.
• Fully involved in planning tracking and releasing the deliverables.
• Proficient in project and business documentation.
• Used GitHub with Jira for check in checkout and committing the changes to the code.
• Coordinated with product owners to review backlog items and to understand the requirements.
• Followed the agile development practices, ceremonies and artifacts.
• Involved with various aspects of the project life cycle from requirements and implementation design to development, release and QA/troubleshooting.

Confidential

PLATFORMS: JAVA, Oracle, Windows and LINUX

Scrum Master / QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated and participated in daily scrums, Backlog refinement, grooming, sprint planning meetings,Sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Worked on Scrum and Kanban boards.
• Worked on creating issues like epic, stories, task, bugs and new projects.
• Created, managed and collaborate the meeting notes, blog posts, project documents in Confluence.
• Created Burndown charts, Velocity charts, Average age charts, pie charts for analysis and reporting.
• Created dashboards and used gadgets to track and monitor the project/sprint status.
• Worked on reports and customized dashboard for clear visibility of projects to stakeholders.
• Created the Jira tasks status workflow as per project needs and requirement.
• Involved in creating and finishing the sprint using Jira with demo and lesson learned.
• Proactively prioritize and estimate the issues for sprint planning.
• Excellent knowledge of keeping team self organized, team coaching, motivation and to follow agile practices.
• Participated in Code review meetings with teams.
• Fully involved in planning tracking and releasing the deliverables.
• Proficient in project and business documentation.
• Used GitHub with Jira for check in checkout and committing the changes to the code.
• Coordinated with product owners to review backlog items and to understand the requirements.
• Followed the agile development practices, ceremonies and artifacts.
• Involved with various aspects of the project life cycle from requirements and implementation design to development, release and QA/troubleshooting.

Confidential

PLATFORMS: dotNet, Ajax, JAVA, SQL Server, Windows and LINUX

Project Lead / QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of Business Requests for Services from Business users, vendors, Understanding the requirements and providing best solutions.
• Translating Business requirements into Technical Solutions, producing specifications and technical documentation on working of system using Microsoft word, excel, project.
• Involved in SIT, UAT, Regression Testing. Defect Management. Daily Test execution reports.
• Coordinating the work schedule, priority, requirement analysis with offshore Team
• Assimilation of functional and technical knowledge.
• Project plan design for the project. Test Strategy and Test Approach design for Integrated System Testing and Regression testing. Understanding business requirements and preparing Business Test Matrix
• Test Scenario and Test case design Test Cycle plan design
• Task Delegation. Resource Identification. Resource & Task Mapping.
• Preparing Effort Estimations and Test Scheduling
• Daily Test Execution Review. Test case execution and log defects
• Defect Management strategy design and actively participate in Defect triage.
• Publish Daily Execution and Defect matrix to project team
• Mentoring the team for day to day release activities (includes pre-release and post release activities).

Confidential

Project Lead / QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Test Lead for Confidential Integration Testing Project at Offshore, managed 25 offshore resources
• Status reporting to Client and Onsite team on a daily basis for time spent on all tasks.
• Helping the team on technical and functional queries. Providing vital inputs in Test Strategy and Test Plan Creation. Ensuring quality and defect free deliverables.
• Managing effort estimates in Script Development, Maintenance and Execution, Data Management.
• Providing support to batch run which includes flat file processing, data validation, job monitoring, test flat file provision to various sub-systems, test report provision.
• Manage UAT test execution. Includes: Test Plan Creation and execution.
• Review of the daily execution Reports
• Improving quality of deliveries by making necessary process changes.
• Task tracking, Defect Prevention and Quality Assurance activities.
• Maintenance of Quality Plan, Risk Plan, Test Plan
• Setting up End-to-end testing schedules with vendors and business owners.
• Coordinated and assisted Testing CoE team in the preparation of test plans, test scenarios.
• Coordinated with various functions (Development, Testing, and SQA) to meet planned release dates and involved in Business process reengineering.
• Produced Project Status Reports & held project meetings with the team and client to ensure that project is on track.
• Managed all the project related documentation including BRDs, FRDs, MOMs, Query Log, Review Log, Issue log and Approval mails in a a centralized Reporting Structure.

Confidential

Module Lead

Responsibilities:

• Preparing checklists of prerequisites to enter Automation Phase.
• Ensuring adherence to the defined processes (as per client’s expectations).
• Ensuring smooth sailing of Release wise execution for all the modules.
• Ensuring quality and defect free deliverables.
• Helping the team on technical and functional queries. Providing vital inputs in Test Strategy and Test Plan Creation.
• Managing effort estimates in Script Development, Maintenance and Execution, Data Management.
• Manage UAT test execution. Includes: Test Plan Creation and execution.