SUMMARY:

• Experience working as Scrum Master for 3 years.
• Experience working as cross functional Scrum team member for more than 5 years.
• Evangelist of agile/scrum principles and methodology.
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem - solving environment.
• Knowledge of principles of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), SCRUM, Kanban
• Knowledge of TDD/BDD/ATDD software development techniques.
• More than 15 years of experience in IT industry.
• Experience in software development and QA using Java, SQL, C#, .Net and eclipse.
• Experience in various domains like Customer Relationship management, Energy Management, Metering, Healthcare, utilities etc.
• Experience working on several platforms and technologies.
• Experienced in training and mentoring team members with Scrum processes, product knowledge and business processes.
• Creativity and flexibility to face and resolve challenges, Good presentation skills and effective team player with excellent communication skills.
• Experience in stakeholder communication and team management.
• Passionate for learning and using new technologies.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Portland, OR

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated sprint ceremonies like sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations.
• Aided the team by protecting from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts so they can maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline.
• Worked closely with project owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features.
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality
• Resolved issues by communicating with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues
• Raised the bar by educating and reinforcing scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders.
• Directed and lead development team from project initiation through delivery of final product.
• Closely interacted with product management, business and development teams to assure most effective project execution.
• Used Jira and Microsoft TFS to track and make visible sprint backlog work flow preferred
• Provided training for agile engineering practices.
• Added value in sprint demos by tracking and communicating agile metrics like burndown chart, velocity charts with team.
• Enforced Scrum and Kanban principles as a scrum master to one other team to increase the team efficiency.

Technologies: Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server, C#, .Net, SQL, Slack, Postman, Solar Winds, Salesforce.

Confidential, Portland, OR

IT QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Streamlined and organized test strategies, defect logging, test plans and test cases.
• Added transparency by communicating all test results to stakeholders.
• Participated in code review and requirement reviews.
• Improved QA vision by setting up and communicating QA efforts and goals.
• Learned and performed Mobile testing for Confidential apps for iPhone, iPad and Android phone and tablets.
• Gained experience on Oracle based workforce management tool called as mobile workforce management (MWM).
• Automated testing process using QTP and Selenium.
• Mastered Backend testing for databases using SQL.
• Integrated and tested Metering desktop applications from Itron like FCS, MV-90, MV STAR, for collecting and processing meter reads for billing.
• Actively educated the team for transition to agile framework.
• Participated in all team ceremonies as Scrum team developer.
• Worked as Interim Scrum Master in absence of one.
• Worked in Kanban framework for implementing agile.

Technologies: Mainframe, C#. .Net, SQL, TIBCO framework, QTP, Selenium, HP Quality center, Itron products-MV-Suite, MWM, SOAP Web services, HTML, XML JSON, Mobile testing for Confidential apps (iOS and Android), Workforce management.

Confidential, Lake Oswego, OR

SCRUM team member-Software Quality Assurance

Responsibilities:

• Participated in all team ceremonies as Scrum team member.
• Created and executed software test plans for functional as well as performance test cases and scripts to uncover identify and document software problems and their causes.
• Transitioned software development efforts to a test-driven development (TDD) process, which brought QA testing in on the front-end of the development cycle for gains in code quality, software functionality and programmer productivity.
• Gained hands on experience in Managing test environments, Functional QA and performance QA.
• Actively participated in automating testing approach for regression and performance QA. Experience in designing/developing/enhancing/testing automation frameworks.
• Performed Web service testing (SOAP and REST API) using SOAP UI
• Created test scripts for automation tool created for build verifications needed for continuous delivery.
• Learned and actively implemented SCRUM/Kanban framework.
• Tested reports using data extracts and transforming data using pivot tables (ETL).
• Learned and performed Performance/Stress/Load testing.

Technologies: Microsoft Team Foundation Server, C#, Silverlight, .Net, BizTalk, XML, XSD, SQL, Virtualization, TFS, Spot-fire, SOAPUI

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Software consultant and Business Analyst on their Key Business Modules being used for government clients majorly for their various schemes.
• Proven skills as a business analyst by Gathering Requirements, translated the requirements into specifications and communication with the team.
• Reviewed the developed product with Development before the release cycle and worked with Development to fix issues.
• Tested the pre-release code in User Acceptance Testing Environment and opened tickets for any possible issues.
• Used Agile Methodology to minimize risk by implementing software development in short time boxes or iterations
• Collaborated with developers, QA, product owner and scrum master to assess ROI, prioritize needs and produce high quality software
• Helped manage risk analysis and mitigation plans, status reports, and client presentations; prepared business process models, defined milestone deliverables, and established critical success factors.
• Gathered requirements during inception phase, documented and delivered functional specification documents, and assisted architecture analysis and design using UML and Rational tools.
• Conducted UAT. Wrote SQL queries for MS Access and Oracle for data manipulations.
• Involved in detailing project mission, data process flow diagrams, Coaching software development team and managing timelines.

Technologies: Java, Eclipse, Web Services, SOAP, SQL Server 2005, IBM WebSphere Application Server, XML, XSD, UML

Confidential

Senior Software engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in all team ceremonies as Scrum team developer.
• Developed Web applications using Java and Eclipse.
• Migrated applications from Lotus notes applications to WebSphere portal applications using Hibernate and ORM framework.
• Conducted application Design and development using Lotus Notes.
• Designed and developed Rich Internet Applications Using Adobe Flex.
• Research & Development to integrate few in-house applications Like CRM and HRM with Nokia Mobile running on Symbian OS using SDK and emulator provided by Nokia Mobile Phones.
• Exhibited tremendous growth in terms of learning and adapting new methods and technologies. Earned respect for my potential and quickly promoted as team Leader from a software developer.

Technologies: Adobe Flex 3.0, IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory 6.02, Eclipse 3.0, JSDK 1.4(Java), Junit, Hibernate, DB2 9.1, Lotus Notes, Apache Tomcat, JavaScript, SQL.