SUMMARY

• Overall 10 years of experience with 4 years as Scrum Master and 6 years as Senior Quality Assurance Lead/Business Analyst.
• Have broad ranging experience in banking, logistics, healthcare and retail domains.
• Expertise in Leading/Managing/Testing of Agile/SCRUM and Waterfall projects on large scale.
• Have an excellent command over Agile Methodologies, Agile Project Management, Scrum, Kanban, Agile Release Management, Retrospective and Requirements Analysis.
• Advanced command on various testing suites, agile& waterfall methodologies, monitoring tools and strong leadership & management qualities.
• Backed by strong credentials including 1st class computer science & engineering bachelor's degree.
• Highly motivated, adaptable, detail and result oriented individual, with strong focus on the quality.
• Good command over communication and facilitation skills, including the ability to deal with people with conflicting needs.
• Experience in working with Groups, Business Users as well as Senior Management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Scrum/AGILE: Kanban Board, Task Board, Iteration Backlogs, Burn Down and Burn up Charts, Product backlogs, Team Velocity, PI Planning, Scrum Ceremonies etc.

Tool: Set: HP ALM, HP Quality Center 11, Selenium WebDriver, Eclips, HP AGILE Manager, SQL Developer, Caliber RM, Quick Test Professional 9.5, JIRA, RALLY, JAVA, UNIX, BO XIR2, SOA/SoapUI, Test Director

Project Types: e - commerce (web/portal), Internet Banking, Tokenization, Digitalization of banks, Logistic shipping portals, POS-Non Transportation (FedEx Office).

Functional Domains: Claims, Credit Cards, Deposits (Checking, Savings, ATM/Debit Cards, Check processing), Loans, EMV Chip, Returns, Money Back, Magstrips.

Testing Types: System, Integration, regression, middleware, functional, UAT, Performance, Database, Production, Risk Based Testing, BDD, ATDD and TDD

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Orlando, FL

Scrum Master/Senior Quality Assurance Lead

Responsibilities:

• Organizing all the ceremonies of scrum which includes Daily scrum/stand-up meeting, Iteration Reviews/Demos, Iteration Planning, Backlog Grooming, retrospectives and Release Planning.
• Confirm that the highest priority stories have been fully groomed and are ready for Sprint Planning.
• Capturing team member capacity for the upcoming Sprint.
• Facilitate the Sprint Planning session and prepare tools and resources for Sprint Planning.
• Prepare draft of Sprint Report and finalize it based on the Demo and Product Owner acceptance.
• Facilitate Sprint Review session and ensure team is prepared for the Demo.
• Facilitate the team’s Retrospective and update team’s improvement backlog with commitments from the Retrospective.
• Update backlog and/or tool with tasks and commitments.
• Complete and share the team’s Sprint Commitment report.
• Capture end-of-day metrics and prepare Burn-Down and Burn-Up Charts for Daily Standup.
• Capture, track and resolve impediments, risks and dependencies.
• Update the current release’s Release Plan based on completed stories and changes from the Sprint.
• Schedule and facilitate Release Planning sessions for future releases based on the team’s cadence.
• Working with Kanban to keep track of ongoing user stories and tasks.
• Work with POs, Business partners to resolve critical defects impacting ongoing sprint testing.
• Leading and Managing BDD, ATDD and TDD Testing scrum projects.
• Creating Detailed Test plan specification, Test Strategies, Test data Strategies, Risk assessment, Test scenarios based on BRS, SRS and user stories.
• Work with Sr.Managers to provide project and resource estimations.
• Leading and participating to the project planning specifically to the functional/non functional requirements & testing phase.
• To work with Business and System analyst, Developers and product owners to resolve issues and defects.
• Leading a team of 4 onshore and 20 offshore resources.
• Verification and validation of the application under test to ensure systems function as designed.
• To suggest and implement QA and testing process improvements and work with other teams to ensure overall software quality is as maintained.
• To document and design new QA procedures and standards and help in implementation of QA metrics for evaluating the quality of delivered applications in the production.
• Reporting issues, risks, impediments, daily and weekly execution and defect status to business partners, managers and directors.
• Scheduling and participating in BRS, SRS and feature reviews to understand the business requirements.
• Creating and managing requirement traceability matrix(RTM) to ensure complete business functionality is covered and delivered.
• Defect management with HP Quality Center, HP AGM and JIRA
• Work with Stakeholders on defining and managing the requirements, change requests, test process and project deliverables,

Confidential - Orlando, FL

Quality Assurance Lead/ Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Collect and manage Requirements and turn them into testing scenarios.
• Executing and maintaining scripts to verify testability of the code.
• Test case writing, test data preparation and test execution.
• To Validate High Level, Special and critical manual test cases on different environments.
• Design, develop and support user interface testing application and regression testing.
• Resource and project estimations.
• Involved in Web ServicesTesting usingSOAP UI and have a good understanding of WSDL document for web service testing.
• Defect management and follow-ups using HP Quality Center
• Verify and validate authentication requests andresponses.
• Coordinate with product development teams and software engineers to recommend solutions to maximize performance and efficiency.

Confidential - Orlando, FL

Quality Assurance Lead/ Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Development of test scenarios, Test cases and Test data.
• Test and Defect management using HP quality Center and RALLY.
• Participate in Inspections, Walkthroughs and work product reviews.
• Development of Test Data strategy and data creation.
• To work with cross functional teams and managers to create testing strategies, plans, estimates, and schedules to support multiple projects.
• Leading multiple project-test teams to perform quality assessments that expose security flaws, reveal defects and identify areas of optimization.
• Leading AGILE testing teams to provide test roadmap and working with customers and turn the business requirements into working software.
• Manage and drive the adoption of recognized best practice and policy and contribute to the ongoing improvement of methodologies and assets and develop software testing policies, best practices and guidelines.
• Test and resource estimations for new initiatives as per project requirements.
• Develop Risk mitigation & assessment plan and test data strategy, metrics and best practices to verify that the system meets business and user requirements.
• Create quality assurance documentation and reports using a variety of diagnostic tools.
• To identify the scope of test automation to reduce manual efforts, executing automated scripts and maintain them reuse.

Confidential

BO Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• To develop test cases, test scenarios and test steps.
• To develop test data and execute it as per requirements.
• To understand the business requirements and create understanding document.
• Defect management and follow-ups using HP Quality Center and Test Director.
• Test and resource estimations for new initiatives as per project requirements.
• To provide daily testing progress to all project stack holders and managers.
• To identify the scope of test automation to reduce manual efforts, executing automated scripts and maintain them reuse.
• Conduct work product reviews with developers, requirement writers and business owners.
• Working with offshore to provide road map for testing of project under test.
• Create quality assurance documentation and reports using a variety of diagnostic tools.
• To Validate high level test cases to verify the testability of the code.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Development of test scenarios, Test cases and Test data.
• Test and Defect management using Quality Center and Test Director.
• To work with cross functional teams and managers to create testing strategies, plans, estimates, and schedules to support multiple projects.
• To identify the scope of test automation to reduce manual efforts, executing automated scripts and maintain them reuse.
• Create quality assurance documentation and reports using a variety of diagnostic tools.
• Development of test scenario specification, risk mitigation & assessment plan and test data strategy.
• Regression and integration testing of various small modules.
• Coordinate with product development teams and software engineers to recommend solutions to maximize performance and efficiency.
• Executing scripts for regression testing.
• Validation and Verification.