SUMMARY

• Scrum Master /Business Analyst/Test Manager with 10+ years of genuine work experience and a passion for solving complex business challenges through technology.
• Scrum Master /Business Analyst/Test Lead/Release Test Manager
• Comprehensive knowledge, strong technology foundation and exhaustive experience with both Agile & Waterfall methodologies
• 5+ years of experience in executing projects in Agile methodology
• Extensive Investment Banking & Financial Services domain experience.
• Expertise in estimating and planning Agile/Waterfall projects
• Expertise in facilitating daily standup, sprint planning, sprint review andretrospective meetings
• Experience in collaborating and coordinating with business stakeholders & product owners to define MVP (Minimum Viable Product) for the release
• Highly proficient in working with End - users, Product Owners, Subject Matter Experts and Stakeholders for eliciting requirements by facilitating JAD (Joint Application Development) sessions, Requirements Workshops, Focus Groups, Interviews, Document Analysis, Prototyping, Surveys, Questionnaires, Observations to document business requirements.
• Effective use of UML Activity, UML Use Case, UML State Machine, UML Sequence Diagrams, BPMN 2.0 modeling, Flowcharts in simplifying requirements during Requirements Analysis
• Prepared Requirements Catalogues, Product Backlogs, Issue Registers and Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) on various projects
• Analyzed source systems and business requirements in order to develop User requirements, Functional and Non-Functional requirements. Experience in translating SMART requirements to functional specifications and preparing different artifacts such as Functional Specification Document (FSD), Software Requirements Specification (SRS), Business Requirements Document (BRD), Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)
• Expertise in writing User Stories and Epics
• Prepared Requirements Catalogues, Product Backlogs, Issue Registers and Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) on various projects
• Expertise in Manual Testing and HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)/HP Quality Center, JIRA/Rally in real time and unattended testing environment across multiple operating systems and technologies.
• Experience in managing team dynamics, coordinating global development efforts, onsite-offshore model & cross-functional and geographically distributed teams
• Expertise in all phases of testing (Sprint Testing, System Integration Testing (SIT), Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing) of client/server and web applications
• Weekly status reporting to higher management and other stakeholders
• Expertise and experience in performing different kinds of testing like Smoke, Black Box, GUI, Functionality, Integration, Regression, Usability, Compatibility, System, Database testing, ADA Compliance Testing and User Acceptance (UAT) of Web and Client/Server Applications.
• Expertise in writing, maintaining, executing Test Plans, Test Risk Assessment, Test Evaluation Report
• Extremely involved in managing defect tracking system like JIRA and HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
• Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project methodologies: SCRUM, Agile, Waterfall

Modelling Skills: UML models like Use Case model, Activity diagram, State Machine diagram, Sequence Diagram; Business Process Modelling (BPM) vide BPMN v2.0, Prototypes, Mockups and Wireframes

BPM Skills: Model Validation, Business Process Simulation, Business Process Validation, Time/Resource Analysis, Process Identification, Process Discovery, Process Analysis, Process Redesign, Process Implementation, Process Monitoring

Domains: BFS (Banking Financial Services), Retail

Modelling Tools: MS Visio, Bizagi Modeler, MS PowerPoint

BPM Tools: Bizagi, MS Visio

Language: SQL

Testing: Manual Testing, HP Quality Center 9.2, HP Application Lifecycle management 12.21

Project Management Tools: JIRA.Rally,MS Project

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Scrum Master/Business Analyst/Release Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master & Business Analyst
• Led a cross-functional team of 10+ resources from conception to delivery
• Migrated software delivery lifecycle model to Agile, yielding a 25% cost reduction due to iterative development and frequent demos
• Facilitated daily standup, sprint planning, sprint review, retrospective meetings
• Facilitating User Stories Estimation using various agile estimation techniques like Planning Poker, T-Shirt Sizing, Affinity Estimating
• Tracking Progress using product backlog, sprint backlog, sprint report & burndown chart
• Requirements Elicitation, gathering, analyzing and documenting requirements
• Conducting interviews with SMEs to make understanding of the domain and come up with As-Is business processes across all business functions
• Preparing Project Charter while noting Business Case, financial and resource requirements for multiple phases of the product
• Prepared Functional Specification Document (FSD), Software Requirements Specification (SRS), Business Requirements Document (BRD), Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)
• Preparing As-Is Flow Diagrams and To-be BPMN 2.0 processes
• Mock Up and Wireframes design using Balsamiq
• Preparing and revising SRS with ever-evolving requirements of all modules
• Identifying and elaborating Use-Cases with detailed description and UML Use Case models
• Taking module-wise sign-offs on functional requirements from senior product owner and other stakeholders
• Conducting walkthrough sessions to elicit requirements, reviews and sign-offs
• Conducting Workshops to gather information artifacts, field level details, capturing of exceptions and Stakeholder Analysis
• Analytical use of UML Activity Diagrams, UML Use Case Diagrams, UML Sequence Diagrams, UML State Machine Diagrams to simplify understanding of requirements for internal and external product stakeholders
• Defining Roadmap & Backlog
• Working with development team to break down requirements into User Stories; conducted User Story writing workshops and finalized the acceptance criteria for user stories with Scrum teams
• Reduced defects by 40% and increased speed to market by 15% through tightening of “Definition of Done”
• Creating and reviewing User Stories and Epics
• Reviewing test cases after analyzing User Stories & Epics
• Performing E2E testing verifying the integration between different applications.
• Prepare the Test Plan, Test Risk Assessment and Test Evaluation Report for all the releases.
• Analyzing the results based on the facts achieved.
• Preparing entering Criteria and Exit Criteria for SIT, UAT sign off

Confidential

Business Analyst /Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Requirements Elicitation, gathering, analyzing and documenting requirements
• Prepared Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, State Machine Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams which included modeling of all the activities of business from conceptual to procedural level using Microsoft Visio
• Tactical leadership in eliciting requirements and re-engineering decisions from multiple stakeholders by formal/informal meetings, Backlog Grooming sessions, walkthroughs, escalations, defined deliverables etc.
• Defining the scope of testing within the context of each release / delivery
• Deploying and managing resources for testing
• Applying the appropriate test measurements and metrics in the project and the Testing Team
• Planning, deploying and managing the testing effort for the projects
• Monitoring and Controlling progress
• Led UAT to successful completion against stringent deadlines.
• Defects Verification.
• Weekly status reporting to stakeholders
• Review Test Scripts for various initiatives after analyzing BRD and User Interface documents.
• Perform System testing/Regression testing for the new releases and making/reviewing changes to test scripts in accordance with changing UIs.
• Preparing entering Criteria and Exit Criteria for different phases
• Prepare the Test Plan for all the releases.

Confidential

Business Analyst /QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Visualize the processes using UML models and Workflows
• Prepared Functional Specification Document (FSD), Software Requirements Specification, Requirement Traceability Matrix
• Prepared Test Plans, Test cases and Test Scripts from the decomposed requirements, using Quality Center.
• Executed Test Cases using Quality Center.
• Performed Functional Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing.
• Performed Positive and Negative Testing.
• Analyzed Test Results to check the stability of the application
• Worked with Development and Production teams and supported teams during production releases.