PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Sterling VA

SAFe Release Train Eng/Agile Coach/Manager

Responsibilities:

• Serving as a agile coach/RTE on a mission critical program for CBP PSPD program
• Coaching the division to implementing SAFe framework and guiding the teams on SAFe/ART practices and procedures.
• Communicating annual calendars for iterations, facilitating planning and preparedness, and summarizing and publishing PI objectives..
• Generating end of PI metrics and value delivered and communicating to the program management
• Assisting Product Managers and Scrum Masters in getting ready for the PI
• Facilitating program events and ceremonies such as PI planning event, Scrum of Scrum, System demo, Inspect and adapt and Agile CoP
• Coaching, coordinating, assisting, and mentoring ART teams according to Lean/Agile concepts
• Managing a team on 4 Technical writers on the program for ART’s need on the documents/deliverables
• Communicate with the Gov liaison on day to day Program needs, changes and escalate any risks or internal/external dependencies to management

Confidential - Dulles VA

Senior Release Train Engineer/Sr. SAFe Scrum Master/Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Serving as a RTE/Servant Leader and coach for the Agile Release Train (ART) Implement Agile and SAFe best practices across various scrum teams on $1 billion Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract.
• Chief Scrum Master across multiple development teams with one ART and collaborates with leaders to ensure that all team activities are aligned with the overall program objectives.
• Facilitates ART events/processes and assists the team in delivering the client its maximum value.
• Communicates directly with stakeholders, escalates impediments, and helps manage risks.
• Facilitates Scrum of Scrums meetings and drives relentless improvements within the ART.
• Facilitates daily and biweekly scrum meetings, sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, and backlog grooming meetings for multiple technical teams.
• Facilitates and prepares external end-of-sprint demonstrations with Confidential .
• Creates, maintains, and organizes the backlog of features, epics, stories, and tasks in JIRA and JIRA Align
• Provides recommendations on sprint release planning using team capacity and skillset information.
• Compiles, analyzes, and presents statistics, on-time estimation accuracy, team velocity, and burn-down rate to manage each sprint.
• Collaborates with product owners and operational business managers for selected modules to introduce scrum/program processes and outline expectations.
• Identifies common issues across teams (e.g., communication, user interface consistency, etc.) and leads the implementation of new solutions.
• Makes presentations on team progress, project status, and dependencies with other team leads during Scrum of Scrums and Confidential leadership meetings.
• Interfaces with business, test, and user support teams to obtain requirements and provide updates on features progress.
• Reviews and submits feedback on user stories and epics to ensure alignment with general Agile user story standards; creates Agile graphics; and supports the Program Management Office with briefings.
• Updates Features and PI Objectives in JIRA Align

Confidential

Enterprise System Testing Lead/Scrum Maste

Responsibilities:

• Served as the Enterprise Test Lead and Agile Scrum Master on the Confidential web applications program.
• Reviewed high-level Epic system inputs, acceptance criteria, and dependencies to ensure that requirements were well defined with essential details for story success.
• Identified and drafted test scenarios (e.g., performance, functional, Section 508 compliance, and security testing) before Iteration Planning meetings by collaborating with testers on user story acceptance criteria.
• Collaborated with software developers and product owners to identify any testing questions based on their preliminary user story reviews.
• Guided development and implementation of Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery test automation to measure performance impact and security issues in local/dedicated test environments and unit/functional test coverage.
• Provided essential support to software developers and product owners when creating test scripts to validate comprehensive test coverage of user story or functionality and provide quality assurance.
• Validated that test automation suites were ready for execution when code was deployed to lower level environments by coordinating with delivery partners to identify testing environment readiness.
• Provided critical feedback on acceptance criteria, story prioritization, and areas for improvement.
• Prepared and facilitated daily scrum meetings, biweekly sprint planning, review, retrospective, and backlog grooming meetings.
• Facilitated and prepared for external end-of-sprint demonstrations and created, maintained, and organized the backlog of features, epics, stories, and tasks in JIRA and MS Project.

Test Manager/Senior Business Analyst

Confidential - Defense

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of five testers to provide development and implementation of a big data application that used Agile/Scrum methodology and supported the design and development of test cases for environment/system integration validation and database/backend testing.
• Developed appropriate system testing strategies, plans, and scenarios; managed development and maintenance of use cases, user stories, and test reports; conducted test execution in development, test, and production environments for each build, sprint, and release in the iterative development lifecycle.
• Managed the development/maintenance of defect reports in JIRA for development, test, and production.
• Coordinated and provided support in daily/weekly Scrum meetings to discuss status, issues, backlogged items, and changes to task priorities.

Integration Testing Manager SME

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Helped the Confidential Program Management Office establish an integrated Project Management Office (iPMO) for the Securities Accounting Management project and the Capital Market Infrastructure project and performed integration end-to-end testing from the program manager perspective.
• Created and managed their quality assurance program, identified/implemented industry best practices, recommended project improvements from a testing perspective, and consolidated test activities Confidential the program level for the two ongoing iPMO initiatives.
• Collaborated with Project Managers across multiple work streams to track and report testing progress; supported test planning and execution meetings; and documented and mitigated any findings and vulnerabilities on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL5) servers.

Test Manager/Requirements

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Test lead for the CDE system development task to implementIRDM MCCfunctionality to the existing CDEapplication.
• Responsibilities included day-to-day test management activities, including create and implement test strategy and test plan, manage day to day operations of test team, review and assist in the normalization of software Use Cases/requirements for testability; interface with project management, client, developers and other technical support staff, manage and create test case scenarios and map them to requirements; develop and maintain test case inventory and monitor the status; identify test data, conduct Application Quality Test (AQT) & Test Readiness Review (TRR); develop test results report, plan and support UAT ; monitor discovered defects; manage test schedule.
• Responsibilities also included supporting requirements management tasks such as capturing and documenting requirements for CDE O&M releases.

Sr. Bus Analyst and Test Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Supported Enterprise Application Development Integration and Sustainment (EADIS) program
• Responsibilities included managing requirements, and leading/coordinate testing tasks for multiple applications that falls under National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) and National Preparedness Directorate (NPD) for Confidential . EADIS is a CMMI Level 3 program that utilizes a wide range of technologies, including JAVA, Oracle RDBMS, Oracle AS, Oracle SOA suite, Business Objects technologies, as well as number of third party commercially available and customized technologies, tools and other components.

Test lead and Requirements Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Test Lead and Requirements Analyst on a project called Firm Management Services (FMS) which provides enterprise search and firm management capabilities for the Confidential 's Office of Regulatory Affairs. FMS used a variety of technologies including Java, Web Services, Retrieval Ware Search, and Oracle. As a Test lead and Requirements analyst I was responsible for developing and managing the Requirements using AGILE methodology, developing test scripts, executing test scripts, managing defect using JIRA, Providing status Confidential daily SCRUM. Prepare Test results report etc.

Test Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Supported a full life cycle implementation project (Compliance Data Environment) for Confidential (SB/SE division) involving complex architecture using BizTalk, MQseries, SQL Server, .Net as Sr. Functional Analyst and Test Team Lead.
• Test Manager responsibilities included: Create and implement test strategy and Test Plan, Manage day to day operations of test team, Review and assist in the normalization of software Use Cases/requirements for testability; Interface with Project Management, client, developers and other technical support staff, Manage and Create test case scenarios and map them to requirements; Mentor test team and client staff, Conduct weekly team status meetings, Develop and Maintain test case inventory and monitor the status; Identify Test data, Conduct Application Qualification Test (AQT), & Test Readiness Review (TRR); Plan UAT and Conduct UAT kickoff, Create Test related Process and Procedures (SOPs) and document them in Rational ClearCase; Monitor discovered Defects in Rational ClearQuest; Manage Test schedule, Implement and maintain CMMI level 3 verification and Validation processes .
• Sr. Functional Analyst/Requirements Management responsibilities included: Conduct requirements gathering sessions and analyzing them byconducting Joint Application requirements/development (JAD/JAR) sessions with the client personnel; Create and Maintains Requirements Management-related documentation (RSD) and associated standard operating procedures (SOPs); Manage and allocate requirements by maintaining the (RTM); Manage Requirements change through structured Change Control Process (CCB); Administer/Maintain requirements in Rational Requisite Pro

Configuration Manager/Release Management

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Configuration Management Responsibilities included: Perform and manage software baselines and builds using ClearCase and UCM for 2 systems; Manage deployment of system to multiple locations;Aide in the customization of ClearCase and ClearQuest to address project needs;Redefine processes and facilitate weekly Engineering Review Board (ERB), Change Control Board (CCB), technical reviews; Track and monitor change requests and software defects; Establish Configuration Management Library and procedure; Create and update CM processes and procedures; Perform Physical Configuration Audits on the production systems and the I& Confidential ( Integration and test) system; Provided CM metrics and status charts; Provide CM support and Software Process Improvement (SPI) functions for CMMI requirements.

Confidential

Systems/Functional Analyst

Responsibilities:

• I worked as a Systems Analyst for Speech Recognition technologies developed by the Confidential & Confidential labs.
• The responsibilities included testing, evaluating and modifying various speech applications developed by Confidential & Confidential labs in order to promote business to future and potential customers.

Confidential

QA Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as QA Test Engineer for testing the Network Monitoring/Security software developed by Confidential & Confidential for the Government in the classified environment; Reviewed and assisted in the normalization of software requirements for testability.
• Developed test plans and test procedures for system devices and software, also identifies pre-test requirements, inputs, and expected results; Maintained and supported testing/technical environments for current and future product verification projects. Also, executed and recorded results of all test procedures.
• Recorded discovered defects and proposed enhancements to assist development teams in reproducing the issue; Interfaced with program management during the life cycle of the project, reporting earned value and project progress; Demonstrated system functionality to customers, and also conducted training to ensure the system clarification of the new functions to the end user.
• Worked closely with system engineering and development teams on customer task-orders and served as an interface to facilitate introduction of new releases in the field. Also provided a variety of engineering services in support of the operational system; Participated in establishing the plans, standards and policies of the system test department.
• Identified and participated in process and productivity improvements; Assisted in deployment of software to global sites; Was responsible for Tier III technical assistance resolving software related customer issues.

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Analyst/Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed service requirements for telecommunication products and populated DB2 databases, and modified reference tables in RDBMS to ensure accurate rating of mock usage data between tables;Designed Service Specification from requirements analysis for Confidential ’s Express Track Billing System.
• Performed unit testing and string testing to test the changes made using File-Aid, JCL, and ISPF in mainframe TSO Environment; Tested the impact on daily rating and monthly rating systems; created test data; Involved in creation quality control documentation for change tracking purposes.
• Created utilities for testing environment creation and data verification; Liaison between multiple lines of business and the front-end development team, aiding business consultants and clients in resolution of software implementation issues.