SUMMARY

• Around 6.5 years of IT Experience in Agile Scrum Master/Sr. QA, Kanban, SDLC, Test management, Defect management cycle.
• Expertise in Manual Software Testing which includes Integration, System, Regression, Exploratory, Functional and UI Testing
• Expertise in managing agile projects using Rally with good knowledge of agile methodology like Scrum and Kanban
• Facilitate/conduct Scrum Ceremonies and ensure timely resolution of impediments
• Track and communicate team velocity and Sprint Progress to management
• Knowledge of Bug life cycle which includes detecting, analyzing and reporting bugs
• Experience in Test Estimation, Planning, Execution, Monitoring and Generating Metrics
• Excellent knowledge of Quality Center (HP) used for Test Management
• Experience in automation using QTP with knowledge of VB scripting
• Knowledge in preparing/fetching data by querying oracle SQL database
• Experience on testing web services using SOAP UI
• Experience of working in Production checkout for every release
• Received Best Process Compliant Project Award and Best Team Performance Award
• Consummate team player with ability to work in collaboration with wide variety of functional areas like Development, UX, architectural, ETL teams with customer facing experience and excellent communication skills
• Good Knowledge on insurance domain
• Excellent knowledge of writing, implementing and executing test cases.
• Excellent Analytical, Problem - Solving and Self-Learning Abilities
• Strong Knowledge of Waterfall and AGILE methodologies
• Effective Communicator with strong Interpersonal Skills
• Enormous exposure to formal quality processes and standards
• Excellent Training and Leadership skills
• Good blend of Onshore - Offshore Work Experience

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: MS-DOS, Windows 2003/2008 Server, Windows 7, NT, Vista/XP/98/95, UNIX/Linux

Programming Languages: C, C++,PL/SQL, VB script

Enterprise / Portal: SharePoint Server 2007/2010/2013 , Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, InfoPath 2007/2010/2013 , CAML, Web parts, SharePoint Designer 2007/2010/2013 , Microsoft Project Server 2013

Databases: MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server 2005/2008, Microsoft Access.

Version Control Tools: Visual Source Safe, SVN

Office Tools: Lotus Notes, MS Outlook, MS Project, MS Power Point, MS Word, MS Excel

Tools: Rally, Mercury Quality Centre 11.0, SOAPUI, Fiddler, Swagger, GTWY Utility Tool and Exam XML, Emulator, QTP 11.0

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, CT

Scrum Master/Sr. QA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for evaluating customer requirements, leading and coordinating projects from a technology
• Facilitate Scrum Ceremonies
• Ensure timely resolution of impediments
• Empower teams to self-organize and grow cross functional
• Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, and prioritize resolution of defects/bugs to ensure on-time delivery
• Facilitate Demos with Stakeholders
• Perform Retrospective Sessions with team
• Track and communicate team velocity and Sprint Progress to management
• Requirement analysis and gathering and estimation in Rally Tool
• Part of Release planning with capability leads
• Educate other teams/ projects in implementing Agile methodology

Confidential, CT

Scrum Master/Sr. QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate Scrum Ceremonies
• Ensure timely resolution of impediments
• Empower teams to self-organize and grow cross functional
• Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, and prioritize resolution of defects/bugs to ensure on-time delivery
• Facilitate Demos with Stakeholders
• Perform Retrospective Sessions with team
• Track and communicate team velocity and Sprint Progress to management
• Requirement analysis and gathering and estimation in Rally Tool
• Part of Release planning with capability leads
• Educate other teams/ projects in implementing Agile methodology

Confidential, CT

Sr. QA/ Tester

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the requirements & then create test scenario
• Writing, Reviewing and Executing test cases
• Early testing on the basis of exploratory testing to find as many defects as possible
• Performing functional testing, GUI Testing and XML Testing
• Requirement ID mapping ensuring 100% requirement coverage
• Defect logging, tracking and defect management
• Co-ordinate with onshore lead or client in weekly status calls

Confidential, CT

Sr. QA

Responsibilities:

• Test scenario document preparation and test case writing based on scenarios
• Involve in Test case execution & Requirement ID mapping ensuring 100% requirement coverage
• Involve in Integration, Regression, Functional testing, GUI Testing and XML Testing
• Defect tracking and defect management
• Writing application specific and general functions
• Writing scripts using Descriptive programming
• Test data generation for scripts and maintenance of scripts
• Performing different process activities like Peer review, self-review, Reviews
• Preparing knowledge capture document
• Train the new project joiners about the whole application functionality and processes
• Co-ordinate with onshore lead or client in weekly status calls

Confidential, CT

QA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for preparing Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Execution
• Performing testing on different Browser Testing like Mozilla, different version of IE
• Early testing on the basis of exploratory testing to find as many defects as possible
• Defect logging, tracking and defect management by using ‘Task Tool’
• Daily Status Reporting to Client/Onsite team and having daily interaction with Client on calls

Confidential

QA

Responsibilities:

• Extensively interacted with the business customers in understanding the system requirements and
• Requirement analysis and gathering
• Responsible for preparing Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Execution
• Requirement ID mapping ensuring 100% requirement coverage
• Done on device testing on ‘Emulator’
• Involve in Integration, Regression and Functional testing
• Defect tracking and defect management
• Performing Reviews