SUMMARY

• Around 13+Years of professional experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Strong communication skills and expert with Project Management Methodologies, Software Quality Assurance concepts
• Extensively worked for various clients domains like Finance, Banking (Risk & Capital Management) Insurance with Pega experience in Property & Causality, Life, Home, Auto & Claims Process, Retail, Health Care and State Projects
• Expert and over 13 Years of Software Development, Testing of e - commerce, Client Server, Web based Applications, SOA environment, Web Services, Banking and Mobile related technologies and well versed with Enterprise Architecture
• Over 5 Years experience in Agile Project Management, Change Management worked with multiple Agile Software development projects, estimations, planning, schedule, scope, tracking, Report, Risk Management, Release Plan, Test Management, deliverables and managed medium to large scale enterprise projects through all phases of the project with internal and external teams and execution in firmware development
• Experience with Share Point, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, Project Viewer, Microsoft Visio, MS Project and Clarity
• Experience in Test Driven Development (TDD), Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD), Behavioral Driven Development (BDD), Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing and Agile Games
• 5+Years experience as Agile Scrum Master implementing Agile Methodologies with software development teams and extensively worked with multiple Scrum Teams and Scrum Masters across the large scale enterprise projects following Agile core principles, practices and coordinating with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Development Team and Testing Team and was liaison between product owner and development teams for the every sprint
• Experience with iterative development methodologies and continuous delivery practices
• Experience with User Story driven development, budget, tracking estimates from sprint to sprint and responsible taking proper approvals and sign offs with product owners for the release scope and the change request within budget scope for the sprint schedule
• As scrum master managed multiple teams at onsite and offshore and was responsible as leadership, for the product teams to enable the execution off business strategies and awareness, conflict resolution, of the team improvement and maintain team metrics and transparency among the teams
• Facilitate estimation meetings and gather reports for all relevant agile metrics (burn down charts, Team velocity) and update to product owner and the senior management and publish the reports in share point
• As Scrum Master worked with the Product Owner and the internal teams for Product backlog, Sprint Backlogs, Sprint burn down and Release burn down and prioritize backlog grooming user stories and new user stories and finalize the release plan, release scope for the sprint schedule
• Managed product scope and control scope creep during the development sprints and work with the project teams to provide estimates and Identify, manage and mitigate project and team risks
• Was responsible and liaison between the stakeholders and the project team to ensure user stories and ensure acceptance criteria is clearly defined and understood
• Experience and facilitate Sprint Ceremonies, Sprint Planning, Sprint Backlogs, Sprint User Stories, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective meetings, feedback meetings and Acceptance criteria for the sprint user stories with the product owners, internal teams and improve the productivity for the sprint teams
• Schedule and facilitate daily stand up meetings with developers, business analyst, test leads and track and remove the impediments and guiding the team to remove impediments of the teams progress to its sprint commitments and track team velocity and task definition of the sprint progress, handle the bugs and communicate the team progress and the status report to the senior management and product owners
• Good knowledge and over 6 Years of experience in Agile Methodologies Scrum, Waterfall, Kanban, XP, Scaled Agile Frame Work (SAFe) in development process leading and mentoring in large scaled enterprise projects
• Experience coaching the Agile methodologies, providing workshops, demos and guiding the internal teams and self organization and cross-functionally helping the product owners on Agile Scrum adoption, practices and implementations within self organization across the projects ensure team members are following Agile principles and maintain relevant metrics of the team progress and update progress to the senior management
• Experience with HP Quality Center and Test Director for defect management, JIRA, Rally, Version 1, Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
• Experience in testing different applications developed in Java, XML, Visual Basic ASP.NET and .Net
• Extensive experience in developing and executed Software Test plans, Test Strategy, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Traceability Matrix based on Technical and Functional Requirements
• Experience in Oracle, SQL, UNIX, Linux and knowledge with Data warehouse

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management Tools: JIRA, Rally, Clarity, TFS, MS Office10 and Version One

Testing Tools: Selenium, Soap UI, QA Wizard Pro, HP Quality Center, Load Runner, QTP and Test Director

Defect Tracking Tools: Test Track, Test Link, Bugzilla, Bug Tracker

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, MS-Access

Web Technologies: HTML, DHTML, XML, .Net & ASP. Net

Scripting Languages: JavaScript, VB Script, Ruby, Groovy and Shell Scripting

Operating Systems: Windows 8/7/XP/NT/2000, Linux &UNIX

Programming Languages: C++, Java, SQL, PL/SQL &Visual basic

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NJ

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• As Scrum Master worked with stakeholders, product owners on Artifacts Such as Product Backlog, Spring Backlog to prioritize the requirements for every sprint release
• Worked on Commercial Property (CP) and Energy Engineered Risk (EER) line of businesses
• Assisted and helped the development team to attain goals through requirements gathering for multiple Projects from inception to fruition; ensure correct sizing and prioritization
• Led Scrum of Scrum meetings to coordinate and facilitate projects where there are multiple dependencies, risks and resolution of project related defects/bugs
• Facilitate scrum meetings like sprint planning, sprint progress, sprint review and Sprint Retrospective with product owners and the internal teams and the external teams for multiple scrum teams
• Experience with user story grooming, release planning managed progress burn down, document artifacts, reviews, acceptance and feedback from demos or showcases
• Was responsible schedule the daily stand -ups meetings with developers, business analyst, test leads and Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personal to remove the impediments and update the team progress to the product owners
• Coached and guide the internal teams and the product owners on the Agile process as required and following Agile Scrum development process
• Worked with product owners and communicate the release scope and requirements changes to the team, including a high level analysis of sprint impact and assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition
• Responsible taking proper approvals and sign offs for the release scope and the change request within budget scope for the sprint release
• Worked with the product owners and the internal team and analyzed the user stories and ensured that they are Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Small and Testable for the every sprint release
• Facilitate development of Acceptance Criteria for user stories and conduct Release Planning meetings and facilitate business analysis activities
• Used to track the Product Planning, Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Sprint Tracking and Reports for the every sprint schedule and the sprint release
• Lead the cross functional team having onsite and off-shore team and external vendor resources, business analysts, application developers and quality assurance teams
• Responsible was liaison between development team and with product owners for the production releases and ensured that release has a clearly defined scope and meet overall objectives, standards, quality and user needs
• Demonstrated leadership and interpersonal skills to motivate team members
• Managed multiple projects simultaneously and worked with product owners, vendors to identify project risks, constraints and dependencies working with team to remove the barriers
• Monitored and streamlined the daily delegation of incoming issues and bugs using Quality Center
• Handled tracking of the bugs and changed requests for every sprint release
• Successfully overcame the challenge of working with onsite team and off-shore scrum team
• Communicate the progress of the development team and testing team to the product owners
• Responsible for representing the team weekly status meetings held by products teams
• Published project status reports and related sprint documents in share point

Environment: Quality Center, Share point & ASP.Net

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Scrum Master & Project Management

Responsibilities:

• Responsible and scheduled daily stand -ups meetings with developers, business analyst, test leads and addressed the road blocks with the internal teams and product owners
• As Scrum Master facilitate scrum meetings like sprint planning, sprint review, sprint retrospective and release planning sessions and issue resolution meetings as required
• Worked with stakeholders on artifacts such as Product Backlog, Spring Backlog, Sprint Burn down and Release Burn down and followed waterfall iterative development process
• Communicate user stories for the upcoming sprint to the stakeholders and ensured that they are independent, negotiable valuable, estimable, small and testable for the sprint release
• Coached project teams on the Agile-Scrum delivery model concepts and worked on transaction project from waterfall development to Agile Scrum development
• Communicate the progress of the development team and testing team to the product owners Publish the team's progress and successes to make sure they are highly visible to stakeholders
• Responsible for representing the team weekly status meetings held by products teams
• Worked with product owners, Stake owners and project manager to report the backlog and update team status like development and testing activity of the assigned user stories for the ongoing sprint progress in daily manner and publish the weekly status report of the sprint progress
• As scrum master facilitate scrum of scrum meetings with three scrum masters and worked in multiple projects like (Juvenile Case Management System (JCMS), Prosecutor, Grand Jury and Juvenile Courts)
• As scrum master monitored the transparency on team progress through sprint process velocity reporting and to remove impediments to the ability of the team to deliver the sprint release
• Worked with the team to generate backlogs, capture them in JIRA, and work against the committed backlog against the delivery schedule
• Worked on Test Driven Development (TDD) and Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) and followed Agile process for the complete release of every sprint schedule
• Participated with QA Team and Development Team in application testing, such as system, unit, regression, load and coordinated with Product Owners and the UAT users during Sprint User Acceptance Testing
• Followed Agile Process for every sprint schedules and daily stand up meeting involving Business Analyst, Development Team and Test leads and update daily status to Product Owners
• All the User Stories, Test Cases and Defects and comments for any changes to the existing User stories where tracked using JIRA Tool
• Prepared delivered reports to the existing project and published documentation and specifications of any new application for new functionality in share point
• Monitored testing activities that allow applications to meet business requirements and systems goals

Environment: JIRA, QA Wizard Pro, Test Track, ASP.Net

Confidential - IL

Scrum Master & Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• As Scrum Master worked in multiple projects like property, life, auto Confidential Bank (Risk & Capital Management) and mobile banking applications, coordinating with Product Owners, Project Managers, Business Architects, Business Analysts, Developers and Test Leads at onsite and offshore teams
• As Scrum Master Schedule sprint planning meetings prior to the beginning of each sprint. Work with product owners and delivery teams to groom the user stories in advance of each sprint
• Schedule daily stand up meetings interaction between the BA, Development Team, Test Lead and discuss day to day tasks assigned to the individual team members and change requirements address the impediments for the sprint schedule
• Coached the product owners and the internal teams on Agile core principles and make sure Agile principles are followed by the teams and maintain relevant metrics of the team progress
• Worked on Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) and followed Agile process for the complete release of every sprint schedule and followed Agile Scrum development
• Worked with the team to generate Sprint backlogs capture them in Rally and delivery schedule
• As Scrum Master facilitate scrum meetings like sprint planning, sprint review, sprint retrospective and release planning sessions and issue resolution meetings as required and support the product owner respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog and sprint retrospective meetings at the end of every sprint schedule
• Communicate backlog stories for the upcoming sprint to the stakeholders support the Product Owner with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog and worked multiple projects on Agile Scrum development process
• Test Manager spearheaded multiple project delivery for the integration, system, and regression testing of software, partnering with project/product management for resource ramp up/ramp down, identifying resources/skills, resource allocation, task assignments and managing groups/teams
• Responsible for all aspects of quality project delivery (estimates, resource fulfillment, task management, scheduling, risk management, forecasting test case execution, defect management and report the status and metrics to management
• Developed and establish quality assurance measures and testing standards for new applications, products and enhancements to existing applications throughout the development lifecycles
• Prepare and deliver reports and address existing and potential trouble areas in projects
• Monitored testing activities that allow applications to meet business requirements and systems goals
• Worked in functional testing methodologies, including test scope identification, test requirements management, functional test phases, test scheduling and defect management
• Executed automated test scripts using SOAP UI with Groovy Language
• Coordinated the assignments between the offshore team and the on shore team
• Responsible for weekly status reports showing the progress of the offshore testing effort

Environment: SOAP UI, Groovy Language, XML, .Net & Rally

Confidential - OH

Scrum Master & Project Management

Responsibilities:

• Worked in change management process and strong knowledge in claims processing
• Facilitate scrum meetings like sprint planning, sprint progress, sprint review, stack holder communication, track completed features and sprint retrospective
• As scrum master organized regular scrum meetings including daily stand ups meetings sprint release planning sessions, demonstrations, project planning and issue resolution meetings as required
• Served as a liaison between product owners, developers, management and other stakeholders
• Coordinated with product owners to organize product backlog and sprint requirements
• Coached the internal teams on Agile Scrum and maintain relevant metrics of the team progress
• As Scrum Master and Assistant to product owner, created a comprehensive set of non functional and functional requirements, prioritized requirements for all Sprint Meetings
• Responsible for analyzing Business Requirements and development specifications
• Extensively worked on Kanban development work process
• Responsible for Initiating, Planning, managing matrixes resources, Monitoring development, testing, implementation, Change management and Defect management
• Have used Quality Center for executing tests in Test Lab, requirements gathering and Defect Tracking
• Involved in manual testing of application according to business specifications of every iteration release
• Version1 tool was used to track the Product Planning, Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Sprint Tracking and Reports for the every sprint schedule and the sprint release
• Updated Scrum backlog and Sprint user stories and how they are tracked, work burned-down, velocity metrics derived and tasks decomposed to the product owners
• Followed Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) and used Agile methodologies for complete release of every iteration schedule
• Involved in the review of business requirements for each sprint release and estimating time efforts based on test plans and business requirements.
• Extensively used Quality Center for requirements gathering, Bug Tracking and Reporting

Environment: Quality Center, Clarity, Share Point, .Net & XML

Confidential - TX

Scrum Master & Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Participated in management of vendors in terms of implementation and support of products and services
• Worked in effective Story Gathering and creation, similarities/differences from Business and Technical Requirements Specifications
• Schedules facilitate sprint planning meetings prior to the beginning of each sprint. Work with product owners and delivery teams to groom stories in advance of each sprint
• Communicate committed stories for the upcoming sprint to the backlog owner and stakeholders - Schedule and facilitate daily stand up meetings
• Followed Agile Scrum development process for every sprint development user stories
• Managed end user requirements by defining the scope and creating the communication strategy to effectively communicate the various aspects of the project to different audiences
• Interact with the client, developers and users for the baseline the requirements
• Participated in the entire development life cycle from the functionality requirements through deployment & maintenance
• Identify need for additional resource for the project, hiring, performance reviews and appraisals
• Guide and support the project managers, internal teams and business teams in solving project issues
• Used Quality Center for requirements management, planning, scheduling, running tests, defect tracking and manage the defects and executing the test cases
• Coordinated the assignments between the offshore team and the on shore team
• Responsible for Weekly Status reports showing the progress of the offshore testing effort
• Prepare Daily, Weekly & Project Status Reports and Usage documents

Environment: Team Foundation Server, Quality Center, XML, Asp.Net & SQL

Confidential - CT

Team Lead & Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creation and execution of test cases for Manual Testing of the application
• Performed system, integration, functionality, regression testing User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Generated reports for the test scripts status runs and participated in the meetings along with the development team to walk through the defects periodically, conducted daily meetings with the offshore team to gather testing defect updates
• Coordinated the assignments between the on shore team and offshore team and worked with development team during regression testing at on shore and followed Agile development process
• Responsible for Weekly Status reports showing the progress of the offshore testing effort
• Created functional automation scripts using open source tools selenium(Selenium RC, Grid)
• Experience using Selenium Core, Selenium IDE and Selenium Remote control
• Extensively worked on Trade Entry applications Touch pad, Bond Entry, security loader
• Knowledge and understanding of Equities, futures, Options, Swaps, Bonds, Repos and FX
• Experience working with trade and position tools that retrieve all the trade and position information
• Created Test Scripts for Regression testing using Quick Test Pro
• Performed Database/Back-end testing by using SQL Server
• Generated weekly status reports to the Team Manager and attended weekly meetings with the Business Analysts, Technical Team, and Team Manager
• Tracked, reviewed, analyzed and compared the defects using Quality Center

Environment: Selenium, Quality Center, QTP, VB Script, Java Script, SQL Server & Web Logic

Confidential - CT

Team lead & Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• It was web based application and developed detailed test plan, test scenarios and test objectives prior to test tool selection for the functional testing
• Review tests specifications, test cases and performed manual testing, Increased productivity and efficiency through regression testing using QTP scripts, created VB functions to validate various scenarios throughout the application, Identified end-to-end scenarios for automation testing
• Participated in the development of design standards, script development guidelines and created automation test strategy documents and test scripts
• Used Quality Center to create tests in Test Plan and run tests in Test Lab for both manual test cases and automation scripts and defect tracking, created performance test scripts using Load Runner controller and monitor response time in development phase

Environment: Load Runner, Quality Center, .Net & VB Script

Confidential - CT

Sr. QA Analyst & Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Manual Testing of the application, Involved in change management process and good knowledge of health plan operations and claims process
• Analysis of Business Requirements and System Requirements of the application, Developed detailed Test Plans from the Business Requirements, use cases, detailed specifications and other documents provided for Manual Testing and Automation Testing
• Worked on a UNIX platform and Executing SQL scripts from UNIX prompt
• Successfully developed and implemented Test Cases manually for Integration, System Testing, Regression Testing, Black Box, White Box and User Acceptance Testing, Created performance test scripts to monitor response time in development phase, Maintained detailed logs of test activities in Testdirector

Environment: Load Runner, Test director, UNIX, XML

Confidential - WI

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Checked the basic functionally for Manual Testing prior to Automation Testing, Created Test Cases in Testdirector based on Functional Requirements, Worked on a UNIX platform and executing SQL scripts from UNIX prompt, Involved and created test plan, test scripts, test execution and test strategy with the team members
• Performed Regression Testing prior to releasing an upgrade the defect correction, Responsible for Manual Testing, Integration Testing, Performance Testing and User Acceptance Testing
• Reviewed and analyzed the test results using test logs and reported defects using PVCS Tracker
• Participated in daily meetings to report the documented test matrices and bugs found in the system

Environment: Winrunner, Testdirector, VBScript, SQL-Server & UNIX