PRACHI UTPAT
www.linkedin.com/in/prachiutpat : 408-***-**** : *******@*****.*** : Frisco Texas -75035
Profile Summary
6+ years of experience in software domain as a Quality Lead/ Scrum Master with onshore offshore coordination
Excellent communication, coordination, leadership and mentoring skills
2 years of experience as a Scrum Master with focus on teams adopting Agile Methodologies
Strong knowledge of all phases of SDLC including requirement analysis, design and
testing (Functional, Integration, Performance, UAT, Quality Metrics) in both Waterfall and Agile Model
Expertise leading testing efforts for Client-Server applications, Publisher/Subscriber
based Messaging Applications, Application Layer Routing Service, Rest API testing
Technical Skills
Tools: Jira, Rally, MS Office, Visio, Jenkins, Git, Postman, Developer Tools, Jenkins
Technologies: AWS, PaaS, HTTP 2.0 Technologies, Oracle, Sql, MySql, CI, Curl, SOAP, Rest
Programming Languages: Shell Scripting, Java, and Python
O/S platform: Linux, Windows
Education
●MS – Software Engineering, 2009 San Jose State University, San Jose, CA.
Awards
●Received Spot Award in 2012 for PayPal Data Center Migration Project
●Received 2 Spot Awards in 2016 for Intuit QBO Migration To AWS
Academic Projects
●CRM Application On SalesForce Cloud Platform - Developed CRM application using Apex and Visualforce and deployed to the Salesforce Cloud Platform
Scrum Alliance
●Certified Scrum Product Owner (2016-2018)
●Certified Scrum Master (2016-2018)
Certifications
●Oracle Certified Associate
●Introduction to Software Product Management
●Software Processes and Agile Practices
●Stanford Advanced Project Management Certification (Currently Enrolled)
Professional Experience
Intuit, Lead Software Quality Engineer May 2015 - Present
Projects
QBO Migration To AWS - Test Project Coordinator for QuickBooks Online migration to AWS on data, App and Infrastructure front
●Performed integration and end to end testing for the QBO services being migrated to AWS
●Coordinated test fest for UAT to ensure stability of releases
●Represented the team in Scrum of Scrums as a Quality Lead and coordinated releases
●Coordinated product releases and performed live testing of QBO during switchover between Intuit Hosting Platform and AWS
Data Reporting Platform - Built and released first version of new Payroll data reporting platform using Pentaho reporting tool for Small Business Group/Monitoring Team
●Gathered requirements from Business Analysts
●Worked with project managers to prioritize the releases
●Presented the demo of new reporting platform to the stakeholders
Payroll Data Mart - Worked as a quality lead and project coordinator
●Verified the ETL scripts used to build the datamart
●Performed the task of ScrumMaster
●Performed unit testing / functional testing for the new features added to ETL
PayPal, Infrastructure Software QA Lead / Scrum Master 2011 -May 2015
●Lead a team of QA engineers onshore and offshore, mentored interns and new hires
●Owned quality end to end right from configuring and deploying VMs with Paypal application for end to end testing
●Coordinated product releases, and did internal product support addressing the issues of
internal customers
●Supported production deployment and monitored logs post releases
●Developed test framework using testng and java
●Involved in technical design discussions with architects and product owners and provided useful feedback on design enhancement
Projects
Data Center migration – Migration of PayPal data center from one location to other
●As a Test Project Coordinator, lead a team of 4 engineers and drove end to end testing efforts
●Lead a team of engineers onshore and offshore to coordinate testing and releases
●Developed tests using Selenium for end to end testing of Paypal Application
●Performed testing of Paypal Payment Rest APIs using Postman
Slingshot - Application Layer Router: Service that preprocesses requests from load balancer and routes them to different web application pools
●Performed end to end and integration testing of the paypal services being onboarded to the new routing service
●Configured and deployed Vms for unit and integration testing
●Automated tests using TestNG and Java
●Performed beta testing and live testing post production releases
Mayfly - a key-based in-memory datastore system, with both intra-site and inter-site data
backup to guarantee high reliability and availability
●Lead a team of 3 engineers for driving functional test efforts
●Developed test strategy and performed client server API testing
●Automated tests using google test framework
Yam-JMS - A messaging framework based on JMS - publisher/subscriber model
●Performed functional testing
●Configured VMs for publisher, subscriber and ActiveMQ Broker for performing unit and functional testing
●Automated tests using TestNG