Profile Summary

A Scrum Master Certified professional offering over 6 years of rich & diverse experience in Software Development including 3+ years of experience in Testing Domain

Worked with JCL, SAS, DB2, SQL, File aid, other mainframe tools and Hewitt proprietary products.

Involved in Analysis, Test Planning, Configuration, Testing, Regression Testing and Documentation.

Have an overall idea of SDLC and the various phases of it.

Did deployment and Production Support.

Well versed with various Project life cycle methodologies including Agile. Played Scrum Master Role for some of the Payment project.

Adept at overseeing all phases of software development lifecycle, from design and documentation to implementation.

Experience working in fast-paced, deadline-oriented environments.

Strong team member with background managing and training junior employees.

Outstanding technical skills; able to quickly learn new concepts and technologies.

An effective communicator with excellent analytical skills and ability to relate to people at any level of business and management.

A good team player with strong inter-personal, Team Management and communication skills.

Education

MBA (Human Resource) from BharathiDasan University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu in 2007

B.E. (Electrical and Electronics) from Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu in 2005

Soft Skills

Key Skills

Software Development

Project Management

Requirement Analysis

Client Relationship Management

Team Building & Supervision

Compliance Management

Career Timeline

Work Experience

Since Nov’15 with FreshEShop as Scrum Master

Joined as Quality Analyst and got promoted as Scrum Master

Deputation: Since Nov’15 – present at FreshEShop, TamilNadu

Key Result Areas:

Lead daily stand-ups and sprint meeting for scrum teams.

Work with product owners to groom the backlog and plan sprints.

Track, escalate and remove impediments

Report at daily Scrum of Scrum meetings. Track burn down, issues and progress in JIRA.

Consistently worked to improve the processes and quality of our team's work by: implementing test-driven development, ensuring that software conformed to architectural standards and participating in design and implementation reviews.

Coached team members on Agile processes and facilitated planning meetings and retrospectives. Maintained task board and produced daily burndown charts through Rally.

Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity. Encouraged and implemented process improvements. Created team-building opportunities.

Worked closely with Product Owners, coordinating product backlog grooming and story estimation.

Technology: Agile Methodology, JIRA, SQL, Rally

Previous Experience

Jan’15 – Nov’15 with R Systems Inc, as QA Analyst

Role: QA Analyst

Key Result Areas:

Developed Test plan for System, Detail & over All Test Plan using the Business Specifications.

Involved in writing the Integration Test cases to validate the loans in loan processing service.

Created the Test data for Integration Test cases to cover all the scenarios

Involved in reviewing and implementing the Business Requirement Documents to create a comprehensive list of Test Cases and various test bed scenarios.

Maintained an issue list and communicated with the developers and users during the validation process after each iteration.

Responsible for system testing.

Responsible for various deliverables at different stages of the Project Life Cycle, like Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Results Summary and Requirements Traceability Matrix.

Used QC for defect tracking and reporting.

Nov’13- Dec’14 with R Systems Inc, as Senior Tester

Role: Senior Tester

Key Result Areas:

Reviewed Business Requirement Documents and the Technical Specifications

Writing Test cases corresponding to business requirements and operating conditions

Executed Test cases for the functional testing

Performed Integration testing

Maintained and executed test cases

Reported the Bugs, Email notifications to the developers

Performed End to End Testing manually

Wrote SQL commands to fetch the data through queries for testing

Involved in business requirement analysis and design reviews meetings

Involved in setting up QA test environments, Building and releasing changes into the QA, staging, and production

environments

Involved in Database backup and restoring

Tracked defects in defect tracking tool

Closely worked with developers and system engineers to nail down the technical problems

Preparing the defect reports and interacted with developers for debugging

Prepared weekly status reports.

Feb’12 –Oct ‘13 with Charter National Bank, as Tester

Role: Tester

Key Result Areas:

Involved in analysis of Business requirements and User requirements

Involved in developing the Test plans, Test strategies

Developed Test cases, Test scripts

Involved in Acceptance testing, System testing.

Created Test procedures and Test cases for Regression testing

Involved in defect reporting and tracking using TestDirector.

Created SQL queries for the database testing.

Dec’09 – Nov’11 with Pure Testing, as Tester

Role: Tester

Key Result Areas:

Writing and executing software Test cases.These were developed after reviewing the business requirements

document,and technical specifications document

Conducted Functional, Integration, System testing

Wrote SQL queries to test the database integrity

Participated in bug/ patch review meeting

Interacted with developers, users to resolve defects and their priorities.

Documented errors and implemented their resolutions

Ιnvolved in test documentation.

Jan’09 – Oct’09 with BSNL, as Software Engineer

Role: Software Engineer

Key Result Areas:

Preparation of test plans

Running of system test cases and posting of defects, test lab set up in the test director

Preparation of test summary reports, defect summary reports

Worked together with the development team & business leads with regards to system functionality

Executed test cases covering all aspects of the functionality, design and user interface requirements

Executed testing for manual & scheduled batch process, which also includes testing for the full business functionality

Tracked the defects in test director and effectively closed them

Worked with development team investigating and correcting software deficiencies based on testing results.

Jul’07 – Nov’08 with Hewitt Associates, Chennai as Batch Technical Analyst

Role: Batch Technical Analyst

Key Result Areas:

As a Batch Technical Analyst in developing applications using SAS Base and SAS/SQL, IBM Mainframes (JCL and DB2).

Experienced in using SAS Procedures, SAS functions.

Effectively communicating with the team and decision making.

Capable of adopting new Domains, Technologies, concepts and environments.

Good understanding of relational databases like MS SQL Server and SQL

Good Exposure in SDLC process.

Good knowledge on JCL coding and testing experience in MAINFRAME applications.

Working with Software like Control-M, Control-D to schedule the jobs.

Using Hewitt customized tool called TBA Workbench that incorporates more tools like JCL generator Adhoc Control-M tools (Adhoc SAS tool, Adhoc JCL tool).

Certifications

Completed Agile Practices Training on Agile Philosophy, Methodologies, Principles, and Practices from Prozenics

In Jan 2017.

Passed the certification exam for Scrum Master Certified Credential(SMC) in Jan 2017.

Passed the certification exam for Scrum Fundamentals Certified Credential(SFC) in Jan 2017.

IT / Technical Skills

Languages/Technologies: C, C++, SAS(Mainframe)

Scripting and Markup: HTML

Databases: SQL Server 2005/2008, MY SQL

Methodologies: AGILE, WATERFALL

Agile Tools: JIIRA, RALLY

Testing Tools: WinRunner, LoadRunner, Quick Test Professional

Bug Reporting Tool: TestDirector

Office Software’s: MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Skill Set

Managerial:

Proven expertise in people management.

Assisted and mentored junior team members in Testing related works.

Facilitates to ensure that the Scrum Team is provided with an environment conducive to complete the project successfully.

Guided and Teached Scrum practices to everyone involved in the project.

Cleared impediments for the team; and, ensured that Scrum processes are being followed.

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