Scrum Master
Resume:
Raghavendragupta Vanama **********@*****.***
Professional Summary:
Overall11.6yrs of experience in IT as Scrum Master, Test lead, and Testing
Expert in Selenium webdriver, TestNG, Cucumber, SVN,GIT,Maven,ALM,JIRA,Rally .
Specialized in overcoming organizational challenges of transitioning to agile methodology from traditional project
management and development.
Supporting, educating, and collaborating with the Product Owner, especially with respect to refining
(grooming)and managing the product backlog.
Organize and facilitate release and sprint planning sessions, daily stand up meetings, sprint demos,
retrospectives, grooming sessions, and any other Scrum related ceremonies.
Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization, and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at
a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
Proactively identifies impediments and appropriately resolves using network of peers and formal channels
(Including escalation if required).
Certifications:
Certified Scrum Master from Scrum Alliance.
SAFE4.0 advanced scrum master certified from SCALED AGILE.
Certified Application life cycle management(ALM).
ISTQB Foundation and Advanced Certified.
EncoreCapitalGroup(MCMCG) Texas,USA
Jan 2017 to Till date
Scrum Master
Encore Capital Group is an international specialty finance company. Our subsidiaries purchase portfolios of
consumer receivables from major banks, credit unions, utility providers, and municipalities, and partner with
individuals as they repay their obligations and work toward financial recovery.
Roles & Responsibilities:
•Working with Product Owner in finding ways to effectively maintain prioritize the Product backlog and release
plan.
•Facilitate scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, daily stand ups, retrospectives etc.) .
•Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and
participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices
•Helping team in self management by creating artifacts like team task board, sprint Burndown chart, impediments
list etc.
•Encouraging team to adopt pair programming, peer review, preparing reusable components and best practice
documents
•Protect team from over commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs
•Providing status reports, burn down charts, velocity and business value charts to business and product owners
•Consistently monitors and reports on Agile team metrics, including Sprint Report, Epic Burndown, version report,
control chart and Test reports .
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Tools:Java,ReactJS,JQuery,SpringMVC,SpringWS,Bootstrap,SpringJDBC,Tomcat,Git,Jira,Selenium,Cucumber,
TestNG, Maven
Farm Bureau Insurance,Idaho,USA
June 2016 to Dec 2016
Scrum Master
Policy center application for Farm Bureau Insurance using Guidewire policy center & Guidewire claimcenter. This
supports various business lines of Farm Bureau Insurance.
•Collaborates with the product owner and/or other technical stakeholders to prioritize backlog considering business
value, technical debt and risk.
•Facilitated Release Planning, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning and Retrospective Meetings with product
owner.
•Protect the sprint backlog from scope creep.
•Facilitates retrospectives and/or service or operational reviews by providing an environment where candid
feedback is welcomed and encourages suggestions from the Agile team members that are targeted towards
improving overall team performance
•Facilitate decision making, issue resolution an d consensus among the team members and dependent teams.
•Ensures timely delivery of commitments through the management and removal of the Agile team’s impediments
•Consistently monitors and reports on Agile team metrics, including burndown, Story score board, Test reports .
•Reporting to business on daily and weekly basis on overall sprint progress.
Roles & Responsibilities:
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Environment: Mainframes,Guidewire policy center,Guidewire claim center,Oracle,Rally,Java,GIT,Jenkins,Selenium
Webdriver, TestNG,Cucumber.
Fannie Mae Washington,D.C,USA
Aug 2015 to May 2016
Scrum Master
Roles & Responsibilities:
•Work closely with all key business stake holders and product owner in backlog management and continuous
delivery of features.
•Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations.
•Assist team members in Agile estimation techniques.
•Protecting the development team from impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog
and project timeline
•Mange team retrospectives to better the team performance.
•Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders.
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•Facilitate project progresses reports through the delivery life cycle.
•Track and communicate team velocity and sprint release progress to all affected teams and management.
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ProgressiveInsurance,INDIA
March 2013 to July 2015
Associate Consultant & Scrum Master
Policypro System (Progressive Insurance Corporation) Progressive Corporation (PGR) is the third largest
insurance provide in USA. Progressive Casualty Insurance Company, through its subsidiaries, provides personal
automobile insurance, and other specialty property casualty insurance and related services in the United States.
Role & Responsibilities:
•Work directly with business team and assign the requirements both manual and automation to the team.
•Involved in designing automation for Policy center and claim center applications,
•Extensive knowledge on Policy center and claim center to support various product lines to support Farm Bureau
Insurance.
•Involvement in Test Estimations and Test strategy implementation.
•Created automation scripts using selenium Webdriver .
•Using BDD cucumber framework to analyze the user story and writing acceptance criteria.
•Experience in Data driven Testing, Cross browser testing and Parallel Test execution using Selenium WebDriver,
TestNG and selenium Grid.
•Review of automation scripts.
•Review the test cases and helping the team to get approval from business.
•Review and assigning the defects to the Dev team.
•Perform System and UAT testing.
•Policies has been processed using Guidewire Policy center.
•Claims creation (FNOL,Post FNOL,Reserves creation,assignment) through claim center.
•Tracking the tasks status and reporting same to the client on Daily basis.
Environment: Mainframe, Java,J2EE,ORACLE, RALLY, SVN Selenium Webdriver,TestNG, Guidewire
Policy,claim center,Jenkins,Cucumber.
DIRECT LINE GROUP Insurance, India
Jan 2012 to Feb 2013
Test Analyst
RBS –Insurance: RBS Insurance Shared Services: RBS Insurance is the largest personal lines insurer in the UK.
Role & Responsibilities:
•Participate in Business meeting and work with business requirements.
•Involved in System study & Analysis and share knowledge to offshore.
•Participated in requirement reviews, walk throughs and Preparing the scope documents.
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•Involved in KT transition from client and helping the team in resolving queries and providing the necessary
domain and functional knowledge.
•Review the test cases and helping the team to get approval from business.
•Prepared and executed automation test scripts using QTP
•Review and assigning the defects to the Dev team.
•Perform System,Regression and UAT testing.
•Work with offshore test team members and collecting the reports on daily &weekly basis and reporting same to
the client on daily & weekly basis as status reports.
Environment: Main Frames, java, j2EE, DB2, Oracle, QTP, Quality Center, Guidewire Policy and claim center.
21C Insurance Corp,India
Jan 2011 to Dec 2011 2012
Test Analyst
21C is a leading insurance company in the world.21C provides a comprehensive range of auto insurance services
to the people in USA.
Roles & Responsibilities:
•Assigning the tasks to the team members based on requirements .
•Identification of test scenarios, Authoring of Test cases.
•Review of Test cases.
•Execution of test scripts.
•Attending the Daily Defect calls.
•Sending status mails on daily basis.
•Polices created using Policy center.
•Identified defects & logged them in the Quality Center.
•Manual, regression testing of the builds.
Environment: Java, J2EE, Oracle, Quality Center
HSBC ADA
Oct 2009 to Dec 2010
Manual tester
North America Credit Cards Website compliance with ADA(Americans with Disabilities Act) and the web content
accessibility Guidelines(WCAG 1.0, WCAG 2.0) provide an international set of guidelines. They are developed by
the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C), the governing body of the web.
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Roles & Responsibilities:
• Prepared and Executed Test cased Manually.
• Generate Test scripts for use cases.
• Executing the Test scripts in integration test environment.
• Defect management which includes raising new defects, defect analysis and
• And follow up to the closure of defect using QC.
• Perform UAT testing of screen reading through JAWS tool.
Environment: Java, J2EE, Oracle9i, JAWS, VISION PLUS, Putty, Test Director.
LTSB Bank, India
March 2005 – Nov2008
Test analyst
PHASE 1:Home Solutions (HIA) is the core home insurance produce sold to the customers through the Llyods
TSB stores network.
PHASE 2:Group Lending The LTSB Bank which is 4th largest financial service bank in UK. Lloyds TSB Bank plc
and Lloyds TSB Scotland plc are members of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme and the Financial
Ombudsman Service.
Roles & Responsibilities:
•Requirements review and Analysis.
•Prepared Test cases from Use cases.
•Created traceability matrix and mapped requirements to Test Cases
•Executed test cases manually to verify the expected result
•Review of Test cases.
•Logged the defects using Test Director.
•Attending the Daily Defect calls.
Environment: Java, J2EE, EJB, Servlets, Oracle9i, Test Director.
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