Project Manager/Test Lead, Agile/Scrum Master

HIMANSHU SRIVASTAVA

E-mail: ********.*****@*****.***

Cell: 404-***-****

OBJECTIVE

To find a position in a cutting edge organization that will utilize my Testing and Management skills to increase the company’s revenue.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

10 years of professional experience in Quality Assurance and Software Testing, In depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle, Testing Methodologies.

Proficient in Backend, System, Functional and Regression testing Web Based applications. Capability to understand the design specifications of the Product to be tested and design very complex test cases and visualizes extensive scenarios.

Facilitated agile adoption Retrospective for the organization with the leadership and guided teams with outcome resulting in enhanced performance.

Efficaciously guided teams through transition from Waterfall to Agile Methodology. Responsible for two Agile Scrum teams and one Kanban team.

Resolved a complex infrastructure issue by creating and utilizing a professional network of Scrum Masters, Product Owners and Technical Leads within ATT.

Organized and facilitated Agile and Scrum meetings, which included Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums or Standups, Sprint Check-In, Sprint Review & Retrospective.

Lead the testing team to develop customized macros and test suites to automate tasks in DB running over several networks & platforms, accessing information for different RDMS systems.

Communicated the progress to senior management thru 'Burndown Calls'. Monitored the Quality thru metrics and mentored team thru the project management processes.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing : Manual Testing, Automation Testing (Selenium 2.0 (Web Driver) & QTP)

Methodologies : Agile ( Scrum, Kanban), Waterfall and V-models

Testing Tool : Rally, HPQC, Test Director, Instant Apps, HP-ALM, WebTrax, Prism, Putty

Data Tool/Database: SQL Developer, TOAD, PL/SQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle 10g/11g

Web Technologies : XML, HTML & PHP

Scripting Languages: VB Script, Java Script, Perl, UNIX Shell Scripting

Telecom Billing : Amdocs Telegence, Converged Billing & Ordering system (OMS)

Applications : MS Word, MS Excel (Pivot Tables, Macros), MS Power Point, MS Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Tech Mahindra (Americas) Inc. Atlanta GA

Client: AT&T - Enterprise Testing Test Coordinator Mar 2015 - Present

Project: 3rd Party RAN Hosting by ALU and Ericsson. Objective of project is to provide recommendations on a security design that will limit the 3rd party operator OAM/EMS access privileges to only the nodes it will own, operate, maintain and monitor.

Responsibilities:

Instigated End to End testing of Service Assurance, Service delivery, Inventory and Notification systems viz. AOTS, Canopi/Cramer, LPP Instar and C-BUS on enhancement.

Initiated Agile Implementation methodology which is being increasingly used in AT&T for all upcoming projects and proficient in daily scrum meetings, managing and grooming backlog, facilitating and planning meetings. Met goals for quality, schedule & cost.

Implemented & Enforced Kanban principles as a scrum master that resulted in reduction of Cycle time by 20% thus increasing team's throughput in less than 4 weeks.

Responsible for providing project/release requirements, requirement reviews/scrubs, and critical dates within ET. Develop Resources Plan: Provides input to ensure adequate project staffing, budgeting and resource management.

Environment & Tools: Agile methodology, Sprint tracking/reporting, Rally, Data Warehousing & migration, Cloud & Storage-Based portfolio background, Business applications such as MS Office.

Client: AT&T U-verse (UAT Testing) Test Lead Mar 2013 – Feb 2015

Project: AT&T U-verse evolution of Digital TV, Internet and Voice. U-verse Care & Delivery, U-Verse Sales Ops, U-verse Billing systems.

Responsibilities:

Facilitated use of standard testing documentation, test planning strategies and defect management tools including the successful implementation of Quality Center corporate-wide.

Engineered the Uverse UAT team responsible for plan, coordinate and monitor UAT test design and execution in collaboration with the Project Manager and Development team

Coordinated of user acceptance testing of final IT infrastructure and software development deliverables through Mercury HP Quality Center.

Facilitated in developing entire testing process, Resources Scheduling and Performed Regression Testing of the affected test cases to confirm that the defect resolved.

Implemented a new change management process to increase accountability and effectiveness to maintain within scope.

Environment & Tools: CRM, OMS, HP Quality Center, Enabler, MS SQL, Putty & MS Office

Tech Mahindra –India

Client: AT&T Mobility Testing Sr. Software Engineer Dec 2010 - Feb 2013

Project: Mobility Testing OPUS – Project, The One Point Universal System (OPUS) is an AT&T web-based system. It provides point of sale, customer service, activation, wire line services, inventory, accounting, DTV and U-verse (VOIP, HSIA and IPTV).

Responsibilities:

Implemented templates for Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Case, Defect Report, Periodic and End of Project Reports for both Automation and Performance testing.

Executed various phases of software testing life cycle. Reviewed functional requirement documents, handled testing, debugging and troubleshooting of the application.

Cataloguing of Defects in QC, tracking & reviewing them, analysis & report generation. Conduct Monthly Defect Meeting. Reported identified defects through defect management tool (HP QC) while performing manual testing.

Initiated new project assessments, new tools and technology proof of concepts, pre-sales activities-estimation and proposal writing, customer demos and presentations.

Environment & Tools: HP Quality Center (QC), Virtual Source Safe, SQL, TOAD, UNIX, Putty

CMC Ltd. (TCS), India

Client: Ministry of Corporate Affairs Software Test Engineer Mar 2006 – Nov 2010

Project: Ministry of Corporate Affairs MCA21 (http://www.mca.gov.in) is a browser-based application. This package has been designed for MCA to provide support to introduce a Service Oriented Approach (SOA) in the Design and Delivery of Government services.

Responsibilities:

Created solution for results sharing of test execution between the Quality Center and IT Governance Tool used by different teams in Weyerhaeuser. This solution helped in sharing test execution results between two tools with a click of a button between two different teams.

Designed test cases and Performed Manual testing for treasury or cash products, traded instruments, vendor management, regulatory requirements, related applications based on technologies or tools such as SWIFT, Basel II.

Analyzed the database content using SQL statements and Developed SQL queries to test the back-end database functionality

Participated in weekly status meetings, process improvement meetings and Walkthroughs. Analyzed the requests given by client & helping to generate Change Requests.

Environment & Tools: Instant Apps, XML, MS Excel, MS Power point, SQL, Putty, J2EE.

NetAmbit Infosource & E-Service Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi, India

Client: HDFC Bank Software Engineer Aug 2005 – Feb 2006

Project: Lead Management System - Lead Management System provide feature to record contract between customer and consultant. Company retails products such as life insurance, general insurance, mutual funds, and SIPs, as well as loans.

Responsibilities:

Documented various documents including the Business Requirements Document and the Use Case Specification Documents for Company offers a full-range of mortgage products including conventional loans/fixed or variable rate etc.

Analyzed Requirements and created Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams using MS Visio for a variety of financing programs you may not find elsewhere jumbo loans/fixed and variable rate and innovative down payment, qualifying, and payment options.

Worked with business users to define product feature requests, business requirement specifications, and change requests.

Participated in both Functional testing and Non-functional testing. Involved in the requirements analysis, designing, development, and testing phases of the product.

Coordination with Development team, manual testing of each builds that is released to QA. Two or more builds were given per day to the QA for testing.

Environment & Tools: Test Director, Windows XP, XML, MS Excel, MS Power point, SQL, Putty.

EDUCATION

Master of Computer Applications from UP Technical University July 2002 – Aug 2005

Lucknow, India

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Currently reside in Atlanta area and authorized to work in US with current Visa.

REFERENCES

References are available upon request.

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