Chinmay Hemant Deshpande

ad1r74@r.postjobfree.com 512-***-**** Dallas, Texas

Delivering Excellence

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

As a seasoned certified Technical Scrum Master, I excel as a key driver in orchestrating end-to-end planning and execution of Agile teams within expansive programs. Proficient in negotiating scope, schedule, and budget parameters, I navigate the software development life cycle with Agile, Scrum, and Lean methodologies. My expertise lies in coaching teams, conducting essential ceremonies, and fostering cross-functional collaboration for timely and high-quality project delivery. Adept at enhancing product backlogs, I lead Agile adoption, ensuring effective communication and collaboration among stakeholders, while consistently delivering successful outcomes. WORK EXPERIENCE Role: Sr. Manager – Technical Scrum & Quality Engineering Jan 2022 -Present Project: Account Conversion E2E migration (Advisor accounts) Westlake, Texas Company: Charles Schwab

• Led End-to-End Planning: Spearheaded the comprehensive planning and execution of Agile teams within a larger program, actively contributing to negotiations on scope, schedule, budget, risks, releases, and communications to ensure seamless project delivery.

• Coached Teams in Agile Practices: Provided expert guidance in coaching multiple teams through the software development life cycle, employing Agile, Scrum, and Lean practices. Ensured cross-functional collaboration throughout the organization to guarantee the development and deployment of projects with high quality and timely delivery

• Facilitated Scrum Ceremonies: Orchestrated and facilitated key Scrum ceremonies such as sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily stand-up meetings, reviews/demos, and retrospectives. Fostered a collaborative environment, addressing conflicts, and guiding the team in effective estimation techniques

• Managed Impediments and Distractions: Proactively identified, tracked, and removed impediments for the team, shielding them from external distractions and interferences. Ensured a focused and productive work environment for the Agile teams.

• Developed Agile Metrics and Reports: Utilized Jira to develop metrics and reports, enabling the team to understand its health and progress. Set clear goals based on these metrics, contributing to the continuous improvement of the Agile adoption process and ensuring alignment with company objectives

• Targeted proficiency by formulating extensive test plan that defines the scope, approach, resources and schedule for testing activities, ensuring well-structured and effective testing framework ensuring smooth conversion.

• Demonstrated expertise in orchestrating end-to-end software testing implementations, particularly within the context of large-scale integration projects, resulting in seamless and successful project execution.

• Navigated and resolved interpersonal conflicts within the team, fostering a collaborative work environment and ensuring continued partnership towards shared objectives.

• Leveraged measurable data and key performance indicators (KPI) to analyze and communicate the effectiveness of testing efforts, providing valuable insights for continuous improvement in the testing process. Role: Sr.Technical Lead – Quality Engineering Aug 2021-Dec 2021 Project: Skynet Irvine, California

Company: HCL Americas Solution

• Led Agile Testing Teams: Effectively led and facilitated three Agile testing teams, each comprising five test engineers, ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality software products.

• Guidance in Agile Execution Strategy: Provided guidance to QA teams in the execution strategy, ensuring that all test artifacts, test cases, and deliverables adhered to the committed schedule.

• Facilitated Agile Defect Triage: Facilitated defect triage calls within the Agile framework to ensure proper tracking of defects until closure, promoting transparency and collaboration among cross-functional teams.

• Agile Test Planning and Development: Planned, developed, and reviewed GUI, Functional, and Cybersecurity API test cases in alignment with Agile principles. Utilized Microsoft Azure DevOps for extensive test management. Role: Sr.Project Engineer – Quality Assurance Jan 2012-Jul 2021 Company: Wipro Limited India & USA

Clients : Credit Suisse, Bank of New York Mellon, Charles Schwab

• Crafted comprehensive test cases to ensure thorough software testing and bug free software.

• Prepared comprehensive test plans outlining testing strategies and objectives

• Validated API’s with use of postman tool for REST API testing.

• Performed Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) testing, including data cleansing, masking, and validation using SQL and ETL tools like Informatica PowerCenter. Executing batch files for transformation of data and batch monitoring

• Advanced proficiency in utilizing the HP QC ALM, leveraging its features for efficient test case management and overall quality assurance.

• Created and executed complex SQL queries to perform data testing on Oracle Database to validate and test data using TOAD.

• Executed mainframe jobs to ensure reports are generated and Automating order entry using Parasoft SOA

• Maintained Test set in Quality Centre ALM and Managing of the Regression Testing Suite.

• Facilitated efficient defect triage sessions, streamlining the resolution process.

• Implemented web application automation for Order entry through GUI using python – selenium webdriver.

• Validated orderhub messages in rabbit MQ and IBM MQ. TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGIES Functional:

Software Testing, Test Case Design, Test case Execution, Quality Engineering, Defect Tracking/Debugging, Requirement Analysis, Project Coordination, Team Management, Onshore/Offshore Delivery Model, Test Strategy and Test Planning. Technical:

Test Management: Project Estimates, Project Management, defect triage. JIRA- Zephyr, Azure Dev-ops, PTC Integrity,Test Strategy and approach, Test Cases, Test Plans, Test Scripting, Test summary Report, Dashboard. Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall and Iterative

CI-CD Tools : Bamboo, Bitbucket,GitHub

Databases: DB2, Aerospike

Languages: PLSQL, Python scripting, HTML

Software Products: QC ALM 12, Atlassian - JIRA, Confluence, SQL Server management studio, Parasoft SOA, Bamboo, Bitbucket, Sharepoint.

Tools: SQLDB,Toad, Beyond Compare, WinSCP, Control-M, Selenium Web driver, SOA test Postman, Bamboo, RDC, Pycharm, SOAP UI, JUnit, JMeter.

Domains: Advisory Services / Banking / Regulatory reporting / Trading / Securities / Healthcare. Cloud Technologies: AWS.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS

• Master of Science (Software Engineering) - Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India 2015

• Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) – Bharati Vidyapeeth University,Pune, India 2011 Certifications & Trainings

• Professional Scrum Master (PSM-1)

• Client Specific Training on Anti-money Laundering, Information Protection and Security.

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