Jashan Shahjpal

ad3t1m@r.postjobfree.com

571-***-****

Citizenship: United States

Qualifications Summary:

• Over 10 years of experience in the field of Information Technology in various industry with emphasis in Leading Agile Development teams and Computer System Validation.

• Proven track record of delivering high-quality productions on time.

• Skilled in facilitating effective team collaboration, removing impediments, and promoting continuous improvements.

• Proven track record of working independently to deliver strong testing results.

• Quick learner and excellent team player with ability to wear multiple hats and meet tight deadlines.

• Extensive knowledge of Agile methodologies, including Scum, Kanban, and Lean, and have coached and mentored teams to enhance their productivity and self-organization.

Technology Skills:

Professional Experience

Oracle,Veteran Affairs, Rosslyn, VA January/2020 - Current Scrum Master/ Release Train Engineer

• Lead and coordinate multiple Agile release trains, ensuring alignment and collaboration across multiple teams and stakeholders. Testing and

Defect Tracking

tools

Quick Test Professional, Test director, Quality Center, JUNIT, Selenium, JMeter, Swagger (Docker), IBM Rational Clear Quest, PVCS Tracker, Bugzilla, JAWS and JIRA.

Web Browsers Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome Operating

Systems

MS DOS, Windows 95/98/2000/NT4.0/XP/Vista, UNIX, Linux, Sun-Solaris, HP-UX

Programming

Languages

SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, XML, Java, JavaScript, VB Script Database Oracle, MS SQL, MS, MySQL, DB2

Tools and Utilities MS Office, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Project, MS Visio, Outlook, Lotus Notes, TOAD, FTP

• Facilitate release planning sessions, backlog refinement, and sprint reviews to ensure smooth and efficient delivery of software releases.

• Implement and improve release management processes, including deployment automation, continuous integration, and continuous delivery practices.

• Collaborate with product owners and development teams to prioritize and manage dependencies, risks and impediments.

• Conduct retrospectives and implement process improvements to enhance efficiency and effectiveness of releasing products.

• Guide and coach Agile development teams in adopting and implementing Scrum practices, ensuring adherence to Agile principles and values.

• Facilitate daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives to promote effective communication, collaboration and improvement.

• Remove Impediments and obstacles that hinder the team's progress, enabling them to deliver high-quality products within the given time. CBP, DHS, Alexandria, VA August/2014 – December/2019 Senior Software QA Lead

• Built, managed, mentored and inspired high performance QA team

• Responsible for the selection and development of people, resources, and budget necessary to perform the functions of software quality assurance

• Lead the development and execution of test plans and scripts for new software rollout on the N-ACE Platform

• Determined the schedule and sequence of testing activities using test driven development and initiative for all projects in the work program

• Assisted application Developers and technical support staff in identifying and resolving problems

• Recommended design improvements or corrections to engineers throughout the development process

• Worked closely with Business and Application stakeholders in a demanding work environment

• Monitored program performance after implementation to prevent reoccurrence of program operating problems and ensure efficiency of operation

• Knowledge in leveraging technical, business and financial acumen to communicate effectively with client executives and their respective teams

• Ability to produce high quality deliverables that meet or exceed timeline and budgetary targets and Identifying problem areas and institute large scale conferences to address them

• Successful leadership, team motivation, and conflict resolution

• Outstanding attention to detail and organization ability

• Expertise validating results in several databases, including Oracle, SQL servers and DB2 for backend testing

• Performed cross-browser compatibility testing using IE, Firefox and Chrome

• Responsible for driving End to End test scenario efforts and identifying test data

• Responsible for running and leading tests in Swagger for Application load and service testing

• Collaborated to get automated tests in place using Selenium and JMeter

• Team successfully developed, tested and released the Quota, Drawback and Importer Accounts applications

Navy Federal Credit Union, Vienna, VA December/2011 – August/2014 System Test Specialist

• Reviewed user requirements and provided input for Software Test Plans, developed Test Cases, Scenarios, and Test Scripts.

• Prepared test evaluations by reviewing software specifications, technical artifacts, errors reported by customers, and the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).

• Documented execution of successful results, identified and addressed defects, and tracked chain of events leading to failures.

• Used Quality Center to log defects, maintain test scripts and track test execution

• Performed Smoke testing, Ad Hoc testing, Regression testing and Integration testing

• Converted Manual Test Cases to Automated Test Scripts in Quick Test Professional

from HP Quality Center Test Plan module

• Performed Backend Testing, Manual Testing and data validation to ensure the authentic retrieval of the data from the database using SQL Queries

• Validated the backend integrity and reports accuracy

• Participated in Design Reviews and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process from application requirement and specification gathering stage through final release

• Involved in project status meetings, QA review meeting, and System Test meeting

• Coordinated and facilitated the execution of User Acceptance testing

• Participated in periodic Risk Analysis meetings with the project manager, developers, management, and the QA team. This resulted in the assessment and identification of the main risks to the project assisted in putting in place processes to minimize them

Fifth Tribe, Vienna, VA October/2008 – November/2011 Software Tester

• Analyzed and studied various Project Artifacts such as Project Charter (PC), User Stories and Use Cases to develop and execute Manual Test cases & Automated Test Scripts

• Reviewing Business Requirements and Functional Specifications and participating in team reviews and test plan reviews during Sprint planning phase.

• Attend Sprint planning session and create Acceptance and exploratory test cases for the stories.

• Participating daily scrum meeting and provide daily status.

• Performed hands-on Manual Testing for complex feature areas on variety of platforms in various Test Environments after retrieving Test Data from Database by writing SQL queries

• Worked with project team to ensure proper Test Coverage and overall system reliability, performance, and quality by using Quality Center (QC)

• Directly interacted with development team for Defect resolution via Quality Center (QC) by following existing Bug Life Cycle (BLC) process and all testing activities

• Produced clear user manuals & training guides for User Acceptance Testing

(UAT) and deployment for end clients with step-by-step instructions and appropriate GUI screenshots.

• Created use cases specifications, use case diagrams, swim lane diagrams, component diagram and context diagrams to define the workflow and segregate high-level and low-level requirements

• Communicated frequently with clients about requirements changes and modifications

• Maintain requirements and traceability database

Amerigroup, Virginia Beach, VA August/2006 – September/2008 Software Tester

• Analyzed system requirements and wrote test cases for testing the new modules

• Developed and implemented of the test Plan, Test Cases, and Test Procedures based

on Business and Functional Requirements

• Validated test cases to ensure all test scenarios are complete according to the business requirements

• Involved in preparing Test plans, Test Scripts and Test cases based on the functional specifications

• Analyzed and reviewed the software requirements, functional specifications and design documents

• Reviewed test cases of other team members and provides coaching and feedback

• Attended design review conference meetings with onsite team

• Used Defect Tracking System Quality Center to report bugs found in different testing stages.

• Reported the defects to developers using Quality Center

• Held regular meetings with the Business users and SME’S to priorities the business Requirements.

• Worked with issues coming from Reference, Cross Reference, Operational tables in the Oracle Database and updating the tables per the requirements using Oracle SQL

• Conducted walkthroughs and code reviews with developers, project managers and stakeholders and users to comprehend business workflow of applications. Education/Specialized Training

Bachelor of Science in Accounting.

Strayer University, Woodbridge, VA.

Clearance: Active Veteran Affairs Clearance

Certifications: Scrum Master Certification and Scale Agile Certification

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