SAMU SHRESTHA

Harrisburg, North Carolina, ***** Phone:704-***-****

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Certified Scrum Master with 8+ years of experience in IT, seeking a challenging role in an innovative organization.

Proven track record in driving Agile and Lead frameworks, fostering collaboration, and achieving quality product delivery.

As a Scrum Master adept in leading cross-functional and self-organizing teams across various business situations.

Facilitate Daily Scrums, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospective

Committed to continuous improvement and promoting an agile mindset for individual and team growth.

Experience in improving processes and complex product deliveries by implementing a scaled Agile environment.

Hands-on in training teams and supporting product owners to remove impediments and backlog, enhance velocity and help team adopt Agile methodology.

Proficient in Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and have deep understanding of Agile metrics and reporting.

Extensive experience in designing, developing, and execute comprehensive test strategies, plans, and cases.

Strong leadership and communication abilities drive continuous improvement and the delivery of high-quality products exceeding client expectations.

Change management and organizational transformation expertise.

Experience with demonstrated success and solid understanding of Business System Requirement gathering, Business Process mapping, Process flows, Business Process Modelling, Data Analysis, Data Mapping, documenting and Business Analysis.

Experience in leading technology projects through the entire software development lifecycle for multiple large and complex projects.

Solid understanding on Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies, Waterfall and Agile.

Experience coordinating between business and technical areas to achieve on-time, on-budget, and on-specification project completion.

Extensive exposure to SharePoint, MS Project Web Application and MS Project Professional.

Experience in driving requirements to multiple teams of developers (onsite, multi-location and offshore), facilitating as product/requirement owner and helping in developing right solution and unit and integration.

Efficient capabilities in communication and managing testing teams, developing testing strategies, coordinating End to End testing and deployment activities, coordinating business, SOAP UI, Web services testing.

Built and maintained SQL scripts, indexes, and complex queries for data analysis and extraction for projects.

Expertise in a broad range of technologies, including MS Office (Word, Access, PowerPoint, Excel, and Visio), MS Project and MS Visio

Adept in reviewing Test Procedures, creating Test plans, Test Scenario, executing Test Cases, Test Data reviewing and maintaining and executing detailed Test scripts for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for applications.

Experienced in Data Analysis, Data Migration, Data Validation, Data Cleansing, Data Verification and identifying Data Mismatch.

Worked on functional testing, system testing, regression testing, integration testing, GUI testing, security testing, smoke testing, system integration testing (SIT), software validation testing, configuration testing, interface testing, stress and performance testing.

Strong quantitative and statistical background with exceptional written and verbal communication skills, strong business acumen, strategic thinking, interpersonal and presentation skills.

Strong facilitation and coaching skills with continuous improvement mindset,

problem-solving and critical thinking

Expert in Test planning, execution, and automation along with different testing methodologies.

Experience in Quality Assurance and Software Testing of various business applications in Client/Server environments, Web based applications and Business Intelligence solutions.

Excellent working knowledge of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Defect Life Cycle (DLC).

Strong experience in writing the Test Plans, Test Cases & Test Scripts based on business requirements, rules and system specifications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Scrum Tools

Jira, Jira Align, Mural, Planning Poker

QA Tools

HP – Quality Center/ ALM, Bugzilla, Selenium WebDriver

DBMS/Query Tools

TOAD, Rapid SQL, SQL Developer, SQL Navigator

Languages

SQL, PL/SQL, C++, SQL, HTML, XML, Java, J2EE

Databases

Oracle11/g/10g, SQL Server 2012/2008/2005/2000, DB2, Sybase

Version Control Tools

Git, SVN(Subversion), Rational Clear Case, WIN CVS

Metrics/ Reporting Tools

Oracle reports, MicroStrategy, Tableau, Burndown Chart, Sprint Report

Scheduling Tools

CA AutoSys

Documentation Tools

Confluence, Google Docs, Microsoft SharePoint

Professional Experience:

Wells Fargo, Charlotte, NC Feb 2020 – Present

Senior Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Led Agile ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint

Reviews, and Retrospectives, ensuring adherence to Agile principles and driving

alignment with project goals.

Coached and mentored multiple cross-functional teams in Agile.

methodologies, fostering self-organization, accountability, and continuous

improvement.

Collaborated with product owners to prioritize and groom product backlog

items, ensuring alignment with business objectives and customer needs.

Removed impediments and shielded teams from external distractions,

enabling them to focus on delivering high-value increments during each sprint.

Promoted a culture of transparency and open communication, facilitating

constructive feedback loops and promoting a safe environment for

experimentation and innovation.

Led organizational change initiatives to promote Agile adoption and

facilitate cultural transformation across departments.

Coached and mentored Scrum teams, Product Owners, and stakeholders

on Agile methodologies and best practices, fostering a culture of continuous

improvement and collaboration.

Conducted Scrum of Scrums to bring the Scrum Master and the key leads together.

Develop and distribute program and project reporting to multiple audiences (Executive Portfolio, Project Metrics, Quality, Issues/Risks etc.,). Provide Scrum Summary Reports (Velocity, Burn down Charts) on regular basis.

Helped the team with coming with the Road Map for future.

Created the Release schedule for the team.

Tracked the deployment status for all the lower environments.

Tracked the Production defects and made sure the team acted with high priority.

Utilize JIRA issue tracking tool for creating Epics and User Stories based on the user requirements and monitor the progress of these issues from Story Development till their Acceptance.

Trained the team members on using Jira Align and JIRA to plan, track and release the software that has been committed to.

Proactively monitor the project status by monitoring the work completed / remaining and reviewing it with the management using the Burn down Charts and velocity charts.

Track and communicate scrum metrics including team velocity and sprint/release progress.

Managed product backlog refinement sessions, prioritizing user stories

based on business value and stakeholder feedback, resulting in improved

customer satisfaction and faster time-to-market.

Identified and resolved impediments and dependencies, facilitating cross-

team collaboration and communication to ensure smooth project execution.

Implemented Agile metrics and tracking mechanisms to monitor the team.

performance, identify bottlenecks, and drive data-driven decision-making to

optimize the development process.

Spearheaded organizational change initiatives to promote Agile adoption

and facilitate cultural transformation across departments, resulting in increased

employee engagement.

Environment: JIRA, Jira Align, Tableau, Git, GitHub, Jenkins, Scrum/Kanban boards, Agile planning poker tools, Burndown charts, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Skype, Mural, Team Retro, SharePoint, confluence

Wells Fargo, Charlotte, NC July 2017 – Jan 2020

Senior System Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

Facilitated requirements clarification with Prime and Derivative Access technology teams to design and develop test strategy for functional test scenarios and data migration needs.

Coordinated with team to develop Test Plan and Test Scripts.

Involved in day-to-day SCRUM in an agile environment meeting both on site and offshore teams providing the day to day updates on the testing schedules.

Involved in Design and development of test plans based on high-level documents (BRD & FSD).

Extensively involved in System testing / Functional, Regression testing and Integration testing of the application.

Created Test cases based on functional requirements, general requirements and system

specifications.

Involved in defining Test Scenarios for the applications and performed manual testing logging defects into JIRA.

Responsible for checking data in database by writing and executing SQL statements.

Executed all Test cases in different phases of testing and involved in backend testing as a QA tester.

Prepared test data for positive and negative test scenarios for Functional Testing as

documented in the test plan.

Executed UNIX commands to run the jobs developed and to check for Source and Destination files.

Extensively worked on Batch scheduling tools AutoSys for starting and stopping jobs.

Generated and distributed test progress and defect status reports to the Management team.

Tested the request and response using the postman, SOAP UI tool and validated the web

services using Soap UI.

Conducted comprehensive testing of software systems to ensure functionality,

reliability, and performance, adhering to established quality standards and

procedures.

Developed and executed test plans, test cases, and test scripts, identifying

defects and verifying fixes to ensure the stability and usability of software

applications.

Collaborated with cross-functional teams including developers, business

analysts, and project managers to clarify requirements, resolve issues, and

ensure alignment with project objectives.

Utilized testing tools and methodologies to automate test cases, streamline

testing processes and increase efficiency and test coverage.

Documented test results, defects, and test case execution reports, providing

clear and concise feedback to stakeholders and driving continuous improvement

in the software development lifecycle.

Environment: Oracle 11g, SQL Server 2012, Autosys, WinSCP, Putty, Web Services, SQL, JIRA,SOAP UI, UNIX, Oracle SQL Developer, SharePoint

Wells Fargo, Charlotte, NC Mar 2016 – July 2017

System Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

Coordinated with small offshore team to develop Test Plan and Test Scripts.

Involved in Design and development of test plans based on high-level documents (BRD & FRS).

Involved in writing and implementing the Test plan, Test cases, Test Procedures, Test sets using Use cases and requirement specifications.

Analyzed customer and business needs to determine business and functional requirements.

Participated in functional requirement reviews and code reviews.

Extensively worked with data mapping documents to understand the transformation rules.

Worked with Business Analyst and Developer to resolve the defects.

Involved in day-to-day SCRUM in an agile environment meeting both on site and offshore teams providing the day-to-day updates on the testing schedules.

Prepared Test Scenarios by creating Mock data based on the different test cases.

Prepared test data for positive and negative test scenarios for Functional Testing as documented in the test plan.

Worked on data validation, constraints, record counts, and source to target, row counts, random sampling and error processing.

Effectively coordinated with the development team for closing a defect.

Involved in validating the data moving from source to target.

Involved in defining Test Scenarios for the applications and performed manual testing in HP Quality Center.

Created and executed different types of test cases for the Change Request and existing functionality of the application.

Responsible for checking data in database by writing and executing SQL statements.

Involved in backend testing using UNIX commands.

Also involved in testing various kinds of reports and validating the data in the reports with the data in the database.

Worked with XMLs, Web Services and Client/Server messaging as required and tested the request and response using the SOAP UI tool; validated the web services using Soap UI.

Validated the source data and target data to check the Data Availability, Data reliability, data effectiveness, Data Compliance.

Environment : HP Quality Center ALM, Oracle 11g, SQL Server 2012, SOAP UI, OBIEE, UNIX/Linux, WinSCP, Putty, SQL, Oracle SQL Developer, Web Services

Education:

Bachelors in Computer Engineering

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