SUMITHA PARAMASIVAM

SCRUM MASTER BUSINESS ANALYST

CSM PSM CSTE ISTQB

Chantilly, Virginia

860-***-**** adcm9j@r.postjobfree.com

Certified Scrum Master with 14 years of IT experience, including 4 years as a Deputy Scrum Master and 10 years in Business Analysis and Quality engineering and assurance. As a deputy Scrum Master have solid demonstrated experience facilitating Sprint planning meetings, ensuring the teams adherence to daily scrum meetings, coordinating between scrum team and support teams to ensure progress of the projects, taking the meetings with stake holders in the right direction as intended for the scrum team, ensuring the sprint goal or focus is not deviated by external factors, removing issues or impediments, conducting sprint review and retrospective meetings, documenting the lessons learnt from each sprint and discuss areas of improvements.

In-depth experience in Business Analysis with proven expertise in development of business and technical user stories, technical specifications, design wireframes and work flows, creation of customer manuals, release documentation, critical thinking, evaluate existing requirements and provide suggestions on improvement, deep dive into business needs and requirements, clear and effective communication and strong ability to create user flows, wireframes, designs and journey maps.

Strong business acumen in mortgage and finance related IT products and solutions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

HP ALM, JIRA, Rally, DOORS, VersionOne, Selenium

Postman, Soap UI

Unix / Linux Shell Scripting

Restful API

Gherkin / Cucumber

Knowledge on Amazon web services (AWS) – EC2, S3, EB

XML's, Json, SQL, Beyond Compare, Doors, Putty, Version One, JIRA and ALM

Mongo DB, DB Visualizer

DOMAIN SKILLS:

Mortgage and Financial Solutions

Retirement Plan Services

Life and Auto Insurance

CERTIFICATIONS:

2020 – Certified Scrum Master – Scrum Alliance

2018 - Professional Scrum Master - Scrum Alliance

2008 - Certified Tester by International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB)

2007 - Certified Software Tester (CSTE)

EDUCATION:

SYMBIOSIS UNIVERSITY - PUNE

Postgraduate: Business Administration, Human Resources 2008

PSG COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY - Coimbatore

Bachelor of Science: Information Technology 2005

WORK HISTORY:

03/2018 to FREDDIE MAC

03/2019 Deputy Scrum Master / Senior Business Analyst (Through Pyramid Consulting)

REST API developed product for Loan product Advisor of Freddie Mac. Opening the product to Freddie Mac’s customers like Chase, Bank of America to pool and estimate on the mortgage for their customers. The project ran on DevOps model.

Facilitate team meetings and Scrum ceremonies.

Managing a scrum teams as per release plan on different initiatives and also assist PMs in resource allocation based on the needs

Ensure information radiators are up to date i.e. Burndown, burn up, project dashboard, issue / impediment tracker, retrospective board, scrum board, task board etc.

Looks at the team’s process and sees if the team needs other radiators.

Identifies and removes team impediments.

Coaches on agile best practices to expedite Agile transformation at large scale program.

Helps team to see what they are doing to see how they can improve.

Coaches on technical best practices in Agile friendly manner.

Assist team to remain focused and keep distractions at bay and Helps the team to become self-sufficient.

Support product owner on regular basis in backlog grooming

Be part of and conduct full scrum cycle right from Project Vision Meeting Release Planning Sprint Planning Daily Stand up Sprint Review Sprint Retrospective.

Assist in keeping everyone on same page by having effective internal as well as external communication via scrum of scrum.

Environment: Notepad++, HPALM, Version One, Doors, Windows 7, UNIX, Putty, WinSCP, Share Point

05/2015 to FREDDIE MAC - Senior Business and Quality Analyst (Through Cognizant)

10/2017

Played a role of a Business system analyst and quality analyst for the Ironman product develop by the IT team for the Business Rules team of Freddie Mac.

Supported business rules management as a crucial part of Freddie Mac business span across all critical products such as Selling and Loan product advisor.

Involved in conversion on Business rules to user stories that could be used by the IT technical team to develop the “Ironman” product

Led a team of 4 to test and certify a groundbreaking patent pending product, Enterprise Decision Services -Ironman. It's an automated code generation tool which transforms business artifacts to deployable rules executable code. It has been awarded as "All Star Team Award" in 2016.

Managed multiple testing projects (Ironman, Quarterly releases projects) Leading test scoping, test planning, estimation, requirements review, design, Analysis, development of tests and execution Involved in rigorous technical analysis and test metrics calculation.

Involved in creation of XML files, verifying the log files and accessing the test loan files on Unix / Linux servers using putty, manipulating and verifying the back-end data using DB visualizer, automated test scripts using record playback mode and execution of automated scripts using UFT for regression testing

Accountable for the formulation of the testing process, in addition to the automation of process for XML comparison.

12/2013 LINCOLN FINANCIAL GROUP - Test Lead Consultant (Through Cognizant)

05/2015

Lead the testing effort for enhancing "Smartdesk" or “TRAC”, a retirement record management product of Lincoln Financial services

Involved in testing the different functionalities of the retirement and investment record keeping system such as Plan Participants, Plan Sponsors, Admin functionalities, defined benefits, defined contribution, trade, hardship withdrawal related functionalities

Involved in QA related Proof of Concept activities for implementing Smartdesk product into Lincoln Financial Group

Involved in reporting issues/ defects to the Project management and developers in defect triage meetings

Responsible for Maintaining schedules, test planning, test scripts development and execution, managing mid-size teams to ensure projects were completed on time.

UAT Testing support for Smartdesk testing application, including preparation of UAT scope documentation, UAT test plans, create project plan using Microsoft Project Plan Shell script execution, XML analysis, SQL queries and execution using Rapid SQL / DB visualizer.

2013-12

2005-06 COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

Senior Associate- Internal Projects

Manual System Test lead for various insurance client of Cognizant Technology Solutions such as XL Insurance, Travelers Insurance, Liberty Mutual Insurance, PEMCO Insurance.

Offshore Coordinator for Policy module, Requirement Analysis on Policy and Billing Modules, coordinating with the client on understanding any new and changes to requirements.

Ensuring the quality of deliverables, Collect, analyze and report test design and execution related metrics to the management on a phased manner. She has also prepared estimates for the Change Requests and new Sub projects.

Involved in Requirement Analysis, Test strategy preparation, Test scenarios preparation, Test planning

Prepare and provide metrics, enforce Defect Management Process, Review of Test Cases, test execution and defect reports, Conduct and coordinate defect review meetings, Cater to application support activities

Analyzing and resolving issues or trouble tickets, Production deployment validations of core functionality, Application impact analysis due to interfacing application changes, Offshore team coordination and work allocation.

Responsible to provide QA sign off along with risks and analysis to be able to aid go live decisions for management, UAT coordination, planning, Knowledge transfer to the Team members.

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