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SASIDHAR R. ANNAMREDDY

PH:516-***-**** •adg4ex@r.postjobfree.com • U.S. CITIZEN • http://www.linkedin.com/in/sasidharrannamreddy PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Over 12 years of experience as Scrum Master and Agile coach role, sprint planning, backlog grooming, running daily scrums, and retrospectives. As a certified scrum master, supported Product Owner by assisting with backlog and release plan, development team by removing impediments, and all Stakeholders by providing team’s progress and successes.; Extensive experience in agile development tracking tools such as Jira, Confluence, Rally, Rations Clear Quest, and Jazz Team Server

Over 16 years of IT experience in Quality Assurance Testing and Data Analysis in various client/server and web-based applications. Extensive work experience in testing and participated in all stages of software development in both Waterfall

& Agile methodologies.

Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) & Quality Assurance Life Cycle (QALC); Extensive experience as a Quality Assurance Lead/Analyst in creating Project Plan & Test Plan, scheduling Test Cycles, planning Test Resources, implementation of Test Cases, and meeting deliverables;

Conducted testing & data analysis in database systems like MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Access using DDL, DML and DCL commands; Evaluation experience with industry standard Business Intelligence tools like, MicroStrategy, IBM Cognos, SAP Business Objects, and SAS.

Proficiency in various types of testing, Functional, GUI, Regression, Load, Performance, Stress, and User Acceptance at black box and system levels. Also, expertise in Web based and Client-Server based testing; Specialized in automation tools like Selenium, Quick Test Professional, Silk Test, Load Runner, & Quality Center for testing;

Extensive domain knowledge in Workers Compensation Claim Management Systems, Digital Marketing, U.S. Education Systems, and insurance industry.

Strong Interpersonal Skills, Self-motivation, Co-ordination Skills and the ability to communicate both orally & in writing with people at all levels.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing & Bug Tracking Tools JIRA, Visual Studio Test Center, Quality Center, CallGen, OpenSTA, Eclipse TPTP, Silk Test, Selenium, Test Complete, WAVE, JAWS, WebKing, WinRunner, Quick Test Professional(QTP), LoadRunner, Rally,, CDETS, eNotify, TIMS, Trac, TFS, TestDirector Business Intelligence Tools MicroStrategy, IBM Cognos, SAP Business Objects, and SAS Operating Systems OS X, Windows XP/Vista/7, Cisco VOS, UNIX, Linux, AIX, Solaris, and Ubuntu Networking TCP/IP, SIP, VoIP, SOAP, REST, Cisco IOS, Tellme, Syntellect, and Nuance Databases Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Microsoft Access, DB2, and MySQL Languages JAVA, JavaScript, WSDL, HTML, DHTML, XML, VXML, .net, Dojo 1.1/1.2, and Visual Basics Application Servers Apache Tomcat, IBM WebSphere, Sun WebLogic Utilities Confluence(Wiki), VMWare, Microsoft Office, SharePoint WORK EXPERIENCE

Iterative Development Lead June 2017 – Present

Acuity Systems, Herndon VA

As Scrum Master, conducted Sprint Planning, Daily Stand Ups, Backlog Grooming, and Retrospectives; Acted as Agile mentor/coach for team in Agile Development process; Helped team in using JIRA effectively for backlog management, work flow management, Sprints creation and closing, User Story development, and Bugs reporting; Configured workflows in JIRA for process improvements; Defined Definition of Ready and Definition of Done for Business Analysts, Developers, and Quality Assurance Analysts; Escalated to leadership when needed and where possible to remove impediments for the team.

As Business Analyst gathered business requirements and break them down into relevant, accurate, and detailed functional requirements and user stories; Participated in technical design meetings between architects and developers to help gather and document their technical solutions to the business problems; Participated in status meetings with business stakeholders 2

and product management; Participated in backlog grooming sessions to help define new functionality, enhancement requests and software fixes, as well as to answer questions from software developers, architects, and QA analysts so they can accurately estimate; Reviewed quality assurance test cases to ensure they cover all of the relevant business scenarios

As a Development lead prioritized most important requirements and align the project team's delivery focus with customer's priorities; Worked closely with client, stakeholders and technical teams to identify and communicate issues and resolutions; Sr. QA Analyst / Delivery Lead September 2015 – May 2017 U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, D.C.

OIS (OWCP Imaging System) is electronic capture, storage, and retrieval capability to serve all DOL's major workers’ compensation programs; eClaimant Portals allows stakeholders to upload documents such as forms, employment documentation, medical reports, adjudication documents, as well as other documents related to a claim;

Created change requests (CRs) based on user requirements to translate into functional specification; Created test suites, test plans, test cases; Created User Acceptance Tests to run by Pilot users from multiple programs; Demonstrated completed features to end users for usability of newly developed features;

Evaluated test automation tools, Test Complete, Rapise, and Ranorex for creating automation scripts for regression tests; Evaluated load testing tools, Load Complete, WebLoad, and Apache JMeter for load and stress testing;

Created test plans, test cases, and test results in Excel; Reported issues to development using JIRA and verified issues fixed; Collaboratively worked with multiple development teams in different Programs in OWCP; Created test plan and test cases for accessibility testing for 508 & 504 compliance; Conducted accessibility testing using automation tools, WAVE (chrome add-on) for validation errors and JAWS for speech recognitions and navigation errors;

Wrote SQL queries in eclipse IDE to retrieve data results from IBM DB2 and Oracle to validate the test results based on functionality;

Sr. Quality Assurance Analyst / Scrum Master December 2012 – August 2015 Eloqua / Oracle, Vienna, VA

Assisted product team in creating Software functional specifications; Created test suites, test plans, test cases; Completed exploratory Testing for Label customization functionality in Eloqua Platform; Tested Wormhole, application used to transfer assets between two instances of Eloqua;

Created test plans, test scenarios, and test cases in Zephyr, test case management plugin in JIRA; Reported issues to development using JIRA and verified issues fixed; Created test plans for mobile testing; conducted mobile testing using mobile simulators in chrome devTools device mode; Created functional and regression automation test suites using selenium web driver;

Wrote SQL queries in Visual Studio command to retrieve data results from SQL Server to validate the test results based on functionality; Using SOQL Scripts, loaded test data related Contacts and Accounts into a sandbox instance of salesforce.

As Scrum Master, conducted Sprint Planning, Daily Stand Ups, Backlog Grooming, and Retrospectives; Helped team in understanding Agile Development process and its components; Helped team in using JIRA effectively for backlog management, work flow management, Sprints creation and closing, User Story development, and Bugs reporting from various users.

Quality Assurance Lead (Contract) June 2011 – November 2012 U.S. Supreme Court, Washington, D.C.

Participated in team meetings for creating formal Quality Assurance process; Reviewed User scenarios with developers and product owners for better usability and accessibility of application; Created formal quality assurance process to incorporate in Software development methodology.

Created test plan, test cases for functional testing of the application; Uploaded test cases into Visual Studio test center for testing the application; Re-configured bug reports in TFS to follow the testing process

Worked on multiple project simultaneously based on priority goals defined by project manager; Demonstrated collaborative approach in understanding business logic for different applications; Managed ALL required task under quality assurance independently.

Investigating on automation tools for various applications across the organization; Identifying tools to formalize the process of Quality Assurance, like Bug Reporting Tool, Enhancement Request tool for external user, etc. 3

Senior Quality Assurance Analyst November 2009 – May 2011 Schoolnet, New York, NY

Participated in planning meetings for converting business requirements into User Stories; User Stories into prototypes for development; prototypes into a working software, which is fully tested with user acceptance; and maintained & resolved issues, based on customers data on released software.

Evaluated Business Intelligence tools, Micro Strategy, Cognos, Business Objects, and SAS for creating benchmark tests dashboards and KPIs for K-12 education systems; conducted detailed data analysis of student’s standardized test data to generate growth models for teachers.

Conducted testing on mobile devices, iPhone/iPad, to identify the limitation of the applications and reported inabilities in functionalities to the top management.

Mentored QA analysts in creating efficient regression testing suite; Demonstrated multiple ways of creating test cases independent of specific data to test in multiple environments; Educated team in best practices for testing in Agile environment.

Wrote test cases based on product specifications and acceptance criteria for User stories in Quality Center 9.0; Manually tested multiple release cycles in Win/Mac environments; Logged issues in TFS and verified after fixing; Communicated efficiently client issues through MS CRM tool to development and resolved issues to clients; converted manual test cases to automation scripts using QTP 9.0.

Wrote queries in Visual Studio to retrieve data results from SQL Server 2005/2008 to validate the test results based on functionality.

Quality Assurance Engineer II / Scrum Master May 2008 – April 2009 Cisco Systems Inc., New York, NY

Unified Web Communications Portal

Unified web communication portal is single web portal to view and edit preference settings and manage contacts across UC applications with single sign-on capabilities; Thin client with NO install, secure remote access to presence, meetings, calendaring, voicemail, and dialer.

Tested widgets created for mobile platforms, Symbian & Plam mobiles, to validate the performance of Unified communications applications. Analyzed various data outputs from multiple UC applications, Communications Manager, Contact Center, Presence, Instant messaging, Meeting place, Unity Connection, and Mobility Advantage

In Agile methodology, participated in developing user stories based on concept of unifying multiple communications platforms; wrote test scenarios & test cases based on acceptance criteria defined in user stories; tested feature in supported environments; and demonstrated completed feature s to product owners for approval.

Created, maintained, and executed test cases in Scrum tool, Rally. Reported defects using Rally and verified issues after fixed by development in Rally. Automated functional test cases using Selenium IDE and generated scripts using HTML script in Selenium; Executed Accessibility Testing using Keyboard navigation and Screen Reader tool JAWS & WebKing.

As a certified Scrum Master, collaboratively worked with different development teams located in various geographical locations using Scrum Methodology; In rotation worked as Scrum Master, in addition to QA role, for one of the Scrum team; Developed User Stories, testing tasked based on high level product specifications.

Successfully demonstrated completed features to product owners & stakeholders and assured the software quality by providing metrics.

Quality Assurance Engineer II May 2006 – April 2008 Cisco Systems Inc., New York, NY

Call Services & Call Studio (CVP)

Call Studio is an integrated development environment powered by Eclipse, which combines a full-featured suite of development tools with a graphical user interface for drag-and-drop development; Call Services deploys as a web application in the J2EE/J2SE application server to drive the caller experience. Using voice applications built in Call Studio, Call Services interacts directly with any supported VoiceXML Gateway, and external applications and databases, to dynamically manage and deliver a world-class user experience to every caller.

Assisted product team in creating Software functional specifications; Created test suites, test plans, test cases, test reports, test results, and test metrics; Performed functional, regression, load, and performance testing in complex Windows/Linux/Solaris/AIX environments; Participated in on-call rotation and assisted various clients in customer cases.

Created test plans, test scenarios, and test cases in Excel; Reported issues to development using JIRA and verified issues fixed; Created unit tests for Call Services using JUnit; Completed various testing cycles for certifying Application Servers, Apache Tomcat, IBM WebSphere, and Sun WebLogic, and Operating Systems, Window/AIX/LINUX/Solaris, for 3rd party Voice Browsers, Avaya, Tellme, Syntellect, and Nuance

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Maintained the test logs, test reports, and test metrics to report status of the release to product owners & stake holders. Test cases versions maintained in Cisco home grown repository, TIMS

Worked with on-site/off-shore teams for automating regression functionality where call services & Call studio applications fall under bigger umbrella, Cisco Voice Portal, a complete contact center solution; Trained development team in testing the functionality from a QA stand point.

Quality Assurance Analyst Feb 2006 – April 2006

Monitor 110, New York, NY

SiteSiren is a web-based application that simplifies and automates web page surveillance and is the only solution designed specifically for professional investors to monitor pages that may impact their investment strategy

Participated in joint application development and proposed improvements/enhancements to management team; Created test suites, test plans, test cases, test reports, test results, and test metrics; Performed functional, regression, load, and performance testing.

Created test plans, test scenarios, and test cases in Excel; Reported issues to development using TRAC and verified issues fixed; Created scenarios for performance & load testing and scripted test scenarios using OpenSTA tool.

Maintained the test logs, test reports, defect logs, and test metrics

Wrote queries in MySQL command line tool to retrieve data results from MySQL 5.0 to validate the test results based on functionality.

Worked with on-site/off-site development team in resolving defects Quality Assurance Analyst January 2005 – January 2006 Internet Billing Company Ltd, Deerfield, FL

IBill is one of the leading Internet billing companies providing billing services for web-based marketing and advertising companies. IBill provides transaction processing, password management for one-time and subscription clients.

Created test suites, test plans, test cases, test reports, test results, and test metrics; Performed functional, regression, load, and performance testing.

Created & executed all functional and regression test cases in Quality Center 8.2; Automated regression test cases using Quick Test Pro 8.0; Created defect and bug reports in Quality Center 8.2; Created and customized user scripts in Load Runner 8.0 for parameterization, correlation query, transaction point, and rendezvous point.

Created test data for functional and load testing; Involved in bug analysis & provided data for bug fixing.

Wrote queries in MySQL command line tool to retrieve data results from SQL Server 2000 to validate the test results based on functionality

Quality Assurance Analyst August 2003 – December 2004 Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, Boston, MA

LTS is a client-server application that automates the entire process of issuing an insurance policy through a web-based interface, integrating with an existing legacy system. The workflow involved creating the client profile (immediately after receiving an application from the Client) and generating a new policy, renewal of existing policies, cancellation, and endorsements.

Reviewed business requirements to create test plan & test cases; Created requirements traceability matrix to map test cases to functional requirements; Conducted functional, performance, and user acceptance testing.

Created various types data, user information, policy status information, educational qualification, to test insurance policy variations; All the Input Test data are parameterized using the Data Table & inserting data into the Excel sheet.

Created and executed test cases in Test director 7.0; Automated regression test cases using Quick test pro 6.0; Created defect and bug reports in Test Director 7.0;

Lead a team of 6 to execute, test cases in short period of time; Demonstrated project progress and future testing efforts to the project manager in Status meetings

Planning Analyst, Research Student August 2001 – July 2003 Division of Housing and Community Development, Memphis, TN

Developed a Arc GIS based database to demonstrate existing conditions of housing, potential sites for redevelopment, and complete loss of properties for new development

Assisted in developing and monitoring the housing and community code violations database; Created Targeted neighborhood Maps using Arc View 3.2 to identify the properties with code violations. 5

Developed Neighborhood Master Plans for Targeted Areas; Prepared various required reports using Microsoft Excel according to government regulations

Did extensive research and analysis to compile a vast amount of demographic data using SPSS10.05; Collected data and analyzed using SPSS 10.05 to identify redevelopment initiatives EDUCATION

Master of City and Regional Planning August 2003

University of Memphis, Memphis TN GPA: 3.5 / 4.0

Bachelor of Architecture May 2000

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University GPA: 3.7 / 4.0 CERTIFICATION

Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Scrum Alliance September 2008 PMI-ACP Certified, PMI (Certification # 2281284) December 2018 Certified SAFe® 4 Scrum Master January 2019

Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL), ASTQB July 2014 Certified Tester Foundation Level – Agile Tester (CTFL-AT), ASTQB March 2016

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