Focus of Interest: Project Manager/SCRUM MASTER /QA Analyst

Solutions-focused, multifaceted IT professional offering 7 years of experience as a project manager and scrum master and more than 4 years of hands-on experience in quality assurance and automation testing,

Certification

PMP (2021)

Scrum Master (CSM)

SAFE 5

PMI-ACP

PMI- CAPM

discipline Agile Scrum Master (PMI-DASM)

AZURE-AZ-900

AWS Cloud Practitioner

ITIL- Foundation

Key Areas of Expertise

SAFE

Jira

Kanban

Agile

Software Development Life Cycle

Scrum

TDD,ATDD

Azure

Excel

HP PPM

Core Competencies

Project Management: Possess skills at ensuring all quality standards are met, strong leadership, effective communication, negotiation skills, excellent risk management, organization, and planning skills.

Agile: Strong understanding of four core values of agile, transparency, alignment, build in quality, program execution

Scrum And Kanban Methodologies: Ability to differentiate and successfully implement both methodologies separately or together

SAFE Framework: Working within a cross-functional team ensures that the team should have deep grasp of the four primary bodies of SAFE framework, agile development, lean product development, system thinking and DevoOp.

AWS /Azure: Working knowledge of AWS and Azure services and infrastructure. Design, develop, execute manual and automated test using selenium/subject7 and ALM tools in AWS Virtual Private Network (VPC).

Skills

Management Skills

Soft skills

Negotiation, Organization, Prioritization and goal setting, Project planning, Budget management, Change management, Risk management, Quality management, Vendor management

Communication, Transparency, Adaptability, People skills, System thinking, Creativity, Complex problem solving, Teamwork, Motivation, Leadership

Databases:

Web Technology:

MS Tools:

Operating Systems:

Testing Software:

Oracle MS Access DB2 MS SQL Server

HTTP HTML5 XML CSS

MS Visio MS Project MS Office MS Excel

Windows Unix/Linux

HP ALM/Quality Centre Jira AWS web services HP UFT/QTP Selenium

Postman SOUP UI UFT

Professional Overview

Scrum Master Navy Federal Credit Union OCT2019-Present

Notable Contributions:

Serve as a scrum master leading 3 teams consisting 9 members in each with a focus on aligning the teams go agile

Facilitated sprint planning, daily scrum, retrospective, and sprint demos

Performed Cadence management

Maintained relevant metrics sprint, epic, release burn down and burn up chart and velocity that helped the team see

How they are doing

Employed servant leadership tactics to help the team self-organize and build confidence among team members

Work closely with product owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features

Educate and coach scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stake holders

Introduce Kanban board as an agile metric to improve the team progress by visualizing and improving workflow

Implemented the use of process checklist in all areas of project management to analyze and improve adherence to

best practice

Used Jira tool for managing scrum artifacts and team performance

Help and guide product owner in creation of user stories in gherkin language from requirements

Protected development team from outside distractions, impediments and team conflicts and help them to maintain

Focus on product backlog and project timeline

Performed cadence management

QA Lead Dovel Technologies, Rockville Sept 2017 – 2019

Notable Contributions:

Analyze test requirement and automation feasibility and create Automation Test Scripts using selenium web driver.

Scheduled and executed manual test cases through HP ALM; involved in defect reporting in HPALM.

Drive automation development, execution, and reporting to meet stakeholders’ expectations

Strong knowledge of OOPS (Java) concepts.

Manage and lead the design and development of keyword driven TDD and behavioral driven BDD automation frameworks

Creation of testing documents ex. Test plan, Test specification report

Defect tracking and reporting

Hands on experience with designing, creating, executing, and debugging the test cases with HP ALM; involved in defect reporting in HPALM.

Developed Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) using business requirements and test cases.

Checked data flow from front-end to back-end and used SQL queries to retrieve data from database.

Manipulated database for testing using SQL server

Backend testing with PostgreSQL, Amazon RDS(AWS).

Used Object Oriented Programming Concepts for automation testing

Scheduled and performed positive as well as negative manual and automation testing.

Working in Agile methodology using SCRUM (2 Week Sprint).

Reporting defects in JIRA after running test cases and verifying test results.

Perform REST web service testing using SOAP UI tool. Validate WSDL, Request and response XML Added assertions to validate response.

Project Manager /Agile Scrum Master TD Bank May 2012—July 2017

Notable Contributions:

Lead geographically and culturally diverse cross-functional teams for medium size and complex projects across departmental and business units.

Plan and monitored project spending/budgeting, Guided project to completion on time within scope and on budget.

Addressed issues and risk through risk management and contingency planning.

Accountable for creating and maintaining the appropriate vehicles for open communication within the scrum team (e.g. tracker boards) to create a trusting and safe team environment

Continuously seek to improve team performance by promoting joint accountability for results and solving productivity issues

Implemented many process improvements to streamline system development life cycle and mentored others on new procedures.

Engage in and facilitate business analysis, user experience and technical conversations across platforms and multiple levels of influence

Building, leading, and mentoring cross functional teams

Monitor task completion by using Kanban board and other agile tools

Provide proactive coaching to the team and recommend continuous improvement of processes and tools to optimize team productivity, quality, and time-to-market

Embrace change, influence, and coach team members with an agile mindset

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Education Background

Bachelor of Science

US CITIZEN

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