Scrum Master Qa Specialist

Nayana Upadhyaya

EMAIL:*****************@*****.***

SKILL SUMMARY

** ***** ** ***** ********** in the IT industry in Telecom, Cloud, Oil and Gas and IoT domain.

* ***** ** **** ********** as a Scrum Master in Nokia (3 years) and Software AG (1 year)

6 Years of experience working and leading the Quality Assurance team for various projects.

Good understanding of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Have demonstrated superior execution in project delivery utilizing the Agile and Scaled Agile (SAFE) Methodologies.

Good in creative, strategic thinking and the capable of rapid understanding of business processes and their respective enabling technologies.

Team Building & Mentoring Agile (scrum) Documentation & Compliance Quality Management System (QMS) Mobile Testing Systems Automation EST Strategies, Risk - Based Testing & Test Coverage

Have been able to coach and mentor the team members about Agile Methodologies and the Scrum framework.

Leading engagement and delivery efforts for multiple scrum teams.

High impact individual with the ability to lead, collaborate, challenge, and influence peers, subordinates and senior management to drive data quality measures and innovative strategies leading to business value/results.

Strong project delivery experience – managing cross-functional, multi-disciplined projects.

Experienced with writing effective user stories and acceptance criteria.

Participate and lead process improvement, Root Cause Analysis and brainstorming workshops.

Promote a collaborative team environment that develops creativity, innovation and improvement and gets results.

Serve up to three scrum teams depending on Product complexity.

Track and report key metrics (e.g., team velocity, sprint rundown, burn-down chart etc.) to the Product Owner, collaborators, and other impacted players.

Collaborate with Product Owner to come up with a refined Product backlog.

Worked on the Documentation for DTM project in Software AG. Came up with the Customer documentation for DTM from scratch.

Integration and remote operation of client shibboleth consortium, Syncope, Soffid IAM, Open AM, Sail point, Ping, Phaos Sales force identity.

Extensive experience with ecommerce projects in corporate environments both large and small

Experience in Writing, Reviewing, updating and Execution of Test Cases in Test management tools.

Good Leadership and Coordination qualities

Good communication skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

Hands-on experience in working in critical projects and delivering the products on time.

Dedicated and Self-motivated to take independent responsibility coupled with ability to contribute as a team member.

Ability to learn and adapt to new tools and technologies very quickly.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Domain

IoT, Cloud, Oil and Gas, Networking, Telecom, Gas Detectors, LTE

Methodologies/Design Skills

Agile methodology, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall.

Languages

Core Java, Python basics.

Operating system

Windows, Linux

Version Control Tools

GIT, Tortoise SVN

Automation Framework

Selenium, Cucumber BDD, Cypress, ROBOT Framework, Postman, J Meter

Management Tools

JIRA, ITrac, Quality Center, IAM, Ping,QMS

CERTIFICATIONS

1.Honeywell Green Belt Six Sigma Certification

2.ISTQB Foundation Level Certification (92.5%)

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Designation : Scrum Master

Company : Software AG

Duration : Feb 2021 to September 2022

Designation : Senior Engineer

Company : Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab Pvt Ltd Duration : November 2017 to January 2021

Designation : R&D Engineer AND Scrum Master

Company : Nokia networks

Duration : January 2013 to October 2017

1)Organization : Software AG

Project Name : Digital Twin Manager (DTM) Duration : Aug 2021 – Sept 2022

Role : Scrum Master

Team Size : 15

Description:

DTM application is hosted on SAG’s Cumulocity IoT platform and helps customers to create a digital hierarchy, connect devices and manage data. It is an asset management system which will allow customers to connect their devices, create the assets and define the hierarchy for their products/ systems.

Responsibilities Scrum Master:

Facilitate scrum meetings including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.

Autonomously manage end-to-end development and deployment process, working with leadership and product owners to prioritize product backlog and requirements.

Manages scrum project via JIRA and reports consistently on team velocity while resolving any impediments.

Participate in Scrum of Scrums (SOS) forum and coordinate with other teams to manage cross-team dependencies.

Help to identify and address an organizational impediment which limits team productivity, quality, and ability to implement continuous improvement.

Expertise in web design, e-commerce, and online applications

Supports Product Owners with backlog maintenance, backlog prioritization, and user story refinement process to deliver highest Business value

Facilitates Sprint retrospectives, sharing metrics to identify and implement improvements with the team and the management.

Ensures the Scrum team is practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, and team accountability to achieve Sprint goals and lead the team towards agile maturity.

Implements program level transparency, metrics, and other data that instills accountability measures within team.

Managing Change Track wise with a QMS, Plateau, and Remedy

Work with other scrum masters in the program to optimize team delivery and to assist with resource sharing where applicable.

Excellent oral and written communication skills to include preparing and delivering presentations and artifacts to customer management

Documentation:

Worked with the Core documentation team to come up with the User Guide

Came up with the User Guide for DTM project from scratch.

2)Organization : Software AG

Project Name : Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Duration : Feb 2021 – Jul 2022

Role : Senior QA Specialist

Team Size : 20

Description:

Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE) application calculates the Overall efficiency and other performance metrics for the entire production pipeline, in turn aiding in increasing the efficiency. This OEE metrics gets displayed on various different dashboards. Depending on the usability and other metrics, customers can increase the efficiency of their production pipeline be eliminating idle times and in- crease the parts produced metrics.

Responsibilities

Manual Testing:

Day to day testing activities involved understanding existing product and gaining end to end knowledge on how the product works.

Giving demo to the team on the basic product know how.

Coming up with test cases and test plans for execution.

Updating all the test cases in JIRA and ITRAC for test execution purposes.

Create test execution cycles and lead the team during regression cycles or Product delivery.

API Testing:

Coordinating with development team to gather data points, requests and responses.

Validating REST API’s services through tools like Postman.

Validating the orders created via API requests in UI.

Automation Testing: Cypress

Automation using Cypress framework for the project.

Setting up the Cypress framework and giving demo to the team members.

Basic JavaScript usage to automate the scripts for test scenarios.

3)Organization : Honeywell

Project Name : Smart City

Duration : Jun 2019 – Jan 2021

Role : Senior Engineer

Team Size : 18

Description:

Command center platform (CCP) is an integrated cloud-oriented architecture of networks, software, sensors, human interfaces, and data analytics. It notifies the administrator of Real time events going around in City.

Using these software administrative teams can track of any unusual incidents happening in and around the city. Also, in case of incidents, the SOP to be followed can be defined and tracked, ensuring the safety of citizens.

Responsibilities

Manual Testing:

Going through the specifications, understanding the requirements and test specifications.

Creating, updating of test cases based on requirements.

Maintaining and Execution of Test cases of different modules.

Sanity Testing and Regression Testing for each cycle

Coordination with development team in reproducing the issues.

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Automation Testing: Selenium Web driver + Java

Working experience on Hybrid framework in Selenium Web driver.

Maintenance and Execution of test cases and tracking the failed cases.

Automate UI test cases using Selenium BDD Cucumber framework.

Execute API test cases using Postman and Swagger.

Execute Performance test cases using J Meter tool.

4)Organization : Honeywell

Project Name : Safety Suite Device Manager Duration : Nov 2017 – May 2019

Role : Product Engineer

Team Size : 10

Description:

For compliance and audits every organization using Gas detectors should maintain the safety standards. This is where Safety Suite de- vice Manager (SSDM) comes as a solution for enterprise level organizations. Calibration and bump tests need to be performed regularly on the gas detectors. This information can easily be retrieved by connecting the devices to SSDM and checking the data in dash- boards. SSDM also helps in inventory management, user management and to generate various reports on devices.

Responsibilities Manual Testing:

Understand the working of various types of Gas detectors.

Come up with test scenarios based on the use cases for various features of the web-based application.

Perform Smoke tests, sanity testing, functional testing and regression testing.

Perform gas testing on the gas detectors in the Gas lab.

Automation Testing: Selenium Web driver + Java

Write test scripts using Java and Selenium Web Driver

Ensure the test cases are all in Cucumber BDD format.

Trigger the test case automation for various features during functional and regression testing.

Perform test case and test script reviews within the team.

5)Organization : Nokia

Project Name : Liquid Applications (LA) Duration : Jan 2013 – Oct 2017

Role : Scrum Master

Team Size : 16

Description:

Liquid Applications (LA) is a Platform which itself is a virtual machine which can host various applications. Platform is hosted on Cloud, built using Open stack. LA can host either in house or third-party applications, which will make use of the networking data as its inputs. LA will be hosted very close to the E Node B, so that all the networking calls go via LA.

Responsibilities Scrum Master:

Responsible for team effectiveness in product and solutions delivery

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional team members and stakeholders from the Management team

Facilitate effective and focused team meetings/stand-ups.

Report the metrics such as team velocity, burn up, burn down charts to the team and management.

Developed product roadmaps for Spafinder.com, a premier spa/health and wellness E-commerce website

Possess a high level of adaptability and flexibility to manage all in/out of scope work items

Focus on driving the project’s critical components to completion and escalate when necessary.

Collaborate with various stakeholders to resolve impediments and ensure team is not distracted during sprint execution.

Manages and tracks risks, and issues and proactively looks for mitigation options

Automation Testing: ROBOT Framework + Python

Have been exposed to all phases of software life-cycle, developing test Cases, test Plan and Automation of test scripts using ROBOT framework.

Bringing up the test setup for functional testing.

Hands-on experience in LTE, Cloud Technology, Virtualization and Open stack.

Write test scripts using shell scripting and basic python.

Ensure all the test cases are reviewed, automated and passed in the central CI pipeline.

Perform sanity testing on each build to ensure a basic quality criterion is met.

Follow a key work driven approach to script the test cases in Robot framework.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

Course

Institution-University

Year

Aggregate

B.E (Computer Science)

NMAM Institute of Technology, Nitte

2012

CGPA- 9.21

Class XII

Sri Bhuvanendra P.U College

2008

87.5%

Class X

Jaycees English Medium School

2006

93.76%

AWARDS

1.Won Silver Award for dedication, hard work and focus in successfully delivering Safety Suite Device Manager against a very challenging timeline.

2.Was chosen to give 2 feature related presentations to the entire product team in Nokia as a fresher.

3.Led the team to victory in extracurricular activities in Nokia.

HOBBIES

Travelling, hiking, painting, reading

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