Scrum Master Qa Analyst

Nirmala Babu, Business Analyst

Cell: 201-***-**** Email: adwbx8@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Scrum Master

Project Planning

Business Analysis

JIRA Management

UAT Preparation and Execution

Degree:

Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering

Madras University, India

Technologies:

JIRA, Confluence, HP ALM, Tableau, Microsoft project Plan

Industries:

Automotive & Retail

WORK HISTORY

Business Analyst / Scrum Master (Tata Technologies) Nov 2022 – Till Date

Client: Jaguar Land Rover, Mahwah, NJ

Project : GOLDD – FIMS Replacement

As a Business Analyst

•Business Requirement Gathering, Preparing Functional Document, Technical Document,

As IS and To-Be Arch Design

•Data Mapping between Legacy and New Data Feed – Involving Dealer Data Attributes

•Conducted Data Mapping Discussions between JLR NA Business, JLR Global and Third-Party Vendor to identify missing Data Items and work with JLR Business and 3rd Party Tech Team to include them in the XML Feed.

•Designed, executed Functional / Technical Test Cases and executed the same.

•Planning for Test Execution activities to accomplish tasks on daily/weekly basis

•Worked with end users to generate UAT scripts and to successful completion of UAT testing

•As a Scrum Master, is responsible for

Ø Facilitating teams for Program Increment Planning (PI Planning) every five Iterations

Ø Facilitating teams in Break-out session during PI Planning.

Ø Updating status in Scrum of Scrum meetings to RTE (Release Train Engineer)

Ø Facilitating teams in Scrum Ceremonies like Daily Standup Calls, Iteration Review, Iteration Planning and Iteration Retrospectives.

Ø Backlog Refinement for GOLDD-FIMS teams

Ø Risk Analysis, Burn Down Charts

Ø Sprint - MVP – DOD Discussion and Reviews

•Created JIRA Backlogs, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective. Conducted Daily Stand Up Calls, Supported Weekly JLR Management Call.

•Supported Overall Jaguar GTM Planning and Execution with various Business Partners.

Project : PEGASUS- Data Center Move

• Prepared Test Plan, Planned, coordinated and performed different stages of testing with developers, business analysts, project managers and business users

•Conduct / Run Defect Triaging and Review the Test Scenarios/ Test Cases with Business Stakeholders.

•Designed, executed Functional / Technical Test Cases and executed regression test cases

•Executed parallel browser testing on various machines (Windows Versions) and performed cross browser testing.

•Planning for Test Execution activities to accomplish tasks on daily/weekly basis

•Worked with end users to generate UAT scripts and to successful completion of UAT testing

•Performed browser compatibility testing

•Used ALM to state test requirements, test cases and raise defects.

•Involved in UAT testing by helping end users to record and raise defects in ALM.

•Involved in the regression test planning for the project and identified the critical regression tests

•Executed the regression test cases during every release and also executed the daily regression test suites

Responsible for daily status reporting & managed end to end testing

Business Analyst / Scrum Master ( Contract ) Aug 2020 – Oct 2022

Client: Auto Manufacturer

Project : SAP CRM, RETAILER NETWORK, SSO / Retailer Portal

•Performed effective Stakeholder management by coordinating between the business, vendor and engineering teams and successfully completing 3 global releases launching a new product for the retailers

•Facilitated Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Daily-Stand up, Backlog Grooming, and Retrospective meetings

•Collaborated with members of the Product, Business and Engineering Teams to develop and maintain Product Backlogs

•Created and executed a new model for handling change requests hence reducing the time for completion of incidents by 30%

•Conducted 5 levels of testing including functional, regression, user acceptance, integration, and performance to verify client’s needs

•Performed extensive data analysis involving over 200k data records using advanced features of MS Excel and SQL and produced their results using tableau

•Coordinating with SMEs to design business process and successfully translating them to the technical teams working offshore

Created and tracked multiple defects as well as UAT cycles using HP ALM tool

Business Analyst/ QA Analyst - Contract Cigna International Feb 2016 - Jun 2017

•Prepared Test Plan, Planned, coordinated and performed different stages of testing with developers, business analysts, project managers and business users.

•Tracking the milestone deliverables of the project and planned, created and executed the testing along with the QA team from onsite and offshore.

•Used ALM to state test requirements, test cases and raise defects.

•Used SQL for Querying the database for testing the business rules imposed on data pull

•Ensured accurate and timely completion of testing activities to ensure deliverables are produced on time and to quality standards.

• Involved in UAT testing by helping end users to record and raise defects in ALM

Programmer Analyst, NetAccess Ltd, India Mar 2005 – Jan 2010

• Worked as a programmer in Analysis of the specifications provided by the clients

Coding and Unit Test Case Preparation

EDUCATION

B.E. Electronics and Communication, Madras University, India

Computer Skills

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile, Kanban, Scrum, SDLC

Defect/Bug Tracking Tools: JIRA, Rally, UFT Quality Center, HP/ALM, MPP (Microsoft project Plan)

Software/Technologies: Confluence, MS Excel,MS Access,MS SQL and Oracle.

Certifications

Professional Scrum Master 1

Oracle Certified Associate

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