Anil P S
Test Lead And Scrum Master
Bengaluru
Summary
Team-oriented individual promoting exemplary presentation, project management and risk oversight skills. Demonstrative Scrum Master with background communicating effectively with and leading high-performance teams. Considered expert in prioritizing tasks and optimizing workflows.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Test Lead and Certified Scrum Master
Lumen Technologies
Bengaluru
06.2017 - Current
- PMP Trained, Test Lead and Scrum Master over 17 years of experience handling team of 25 people across multiple teams
- Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
- Drove the migration of billers with like CRIS, Ensemble, CABS, MBS until the production validations involving multiple teams across different organizations.
- Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
- Worked across teams outside of engineering to find solutions and answers to issues encountered by engineering personnel.
- Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
- Proactively identified and found ways to resolve issues to prevent distractions and keep projects on track.
- Drove Scrum team progress to overcome obstacles and realize success throughout life of each sprint.
- Provided extensive guidance on Agile scrum processes and methodologies to highly effective teams with goals of improving quality and productivity.
- Shielded scrum team from external interference for optimal productivity and success of Agile process.
- Worked to provide continuous improvement for product development lifecycle.
- Evangelized Agile as strategic asset of culture and business value.
Lead and Onshore Coordinator
CenturyLink
Bengaluru
06.2012 - 06.2017
- Worked as Onshore coordinator from Denver USA for 2 years and coordinated for multiple teams under Payment workflow application.
- Was involved in design discussions with Onshore counterparts and vendors like SpeedPay, WesternUnion, JP Morgan CHASE, IBM, Banctec.
- Involved on multiple release validations and coordination with multiple dependent teams using Postman, SQL Developer, Putty, Winscp and other tools.
- Done API testing with Postman, has knowledge on Cypress tool.
- Was major contributor during migration of Bank Payments migration with JPMC. Worked extensively and closely with JPMC teams in resolving issues reducing turnaround time.
- Adapted procedures to mitigate issues. Coordinated with offshore for project deliverables and issues.
- Reassessed quality control measures at systemic level to proactively identify non-conformances.
- Prepared reports to dispense information and compile information supporting long-term company development and success.
- Performed testing to assess product effectiveness, alignment with designed purpose and adaptations for other purposes.
Senior QA Analyst
CenturyLink
Bengaluru
10.2010 - 06.2012
- Worked mainly on Ordering applications for CenturyLink.
- Worked as Senior QA for TicketControl Systems for SAVVIS(Was subsidiary of CenturyLink)
- Provided regular updates to team leadership on quality metrics by communicating consistency problems.
- Created and collaborated in implementation and maintenance of customer complaint log and mitigation.
- Developed monthly, end-of-quarter and other statistical reports for leadership team and quality improvement programs.
- Awarded multiple
Associate Test Engineer
Hewlett Packard
Bengaluru
09.2005 - 10.2010
- Reviewed, evaluated and identified requirements for testability for Atari , Midway, Vodafone UK, Vodafone Europe.
- Worked on multiple projects related to Single Sign On, Total Communication etc.
- Created comprehensive test scripts and use cases to support testing objectives.
- Hosted Weekly review meetings with Atari , Midway client partners and Vodafone client
- Tested, identified and troubleshot problems for day to day activities.
Education
Bachelor Of Engineering - Computer And Information Sciences
JNNCE
06.2000 - 05.2004
Skills
PMP Trained
Trained Agile Scrum Master
Python and Data Science
Selenium
Team leadership and coaching
Standardized test results review
Test strategies and coverages
Team leadership and direction
Testing, repair and troubleshooting
Timeline
Test Lead and Certified Scrum Master
Lumen Technologies
06.2017 - Current
Lead and Onshore Coordinator
CenturyLink
06.2012 - 06.2017
Senior QA Analyst
CenturyLink
10.2010 - 06.2012
Associate Test Engineer
Hewlett Packard
09.2005 - 10.2010
Bachelor Of Engineering - Computer And Information Sciences
JNNCE
06.2000 - 05.2004