Apurva Verma
Greater Noida (West)
Summary
Experienced Scrum Master and QA specialist with a total of 13 plus years of expertise in the IT software industry. I bring 6 plus years of hands-on experience as a Scrum Master and 7 plus years of solid background in Quality Assurance with proven track record of successfully leading teams in developing high-quality software solutions on time and within budget. Skilled in multiple Agile methodologies, stakeholder management and sprint planning. Highly organized in managing complex projects with multiple deadlines.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Scrum Master
DXC Technologies
12.2021 - Current
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
- Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
- Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
- Collaborated with Product Owner and required stakeholders to refine and prioritize the product backlog ensuring it was well groomed (for 3+ sprints) and ready for sprint planning
- Guide teams in Identifying and eliminate impediments or obstacles that hinder the teams progress
- Utilize project management and collaboration tools like JIRA or Microsoft Azure DevOps to document and track sprint progress, user stories, and tasks
- Utilize tools like JIRA/Microsoft Azure DevOps/Power BI to Generate reports and dashboards to showcase sprint progress, team velocity, Burndown charts and other key performance indicators to stakeholders
- Performed conflict resolution within and between teams, fostering a collaborative and solution-oriented approach
- Embrace a servant leadership style, prioritizing the needs of both teams and supporting them in achieving their goals
- Experience in handling multiple Scrum teams in cross-geographical location set-up
- Handling Scrum Master responsibilities on a Tribe level also where I need to drive the ceremonies and publish relevant data on Tribe Level
- Actively engaged in People Management w.r.t resource management, allocation, feedback/Reviews, Learning and Development, Timesheets etc.
Project Lead (Scrum Master)
Persistent Systems
09.2021 - 12.2021
- Handled development team of 7 members for implementing Zscaler solution for client (IBM)
- Facilitated all scrum ceremonies like Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Up, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective and Sprint backlog refinement to prepare the refined product and sprint backlog in advance
- Used mood tracker for the team to know the current mood and state of team mental health
- Provide coaching and guidance to teams on Agile principles and Scrum practices which resulted in improved efficiency and alignment with agile methodology
- Published metrics like burndown charts, avg velocity, custom metrics to team management and stakeholders to highlight the progress and any present issues.
Scrum Master
DXC Technologies
12.2019 - 08.2021
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives in a time-boxed manner.
- Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
- Collaborated with Product Owner and required stakeholders to refine and prioritize the product backlog ensuring it was well groomed (for 3+ sprints) and ready for sprint planning
- Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and hurdles to productivity.
- Utilize project management and collaboration tools like JIRA or Microsoft Azure DevOps to document and track sprint progress, user stories, and tasks
- Utilize tools like Microsoft Azure DevOps to Generate reports and dashboards to showcase sprint progress, team velocity, Burndown charts and other key performance indicators to stakeholders
- Performed conflict resolution within and between teams, fostering a collaborative and solution-oriented approach
- Embrace a servant leadership style, prioritizing the needs of both teams and supporting them in achieving their goals
- Experience in handling multiple Scrum teams in cross-geographical location set-up.
Lead Consultant QA/SM
Genpact headstrong
08.2017 - 12.2019
- Worked as a lead consultant for running end-to-end functional testing effort for an asset management back office operations.
- Worked on functional testing for different fixed income instruments.
- Involved in Functional test case designing, scenario creation, test execution, defect management in HP Quality Center.
- Experience in Front Office, Back Office, Trading Concept
- Well versed with Trade Life Cycle, Derivatives, Fixed Income Concepts
- Well versed in functional and regression test case design and execution
- Experience of test management tools like HP-ALM, JIRA, MS-TSF
- Facilitate Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Demo, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective Meeting
- Track and remove internal and external impediments for the development team.
- Track team efficiency and performance via different metrics like Burndown charts, Velocity measurements.
Test Engineer
IRIS Software
06.2015 - 08.2017
- Software testing on the Fixed Income domain projects is the specialized area
- As part of specialized testing, I worked on MarketAxess Desktop based and Web based trading application used to trade Bonds, Options, CDS for US based instruments
- The Project dealt with over all testing of North American, European Region and Emerging/Local Market corporate bonds trading on MarketAxess Electronic Trading Platform
- MarketAxess is the world’s No.1 electronic trading platform for corporate bonds trading
- Key Responsibilities: Reviewed Requirement Documents and the Technical Specification
- Test case design for Functional & Regression testing
- Execution of test cases and defect reporting in Quality center
- Created all the acceptance test cases for primary acceptance of a build
- Coordinated with developers to get the bugs reproduced and resolved
- As we are following agile methodology, we were involved in Release planning, iteration planning, retrospect, and daily scrum
- Regularly updating MS ADO with current sprint data
- Guiding team of activates like authoring, execution, raising clarifications, understanding of the domain and application
- Train the new team members by giving them domain and project trainings.
Quality Engineer
Sunquest information systems
12.2010 - 04.2015
- I worked on multiple projects in SQI as a Quality Engineer
- SQI is a product-based US Healthcare IT organization
- Key projects where I was involved were: Molecular 2.1, Sunquest Tempo, Sunquest Instrument Interfacing, OA Connect
- Roles and Responsibilities: Extensive knowledge of HP-ALM tool for Test management, Test Case designing, Test case execution and defect tracking
- Manage testing procedure and maintenance testing documentations and ensure methodology is followed
- Creating RTM’s, Test Scenarios, Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Data
- Providing Estimation and breakdowns
- Develop client relationships and coordination with the onshore team and offshore team (wherever applicable)
- Actively involved in product Testing, Regression Testing and Performance Testing
- Publishing Daily Test status, Bugs status
- Involved in Daily status calls held with Onshore Business Team, SME and onshore Development Team.
Education
B.e (ECE) -
Kumaon Engineering college
08.2009
High School & Sr. Secondary - undefined
St. Mary’s (haridwar)
03.2004
Skills
- Agile Project Management
- People Management
- Sprint Planning, Review, Retrospective, DSUs
- Resource Management
- Conflict Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Software Development Lifecycle
- Servant Leadership
- Documentation And Reporting
- Status Reporting
- Problem-Solving
- Test Management
- MS-Azure DevOps Boards
- JIRA/Confluence
- Power BI
- HP-ALM (Quality Center)
- HP-UFT
- MS-TFS
- MS Office 365
Certification
- CSM(Scrum Alliance)
- SAFe Scrum Master (5.0)
- ISTQB
Domain Knowledge
- Capital markets
- Healthcare IT
- Insurance
Hobbies and Interests
- Sketching
- Cooking
- Photography
Languages
Hindi
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Timeline
Scrum Master
DXC Technologies
12.2021 - Current
Project Lead (Scrum Master)
Persistent Systems
09.2021 - 12.2021
Scrum Master
DXC Technologies
12.2019 - 08.2021
Lead Consultant QA/SM
Genpact headstrong
08.2017 - 12.2019
Test Engineer
IRIS Software
06.2015 - 08.2017
Quality Engineer
Sunquest information systems
12.2010 - 04.2015
B.e (ECE) -
Kumaon Engineering college
High School & Sr. Secondary - undefined
St. Mary’s (haridwar)
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