Ashakumari GS

As Scrum Master in Project - Inchcape shipping Services – World of Ports

· Partnered with other Scrum Masters and Development Managers to implement best practices though continual process improvement across the organization.

· Ensured compliance of development team with Scrum methodology in delivering incremental features and monitor defined process adherence.

· Hosted Scrum of Scrums meetings, managed vendor communications/contract, led/participated in Release Management/Deploy activities.

· Facilitated all Scrum Ceremonies for distributed and multicultural project teams.

· Developed metrics dashboards and advanced filters in JIRA to provide end-users and business leadership with meaningful operational/performance metrics and status reports.

· Administered tools to increase productivity and transparency on projects that include JIRA, Confluence Wiki, Jenkins, TestRail, and Chat.

· Used Agile Methodology (Scrum) to minimize risk by implementing software development in short time boxes or iterations using JIRA.

· Utilized JIRA to manage and coordinate production changes through a full change management process.

· Analyzed JIRA backlog items by project to identify common root causes or associations, perform efficient item grouping and assignment.

· Integrated Agile principles and made recommendations to improve overall corporate function.

· Coached, mentored, and lead personnel within a technical team environment, and guide them on agile principles and methodologies.

· Ensured the development team is practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.

· Coordinated and presented lean-agile community events, sharing learning and understanding of lean and agile principles, practices and techniques.

· Managed multiple large technology development and implementation projects, and multiple small software development projects from inception to completion.

· Coordinated concurrent software development efforts throughout their full iterative life-cycles for multiple delivery teams.

· Educated other team members internally on best practices for agile software development project management.

· Evaluated enterprise-level needs and drive the software development life cycle from requirements to delivery.

· Facilitated discussion and conflict resolution within the Scrum team and with other teams, removed impediments and encouraged continuous improvement.

· Helped teams in setting up agile metrics/Key performance indicators, measure them regularly identify improvement areas for continuous improvements.

· Facilitated ceremonies daily Scrum meeting, sprint-planning session, retrospective to define methods for continuous improvement and problem resolution.

· Assisted in defining and deploying new product development processes and in facilitating the continuous improvement of existing processes.

· Established development strategies including continuous improvement of product architecture, development tools and development procedures.

· Helped product owners extensively in story creations and backlog management using domain knowledge and strong technical background.

· Facilitated the translation of business requirements into technical requirements between Product Owners and technical teams.

· Assisted Product Owners in developing sizable user stories emphasizing on user acceptance criteria.

· Assisted Product Owners to meet the expectation of external stakeholders and executive management.

· Assisted product owners with backlog maintenance and overall communication while improving transparency.

· Collaborated with cross functional teams to gather business requirements; converted requirements into product backlog in a timely and efficient manner.

· Created Product Backlog and then validated, prioritized and documented the functional requirements.

· Ensured stakeholder requirements are captured and prioritized in the Product backlog.

· Ensured product backlog management and stories prioritization for consistent delivery.

· Remove any impediments and re-prioritize Sprint Backlogs as required.

· Participated and contributed feedback during sprint reviews on agile projects.

· Facilitated team representation in Sprint Reviews.

· Conducted multiple Scrum process centered events such as Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospective, Sprint Review and Daily Stand Up meetings.

· Ensured that 4 sprint ceremonies: Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Ups, Sprint Review, and Retrospectives, are duly observed.

· Conducted daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective for scrum teams utilizing several methodologies.

· Created a culture of respect and trust through conflict resolution, encouragement/support and development through continuing education.

· Facilitated getting work done efficiently by facilitating collaboration, discussion, decision making and conflict resolution.

· Facilitated discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution to ensure consistent progress.

· Arbitrated discussion and conflict resolution sessions with multiple teams including international.

· Facilitated conflict resolutions and empower the teams to self-organize.

· Conducted technical training sessions regarding agile development methods and participated in meetings, technical discussions, reviews and release planning.

· Monitored change management and release management including release scoping and release planning.

· Participated in weekly portfolio alignment meetings and release planning meetings.

· Involved in Release planning and execution with configuration and production support teams.

· Facilitated Agile ceremonies including release planning and release showcases.

· Ensured effective implementation of agile process and trained staff to maximize productivity and assure collective benefit.

· Helped the organization in learning the agile process and implementing agile within their corporate software environment

· Participated in creation of prototypes to support the agile methodology of application development.

· Incorporated agile methodology and SCRUM techniques to manage requirements and enhance the application.

· Coached other members of the organization on agile methodology where necessary.

As QA Manager in Project - Inchcape shipping Services – World of Ports

• The Scope of the project is to perform the Functional testing for various releases and also the Regression Testing for every deployment of the World of Ports that involved Ports, Terminals, Berth, and Vessel management of both legacy and current customers
• Roles and Responsibilities
• As Offshore Agile, , was responsible for
• Managing Manual Functional Testing and Regression team, Automation team and Performance Testing team
• Applied Agile Test Practices SCRUM and responsible for Refining Stories and Epic
• Represented team from testing side for scrum
• Participated in Bi-Weekly User Story Grooming sessions and Iteration Planning meetings with Scrum Master, Product Owners, and Agile Team members
• Responsible to participate in Sprint Planning, Retrospective, Review, Mid Sprint review and Demo meetings
• Prepared the test strategies and discussed the testing goals for each Sprint with the team, assigned User Stories to document test cases, test data
• Developed Test cases, Test data and reusable test scripts for User Stories based on the Acceptance Criteria during each Iteration
• Reported the Testing status for the current Sprint daily during Scrum meetings
• Performed thorough Smoke, Functional, System and Regression testing and resolving all the critical and open Bugs prior to Deployment
• Conducted and Involved in the Entry and Exit criteria for story cards
• Participated and involved in maintaining the backlog for the team, analyzed and provided the needed information like test data, environment issues, Automation scripting, etc
• Sprint Planning and Commitment
• Designing Automation Cucumber / TestNg with Selenium tool and analyzing the Test scenarios for automation
• Involved in Creation and Execution of Automation framework and Scripts
• Reported defects in JIRA that were found during testing of multiple versions of applications on various test environments daily and retested defect fixes after each Promote to respective QA environments
• Updating / Reviewing status in GIT board on Daily basis
• Involved in DSR/WSR/Timesheets, Metrics Preparation
• Prepared and managed quality assurance metrics for performance improvement of all teams and presented to the management
• Involved in preparation of Excel macro tools for internal Project activities
• Involved in Presentations, Client testimonials and other templates
• Involved in Metrics Preparation - Strategy / Audit / Reviews, Timesheet management
• Tools Used
• Automation tool - Selenium ( Cucumber / TestNg / POM , Java, API Rest assured)
• Test Management tool – Test Rail
• Defect management tool – Jira
• Version Management tool– GIT

As a QA Manager in Project - Brown Brothers Harriman & Co

• The Scope of the project is to perform the Functional testing for various releases and also the Regression Testing for every deployment of the EAGLE STAR application, which is a Fund accounting system that involves accounting for a portfolio of investments such as securities, commodities, derivatives held in an investment fund such as mutual fund or hedge fund
• Tools used
• Automation tool - Test Complete( Hybrid Framework, VB script ) , Selenium ( TestNg / Cucumber Framework, Java)
• Test Management tool – Qtest, Quality Center ALM
• Defect management tool – Jira
• Version Management tool– SVN, GIT
• Continuous Integration Tool – Jenkins

• Project - FedEx
• Tools Used
• Automation tool – QTP ( Business Process Testing)
• Test Management tool – Quality Center ALM

• Used
• Automation tool – QTP ( Hybrid Framework)
• Test Management tool – Quality Center ALM

• Projects
• Telenet Tact Testing