Manali Pande

Scrum Master Responsibilities:

• Worked as an Agile /Scrum Master where Agile and Lean techniques were applied along with some Scrum principles.
• Organized and facilitated overall Release and Sprint planning - including daily stand-ups, reviews/demos, and retrospectives.
• Protected team from over-commitment, managed backlog, prioritized resolution of defects/bugs.
• Mentored teams, leading them to be self-directed with strong accountability, decision making, conflict resolution, and transparency.
• Facilitated meetings to iron out blockers, conducted sessions with the Product owner and other stakeholders on regular and helped the team to make better use of these time and estimate more effectively, thus ensuring a healthy sprint progress.
• Communicated team status/progress via Release/Sprint Burndown charts, Story Acceptance rate and defects and make sure the stakeholders are aware of what is going on.

QA Lead Responsibilities:

• Streamlined QA processes for improved efficiency, reducing project completion time.
• Evaluated emerging trends and technologies in software testing to maintain a competitive edge in the market.
• Standardized bug reporting methods for better communication between QA and development teams.
• Enhanced software quality by developing comprehensive test strategies and plans.

• Responsible for performing Manual Functional testing, Data base testing (SQL), Smoke, UAT, Regression in various environments and integrated systems.
• Key person in providing the Knowledge transfer to the team members, Onsite reporting and co-ordination.
• Publishing the Test Reports, Defect reports, defect metrics updates, Test execution status reports, Defect Management and Test Repository Management.
• Created comprehensive test plans, test scripts, and use cases to support testing objectives.
• Collaborated with development teams to identify, reproduce, and resolve software issues promptly.

• Improved software quality by meticulously executing manual test cases and identifying defects.
• Supported developers in debugging efforts, providing clear reproduction steps and logs for identified defects.
• Reduced defect leakage by rigorously analyzing requirements and creating comprehensive test plans.
• Maintained accurate documentation of all discovered bugs, ensuring efficient tracking and resolution throughout the development lifecycle.
• Increased overall reliability of the product through diligent smoke testing during every build cycle.