Certified Professional Scrum Master (PSM I) Agilist and ISTQB certified Software QA with 10+ years of experience in software development and delivery along with technical expertise in Software Testing.
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.
Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy.
Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Scrum Master
Commonspirit Health, USA, Perficient Inc
02.2021 - Current
1
Creating and leading the, community - This is a group of scrum masters across the organization
who want to share knowledge, best practices, seek help and guide each other
Agenda
Create a platform for the Scrum Masters to connect bi-weekly and discuss their day-to-day concerns
and have informative and interactive discussions on anything agile
Create short high impact agile/scrum related videos and artifacts to be shared within the group and
to train the new Scrum Masters
2
Skill-Guru/Buddy Pairing – Involved in Training and Development Committee and conduct sessions on Enable
– Perficient’s QMS system and Agile to new joiners as part of onboarding
3
Superior communication, interview, and presentation abilities
4
Worked independently and as a team member, Domain: Healthcare
Project Description: CSH is one of the largest non-profits, faith-based healthcare systems in USA
Enhancement of
the Find a doctor module to display all provider specialties on Search, display provider hospital affiliations, search,
and schedule online appointments
Roles & Responsibilities:
Work with product owners and stake holders in Product backlog planning and share my feedback with the
experience from past product deliveries
Handling Grooming and Scope Review meetings with Product Owner, Business owners
Work with the Development team and Product Owner in prioritizing the sprint backlog
Actively participated with the team and product owner in understanding the user stories and the acceptance
criteria
Tracks the progress of user stories throughout the Sprint and release coordination between multiple teams
Led powerful redesign of development and release process of product application in rapid 3-week Agile
Scrum sprints, increasing communication and deliverables by 90%
Investigated and escalated the risks and proposed solution and worked towards achieving it
Assisted the teams in analyzing the gaps and identifying workarounds to achieve the targets
Provided guidance on Agile scrum processes and methodologies to teams with goals of improving quality
and productivity
Conduct team connect activities and fun with retro sessions
Software QA
Commonspirit Health, USA, Perficient Inc
03.2020 - 02.2021
Domain: Healthcare
Project Description: CSH is one of the largest non-profits, faith-based healthcare systems in USA
Enhancement of
the Find a doctor module to display all provider specialties on Search, display provider hospital affiliations, search,
and schedule online appointments
Roles & Responsibilities:
Analyzing Requirements/Use Case Documents
Preparing of Test Scenario and Test cases based on specifications in Azure Devops
Uploading the Requirement and test cases into Azure Devops
Test Case Peer Review and Provide Review Comments
Executed the Functional Test cases and tracking the defects
Prepared Test Data and Results
Sharing Test status across the Team Members
Coordinating with the Product Owner for Requirement clarification and other functional aspects such as
defect review, test case review etc.,
Had been actively mentoring the Associate Technical Consultants for their career growth
Participating proactively in Scrum Ceremonies
Consolidating & Sending Daily Status report to Onsite
Demoing the product/User stories to the Business
Had been a technical panel & helped the team with hiring decision
Helped the automation team with the automation test cases execution.
Software QA
Perficient Inc
03.2019 - 03.2020
For CenturyLink-Product Catalog, Domain: Telecom Services
Project, : CenturyLink provides Telecom Services in global Region
PCAT is a dynamic product catalogue
managing over 400+ CenturyLink products, that configures & generates pricing based on the user inputs
Also, it
runs on different requirements for each product in global regions
Different product configurations & placement of
new order & Modification/Cancellation to the existing orders were tested from the end user’s perspective
Also, the
tests were run to determine the pricing & Discount calculations based on client requirement
Roles & Responsibilities:
Analyzing Requirements/Use Case Documents
Preparing of Test Scenario and Test cases based on specifications in Jira
Uploading the Requirement and test cases into Jira
Test Case Peer Review and Provide Review Comments
Executed the Functional Test cases and tracking the defects
Prepared Test Data and Results
Sharing Test status across the Team Members
Coordinating with the Product Owner for Requirement clarification and other functional aspects such as
defect review, test case review etc.,
Participating proactively in Scrum Ceremonies
Consolidating & Sending Daily Status report to Onsite
Demoing the product/User stories to the Business
Had been a technical panel & helped the team with hiring decision.
Software QA
Standard Chartered Bank, TATA CONSULTENCY SERVICES
02.2017 - 01.2019
Domain: Banking & Financial Services
Project Description: Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) screens its customers against different watchlists (Deny, PEP &
AM) during Account Opening (Global Name Screening Real-Time) & periodically as well to make sure that the Bank
does not continue/start new business with the people involved in money laundering.
Software QA
Baijiu, Amazon Development Center
08.2015 - 01.2017
Domain: eCommerce
Project Description: EINK device testing involves testing of the OS of the device
Testing activities are performed
based on OS migration from existing OS to android on the device manufactured by Amazon Development Centre
Testing is done on all the aspects of the OS of the device, like BAT, Ghosting, Stability, OTA etc
Ghosting is a phenomenon where the impression of previous page gets displayed on the present page
The same
was tested across all the pages (around 300 different scenarios) under different temperatures (Freezing, Room &
Extreme Hot)
Roles & Responsibilities:
Analyzing Requirements/Use Case Documents
Preparing of Test Scenario and Test cases based on specifications
Responsible for test case preparation, test execution and defects tracking in Jira
Performed Smoke, Sanity, Functional, Usability, Stability & regression testing
Test Case Peer Review and Provide Review Comments
Discussing & Reporting Testing activities with Stake Holders
Flashing the Device to the Latest Build (Setting up Test Environment)
Maintained Task Register and had done Team Lead activity
Have been playing Inventory Admin role
Have handled Audit & Resource Management
Had been a technical panel & helped the team with hiring decision.
Software QA
Union Bank of California, iGate Global Solutions
11.2012 - 08.2015
Domain: Banking & Financial Services
Project Description: Union Bank online banking gives easy to access Customer’s account balance, transactions, loans,
credit card payment and transfer funds wherever you connect to the Internet
Online banking offers various type of online banking service such as online bill pay, Online Investment, Online Trust &
Custody, etc
The bank also offers Investment and Insurance and different type of loans like Home, Auto, Credit card
and other loans
Roles & Responsibilities:
Analyzing Requirements/Use Case Documents
Responsible for test case preparation, test execution and defects tracking in Jira
Uploading the Requirement and test cases into Quality Center
Maintained Traceability matrix and measure Functional coverage of the test cases
Coordinating with the development team for defect analysis
Performed Smoke, Sanity, Functional, Usability, Stability & regression testing
Test Case Peer Review and Provide Review Comments
Discussing & Reporting Testing activities with Stake Holders
Maintained Task Register and had done internal Team Lead activity., Domain: Banking & Financial Services
Project Description: Mobile banking is defined as the ability for the customers of the Bank to access and conduct
banking transactions via a mobile device using non-voice services
In order to prevent end user confusion, the
information presented to the end user on their mobile phone shall be consistent with the information available to
them online
Union Bank Customer can Sign In/Sign Out, View account balances, View transaction history, Schedule
intra-bank transfers (owned UB to owned UB Accounts), Perform one time (not recurring) bill pay to existing payees,
View Pending Payments and View Pending Transfers
Retail and Commercial users had this privilege of Mobile Banking
Roles & Responsibilities:
Analyzing Requirements/Use Case Documents
Responsible for test case preparation, test execution and defects tracking in Jira
Uploading the Requirement and test cases into Quality Center
Maintained Traceability matrix and measure Functional coverage of the test cases
Coordinating with the development team for defect analysis
Performed Smoke, Sanity, Functional, Usability, Stability & regression testing
Test Case Peer Review and Provide Review Comments
Discussing & Reporting Testing activities with Stake Holders
Maintained Task Register and had done internal Team Lead activity.
Software QA
Union Bank of California-SSO, iGate Global Solutions
11.2012 - 08.2015
Domain: Banking & Financial Services
Project Description: SSO (Single Sign On) is where an Online Customer (Retail, Small Business, Commercial, and
Trust and Wealth users) logs into the Online Business Center and from there he can avail all the services that he is
entitled to
The SSO Serves as a single gateway to all the other Banking applications
SSO Allows a user to enter his
user ID and Password just once and thus he opens himself to all the other applications without a need to pass the
authentication for each application
SSO will improve the overall client experience and ease the service maintenance related to customer administration
requirements and inquiries (i.e., lost or forgotten passwords)
The system also stores selected challenge questions
and answers provided by the user and can use these for further validation of the user's bona fides
Authenticating a person often consists of verifying their identity
Authentication depends upon one or more
authentication factors
Roles & Responsibilities:
Analyzing Requirements/Use Case Documents
Responsible for test case preparation, test execution and defects tracking in Jira
Uploading the Requirement and test cases into Quality Center
Maintained Traceability matrix and measure Functional coverage of the test cases
Coordinating with the development team for defect analysis
Performed Smoke, Sanity, Functional, Usability, Stability & regression testing
Test Case Peer Review and Provide Review Comments
Discussing & Reporting Testing activities with Stake Holders
Maintained Task Register and had done internal Team Lead activity.
Skills
Certified Professional Scrum Master (PSM I) Agilist with 2 years of experience in Scrum Master roleundefined
Accomplishments
CERTIFICATIONS:
Professional Scrum Master (PSM I) by Scrum.org May 2023
Certified by the International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB) in Software Testing
B.Sc (Computers) with 72% from DVS College
Kuvempu University
(Shimoga , Karnataka)
Timeline
Scrum Master
Commonspirit Health, USA, Perficient Inc
02.2021 - Current
Software QA
Commonspirit Health, USA, Perficient Inc
03.2020 - 02.2021
Software QA
Perficient Inc
03.2019 - 03.2020
Software QA
Standard Chartered Bank, TATA CONSULTENCY SERVICES
02.2017 - 01.2019
Software QA
Baijiu, Amazon Development Center
08.2015 - 01.2017
Software QA
Union Bank of California, iGate Global Solutions
11.2012 - 08.2015
Software QA
Union Bank of California-SSO, iGate Global Solutions