Ravi Shankar

As a Scrum Master and QA Manager, for a development program involving cloud technologies of a prominent HR recruiting services firm,

I am responsible to :

• Analyze business and system requirement specifications, support in effort estimation and formulate test approach and strategy
• Prioritize epics, and user stories for current and future sprints
• Facilitating inception process for building product backlogs and identify key stake-holders
• Support Product owner in story grooming and maintaining product backlog
• Identify and remove impediments/dependencies, preventing distractions that interfere with team's ability in delivering sprint goal
• Conducted Scrum Daily stand-up, Product backlog, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective meetings
• Maintained storyboards, organized charts within JIRA and influenced best practices
• Design documents to formulate the Test Strategies, Test Plans and Test Cases and review defect report
• Ensure development and QA teams practice core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, accountability and visibility
• Assisting with internal and external communication, involving various teams and management in improving transparency, and information sharing
• Tracked and made visible the Teams' progress, Velocity, Burn down charts and other agile metrics and Information Radiators on ongoing basis
• Leading by example through proactive problem solving, process improvement, positive contributions in employee morale and team productivity

• Played SPOC for Hyderabad region in BFSI Pre-sales, primarily accountable to create and review prospective RFP's and RFI's . In the course interact with relevant domain experts to tailor QA solutions matching customer requirements.
• Presenting the TCS – test capability models, accelerators & adaptors, cost effective engagement models to meet and fit the client’s testing requirements.
• Managed various accounts and projects in Hi-tech, retail, telecom, product and government engagements for rendering effective and scalable testing solutions, mitigate test contingencies and communicate with the customer on various daily project execution matters.
• Possessing extensive experience in working with QA tools and Microsoft technology stack, for various testing engagements, using tools like Visual Studio Team Test, Quality Centre, JIRA, QTP, Product studio, open-source tools like Open STA, JMeter etc.
• Strong expertise in Product Testing, creating Test Plans, Project Plans, QA Plans, Test Strategy, Test cases, Use cases, Test Platform Matrix and Test Data, Automation feasibility study, Automation script preparation, test cases execution, verification and validation of test results and defect reporting
• Onsite-Offshore Team Coordination
• Monitor projects test progress and take appropriate action
• Part of the process excellence group activities of project procedures auditing and project management reviews
• Suggested and implemented the best testing practice in various project engagements and at organization level for the different customer's site in USA, United Kingdom, Canada and Ireland
• Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions
• Actively listened to customers’ requests, confirming full understanding before addressing concerns

• In developing web-based applications
• Analyzed system requirements
• Developed code in ASP.NET using C# and VB.NET
• Executed manual and automated test cases and verified results with expected results
• Involved in performing Black Box Testing
• Extensive database testing using SQL Server to verify data.