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Sailendra Kumar Ogirala

Business Analyst / Scrum Master / Senior QA Engineer

Summary

Business Analyst, Scrum Master & Senior QA Engineer offering 12+ years of Experience in IT. Expert on business and systems requirements, user acceptance testing, System Testing & Scrum team management.

A core person who helped a Startup to achieve Unicorn status and get listed in IPO

Diligent worker with good communication and task prioritization skills.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Electronics

Nagarjuna University
06.1997 - 04.2000

CSM® -

Scrum Alliance, Inc.
08.2021 - 10.2021

CSPO® -

Scrum Alliance, Inc.
03.2023 - 03.2023

CTFL-ISTQB® -

ISTQB
08.2010 - 09.2010

(Pursuing PMP Certification) -

PMI
12.2023 - Current

Overview

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Languages

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Professional Certifications

5
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Years of Post-secondary education

Work History

Business Analyst / Scrum Master

Prenetics
05.2023 - 12.2023

Projects:

1. Sales Campaigns & Enhancements Management on CircleDNA Ecommerce Website

2. New Version of CircleDNA Vital Test

Roles: Business Analyst / Agile Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

  • Understand both external and internal stakeholders requirements and translate them to technical requirements.
  • Owned multiple project lifecycles, coordinated with stakeholders on priorities and the engineering teams on end-to-end delivery through to ongoing support and maintenance.
  • Interacted with internal customers to understand business needs and translate into requirements and project scope.
  • Gathered, validated and documented business requirements from the marketing team to drive e-commerce website and web-app development
  • Wrote tickets on Jira, essential acceptance criteria and supported the quality assurance process to ensure a high quality outcome
  • Following up closely on business requirements and timelines to ensure reviews and approvals are done on time
  • Assisted in prioritizing feedback from customers and internal stakeholders and help shape the product roadmap
  • Assisted with weekly sprint planning and grooming sessions with engineers
  • Led website UAT sessions between engineers and marketers
  • Worked closely with marketers, engineers, and designers to support and facilitate internal stakeholder communication
  • Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.
  • Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
  • Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally and off-shore.
  • Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
  • Removed obstacles by finding right personnel to advance tasks and projects.
  • Worked across teams outside of engineering to find solutions and answers to issues encountered by engineering personnel.

Senior QA Engineer / Business Analyst /Scrum Master

Prenetics
07.2019 - 03.2023

Projects:

1. Circle DNA (Mobile App & Ecom site) https://circledna.com

2. Circle Snapshot (Mobile App & Ecom Site) https://hicircle.com/en-hk/circle-snapshot

3. Circle Paw (Mobile App & Ecom site) https://circlepaw.co/

4. Project Screen by Circle (Mobile App, WebApp & Ecom site) Physician & WHO Recommended RT-PCR Covid-19 Test Initiative https://projectscreen.co

5. Project Restart by Prenetics (Mobile App & Web App)

Covid-19 Test Initiative for English Premier League & England Cricket Board (https://www.projectscreen.co.uk/)

Roles: Senior QA, QA Lead, Scrum Master, Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Worked as Senior QA, Scrum Master & Business Analyst across multiple overlapping projects, and collaborated effectively with teams across the globe for 4 years
  • Mentored newly joined team members on the ongoing projects and helping in easy onboarding.
  • Owned multiple project lifecycles, coordinate with stakeholders on priorities and the engineering teams on end-to-end delivery through to ongoing support and maintenance.
  • Supported product managers and development teams across phases of testing from planning to execution, troubleshooting and reporting within high-volume, agile environment.
  • Led sprint planning, grooming, daily standups & retrospectives to promote full team engagement.
  • Demonstrated new product features and functionality to project stakeholders.
  • Met tight deadlines to satisfy client demands and project timelines.
  • Created test cases and test scripts to maintain cohesive team approach to product development.
  • Estimated labor hours for different testing projects and functions.
  • Assessed software bugs and compiled findings along with suggested resolutions for development team members.
  • Collaborated with product owners to stay current on intended functionality.
  • Optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing.
  • Checked configuration files and logs to uncover root causes of problems.

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Oracle India Pvt Ltd
03.2011 - 06.2019

Projects:

1. Oracle Cloud Marketplace

[https://cloud.oracle.com/marketplace/en_US/homePage]

2. Oracle Marketing On-demand

[https://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/crmondemand/marketing/crm-ondemand-marketing-337218.html ]

Role: Senior QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

  • Test Plan Meet Up with stakeholders to plan the schedule of the testing process, meeting frequency and deliverables
  • Test planning for the Stories assigned to me for each Sprint
  • Build Acceptance Testing (BAT), Regression testing and Ad hoc testing
  • Test coverage within the given timelines
  • Defect Reporting & Defect Tracking using Bugzilla
  • Defect Analysis, reporting and verification & Regression testing as per the fixed defect’s severity
  • Involved in Scrum Ceremonies
  • Participated in Approval Meetings for Deployment, and Testing on Production Environment at the time of Deployment
  • Comprehensive Test documentation and maintenance of Requirements Traceability Matrix

Skills

Requirements Management

Testing & Quality Assurance

Product Management

Microsoft Office Suite

User Acceptance Testing

Agile Scrum

Project Team Coordination

API Testing

JIRA, Confluence

SQL

Software

Jira, HP ALM, API Testing, SQL, MS Office

Sailendra Kumar OgiralaBusiness Analyst / Scrum Master / Senior QA Engineer