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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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Professional Certifications

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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

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Software

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

Sailendra Kumar OgiralaBusiness Analyst / Scrum Master / Senior QA Engineer