Shubham Kumar

- Led the end-to-end project lifecycle for multiple digital banking initiatives including loan origination, payments processing, and fraud monitoring systems.

- Acted as Scrum Master for cross-functional teams, facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and reviews.

- Collaborated with developers, QA, business analysts, and stakeholders to ensure timely and high-quality delivery.

- Ensured adherence to Agile best practices using Scrum and SAFe frameworks, resulting in consistent delivery of business value.

- Tracked team velocity, sprint progress, and KPIs using Jira and Confluence dashboards; reported performance to senior management.

- Implemented proactive risk mitigation strategies and managed change requests to ensure project stability.

- Coordinated with vendors and offshore teams for cost-effective resource utilization and smooth integration.

- Guided teams through Agile coaching to increase Agile maturity and team autonomy.

- Contributed to project cost forecasting, tracking, and delivery against budget.

- Facilitated Agile ceremonies and contributed to project delivery of conversational AI products.

- Assisted in backlog refinement, sprint tracking, and sprint metrics reporting.

- Supported stakeholder communication across product, testing, and development teams.

- Managed QA deliverables across Agile sprints, ensuring coverage and completeness.

- Drafted BRDs and FRDs based on business input and stakeholder interviews.

- Participated in budgeting meetings for QA resource allocation and tool procurement.

- Worked closely with leadership to align QA priorities with delivery goals.

- Designed and executed test cases across web and banking applications.

- Supported Agile sprints through regression testing, UAT, and defect tracking.

- Delivered detailed QA reports that influenced sprint planning and prioritization.

• Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.

• Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and hurdles to productivity.

• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.

• Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.

• Collaborated with QA team to test software quality through manual and automated testing.
• Optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing.

• Supported test review, defect control and configuration management within delivery pipeline.

• Developed efficient technical solutions to resolve wide range of business problems.

• Provided regular updates to team leadership on quality metrics by communicating consistency problems or production deficiencies.

• Developed and maintained quality assurance procedure documentation.

• Recorded findings of inspection process, collaborating with quality team to implement corrective actions.

• Developed and maintained defect databases for known issues.

• Authored and maintained well-organized, efficient and successful manual test cases for entire team.

• Kept scripts and test cases updated with current requirements.

• Guided teams through Agile coaching to increase Agile maturity and team autonomy.

• Contributed to project cost forecasting, tracking, and delivery against budget.

• Supported organizational Agile transformation goals by organizing Agile workshops and assessments.

• Managed stakeholder expectations and business requirements across cross-functional financial systems.

• Advised developers on problems with databases, performance and other issues.

• Monitored resolution of bugs, tested fixes, and helped developers tackle ongoing problems by providing QA perspective.

• Gathered data on integration issues and vulnerabilities, reported findings and recommended improvements.

• Developed and maintained defect databases for known issues.