Shwetha S

• Developed custom Scrum boards for better task tracking and transparency within the team.
• Facilitated seamless integration of new team members into existing projects without compromising productivity levels.
• Coached cross-functional teams on Agile principles, leading to an increase in successful project deliveries.
• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
• Assessed and reported progress to stakeholders regularly, maintaining transparency throughout the project lifecycle.
• Conducted daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning sessions, and sprint reviews, ensuring effective communication among team members.
• Identified potential risks early in the project lifecycle and implemented mitigation strategies accordingly.
• Mentored junior team members on Scrum best practices, fostering their professional growth within the organization.
• Streamlined release processes through close coordination between development teams and operations staff.
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• Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
• Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
• Assisted with internal and external communication resulting in improved transparency.
• Guided and coached Scrum team and organized Agile and Scrum practices and values while also meeting delivery commitment.
• Removed obstacles by finding right personnel to advance tasks and projects.
• Assessed Scrum maturity of team and organized and coached team to higher levels of development.
• Acted as go-to resource for engineering team, providing clarity on tasks, gathering missing assets or requirements and handling project changes.
• Anticipated impediments to team delivery involving cultural barriers and logistical challenges.
• Researched current trends to stay knowledgeable in Scrum methods.
• Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
• Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts.
• Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
• Shielded scrum team from external interference for optimal productivity and success of Agile process.
• Worked to provide continuous improvement for product development lifecycle.
• Managed work and project responsibilities by assigning tasks to internal individuals and external teams.

• Maintained bug reporting system for logged faults, delegating issues to development personnel for remediation.
• Updated ongoing testing procedures for software to account for changes resulting from post-release patches.
• Edited software documentation to increase accuracy and reduce occurrences of user error due to confusing content.
• Coordinated with off-site staff to verify correct use of test procedures and confirm accurate reporting.
• Reviewed bug reports and error logs, translating data into digestible reports for senior leadership personnel.
• Developed and maintained defect databases for known issues.
• Incorporated delivery requirements into planning of testing schedules.
• Operated under Agile and Scrum frameworks to complete releases and well-organized sprints.
• Monitored resolution of bugs, tested fixes and helped developers tackle ongoing problems by providing QA perspective.

• AkzoNobel - GST Hybrid Solution (ongoing)
• The Goods and Services Tax constitutional amendment having been publicized by the Government of India, the rollout of the GST Bill will be a collective effort of the Central and State Governments, the tax payers and the IT platform provider i.e
• GSTN (Goods and Service Tax Network), CBEC (Central Board of Excise and
• Customs) and State Tax Departments and ERPs, etc
• GST Hybrid solution: The ASP provides a platform for the tax managers to verify and validate the sales and purchase data from the different ERPs which further help them in filing the monthly and annual returns to the GSTN portal
• Profile:
• Requirement Analysis
• Research over GST fundamentals
• Creating the application flowcharts
• Involved in creating the product backlog
• UAT Support
• Project Management assistance: Sprint planning, Sprint communication, Work Allocation, Sprint Retrospective
• Giving application demo to the client at the end of each sprint
• Lead the team o Helped the team in understanding the gaps in requirements
• Preparing weekly Status report to the clients o Prepared project status PPT’s to showcase the project health to the delivery excellence team
• Involved in knowledge transfer sessions and mentoring peers in the team o Capturing the Lessons Learnt and documenting them to review in next Sprint retrospective
• Part of the application demo to the new clients
• Preparing Spectrum report for the management team for monthly review process
• Mentored freshers in the team IFDL – BlueButton suite for Wealth Management
• Analysis of Business Requirement & Technical Design Document
• Involved in metrics collection like- Effort tracking, Test case efficiency, Review Efficiency
• Part of the daily stand up meeting
• Writing scenarios as per the requirements document
• Designing test cases and peer reviews for the same
• Test Case Execution, defect logging and tracking the same in TFS
• Involved in knowledge transfer sessions and mentoring peers in the team
• Capturing the Lessons Learnt and documenting them to review in next Sprint retrospective
• Preparing Spectrum report for the management team for monthly review process o Sending Weekly and Daily status reports to clients

• Project: JPMC(Cash workstation, Checktracker, Triparty, SPEAD)

Profile:

• System study of PRD and TRD
• Involved in requirement review meetings
• Analyzing the requirements and designing functional test cases
• Part of test case review
• Performing Smoke Test and Accept the build into QA Area
• Functional Testing, Regression Testing and Defect tracking
• Performed GUI and functional testing
• Responsible for reporting and tracking bugs
• Part of scrum meetings
• Working on the beta feedback reports and trying to reproduce the issues.
• Reviewed all test cases and test scripts for quality and identified additional areas to review.
• Directed team members to follow specific testing standards and guidelines as outlined in project requirements.
• Optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing.

• Project: AOL desktop clients, AOL webmail, AIM (AOL Instant Messenger)
• Profile: o System study of PRD and TRD
• O Involved in requirement review meetings o Analyzing the requirements and designing functional test cases o Part of test case review o Performing Smoke Test and Accept the build into QA Area
• O Functional Testing, Regression Testing and Defect tracking
• O Performed GUI o Responsible for reporting and tracking bugs o Working on the beta feedback reports and trying to reproduce the issues.