Syed Rehan
Bengaluru,KA
Work Preference
Summary
- Professional Scrum Master (PSM-I) / QA Lead with 12+ years experience in delivering quality for BFSI, Retail Analytics, and enterprise integrations.
- Agile Delivery Professional with hands-on Scrum facilitation experience across enterprise Agile teams.
- Facilitated stand-ups, Sprint planning, Sprint reviews, Sprint retrospectives, represented team in Scrum of Scrums.
- Strong in stakeholder management and reporting: Sprint progress, test transparency dashboards, demos, and release coordination.
- Experience with Technical Scrum Master responsibilities: CI/CD collaboration, test automation strategy, impediment removal, and basic SAFe exposure (Pre-PI/PI planning).
- Worked with cross-functional Agile teams across QA, Development, DevOps/SRE, and Product.
- Proven track record in automation-led quality improvements: Reduced regression cycles, increased coverage, and lowered defect leakage.
- Actively using AI assistants (Cursor, Claude, Lovable, Copilot) to accelerate test design, debugging, documentation, and backlog refinement.
Overview
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Certification
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years of professional experience
Work History
QA Lead
Real Broker
03.2026 - 04.2026
- Performed manual and automation testing for web and API components, owned test execution and defect triage.
- Lead 3 deliverables with 0 defects post release (Kanban)
- Enhanced Playwright automation framework: Added reusable helpers, improved stability, and increased coverage.
- Created and maintained test artifacts: Test plans, test cases, regression suites, and automation reports.
- Produced sprint and test transparency reports (test cases, automation rate, open defects) for stakeholders.
- Leveraged AI tools (Cursor, Claude) to accelerate test case generation, automation and debugging.
Senior Test Engineer / Scrum Master (Interim)
Sensormatic
04.2021 - 03.2026
- Acted as interim Scrum Master on multiple occasions: Facilitated Daily stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives to maintain sprint cadence.
- Collaborated with product owners to prioritize backlogs, aligning deliverables with stakeholder expectations.
- Owned sprint transparency and reporting: Produced sprint progress reports and test‑artifact dashboards (test cases, manual vs automated, new tests, automation rate).
- Balanced SM duties with QA Lead responsibilities: Test planning, automation, and release coordination.
- Led POC to migrate from MABL to Playwright to reduce licensing costs and improve automation flexibility.
- Served as one of the primary points of contact for MABL within the organization, coordinating vendor interactions and technical onboarding.
- Removed impediments related to test environments and data, enabling uninterrupted delivery flow.
- SAFe exposure: Participated in Pre‑PI planning and PI planning activities; coordinated dependencies and risks at program level.
- Test achievements: Led automation for Retail Analytics, reduced defects by 30%, cut regression cycle from 4 weeks to 2–2.5 weeks, and achieved ~80% test coverage across projects.
- Coordinated with Product, Dev, and DevOps for CI/CD integration, release readiness, and stakeholder demos.
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer / Scrum Master
Carelon
10.2020 - 04.2021
- Acted as Scrum Master + QA for the final/last 2 months: Facilitated Daily stand-ups, Sprint planning, Sprint review, and Sprint Retrospectives.
- Represented team in cross-team discussions and participated in Scrum of Scrums to surface risks and dependencies.
- Owned metrics & reporting: Prepared sprint progress reports, tracked sprint commitments, and reported test completion and open items to stakeholders.
- Stakeholder management: Ran customer demos, captured feedback, and coordinated release readiness with Product and Release teams.
- Balanced SM duties with QA work: Continued API and ETL testing while removing impediments (env/data issues) to maintain delivery flow.
- Cross-functional collaboration: Worked closely with Dev, DevOps, and Product to resolve blockers and align priorities.
Senior Software Test Engineer / Scrum Master
NAGRAVISION INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED
08.2018 - 09.2020
- Acted as Scrum Master on a rotation basis - Facilitated Daily stand-ups/scrum, Sprint planning, Sprint review, and Sprint retrospective - Ensured team alignment and actionable follow-ups.
- Represented the team in Scrum of Scrums, communicating progress, risks, and dependencies across multiple teams.
- Coordinated demos and release activities while balancing QA responsibilities.
- Performed functional and automation testing for web and backend applications, ensuring reliability across critical workflows.
- Re-engineered automation framework, reducing maintenance overhead by 50% and improving scalability.
- Automated edge-case scenarios to proactively identify defects, reducing leakage and improving product stability.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to provide progress updates, capture feedback, and support continuous improvement.
Senior QA / Technical Solutions Consultant
Finastra
05.2013 - 03.2018
- Led QA team of 10–15 across multiple releases, ensured delivery predictability and quality.
- Conducted functional/API testing across Loan IQ modules, improved API test coverage to 90%.
- Automated edge-case scenarios, reducing defect leakage and strengthening system reliability.
- Collaborated on integrations with enterprise systems (DataNet/Cognos, Fusion Banking, Trade Innovation).
- Transitioned from Waterfall to Scrum, participated in Sprint planning, Daily stand-ups, Sprint reviews, Sprint retrospectives.
- Facilitated stakeholder communication: Daily progress reports, customer demos, feedback tracking.
- Supported onboarding of new QA engineers, removed blockers and coordinated cross-functional teams.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) - Computer Science
RCET
Bhilai, India06-2012
Skills
- Scrum & Ceremonies: Sprint, Daily scrum / Stand-up, Sprint planning, Sprint review, Sprint retrospective
- Agile frameworks & leadership: Kanban, Scrum of Scrums, Servant Leadership, SAFe (Basic Pre‑PI/PI)
- Sprint execution & metrics: Team Facilitation, User Story Refinement, Velocity Tracking, Sprint Metrics, Sprint Reporting
- Testing & QA: Test Strategy, Test Plan, Manual Testing, Regression Testing, API Testing, Test Reporting, Test Automation, Playwright, MABL, Postman
- DevOps & CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Release Coordination
- Data & Scripting: SQL, MySQL, JavaScript/TypeScript, k6 (performance)
- Collaboration Tools: Jira, Confluence, X-Ray, Git, GitHub
- Stakeholder Management
- Dependency Management
- Risk Management
- Release Planning
- JIRA
- Confluence
- Software development lifecycle (SDLC)
- Agile metrics tracking
- Project management
- Scrum framework expertise
- AI Tools: Cursor, Claude, Lovable, Copilot
Certification
- Professional Scrum Master (PSM-I)
- Agile Scrum for Beginners + Scrum Master Certification Prep
- Postman Testing for OAuth Authorization & Authentication
- JavaScript & Node.js course for Testers, QA and SDETs
- Playwright JS/TS Automation Testing from Scratch & Framework
Work Availability
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Languages
English
Advanced (C1)
Hindi
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Urdu
Intermediate (B1)
Arabic
Beginner (A1)
Interests
Swimming
Small treks
Travel and Sight-seeing
Movies
Timeline
QA Lead
Real Broker
03.2026 - 04.2026
Senior Test Engineer / Scrum Master (Interim)
Sensormatic
04.2021 - 03.2026
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer / Scrum Master
Carelon
10.2020 - 04.2021
Senior Software Test Engineer / Scrum Master
NAGRAVISION INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED
08.2018 - 09.2020
Senior QA / Technical Solutions Consultant
Finastra
05.2013 - 03.2018
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) - Computer Science
RCET