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Bengaluru Area, India

Bengaluru Area, India

• Handled multiple distributed scrum teams across India, Malaysia and Germany locations• Facilitated all scrum ceremonies Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Review and Retrospection• Maintained detailed, groomed and sized backlog for upcoming sprint by co ordinating with product owner• Followed DEEP method for grooming the backlog• Tracked impediments log, discussed in Retrospection meeting and take it to closure• Suggested and Implemented best practices from different teams in this project • Motivate the team by enabling seamless interaction with product owner and technical architects• Managed team velocity during Sprint planning and avoid over committing and reduce spill over to next iteration• Followed INVEST principle for identify backlog during spring planning• Organized scrum of scrums to manage the dependency on backlog between scrum teams• Facilitated interactive and valuable Sprint Retrospection with Agile games• Motivated the team to have face to face interaction and Video conferencing for remote teams• Preparing Sprint Report and sharing with stakeholders by end of the sprint

Bengaluru Area, India

• Handled multiple distributed scrum teams across technologies• Facilitated all scrum ceremonies Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Review and Retrospection• Maintained detailed, groomed and sized backlog for upcoming sprint by co ordinating with product owner• Time boxed all the interactions• Motivating the team members for achieving the sprint vision• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functional• Followed DEEP method for grooming the backlog• Tracked impediments log, discussed in Retrospection meeting and take it to closure• Suggested and Implemented best practices from different teams in this project • Motivate the team by enabling seamless interaction with product owner and technical architects• Managed team velocity during Sprint planning and avoid over committing and reduce spill over to next iteration• Followed INVEST principle for identify backlog during spring planning• Organized scrum of scrums to manage the dependency on backlog between scrum teams• Facilitated interactive and valuable Sprint Retrospection with Agile games• Motivated the team to have face to face interaction and Video conferencing for remote teams• Preparing and radiating the daily and weekly status with stake holders and overall project management team

Chennai Area, India

• Ensured that team adherence to the Agile processes and all sprint ceremonies were followed.• Facilitating all sprint ceremonies (Planning, Daily standup, Story grooming, Review and Retrospective)• Time boxed all the interactions.• Motivating the team members for achieving the sprint vision.• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functional.• Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog and prioritize resolution of defects/bugs.• Helping the team in clearing impediments/Road blockers.• Worked with Team to create clear and concise user stories.• Trained and mentored the team focusing around Agile Manifesto, principles and practice.• Attended Iteration review meetings and provided constructive feedback on the features delivered by the team.• Ensured that proper Iteration retrospective was performed with the prime focus on improving the quality.• Enacted change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams.• Information Radiators preparations, communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress.

Chennai

Roles and Responsibilities: • Preparing test cases and automation scripts for all requirements using VBScripts and UFT.• Reviewing the test cases and automation scripts prepared by team members• Managing automation execution as part of Application Life Cycle Management Process• Analyzing automation results, sharing with team and stake holders• Identify the cause of the test failures and logging defects in Quality Center• Developed tools to support and reduce the testing efforts• Developed library functions for Micro Action requirements from other Business Units• Enhanced automation framework based on the backlog and feedback• Provided training on usage of automation framework for new joiners• Resolving support cases from other Business Units

Chennai Area, India

• Prepared test scenarios and test cases in Quality Center • Involved in preparing test data for various levels of testing• Performed functional, integration and system testing• Reporting and tracking defects in Quality Center• Prepared test execution summary and defects status and sharing with team and management

Chennai Area, India

• Prepared test cases based on the design documents• Review test cases prepared by team member• Performed voice recognition testing for various user inputs• Reporting and tracking defects in Bugzilla

Chennai Area, India

• Prepared test cases based on the design documents• Review test cases prepared by team member• Performed voice recognition testing for various user inputs• Reporting and tracking defects in Bugzilla