Senior Scrum Master and SAFe 5 certified Agilist with 16+ years of total experience in Scrum, and QA Project Management using Agile and traditional Methodologies in various domains like Banking and Finance, Insurance, HealthCare. Successfully executed projects as a Scrum Master and Technical QA Manager.

Projects: State Street Bank, American Express, FedEx, HumanaManaged and led a Software Test Engineers team of 12+ persons as Functional Manager, including resourcing, mentoring, managing workload priorities, measuring staff performance and promoting professional development.o Worked collaboratively with project managers & business developers to develop project schedules and resource allocation models for QA related projects and other activities such as software deployment, customer integration, and professional services validation.o Led process improvement efforts, Developed, monitored and ensured adherence to new testing standards and procedures to meet agile development process to speed up testing and help business generate new revenue via new products.o Led multiple projects simultaneously in agile development environment with respect to small teams, projects of 1-3 month duration, working closely with development, business analysts, other testers and infrastructure teams regarding product deploymento Led and coordinated system integration testing, manage user acceptance testing with Marketing, Finance and business teams.o Worked on SOA based applications (testing & service virtualization) & UI Applications focusing upon functional, operation and usability.o Achievements: Developed & implemented QA process savings up to 1/3 of the Release Phase time.o Increased the project status visibility introducing the semi-automated form accumulating information about test progress and change request/incident statistics.o Multiplied efficiency of the software development process implementing the automated build production system.