Kittey Kohli Email & Phone Number

Ireland

Ireland

● Excellent knowledge of risk management, risk identification, and risk based testing.● Experience with fast paced agile environment.● Quick Learner and adapt to the new tools and technologies and evaluate their test applicability.● Expert in Scrum & Kanban methodologies, backlog refinement, sprint planning, user stories reviews, agile estimations, retrospective, meeting facilitation, servant leadership, engaging distributed teams, remote working facilitation, with primary focus on customer relationship and engagement● Experience on Writing SQL queries to extract data from various source tables to perform database testing.● Generating test data through automation.● Good knowledge of creating excel, for generating reports and graphs● Worked on creating test strategy and defect identification.● Worked on agile implementation on project from scratch● Handling defect triages and defect meetings● Helping the team in process improvement and removing bottle necks.● Communicate effectively with all levels of management and stakeholder.● Enabled Agile team to increase its throughput by 15% through use of swarming around features and other high collaboration approaches, such as paired programming.● Administered all Agile/Scrum processes including sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives, coached team members and clients on agile process.● Coached new SM and trained global teams, which resulted in early delivery of project and reduced process waste caused by lack of common understanding.● Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.● Worked with customers and product manager to prioritize and validate requirements.● Well versed with tools like Microsoft office suite, JIRA, HP ALM, Bugzilla, ServiceNow, Azure Devops.

Bengaluru Area, India

• Handled responsibilities of executing test strategy, writing and executing Test cases• Performed responsibilities of defect identification, writing test procedures and reporting metrics• When required I handled the Scrum master role in a sprint by Facilitating the Daily stand-up call, setting up retrospective, review or planning meetings, helping the team by burning the Burnt down chart• Being a functional Tester have to coordinate with Regression team to walkthrough the Functionality and set the process for automating the application• Assisted with prioritization and resolution of software defects• Coached team members on Agile principles and providing general guidance on the methodology• Tracked and effectively communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management.• Worked with the Scrum Team and the Product Owner to negotiate the minimum viable product for Delivery.• Took responsibility of delivery and management of the tasks.• Guided projects to completion on time, within scope and on budget.Lead the Team where I have supported the testers, provided my guidance and improved team skills by arranging cross functional technical trainings.• Experience in handling multiple projects offshore and in house• Excellent knowledge of Risk Management, Risk Identification, and Risk based Testing.• Participated in Interviews, Induction training and performance evaluation of all QA Leads• Worked with QA managers, Development Managers, and the Software Development Director to develop and execute QA Strategies to meet and exceed Department and corporate quality goals• Experience with fast paced environment like Agile Methodology.

Bengaluru Area, India

• Problem solving skills of incident and change management• Giving services to the customer for windows 2003, 2008 HP, DELL, IBM servers• Responsible for creating, executing and recording the results of assigned test cases• Participated in Walkthroughs and Defect report meetings• Identify risks and escalate issues on timely manner to management• Manage Testers work (during test plan and test execution), ensure testing is completed on time and within the budget, resolve conflicts arising between team members or with external team members and keeping team members motivated

• Providing L1 support on wintel servers• Following ITIL process and works along with team like Change Management, problem Management, Account • Management, operations and Global Helpdesk for providing BAU support for customer server infrastructure• Responsibilities include technical and functional gap to understand result requirements• Configuring and monitoring the health of Active Directory and servers• Troubleshooting the servers issue like Authentication, Permission, Replication and Group Policies• Backing up and recovering the Windows 2000/2003/2008 servers on a Daily basis through TSM and COMM vault tool both for File system and SQL data backup