Lavish Agarwal Email and Phone Number

Scrum Master/ Associate Manager (Accenture) Jan 2020 – Present• Working on a project of Wealth Management.• Coordinating with Project Manager for resource allocation, change control, scheduling, and dependencies within a release.• Ensuring that development teams decompose development and testing Stories into less than four-hour tasks.• Tracking User Stories across Kanban boards in Jira and Gitlab and report delays and blockers to stakeholders.• Following up on blockers and action items to keep the Scrum Team running.• Communicating with the product owner to understand user stories.• Detailing User Stories, from functional standpoint.• Aligning with the Jira and Gitlab architects to technically define user stories.• Monitoring and tracking the work using corresponding metrics: burndown, velocity, burn up charts.• Streamlining processes and coordination, managing conflicts within the team.• Resolving and tracking impediments to closure.• Using Jira and Gitlab tool for Project Management.Scrum Master/Associate Manager (Accenture)) • May 2017 – Dec 2019• Working on a project of Retail Banking.• Led team of 55 resources, including Testers and Developers in Agile framework.• Drafting Daily, Weekly and Monthly Status Reports• Ensuring Test Delivery Plan (Test Timelines) in sync with the project delivery timelines• Ensuring Post Release Analysis report which gives an insight on the whole testing related details such as Test Scripts Productivity, Test Execution Productivity, Defect Metrics, Root Cause Analysis• Supervising newly joiners in Test Preparation, Test Execution, Defect Management using ALM• Running daily stand ups, sprint planning, grooming, poker planning and retrospective and reporting iteration progress

Team Lead (Accenture) • May 2014 – Dec 2019• Guided team of 17 testers in Agile environment.• Created Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test Metrics.• Reviewed Test Cases and defects.• Tracked execution progress and defects to closure.• Streamlined processes to save testing efforts.• Provided estimations of testing efforts for requirements.• Implemented Scrum Techniques, increased team's productivity to 3x.• Implemented Automated Testing, reduced regression testing efforts by 70%.

Quality Analyst (Aon Hewitt) • Oct 2012 – April 2014• Created test cases for HR domain and executed Manually and via HP QTP tool.• Executed automated test scripts as and when needed.• Reduced overall Regression testing hours by 80%.

Testing Executive (iGATE) • May 2009 – Oct 2012• Created Test Cases.• Executed Test Scripts manually.• Learned Business knowledge.• Delivered requirements with average Production defect rate less than 0.5%.• Tested Applications in various domains viz. Banking, E-Commerce, Payments, Hospitality.