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Greater Chennai Area

• Efficiently manage multiple high-priority project releases and maintain an organized release calendar for the program. • Collaborate closely with product owners/managers and scrum master to gather inputs at various stages of planned project releases. • Foster collaboration among project teams and key stakeholders to ensure timely delivery and maintain the quality of assigned releases. • Coordinate with all stakeholders and dependent projects to develop comprehensive project schedules, facilitating smooth execution. • Spearhead the coordination and facilitation of deployment timelines and deliverables for production platforms, ensuring seamless operations. • Enforce adherence to release management processes across teams and drive continuous process improvements to enhance release readiness. • Strategically plan release cycles, including detailed execution plans within maintenance windows and prioritization of releases. • Facilitate and lead meetings for project updates and information exchange between technology groups, ensuring effective communication. • Collaborate closely with QA and project teams to swiftly identify and mitigate issues found post deployment, ensuring minimal disruption. • Monitor production server loads and balance before each release, taking proactive actions to optimize performance and stability. • Maintain a centralized release tracker for the team, enabling easy access to release status and upcoming activities, promoting transparency and accountability.

Greater Chennai Area

• Collaborated closely with product owners to ensure a clear understanding of user stories and maintained a well-groomed backlog, facilitating efficient sprint planning and execution.• Partnered with other Scrum Masters to enhance the application of Agile processes across the project, fostering collaboration and continuous improvement.• Gathered, analyzed, and documented user requirements, scope, and expectations, ensuring alignment with project objectives and deliverable plans.• Actively served as a Scrum Master, facilitating sprint planning, effort estimations, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, and release planning, promoting team collaboration and accountability.• Provided coaching and mentorship to other Scrum Masters within the product team, sharing best practices and fostering professional growth and development.• Led scrum teams operating under a unified product backlog, driving improvements in team velocity and the timely delivery of backlog items, promoting a culture of continuous improvement and excellence.• Coached team members and stakeholders on Agile principles and practices, emphasizing the importance of collaboration, adaptability, and continuous delivery.• Managed impediment backlog to track and address obstacles in a timely manner, ensuring smooth progress and timely resolution of issues impacting project delivery.

Greater Chennai Area

• Assist in requirement gathering, estimation, and test environment setup for testing projects, ensuring readiness for testing activities. • Comprehend business requirements and processes to develop clear and comprehensive test plans, aligning testing efforts with project objectives. • Coordinate and provide support during country user and pre-production testing phases, facilitating smooth testing processes, and resolving issues promptly. • Actively participate in story design review meetings to gain a thorough understanding of requirements and potential changes. • Collaborate with UAT representatives from different countries, tracking their inputs and feedback to ensure alignment with application requirements • Take ownership of test data validation, UAT execution, defect reporting, and closure, ensuring thorough testing and resolution of issues. • Provide mentoring, guidance, and training to new team members, fostering their growth and integration into the testing team. • Identify gaps in user stories or business requirements, proactively addressing issues to enhance the quality of deliverables. • Execute test cases, and track defects, ensuring comprehensive testing coverage and timely resolution of issues. • Maintain the content and structure of all testing documents and artifacts, ensuring accuracy and consistency throughout the testing process. • Attending daily stand-up calls to stay updated on changes implemented in the current sprint, contributing insights and updates as needed. • Prepare and distribute daily/weekly status reports and release reports to stakeholders, ensuring transparency and effective communication of project status. • Review test scripts prepared by the team, ensuring adherence to requirements and quality standards, providing feedback and guidance as necessary.

Greater Chennai Area

• Develop comprehensive test plans and test cases based on project requirements.• Lead and participate in the execution of test cases, including functional, regression, integration, and user acceptance testing (UAT).• Design, implement, and maintain automated test scripts using testing tools and frameworks.• Ensure adherence to quality standards, specifications, and best practices to maintain software quality and integrity.• Identify, document, and track defects through resolution, conducting root cause analysis as needed.• Assess risks associated with software changes and new feature implementations, developing mitigation strategies.• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure effective communication and coordination throughout the testing process.• Create and maintain test documentation, including test plans, test cases, and test reports.• Participate in process improvement initiatives to enhance testing methodologies and practices.• Provide guidance, mentoring, and knowledge sharing to junior test analysts and team members.• Collaborate with customers or end-users to understand testing needs and provide support during user acceptance testing and post-implementation phases.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• Develop test plans, test cases, and test scripts based on project requirements and specifications.• Execute manual and automated tests to ensure the quality and functionality of software applications.• Identify, document, and report defects and issues found during testing, and track their resolution.• Collaborate with developers, business analysts, and other stakeholders to understand project requirements and ensure test coverage.• Conduct regression testing to verify the stability of software releases and ensure backward compatibility.• Participate in the review and analysis of user stories, requirements, and design documentation to identify potential risks and test scenarios.• Utilize testing tools and frameworks to enhance test automation and efficiency.• Analyze test results and provide recommendations for improvements to enhance software quality.• Maintain test documentation, including test plans, test cases, and test reports.• Stay updated on industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies in software testing.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Providing timely assistance and troubleshooting solutions to resolve technical issues, ensuring optimal functionality and user satisfaction. Delivering comprehensive support services, including problem diagnosis, software/hardware guidance, and resolution implementation, to facilitate seamless operations.