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• Facilitated Scrum Events – Daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint review and sprint retrospective.• Led Backlog refinement with Product Owner to ensure details and sizing of the User Stories/Product backlog items.• Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.• Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.• Worked with Scrum Team & PO… Show more • Facilitated Scrum Events – Daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint review and sprint retrospective.• Led Backlog refinement with Product Owner to ensure details and sizing of the User Stories/Product backlog items.• Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.• Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.• Worked with Scrum Team & PO to prioritize new demand, monitor backlog and strategy for upcoming SDLC release.• Accountable to make sure team were motivated to achieve their iterative objectives.• Pioneered different metrics and setup a dashboard in Azure DevOps to present the sprint data in Sprint review meeting. Show less

• Facilitating sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings.• Tracking and managing product backlog, burn-down metrics, velocity, and task breakdown.• Conducting system study and coordinating with team members for requirements.• Educated and reinforced scrum methodology and agile framework to the team members and key stakeholders.• Expert at driving and adoption and enforcement of scrum rules.

Roles and Responsibilities :• Responsible for conducting all agile events and ensuring to be followed religiously.• Led the refinement sessions with Product Owner to build the product backlog.• Coached the team on Agile principles and processes.• Continuously monitored and communicated KPI's /dashboard data to the team and management ( eg Velocity, say-do ratio, disruption ratio, Continuous Improvement Index etc.)• Anticipated impediments to team delivery involving cultural… Show more Roles and Responsibilities :• Responsible for conducting all agile events and ensuring to be followed religiously.• Led the refinement sessions with Product Owner to build the product backlog.• Coached the team on Agile principles and processes.• Continuously monitored and communicated KPI's /dashboard data to the team and management ( eg Velocity, say-do ratio, disruption ratio, Continuous Improvement Index etc.)• Anticipated impediments to team delivery involving cultural barriers and logistical challenges.• Proactively identified and found ways to resolve issues to prevent distractions and keep projects on track.• Requirement gathering, functional documentation and analysis.• User story creation and backlog management.• Helped team in creating and maintaining Acceptance Criteria DOD and DOR in user stories. Show less

• Diligently managed the project as a QA lead along with 7 QA members.• Responsible for Creating Test Plan in confluence,Test Case review in Jira andTest Cycle creation in Zephyr.• Monthly Bug report generation along with holistic statistics of severity,priority, type of bugs & its state for audit purposes.• Documented the STLC process and encouraged team to follow.• Demonstration of the increment to the project team and client.• Ensured product delivery is carried… Show more • Diligently managed the project as a QA lead along with 7 QA members.• Responsible for Creating Test Plan in confluence,Test Case review in Jira andTest Cycle creation in Zephyr.• Monthly Bug report generation along with holistic statistics of severity,priority, type of bugs & its state for audit purposes.• Documented the STLC process and encouraged team to follow.• Demonstration of the increment to the project team and client.• Ensured product delivery is carried out as per the predefined standards andprocedure. Show less

Roles and Responsibilities:• Involved in sending scrum call status report to the offshore team.• Participated in creating tasks and deliverables.• Involved in Preparation/Execution of Test scenarios based on business and functional specifications.• Performed various Functional and Non-Functional Testing on application.• Involved in QA Report preparation. • Raising defects in the Defect tracking tool / Bug Report.• Involved in the coordination of the internal team and… Show more Roles and Responsibilities:• Involved in sending scrum call status report to the offshore team.• Participated in creating tasks and deliverables.• Involved in Preparation/Execution of Test scenarios based on business and functional specifications.• Performed various Functional and Non-Functional Testing on application.• Involved in QA Report preparation. • Raising defects in the Defect tracking tool / Bug Report.• Involved in the coordination of the internal team and the client.• Involved in releasing each and every deliverable as per the predefined standards and procedure. • Demonstration of the sprint deliverables to the onshore team Show less

Roles and Responsibilities:• Involved in Preparation/Execution of Test scenarios based on functional specifications.• Performed different types of testing on the application like Smoke Testing, Regression Testing.• Involved in complete Functional testing and System Integration Testing.• Raising defects in the Defect tracking tool / Bug Report.• Involved in providing product support to the client