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Bengaluru, Ka, In

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Led project management for E-commerce retail web and mobile applications.Developed and managed comprehensive project plans, including detailed task breakdowns, milestones, and timelines to ensure on-time delivery.Acted as the primary liaison between the client and the project team, ensuring clear communication and alignment of project goals.Facilitated Product Backlog Refinement meetings, assisting the Product Owner in backlog grooming, prioritization, and user stories.Developed Project Scope and created Schedules to align with client expectations and project objectives.Conducted end-to-end test execution to verify that application functions met client requirements and quality standards.Organized and facilitated all Scrum events, including Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives in adherence to Scrum principles.Managed client communications effectively, providing regular updates, progress reports, and ensuring high levels of client satisfaction.Implemented project metrics dashboards to track key performance indicators (KPIs) and enhance decision-making processes.Collaborated with the Product Owner to improve the transparency and effectiveness of the product backlog, helping to define clear sprint goals and a product vision aligned with client expectations

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Have made sure as a scrum master, team focuses on the sprint goals and made sure all the impediments are resolved which led to 100% sprint commitments for all the sprints.Collaborating with different stakeholders to gather and analyze requirements and helping the Product Owner to translate them into user stories and acceptance criteria.Facilitating all scrum events and adherence to scrum principles, practices and ceremoniesHave facilitated and practiced Agile based development with multiple scrum teams and helped them to follow the AGILE processes.As a Scrum Master, have been conducting all the Sprint Events and led the team by following all the scrum-based process.Crafted detailed project scope and schedules using JiraLed effective coordination of all scrum events like Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective.Facilitated Product Backlog Refinement meeting.Helping product owner to improve the transparency and effectiveness of the product backlog.Tracing impediments to their root cause and help team to continuously improve.Promoted Agile life cycle practices, resulting in successful Scrum team deliveriesIdentified and drove process improvements, including onboarding and training initiativesManaged complex, cross-product projects ensuring alignment with multiple stakeholdersPrepared JIR A Story boards and Dashboards for project status tracking.

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

 Experience in NBFC & MFI Retail Lending finance domain. Working over the past 4.9 years on Loan Origination System(LOS), Loan Management System (LMS), Accounting & Reports. Lead a QA team with 22 resources and managing the project activities parallelly. Include team building, mentoring, and assessment of team members. ensured that the team was driven, involved, and collaborating to meet the project's needs Identified and resolved project issues and conflicts, proactively addressing potential roadblocks and ensuring project milestones were achieved. Developed and maintained strong relationships with key stakeholders, managing their expectations and ensuring their involvement throughout the project. Utilized agile scrum methodologies to manage project iterations and sprints, promoting adaptive planning and continuous improvement. Clearly articulate the project goals, objectives, and desired outcomes. This provides a clear direction for the project and helps align all stakeholders. Define the boundaries and scope of the project. Determine what is included and excluded from the project, ensuring a clear understanding of the project boundaries and avoiding scope creep. Designed a detailed project schedule by assigning start and end dates to each task. Use Rocket lane tool to track the chart and timelines that visually represents the project schedule. Defining detailed roles and responsibilities of team members involved in the project. Assign tasks, establish reporting lines and ensure each team member understands their role in achieving project objectives. Manage defect tracking and reporting, ensuring timely resolution of issues and working with development teams to identify root causes. Evaluate the project process after each release with retrospect meet and to fill the gaps with the new implementation process for future and ensure to avoid slippages

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

 Expertise in project managing including Scope, strategy/plan development, Entry and Exit criteria, test cases execution, tools usage and risk & defect management Facilitated Scrum ceremonies like daily stand-ups, grooming sessions, sprint planning meetings, retrospectives and management reviews, Software Engineering Process Group (SEPG) discussions, quality and process trainings Analysed formal test results to discover & report defects, bugs, errors, configuration issues interoperability flaws and recommended for improvement of applications to Programmers and Software Developers or Engineers Worked at all phases, such as planning, design & development, testing, right from initial concept through system testing phases and post installation testing Recipient of Tech Quester Award in 2018 for contributing Excellence performance Received Best Employee Award in 2014 Successfully developed automation framework for Selenium WebDriver in Page Object Model, prepared automation scripts for smoke & regression test cases using Selenium WebDriver, and configured & executed automation scripts through Jenkins Played a major role in performing functional tests using Selenium WebDriver with the Hybrid Framework, documenting final results, and using Maven to build & run the Selenium automation framework Designed Object Repository in the Selenium Framework using Xpath Locators Drove automation project continuous integration using Jenkins with Maven Build Tool Used Cucumber for regression & functional testing with Selenium as primary tool to test scenarios, test cases and test conditions identified Fixing defects using JIRA on a daily basis in coordination with the Development Team; driving defect review meetings Communicating status of testing efforts to stakeholders on Weekly basis Delivering sprint demos to product owner at the end of every sprint

India

 Performed Scrum Master Role and ensured to track all the project activities in the provided metrics in TFS. Lead the project with 4 team members Preparation of the Test plan and Estimations. Enhanced customized bug tracking process in TFS. Reviewing the Functional Requirements Identifying the test scenarios and designing the test cases. Reviewing the test Cases and ensure that all functional scenarios covered. Tracking and verifying the defects/Issues fixes daily basis and Continuous interactions with DEV team for quick resolution. To manage, track and defect test status; report metrics Conducting Defect Review Meetings. Identifying the project issues and escalates properly & timely. Impact analysis with respect to Enhancement and bug fix. Maintaining the required documents in the TFS repository. Mentoring and Assisting the new Team members  Preparing projects weekly metric, Release notes and provided to client. Effectively communicate status of testing efforts on daily basis to the stack holders Prepared the Informative and knowledge base for the project and keep it in the One note repository Had post-mortem meeting after every release and ensure the same issues shouldn’t be repeated for next release

India

 Lead the project with 6 team members. Manages test project plans; establishes tasks and schedules; prioritizes and assigns work to offshore team. Co-ordinate Microsoft Patch testing Activities for India region at Dell Lead the projects globally, viz., Americas, EMEA & APJ regions Preparation of Test plan, RBT Estimations. Co-Ordination with Upstream and downstream teams in test data preparation and analyzing the dependency impact for respective requirements. Participate in the formal reviews of applications designs, business, functional requirements and test cases Identifying the test scenarios and designing the test cases. Reviewing the test Cases and ensure that all functional scenarios covered. Tracking and verifying the defects/Issues fixes daily basis and Continuous interactions with DEV team for quick resolution. To manage, track and defect test status; report metrics Conducting Defect Review Meetings. Identifying the project issues and escalate properly & timely. Recommend solutions to technical issues raised in project Impact analysis with respect to Enhancement and bug fix. Maintaining the required documents in the SharePoint. Mentoring and Assisting the new Team members  Analysis of Test case to come up with what test case can be automated and set the priorities to Automation Team Executing Automation Test Scripts using QTP.  Preparing projects weekly metric and reported to senior management. Effectively communicate status of testing efforts on daily basis to the stack holders Involved in the production support during stabilization for Trouble tickets Prepared the project closure document and knowledge base for the project.  Prepared Lessons learned deck after every release and ensure the same issues shouldn’t be repeated for next release.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Human Resources Management And Services

Master'S Degree, Information Technology