Girish_ Scrum Master

Professional Summary:

Over 12+Years of professional experience in Software Development Life Cycle

(SDLC) & Quality Assurance
Experience with SDLC, Quality Assurance, comprehensive testing of e-commerce,
Client-Server, Web Based Applications, SOA, Web Services, Banking and
Mobile applications
Strong communication skills and expert with Software Quality Assurance concepts
and Project Management Methodologies
Extensively worked for various clients domains like Finance, Banking (Risk &
Capital Management) Insurance with Pega experience in Property &
Causality, Life, Home, Auto & Claims Process, Retail, Health Care and State
Projects
Expert knowledge and over ten Years Software Testing of Client/Server and Web
based Applications
Over 5Years experience in Agile Project Management like estimating,
planning, schedule, scope, tracking, Report, Risk Management, Release
Plan, Test Management and managed medium to large scale enterprise multiple
projects through all phases of the project with internal and external teams in Agile
process Software development and execution in firmware development.
Worked primarily with the IT teams across the projects and managed project plan
from initial phase to
Delivery including release deployments into production and managed the project
execution ensuring they are delivered on time and maintain metrics for the team
to support improvement and team productivity
Over 5Years experience as Agile Scrum Master working with software
development teams and also extensively worked with multiple Scrum
Teams and Scrum Masters across the large scale enterprise projects following
Agile core principles, practices and coordinating with Product Owners, Business
Analysts, Development Team and Testing Team and was liaison between product
owner and development teams for the every sprint
Experience with User Story driven development, budget, tracking estimates from
sprint to sprint and responsible taking proper approvals and sign offs with product
owners for the release scope and the change request within budget scope for the
sprint schedule
As scrum master managed multiple teams at onsite and offshore and was
responsible as leadership, for the product teams to enable the execution
off business strategies and awareness, conflict resolution, of the team
improvement and maintain team metrics and transparency among the
teams
Facilitate estimation meetings and gather reports for all relevant agile metrics
(burn down charts, Team velocity) and update to product owner and the senior
management and publish the reports in share point
As Scrum Master support the Product Owner and the internal teams for
Product backlog, Sprint Backlogs, Sprint burn down and Release burn
down and prioritize backlog grooming user stories and new user stories and
finalize the release plan, release scope for the sprint schedule
Experience and facilitate Sprint Ceremonies, Sprint Planning, Sprint
Backlogs, Sprint User Stories, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective
meetings, feedback meetings and Acceptance criteria for the sprint user stories
with the product owners, internal teams and improve the productivity for the sprint
teams

Schedule and facilitate daily stand up meetings with developers, business

analyst, test leads and track and remove the impediments and guiding the
team to remove impediments of the teams progress to its sprint commitments
and track team velocity and task definition of the sprint progress, handle the bugs
and communicate the team progress and the status report to the senior
management and product owners
Over 6Years of experience in Agile Methodology Scrum, Waterfall ,
Kanban, XP development process leading and mentoring in large scaled projects
and worked primarily in Scaled Agile Frame Work (SAFe)
Experience and worked on transaction projects from Waterfall, Kanban to Agile
Scrum Methodology
Experience coaching the Agile methodologies and guiding the internal
teams and self organization and cross-functionally helping the product owners on
Agile Scrum adoption, practices and implementations within self organization
across the projects ensure team members are practicing Agile principles and
maintain relevant metrics of the team progress and update the progress to the
Senior Management and good experience in to use kanabn and scrum to resolve
blockers and facilitatate the development and support team.
Experience with Share Point, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point and
Project Viewer and Microsoft Visio, MS Project and Clarity
Experience with HP Quality Center and Test Director for defect management, JIRA,
Rally, Version 1, Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Application Lifecycle
Management (ALM)
Experience in Test Driven Development (TDD) and Acceptance Test Driven
Development (ATDD) and Behavioral Driven Development (BDD) process
Experience in testing different applications developed in Java, XML, Visual Basic
ASP.NET and .Net
Over 5Years of experience as a Test Lead and Business Analyst responsible
for onsite and offshore teams coordinating with Developers, QA Teams along with
Test planning, Estimations, Scheduling and lead requirements and facilitate
meetings to identify core business requirements for every sprint release, user
stories, tracking and delivering quality work on time
Expertise in Functional Testing, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing,
System Integration Testing (SIT), Regression Testing, GUI, End-to-End Testing,
Performance - Stress Testing, Smoke Testing, Cross Browser compatibility Testing
and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Expert in functional testing , including test scope identification, test requirements,
test scheduling and defect management
Extensive experience in developing and executed Software Test plans, Test
Strategy, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Traceability Matrix based on
Technical and Functional Requirements
Experience in Oracle, SQL, UNIX, Linux and knowledge with Data warehouse
Education & Credentials:
Bachelors of Engineering
Professional Scrum Master (PSM1)
Technical Skills:
Scrum Tools
Testing Tools

Rally, Clarity, TFS , MS Office10 and Version One

QA Wizard Pro, HP Quality Center, Load Runner,
QTP, Test Director, Soap UI and Selenium

Defect Tracking Tools

Databases
Web Technologies
Scripting Languages
Operating Systems
Programming
Languages

JIRA, Test Track, Test Link, Bugzilla, Bug Tracker

Oracle, SQL Server, MS-Access
HTML, DHTML, XML, .Net & ASP. Net
JavaScript, VB Script, Ruby, Groovy and Shell
Scripting
Windows 8/7/XP/NT/2000, Linux &UNIX
C++, Java, SQL, PL/SQL &Visual basic

Professional Experience:
AIG NJ
Scrum Master
04/14 to till date

As Scrum Master worked with stakeholders, product owners on Artifacts Such as

Product Backlog, Spring Backlog to prioritize the requirements for every sprint
release
Assisted and helped the development team to attain goals through requirements
gathering for multiple Projects from inception to fruition. ensure correct sizing and
prioritization
Led Scrum of Scrum meetings to coordinate and facilitate projects where there
are multiple dependencies, risks and resolution of project related defects/bugs
Facilitate scrum meetings like sprint planning, sprint progress , sprint review and
Sprint Retrospective with product owners and the internal teams and the external
teams for multiple scrum teams
Experience with user story grooming, release planning managed progress burn
down, document artifacts , reviews, acceptance and feedback from demos or
showcases
Was responsible schedule the daily stand -ups meetings with developers, business
analyst, test leads and Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove
impediments by finding the right personal to remove the impediments and update
the team progress to the product owners
Coach and guide the internal teams and the product owners on the Agile
process as required
Worked with product owners and communicate the release scope and
requirements changes to the team, including a high level analysis of sprint impact
and assist team with making appropriate
Commitments through story selection and task definition
Responsible taking proper approvals and sign offs for the release scope and the
change request within budget scope for the sprint release
Worked with the product owners and the internal team and analyzed the user
stories and ensured that they are Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable,
Small and Testable for the every sprint release
Facilitate development of Acceptance Criteria for user stories and conduct Release
Planning meetings and facilitate business analysis activities

Worked on Commercial Property (CP) and Energy Engineered Risk (EER) line of
businesses
JIRA tool was used to track the Product Planning, Release Planning, Sprint Planning,
Sprint Tracking and Reports for the every sprint schedule and the sprint release
Lead the cross functional team having onsite and off-shore team and external
vendor resources, business analysts, application developers and quality assurance
teams
Acted as liaison between development team and with product owners for the
production releases and ensured that release has a clearly defined release scope
and meet overall objectives, standards, quality and user needs
As Release Manager worked as the gatekeeper for the release schedules of
software to production and implementation readiness of the application and
worked closely with product owners and UAT users
Demonstrated leadership and interpersonal skills to motivate team members
Managed multiple projects simultaneously and worked with product owners,
vendors to identify project risks, constraints and dependencies working with team
to remove the barriers
Monitored and streamlined the daily delegation of incoming issues and bugs using
Quality Center
Handled tracking of the bugs and changed requests for every sprint release
Successfully overcame the challenge of working with onsite team and off-shore
scrum team
Communicate the progress of the development team and testing team to the
product owners
Responsible for representing the team weekly status meetings held by products
teams
Published project status reports and related sprint documents in share point
Environment: JIRA, Quality Center, Share point & ASP.Net

Dallas & Travis Counties TX

04/13 to 04/14
Scrum Master
Responsibilities:

Responsible and scheduled daily stand -ups meetings with developers, business
analyst, test leads and addressed the road blocks with the internal teams and
product owners
As Scrum Master facilitate scrum meetings like sprint planning, sprint review,
sprint retrospective and release planning sessions and issue resolution meetings
as required
Worked with stakeholders on artifacts such as Product Backlog, Spring Backlog,
Sprint Burn down and Release Burn down and followed waterfall development
Methodology process
Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution and assisting the
internal and external communication by improving the transparency among the
teams
Communicate user stories for the upcoming sprint to the stakeholders and ensured
that they are independent , negotiable valuable, estimable, small and testable for
the sprint release
Coach project teams on the Agile-Scrum delivery model and concepts

Communicate the progress of the development team and testing team to the
product owners Publish the team's progress and successes to make sure they are
highly visible to stakeholders
Responsible for representing the team weekly status meetings held by products
teams
Worked with product owners / Stake owners and project manager to report the
backlog and update team status like development and testing activity of the
assigned user stories for the ongoing sprint progress in daily manner and publish
the weekly status report of the sprint progress
As scrum master facilitate scrum of scrum meetings with three scrum masters and
worked in multiple
projects like (Juvenile Case Management System (JCMS), Prosecutor, Grand Jury
and Juvenile Courts)
As scrum master monitored the transparency on team progress through sprint
process velocity reporting and to remove impediments to the ability of the team to
deliver the sprint release
Worked with the team to generate backlogs, capture them in JIRA, and work
against the committed backlog against the delivery schedule
Worked on Test Driven Development (TDD) and Acceptance Test Driven
Development (ATDD) and followed Agile process for the complete release
of every sprint schedule
Participated with QA Team and Development Team in application testing, such as
system, unit, regression, load and coordinated with Product Owners and the UAT
users during Sprint User Acceptance Testing and monitored white board stickers
Followed Agile Process for every sprint schedules and daily stand up meeting
involving Business Analyst, Development Team and Test leads and update daily
status to Product Owners
All the User Stories, Test Cases and Defects and comments for any changes to the
existing User stories where tracked using JIRA Tool
Prepared delivered reports to the existing project and published documentation
and specifications of any new application for new functionality in share point
Monitored testing activities that allow applications to meet business requirements
and systems goals
Used Test Track for the manual detail test cases and also manage Test runs for
each test cases
Environment: JIRA, QA Wizard Pro, Test Track, ASP.Net

State Farm Insurance - IL

05/12 to 04/13
Scrum Master & Test Manager

As Scrum Master worked in multiple projects like auto insurance and mobile
banking applications and coordinating with Product Owners, Project Managers,

Business Architects, Business Analysts, Developers and Test Leads at onsite and
offshore teams
As Scrum Master schedule/facilitate sprint planning meeting(s) prior to the
beginning of each sprint. Work with product owners and delivery teams to groom
the user stories in advance of each sprint
Schedule daily stand up meetings interaction between the BA, Development Team,
Test Lead, QA Lead and discuss day to day tasks assigned with the individual
teams and discuss any changes or road blocks for the sprint schedule
Coach the product owners and the internal teams on Agile Scrum core
principles and make sure Agile principles are followed by the teams and maintain
relevant metrics of the team progress
Worked on Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) and followed
Agile process for the complete release of every sprint schedule
Worked with the team to generate Sprint backlogs capture them in Rally and
delivery schedule
As Scrum Master facilitate scrum meetings like sprint planning, sprint review,
sprint retrospective and release planning sessions and issue resolution meetings
as required and support the product owner respect to grooming and maintaining
the product backlog and sprint retrospective meetings at the end of every sprint
schedule
Communicate backlog stories for the upcoming sprint to the stakeholders support
the Product Owner with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog
and worked multiple projects on SAFe
Extensively worked in property, life, Auto and State Farm Bank (Risk & Capital
Management) line of business
Test Manager spearheaded multiple project delivery for the integration, system,
and regression testing of software, partnering with project/product management
for resource ramp up/ramp down, identifying resources/skills, resource allocation,
task assignments and managing groups/teams
Responsible for all aspects of quality project delivery (estimates, resource
fulfillment, task management, scheduling, risk management, forecasting test case
execution, defect management and report the status and metrics to management
Responsible for the day to day oversight of multiple projects schedule, external
resources as defined by the project's plans
Developed and establish quality assurance measures and testing standards for
new applications, products, and/or enhancements to existing applications
throughout the development lifecycles.
Prepare and deliver reports and address existing and potential trouble areas in
projects
Monitored testing activities that allow applications to meet business requirements
and systems goals.
Worked in functional testing methodologies, including test scope identification,
test requirements management, functional test phases, test scheduling and defect
management
Executed automated test scripts using SOAP UI with Groovy Language
Coordinated the assignments between the offshore team and the on shore team
Responsible for weekly status reports showing the progress of the offshore testing
effort
Environment: SOAP UI, Groovy Language, XML & Rally

Nationwide Insurance - OH
02/11 04/12
Scrum Master

Worked in change management process and strong knowledge in claims

processing
Facilitate scrum meetings like sprint planning, sprint progress, sprint review, stack
holder communication, track completed features and sprint retrospective
As scrum master organized regular scrum meetings including daily stand ups
meetings sprint release planning sessions, demonstrations, project planning and
issue resolution meetings as required
Served as a liaison between product owners, developers, management and other
stakeholders
Coordinated with product owners to organize product backlog and sprint
requirements
As Scrum Master and Assistant to product owner, created a comprehensive set of
non functional and functional requirements, prioritized requirements for all Sprint
Meetings
Responsible for analyzing Business Requirements and development specifications
Extensively worked on transaction project from Waterfall to Agile Scrum
development process
Responsible for Initiating, Planning, managing matrixes resources, Monitoring
development, testing, implementation, Change management and Defect
management
Have used Quality Center for executing tests in Test Lab, requirements gathering
and Defect Tracking
Involved in manual testing of application according to business specifications of
every iteration release
Version1 tool was used to track the Product Planning, Release Planning, Sprint
Planning, Sprint Tracking and Reports for the every sprint schedule and the sprint
release
Updated Scrum backlog and Sprint user stories and how they are tracked, work
burned-down, velocity metrics derived and tasks decomposed to the product
owners
Followed Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) and used Agile
methodologies for complete release of every iteration schedule
Involved in the review of business requirements for each sprint release and
estimating time efforts based on test plans and business requirements.
Extensively used Quality Center for requirements gathering, Bug Tracking and
Reporting.
Environment: Quality Center, Share Point & XML
Penson Financial Services Inc - TX
01/10 12/10
Scrum Master & Test Manager

Participated in management of vendors in terms of implementation and support of

products and services
Worked in effective Story Gathering and creation, similarities/differences from
Business and Technical Requirements Specifications
Schedule/facilitate sprint planning meeting(s) prior to the beginning of each sprint.
Work with product owners and delivery teams to groom stories in advance of each
sprint
Communicate committed stories for the upcoming sprint to the backlog owner and
stakeholders - Schedule and facilitate daily stand up meetings
Followed Agile Scrum development process for every sprint development
user stories
Managed end user requirements by defining the scope and creating the
communication strategy to effectively communicate the various aspects of the
project to different audiences
Interact with the client, developers and users for the baseline the requirements
Participated in the entire development life cycle from the functionality
requirements through deployment & maintenance
Identify need for additional resource for the project, hiring, performance reviews
and appraisals
Guide and support the project managers, internal teams and business teams in
solving project issues
Used Quality Center for requirements management, planning, scheduling, running
tests, defect tracking and manage the defects and executing the test cases
Coordinated the assignments between the offshore team and the on shore team
Responsible for Weekly Status reports showing the progress of the offshore testing
effort
Prepare Daily, Weekly & Project Status Reports and Usage documents
Environment: Team Foundation Server, Quality Center, XML & SQL
SAC Capital - CT
10/07 11/09
Team Lead / Sr. Business Analyst

Responsible for creation and execution of test cases for Manual Testing of the
application
Performed system, integration, functionality, regression testing User Acceptance
Testing (UAT)
Generated reports for the test scripts status runs and participated in the meetings
along with the development team to walk through the defects periodically
Conducted daily meetings with the offshore team to gather testing defect updates
Coordinated the assignments between the on shore team and offshore team and
worked with development team during regression testing at on shore and followed
Agile development process
Responsible for Weekly Status reports showing the progress of the offshore testing
effort
Created functional automation scripts using open source tools selenium(Selenium
RC, Grid)
Experience using Selenium Core, Selenium IDE and Selenium Remote control

Extensively worked on Trade Entry applications Touch pad, Bond Entry, security
loader
Knowledge and understanding of Equities, futures, Options, Swaps, Bonds, Repos
and FX
Experience working with trade and position tools that retrieve all the trade and
position information.
Created Test Scripts for Regression testing using Quick Test Pro
Involved in creating functions to enable its usage across different modules in the
test scripts
Performed Database/Back-end testing by using SQL Server
Generated weekly status reports to the Team Manager and attended weekly
meetings with the Business Analysts, Technical Team, and Team Manager
Tracked, reviewed, analyzed and compared the defects using Quality Center
Environment: Selenium, Quality Center, QTP, VB Script, Java Script, SQL Server
& Web Logic
The Hartford Financial Services Group - CT
08/05 10/07
Team lead & Business Analyst

It was web based application and developed detailed test plan , test scenarios and
test objectives prior to test tool selection for the functional testing
Review tests specifications, test cases and performed Manual testing
Increased productivity and efficiency through regression testing using QTP scripts
Created VB functions to validate various scenarios throughout the application
Identified end-to-end scenarios for automation testing
Participated in the development of design standards, script development
guidelines and created automation test strategy documents and test scripts
Used Quality Center to create tests in Test Plan and run tests in Test Lab for both
manual test cases and automation scripts and defect tracking
Created performance test scripts using Load Runner controller and monitor
response time in development phase
Environment: Load Runner, Quality Center & VB Script
The Hartford - CT
03/04 08/05
Sr QA Analyst & Business Analyst

Responsible for Manual Testing of the application

Involved in change management process and good knowledge of health plan
operations and claims processing
Analysis of Business Requirements and System Requirements of the application
Developed detailed Test Plans from the Business Requirements, use cases, detailed
specifications and other documents provided for Manual Testing and Automation
Testing
Worked on a UNIX platform and Executing SQL scripts from UNIX prompt
Successfully developed and implemented Test Cases manually for Integration,
System Testing, Regression Testing, Black Box, White Box and User Acceptance
Testing

Configured test environment for specific test cases, create test data, and execute
manual tests, document results and update Defect Tracking system
Used Testdirector for organizing, managing & tracking the change requirements of
the system
Prepared detailed test cases by understanding the business logic and user
requirements for manual and automated testing using Test Director
Extensively used Testdirector for Test Planning, Bug Tracking and Reporting
Created performance test scripts to monitor response time in development phase
Maintained detailed logs of test activities in Testdirector
Environment: Load Runner, Test director, UNIX, XML
Secura Insurance -WI
03/03 02/04
QA Tester

Checked the basic functionally for Manual Testing prior to Automation Testing
Created Test Cases in Testdirector based on Functional Requirements
Worked on a UNIX platform and executing SQL scripts from UNIX prompt
Involved and created test plan, test scripts, test execution and test strategy with
the team
Performed Regression Testing prior to releasing an upgrade the defect correction
Responsible for Manual Testing, Integration Testing, Performance Testing and User
Acceptance Testing
Reviewed and analyzed the test results using test logs and reported defects using
PVCS Tracker
Participated in daily meetings to report the documented test matrices and bugs
found in the system
Environment: Winrunner, Testdirector, VBScript, SQL-Server & UNIX