Harman Connected Services September 2007 – October 2024
Project 1 -Icertis
Pune, India
Scrum Master October 2023 – February 2024
• Driving sprint planning, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives, and daily scrums with the scrum team.
• Serving as the main point of contact to drive effective communication within the team.
• Working closely with product management and technical stakeholders to clarify the schedule, status, and details of product features.
• Ensuring that goals, scope, and product domain are understood by everyone on the Scrum Team as well as possible.
• Create User Stories in JIRA and ensuring and guiding the Development team in creating tasks with efforts and estimates within the stories.
• Manage Scrum Board in Jira like ensuring all tasks, defects, spikes and stories are closed before the sprint closes.
• Participation in Release Planning for understanding the Business Context, Release Themes and Product Backlog.
Technical Lead (QA) October 2023 – February 2024
• Pre UAT testing of the product to get the existing defects to minimal and resolve them before UAT testing
• Logged Icertis product defects
• Conduct UAT mock demo for different stakeholders including product & use cases walkthrough before UAT sessions
Project2 - BMC Software
Pune, India
Scrum Master November 2018 – June 2023
• Driving sprint planning, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives, and daily scrums with the scrum team.
• Serving as the main point of contact to drive effective communication within the team.
• Working closely with product management and technical stakeholders to clarify the schedule, status, and
details of product features.
• Ensuring that goals, scope, and product domain are understood by everyone on the Scrum Team as well as possible.
• Create User Stories in JIRA and ensuring and guiding the Development team in creating tasks with efforts and estimates within the stories.
• Manage Scrum Board in Jira like ensuring all tasks, defects, spikes and stories are closed before the sprint closes.
• Participation in Release Planning for understanding the Business Context, Release Themes and Product Backlog.
• Provide a Report Back for the Release with committed and stretch Goals efforts for the Planned Features and Technical Dept (Defect Resolution)
Lead QA Engineer September 2011 – June 2023
• Writing and testing New features and Automation scripts.
• Test Planning and Estimates
• Defect Management lifecycle

Project3 - Avere System
Pune, India
Senior QA Engineer June 2013 – July 2013
• Writing and testing New features and Automation scripts.
• Test Planning and Estimates
• Defect Management lifecycle

Project4 - Fetch First
Pune, India
Senior QA Engineer July 2012 – June 2013
• Writing and testing New features and Automation scripts.
• Test Planning and Estimates
• Defect Management lifecycle

Project4 - Netapp
Pune, India
Product Engineer October 2007 – April 2011
• Writing and testing New features and Automation scripts.
• Defect Management lifecycle

OTHER SKILLS & INTERSETS
Language : English, Hindi, Marathi
Technical Skills: Agile development & best Practices, Agile Framework – Scrum, User Stories, Test Management Tools: Test Track, JIRA, Manual & Automation Testing, Microservices: Cloud Computing AWS, Kafka, Operating Systems: Unix, Linux, Windows
Domain worked on: Storage Systems and Backup, IT Infrastructure, Application
Certifications: CSM (Certified Scrum Master) from Scrum Alliance 2022, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam Training (Udemy), 2023, The complete Python Boot Camp from Zero to Hero in Python (Udemy),2024, ISTQB Foundation Certification 2007, IELTS Cambridge University Band 8.0