Amrit Parida
Hartford,CT
Summary
Team-oriented individual promoting exemplary presentation, project management and Test Automation skills. Demonstrative Scrum Master with background communicating effectively with and leading high-performance teams. Considered expert in prioritizing tasks and optimizing workflows.
Thorough Knowledge on QA Methodologies, Software Testing Life Cycle(STLC), Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile/Scrum and Bug Life Cycle.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Scrum Master/Project Manager
Accenture
11.2022 - Current
- Successfully implemented SCRUM methodologies for 3 teams by utilizing best practices of SCRUM, which resulted in faster delivery cycle
- Coaching & guiding teams, scrum masters, business analyst, managers & executives on agile values and principles to promote continuous improvement in practices and artifacts
- Facilitating daily scrum meetings, enforcing timeboxes and responding to the impediments, tracking baseline, sprint planning and sprint retrospective
- Ensuring Product backlog is of manageable size, preparing Product Release Burndown charts
- Provide visibility to team impediments/risks and help eliminate them
- Helping team in self-management by creating artifacts like team task board, sprint Burndown chart, impediments list etc
- Facilitating Mid Sprint checkup to re review the acceptance criteria of committed Product backlog items
- Encouraging team to adopt pair programming, peer review, preparing reusable components and best practice documents
- Led cross-functional teams to successfully complete IT projects.
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
- Improved overall project efficiency with effective coordination between development, testing, deployment, and support teams during release cycles.
Test Automation Lead/Quality Analyst/System Analyst/Scrum Master
Accenture
04.2010 - 11.2022
- Working as Systems Analyst and overseeing offshore based Cross Functional Teams
- Responsible for gathering, analyzing and reviewing requirements with Business/Circle stakeholders
- Collaborating with Application Solution Architects/Designers for feature & story level Architectural Runway & design Solutions to finalize flexible and scalable implementation approach
- Accountable for creation of Use Case, Flow chart, Technical Design mockups for Business/Technical review, after concluding Functional requirement analysis
- Designed and developed an automated solution for Guidewire PC with features like distributed execution, custom debug mode, ALM integration, cross browser support, custom html reporting and inbuilt dependency management.
- Automated over 300 scripts of Guidewire Policy Center spanning across 3 Scaled Agile releases.
- Assisted in the E2E testing phase where over 40% of the test cases are automated.
Education
Master's degree - Computer Applications
Dayanand Sagar Institutions
Bangalore, Karnataka06.2009
Bachelor's degree - Information Technology
Academy of Technocrats
Brahmapur, Orissa04.2006
Skills
- Scrum (6 years)
- Test automation (8 years)
- System Analyst (1 year)
- Agile (8 years)
- Software quality assurance (6 years)
Certification
Certified Scrum Master
Team Management Abilities
Managing Test Teams with complete accountability for delivery of 20 team members to deliver on time and budget. Experience in resource planning, project forecasts, project estimations etc.
Additional Information - Technical Skills
Project Management, Quality Assurance, Software Testing, Insurance - Business and Personal Insurance, Windows, VB Script, Java, SDLC, STLC, Agile/Scrum, Business processing testing(BPT), SQL, HP Quality center/ALM, JIRA, TFS, SOAP UI, Rally, UFT, Selenium
Personal Information
Authorized To Work: Authorized to work in the US for any employer
Timeline
Senior Scrum Master/Project Manager
Accenture
11.2022 - Current
Test Automation Lead/Quality Analyst/System Analyst/Scrum Master
Accenture
04.2010 - 11.2022
Master's degree - Computer Applications
Dayanand Sagar Institutions
Bachelor's degree - Information Technology
Academy of Technocrats