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MANISHA PANT
QA Analyst | Agile Coach
Allen,TX
Summary
I am an experienced, passionate pioneer in Quality Assurance and Agile. Worked as QUALITY QA LEAD and AGILE COACH / SCRUM MASTER with 7+ years of experience in software industry. Certified Scrum Master (CSM) from Scrum Alliance.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Associate Staff Engineer
Nagarro Software India Pvt. Ltd
Gurgaon, India
03.2021 - 02.2022
- Nagarro is a service – based digital product engineering organization spread across 27 countries
- I got an opportunity to work for two of their major clients Saxo Bank (Investment Banking Domain) and Amway (Ecommerce Domain)
- Requirement Gathering, Test Plan Preparation, Test Scenarios, Execution and Reporting.
- Testing involved: Functional Testing, Regression Testing, User Interface Testing, Sanity Testing, Exploratory Testing in different QA environments using positive and negative scenarios testing.
- Preparing and Maintaining core regression suite and smoke test suite, Test Plan.
- Tested Web and native mobile application in IOS and Android.
- Managed multiple QA projects simultaneously with a focus and delivering highest quality product.
- Interacting with the client and dev working in different on-site and off-site geographical locations
- Test Suite Prep in MTM and usage of tool like GIT and TFS for Agile Model
- Tool used for API Testing: SOAP UI, Fiddler
- Verifying the GUI using Figma links and taking care of UI testing.
- Manage all sprint planning, Sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives and daily scrums with the QA and Development team
- Testing desktop and mobile Versions of the web application in QA and UAT environments and validating issues in production environments
- Identify functional modules, structure, and logic for testing of the system internals
- Develop and execute test cases and test suits for various functionalities.
- Used Azure DevOps to monitor, analyses & report bugs.
- Develop and create test data, retrieve test data form servers by SQL queries.
- Automation Testing of API's using Postman and Swagger.
- Perform functional testing in production and QA environments.
- Implemented agile methodologies using a Scrum Framework throughout the project.
- Debugging the Prod and UAT issues.
- Coaching QA team members in QA methodologies and also coaching on agile scrum ceremonies and facilitating them for the team.
- End-to- End testing with various application including the client side and server side testing.
- Writing, executing, and monitoring automated test suites.
- Experience with CI/CD , Jenkins , Git to create and maintain automation testing.
- Created and Worked and Maintained Jira Agile projects and dashboards.
- Debugging tool used Fiddler and exposure on Chrome development tool.
- Worked as Scrum Master and facilitated and coached Scrum within two of the projects for same client.
- Resolved architecture, design or verification problems by applying sound ASIC engineering practices.
- Trained and mentored competent and flexible workforce to meet project needs and promote positive work environment.
- Developed positive working relationships with stakeholders to effectively coordinate work activities.
- Interacted with subject matter experts to develop training material and tools for personnel and team.
- Tested and analyzed equipment design and performance feasibility to determine potential ROI.
Senior Associate QA
Sapient Consulting
Gurgaon, India
03.2014 - 12.2017
- Publicis Sapient is an American digital consulting company, on 2019, Sapient Razorfish and Sapient Consulting were merged into one brand, Publicis Sapient
- I got an opportunity to work for their major investment banking clients CITIBANK and Franklin Templeton Investments
- Requirement Analysis, Test Case Creation, Execution and Reporting
- Testing involved: Functional , Non Functional , Regression , User Interface Testing, Sanity , Smoke , Exploratory , Integration , System , End - to - End Testing using various black box testing techniques.
- Interacting with stakeholders and product owners and agile to get the scrum aligned and working as per standards.
- Created and Maintaining the core regression suite for the project.
- Worked on creating the User Manual for the product.
- Test case execution, test result documentation (using Jira) and test reviews ( formal and informal ).
- Collaborating with Dev's and BA's of different geographies on specific project.
- Validating data on SQL while working on easy to complex SQL queries.
- Defect Reporting and tracking defect to closure.
- Lead the QA onshore team and coached the members on agile and project related areas.
- Worked as Scrum Master for the team and facilitated the agile process for the project.
- Prepared test plan and defined test strategy for various projects within the team.
- Provided regular updates to team leadership on quality metrics by communicating consistency problems or production deficiencies.
- Worked on creating RCA's whenever required and worked with client during the pilot testing of the project.
- Used Postman for Postman , Swagger for API automation testing.
- Excellent exposure on STLC process and Trade Life Cycle process.
- Performed standard first article inspections and random sampling inspections to verify adherence to customer standards.
Software Engineer
Aon Hewitt
Gurgaon, India
07.2012 - 10.2013
Associate Programmer
Toluna India Pvt. Ltd
Gurgaon, India
07.2011 - 06.2012
Software Tester Trainee
Matrix Software India Pvt. Ltd
Gurgaon, New Delhi, India
02.2011 - 06.2011
Education
Masters - Computer Application
Graphic Era University
Bachelor of Science - undefined
Dayanand Brijendra Swaroop Dehradun, HNB Garhwal University
Skills
Power BI
SDLC, STLC , Waterfall, Agile Scrum , Agile Kanban
Oracle, SQL , PL/SQL
Java, JavaScript, C#, Python, OOP Concepts
Azure DevOps, Jira, HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)/HP Quality Centre (QC), Bugzilla
GitHub, Jenkins, SVN, MS Office Suite
Soap UI , Postman , Swagger , Browser Stack, Fiddler
MS Teams, Slack , Team Foundation Server(TFS)
Selenium Webdriver, Eclipse , Maven , Test NG , Automation Framework
Investment Banking Domain , Ecommerce Domain
Client Care and Collaboration , I- gaming Domain
Certification
Certified scrum master (Certificate ID: 001411149)
Interests
Content Writing
Toastmaster Speaker
As AGILE SCRUM MASTER I worked on :
- Coached the Scrum Team and helping the team in removing the impediments leading to products with quality and on schedule and empowering the team to become self-managing and fulfill their cross-functional potential.
- Strong proficiency and experience with encouraging Agile Scrum behaviors, reinforcing practices, norms, ceremonies, and supporting the overall squad performance and efficiency.
- Drive communication between the testing, development and product teams to ensure each requirement has adequate test coverage.
- Responsibility for optimizing the flow of stories and the value delivered by one or more Scrum teams within the project.
- Promoted and facilitated communication and collaboration within the Agile team to support value delivery and Sprint commitments.
- Provided visibility into the Agile teams delivery plans and progress against plan to stakeholders.
- Worked and created Definition of Done , User Stories and Acceptance Criteria for the stories.
- Worked with the Product Owners to support short and long-term release planning, leadership reporting, appropriate prioritization, and to keep the backlog healthy and prepared for execution.
- Worked with business and technical partners to translate business requirements into technical requirements.
- Tracks and communicates team velocity and sprint/release progress.
Accolades
- During my stint at Aon bagged “ Employee of the month ” various times in the team.
- During my tenure with Sapient I received Best Performer in “Senior Associate Development Program | QA” by the organization. This program was conducted for best performing associates among Sapient GM.
- I was part of Nagarro's Toastmasters Club and received Best Performer as TMOD, Table Topic Master, Ice Breaking speeches and Table Topic sections. I am active speaker.
Work Availability
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Timeline
Certified scrum master (Certificate ID: 001411149)
09-2022
Associate Staff Engineer
Nagarro Software India Pvt. Ltd
03.2021 - 02.2022
Senior Associate QA
Sapient Consulting
03.2014 - 12.2017
Software Engineer
Aon Hewitt
07.2012 - 10.2013
Associate Programmer
Toluna India Pvt. Ltd
07.2011 - 06.2012
Software Tester Trainee
Matrix Software India Pvt. Ltd
02.2011 - 06.2011
Masters - Computer Application
Graphic Era University
Bachelor of Science - undefined
Dayanand Brijendra Swaroop Dehradun, HNB Garhwal University