Usha Kempaveeraiah

Over 11 years of IT experience in to SDLC and Agile model, majorly on Telecom, Public Health care, Banking and Retail domain. Hands-on Project delivery experience managing work and resources in onsite-offshore delivery model. Handled multiple roles – Test Manager, Scrum Master, Test Lead, QA Engineer and Offshore coordinator. Collaborate with SMEs of various department, Project Mangers, and external resources to achieve project goals and fulfill project timelines and deliver quality product. Certified ‘Scrum Master’ from Scrum Alliance institute. Having 6 years of working experience in managing Agile projects. Responsible in developing Test Strategy, Test plans, Requirement gathering and analysis, Product Testing, Implementation and Post Implementation support, Training, defining Test processes, Create Test estimation, Work breakdown structure & managing E2E Test Execution. Experience in Leading & managing Mid-size Scrum & QA team across multiple product platforms. Collaborate with Business analysts to collect requirements and translated them to agile stories, features and epics. Collaborate closely with Product Owner on Backlog grooming to keep product backlog relevant and prioritized, ensuring acceptance criteria were agreed upon and stories were ready for sizing. Proficiently organized and facilitated Project planning events, Weekly Team meetings, Retrospectives Session, Demos, and other Scrum-related meetings. Skilled at performing review checks and provide feedback on the Project artifacts to ensure that they are in accordance with requirements. Provided support to the business team while performing User Acceptance testing and Certificate for the completed features. Good Hands-on experience is various Testing life cycles such as System Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Automation Testing, Validation testing. Smoke Test, Sanity Test and Cross-Browser testing. Handle Defect management, including Defect creation, modification, tracking, reporting, participating in triage using industry standard tools like HP ALM/Quality Center and JIRA. Extensive Experience working on End-to-End testing on Web applications & API Testing. Implemented automation testing using Selenium and Tosca. Proven experience working independently, leading and driving project deliverables while holding project team members accountable. Excellent presentation and communication skills, have worked closely with Senior Leadership team, Stakeholder and Clients. Ability to effectively communicate detailed information and strategic decisions, and respond to questions from project stakeholders of all levels, Hire, Coach and mentor Test/QA resources on domain/application. Multi-talented Test Manager with 6 years of experience handling diverse projects with driven and dedicated approach. Successful at managing all aspects of planning, testing and documentation. Expert technical leader with fluency in [Software].