Aarthi Nandakumar
Windham,United States
Summary
Certified Scrum Master with 17 years of overall experience in the software development lifecycle, specializing in bridging the gap between business needs and technical solutions. Over 7 years of experience enabling Agile teams to deliver high-quality, cloud-based digital solutions. Expertise in applying Lean-Agile methodologies to analyze requirements, foster team collaboration, and drive continuous improvement. Adept at coaching, mentoring, and aligning cross-functional teams to achieve organizational goals by identifying delivery challenges and creating an environment that supports transparency and agility.
Now seeking to fully leverage this experience in a Business Analyst capacity, focusing on translating complex business requirements into high-value digital solutions and driving product strategy
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Software Test Engineer
Fidelity Investments
04.2023 - Current
- Partnered with product owners and business stakeholders to analyze user workflows, clarify requirements, and ensure solutions aligned with business objectives and stakeholders requirement.
- Facilitated collaboration between business, development, and QA teams by implementing a Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) approach; translated business requirements into clear Gherkin feature files, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Designed and maintained reporting dashboards in Jira, translating complex test coverage data into clear visualizations. Communicated these data-driven insights to stakeholders, highlighting business impact and providing risk analysis to inform release planning.
- Conducted in-depth data analysis and validation by writing complex SQL queries to ensure transactional accuracy and data integrity across critical systems.
- Analyzed testing processes to identify key inefficiencies, leading the design of a new automation framework (Java, Selenium, TestNG) that enhanced solution quality and reduced manual regression efforts by 50%.
- Played a key role in all Agile ceremonies, contributing to sprint planning by helping to define and refine user stories and ensuring development goals remained aligned with business objectives.
- Engineered and maintained CI/CD Jenkins pipelines for test automation, accelerating bug detection and feedback cycles for faster delivery of value.
- Created versatile Java-based utilities for synthetic data generation and integration with Kafka to simulate real-time financial data streams for robust end-to-end validation.
Team Lead/Project Manager
Tracelink Inc
09.2015 - 09.2022
- Served as technical liaison, supporting engineering, management, quality assurance and product teams.
- Managed cloud migration projects that involved moving applications and infrastructure from on-premises environments to AWS cloud platform.
- Managed DevOps projects that involved implementing DevOps methodologies to improve the software development process, such as continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and automation.
- Managed several application development projects that involved designing, building, testing, and deploying software applications, such as web and mobile applications.
- Communicated effectively with stakeholders to ensure alignment and understanding of project goals and progress.
- Led cross-functional teams to achieve project goals and objectives.
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
- Prepared detailed project plans, status reports, risk management plans, change control documents and training materials.
- Effectively managed and tracked other project documentation such as Technical specifications, functional specifications, Design documents, Test plans, Deployment Plans and User Manuals.
- Determined and defined project scope and objectives, and allocated resources effectively.
- Prepared budgets based on scope of work and resource requirements.
- Measured project performance to identify areas for improvement.
Quality Assurance Engineer
Liberty Mutual
11.2011 - 07.2014
- Collaborated with developers and product owners to stay current on product features and intended functionality.
- Proposed development and testing improvements to positively impact usability, function and performance.
- Created accurate and successful test scripts to manage automated testing of certain products and features.
- Supported successful product launches by conducting extensive pre-release testing and validation activities.
Senior Applications Developer
Inautix Technologies
06.2007 - 12.2010
- Analyzed and developed technical solutions to meet business requirements.
- Developed standardized work processes, tools and methodologies to improve quality and profitability.
- Reviewed existing programs to refine, reduce operating time and improve techniques.
- Met with internal and external customers to develop relationships and foster co-innovation opportunities.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Electronics And Communications Engineering
SASTRA University
Tanjore , India05.2007
Skills
- Business Analysis: Requirements Gathering & Analysis, User Story & Acceptance Criteria Development, Stakeholder Management, Data Analysis, Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), Agile Methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
- Project Management Software: Jira, MS Project, Trello, Smartsheet
- Programming & Data: Java, Python, SQL, JSON, XML, Kafka
- QA & Automation Tools: Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber (BDD), TestNG, Postman, REST Assured
- Cloud & DevOps: AWS, Azure, Jenkins, Git, Docker
- Leadership & Communication: Mentoring & Coaching, Stakeholder Presentations, Excellent Verbal & Written Communication
- Certifications: Professional Scrum Master (PSM I), SAFe Scrum Master
Certification
- Professional Scrum Master (PSM 1)
- SAFe Scrum Master
Timeline
Senior Software Test Engineer
Fidelity Investments
04.2023 - Current
Team Lead/Project Manager
Tracelink Inc
09.2015 - 09.2022
Quality Assurance Engineer
Liberty Mutual
11.2011 - 07.2014
Senior Applications Developer
Inautix Technologies
06.2007 - 12.2010
Bachelor of Science - Electronics And Communications Engineering
SASTRA University