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Venkata Savita Gumidyala

Plainfield,IN

Summary

Versatile professional with more than 18 years of experience managing large-scale projects. Expert in facilitating agile ceremonies, enhancing product reliability, and implementing process improvements for measurable efficiency gains. Demonstrates strong leadership, analytical thinking, and a commitment to transparency and collaboration.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Scrum Master / QA Manager

Merck
06.2021 - Current
  • Facilitate agile ceremonies, ensuring team collaboration and timely delivery of high-quality software
  • Manage testing processes, identifying and resolving defects to enhance product reliability
  • Implement process improvements, resulting in measurable efficiency gains and reduced cycle times
  • Conduct thorough test planning and execution, identifying critical issues early to ensure product reliability and quality
  • Lead agile ceremonies, fostering team collaboration and timely software delivery
  • Prioritized providing transparency to our work at all levels, from ideation to delivery
  • Created roadmaps, program plans, and scrum boards
  • Set up a calendar and facilitated cadence, agile events and shared measurable outcomes
  • Facilitated economic decision making and managed budgeting
  • Coached and empowered the team while providing transparency to the connection between measurable outcomes, plans, and delivered work
  • Perform project tracking through clear and concise status reports and time management reports; proactively identify potential issues and track project member progress against commitments

Senior Business Technical Consultant

Vanguard
Charlotte, NC
06.2018 - 02.2021
  • Designed and executed test cases manually using black box and grey box testing techniques for web based application on QA, pre-production and production environments
  • Worked on multiple projects (Agile & Waterfall methodologies)
  • Responsible team member in contribution to industry level award winning application
  • Facilitate agile ceremonies, ensuring team collaboration and timely delivery of high-quality software
  • Manage testing processes, identifying and resolving defects to enhance product reliability
  • Implement process improvements, resulting in measurable efficiency gains and reduced cycle times
  • Conduct thorough test planning and execution, identifying critical issues early to ensure product reliability and quality
  • Lead agile ceremonies, fostering team collaboration and timely software delivery
  • Manage testing processes, identifying and resolving defects to enhance product reliability
  • Prioritized providing transparency to our work at all levels, from ideation to delivery
  • Created roadmaps, program plans, and scrum boards
  • Set up a calendar and facilitated cadence, agile events and shared measurable outcomes
  • Facilitated economic decision making and managed budgeting
  • Coached and empowered the team while providing transparency to the connection between measurable outcomes, plans, and delivered work
  • Perform project tracking through clear and concise status reports and time management reports; proactively identify potential issues and track project member progress against commitments

BA QA Consultant

Wells Fargo
09.2017 - 03.2018
  • Performed Integration testing after each story completion identifying all the integration points
  • Interacted with developers on daily basis for requirement analysis and requirement gathering, design review, testing, bug review and documentation for application developed in agile process with frequent changing requirements and features set
  • Experienced with Microsoft project, in-house project management and financial tools
  • Eager to learn and adapt quickly, consistently meeting deadlines with a strong work ethic and punctuality
  • Led QA initiatives for banking applications, ensuring compliance with industry standards and reducing defect rates by 20%
  • Directed cross-functional teams to implement QA strategies, resulting in improved software quality and customer satisfaction
  • Worked closely with development teams to identify and resolve issues, enhancing product reliability and user experience
  • Streamlined QA processes, cutting testing time by 15% and accelerating product release cycles
  • Conducted thorough analysis of system requirements and test cases, ensuring comprehensive coverage and minimal defects
  • Responsible for providing strategic business solutions to enterprise wise technology initiatives
  • Acted as a liaison between client and technical team by planning, conducting and directing the analysis of business flow
  • Provided technical expertise in identifying, evaluating and developing systems and procedures that are cost effective
  • Worked with user groups to provide training, resolve questions, assess user needs and recommend changes
  • Transformed strategic enterprise architecture and design principles into specific system requirements and specifications
  • Created business documents as in FSD, BRD & TDD for the projects that were being implemented as part of SWIFT technology development
  • Offered training of ALM & Production maintenance procedures to the team members
  • Facilitated discussions and team ceremonies, including the daily Scrum, product backlog refinement, sprint review, sprint retrospective, and sprint planning

Business Test Lead

AIG
Charlotte
04.2016 - 09.2017
  • Managed the creation of all project level test plans and phase level plans such as component, system integration and User acceptance test plans using MS office and CA Agile Rally tools
  • Documented High Level Design (HLD) and Low Level Design (LLD) Documents to define the system rules by creating Use cases, interface designs etc
  • Created Use Case diagram, activity diagrams, sequence diagram in MS Visio
  • Elicited requirements for development of the GUI, interfacing with various systems
  • Led test reviews (e.g
  • Test case review) and sign off on test cases
  • Strong experience in requirements elicitation, user story / use case development and worked on requirements modelling tools, Duck creek technologies and analyzing the systems
  • Responsible for Data Manipulation and Data Validation using SQL queries in a MS SQL Server 2010 environment
  • Identify the new BCRs (Business change requests) that will affect the automated test cases, coordinate with the manual and automate QA team and update and maintain the test cases according to the new changes
  • Drove execution and status reporting for the test phase
  • Managed and monitored defect reports and worked with developers & other project team members to verify resolution
  • Understanding and documenting the requirements by creating user stories which details the requirement specifications
  • Performed QA testing responsibilities to handle the testing of the Vendor application
  • Performed Regression Testing and created test scenarios for User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
  • Prepared the business roadmap progress calendar and communicated with the team of the weekly status updates
  • Handled the risk exposure calculations testing that TPM & CREP are functioning as per the requirements
  • Updating the application release calendar for each sprint cycle and making sure we accomplish the scheduled tasks
  • Analyzed and prepared BRDs/CRs, FSD's and having regular sessions with Dev, QA and business teams for discussion on requirements
  • Defining testing specifications
  • Prepared Test Strategy Document and Test Case Document, Requirements Traceability Matrix to map the requirements with their respective test cases
  • Created slide presentations for quarterly business reviews for corporate-level management documenting business status, performance, and pending business initiatives
  • Involved in detailing project mission, Data Process Flow Diagrams and timelines
  • Participated in sprint planning, daily scrums, testing, retrospectives and sprint reviews
  • Experience on International banking systems and transactions with SWIFT codes and messaging systems
  • Formed a bridge between the Project Manager and different teams with effective presentations
  • Responsible for translating BRD into functional specifications and UAT test plans
  • Closely coordinated with both business users and developers for arriving at a mutually acceptable solution
  • Updating the Requirement Traceability Matrix RTM upon completion of Functional Verification and User Acceptance Test execution and mapping the RTM to the Functional Specification, Design Specification and User Requirement Specification
  • Worked with SharePoint 2013 user base to understand business needs and build solutions to address them
  • Conducted brainstorming sessions to define the project and to reduce the time frame required to complete deliverables
  • Involved in testing the SWIFT messages
  • Flexcube Application testing which involved all the base modules; Customer payments, Single and multiple currency International funds transfer, Money Market, Foreign Exchange, Fixed assets, etc
  • Developed a quick and thorough understanding of MS SharePoint 2010
  • Performed quality assurance testing on developed SharePoint sites and web parts
  • Managed and approved the Funding tools per quarterly releases and supported for post release validations

Test Lead Coordinator (QA)

BBVA Compass Bank
03.2014 - 08.2014
  • Coordinated testing for large applications including Unit, System, Smoke, Integration and Regression
  • Led team meetings on a regular weekly basis for business, technical and testing groups for status updates
  • Identified test resources: test data regions, servers, personnel, software and tools
  • Defined Exit /entrance test criteria
  • Created Master Test Plan and Testing Project Plan using MS-Project
  • Responsible for translating BRD into functional specifications and test plans
  • Closely coordinated with both business users and developers for arriving at a mutually acceptable solution
  • Designed and executed Test Cases using MTM (Microsoft Test Manager) for Functional Testing and Regression testing covering all specified features/requirements
  • Identify the new BCRs (Business change requests) that will affect the automated test cases, coordinate with the manual and automate QA team and update and maintain the test cases according to the new changes
  • Assisted in entering and updating Issues (Epics, Stories, and Tasks) onto JIRA Agile application
  • Experience in conducting GAP Analysis between the "As-Is" and the "To-Be" system
  • Performing SWOT Analysis and Cost-Benefit Analysis during project inception phase
  • Working with various trading technology groups for source data generation to assess risk credit limits for trading different products such as Flexcube, equities, etc
  • Running UNIX jobs to load, normalize, map source data into respective database tables
  • Performed ETL testing and ran the AUTOSYS jobs for credit risk application testing
  • Extensively used the AUTOSYS jobs for the entire project
  • Extract simulation matrices, generate profiles and load them into downstream systems
  • Test Issues assigned for monthly releases, support UAT efforts for new product implementations
  • Deploying new release builds, database builds and grid server builds for QA, UAT environments using UNIX for grid
  • Managed the Change management tool JIRA by updating Issues (Epics, Stories, and Tasks)
  • Develop parameter driven ETL process to map source systems to target data warehouse with Informatica complete source system profiling
  • Connected remotely to UNIX servers using PUTTY
  • Developed ETL test scripts based on technical specifications/Data design documents and Source to Target mappings
  • Involved in monitoring the data flow from using SQL queries and stored procedures to extract the data from the database
  • Responsible for analysis of defects in Quality Center (QC) and coordinated with business users in retesting the applications after defects are resolved
  • Coordinated testing for large teams and held meetings for business, technical and testing groups
  • Coordinated resources from lines of business, offshore, and interns to provide multiple project testing coverage
  • Responsible for daily monitoring of Defects in QC and coordinated with the off-shore team in fixing the defects and responsible for cross communicating to Business Users
  • Responsible for coordinating testing efforts in Cross Functional applications and ensure that user testing is done with proper validation of data
  • Performed in-depth analysis of the defects functionally and technically to support the testing and development teams
  • Responsible for preparing project reports using Excel (Macros, Formatting, Pivot tables, dynamic graphs)
  • Used DATASTAGE as an ETL Tool for Developing the Data Warehouse
  • Created Master Test Plan, Test cases and scenarios

Quality Analyst

Diebold Inc
01.2007 - 03.2012
  • Quality Analyst at Diebold Inc from Jan 2007 to Mar 2012
  • Quality Analyst at Circuit City from Jan 2006 to May 2007

Education

Master of Science -

Lamar University
Beaumont
08.2005

Bachelor's of Engineering -

JNTU
Hyderabad, India
04.2003

Skills

  • Problem Solving
  • Communication
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Time Management
  • Quality Assurance
  • Leadership
  • Project Management
  • Agile
  • JIRA
  • JIRA XRAY
  • Scrum
  • HP ALM
  • SQL
  • Microsoft Office
  • Agile Rally

Certification

  • Scrum Master Certified (SMC), 02/01/21, 02/01/24
  • Scrum Fundaments Certified (SFC)
  • Six Sigma Yellow Belt
  • Microsoft Dynamics 365 Project Service Automation Mastery certificate of completion
  • Salesforce Training completion certificate
  • Retirement Plan Fundamentals Certificate Course
  • Test case design, review and maintenance as per requirement Design, review and updating the test cases as per requirement
  • Agile Project Management Certification

Timeline

Senior Scrum Master / QA Manager

Merck
06.2021 - Current

Senior Business Technical Consultant

Vanguard
06.2018 - 02.2021

BA QA Consultant

Wells Fargo
09.2017 - 03.2018

Business Test Lead

AIG
04.2016 - 09.2017

Test Lead Coordinator (QA)

BBVA Compass Bank
03.2014 - 08.2014

Quality Analyst

Diebold Inc
01.2007 - 03.2012

Master of Science -

Lamar University

Bachelor's of Engineering -

JNTU

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