Scrum Master Quality Engineer

Nita S. Rana

Apex, NC ***** 919-***-**** ad8f7h@r.postjobfree.com

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WORK EXPERIENCE

Altera Digital Health May 2022 – June 2024

Agile Scrum Master/ Senior Quality Engineer Remote Scrum Master

• Facilitated cross-functional stand-up, sprint planning, grooming, mid-sprint review and retrospective meetings.

• Created TFS definition of done (DoD) tasks using DoD Task Creator.

• Utilized task board review to facilitate organization and assignment of tasks.

• Identified any blockers. Helped to unblock the team and completed documentation in TFS.

• Represented 4 teams in Scrum of Scrum (SoS) meetings, shared accomplishments, upcoming/ ongoing teams assignments, blockers, risks, and dependencies impacts.

• Collaborated with and supported the Product Owner (PO) on backlog refinement prior to sprint planning and during planning events.

• Created necessary administrative stories for cross-functional teams as required.

• Led sprint demonstration of electronic medical record (EMR) product enhancements. Quality Engineer

• Served as a Quality Engineer Lead on projects to provide guidance and recommendations on the testing process and process improvements.

• Participated in test planning, requirements review, test estimation and cross-collaboration with internal and external teams to streamline development plans and enhance strategic decision-making.

• Acted as lead in sprint planning meetings and daily scrum meetings.

• Developed test cases using Gherkin BDD format and executed test plans and test cases, including functional, UAT and regression testing according to planned completion date.

• Experienced with use of Visual Studio Suite, VSTS/Azure DevOps and Postman. Allscripts/Avenel Aug. 2011 – May 2022

Senior Quality Engineer/Scrum Master Hybrid - Raleigh, NC

• Completed API level testing of Orders and Results with the EMR. Tested HL7 interfaces for the industry's first cloud based, machine learning EMR (iOS and Android).

• Acted as a Quality Engineer Lead on projects to provide direction and guidance on the testing process.

• Participated in test planning, requirements review, test estimation and cross-collaboration with internal and external teams to streamline development plans.

• Served as a lead in sprint planning and daily scrum meetings.

• Developed and executed test plans and test cases, including functional, UAT and regression testing.

• Experienced with Visual Studio Suite, VSTS/Azure DevOps, Postman, Mirth and Allscripts Practice Manager (APM).

• Ensured test cases were traceable to specifications. Completed writing/updating test cases, test scripts, test harness, and test guidelines according to project schedule.

• Produced summary reports that were clear, effective, insightful, and traceable.

• Supported root cause analysis exercises against target areas, proposed corrective approaches for measurable improvements, and tracked and reported progress. Communicated the plans and results effectively to drive change.

• Participated in defect reviews, new/existing project efforts, improvement initiatives.

• Escalated concerns about product/process/project quality in clear, collaborative, clear and constructive way.

Hill-Rom IT Solutions Dec. 2009 – July 2011

Senior QA Engineer/Business Analyst Cary, NC

• Performed data migration testing using SQL on multiple applications within a database to ensure data integrity.

• Setup and maintained test environments by configuring hardware devices and software applications in test labs for application testing.

Nita S. Rana

Apex, NC 27539 919-***-**** ad8f7h@r.postjobfree.com

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• Prepared requirement traceability matrices and completed GAP analyses to ensure the coverage of the requirements.

• Worked with room control boards, Power over Ethernet and TCP/IP for setting up the test environments.

• Planned and tracked test execution for multiple projects as a part of system validation, by developing test plans, creating and executing test scripts, and analyzing test results and defect tracking with the help of IBM Testing Tools.

• Worked actively with customers to identify the root cause of unforeseen issues and proactively tracked them.

• Developed Business Rules and Change Control Documents for the project.

• Coordinated testing efforts and attended validation meetings, verification meetings and FDA audits.

• Created a test strategy to ensure that functional, equivalence, boundary, stress, load, compatibility, and security testing are completed prior to the release of the product. FileONE Inc., Oct. 2008 – Oct. 2009

Senior QA Analyst Cary, NC

• Generated system test plans, detailed system test cases, and test conditions.

• Served as liaison between QA and business unit managers, development teams, and support staff, and thus acted as the primary resource for resolving issues.

• Involved actively with manual testing for smoke test, functional, regression, integration, stress, UAT and end to end testing of the application (Client – Server and Web base applications).

• Collaborated with development team to isolate difficult-to-reproduce defects.

• Tested the project according to business rules supplied by the client.

• Trained and mentored new QA Engineers and other team members.

• Provided data, analysis, problem research/recommendations, and project metrics to facilitate decision making and reporting for assigned sprints/projects/applications.

• Worked cross-functionally with other QA Analysts, Business Analysts, development engineers, DBAs, functional area Subject Matter Experts, and customers in defining and performing application testing.

• Experienced with using Test Management tool (JIRA).

• Experienced with Software Configuration Management Systems: Test Track (Seapine Software). ADDITIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE

ITHAKA HARBORS (PORTICO) Princeton, NJ

QA Lead/Manager

IBM/AT&T Piscataway, NJ

OBSMS/SDPC/NRNSMS Lead System Tester

Merrill Lynch Hopewell, NJ

PCA Quality Assurance Tester

AT&T New Brunswick/Somerset, NJ

NSS/OBSMS/SDPC – Lead Analyst/Programmer

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science

New Jersey Institute of Technology & Rutgers University Initial Design Training

AT&T

REFERENCE:

Available upon request.

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