Abey Thomas

About Abey Thomas

IT Professional with 14+ years of overall IT work experience (Includes 2.8 years of…

Experience

1. Quality Assurance Manager at Cognizant Technology Solutions Private Ltd

   Cognizant

   Oct 2017 — Present · Kochi, IN

   Facilitate scrum ceremonies - Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Demo and Sprint Retrospection for Integrated Student Experience Project.Coaching and mentoring the team on Agile Scrum methodology.Responsible for the scrum process, the functioning of all team members and to help team achieve sprint goals.Support Product Owner in maintaining Product Backlog with priority and business value.Measure and manage key project metrics – Team Productivity, No of defects, Code Quality, Resolution time to fix defects, Coverage of test cases, Customer and Team satisfaction & through put.Deliver clear project scope from the business point of view and develop business cases.Improves the quality of design for the proposed IT system so that it meets user requirements and ensures the quality of the system developed before passing on to the end users for review and acceptance.Obtaining the roadmap and the product backlog from the Product Owner (PO), Business and Architecture Teams.Empowering the team members to make decisions collaboratively with the customer.Inspire the team to be innovative and explore new ideas and technology capabilities.Help team and articulate the product vision to team members to accomplish the overall objective.Help team to create User stories creation & task creation for team members in Jira.Capacity planning for a given sprint.Track the progress in Jira for sprint committed items.Ensure that all stakeholders, including business managers and developers, are collaborating effectively.Tracking and removing impediments in the scrum/sprint (risks & issues)Tracking dependencies through a dependency tracker and publishing it to the dependent stakeholders (within Customer and development team) Status reporting (Sprint Reports, Weekly Status Reports, Capturing the Retrospective notes)Having 1:1 with Product Owners, Delivery Manager, Program Manager, Senior Management to bridge the gap between the teams and the management.

Education

• Indian Public High School ,RAK,UAE

  High School

  1993 — 1996

• Visveswaraiah Technological University, Karnataka

  Master of Computer Applications - MCA

  2001 — 2004

• Kerala University, Government of Kerala

  Pre Degree

  1996 — 1998

• Bangalore University, Karnataka

  Bachelor's degree

  1998 — 2001

Skills

• Test Strategy
• Test Planning
• Team Building
• Agile Methodologies
• Unit Testing
• Business Intelligence
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Integration
• Databases
• Sdlc
• Requirements Gathering
• Xml Publisher
• Requirements Analysis
• Peoplecode
• Functional Testing
• Testing
• Windows
• Functional Design
• Peoplesoft
• Oracle Applications
• Stlc
• Team Management
• Erp
• Software Development
• Test Cases
• User Acceptance Testing
• Manual Test Execution
• Team Mentoring
• Peopletools
• Integration Testing
• System Testing
• Team Leadership
• Api Testing
• Sqr
• Html
• Business Analysis
• Servers
• Sql
• Oracle