Anand D S

About Anand D S

Facilitate Daily Scrums.• Assuring of maintaining DOD• Tackle the impediments efficiently• Facilitate Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective• Finding the scope of automation• Facilitate Product Backlog Refinement• Lead the Transition team as Scrum Master• Sprint Planning• Breakdown the Sprint backlog items to necessary tasks• Tackle the impediments efficiently• Attend Product Backlog Refinement• Real Time Payments -RTP, EBA, Target2, SEPA Payments, SWIFT Payments, Euro Faster Payments, ACH/ BACS/ Auto Pay/ Fed wire and Chips Payments World Pay/International and Domestic Payments/ LVP/HVP, USA Payments are few of the key payment areas in which I gain expertise.• Experience and expertise in Functional, Regression Testing for Payment applications in adherence with SWIFT & FEDWIRE for MT202, MT103.• Hands on experience on Fiserv Dovetail and GPP cross border payment gateway.• Experience in Property and Casualty Insurance testing practice. Certified and skilled QA in Software Testing / Insurance - P&C domain and Test Management tools. Proficient in Guidewire Insurance Suite. Result Oriented, Committed, hardworking and Reliable.• Worked as a successful Test Lead at Client Site for a major US Guidewire PC Implementation program.• Around 15 months of onsite work experience (On H1B visa) as Onshore Test Lead at Markel Corp (Insurance/Reinsurance company), Windsor, Connecticut, USA.• Having Extensive Experience in Software Testing (Manual testing as well as Automation testing using Test automation tools like Quick Test Professional (QTP8.5/9.0/9.5) and test management tools like Test Director(TD 8.2), Mercury Quality Center(MQC9.0), HP QC, HP Application Lifecycle Management (HP ALM 11.0.), MS VSTS and Jira Tool.• Result focused, strong understanding on QA Process, documentation, Constant improvements, Software Development Life Cycle -Agile and Waterfall, Defect Life Cycle• Proven ability to manage complex testing projects, transformation projects and deliver on time by applying project management process (Definition, Initiation, Planning, Execution, Monitoring/ Control and Closure) through Global delivery model with onshore-offshore including projects located across multiple Geographical locations• Experience in Test plan and Test strategy design.• Proficient in web service testing using SOAP tool.• Excellent Inter-personal and communication skills with a strategic proven track record for collaboration with Stakeholders and IT groups for various business and technical aspects• Exposure to Banking, Insurance and Retail domains

Experience

1. Test Manager-scrum Master

   IBM

   Aug 2017 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Facilitate Daily Scrums.• Assuring of maintaining DOD• Tackle the impediments efficiently• Facilitate Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective• Finding the scope of automation• Facilitate Product Backlog Refinement• Lead the Transition team as Scrum Master• Sprint Planning• Breakdown the Sprint backlog items to necessary tasks• Tackle the impediments efficiently• Attend Product Backlog Refinement• Work with Scrum Teams to execute Agile/Scrum practices and deliver values to delight the customer• Conduct the Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Backlog Grooming, Retrospective and Daily Scrum meetings.• Coordinate with Product Owner to keep the product backlog prioritized and healthy.• Facilitate meetings and training for the teams when ever required for various purpose.• Remove impediments of all kinds.• Plan release delivery based on various scrum metrics.• Mitigate risks by coordinating with Release Manager and Product Owner.• Responsible for motivating resources and improve efficiency.• Collect various scrum metrics for process improvement.• Coach on agile process and work on Agile Transformations