Renu Chandel

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ABOUT RENU CHANDEL

ISTQB certified Senior IT Professional in Testing Space, and a Certified Scrum Master with more than 16 years of extensive IT experience (including 5 years of IT experience in Australia) • Worked and Lead projects of Domains/Industries - Health, Utilities, Education, Marketing & Sales, Banking & Financial Services.• strong knowledge of both Waterfall and Agile/Iteration project delivery models and is well versed with project management concepts and have been rigorously involved in work estimations, budget resource planning, requirement gatherings, forecasting and delivering releases.• Diversified experience in Software Testing encompassed Functional, System, Integration (SIT), Regression, Usability and Acceptance testing. She holds substantive knowledge in backend/database testing, SOA testing, Black box testing, Application GUI Testing. She has worked for US and UK Financial clients (Washington Mutual (U.S.), Halifax Bank of Scotland (UK)) and IBM Sales (U.S.). • She has knowledge and experience of various test management tools: Azure DevOps, JIRA, HP Quality Centre/ALM, Silk Central, IBM Rational Team Concert, IBM Rational Clear Quest.• Extensive experience in Requirements analysis, writing User Stories, Preparing Use Cases, Test planning (creating Test Strategy and Test Plans), Test case creation/execution, Requirements Traceability Mapping, defect logging/tracking. • She has great project experience in functional, load, data-driven testing of SOA web services and API tests. Tested web services with SOAP and HTTP protocols, using the open-source testing tool SoapUI. Created projects, added test suites, test cases and assertions in SoapUI. Validated WSDL and request/ response XMLs, generated reports.• While leading the Test teams, she has done Resource Planning, Work Estimation & Planning, Tasks Assignments and maintained Workload balance in team. Chaired team status calls, compiled & presented various weekly/monthly reports in collaboration with other Stakeholders.• Have done planning and performed transformation of projects from traditional waterfall to Agile Scrum. Involved in planning Sprints, user stories estimations (Poker Sessions), maintained Kanban releases.• Quality Management, Defect prevention management, Risk/Issue management, Change management and Configuration Control management.