Saurabh Vaidya

About Saurabh Vaidya

Certified Scrum Master and Agile practitioner with 12+ years of experience delivering enterprise-scale solutions across Insurance, Banking, Healthcare, and Technology sectors. Adept at leading cross-functional and geographically distributed teams, enabling Agile maturity, and implementing quality engineering strategies. Core Competencies - Agile Delivery & Coaching: Scrum, SAFe, Agile Mindset, Continuous Improvement, Team Maturity - Scrum Leadership: Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, PI Planning, Retrospectives, Velocity Metrics - Quality Engineering: Test Strategy, Functional testing, UAT/SIT, Risk-Based Testing - Agile Tooling: Jira, Confluence, qTest, HP ALM - Domain Expertise: Insurance (Guidewire, Majesco), Banking, Healthcare, Technology - Stakeholder Management: Product Visioning, Status Reporting, Risk Mitigation, Client Alignment Key Skills - Facilitate Daily stand-ups, Renement, Sprint Planning and Retrospectives, and other Agile ceremonies, for 4 pods; plus maintain an up to date, accurate Scrum board - Acting as a servant leader and coach to team members - Scrum Coaching: Agile Mindset, Team Empowerment, Continuous Improvement - Create Scrum boards and Dashboards for easy understanding and analysis of issues - Procient at Agile and Scaled Agile related, principles, values and practices - Remove impediments and blockers from pod members - Work closely with product owners to ensure well-groomed and prioritized backlogs - Monitor sprint velocity, burn up/down charts, and report progress to stakeholders - Fostering collaboration and communication within and across teams - Ensuring Agile and best practices are understood and followed by the team - Foster an environment of continuous improvement and accountability within the pods - Project & Stakeholder Management: Risk Mitigation, Vendor Management, Client Engagement Additional Skills - QA Leadership: Test Strategy, System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing, Automation Testing - Tools & Technologies: Jira Management (Custom Workflows, Timeline, Plan), Confluence, qTest, HP ALM

Experience

1. Senior Consultant with Deloitte Consulting Jira Admin

   Deloitte

   Sep 2016 — Present · Mumbai, IN

   Certified Scrum Master and Agile practitioner with 12+ years of experience delivering enterprise-scale solutions across Insurance, Banking, Healthcare, and Technology sectors. Adept at leading cross-functional and geographically distributed teams, enabling Agile maturity, and implementing quality engineering strategies- Estimation, Test Planning, User Acceptance Testing, Smoke Testing, Web Based Testing, Mobile Testing, Writing Test Cases,Test Implementation, Test Execution, Test Analysis, Testing, Enhancement, Regression testing on agile methodologies, SDET

Education

• University of Mumbai

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics and Telecommunication

Skills

• Software Quality Assurance
• Uat Coordination
• Web Testing
• Regression Testing
• Software Testing Life Cycle
• Alm
• Testing
• Mainframe
• Bugzilla
• Qc Tools
• Use Case Analysis
• Qtp
• Quality Center
• Defect Tracking
• Test Execution
• Defect Logging
• Manual Testing
• Stlc
• Test Strategy
• Agile Testing
• Agile
• Waterfall
• Black Box Testing
• Agile Methodologies
• V-Model
• Defect Life Cycle
• Test Planning
• Requirements Gathering
• Iseb
• User Acceptance Testing
• Bug Tracking
• Sdlc
• Test Cases
• Functional Requirements
• Functional Testing
• Usability Testing
• Pega Prpc