Certified Scrum Master hands on 8 of years experience.
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
· A Registered scrum master and SAFE 5 Certified Scrum master with 8+ years of Hands-on experience on Wi-Fi certification and testing, Networking Protocols & Standards, Wireless devices (Access points and chipsets), Network Design, Troubleshooting, Protocol Testing, Network Switching & Routing and WI-AMT.
· Scrum master activities involves collaborating with Stakeholders, Product Owner and Team members to define solutions and drive progress, facilitating the scrum events and discussions, helping in removing impediments, coaching the teams in agile practices, supporting Product owner in grooming and maintaining product backlog, using Jira & collaboration tools etc.
· Involved interacting with SMEs and Users, assisting the Product owner, writing user stories, gathering the requirements, understanding & documenting business requirements, conducting gap analysis, documenting As-Is & To-be process.
· Assisting the testing team in preparing test scenarios, participating in Scrum ceremonies, coordinating with the technical teams, handling change requests, defects and business clarifications, demonstrating presentation skills, conducting domain learning sessions to the team
· Expert in WLAN Testing using Agile & Waterfall Methodologies.
· Experienced in Validating Network Protocols like 802.11(a/b/g/n/AC/ad/ah/AX), DHCP, DNS, TCP/IP and VPN etc.
· Experienced in features testing like Performance, Connected Standby, Wo-WLAN, Power Gating, Security on WI-AMT platforms.
· Experienced in TVA using IPerf and Ixchariot, Regression and Functionality Testing.
· Expert in Creating detailed Test Plans, Test References, Test Procedures and Test Data for Functional, Integration and System Testing based on use case Business & Technical requirements, Design documents and Interoperability Testing.
· Experienced in Network debugging tools like Ethereal, Omni peek, Airopeek, Ixchariot, Wireshark and Bugzilla.
· Proficient in scripting languages (Shell, Python, TCL etc.).
· Experienced in Windows 7/10, Windows Server 20XX, Linux troubleshooting, including network configuration.
· Experienced in Deploying Wireless Network Infrastructure and Wireless Survey Best Practices using State of the Art tools and Configuring Cisco and Aruba Wireless Devices.
· Ready to Explore, Break, Fix and Test any Wireless Products/Utilities to Ensure a Good Product is released
· Handled multiple teams of various sizes as a Team Lead for over 3 years at Intel (Israel).
CERTIFICATIONS:
- Certified in Scrum.Inc as Registered Scrum Master
- Certified in SAFe 5 as scrum master
- Trained in Certified Wireless Network Administrator (CWNA)
- Trained in Certified Wireless Security Professional (CWSP)
- Trained in Cisco Certified Network Associate (Wireless)
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
OS
Windows, Linux and MAC OSX.
Hardware
Cisco Catalyst 6500/4500/3850/3750/2960 Series Switches and Aruba Wireless
Analyzer Tools
Omnipeek, Netstumber, Airmagnet and Wireshark.
Network Protocols
TCP/IP, OSPF, EIGRP, VLAN and VPN
Scrum Tools
Trello, Kanban, JIRA, Burndown Chat, Miro
Methodologies
Agile, Waterfall
PROFESSIONAL OVERVIEW:
Unbound Solutions: Scrum Master (May’22 – Current)
Responsibilities:
· Working with Product owner, Gathering the requirements for the team.
· Facilitating scrum events – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and retrospectives.
· Helping in removal of impediments and working to provide continuous improvement of product development lifecycle.
· Helping the PO for the backlog refinement and update the progress to the stakeholders.
· Using JIRA software and collaboration tools for facilitating scrum ceremonies.
· Working with cross functional team to reach the goals
Samsung Electronics (San Jose) (July’21-March’22)
Responsibilities:
· Worked on Samsung products (Mobiles and tablets) for quality analysis, Identifying the bugs and get it certified by Wi-Fi standard committee (Wi-Fi Alliance)
· Creating the test plans. Ensure test plans follow specifications, IEEE standards, best practices, MRDs, WFA policies, etc. Review and introduce new test cases.
· Maintain test bed equipment. Qualify software fixes. Ensure interoperability between devices.
· Review certification results. Provide feedback on certification system.
· Plan workload and schedules.
· Perform daily scrums, Jira discussion, updating the Kanban
· Feature worked for certification are 80211AX,6E
Wi-Fi Alliance-From Global edge (Santa Clara) (August’20 – April’21)
Responsibilities:
· Worked on quick track program for certifying the Wi-fi products for end solution providers.
· Maintain test plans. Ensure test plans follow specifications, IEEE standards, best practices, MRDs, WFA policies, etc. Review and introduce new test cases.
· Maintain test bed equipment. Qualify software fixes. Replace obsolete hardware. Ensure interoperability between devices.
· Review certification results. Provide feedback on certification system.
· Plan workload and schedules.
· Perform special projects as assigned
· Feature worked for certification are WPA2, WPA3, PMF OWE and 80211AX
LnT Technologies, Bangalore, India (May’17 – Jul’19-Onsite)
Intel – Israel (Jul’19-Jan’20-Off shore)
Project & Tech Lead
Responsibilities:
· Project and Technical Lead for Wi-Fi Domain POA (Platform, OS and Adapter)
· Develop Testing & Compatibility between Intel Wi-Fi Chipset, OS and Adapters with Different Test Builds.
· Create the test plans based on the new features and lead the same to the testing engineers.
· Lead Dev Teams on the RCA’s for Issues during Testing.
· Worked on Soft AP Functionality, Interoperability, Roaming, Power TVA and 160MHz throughput testing.
· Testing different 802.11 functionalities on various Wireless chipsets, providing results and rectifying the issues along with Dev Teams.
· Creating new Test Beds/Builds and creating Test cases for new Enhancements
· Client Interaction on weekly basis for new requirements over the testing products.
· Network switching/access point testing, Network routers etc.
· Creating test plans and write test cases to cover all possible test scenarios
· Maintain and improve network management.
· Preparing Test plan documentation for network architecture.
· Evaluating the network subnet across the infrastructure.
· Complete responsibility of Automation testing using scripting/programming languages such as TCL, Perl or Python
· Writing Automated test scripts and Programs for test scenarios
Broadcom Technologies, Hyderabad, India (Apr’12 – Apr’ 17)
QA Manual Testing Engineer
Responsibilities:
· Testing various access points using WPS Test plan given by the Wi-Fi alliance and also Test interoperability between different vendors.
· Debugging issues in different scenarios and resolving the issues with Developers.
· Understanding various Client requirements and functionalities.
· Execution of various functional and system test cases for features related to the Access Points: like Basic Association Test, Network Association Test.
· Prepare test data for Functional & Integration testing.
· Design, Review & Execute Test cases.
· Identified Test cases for Regression testing, perform analysis to find the exact Regression point and fix the issues.
· Analyze additional logs, packet captures to find the root cause of the issue and fix it.
· Perform Additional Stress Tests to ensure a Quality Product is released.
· Developed test plans, test cases and executed test cases for software testing on wireless networking products.
· Having good experience on Agile methodology.
· Hands-on experience with RF-Chambers, OpenWRT
· Designing and reviewing test plans.
· Working knowledge on Lab and field experience testing and new Wi-Fi features, performance and characterization.
· Testing connectivity Link speed a/b/g/n , DHCP/Static IP, IBSS, Fragmentation, RF kill, Hibernate/Standby, Tx power, Static IP, Scanning, Security.
EDUCATION:
· Master of Technology in Software Systems Graduation Dec 2016
· BITS Pilani, INDIA
· Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communications Graduation May 2011
· Anna University, Chennai, INDIA
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