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Work with product owners to refine the portfolio backlog and plan sprints. Track, escalate and remove impediments. Track burn down, KPIs, issues and progress in TFS. Facilitated team and cross-team Retrospectives to build good working relationships among the 7 agile teams across 3 states. Knowledgeable with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, Continuous Integration, Refactoring, Continuous Deployment, Pairing, Automated Testing. Familiar with other methodologies like Kanban, and XP.

•Responsible for creating,improving&developing IT project strategies. •Defined processes&tools best suited to each project.Moved between agile&waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps,plans,schedules&work breakdown structures. •Led team across broad technical, financial and business disciplines.Focused team on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget with the desired results.

 Estimating and planning the time and effort costs of specific testing tasks by dividing them into smaller subtasks.  Manage priorities when assigned to multiple teams.  Maximizing the work of the development team.  Being the voice of the customer and providing a business perspective on value during day-to-day development.  Reviews and assists team members on creating and executing test plans and test cases.

 Improve project outcomes 20%.  Solve technical and nontechnical obstacles for development team.  Coached Product Owners in creation and maintenance of Product Backlog.  Coached team members on agile principles and providing general guidance on the methodology.

• Took responsibility of delivery and management of the tasks. • Assisted with prioritization and resolution of software defects. • Transitioned software development efforts to a test-driven development (TDD) process, which brought QA testing in on the frontend of the development cycle for gains in code quality, software functionality and programmer productivity. • Worked with the Scrum Team and the Product Owner to negotiate the minimum viable product for delivery. • Decrease refunds of IT by 30%

•Accelerated average QA testing turn-around time by 25% •Delivered thorough QA testing reports that determined product quality&release readiness with international sites including system integration and installation. •Estimating test types, publishing and scheduling test activities such as functional, integration,E2E,UAT,security, performance, mobile device tests.I am also responsible for creating daily quality dashboards, educating testers, identifying and setting up test and preproduction environments

 Responsible for preparing contracts to customers.  Give technical educations to 1000 clients.  Give technical analyses of the customer needs with network hierarchy.

Engineering Management

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