Palak Joshi

Main responsibilities:

• Led 2 Product team’s transition to Agile development in 2 months.
• Scrum Master for 2 geographically distributed teams and managed planning, backlog grooming, sprint reviews and conducting all sprint ceremonies.
• Helped product owners with product research, realization, and service delivery by guiding, coaching, and mentoring them.
• Responsible for release train management: dependencies, challenges, and risks.
• Having in depth knowledge of Taxation domain for Australian Income tax filling I have worked as product owner and written user stories and collaborated with Stake holders directly in many cases..
• Collaboration with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
• Coaching teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
• Responsible for managing QA Activities of 2 product teams including regression testing and integration testing. Maintaining CICD pipeline with end-to-end processes

Highlights:

• Customized Scrum and crafted in-house version specifically for compliance team.
• Used Agile methodologies to aid team delivery of effective, quality software solutions.
• Applied expert knowledge for daily completion of tasks and streamlining workflows within team by handling team of 10 members and providing excellent leadership skills to maintain steady and productive operations.
• Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
• Gained extensive knowledge in tools including Rally, JIRA, Visual Studio Boards.
• Actively participating in all scrum ceremonies like Scrum calls, planning meeting, retrospective calls, grooming sessions, Big Room Planning Meetings, Weekly demo to Stakeholders.
• Worked with Agile and Scrum methodologies to accomplish project milestones and meet demanding timelines.
• Drove Scrum team progress to overcome obstacles and realize success throughout life of each sprint.
• Agile Coach/Mentor for cross-functional teams, trained global teams, which resulted in early delivery of project and reduced process waste caused by lack of common understanding.

Main responsibilities:

• Creating detailed test scenarios, executing and cases, accurately logging errors and defects in Bug tracking tool.
• Tested functionality, performance and compliance of each product against design specifications to maintain strong development standards and high customer satisfaction.
• Working on Production defects testing till its marked as done.
• Actively participated in Integration and Regression testing.
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Highlights:

• Prioritized bugs through focused data collection and analysis, driving continual innovation.
• Coordinated exploratory testing with developers and external testers to effectively assess viability.
• Researched and implemented new technologies, tools and disciplines to aid continual quality improvements.

Main responsibilities:

• Understanding client’s requirement and creating test cases and enhancing test coverage.
• Working on RTM and UI designs closely with Product team.
• Performing integration, regression and UAT testing for products of Celtic.

Highlights:

• Started as Fresher and got chance to work on many Products of Celtic like IFTA,IRP and CMVS.
• Wrote and updated detailed test scenarios and cases, accurately logging errors and defects in Bug tracking tool.
• Documented, triaged and managed defects in Mantis and worked with developers to facilitate timely resolutions.
• Worked on defect tracking tools like Mantis. Gained domain knowledge of Transport and Vehicle registration Systems