Nilay Masrani CSM® CSPO®

- Senior QA Agile professional with 9 years of experience as a Sr. QA Engineer, demonstrating strategic QA vision, quick delivery, and the ability to inspire and mentor QA teams to implement industry quality standards. Knowledgeable in various standards, ensuring compliance and meeting client expectations. - Managed client accounts by identifying and addressing issues, recognizing business opportunities, and generating propositions with senior management and the sales team. - Hands-on experience in Quality Assurance, including business or system analyst activities (requirement gathering, analysis, reviews), and 3 years of experience managing QA teams onsite as a QA Lead. - Coordinated and participated in daily scrums, backlog refinement, grooming, sprint planning meetings, sprint reviews, and retrospectives. - Created issues such as epics, stories, tasks, and bugs. - Developed Jira task status workflows based on project needs and requirements. - Involved in creating and completing sprints using Jira, including demos and lessons learned. - Proactively prioritized and estimated issues for sprint planning. - Fully involved in planning, tracking, and releasing deliverables. - Coordinated with product owners to review backlog items and understand requirements. - Followed agile development practices, ceremonies, and artifacts. - Collaborated with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Developers, and Testers to deliver the product. - Led daily stand-up calls for multiple scrum teams. - Communicated with management, engineers, product managers, and specialists on product issues. - Facilitated scrum ceremonies, including grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, and demo meetings. - Derived test scenarios, documented test cases, and collected test data for functional testing. - Tracked defects, selected test cases for retesting and regression testing. - Wrote and executed production test cases. - Knowledgeable in API testing using Postman. - Enjoy working collaboratively with developers and team members on complex projects. - Adept in testing software products and managing projects efficiently to deliver required applications systematically. - Hands-on experience with all levels of testing, including sanity, usability, functional, integration, regression, retesting, and user acceptance testing. - Skilled in client interaction with excellent communication and interpersonal skills, strong work ethic, and professionalism. - Team player, highly productive, committed, and result-driven in both team and individual projects.