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Experience Summary

Over 10 years of diversified experience in all phases of Manual Testing, Automation Testing, Agile Scrum and Lean methodologies and Custom Client - Server applications.

Career Highlights and Achievements
  • Experience in handling Onsite Offshore model and handled team of 10 members
  • Being part of Global delivery model, expertise in handling Onsite Co-ordination for Project Tracking and Continuous Process improvement activities. Worked at onsite and have strong onsite exposure at Confidential
  • Rich testing Experience in various types of testing including, System Integration Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing and User Acceptance Testing
  • Strong experience in manual and automation Testing in various applications
  • Exposure to various SDLC including traditional Waterfall model, Agile Scrum methodology and Lean methodology, Risk based Testing and Product Risk Analysis
  • Experience in Payments, Commercial Lending, and CRM domains
  • Experience in Banking Products like Finacle, T24 Payment system.
  • Experience in Fitnesse with Selenium IDE, QTP and Quality Center.
  • Experience in various Test Effort Estimation Techniques like TCP Test case point and WBS Work Breakdown Structure .
  • Live UAT experience and been part of core team to decide on GO, NO-GO status of critical releases
  • Delivered knowledge sharing session to entire QA community
  • Being an Idea Champion, initiated multiple innovation campaign for account level. Gathered innovative idea which can be implemented across the account.
  • Awarded as Idea champion, Innovator for reaching the innovation targets for account level
  • HP Mercury Certified QTP
  • Actively initiated and conducted several account and team events for various occasions. Identified as People champion for organizing several events for the account for several occasions
  • Conducted interviews for internal and external recruitment drives
  • Initiated and conducted Account level team building activities like conducting quizzes, games and organizing team outing etc.
  • Receiver of Q Award - Awarded for Delivery Excellence and good contribution to the project and for taking responsibilities in completing the project on time Involved as Onsite and offshore Test Lead activities and provided guidance to other team members.
  • Experienced with SQL queries. Knowledge of checking the data flow through the front end to back end and used the SQL queries to extract the data from the database to validate it at the back end
  • Performed data load into database using SQL LOAD utility.
  • Conducted training to onsite and offshore team on functionality and testing methodology
Experience Details

Manual Testing Expertise

  • Handling project delivery throughout all the phases of execution. Taken ownership and responsibility in delivering project across all phases Test Planning, Test design, Test execution, Test report and knowledge documenting. The scope of work includes,
  • Release Requirements Analysis, Effort sizing, Test Plan and Test Case design
  • Involve in Work sizing and task allocation. Size the work using Work Breakdown structure model to its micro granular level, use Estimator to calculate independent efforts for these granular level tasks and calculate the overall project effort
  • Review milestone deliverables like Test Plan, Test case and Test Results with the project stakeholders Business team and internal development team . Conduct walkthrough meeting for the above deliverables
  • Planning and management of multiple projects
  • Collaborate with project stake holders
  • Project health monitoring and control. Project Status reporting DSR and WSR
  • Triaging of defects and coordinating defect fix testing by working with onsite and offshore teams
  • Gather project and process metrics and share it with project stakeholders. Collect the Software Quality Metrics which involves collecting the process metrics typically Productivity, Defects Per Unit, Operational Effectiveness Rate and project specific metrics typically Schedule variance, Effort variance, Test coverage, and Test confidence
  • Involved in RCA Root Cause Analysis and DP Defect Prevention activities as required by the project.
  • Root Cause Analysis conducted RCA meetings and performed RCA using Fishbone Analysis method and suggested improvements in test processes based on the analysis
  • Review and mentor team members for the application / domain specific knowledge and technical knowledge
  • Have worked and strong knowledge in Agile Scrum methodology and Lean methodology
  • Assisted Scrum Master in estimates
  • Keep track of the deliverables as mentioned in the backlog items
  • Participate in daily Scrum stand up calls
  • Identified the Lean points and reduced the effort of test execution
  • Participate in daily lean meeting and updated the same in lean board

Risk Based Testing

  • Apply Risk Based Testing concepts by analyze the projects for its feasibility and Detailed study of the system or application and devise strategic plan for implementation. This involves Cost Benefit analysis, ROI analysis and Scalability analysis
  • Perform pilot project implementation, a Proof of Concept for the identified project and analyze the success factor of tools implementation.
  • Provided training to both onsite and offshore team about Risk Based Testing and Product Risk Analysis

Automation Expertise

  • Experienced in designing automation scripts using HP - Quick Test Professional 10
  • Knowledge in creating Library Functions, Driver scripts and Reusable actions according to the test case specification and in compliance with the Automation framework design
  • Experience in executing UAT testing using Fitnesse with Selenium IDE

Domain Expertise

  • Rich experience in Banking Domain, especially Payments industry T24 product and Commercial Lending system and CRM on multiple platforms.
  • Experience in handling Claim Processing
  • Experience in products like Finacle Universal Banking Solutions , T24 Payment system
Technical Skills
  • Testing Methods: Manual Testing using Black Box Techniques System Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Functional Non- Functional Testing including Load/Performance testing , Client/Server Application testing, Regression testing, Load/Performance testing Data Base Testing
  • Testing Tools: Fitnesse with Selenium IDE, QTP, Quality Center, Rational Functional Tester, Win Runner8.0, Load Runner8.0
  • Operating Systems: Windows 9x, Windows 2000/NT/XP, MS DOS
  • Languages: UNIX Shell Scripts, VBScript, Info Basic
  • DBMS: Oracle 10g, SQL Server 2000 and MS Access
  • Scripting Languages: Java Script, VB Script, ASP, JSP
  • Tools: Toad for Oracle10g, VSS8.0
  • Software Packages: Microsoft Office 2007/XP
  • Certification: HP QTP Certification and ISTQB Certified Associate
Professional Experience

Project Title 1

Confidential

Client Name

Confidential

Technologies

Infobasic, Jbase, Oracle

Tools

Quality Center, QTP

Role

Senior Test Lead Onsite

Team Size

6

Confidential is a new system will be based upon the Confidential Architecture Confidential , which provides the platform for Temenos' market-leading T24 core banking software, and will be implemented globally at all of Confidential international locations. The payments system will also be available as a standalone solution, operating seamlessly and in real-time with any core banking or checking accounts system.

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Onsite Lead for a team of 6 Members based out of Confidential location at client base
  • Underwent client training programs on Payments system and T24 product
  • Involved in Master Test Plan preparation, Test Estimation and Test Case preparation
  • Involved in Test Environment setup and Test Data Preparation for Stubs
  • Participate in Client Mapping requirements calls and go hand in hand with Mapping development team
  • Plan and design mapping verification scenarios
  • Weekly/Daily Status reporting and Facilitation of conference calls
  • Responsible for other Test Management Activities.
  • Proactively bring the issues to the manager notice and to suggest solutions that is acceptable and doable by the team
  • Prepare and deliver Release Notes, Project Recommendation Report.
  • RCA, DP and Metrics process owner for entire team
  • Involved in Automation Testing.
  • Trained team members on the project and risk based testing methodology.
  • Perform verification and validation of output files
  • Defect reporting, tracking and monitoring
  • Initiated Innovation campaign in client location and implemented

Project Title 2

Confidential

Client Name

Confidential

Technologies

JDK 1.4, Struts1.1, JSP, HTML, Java Script, Servlets, EJB2.0

Tools

Quality Center, QTP, VSS, Fitnesse, Selenium IDE

Role

Lead QA, Automation Tester QTP, Selenium IDE

Team Size

10

  • Confidential is a program of multiple sub-projects. It started with BBS 3.0, where Cognizant performed Re-engineering of CBS to BBS 3.0' with the objective of replacing the current Rabobank 'Client Bediening System' CBS or the Client Loan Servicing System by the 'Bedrijfs Financieringen Systeem' BFS, now Called BBS 3.0 .
  • BBS 3.0 started as an integrated loan request processing system that is intended to provide Rabobank with benefits of portability, concurrency and availability resulting in greater user friendliness and enhanced productivity. BBS 3.0 is followed by BBS 3.1 and further enhancement releases such as BBS 4.0, BBS 4.2, BBS 4.3, BBS 4.4, BBS 4.5 and BBS 4.6, which provide improvement over existing functionalities or new functionalities.

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Lead team of 10 Members Handle Offshore teams
  • Involved as part of agile scrum team and Lean team
  • Involved in User Acceptance testing using Fitnesse with Selenium IDE tool and Regressing testing using QTP
  • Requirement / Test case analysis and prepared Detail Test Plan, Master Test Plan preparation, Test Estimation and Test Case preparation for both manual and automation testing
  • Involved in Test Environment setup and Test Data Preparation for Stubs.
  • Involved in Execution, Identifying defects while Execution
  • Weekly Status reporting and Facilitation of conference calls
  • Responsible for other Test Management Activities.
  • Proactively bring the issues to the manager notice and to suggest solutions that is acceptable and doable by the team
  • Prepare and deliver Release Notes, Project Recommendation Report.
  • RCA, DP and Metrics process owner for entire team
  • Mentor and Trained team members on the project and risk based testing methodology.

Project Title 3

Confidential

Client NameConfidential

Technologies

ASP .Net, Oracle

Tools

Quality Center, QTP, Terra Data, Advanced Query Tool AQT

Role

Lead QA

Team Size

4

Confidential are one of the largest providers of property and casualty insurance products in the Confidential. In business for over 150 years, Travelers has been an industry leader from the start. The Confidential Property Casualty merge to form St. Paul Travelers, creating a new company with 285 years combined experience in managing risk with integrity, innovation and discipline in Confidential. The claim handling module help to manage claims with high cost potential. It offers business needs with an emphasis on controlling claim payments and expenses.

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Lead team of 4 Members Handle Offshore teams
  • Requirement / Test case analysis and prepared Detail Test Plan, Master Test Plan preparation, Test Estimation and Test Case preparation
  • Involved in Test Environment setup and Test Data Preparation for Stubs.
  • Involved in Execution, Identifying defects while Execution
  • Weekly Status reporting and Facilitation of conference calls
  • Proactively bring the issues to the manager notice and to suggest solutions that is acceptable and doable by the team
  • Prepare and deliver Release Notes, Project Recommendation Report.
  • RCA, DP and Metrics process owner for entire team

Project Title 4

Confidential

Client Name

Confidential

Technologies

Jdk1.4.2 04, JSP, XML, Oracle 9i, SQL server 2000, IIS, Pramati41, Windows 2000, UNIX HP, AIX, JRun4, SUN Solaris

Tools

Rational Functional Tester 8.00.1, Firestone, IPM , Radar, VSS 8.0, Toad for Oracle 9.5, Tcube 8.0

Role

QA Analyst

Team Size

15

  • Finacle Universal banking solution a product of Confidential is built using state-of-the-art technology providing the new generation IT architecture for the e-age. The front-end is web-enabled and works on the bank's Intranet. Finacle caters to all the functional requirements of tellers, managers, through the bank's Intranet. This new generation of web architecture gives various benefits compared to traditional client-server technology.
  • Finacle-CRM solution enables the bank for handling customer/contact/prospect creation value based products and services, effective customer acquisition programs and tracking their success statistics to come out with the best strategy. Retaining the existing customers with improved service is essential for their profitable growth. Introduction of more channels internet banking, call centre's etc for customer interaction leads to more satisfied customers. Improving productivity of the staff is another thrust area of banks. These can be achieved by Automation of various processing activities, Simplified process for deployment and usage by setting up appropriate processes to be followed for application processing loan, credit cards and service requests address change, cheque book requests etc , Automatic escalation to the concerned managers as a tracking tool in case of delays encountered in closure of assigned tasks.

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Product Technical Lead for system testing
  • Lead team of 10 Members Handle Offshore teams
  • Requirement / Test case analysis and prepared Detail Test Plan, Master Test Plan preparation, Test Estimation and Test Case preparation
  • Involved in Test Environment setup and Test Data Preparation for Stubs.
  • Involved in Execution, Identifying defects while Execution
  • Prepared Weekly/Daily Status report
  • Produced Requirements Traceability Matrix to support the application development.
  • Involved as Configuration Controller CC
  • Performed both Manual Testing and Automated testing for usability and compatibility of the custom Web application
  • Assigned task to team members, provided assistance to team members to clarify functional and technical difficulties.
  • Performed end to end testing for Regression, Integration and database testing.
  • Accessed data from Oracle database using SQL scripts.
  • Performed defect tracking for the bugs in the application that included documentation, tracking and re-validating defects that helped developers to track the problem and resolve the technical issues.
  • Mentor and Trained team members on the project and risk based testing methodology.

Project Title 5

Confidential

Client Name

Confidential

Technologies

Visual Basic6.0, SQL Server 2000

Role

Team Member at eSoft

Team Size

4

These systems assist in tracking and easily find the all data from customers form. Admin are control for file allocation and new employee creation. Supervisors are allocated the customers form to the employee. The employee saw a customer's fill up form then data has been saved on the database, Customers details are also maintained the database. The main features of this system easily entering the all data it's taken from the customers form. This system also helps to completed and pending work is easily identified. This data entry system has been daily upload in the database.

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Requirement / Test case analysis, writing test cases according to the Functional Specifications and understanding Test Plan
  • Offshore Tester for system testing
  • Involved in Test Environment setup and Test Data Preparation for Stubs.
  • Involved in Execution, Identifying defects while Execution
  • Produced Requirements Traceability Matrix to support the application development.
  • Performed end to end testing for Functional and System testing.
  • Accessed data from Oracle database using SQL scripts.
  • Performed defect tracking for the bugs in the application that included documentation, tracking and re-validating defects that helped developers to track the problem and resolve the technical issues.

Project Title 6

Confidential

Client Name

Confidential

Technologies

Java1.4, HTML, Ms-Access

Role

Team Member at eSoft

Team Size

5

Management by metrics is maintaining the all department data's. Department likes CCU, E-BIZ, LOAN, XPU, RMU. It will be Daily Health Report and Monthly Health Report is updating in daily, monthly. Past months highlights are maintained in database. Easily you can check the last month status Future plans are added in this field. It all database is convert excel macro to html format.

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Requirement / Test case analysis, writing test cases according to the Functional Specifications and understanding Test Plan
  • Offshore Tester for system testing
  • Involved in Test Environment setup and Test Data Preparation for Stubs.
  • Involved in Execution, Identifying defects while Execution
  • Produced Requirements Traceability Matrix to support the application development.
  • Performed end to end testing for Functional and System testing.
  • Accessed data from Oracle database using SQL scripts.
  • Performed defect tracking for the bugs in the application that included documentation, tracking and re-validating defects that helped developers to track the problem and resolve the technical issues.

Project Title 7

Confidential

Client Name

Confidential

Technologies

Visual Basic, Windows NT, SQL Server

Role

Team Member at Ritechoice

Team Size

4

Confidential is a company that specializes in developing BackOffice solutions for Stockbrokers and Business Partners in the capital market. Confidential is an organization that enables and ensures stock trading in electronic format. The product automates the transactions of the Depository Participant Dematerialization, Account Transfer, and Inter Settlement Transfer etc., integrating with accounts. The product complies with all standards that would enable the communication process transaction between DP and NSDL.

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Requirement / Test case analysis, writing test cases according to the Functional Specifications and understanding Test Plan
  • Offshore Tester for system testing
  • Involved in Test Environment setup and Test Data Preparation for Stubs.
  • Involved in Execution, Identifying defects while Execution
  • Produced Requirements Traceability Matrix to support the application development.
  • Performed end to end testing for Functional and System testing.
  • Accessed data from Oracle database using SQL scripts.
  • Performed defect tracking for the bugs in the application that included documentation, tracking and re-validating defects that helped developers to track the problem and resolve the technical issues.

Project Title 8

Confidential

Client Name

Confidential

Technologies

JSP, EJB, JDBC, Servlets, Oracle

Role

Team Member at Ritechoice

Team Size

4

The project is aimed at providing an online financial accounting system fully integrated with Travel system and Medical System. The Medical system maintains details of employee wise medical claims and interconnects with financial system. This system is used to keep track of all the medical expenses claimed and produces a detailed report on the usage of the Medical claims. It also stores the information on depends. As this software directly talks to the Financial Accounting system, it is considered to be one of the powerful Medical claim software.

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Requirement / Test case analysis, writing test cases according to the Functional Specifications and understanding Test Plan
  • Offshore Tester for system testing
  • Involved in Test Environment setup and Test Data Preparation for Stubs.
  • Involved in Execution, Identifying defects while Execution
  • Produced Requirements Traceability Matrix to support the application development.
  • Performed end to end testing for Functional and System testing.
  • Accessed data from Oracle database using SQL scripts.
  • Performed defect tracking for the bugs in the application that included documentation, tracking and re-validating defects that helped developers to track the problem and resolve the technical issues.

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