Sameer Madhav Yajurvedi

Professional Summary Details

A dynamic professional with 12 years of rich experience in software

testing, areas of Test management, Functional testing, Automation,

Performance and Security Testing

Comprehensive experience and ownership in Requirement Understanding,

Effort estimation,Test planning, Test Strategy, Traceability Metrics, QA

Sign off documents

Test data creation, Test Scenario, Test Case design & reviews

Identify critical defects, conducting defect triage meetings; ensure

defects closer and root cause analysis

Active participation in smooth rollout of various releases including

customer packs and maintenance releases

Design, implement and execute Automation framework using QTP 11.00

In depth knowledge of trade life cycle, regulations, BASEL rules

Ensuring timely completion and delivery of the project using sprints in

scrum methodology

Handling resource allocations and setting up communication channels across

the various horizons of the organization structure

Managing large / multidisciplinary teams, recruiting, mentoring, coaching

project teams

Performance Management Risk Mitigation & Control

TECHNICAL PURVIEW:

Test Management: Quality Center

Functional Automation Tools - QTP 11.00 (HP)

Defect Tracking Tools: Test Track, Jira, Bugzilla

Performance Tools: J meter 2.11, Load Runner 12.01

Database: My SQL Enterprise Edition

Others: SOAPUI, Load Simulator, OAT Tool

DOMAIN

Capital Markets Surveillance

Risk Assessment and Management (BASEL)

Payments

Core Banking

Storage

NOTEBALE CREDITS

Design generic automation framework for Synapse (In built Policy engine)

based applications

On-time delivery of over 20 product releases and reduced defect

leakage to less than 3% in the last 5 releases

SCHOLASTICS

B.E Mechanical from Karnataka University Dharwar (KUD) 2000

SunGard Technology Solutions

(Project Lead QA - May 2010 - Till Date)

SunGard's Protegent suite of products designed specifically to monitor

and manage insider trading activity mitigate internal and regulatory

risks.

. Requirement understanding, mapping requirements to Trade Regulations

. In depth knowledge of Trade life cycle, Front office, Middle office

and back office operations

. Very good knowledge and experience on automated trading surveillance

including REMIT, MiFID 2

. In depth knowledge of international FICC and equity markets, products

and services ETD and OTC, knowledge of regulatory environment EMIR,

ESMA

. Design Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Estimations, Traceability

metrics & sign off documents

. Conversion of story points into test scenarios and test cases at

granular level

. Test execution for Policy engine, internally built for Product (IP of

Protegent)

. Hands on Functional testing, Integration testing, Regression testing,

Black box testing

. Test multi class trade violations triggered by product

. Escalate Incidents/issues to Development teams and/or Management as

appropriate

. Handle change requests and implement strategy to handle high priority

delivery tasks

. Articulate test results, status reports, Test Metrics and QA Dashboard

. Automation framework development and script execution using QTP 11.00

. Presented POC for nonfunctional testing using J meter 2.11

. Managing BU expectations and controlling attrition

. Building team skill sets, mentoring & monitoring QA teams

. Design KRAs, manage performance appraisals of QA team

. Worked with Clients like Wells Forgo, Prudential, Bluebay, Amriprise,

Willington, Grand Thorton

Cognizant Technology Solutions

(Associate Projects - July 2007 - May 2010)

Brokers & Dealers Application Testing

Client - BNYM

(Associate Projects- Mar 2009 - May 2010)

This application specifically being used by brokers and dealers associated

with BNYM. End users are going to leverage this application for a trade

settlement purpose.

Contribution:

. Create and execute QA Test Plans, test strategy and test cases

. Ensure delivery on schedule and with complete documentation

. Test Execution of flex based application for Brokers and dealers

operations

. Issue Tracking and design issue root cause and closure report

. Metrics presentation to Executive Management

. Coordinate with SMEs for clarification on functionality &

discrepancies in documents

Corporate-Markets Advance Rating Engine - BASEL Client -

LLOYDS BANK, UK

(Onsite Coordinator - May '08 - Mar'09)

Corporate Markets Advanced Ratings Engine (CARE) is one component of the

overall credit sanctioning process. This is a calculation engine used for

EAD & LGD calculation required for RWA

Contributions:

. Worked as QA Onsite Coordinator, involved in Requirement Gathering &

Analysis and Test Planning, test case review

. Manage and coordinate with offshore team to ensure delivery on

schedule

. Work closely with SMEs for requirement gathering and manage Change

Requests

. In depth knowledge of BASEL rules, collateral apportionment,

. Set up triage meetings to discuss issues with client and development

team (Polaris)

. Analyze change in requirements and assess impact on test estimations

. Launch Continuous Knowledge Improvement Program to enhance domain

skills of QA team

. Test Requirement prototypes to calculate EAD and LGD outputs as per

BASEL regulations

Cross Channel Transaction Monitoring (CCTM) - Client -

LLOYDS BANK, UK

(QA Offshore Lead - Jan'08 -MAY'08)

CCTM project is fraud monitoring tool in the faster payment systems. This

is one layer above the Faster Payments. The testing focus was to ensure

the Integration between different modules. This included with two

releases as LITE and Phase 1.

Contributions:

. Understand Cross channels of payment processes, prepare test data used

for parsing

. Build test scenarios /cases from user stories, execute test cases

. Ensure alignment of change requests with test cases

. Prepare daily, weekly status and QA Dashboard

. Discuss the criticality of requirements and prioritize test cases

Faster Payment System (FPS) Application - Client -

LLOYDS BANK, UK

(QA Offshore Lead - July'07 -Jan'08)

FPS application helps bank to manage Faster Payments, FPS processes

different types of payment messages like Single Immediate Payment (SIP),

Standard Transfer Order (STO) and Future Dated Payment (FDP) from

different source channels in place.

Contributions:

. Test Planning, Resource planning and hands on testing FPS application

. Client coordination and manage deliverables from 4 to 5 QA team

members

. Build test scenarios for RTGS payments, interbank payments

. Used MQ and connect direct tools integrating multiple payment message

. Return and Reversal Payments, Inward/Outward Payments Testing of

Payment messages form.

Scentric Software Private Limited

(Sr. Software Engineer QA, April 2005 - March 2007)

Destiny R2 - FCAS (Fixed Content Address System) R1 & R2

Client - EMC

Scentric has flagship product called 'Destiny' it is being integrated

with the EMC Centera server. The integration helps to provide the unique

solution of the universal data classification. Destiny is aligned

with Information life cycle management (ILM) principles.

Contributions:

. Requirement analysis, test case / scenario development

. Installation and integration of product with EMC Centera Server.

. Perform Sanity, Adhoc, Exploratory, Error Guessing, Compatibility,

Integration, Equivalence Partitioning, boundary value analysis,

Recovery testing and Regression testing.

. Prepare Test Environment, installation of MS exchange, Parent & sub

domain, creating active directory

. Checking XML logs for the Communication testing

. Test data creation using Load Simulator

. Use Orthogonal Array Approach to derive test cases (OAT)

. Used Test case point estimation (TCP) method

Samyak Madhyam Private Limited

(QA Engineer, Sept 2002 - March 2005)

Business Process Outsourcing Oct 04 -

April 05

Testing www.mahaurja.com (Web Based Project) April 04 -

Sept. 04

Inventory Control System April 03 - March 04

Vehicle Insurance System Sept. 02 - March 03

Contributions:

. Application Understanding and Manual Functional Testing.

. Test Change requests assess impact of new change on system.

. Design & Execution of System test cases for the changed/newly added

functionality in a system.

. Defects Reporting

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