Amarendra Pattnaik

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eMail: aceqmv@r.postjobfree.com

Career Summary:

< Result oriented Software QA Lead with over 11 years of experience in

Software Testing and Quality Assurance including 5 years in Managing and

Leading large, SDLC compliant on-shore and off-shore QA test teams

< 7+ years of QA test and process experience working in team and individual

tester capacity testing Web-based and enterprise applications in various

industries such as Banking, Telecom and Media & Entertainment

< 5+ years of experience as QA lead developing QA Plans, Strategies,

Estimation, Schedules and 2+ years of test Management experience with

strong focus on test strategy & Planning, forecasting, scheduling,

estimations, team management, resource management, issue management,

project implementation and closure

< 3+ years of Canadian IT experience (at Onshore) as QA lead and Onshore

coordinator for major clients TD Bank and Rogers Communications

< 5+ years of hands on ability to set up and configure test environments

and test data setup for different enviornments

< 3+ years of hands on experience in Web services / SOA Testing using

Parasoft SOA test and SOAP UI using SOAP, REST / API and web services

automation testing

< 3+ years of experience in ETL / DWH / BI testing using Datastage ETL tool

and SQL for data validations in Data migration projects

< 2+ years of experience in XML validation from BIX extracts and PEGA PRPC

web applications testing.

< 1+ years of experience in Mainframe testing in IBM Mainframe environment

for off host batch validation

< Expertise in using test management and defect management tools such as HP

Quality Center and JIRA

< Certified Test Manager - CSTM and Brainbench certified in Software

Testing and Quality Assurance

Professional Experience:

Software Test Specialist - Test Lead Sept

2006 - May 2014

IBM India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, INDIA

Client TD Bank, Canada

Location Onsite at Toronto, Canada

Duration July 2010 to May 2014

Key Projects CAIRO - Credit Adjudication Initiation Review and

Name Origination

A2F - Access to Funds

OSO - Online Sales and Onboarding

Role QA Lead and Onshore Coordinator

Technologies .NET, SQL Server, JAVA, J2EE, ORACLE, JCL, DB2

Used

Application & HP Quality Centre 10.0, JIRA, QTP, BASEX, JIRA, S3

Tools Used Application, IBM Host on Demand, iRise, SOAP UI,

Parasoft SOA test 6.2, Pega PRPC

Types of Web applications testing, JCL Batch files testing,

Testing Functional Automation Testing, Mainframe Testing, XML

Validations Testing, Functional Testing, System Testing

(SIT/EIT), Acceptance Testing (BAT/UAT/PAT), Smoke

Testing / Sandbox Testing

Responsibilities:

. Managed testing team of size 4 members onshore and 7 Members Offshore

team.

. Prepared test plan and strategy documents

. Reviews of test work products prepared by team members and formal reviews

and walkthroughs

. Analysis of requirements during project initiation phase

. Keep track of requirements for test coverage and functional validations

. Forecast and Estimates for current and future test deliverables

. Develop and implement test plans

. Escalate issues and risks to Test Manager and Project Manager

. Task assignment to all QA team members and to ensure all resources have

sufficient work in the project to work on

. Organize and attend meetings - Weekly Team Meetings, daily status

meetings with test manager, Defect triage calls

. Frequent status checkpoint calls with team

. Acted as onshore/offshore test coordinator between client, development

and QA team

. Track and report for all testing activities, test results, defects, test

cases coverage

. Assisted automation team for automating test scripts to be used for

regression tests

. Attended weekly project progress meeting

. Identified training requirements, conduct internal trainings, arranged

product overview meetings by BAs

. Weekly meetings with DM and onshore managers

Client Rogers Communications, Canada

Location Onsite at Brampton, Canada

Duration Sept 2009 to July 2010

Key Project Rogers Business Transformation

Name

Role Test Lead and Onshore Coordinator

Technologies REST, SOAP, WSDL, XML, JMS, MQ, XSD, Amdocs CRM 7.5

Used

Application & Parasoft SOA Test 6.2, Rational Service Tester (RST)

Tools Used 8.1, SOAP UI, SOA Accelerator, Rational Quality Manager

(RQM 2.0.1), Rational Clear Quest, Rational Clear Case,

JXplorer, OER (Oracle Enterprise Repository)

Types of SOA Testing, Web Services Testing (JMS, MQ), Integration

Testing testing

Responsibilities:

. Identifying test requirements from various design documents DDD, IDD,

HLD, SSD, IAs, CRs.

. Automation testing for synchronous service tests using Parasoft SOA

Test, Rational Service Tester (RST) and SOAP UI for SOAP requests and

asynchronous service tests using SOA Accelerator for JMS/MQ messages.

. Assess manual test coverage and plan and coordinate the creation of

automated tests (web UI, REST API)

. Prepared test scripts and test suites in SOA Test and SOAPUI invoking

WSDLs from endpoints for various integrated environments for Testing

interfaces and message transmission between various legacy and new

applications.

. Automated Execution of test scripts from RQM in RST tool and report

the results in RQM by test suite and test scheduling of multiple test

scripts for Smoke & Regression Test Cases.

. Identify areas which require modification and updating the scripts

accordingly utilizing verification points to perform functional

validation of the synchronous web service for SOAP request and

response. Utilization of data pools to extend a single recorded test

for multiple data sets from CSV/spreadsheets.

. Preparation of test cases and test plans in Test Management tool RQM

2.0.1 for various application services both EIF and EAI services.

Performed layer7 secured web service testing using Parasoft SOA Test

for SOAP requests and tested

. Creation of defects in Rational Clear Quest for failed test cases from

RQM and tracking of defects till closure.

. Invoke WSDLs from endpoints, Validation of web service request and

response, validation of format and structure for one or multiple

interfaces or application or components.

. Preparation of test scripts in SOA Test and editing scripts and

maintain customized test scripts

. Analysis of Test execution results in SOA Test and edit services

scripts based on analysis.

. Performed automated provisioning end to end tests from Amdocs ordering

to APS using Jxplorer (LDAP browser)

. Performed integration testing between various Amdocs applications with

Rogers legacy or BT applications

. Attend daily, weekly meetings and provide test execution status in

form of dash board reports, RQM daily test execution reports.

. Attending Weekly onshore - offshore meeting, Triage meetings,

Execution handover meetings

. Train the new recruits in SOA, web services testing concepts and

testing tools.

. Presented various presentations to business users for SOA testing

using test tools for automated testing.

. Performed manual testing of connectivity between Amdocs and Rogers New

or BT applications (Amdocs CRM 7.5, OMS, ASRM, ASMS, APS etc.)

. Worked as RQM SPOC for Integration test team and effectively used RQM

for automated testing for RST test scripts.

Client IBM Internal, SEA&T, USA

Location Offshore at New Delhi, India

Duration Nov 2008 to Sept 2009

Key Project IACRR (International Assignee Cross-Reporting Repository)

Name

Role Test Lead

Technologies Datastage 7.5.2, Cognos 8.0, AIX, J2EE, DB2

Used

Application & Rational Quality Manager 1.0, Rational Team Concert

Tools Used

Types of ETL / DWH Testing, Web Application Testing (UI Testing),

Testing Cognos Report testing - BI Testing, Functional Testing

(FVT), System Testing (SIT), Acceptance testing (UAT)

Responsibilities:

. Managing and Leading the IACRR test team as a Test Lead for 5 ETL

Testers, 2 Web Tester and 2 BI Tester

. Performing Automation testing using Rational Functional Tester (RFT)

as well as ETL testing using Datastage ETL Tool, Defect verification

and manual Regression run using Rational Quality Manager. Executing

performance testing using ETL archival and offline scripting for one

of the client.

. Managing build fixes on concise timeline basis. Ensuring quality

deliverable to the customer.

. Test Plan and Effort Estimation plans for 18 sprints.

. Resource allocation & task allocation to the team of 5 ETL Testers.

. Managing communication and coordination with the Business Analysts,

Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), Product Management team and Customer to

verify and close the Hot fixes on timely basis.

. Task allocation to the Team member. Planning for server deployment and

hot fix deployment along with test strategy and test plan for various

hot fixes in a month.

. Releasing the hot fixes to Customer on timely basis.

. Used Agile methodology for testing of different test phases FVT, SIT,

UAT

. Defect Reporting and verification of the resolved defects

. Planned the test sprint cycles in co-ordination with the test manager,

PM and customer

. Training and Mentoring the team

. Maintain a weekly status dash board for describing the overall testing

status of the project, which projects the activity performed for the

entire week by team for the current week as well as for the coming

week. The team utilization for the current week and the next week. The

achievement for the current month and issues to be escalated to the

management.

Client Telstra Corporation, Australia

Location Onsite at Melbourne, Australia and Offshore at Kolkata,

India

Duration Dec 2006 to Oct 2008

Key Project BSS Data Migration

Name

Role Sr. ETL Tester (Module test lead)

Technologies SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, Oracle 9i

Used

Application & Accential Datastage 7.5.2, Rational Clear Quest Web

Tools Used 7.0,SSH Secure Shell 3.2.9, Putty, TOAD, Siebel &

Comverse-Kenan FX BSS Systems

Types of ETL / DWH Testing, System Testing, GUI Testing

Testing

Responsibilities:

. Analysis of all Technical Transformation Rules, Business Translation

Rules for both functional and business requirements from the Mapping

Specifications and Functional Design specifications.

. Provides up-to-date information on testing status, schedule, defects,

issues, and risks.

. Train team members on process and procedures, mentor on tool sets and

processes.

. Participate in project review meetings to resolve defect related

issues identified during artifact/deliverable reviews

. Preparation of System Test Conditions, System Test Plans, System Test

Data for BPI source systems entities.

. Validation of Test Plans injecting SQL queries using database Oracle

9i and TOAD.

. Validation of Transformation Jobs using DataStage tool.

. Logging of defects, Retesting of resolved defects, updating of

progress and retest details in Clear Quest and Mercury Quality Centre.

. Analysis of Test Results and preparation of System Test Summary

reports.

Software Engineer (QA) May 2005 -

Sept 2006

Infinite Computer Solutions India Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore, INDIA

Client IBM Global Technology Center (GTC), USA

Location Offshore at Bangalore, India

Duration May 2005 to Sept 2006

Key Project Name CIRATS 1.0 (Compliance Issue Risk and APAR Tracking

System)

Role Sr. Test engineer

Technologies Used Java, JSP, J2EE, Websphere, IBM DB2 UDB v8.1, AIX 5.3

Application & CMVC, Test Tracking Tool, Rational Functional Tester

Tools Used (RFT 7.0), VNC, UNIX

Types of Testing Database Testing, Compatibility Testing, GUI Testing,

Functional Testing (FVT), System Testing (SVT),

Functional Automation Testing

Responsibilities:

. Participated in gathering and analysing the testing requirements by

studying and analysing SRS, Detailed Design Document, Database Design

Document and Use Case Models to determine testing scope.

. Developing automation scripts using Rational Functional Tester,

Implementing the framework for automation defined by ITCL.

. Written Test Scenarios and Test Cases for Notifications and Account

Records Module.

. Participated in Formal Review and Internal Review of Test Cases for

Department Records and Admin Module.

. Involved in extensive Functional verification testing (FVT), System

verification testing (SVT) and Regression testing of web and database

components of the application for Account Records, Notification and

Admin Module.

. Participate in defect review meetings to resolve bug related issues

with project team.

. Ensure adherence to Testing Quality Standards.

. Testing application in different browsers (Mozilla Firefox and IE) and

O/S (AIX and Windows).

. Executed SQL statements for data validation to check data integrity,

error handling, data redundancy, and data consistency.

. Logging the defects through CMVC and Tracking those defects by TTT

(Test Tracking Tool) till closure. Also followed up with development

team to verify defect fixes and update defect status.

. Extensively worked on the data validation, manipulation and updating

the tables using SQL query language.

. Executed TCs as per test schedule, Reporting Test Execution Results in

TIR and providing data for RTVM (Requirement Traceability Verification

Matrix).

Past Experience:

Worked as Software Engineer - Testing in CSM Technologies Pvt. Ltd. [Sep

2003 - Apr 2005]

Worked as Programmer (UI Designer) in National Informatics Centre (NIC)

[Jul 2002 - Aug 2003]

Educational Qualification:

. Master of Computer Applications (MCA) from IGNOU, New Delhi, India

[June 2002]

. B. Sc. (Major in Mathematics) from R.C.M. Science College, Berhampur

University, India. [June 1996]

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