Project Quality Assurance

Location:

400067, India

Posted:

March 18, 2011

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Profile

* An experienced Software Programmer, with 4.5 years of experience in IT

industry on Mainframe technology like COBOL, DB2 and JCL with client work

location experience for 6 months.

* Extensive problem solving skills with solid understanding of business

needs

* Excellent communication, interpersonal, intuitive, technical, and

leadership skills

* Excellent ability to articulate well with clients and adapt to changing

environments

* Self-starter, good analytical problem solving capabilities and strong

emphasis on quality

Experience Summary

More than 4 years of experience in IT Industry

? Having knowledge in IBM Mainframe Applications.

? Having knowledge in Developing, Implementing, Documentation and

Executing of a project.

? Having knowledge in Unit Testing, System Testing and User Acceptance

Testing.

? Experience in preparations of Test Plans & Test Cases in conjunction

with the Business requirements.

* Worked at onsite for a period of 6 months.

* Experienced in interacting with clients and to provide sizing for the

projects.

* Have sound domain knowledge of the Banking and Financial Services ( in

Credit card division)

* Having certification in DB2-730 from IBM

Work Experience

* Accenture Pvt Ltd

Duration: August 2010 - Till Date

* Hexaware Technologies Ltd.

Duration: Feb 2010 - August 2010

* SYNTEL Ltd.

Duration: November 2006 - Feb 2010

Skills

* IBM Mainframe COBOL, JCL

* Data Base DB2

* Operating System MVS for Mainframes, DOS, Windows NT/, Windows

2000.

* Microsoft Tech. Working knowledge of MS Office suite (Word,

Excel, Power Point), VISIO.

* Mainframe Tools CHANGEMAN, INFOMAN, FILE-AID, FILE-AID FOR DB2,

JOBTRAC, JOBSCAN, MANAGENOW, SPUFI AND QMF.

* Quality Testing Tools Mercury Quality Center, HP Quality Center.

* Domains Banking and Financial Products, P&C Insurance.

* Soft Skills Excellent Communication & Presentation Skills.

* Languages English, Hindi, Gujarati.

Education

* Certification in DB2-730 with distinction from IBM in 2009.

* Master of Science in Information Technology, With first class from

Nagindas Khandwala College (Mumbai), Mumbai University in 2008.

* Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, With distinction from

Nagindas Khandwala College (Mumbai), Mumbai University in 2006.

* HSC, with First Class from SVIS College (Mumbai), Mumbai University in

2002.

? SSC, with First Class from SVP School (Mumbai), in March-2000.

Functional Experience

August 2010 - Till date

Accenture Pvt Ltd

Current Designation: Senior Software Engineer

Project Experience

Company: Accenture Pvt LTd.

Client: Hartford - P& C Insurance

Brief description of the project:

The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: HIG) is one of the

largest investment and insurance companies based in the United States.

The Hartford is a leading provider of investment products - annuities,

mutual funds, college savings plans - as well as life insurance, group

and employee benefits, automobile and homeowners' insurance, and

business insurance. The Hartford is the 7th-largest business insurance

carrier in the United States based on written premium. It is a market

leader in small business insurance. The Hartford has two major

divisions: Life and Property and Casualty (P&C).

. Life deals with insuring people's lives and retirements and has

operations in several countries.

. P& C insures people's home, automobiles, businesses from damage

and liabilities that may incur from their actions.

Below are the projects in which I worked from August 2010 to till date.

Project: ICON (InterComm on the Net)

Client: Hartford

Duration: Aug 2010 - till date

Technology Used: COBOL, DB2, JCL, IMS, MCS, MFE.

Project Detail: This project is a web-based new business quoting and

submission tool for small commercial business (with sales ranging up to

$15 million), used by independent agents.

. Icon supports following LOB:

o Traditional Spectrum (< 5 Million

o Xpand Spectrum

o Auto

o Worker's Compensation

. The Functions of ICON - Mainframe

o Data collection (screen flow)

o Pass details to the Jacada Screen scraping (Web Front end)

o Interaction with CLA database.

o Pass E-SID to Hartsource for Underwriting Process.

o Quote Proposal

o Rating (through CLA Rating engine)

o Requoting

o Accessibility to Underwriting decision

o Access Integrated Services

All the 3 LOB's has to undergo Rating (QQ) and Submission (RI) phase

before the quote is verified by underwriters

. Before any quote is submitted, it needs to undergo following three

phases:

o Pre Qualification: This is a process to capture the customer

information to setup an account with the agent. The type of

business, total value of the customer's business and the

total annual sales of the customer is captured to evaluate

the risk of the business

o Quoting: The Agent quotes the policy in EBC through ICON 2.0

presentation layer. ICON allows agents to quote proposal for

any of the 3 LOB's

o Submission: Submission also called as Request Issue(RI), is a

process of submitting a firm quote to underwriters for their

approval

Role in Project: Team Member and Developer as offshore Teach Lead.

Responsibility: 1.Design Flow Diagrams (To be) 2.Code Programs

3.Conducting System Test, Unit Test and support for User Acceptance Test

of the new transactions 4. Create MCS requests 5. Assign the work 6.

Review the Code 7. Review the design and test doc

Functional Experience

Feb 2010 - August 2010

Hexaware Technologies Ltd

Current Designation: Senior Software Engineer

As a team member my responsibilities have included:

System Study.

Delivery responsibilities for the assigned modules.

Quality assurance according to Amex.

Working on multiple modules at the same time in the project.

To train new team members and share knowledge to existing team.

Project Experience

Company: Hexaware Technologies Ltd.

Client: Unisys

Brief description of the project:

BAMCS is Business And Manufacturing Control System which deals with

Supply Chain Management. Its Primary function is to keep the records

of the inventory and the orders for the parts or the components. BAMCS

is internally divided into its sub modules, some of which are listed

below:

1. MDB: Manufacturing Database

2. SOM: Sales Order management

3. MPS: Master Production Scheduling

4. PIM: Purchasing Information Management

5. MRP: Material Requirement Planning

6. APM: Account Payable Module

7. INV: Inventory Module

Functional Experience

Nov 2006 till Feb 2010

SYNTEL Ltd

Designation: Analyst Programmer

As a team member my responsibilities have included:

System Study.

Delivery responsibilities for the assigned modules.

Quality assurance according to Amex.

Working on multiple modules at the same time in the project.

To train new team members and share knowledge to existing team.

Project Experience

Company: SYNTEL India Ltd.

Client: American Express - Credit Card Division

Brief description of the project:

Genesis is a Global Accounts Payables application. It provides AP

Functionality for AMEX credit cards. Its primary function is to pay

Service Establishments (shops/stores etc. referred as SE) who accept

AMEX credit cards. Genesis supports all the world regions other than

North America. In Genesis, the world is divided into 3 regions viz.

EMEA, JAPA, and LAC supporting around 33 different countries. Each

region runs on a different mainframe.

Genesis is divided into 2 main functional areas

1. Financials

2. Non-Financials

Below are the projects in which I worked from Jan 2007 to Feb 2010.

Project: MPR Letter - Merchant Pricing Review Letter

Client: American Express

Duration: Feb 2007 - Jan 2008

Technology Used: COBOL, DB2, JCL, INFOMAN and CHANGEMAN.

Project Detail: This project will centralize the letter generation

processes into the MPR platform. MPR will apply revised business rules

against letter data records to validate and determine if the records

should be rejected. Rejected MPR letters will be sent back to the MPR

platform to be worked by the Pricing team. If the rates are corrected

and then released, the letter will be re-routed to be mailed to the

Letter SE. MPR will send valid letter files to a 3rd party vendor who

will generate and mail the letters globally to MPR Merchants.

A MPR Letter notifies the Merchant that their

pricing structure will be adjusted. The 'Down Letters' indicates that

the Merchant's discount rate will decrease. An 'Up Letter' indicates

that the Merchant's discount rate will increase. A 'Mixed Letter' is sent

to those accounts that have some rates up and some rates down.

The project will provide the opportunity to decommission the letter

process generated out of BROC.

Business Benefits:

. Provide consistent letter generation integrity and controls across

all regions and

industries

. Compliance with AET Application Standards by replacing Business T

functionality

. Provide complete reporting details

. Demand Management opportunity (manual work by Technologies and

Pricing team)

In addition, this project will address a Change Request that was opened

to deal with the display of blended rates on Genesis On-line

Transactions, Genesis Reports and MPR.

Role in Project: Designer and Developer as Team Member.

Responsibility: 1.Design Flow Diagrams (To be) 2.Code Programs

3.Conducting System Test, Unit Test and User Acceptance Test of the new

transactions 4. Create Changeman Packages 5. Create CMR

Project: SMPS - Small Merchant Pricing Structure

Client: American Express

Duration: Jan 2008 - Sep 2008

Technology Used: COBOL, DB2, JCL, COOL: GEN, INFOMAN and CHANGEMAN.

Project Detail: This project will add flexibility to Flat Fee and SBI in

order to meet customer demands and support American Express in meeting

coverage targets in the international markets. With Small Merchant

Pricing Structure Phase II, Genesis will be modified to reset Flat Fee

and SBI programs annually or based on a pre-fined date (date driven),

provide the ability to have multiple pricing plan structures at the same

industry level, link FF and SBI pricing plans to other fees (e.g., annual

fee), and provide the capability to aggregate charge volume to the top-of-

chain.

This project will add flexibility to Flat Fee

and SBI in order to meet customer demands and support American Express in

meeting coverage targets in the international markets. With Small

Merchant Pricing Structure Phase II, Genesis will be modified to reset

Flat Fee and SBI programs annually or based on a pre-fined date (date

driven), provide the ability to have multiple pricing plan structures at

the same industry level, link FF and SBI pricing plans to other fees

(e.g., annual fee), and provide the capability to aggregate charge volume

to the top-of-chain.

Role in Project: Designer and Developer as Team Member.

Responsibility: 1.Design Flow Diagrams (To be) 2.Code Programs

3.Conducting System Test, Unit Test and User Acceptance Test of the new

transactions 4. Create Changeman Packages 5. Create CMR

Project: Iberian Airlines

Client: American Express

Duration: March 2008 - Jun 2008

Technology Used: COBOL, DB2, JCL, INFOMAN and CHANGEMAN.

Project Detail: This Project was to extract the merchant characteristics

for the Iberian Merchants.

Role in Project: Project Lead.

Responsibility: 1.Design Flow Diagrams (To be) 2. Assign the work 2.Code

Programs 3. Review the Code 3.Conducting System Test, Unit Test and User

Acceptance Test of the new transactions 4. Create Changeman Packages 5.

Create CMR

Project: HVS (Hierarchy Verification System)

Client: American Express

Duration: April 2008 - Oct 2008

Technology Used: COBOL, DB2, JCL, INFOMAN and CHANGEMAN.

Project Detail: HVS is a project meant to generate following reports for

the International Merchants:

. Master Report

. No action, Affiliate and Disaffiliate Report

. Did not find Report

. Detail Report

. Summary Report

There are merchants whose hierarchy gets maintained so these reports will

inform about the Hierarchy maintenance.

Role in Project: Project Lead.

Responsibility: 1.Design Flow Diagrams (To be) 2. Assign the work 2.Code

Programs 3. Review the Code 3.Conducting System Test, Unit Test and User

Acceptance Test of the new transactions 4. Create Changeman Packages 5.

Create CMR

Project: SEDEROG

Client: American Express

Duration: September2009 - February 2010

Technology Used: COBOL, DB2, JCL, INFOMAN and CHANGEMAN.

Project Detail: Currently there exist no derogatory or fraud checks

being performed on the merchant Setup process. This poses a risk to

American Express as any prior merchant who have been Cancelled with a

derogatory reason could easily be accepted and setup once again. If this

occurs, there could be a potential decline of revenue for American

Express due to fraud losses.

Hence this project was introduced to have a new Risk Management system in

Genesis that would filter out applying merchants and perform the

following segment checks:

1. SE Derogatory Check

2. Fraud Check

Role in Project: Designer and Developer as Team Member.

Responsibility: 1.Design Flow Diagrams (To be) 2.Code Programs

3.Conducting System Test, Unit Test and User Acceptance Test of the new

transactions 4. Create Change man Packages 5. Create CMR

Project: Risk Exposure project

Client: American Express

Duration: September2009 - February 2010

Technology Used: COBOL, DB2, JCL, INFOMAN and CHANGEMAN.

Project Detail: This project basically includes providing files

(settlement files) to IDN for repository and validation purpose.

Role in Project: Designer and Developer as Team Member.

Responsibility: 1.Design Flow Diagrams (To be) 2.Code Programs

3.Conducting System Test, Unit Test and User Acceptance Test of the new

transactions 4. Create Change man Packages 5. Create CMR

Adhoc and short service requests:

The Adhoc work includes creation of PRC, CMR, and SSR and the SSR work

includes the short term requests made by the client either to extract

data from the database for the users to review it or to update the

database to support other systems.

Below are the projects which I lead from Onsite.

Project: HVS (Hierarchy Verification System)

Client: American Express

Duration: Oct 2008

Technology Used: COBOL, DB2, JCL, INFOMAN and CHANGEMAN.

Project Detail: HVS is a project meant to generate following reports for

the International Merchants:

. Master Report

. No action, Affiliate and Disaffiliate Report

. Did not find Report

. Detail Report

. Summary Report

There are merchants whose hierarchy gets maintained so these reports will

inform about the Hierarchy maintenance.

Role in Project: Project Lead.

Responsibility: 1.Design Flow Diagrams (To be) 2. Assign the work 2.Code

Programs 3. Review the Code 3.Conducting System Test, Unit Test and User

Acceptance Test of the new transactions 4. Create Changeman Packages 5.

Create CMR

Project: SMPS - Small Merchant Pricing Structure - II

Client: American Express

Duration: Oct 2008 - April 2009