Project Engineer
Resume:
Mahesh Mane
Professional Profile
Dedicated and results-driven Test Lead with highly successful background in Automation and Manual
Testing. Experience in working with leading brands in the competitive retail, Healthcare, Banking,
Insurance and Wealth Management industries with primary focus on exceeding expectation for customer
service delivery. Possesses excellent interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills and the ability
to develop and maintain mutually beneficial internal and external relationships. Enjoys being part of, as
well as managing, motivating and training, a successful and productive team, and thrives in highly
pressurised and challenging working environments.
Since January 2010 working overseas at client location for Zensar Technologies Limited, South Africa
as a Test Lead.
• Total 9.9 years of IT industry experience encompassing a wide range of skill set, roles and
industry verticals.
• Excellent experience in Automation and manual testing (functional, performance and database
testing), Requirements Gathering, Source system analysis, and providing implementation Road
map.
• Implemented testing process at client location.
• Experience in leading and managing teams. Handled multiple roles – Test Lead, Team Lead and
developer.
• Executed software projects for Healthcare, Banking, Insurance, Retail, and Wealth Management.
• Strong analytical skills and Prototype Development knowledge.
• Good communication skills, interpersonal skills, self-motivated, quick learner, team player.
Education and Background
• C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advance Computing) from Pune University, India (2000)
• Post Graduate Advance diploma in Technical and Analytical Chemistry from BTE, India (1997-
1998)
• Bachelor of Science (Chemistry) from Mumbai University, India (1996-1997)
Contact Details
Email: abobc0@r.postjobfree.com
Cell: +27-727******, currently working in South Africa under Work Permit, expiring in 2016.
Mahesh Mane
Summary
Industries Healthcare, Banking, Insurance, Retail, and Wealth Management
Operating System Windows NT/XP
Language ASP, ASP.NET
Automation Tools QTP v11, LoadRunner 9.5, NeoLoad 3.0, Quality Centre, Mantis,
PVCS, VSS, VSTS 2008 Test Editon
Database SQL Server 2008
Software Development Tool Dream Weaver MX
Project History (in reverse chronological order)
Customer: STANLIB, Johannesburg January 2010 – Till
Date
Company: Zensar Technologies Ltd., South Africa
Role: Test Lead at Johannesburg, South Africa
Projects: Virtual Investment Centre, COMPASS, Silica, Fees and Funds
Virtual Investment Centre - application monitor users investment more efficiently with STANLIB secure
investment site (VIC). The STANLIB investment centre gives users a range of online services which
handle the numbers of portfolios. The new functionality added in the VIC which enable user to complete
and generate Linked product servicing forms. Certain details are pre populated on the form to save users
time.
Aggressively working on LISP and UT new business, Switches, Transfers and Withdrawal work process
for end to end testing. As a Test Lead responsible for managing multiple project for functional
regression performance testing and Database testing.
On-Job Accomplishment:
• Responsible for Kick of meeting with client.
• Analysis of requirements and Scripts.
• Controlling and Monitoring project related task.
• Analyse the possibility of changing scope due to a new problem.
Mahesh Mane
• Participated in technical and Business flow discussion with developers and Business team.
• Communication with client for discussion on issues and appropriate solutions.
• Designing, executing Test Scripts and evaluating Test Results.
• Performing end to end testing
• Responsible for testing Functional regression, UI, and performance.
• Prepared Test Completion report.
Environments: QTP v 11.00, VSTS 2008 Test Edition Tool, LoadRunner 9.5, NeoLoad 3.0
Team Size: 11
Customer: Carrefour, India August 2009 – December 2009
Company: Zensar Technologies Ltd., India
Role: Test Lead at Pune, India
To develop and deploy Web Portal for Carrefour (Customer Management Tool, Supplier Portal & WCS –
Supplier Portal integration) so that its retail business processes can be automated by aligning with other
systems.
Achievement: Received SSU Award and Retail/TCOE head appreciations for the projects I worked on.
As a Test Lead responsible for managing below tasks.
On-Job Accomplishment:
• Responsible for Kick of meeting with internal team.
• Analysis of requirements for new project and impact analysis.
• Controlling and Monitoring project related task including people management
• Analysed the possibility of changing scope due to a new problem
• Managing the adequacy of resources
• Responsible for preparing Test Plan.
• Responsible for reviewing Test Cases.
• Participated in technical discussion with developers and test team.
• Communication with internal and external customer for discussion on issues and appropriate
solutions
• Internal Auditor for Quality.
Mahesh Mane
• Responsible for testing Functional, UI, Browsers Compatibility and regression.
• Designing, executing Test Cases and evaluating Test Results.
• Prepared Test Completion report.
• Daily status meeting with internal team.
• Weekly status meeting with client.
• Lesson learned meeting with team.
Environments: DHTML, JavaScript, Asp 3.0, ASP.NET, JSP, CSS, MS Excel
Team Size: 13
Customer: John Lewis, UK May 2009 – July 2009
Company: Zensar Technologies Ltd.
Role: Senior Test Engineer at Pune, India
John Lewis Direct is the Internet and catalogue arm of John Lewis department stores and is one of the
fastest growing parts of the John Lewis business. It aims to be the UK's leading direct selling retailer in its
core product areas of home wares, gifts and electrical/technology products.
As a Sr. Test Engineer responsible for managing below tasks.
On-Job Accomplishment:
• Responsible for Kick of meeting with client.
• Analysis of requirements for new project and impact analysis (Specs, images, baseline code)..
• Responsible for preparing Test Plan.
• Controlling and Monitoring project related task.
• Analysed the possibility of changing scope due to a new problem.
• Managing the adequacy of resources.
Mahesh Mane
• Participated in technical discussion with developers and test team.
• Communication with internal and external customer for discussion on issues and appropriate
solutions.
• Responsible for reviewing Test Cases.
• Responsible for testing Functional, UI, Browsers and Resolution Compatibility and regression.
• Designing, executing Test Cases and evaluating Test Results.
• Weekly status meeting with client.
Environments: XHTML, JavaScript, ASP.NET, CSS, MS Excel
Team Size: 3
Customer: Investec, Johannesburg January 2008 – April
2009
Company: Zensar Technologies Ltd., South Africa
Role: Senior Usability Engineer at, India and South Africa
Investec Private Bank UK Banking and Treasury division is one of the six areas of specialization within
the UK private bank. As a retention strategy, the business proposes to offer online view and transaction
capabilities to its banking and treasury clients. The existing application provides basic ‘view-only’
facility through an application named ‘Netwealth’. This interface is out-dated compared to the facilities
offered by competitors in the UK online banking market. At the same time, Investec Private Bank in
South Africa offers a substantial online banking capability to South African clients across various
products. The intention of UK online banking project is to leverage maximum capability, quality,
infrastructure and skills in existence within SA for the UK interface.
The OLB-UK project is based on XML API interface between proposed presentation layer, developed by
a third party, and a wrapper XML API over OLB-SA application.
Mahesh Mane
All the information interchange between presentation layer and OLB XML API is in XML format. The
presentation layer sends the request which is validated using XML API and sent to existing OLB business
components for processing. The response is sent back to presentation layer in XML format.
As a Sr. Usability Engineer responsible for below project tasks.
On-Job Accomplishment:
• Responsible for Kick of meeting with client.
• Analysis of requirements for new project and impact analysis (Specs, images, baseline code).
• Controlling and Monitoring project related task.
• Analyse the possibility of changing scope due to a new problem.
• Participated in technical and Business flow discussion with developers and Business team.
• Communication with client for discussion on issues and appropriate solutions.
• Responsible for reviewing prototype against SRS and wire frame.
• Guiding developers to resolved UI related issues.
• Weekly status meeting with client.
Environments: HTML JavaScript, XML, XSLT, CSS
Team Size: 10
Customer: Cadient Group, USA August 2004 – Jan 2008
Company: Saband Software Technologies Pvt. Ltd., India
Role: Team Lead, India
During working tenure in Saband Software Technologies, actively involved in many Custom Application
projects as a team lead and played pivotal role in establishing development and testing team for Custom
Application projects.
On-Job Accomplishment:
• Fully accountable for managing custom application from development to Testing
• Actively involved in quality assurance process
Mahesh Mane
• Responsible for Kick of meeting with client.
• Analysis of requirements for new project and impact analysis (Specs, images, baseline code).
• Controlling and Monitoring project related task.
• Analyse the possibility of changing scope due to a new problem.
• Participated in technical and Business flow discussion with developers and Business team.
• Communication with client for discussion on issues and appropriate solutions.
• Responsible for reviewing prototype against SRS and wire frame.
• Guiding developers to resolved UI related issues.
• Guiding developers to understand the functional flow of the application.
• Responsible for preparing Project Plan.
• Responsible for preparing Test Plan.
• Managing the adequacy of resources.
• Responsible for reviewing Test Cases.
• Internal Auditor for Quality.
• Responsible for testing Functional, UI, Browsers and Resolution Compatibility and regression.
• Designing, executing Test Cases and evaluating Test Results.
• Weekly status meeting with client.
• Lesson learned meeting with team.
Environments: DHTML, ASP.NET, JavaScript, XML, CSS, MS Excel
Team Size: 7
Mahesh Mane
Customer: Austin, USA January 2004 – July 2004
Company: Allied Media Solution Pvt. Ltd., India
Role: Web Developer, India
The web site is developed for seminar which is held in Goa for life science symposium India 2004. The
different work in this web site is that it has one registration form which has user information field along
with methods of payment. The payment methods mainly through payment Gateway for credit card and
the rest the two payment methods like Demand Draft and Wire Transfer is via mail .The most challenging
task in this project is payment gateway through credit card.
As a Web Developer, I was responsible for below tasks.
On-Job Accomplishment:
• Responsible for Kick of meeting with client.
• Analysis of requirements for new project and impact analysis.
• Development of Evolutionary prototype
• Communication with client for requirements.
• Communication with other stake holders who are responsible for different activities like (PayPal,
Customer Care team to understand the application and training on how to handle the call).
• Development of code as per the business requirements.
• Database design.
• Unit testing of the developed code.
Environments: ASP 3.0, HTML, JavaScript, MS Access
Team Size: 2
Mahesh Mane
Customer: Online Shopping Cart, Geneva May 2003 –January 2004
Company: Solversa Technologies Pvt. Ltd., India
Role: Web Developer, India
The shopping cart is an online store front but designed and developed with a different vision. The cart is
flexible enough to manage different products to be sold. The cart takes the look and feel of the web site
from which the product is actually sold. The application allows configuring multiple payment modes and
using different payment gateways as per necessity.
As a Web Developer, I was responsible for below tasks.
On-Job Accomplishment:
• Responsible for Kick of meeting with client.
• Analysis of requirements for new project and impact analysis.
• Development of Evolutionary prototype
• Communication with client for requirements.
• Development of code as per the business requirements.
• Database design.
• Unit testing of the developed code.
Environments: ASP 3.0, HTML, JavaScript, SQL Server
Team Size: 2
Training:
• Communication Seminar by Sharu Rangnekar
• Project Management at Saband Software Technologies Ltd.
• QTP 9.2 at Zensar Technologies Ltd.
• Testing Fundamental at Zensar Technologies Ltd.
References: Available upon request
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