Project Testing

OBJECTIVE

Seeking a challenging role in the area of Information Technology and to

contribute towards organizational success and grow to a Senior Management

level.

SYNOPSIS

Young, energetic and result oriented professional with 6.1 years of

experience in IT industry; Extended expertise in all phases of Functional

and Mainframe Development and Testing. Deep understanding of technology

with focus on delivering business solutions;

< Adroit at tools like Expeditor, File-Aid and worked on IBM RUMBA

mainframe display, Windows NT, 95, XP, MVS and OS/2 platforms

< Expertise in all Levels and Types of Functional Testing involving Unit

testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing,

Exploratory Testing, Database Testing, Security Testing, Sanity and

User Acceptance testing along with black box, white box testing both

in mainframe host and using the web application.

< Expertise in Analyzing the business requirements, Product

functionalities.

< Efficient in using the tools like HP Quality Centre, Clarity, Clear

Quest, Rational Manual Tester, WIN SQL and TFS.

< Efficient in SQL Testing and Stored Procedure Testing.

< Worked on different environments like BIRA (FDW), TOAD.

< Skilled Team lead with proven ability to lead and motivate teams to

maximize productivity

< Exceptional communication, analytical & inter personal skills and

problem solving skills

< Friendly with an upbeat attitude

< Excellent decision making skills with a positive approach

< Dedicated and highly ambitious to achieve personal goals as well as

the organizational goals

< Ability to build new territories and expand opportunities towards the

achievement of stated target.

CORE COMPETENCIES

V Project Management

V Bug Reporting

V Proactive and Industrious

V Manual Testing

V Mainframe Testing

V Team Management

V Detail Oriented

V Working knowledge of MVS

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

> Efficiently and productively analyzed all the projects undertaken

> Won several laurels and appreciations from my Clients for my hard work

and efforts shown in meeting the project dead lines

> Solid Knowledge of advanced methodology followed in SDLC and STLC

> Instrumental in preparation of Test Estimations, Test Strategizing,

Test Planning and Test Execution Activities in QC.

> Taking care of overall Environment setup, Monitoring, Tracking,

controlling, Scheduling and Status Reporting.

> Have Solid Knowledge on Water fall, Agile, V model Testing

Methodologies involved.

> Received four client appreciation certificates for excellence in

service in development and testing.

> Instrumental in the preparation and execution of a project from design

stage to the implementation stage.

> Maintaining Quality procedures related to the project and submitting

the same to the respective audit department.

> Received several Shared Success Awards from Client in Wells Fargo.

EDUCATION

V B.Tech with specialization in Mechanical Engineering from JNTU in 2006

SOFTWARE PROFICIENCY

Operating System: Windows 2000/NT/XP/98

Programming Languages: COBOL, JCL, PL1

Primary Skill Category: Quality Assurance, Functional/Manual

Testing, Mainframe Development & Testing

Databases: SQL, DB2

GUI: CICS, Web Application Screens

Tools & Utilities: HP Quality Center, Clear Quest Test Management

Suite, Lotus notes for defect tracking, MS Share

point, IBM DB2 Development Centre, File Aid, REXX,

SPUFI, QMF, Rational Functional Testing Tool, Win

SQL, Ultra Edit XML Mapping Tool, TFS, Several Wells

Fargo Internal Tools.

Functional Testing: Unit Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing,

Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Enough

Testing, FIT Testing and Performance Testing.

Domain Skills: Banking, US Taxation, Investment Banking and

Insurance

Office tools: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio

WORK HISTORY

Wells Fargo India Solutions Ltd, Hyderabad

(Mar'2012 - Present)

QA Specialist

Key Deliverables

V Working on Special Feature for the Wells Fargo Bank which includes US

Taxation and Investment Banking.

V Working on a Tool called "Business Payroll Systems" which is an in-

house bank product which specifies the Customers their Payroll and

Taxation Details in Community Bank Technology LOB.

V Leading a team of 9 people which consists of 4 FTE's and 5

Contractors.

V Involved in End to End Business Analysis with Business Team in

preparing the FSD for CR's in each release.

V Helped the team in preparing the Test Scenarios and Test Cases and

ensuring 100% Test coverage (Includes Functional /Non Functional and

Edge Test Coverage).

V Held Defect Tracking meeting on a daily basis with Business and

Development to ensure that the defects have been fixed in due next

build deployment.

V Worked closely with US counterpart and ensuring the correct

utilization of funding and resource allocation for a particular

release.

V Helped the team in cross training in different modules thus reducing

the dependency of resources and contractors.

V Followed and ensured the team to follow the Bank's Best QA practices

while Test Analysis /Design and Execution activities.

V Used several internal products of Bank and dashboards regularly to

ensure the Bank's Risk and Compliance Policy.

Polaris Software Lab Limited, Hyderabad Kuala Lumpur

(Aug' 2011 - Feb'2012)

Consultant

Key Deliverables

V Analysis of the Business Requirement Documents, Use Cases and

Functional Specifications.

V Involved in Preparation of Test Documents involving Test Strategizing,

Test Planning and Test Execution Activities.

V Attending the Business Review meetings and Test Case walkthroughs with

the Client to understand the requirement documents and the application

V Completely involved in providing the estimates for each Work Order

using Clarity and Primavera.

V Preparation of Test Cases based on the signed off Functional

Specifications for System Testing till User Acceptance Testing.

V Designing scripts that meet the best practices and the industry

standards for easy maintenance and extensibility.

V Involved in maintaining and monitoring, deploying the Test

Environments.

V Involved in reporting the issues, raising defects and interacting with

the development team for bug fixing methods.

HTC Global Services Ltd., Hyderabad

(Mar'2009 - Aug'2011)

Senior Software Development Engineer

Key Deliverables

V Responsible for the preparation of estimates for the work order.

V Allocating work to the team and monitoring progress of the team work

on daily basis

V Delivering knowledge transfer sessions to the team members and

expanding their capabilities for consistent success of the

organization

V Identifying & analyzing the questionable functions, errors and

inconsistencies in the Functionality/UI/ Data in the application and

documenting the queries.

V Creating of detailed test cases by understanding the requirements

encountered or the modifications made.

V Undergone complete Software Development Life Cycle processes.

V Preparation of System test Strategy, Test Plans for the Project.

V Developing the Test Cases, Test Scripts and performing Test Execution,

defect tracking/reporting.

V Maintaining Quality procedures related to the project & submitting the

same to the respective audit dept.

V Understanding the client requirements and maintaining compliance with

set standards to achieve stated targets of the company

Satyam Computers Services Ltd., Hyderabad

(Dec'2006 - Mar'2009)

Software Engineer

Key Deliverables

V Worked for the same client on the same project as that in HTC and my

responsibilities were same as above

PROJECTS HANDLED

Wells Fargo Project Summary:

Project Title: Business Payroll Systems - CBT LOB (Bank's In-house

Payroll Product)

Role: QA Specialist

Team Size: 9 members

Phases Involved: Business Analysis / System Testing /Regression Testing

Description:

Key Deliverables:

V Involved in analysis Business end to end feature every release

V Estimating the New Change Requests, mini CR's involved.

V Undergoing preparation of Functional Designs Specifications with

integrated Business Team.

V Involved in Test Strategizing and Test Planning Activities.

V Involved in Test Case preparation, Test Execution Activities using HP

Quality Center.

V Carried out Defect Reporting, Defect Metrics, Tracking in TFS.

Polaris Project Summary:

Project Title: HSBC Insurance Alignment - Life and Pensions, UK

Role: Sr. Test Analyst

Team Size: 4 members

Phases Involved: Unit Integration Testing/ System Integration

Testing/System Acceptance Testing

Description: Project LIFE & PENSIONS is an umbrella project for

Insurance and Pensions business, UK. This project is meant to

help the client in developing and maintaining applications for

Insurance and Pensions business. Testing Ensures the maintenance

and Managing the New Change Requests / Projects /Live issues,

Business query, Data extraction, typically Regulatory changes,

Mandatory changes, New features, Handling system errors of whole

Life and Pension system. Testing also ensures that Front End

Applications(PIB/BIB) are working as appropriate . Main picture

of the Project takes care of the Life Choice, Pension policies

for all the Customers in HSBC, UK. Hence includes in Testing the

behavior of the System in all the Existing policies, linkage

between the front end screens developed and the Mainframe back

end. Any additional requests would be dealt as Change Requests

and Projects

Key Deliverables:

V Involved in understanding the business and the initial analysis

V Estimating the New Change Requests, Projects involved.

V Undergoing preparation of Functional Designs Specifications and

Logical Data Modeling for the Data Base.

V Involved in Test Strategizing and Test Planning Activities.

V Involved in Test Case preparation, Test Execution Activities using HP

Quality Center.

V Carried out Defect Reporting, Tracking in HP Quality Center.

Satyam and HTC Project Summary:

Client: State Farm Insurance, USA

Project Title: Sales and Assignment Management System

Roles: Team Lead, Test Analyst Technical, Software Engineer

Levels of testing: System Testing/ Integration Testing / Regression

Testing/ Performance Testing/ Stored

Procedure Testing

Description: State farm insurance is one of the largest financial

institutions in the world. The Sales and Assignment Management Systems

(SAMS) establish a "business infrastructure" and human resources management

system to support all sales activities of agents. SAMS is a new integrated

system that intends to replace existing agency tracking systems like AIMS,

EMS, EL, ACT, IPAMS and PNS. It is a mammoth project taking data from IMS-

DB, DB2, People soft, and flat files and loading it into a centralized DB2

database.

Key Deliverables:

V Worked extensively on projects involving Water fall and agile

methodologies.

V Worked as a part of designing the Sprint stories for Agile projects,

preparation of burn down chart and deciding the story points based

upon the priority.

V Testing the Dynamic Components (Stored Procedures) before and after

the migration.

V Involved in the preparation of estimates, project management

activities and clarity allocations.

V Maintaining all the required documents involving traceability matrix,

Resource utilization, CAP plan and test Summary Reports.

V Identifying & analyzing the questionable functions, errors and

inconsistencies in the Functionality /UI/ Data in the application and

documenting the defects

V Allocating and Reviewing team's work on daily basis, reporting the

hours to the onsite counterpart on a weekly basis and discussion on

the upcoming project related, resource allocation details.

V Analyzing the applications and documenting the inherent business logic

involved

V Has worked on typical Frond End (J2EE Screens) and Back end

(Mainframes) kind of projects which involves Web based Testing and

also Backend Mainframe Testing

V Actively involved in preparation and Execution of Test Plan, Test

Strategy, Test Schedule, Test Summary Report, Test Cases, Test Scripts

and Review documents.

V Maintaining Quality procedures related to the project and submitting

the same to the respective audit department

V Performing cross-functional testing by associating different

functionalities.

V Performing Automation/Manual Testing involving System Testing and

User Acceptance Testing by creating Test Cases, Test Shells and test

scripts

TRAININGS AND CERTIFICATIONS

V Trained in Learn to Lead, Test Estimations and QA Visuals in Wells

Fargo India solutions Ltd.

V IBM Certified Database Associate -- DB2 Universal Database V8.1

Family.

V Trained and Certified on Quality Management System in Satyam Computer

Services Ltd and Polaris Software Lab Limited.

V Training Program on

< Basic Insurance

< Rational Functional Testing in Satyam Computer Services Ltd.

PERSONAL DETAILS

Date of Birth: 3rd August, 1985

Languages: English Hindi and Telugu

Visa: L1- Blanket (Valid till - 11th August 2011),

Malaysian Employment Pass. (Valid till - 12th June

2012)

Passport No: F7769926 (Valid till - 30th May, 2016)

References: Available on Request

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