Project Engineer

RESUME

PRAKASH RAMADURAI

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Preferred job: Full Time / Employee

Willing to relocate: Yes

Willing to travel: 100%

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QA Lead, this includes testing of Core Banking Application, Health Care domain,

CAREER

Financial product testing Web & ERP applications.

FOCUS

8+ years of experience as QA Lead and Tester, this includes manual testing of Core

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EXPERIENCE

Banking Application, Health Care domain, Financial product testing Web & ERP

SUMMAR

applications

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Good functional knowledge and extensive testing experience in Insurance, Banking,

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Online Trading, Financial Industry.

Working with a team of software professionals at client site acting as key liaison

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between client business and the Cognizant QA team.

Extensive experience in Functional Testing, Database Testing, System Testing,

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Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, Compatibility Testing, Black box testing and

Security Testing.

Good experience with working on Offshore-Onsite model and leading teams.

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Strong knowledge in core banking applications – Online Banking, CSR, Admin,

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Teller, RDC (Remote Deposit Application),General Ledger testing, IVR (Interactive

Voice Response)system.

Experience in Mobile Testing using IOS and Android devices.

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Extensive experience in manual testing and specialized in writing Test Plans, Test

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Strategy, Test Scripts, Test cases, Test Designs, Test Analysis and Testing Life Cycle

and creation of Test data and following SDLC.

Well experienced in documenting and translation of Functional Specifications into

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Test Objectives and writing detailed Test Scripts

Extensive work experience in compatibility testing includes different operating

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systems and browsers.

Testing experience in CMS (Content Management System) and Fat wire testing.

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Very good experience in doing Manual Testing by Test Director, Quality Center and

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Microsoft Excel and defect reporting by using Test Director, Quality Center, JIRA.

QA Release/Patches installation in the QA Test Bed (Linux Operating System)

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EDUCATION YEAR

• MCA - Master of Computer Applications, Bharathidasan University 2004

• B.Sc. - Physics, Bharathidasan University 2001

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SI Employer Designation Location Period

No From To

USA Jan 2011 Till Date

Associate – Projects

1. Cognizant Technology Solutions

INDIA Feb 2010 Dec 2010

-Chennai

2 IT&e Software India Private Senior Software INDIA - Nov 2006 Feb 2010

Limited Engineer - Functional Chennai

Tester

3 Balaji Software Solutions Test Engineer INDIA - Aug 2004 Oct 2006

Chennai

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Creating, maintaining and executing test plans (MTP & DTP), test cases against the hardware and

software platforms.

• Requirements review with Business, Developers and other QA engineers for consistency and

accuracy.

• Identifies the project risks, challenges, assumptions and dependencies.

• Attending Requirement Walkthrough meetings and Functional Overview meetings with Business

and vendor.

• Identifies the project scope and impacted applications, interfaces.

• Conducting Smoke testing for all new builds and sending test results to clients and vendor.

• Execution of Test Case using Quality Center and recording the results as necessary.

• Prepare test data and working with appropriate groups to ensure all requirements is met.

• Overall test execution, Defect tracking and maintenance in Quality Center.

• Analyzing and communicating test results to clients on a daily and weekly basis (DSR and WSR).

• Coordinating and participating in day-to-day QA activities.

• Participate in the use of established test processes and methodologies.

• Must be detail oriented, reliable and have the ability to work both in a team environment.

• Actively involving in all phases of software testing (Functional, Integration, Regression, User

Acceptance, and Defect Management).

• Determines the risk based approach testing whenever there is a budget/time constraint.

• Requirements traceability and test set maintenance in Quality Center.

• Coaching and mentoring team members as needed.

• Prepares Test summary report for every release.

• Documenting and sharing testing metrics.

• Responsible for attending Project audit and addressing the Non compliances.

• Ensuring and tracking the client SLA(Service level Agreement) and KPI(Key performance

indicators)

• Performs root cause analysis whenever there is any deviation to the SLA’s and KPI.

• Conducts retrospection sessions and plan for future improvements .

Execution of regression test scripts using Win Runner 7.6 and QTP.

Determining quality of software or product readiness for release.

Ensuring all tests within the plans are executed completely and accurately and that test results are recorded.

CERTIFICATION DETAILS

•CCP (Cognizant Certified Professional) certification in Mortgage Banking.

•CCP (Cognizant Certified Professional) certification in Commercial Lending.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: Windows 98/2k/XP and UNIX, Linux

Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, J2EE, ASP.NET, ASP, XML, HTML

Databases & Tools: OMNI, TOAD, SQL assistant, Teradata, Oracle, OBIEE

Testing Tools: Quality Center, QTP, Win Runner, Test Director 8.0

Web Server: Web Sphere, Web Logic, Tomcat

PROJECT DETAILS

Company Name: Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corp (www.Cognizant.com)

1. Project Name: TIAA Direct – Banking, Jan 2011 - Present

Client: TIAA-CREF, USA

Software Used: Java, J2EE

Testing Tools: Quality Center, QTP

Client Specific Tools: Profile- Web Admin, Web CSR, Web Client & PD Teller

Role: Test Consultant and Test Lead

Scope of the Project

TIAA-CREF (Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association - College Retirement Equities Fund) is one of

the largest financial services companies in the United States. The TIAA-CREF Banking program has been

launched to offer a suite of Banking products and services to traditional TIAA-CREF Retirement

solutions customers. The additional suite of services will leverage the existing customer base and provide

the end customer with a holistic approach to meet their financial needs. TIAA-CREF has partnered with

FIS for the overall Banking solution. The technology components and solutions are primarily sourced

from FIS, with the deployment of Profile as the Core Banking Platform, supported by ancillary interface

systems. The Program is broken out into several projects that are all a part of the overall banking solution.

2. Project Name: R1b – Siebel Scheduling and Event Management

Client: TIAA-CREF, USA

Software Used: Siebel CRM

Testing Tools: Quality Center, QTP

Scope of the Project

Siebel Events Management will provide TIAA-CREF Clients with an enhanced ability to schedule

appointments and register for events online. Siebel Events Management will also provide TIAA-CREF

with the ability to screen and segment potential counselees prior to face-to-face meetings, allowing CREF

to automatically direct Clients to the most appropriate service channel based on need. This will improve

the current end user experience, expand their current scheduling options, and provide reliable metrics

associated with Individual and Institutional Client Relationship activity via Siebel. In addition to the

above, the Siebel Events Management initiative also seeks to improve existing systems integration,

infrastructure, and compliance at TIAA-CREF. The Siebel Events Management Project has been initiated

to address the issues noted above, as well as to ensure scalable technology is leveraged as necessary

across Client Services. The Siebel Events project will effectively sunset the use of MOC, and replace it

with Siebel Events technology. This platform will create a scalable online scheduling solution for current

in scope audiences, as well as future audiences. Since in TIAA-CREF the products used are wide in range

& unique in their process it requires exhaustive requirement analysis, development & Quality assurance

activities to be carried on in a structured manner with batch cycles involved in QA activities .

Company Name: IT&e Software India Pvt. Ltd., (www.ite.com.au)

Designation: Senior Software Engineer – Functional Tester

3. Project Name: Private Trading Exchange (PTX) – Offshore – NAB

Client: National Australian Bank, Melbourne

Software Used: Html, Servlets, JSP, WebSphere5.1.1.10, IBMJava2-JRE

Testing Tools: Win Runner 7.6, Test Director 8.0, Web scarab

Backend: Oracle9i

Operating System: Linux

Scope of the Project

Available to NAB’s investor clients as NAB Online - features to transact AUD Deposit, AUD Bank Bills

& AUD Commercial Paper. The client needs only to have a Web browser with digital-certificate

authentication to access the application.

PTX NAB allows a corporate treasurer or fund manager to place an order for a financial instrument from

the bank's portfolio. The trade information will be passed electronically to the bank's back office systems.

Key features include RDDS implementation, Reconciliation of Term Deposits, Ability to amend the

maturity or settlement instruction of an open trade thereby making it flexible to the client to change the

behavior of the trade even after the trading process.

PTX generates extensive reports e.g.; Settlement Amendment / maturity Amendment reports thereby

extending support to the bank / client user to trace the details of such transaction performed. PTX also

extends support to bank users to perform trade on behalf of the client across instruments permissioned for

All parties achieve high quality of service, lower transaction costs, and increased liquidity - whilst

preserving the personal trading relationships between corporate clients and member banks. Some other

features include

• Full connectivity to back-office systems

• Allocation across multiple accounts

• Sub-second transaction speeds, online administration and Straight through Processing

4. Project Name: Private Trading Exchange (PTX) – ANZ

Client: Australia & New Zealand Banking Group, Australia

Software Used: Servlets, JSP, Server - Tomcat, JInetgra

Testing Tools: Test Director 8.0, Web Scarab

Backend: SQL Server 2005 (Windows)

Scope of the Project

Available to ANZ’s investor clients as ANZ Online - features to transact AUD, NZD Deposit, AUD, NZD

Loans, AUD, NZD Bank Bills & AUD, NZD Commercial Paper, Fixed Interests and Repo/Reverse. The

client needs only to have a Web browser with digital-certificate authentication to access the application.

Manual, Semi-Automatic and Automatic pricings are available. PTX ANZ allows a corporate treasurer or

fund manager to place an order for a financial instrument from the bank's portfolio. The trade information

will be passed electronically to the bank's back office systems. Reconciliation of Term Deposits, Ability

to amend the maturity or settlement instruction of an open trade thereby making it flexible to the client to

change the behavior of the trade even after the trading process.

PTX generates extensive reports e.g.; Settlement Amendment / maturity Amendment reports thereby

extending support to the bank / client user to trace the details of such transaction performed. PTX also

extends support to bank users to perform trade on behalf of the client across instruments permissioned for

All parties achieve high quality of service, lower transaction costs, and increased liquidity - whilst

preserving the personal trading relationships between corporate clients and member banks.

Company Name: Balaji Software Solutions, Chennai

Designation: Test Engineer

5. Project Name: I-Care

Software Used: VB.NET, JavaScript, HTML

Testing Tools: Manual Testing, Test Director 8.0

Backend: SQL Server, Windows 2000

Scope of the Project

I–Care system is an Automated System for hospital maintenance and multidoctor office Health care

system. Patient info module keeps track of the information of the patient’s right from the time he is

registered as inpatient in the hospital till the time he is discharged. The information includes his

demographic details, reason of admission, diagnosis details which are updated from time to time and also

it keeps track of the location of the patient in the hospital and the services he has availed will be also be

updated which will be appearing in the final billing at the time of discharge.

6. Project Name: Visual Accounts

Software Used: ASP, HTML, JavaScript

Backend: Oracle 8, Windows 2000

Scope of the Project

Visual Accounts is developed for Medical agencies to cater the transactions of purchase orders, Sales

orders, Stock verification, Periodic report generation, item classification and alerting the system when

item quantity is below the threshold. New Products, parties, customers are added or modified all are done

through this automation. The credit and debit balances are maintained by updating the reports. This

activity improves the efficiency of the transactions.

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