Vinod Phere

Cell: 314-***-****

H*B visa candidate

Summary:

Currently working in Tech Mahindra Americas in Tele-communication domain with total experience of 10 years in Software and End to end Testing. My main area of experience is in software Testing. Good Knowledge of SQL, exposure of Informatica, Big Data (PIG, HIVE) and Unix/Linux.

Quality Assurance & Documentation in multiple large-scale applications with complex architectures in a fast-paced environment in mainly Telecom, Healthcare and banking domains

More than 5+ years experience in Mainframe Testing. Used tools like DB2 File Aid (FADB2), File manager, SPUFI/QMF, AQT, OPC (Operation Planning and control), RMDS, and Test management tools like Mercury Quality Center 11.0, Test Director, and QTP etc. Worked in testing and QA processes for various technology platforms including Mainframe like JAVA, ETL, Tibco, Oracle etc.

Ability to synthesize business requirements into testing scenarios, proof-of-concept (POC), where necessary as hand-on participant.

Worked mainly in manual testing, defect retesting after quick fixes.

Well versed in all phases of STLC, Creation of functional and regression test suites and execution of functional and regression testing.

Work with product owners to properly assess defect severity and priority

Skill Set:

Sr. No

Skill

Tools

1

Testing

Rational Clear Quest, Mercury Quality Center, Winscp,Test Director, Whizible, Rational Portfolio Manager, Git, Jira, Charles, Postman

2

Mainframe

DB2 File-Aid, QMF, SPUFI, AQT, OPC (Operation planning and control), Endevor (ENDMVS), RMDS.

3

Testing Methodologies

Agile Development process, Waterfall model, GUI Testing. ETL Testing (Dataware housing testing, Methodologies include, Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Case, Traceability Matrix, Test Report, Test Metrics, Test Management

4

Languages and scripting

PIG,HIVE,COBOL, C, C++, SQL, HTML

5

Operating Systems

Unix, MVS OS/390 AND Z/OS, MS DOS, Windows 95/98/2000/2003/XP/NT, UNIX (basic),

6

Databases

DB2,IMS, ORACLE, MS SQL Server, MS Access

Education:

Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering with 67% from Shivaji University, Kolhapur, India.

Achievements:

Sr. No

Details

1

Successfully completed the ISTQB (International Software testing Quality Board) certification for foundation level.

2

Received a Client appreciation from for the project IDPS (Identification of Duplicate profile system) from UK HSBC senior management and was also appreciated as “Great Job” from India leadership of HSBC.

3

Successfully completed HC101 certification Exam conducted for concepts of health Insurance domain in Accenture Bangalore.

Professional Experience:

SR.No

Organization

Location

Duration

Role

Details

1

Tech Mahindra Americas

Saint Louis

16th_Jul 2014-till date

Test Lead

Tech Mahindra is the multinational Indian company. Working in the Telecom domain for the US based client AT&T. Working as the Test lead in the AT&T project of Trinity. Trinity is the web-based voice over internet protocol application framework which provides the sales, ordering, provisioning, Customer care platform to the users to support the end-customers of the AT&T. Various Telecom services and features are provided to the customers using the Trinity framework. Trinity follows the Agile methodology of testing. As a Test Lead my role is to all the testing activities like Test planning, HLTC, DTC creation, execution, defect finding and their tracking and follow-up till closure. We follow all the agile methodology of testing.

2

IBM India Pvt Ltd

Pune

24th May 2010 – 11thJul-2014

Test Lead

IBM is a multinational computer, technology and IT consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, North Castle, New York, United States. IBM is the world's fourth largest technology company and the second most valuable by global brand. IBM has been well known through most of its recent history as the world's largest computer company and systems integrator With almost 400,000 employees worldwide, IBM is second largest and the second most profitable information technology and services employer in the world.

3

J.P. MORGAN

Mumbai

1st Jun 09 – 19th May 10,

QA Analyst

J.P. Morgan is the world leader in global banking and financial services. J.P. Morgan provides services across the Investment Bank, Asset Management, and Treasury and Securities Services. J.P. Morgan employs over 70,000 people globally, and the firm has assets of $2.2 trillion.

4

Quinnox Consultancy Services

Hyderabad

15th Oct 07 – 27th May 09

Senior Consultant

HSBC Hyderabad

Headquartered in London, HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world. HSBC's international network comprises around 7,500 offices in over 80 countries and territories in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa.

5

Maples Esm Technologies

Chennai

24thSep 06 - 30thSep 07

Software Engineer Level 1

Accenture- UHG (United Health Group)

UHG is a US-based leading health insurance company. UnitedHealth Group serving more than 75 million people worldwide. Project involved operations in Mainframe based application maintenance.

Project Details

Project

Trinity

Domain

Telecom

Environment

End to End Functional Testing

Team Size

10

Client

AT&T

Role

Test Lead

Description

As a Test Lead my role is to all the testing activities like Test planning, HLTC, DTC creation, execution, defect finding and their tracking and follow-up till closure. We follow all the agile methodology of testing. All the Testing process in STLC cycle we follow in the agile model.

Responsibilities

Analyze requirements during the requirements analysis phase and decompose into Test Scenarios conditions.

Involved in Requirement Analysis and understand the criticality of the business from Data perspective.

Involved in Agile Scrum meeting/ Stand up meeting and updating the status/issues/progress of QA activities.

Keep the track and incorporate the change requests which come and incorporate their scope to the current test planning scope.

Provide the release wise estimate of the amount of scope and the work involved to the management.

Get the HLTC Reviewed created reviewed by the Test Architects and update according to the review comments.

Get the DTC Reviewed created reviewed by the Test Architects and update according to the review comments.

Get the HLTC and DTC reviewed and approved by the Client BSMs.

Doing the Test execution of the test cases.

Defect finding and their tracking and follow-up till closure.

Sending daily and weekly status reports during execution.

In-case the testers have any doubts to clarify them or reachout to the concerned Test architect or BSM for more details and get it clarified.

Managing client calls/ communications and daily status calls.

Train New Joiners to the team.

Project 2

Project

Oncor Application Development and Testing

Domain

Telecom

Environment

Mainframe (CICS, DB2, MVS), TIBCO

Team Size

8

Client

Oncor

Role

Test Lead

Description

EDI Gate way is the integrating the oncor internal systems and external systems. It is completely developed in Tibco plat-form. It will be the replacement for the existing e-Gate application. EDI stands for Electronic Data Interchange which is used across the oncor systems while interacting to market.

LCIS is the Mainframe CICS application based on daily running batch jobs and online CICS programs.

LCIS (Legacy Customer Information System) receives the customer information from EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) transactions. These transactions have work request called service orders in them, the service orders could for Registration, revenue management, archiving, purging types etc. These service orders are processed in LCIS, EDI gateway and related applications and stored in LCIS DB2 tables fetched whenever requested by online programmes and reporting applications.

Responsibilities

Analyze requirements during the requirements analysis phase and decompose into Test Scenarios conditions.

Involved in Requirement Analysis and understand the criticality of the business from Data perspective.

Involved in Agile Scrum meeting/ Stand up meeting and updating the status/issues/progress of QA activities.

Keep the track and incorporate the change requests which come and incorporate their scope to the current test planning scope.

Provide the release wise estimate of the amount of scope and the work involved to the management.

Get the HLTC Reviewed created reviewed by the Test Architects and update according to the review comments.

Get the DTC Reviewed created reviewed by the Test Architects and update according to the review comments.

Get the HLTC and DTC reviewed and approved by the Client BSMs.

Doing the Test execution of the test cases.

Defect finding and their tracking and follow-up till closure.

Sending daily and weekly status reports during execution.

In-case the testers have any doubts to clarify them or reachout to the concerned Test architect or BSM for more details and get it clarified.

Managing client calls/ communications and daily status calls.

Train New Joiners to the team.

Project 3:

Project

Nationwide Building society (NBS)

Domain

Banking

Environment

Mainframe, Java, DB2

Team Size

5

Client

NBS

Role

Test specialist.

Description

Nationwide Building society is one of the largest building societies of UK. Basically building society is a financial institution owned by its members that offer banking and financial services. I was involved in a Discovery application. Discovery consist of account opening of new or old customers to NBS. Accounts are opened when customer are offered a products like Flex or current account or product like credit card. Discovery mainly dealt with Flex and credit card account opening. Based on the credit rating received for a particular customer from Experian (Third party credit rating system in UK) the product and its facilities are offered. Like good potential customer with high credit rating is offered a product with more facilities e.g. more overdraft in flex account and the customer with low Experian rating will be given a product with less facilities. Testing included both validation in UI screens and the DB2 database while doing the end to end testing and the waterfall model of SDLC was used.

Responsibilities

Preparation of estimation and Test Plan for the release component.

Analyze requirements during the requirements analysis phase and decompose into Test Scenarios conditions.

Creation of Functional test cases and Test Execution.

Defect tracking and reporting.

Attending defect prevention meeting and finding the root cause of the defects so as to reduce the defect count.

Review of test scenarios and test cases.

Mapping of Business Requirements with test cases for tracebility.

Interaction with onshore counterparts on day today basis on phone, mails and sametime.

Preparing daily, weekly and monthly status reports and dashboard.

Cooperating and educating team members and new joiners.

Project 4:

Project

IRIS

Domain

Banking

Environment

Mainframe MVS/ OS390, mainframes batch and online testing.

Team Size

4

Client

J.P. Morgan

Role

QA Analyst

Description

TSS (Treasury Security Services) is one of the biggest line of business in J.P. Morgan. The project was part of finance and payments domain. Involved in Functional testing of IRIS application. IRIS is the mainframe based reporting application. Was involved in all the STLC processes of the project.

Project activities involve working on WRM and ER type of projects. These include both mainframe and web-based testing modules. Involves both the batch and CICS based mainframe testing work. Running testing cycles, raising defects.

Responsibilities

Estimate and plan functional test cases.

Preparation of test plan and writing test scenarios for project from BR/FS document

Review of test scenarios, test cases and documents.

Test planning & execution

Resource estimation.

Managing client calls/ communications.

Preparing daily and weekly reports.

Defect Management.

Preparing test execution report for the client.

Train New Joiners to the team.

Project 5:

Project

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Domain

Banking

Environment

Mainframe batch and online OS/ 390 MVS

Team Size

4

Client

HSBC

Role

Software consultant level-2

Description

CRM(Customer Relationship Management) vision is to provide the technology based facility that allows commercial managers to more efficiently and professionally perform the tasks necessary to create and maintain business relationships with the bank’s end customers. We were associated with doing with mainframe testing using various tools like Quality center, File Aid etc.

CRM Project also included maintaining customer information divided in modules like Financial dependents, Personal Information, Address, Individual solutions, customer preferences etc. The testing also included the services testing carried as a part of one HSBC movement and change.

Responsibilities

Worked as a module leader in coordination between team and client.

Estimate and plan functional test cases.

Test scenarios and test cases writing from BR and FS document.

Resource estimation.

Managing client calls/ communications.

Defect Management.

Preparing test execution report for the client.

Mapping of a Business requirement with the test cases for the tracebility.

Retesting of defects and defect tracking.

Interaction with client on day today basis on phone and mails.

Maintaining down time log, issue log and defect log and leave tracker

Software configuration management

Coordination and educating team members.

Project 6:

Project

United Health Group (UHG)

Domain

Health Insurance

Environment

Mainframe, MVS, TSO OS390

Team Size

5

Client

Accenture

Role

Developer in support role

Description

Project included batch processing of mainframe jobs. Service request, problem fixing and production issues. The fixes include the code development and unit testing and migration of code from test region to production region. Project was part of the Operations and Maintenance department (OM). Projects were divided into SPRF for bigger project and work order for smaller project. Completed the HC101 certification for the Health care domain.

Responsibilities

Problem fixing and finding solutions to the production problems.

Promotion of fixed code to production environment.

Oncall support of 24/7 for the mainframe batch applications as primary owner.

Working on service tickets raised in HP service desk.

Interacting extensively with client via phone, mail and sametime.

Creating document of understanding for project.

Cooperation and educating team members.

Personal Details:

Address

12568, Marine Ave, Apt-14, Saint Louis- 63146

Date of Birth

01-Oct-1982

Passport Details

N7712266

Email id

ac0yu3@r.postjobfree.com, ac0yu3@r.postjobfree.com

Visa

H1B Visa holder

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