Name : Moni Parashar
Phone No. : +1-636-***-****
E-mail Id : ********.****@*****.***
Status: Work Permit in US. No sponsorship required.
Education:
Masters in Computer Science from University of Pune, INDIA.
Bachelor in Computer Science from Bihar College of Engineering (converted to NIT), INDIA.
Higher Secondary Certificate and Senior Secondary Certificate from CBSC, Newdelhi,INDIA.
Certifications and Awards:
Got recognized by Barclay’s team and awarded with “STAR of The Month” award for flawless delivery and simultaneously handling multiple projects.
I was awarded the Star award for my outstanding performance in Aug 2011 while working for HSBC.
I was awarded for commendable performance in Aug 2010 while working for CISCO client
I was also awarded as Spot award winner for my performance during my tenure in Zensar.
Employment Information
Cognizant Technology Solutions. Feb’13-Mar’15
Capgemini India PVT Limited. Aug’10-Feb’13
Zensar Technologies. May’08-Aug’10
Professional Experience:
7 Years of industry experience in the area of Software Testing (Automation & Manual), Database testing, and Web Service Testing with a solid understanding of Test Planning, Test Design, Test Execution and Defect Reporting & Tracking.
Expertise in functional knowledge of Credit Card modules like Fraud, Transaction Processing, Loyalty Management System, Collection, Transaction Posting, Application processing, Delinquency, etc.
Active team member in UAT testing for Capital One and Barclays Credit Card.
Expertise in Quality Assurance in Agile (scrum) and worked with Rally agile tool in Software Development Life Cycle.
Specialized in preparing Software Test Plans, Testing Outline, Tractability Matrix, Scheduling, writing and executing Test Cases, developing test scripts on various systems.
Lead testing effort with business analysts, customers, engineering and on- site and offshore QA Testers.
Supervise all aspects of QA team resources and activities, skills and knowledge, resource capacity planning and assigning work items.
Participated in standup meetings(sprint call),discussions,defect triage with stakeholders
Performed System, Regression, Functional, Integration and End User Acceptance Testing.
Developed and maintained automated test scripts in QTP.
Extensively used Configuration Management tools.
Conduct Peer Reviews according to the CMMI level3.
Involved in 508 compliance using accessibility testing.
Expertise in Understanding and Analyzing Test Requirements, Tracking changes and maintenance of Test Requirements.
Designed and implemented different automation frameworks like Hybrid Driven framework (Data Driven and Keyword Driven/page Object model POM) using Selenium WebDriver and Java.
Faced Tedious challenges during the designing of framework in automation and found the solution for the same.
Experienced in Web Services (SOAP and REST) testing using SOAPUI tool. Validated request and response XML SOAP Web Service calls.
Implemented the logger using Log4j for selenium testcases and Extent Reports for interactive reports.
Experienced in database testing using SQL queries with multiple databases like Oracle, SQL Server, and My SQL
Well acquainted with all phases of SDLC and STLC and Extensively involved in different types of testing like integration testing, system testing, smoke testing, regression testing, functional testing and GUI testing.
Maintained the Selenium and Java automation code and resources in source control tools like SVN and GitHub over time for improvements and new features.
Proficient in Selenium Tools and Test Automation using UFT (Formerly QTP)
While working with cisco did different types of testing for SDN based application.
Strong Experience in Automating Web Application Testing using Selenium WebDriver with TestNG framework.
Strong Experience in Java Programming,Python,Selenium WebDriver, and TestNG.
Well versed with Handling Elements in Selenium WebDriver.
Writing Test cases using Element locators, WebDriver methods, Java programming features as well as Python language and TestNG Annotations for various projects
Well acquainted with build tool like Maven and ANT.
Executing Selenium Test Cases and Reporting defects.
Experience in Data driven Testing, Cross browser testing and Parallel Test execution using Selenium WebDriver,Log4J,Extent Report, TestNG and selenium Grid.
Strong Experience in ERP, Banking, Financial and Ecommerce Domains.
Involvement in Test Estimations and Test strategy implementation.
Proficient in devising all the artifacts of testing such as Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Defect Reports and Test Summary Report like Extent report.
Self-motivated, energetic and highly ethical in all work-related assignments thus able to immediately contribute to corporate goals and objects.
Good written, communication, interpersonal skills, proven team player with an analytical mind bent to problem solving and delivering solutions.
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Feb’13-Mar’15
Cognizant is an American multinational corporation that provides custom information technology, consulting, and
business process outsourcing services. It is headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey, United States. Over two thirds
of its employees are based in India. Cognizant is listed in the NASDAQ-100 and the S&P 500 indices. Originally founded
as an in-house technology unit of Dun & Bradstreet in 1994, Cognizant started serving external clients in 1996
Project – Go To Fraud
Client – Barclays
Role – Lead Quality Analyst
Go To Fraud –
The Go To Fraud Transform initiative delivers the technology that enables the strategy. As Part of this
Strategy, Barclaycards UK credit Falcon Detection Capability will be upgraded to the meet the following business needs
1. Reduction to fraud losses
2. Increased Income driven by not blocking genuine transaction
3. Upgrading our Fraud Capability will enable us to improve customer experience driven by 20%
reduction in genuine transaction declines and reduction in fraud related complaints
4. check the Full Fledge working of Adeptra which is a third-party service provider of automated contact handling and resolution
The Primary Technical Goal was to replace the Existing falcon V4.7 with Falcon Fraud Manager.
Passing 100% synchronous Transaction to falcon in real time.
Project– BT Fraud.
Client – Barclays
Role– Sr. Quality Analyst
BT Fraud –
This was a GUI and backend testing module for an online card authentication for balance transfer along with backend
and third-party system and fraud detection system for Visa and master scheme. Cards and Transaction may be declined
or failed by software for a no of reason –however Barclaycards fraud does not currently see those transactions.
Barclaycard fraud has recognized the need to see these declined or failed transaction and so the purpose of
BT Fraud came into picture to provide a near real time integration of RSA product with falcon for Master and Visa cards.
Project– Liberty
Client – Barclays
Role– Sr. Quality Analyst
Liberty -
There was a requirement /desire to build and launch a best in class dual card rewards proposition in Jan 2014 to
offer a Barclaycard AMEX product due to higher status that is assigned to that scheme by cardholders. This dual card
concept allows Visa card to be connected to the same account to which AMEX card is assigned so, it allow the cardholder
to use their prestige AMEX card as much as possible and this combination of two different scheme cards gives a
near-100% global card coverage.
Responsibilities:
I was involved in design discussions for the technology framework and database architecture.
Design and Develop Hybrid driven framework along with Quality Center as the major Test Management Tool.
Configuration of Test Environment related parameters for automating applications developed in multiple technologies under one roof. Technologies which were in scope are Power Builder, Visual Basic, Mainframe and Java.
Analysis of Manual Scripts with respect to Automation feasibility and estimating the efforts.
Development of Reusable actions and libraries Framework for automation of Regression Scripts and Sanity Test Suite.
Status reporting and coordination with Client stake holders on a weekly basis via attending conference calls and showing demonstration of automated scripts.
I was involved in complex discussions with business analyst and systems architect to determine the roadmap for achieving the end state of the solution.
Execution of the Test Suite on release basis and analysis of Test Results as requested by client.
Maintaining automated scripts using the configuration management system like Git and continuous integration tool like Jenkins.
I was involved in technical analysis and design and conversion of the same to technical design documents and Requirement Analysis Matrix.
Perform application systems QA and testing tasks which include working with business and development regarding system needs, analysing Business Requirement Document and Functional Specifications, translating documents into Requirement Traceability Matrix and Test Strategy.
Design and develop Requirement Traceability Matrix that projects the QA estimates with task details and man power details. Develop Test Plan document that provides various tasks and functionality related to the end product.
Provide support for preparing test cases, test execution and reporting. Plan and coordinate tests, and work with team to prioritize work from functional and technical perspective.
I was involved in designing in Quality Assurance process by authoring test cases pertaining to System Integration, functional testing and Acceptance Testing.
Implemented the logger using Log4j for selenium testcases and ExtentReports for interactive reports.
I was required to socialize the test cases with different stakeholders as well.
I was involved in the testing of application in QA environment and exposing the application to various testing phases’ i.e. functional, regression and user acceptance testing in test environments.
Executed the ant based project with the integration of Jenkins and GitHub
I was required to identify the test cases which can be automated using Selenium WebDriver automation tool.
Design and develop automated scripts for regression, sanity testing using Selenium WebDriver with Core Java, Python,TestNG .
Work with development on prioritizing defects found and certify applications to Production after functional testing. Work with business and stake holders for product certification for User Acceptance Testing.
Coordinate various builds and release to production and validate the same in production with all stakeholders.
Assist in training and orientation to other staff and end users.
Configuring test environments, developing test plans, test cases and manually testing software applications.
Identifying, analysing defects, questionable functions, errors, and inconsistencies in software program functions, outputs, online screens, and content.
Documenting, tracking, & communicating test plans, test results, analysis, & unresolved problems for agile project.
Designing and coordinating the implementation and availability of the QA test environments, and ensure compatibility of QA test.
Providing QA test status and progress reports as appropriate to top management and clients.
Creation and Maintenance of various quality assurance documents like Test Plan, Review Log, Defect Log, Risk log etc.
Written different types of business components
Strong abilities in Software testing including setting up of test environment, creation of test scripts / cases, execution of Tests, defect tracking.
Directly responsible for communicating with clients to understand requirements.
Having a good knowledge of Cards domain.
Exceptional communication, collaboration & team building skills with proficiency at grasping new technical concepts quickly and utilize the same in a productive manner.
Project – Health care service Enhancement
Client – North America Medical Tech Group.
Role– Sr. Quality Analyst
Project- Health care service Enhancement
Project was executed to develop and maintain health care application, which is used by doctor's offices to manage
the Patient Portal, schedule appointments, manage patient history and submit insurance claims to insurance service providers
Responsibilities:
Followed Agile Methodology for application Implementation and Testing
Wrote test scenarios and test cases based on System Requirements Specifications, Change Requests and Functional Specification documents.
Designed, developed and implemented hybrid automation testing framework utilizing Java,
TestNG and Selenium WebDriver
Worked on parameterization using TestNG Parameters and Data Provider annotation in Selenium WebDriver scripts.
Performed Continuous Integration using Jenkins.
Created test scripts in SOAPUI for testing web services.
Performed backend testing to verify data integrity by executing SQL queries
Regression testing was performed after each build release of the application and executed the scripts after updating the regression suites.
Stored the framework and all the developed test cases in SVN repository.
Participated in reviews with business team and developers to review test cases/test scripts.
Performed system, integration, smoke, sanity, functional and End to End testing along with monitoring the behavior of the applications during different phases of testing.
Tools:
Hardware Platform : Mainframe
Application : Falcon
Operating Systems : Windows 7, Windows 8,MVS, Z/OS
Languages : Java,COBOL, JCL, VSAM
Database : DB2,ORACLE
OLTP : CICS
Tool & Utilities : Selenium WebDriver, GitHub, Jenkins, Autoit, Firebug,
ISPF/TSO, FILE-AID, Quality Center, FirePath,QC, JIRA
Web, Application Servers : IIS, Apache Tomcat, Jboss, Web Logic.
Web Technologies : HTML, XML and VB Script
Test Management Tools : ALM /Quality Centre.
Capgemini India PVT Limited.
Aug’10-Feb’13
Cap Gemini S.A. is a French multinational management consulting corporation headquartered in Paris, France. It is
one of the world's largest consulting, technology and outsourcing companies with 180,000 employees in over 40 countries.
It was founded in 1967 by Serge Kampf, the current vice-chairman, in Grenoble, France. Paul Hermelin chairman and CE
of the Capgemini group has led the company since his appointment in December 2001.
Project-Credit and Retail Service Portfolio Acquisition System
Client – HSBC/Capital One
Role: Sr. Quality Analyst
Credit and Retail Service Portfolio Acquisition System-
Vision Plus is integrated system that is used for processing of credit cards. It consists of different systems like CDM, CMS,
and LMS. These sub-systems need input data like credit application & service requests to be verified for further
processing. These applications & service requests are verified using both manual as well as automated way using QTP tool.
Responsibilities:
Configuring test environments, developing test plans, test cases and manually testing software applications.
Experience building automation framework from scratch using Selenium webdriver, JAVA, TestNG and Eclipse.
Identifying, analysing defects, questionable functions, errors, and inconsistencies in software program functions, outputs, online screens, and content.
Documenting, tracking, & communicating test plans, test results, analysis, & unresolved problems.
Designing and coordinating the implementation and availability of the QA test environments, and ensure compatibility of QA test.
Experience in analysing system specifications, design, development and execution of test plans and test cases for Manual and Automated testing.
Implemented Page Object Model Automation framework with Java .
Implemented the logger using Log4j for selenium testcases.
Providing QA test status and progress reports as appropriate to top management and clients.
Experience in Functional Testing, Data Driven Testing, Load Testing and Validating WSDL using SOAPUI.
Creation and Maintenance of various quality assurance documents like Test Plan, Review Log, Defect Log, Risk log etc.
Experienced with SOA, Web Services, SOAP, Soap UI, RESTFUL, WSDL technologies.
Written different types of business components
Strong abilities in Software testing including setting up of test environment, creation of test scripts / cases, execution of Tests, defect tracking.
Directly responsible for communicating with clients to understand requirements.
Having a good knowledge of Cards domain.
Exceptional communication, collaboration & team building skills with proficiency at grasping new technical concepts quickly and utilize the same in a productive manner.
Hardware Platform : Mainframe
Application : Falcon
Operating Systems : MVS, Z/OS
Languages : java, COBOL, JCL, VSAM,
Database : DB2/My Sql
OLTP : CICS
Tool & Utilities : IBM 390, MVS/ESA, VS COBOL II, JCL, CICS, VSAM and FILE-AID
Zensar technologies.
May’08-Aug’10
Zensar Technologies is an information technology services and infrastructure services provider with headquarters
in Pune, India. Zensar has operations and a customer base spanning across 29 global locations
Project– Nextgen - Business to Business Enterprises.
Client – CISCO USA
Role: Quality Analyst
Nextgen - Business to Business Enterprises.
The focus of the project is to shift an entirely legacy based system on Service Oriented architecture (SOA) Platform,
where services are implemented with core services tools.
It basically deals with how the orders are created, acknowledged and notifications are supported as number of partners in
one way or the other deals with Cisco. Database and database migration testing were the main concern while carrying out
the testing phases. Reporting the NexGen middleware infrastructure enables deployment and delivery of Internet
Commerce applications and solutions intended for Cisco's Customers and partners. The goal of the NexGen project is to
provide a single ordering engine for Cisco such that the current ordering and commerce applications as well as the new
applications that Cisco will develop in future are completely de-coupled from the presentation and message interchanges protocols
Project– Integrated Commerce Workspace (ICW).
Client – CISCO USA
Role: Quality Analyst
Integrated Commerce Workspace (ICW).
The project was to replace the legacy configuration and ordering tools. This application gives a web based platform through
which end user can create Deals, Configurations and place Orders also. On one way if it is providing dynamic validation
for completing the core part of product configurations, then on the other way the user can directly order that configuration
after applying applicable discounts. The user can include his saved configurations to quotes while creating deals and
approved deals can be converted into PDR orders. The application is linked with ERP to submit all the placed orders.
Responsibilities:
Understanding functional and non-functional requirements.
Test Planning and estimation for releases.
Preparing the test scenarios, test cases and test data.
Test Designing & execution
Reporting and verification of defects.
Identification of test environment and configuration of required software for testing
Reporting the daily progress and status to the onsite lead.
Co-ordination with development team, Business Users and onsite coordinator to better understand the requirement documents and the application.
Creation of detailed test cases in QC.
Experienced with SOA, Web Services, SOAP, Soap UI, RESTFUL, WSDL technologies.
Importing and exporting requirements and test cases.
Build functional testing, regression testing.
Worked with Test Leads to follow-up QA schedules, activities, tasks assigned, daily statuses and deliverables
Conducted various Knowledge transfer sessions for QA members.
Worked in various GO LIVE and SMOKE TEST
Interacted with client to get a clear flow of the overall application
Presented an all through Seminar on module specifications to all team members for a better understanding of Work Flow, as discussed with Client.
Operating Systems : Windows7
Languages : Java
Database : Oracle SQL/ My Sql
Tool & Utilities : Toad.