Senior Software Engineer -Testing

SNEHA MARIA MATHEW

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Seeking challenging assignments that would facilitate the maximum utilization and application of my broad skills and expertise in making a positive difference to the organization

Synopsis

A Testing professional with 9 years and 9 months of Software Testing experience.

Highly efficient in Team management and testing activities of a manual team which includes requirement analysis, Test Planning, Test Cases, Test Data, Test Environment.

Analyzing/reviewing Test Cases, Test Execution, Defect Tracking, preparing Test Reports and conducting review meetings within the team.

Actively participated in Test Estimation for new requirements within the project, weekly status report sent to client, daily scrum calls with the development team and weekly calls with the Product manager.

Preparation of Test Deliverables and Requirements Traceability Matrix at the end of each Release/Test Cycle.

Highly articulate, demonstrating excellent relationship building, communication and interpersonal skills across all levels.

Experienced in Automation testing using HP UFT.

Core Strength

Problem Solving

Communication

Detail

Domain Interest

Leadership

Technical Summary

Tools

HP ALM, HP UFT, Jira, TOAD, Borland StarTeam

Languages

Visual Basic, C#, HTML

Database

Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access

Others

RDBMS, MS Office

Operating Systems

Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7

Employment Chronicle

COMPANY

DURATION

Senior Software Engineer, Mphasis Corporation, New York

Jan’10 till date

Associate Test Engineer, Infosys Technologies Ltd, Bangalore

Nov’07 - Jan’10

Projects Handled

At Mphasis:

#1

Title: Case Management and Payroll Systems. (CMIPSII)

Client: CDSS – California Department of Social Services.

Domain: Health Care and Financial System.

Duration: Jan’13 – till date

Team Size: 20

Platform: Windows 7

Environment: HP ALM, HP UFT, Borland StarTeam, TOAD

Role: Senior Software Tester

Description: Primary objective of the project is to build an application which consists data of recipients and providers case management. This involves Personal, Health and Financial data management of both the Recipient and Providers providing / receiving services by the California Department of Social Services.

Role Description: Highlighted below are my current roles and responsibilities in the project.

Actively participate in Requirement Gathering Meeting with the Business Analyst Team and Client Representatives. Identify business gaps in the requirement and discuss them with the Client and Business Analyst prior to starting the Testing Cycle.

Prepare Requirement Traceability matrix and Test Plan for each requirement.

Lead the testing activity for each release. This includes

oAssignment of tasks to team members including myself.

oProvide a requirement walkthrough to the Test team.

oReview Test Cases/Test Scripts written by Team members.

oEnsure all possible test scenarios are covered.

oSchedule and conduct daily status meeting with the team.

oSchedule weekly meeting with Client to go over the Test Execution status, Defect Management process for the Current Release and also send weekly status Report.

oWeekly meeting with the Development Team as part of the Defect Management process.

oProvide Test sign off at the end of each release.

Participate in the Post production installation Validation activity to ensure the deployment to Production is successful.

Involved in training new team members.

Activity participating in Data mining using IBM TOAD [SQL] for fetching test data to help team members during Test Execution.

Identify scripts suitable for Automation Suite and add them to the current Automation Regression Test Suite.

#2

Title: Guidewire Project

Client: QBE, Bangalore

Domain: Insurance

Duration: Jan’12 – Jan’13

Team Size: 12

Platform: Windows Server 2000, XP, 7

Environment: HP QC, SVN, Team Track, Jira

Role: Senior Software Tester

Description: Primary objective of the project was to test the implementation of Guidewire framework for the QBE Insurance web application. Guidewire ClaimCenter is used to keep track of all required claims-related financial data. Mphasis QA team involved in preparation and execution of smoke, system and regression test cases.

Role Description: Below are my roles and responsibilities in this project.

Attended Training of Guidewire ClaimCenter provided by Client and was part of this project from the beginning.

Actively participated in Test Scenario and test script writing.

Conducted Daily status call with the Onsite representative at the client End.

Being a part of the pilot project, I got the opportunity to provide Knowledge Transfer and Training to all the new members who on boarded the Team.

Involved in Test execution.

Responsible for the Defect Management Process. Hence had to interact with the Development Team on a daily basis to ensure the defect fix is successful and defect is verified.

Used HP QC for Test Plan and Test Execution.

Used SQL Server to fetch data for all Test Scenarios prior to Test Execution.

#3

Title: Eikon and Eikon for Wealth Management (CP Views)

Client: Thomson Reuters, Bangalore

Domain: Capital Market and Media

Duration: Jan’10 – Jan’12 [till date]

Team Size: 9

Platform: Windows Server 2000, XP, 7

Environment: HP QC, SVN, Team Track, Jira

Role: Senior Software Tester

Description: Primary objective of the project was to build a common platform, which consists of dynamic and static web pages giving detailed information on capital market components like Equities, Bonds, Funds, Countries, Companies, Currencies, News, etc. There are two applications (Eikon and Eikon for Wealth Management) being built, keeping the common platform as the base. My role within this project is to handle the testing activities for the NEWS component of both the applications.

Role Description: Below are my roles and responsibilities in this project.

In this project, I was the Owner/Point of Contact for the News component of Eikon application from the Testing Team.

Actively participated in testing the NEWS section of the application – Functional and Nonfunctional testing. This involved preparation of Test Scenarios and Test Cases, Test Execution and Testing the Live Streaming component for News.

Participated in the Daily status call with the Client at Thomson Reuters – News.

Participated in test execution of Eikon Wealth Management components.

Assisted the team with Test data setup and data mining using SQL queries on SQL Server. I was the Point of Contact for all Data mining requests within the Test Team.

At Infosys:

#1

Project Name: Defined Benefits

Client: Fidelity Investments – PWI

Company: Infosys Technologies Ltd

Domain: Banking – Retirement Solutions

Client and project description:

FESCo (Fidelity Employer Services Company) is a record-keeper of retirement benefits for many major US companies. It maintains an in-house system that helps the employees of these companies to track their benefit information. The business objective of the project is to have a centralized administration system that will cater to the needs of various end clients of FESCo. Each client’s Defined Benefit plan has some unique features that would require client-specific modifications to be done to the system and implemented in production.

The Corporate Actions QA team is involved in Testing of various applications constituting the in-house system based on the change requests of the clients of FESCo.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the Requirements and understanding the plan rules for each client

• Test Planning, Scenario creation and Setting up the test Environments.

• Test data setup and data mining using SQL queries on Sybase database

• Test Execution and defect reporting.

• Taken complete ownership of corporate action (CA) testing and received client appreciation.

• Suggesting Enhancements (if any) to the client

• Coordinating with the onsite team

• Training new members joining the team

• Acting as a team leader in the absence of the existing team leader

• Defect prevention activities to minimize in-process defects and Configuration Management activities for the project

#2

Project Name: Pyramis Global Advisers(PGA)

Client: Fidelity Investments -Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMRCo)

Company: Infosys Technologies Ltd

Domain: Trading

Client and project description:

Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMRCo) acts as the investment advisor to Fidelity’s family of mutual funds. FMRCo has three fund divisions: Equity, High Income and Fixed Income. Securities are managed, researched, bought and sold for the funds by a staff of portfolio managers, analysts and traders.

Responsibilities:

• Test data setup and data mining using SQL queries on Sybase database

• Test Execution and defect reporting

• Suggesting Enhancements (if any) to the client

• Coordinating with the onsite team

• Acting as a team leader in the absence of the existing team leader.

• Defect prevention activities to minimize in-process defects.

Academia

Month & Year of Passing

Institute Name & Location

Qualification Code

Branch

University Code

31 Mar 2002

BISHOP COTTON GIRL'S SCHOOL

Secondary School Leaving Certificate

GENERAL

Secondary Education Examination Board(ICSE)

30 Apr 2004

CHRIST JUNIOR COLLEGE

Pre-University Course

PHYSICS

Higher Secondary Education Examination Board

30 Jun 2007

MOUNT CARMEL COLLEGE FOR WOMEN, BANGALORE

Bachelor of Science

COMPUTER SCIENCE

BANGALORE UNIVERSITY

Trainings

Testing Fundamentals Automation Testing RDBMS Capital Market

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