VINAY BONGARALA

716-***-**** ac7ao6@r.postjobfree.com www.linkedin.com/in/vinaybongarala

OBJECTIVE

Highly motivated Software Engineer with more than 8 years of professional experience in various phases of STLC. Excellent analytical, problem solving, decision-making and presentation skills and an ability to coordinate activities in a fast paced environment.

CERTIFICATIONS: Oracle Certified Associate (OCA), HP Quality Center Certified, Financial Markets Module in NCFM and ISTQB Foundation Level Certified

SUMMARY

•Extensively used Java for developing Automation Frameworks with Selenium WebDriver, Appium and TestNG

•Vast working experience in Agile and Waterfall methodologies

•Strong hold on Continuous Integration to configure and maintain automation suites using Maven/Ant build tools

•Well versed with Continuous Delivery to create and configure jobs to schedule and run jobs using Jenkins and setup Apache Webservers for hosting the HTML Reports

•Excellent experience with source version control tools such as Git & Subversion (SVN)

•Designed Test Plans and Test Cases for Verifying and Validating Mobile and Web based applications and implementing the processes based on standards for Software Development and effective QA implementation

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming / Scripting Languages: SQL, Java, PL/SQL, UNIX, Shell Scripting

Testing Tools and Methodologies: Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Selenium IDE, Selenium RC, Selenium Grid, Junit, Cucumber, JBehave

Data warehousing Tools: Datastage 7.5 & 8.1

Mobile Testing Tools: Appium, Perfecto Mobile, Android Studio

Web Debugging Tool: XPath, FirePath, Firebug, Chrome Inspector

Databases: Oracle

Agile Methodology tools: JIRA, Confluence, Zeplin

Build/ Integration Tools: Jenkins, Maven, Ant

Domain Knowledge: Insurance, Financial and Telecom

Other Applications: Lexcel, Putty, WinCVS, File Zilla, WinSCP, PL-SQL Developer, Toad, Rumba CMC (Mainframes)

EDUCATION

University of North Texas, Denton, Texas

Masters’ in Computer and Information Sciences May 2016

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad (JNTU)

Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology May 2007

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Software Engineer Verizon Wireless, NJ, USA Aug 2016 – Till Date

Verizon has launched a reimagined mobile application on iOS and android called the My Verizon mobile with exclusive access to features that will further differentiate Verizon as a carrier.

Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Verizon Up, Orders and Shop modules in the My Verizon Mobile application

Experience in coordinating testing efforts across external teams (Kobie, POS and eCom)

Actively involved in peer code review to have code maintainability and standards across the repositories.

Extensively used Java for developing Automation Frameworks using Selenium WebDriver, Appium and TestNG.

Used Page Object Model to represent logical relationship between pages of the application.

Strong hold on Continuous Integration to configure and maintain automation suites using Maven/Ant build tools.

Well versed with Continuous Delivery to create and configure jobs to schedule and run jobs using Jenkins and setup Apache Webservers for hosting the HTML Reports.

Associate JP Morgan Chase, Bengaluru, India Jan 2012 - Jul 2014

A health savings account (HSA) is a tax-advantaged medical savings account available to taxpayers in the United States who are enrolled in a high-deductible health plan (HDHP). The funds contributed to an account are not subject to federal income tax at the time of deposit.

Worked with LEXCEL and tested the transactions in Core Card Testing projects

Extensively worked on testing complex card simulation modules (ISO8583) for testing Visa and MasterCard transactions using LEXCEL

Ownership of end-to-end test life cycle for assigned business modules, including effort estimation

Worked as Lead for the Maintenance, Investment Releases and also the Core Card Testing projects

Responsibilities include reviews of SRD/CR, effort estimation, delegation, planning, design, execution and sign-off

Co-ordination with geographically distributed QA team members in JPMC and vendor companies (Cognizant)

Worked with stakeholder groups such as Development, BSA, PMO and also vendor companies like Fiserv

Took initiatives for QA related activities such as better maintenance of test cases in Quality Center

Quality Assurance Analyst JP Morgan Chase, Mumbai, India May 2009 - Jan 2012

VIEWS Portfolio Reporting is a powerful browser-based application that provides industry-leading reporting and key inquiry features. VIEWS Portfolio Reporting provides access to information on Accounting, Custody, Securities lending and other key service products that WSS (Worldwide securities services) deliver to clients each and every day. It’s a tool used to generate reports for different Lines of Business supported by WSS. It is used to generate fixed format or customized reports based on user requirements.

Worked on ETL jobs that were migrated from Datastage 7.5 to Datastage 8.1

Responsible for ETL data loading activities for the VPR application

Worked on migrating more than 800 reports from Cognos ReportNet to Cognos 8

Prepare and maintain Test Strategy for the project and make sure that the best practices from the industry are leveraged and incorporated

Review and identify the requirement gaps if any, Co-ordination with Business analysts and Development Team

Identify risks and come up with mitigation plan and communicated it to all the stakeholders through right channels

Review and present Metrics for the entire release to all the stakeholders

Test Engineer Satyam Computer Services, Hyderabad, India June 2007 - May 2009

Every year in the month of April, most of the health funds in Australia revise their rates, which in turn, result in reviewing their premium. These rates are revised with a view to supporting the ongoing health needs of customers and to keep pace with the continued increases in costs and usage of health services.

Responsible for testing activities for the Medical Benefit Fund, Australia

Involved in System Testing, Regression Testing and Ad-hoc Testing of the application

Prepared Post-Release Reports such as Traceability Matrix, Test Summary Report and Test Case execution report.

Frequent Weekly Status Check meetings and sending the Daily & Weekly Status reports to the Client.

Sent daily and weekly client status reports for the project

Worked with the Stakeholders and Delivery Managers in Australia to make sure all the testing activities were covered and on schedule

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