Engineer Project

ARSHAD AHMED SYED

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SKILL SUMMARY

• Over 3.5 years of experience in software testing with specialized in Islamic Banking, Core

banking, corporate banking, Retail Banking, Treasury, Trade Finance and Anti-fraud

checks for Motor/Home Insurance products.

• Provided test delivery by working with various business, development teams and stakeholders at

different customer locations, Muscat and Jeddah.

• Played the role of Business Analyst at client site and provided business analysis and requirement

assurance based on project needs.

• Experience in System Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing (both Alpha and Beta),

Regression Testing, Ad-hoc testing, Sanity testing, and Smoke Testing.

• Hands on experience in defect management tools such as Quality Centre, Bug-Zilla and Digite

• Worked in various Core banking applications like TCS-BaNCs, iMAL, INDUS and

TIA(Insurance).

• Test Consulting and providing solution to clients based on the professional experience.

• Experience in leading the testing team which involved preparation on Test Plan, Task allocation,

Daily status report, defect status meeting and defect management.

• Expertise in preparing Test Scenario, Test Condition, Test Case, Test step, Test Data and

Traceability matrix.

• Exposure to Quality Assurance, Effort estimation, Closure report

EDUCATION

Degree Specialization School/College Year Percentage

Executive Banking and Loyola Institute of Business 2009-2011 6.83 CGPA

PGDM Software Testing Administration(LIBA)

B. Tech Computer Science ANITS College, Affiliated to 2005-2009 68%

Engineering Andhra University

HSLC State Board Sri Chaitanya College 2004-2005 90%

SSLC State Board Mohan Secondary School 2002-2003 77%

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Maveric Systems Limited – Chennai, India

(September 2010- Present)

Senior Test Engineer

• Played the role of module lead for interfacing systems at ITFC and provided application training to

business users.

• Managed offshore team and Interacted effectively with the Onsite team

• Tested reputable and customized applications against the client specifications

• Interacting with business units on business and functional specifications and finalizing the scope to create

comprehensive test plan, test scripts and effective traceability matrix.

• Played an active role in project implementation lifecycle, right from gathering requirements to GO-Live

phase and often extended with post-launch support too.

• Coordinating with the business team during and after test cycles to ensure utmost test coverage.

• Communicating with multiple stakeholders and developers on the various risks and challenges.

• Organized and led the Defect Triage meetings to resolve application and functional glitches.

• Prepared key status reports and shared with respective stakeholders on regular intervals.

PROJECT DETAILS

Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) –UAT – Functional – Module Lead

Location : Jeddah

Duration : Oct 2013 – Till date

About the project:

ITFC, a member of Islamic development Bank (IDB) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) aims to

develop and provide Shariah-compliant trade financing for both public and private sector. ITFC has

decided to move from their legacy system to banking system to monitor and operate their services more

effectively. iMAL, which is a prominent Islamic core-banking product, has been chosen as the

transformation system by the ITFC considering Corporate Financing and Trade Finance as the critical

functionalities to be implemented in phase-1 and adequate testing has been performed for the same.

Tools and Applications involved:

iMAL – Transformation system

Thomas Reuter – Exchange Rate provider

MYSIS – Limit Management System operated by Treasury

SAP – Legacy system operated by finance department.

DIGITE – Defect Management Tool

MS-Excel –Business legacy system

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Performed requirement assurance and scope freezing process with business units.

• Took complete accountability for Integration testing between iMAL and external surround systems

(SAP/MYSIS/Thomas Reuters).

• Interacted with the business and developers on understanding the business rules and workflow which

helped team in developing an effective test design.

• UAT execution management and overlooked other applications under test.

• Presented training on Defect management tool and iMAL application to testing team with previous

experience on application which helped the team to deliver better test scripts.

• Organized defect meetings and circulated daily status reports with all the stakeholders .

Allianz Cornhill Insurance –SIT – Functional – Senior Test Engineer

Location : Kerala

Duration : Feb 2013 – Oct 2013

About the project:

Allianz Insurance plc. is an UK based company, offering both IT and ITES services. They are

predominantly driven with focus on two areas - process improvement and change management. TIA is the

core system opted by business which is surrounded by country layer and various external interfaces.

Tools and Applications involved:

TIA – Core Insurance Product

TcpMon – Aggregators Simulator for test

CARWEB – Vehicle Search engine for UK – Interfacing System

PCA – Post code Search for UK – Interfacing system

PCI – Payment Card Industry – Interfacing system

CRIF – Claim History check for UK – Interfacing system

3PE – Third Party data enrichment for UK – Interfacing system

Quality Centre – Defect and Test Management Tool

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Played the role of system analyst and performed system testing of Anti-fraud services of Home &

Motor Products, which minimizes the operational risks and management costs.

• Functional and database testing on core applications and its associated interfaces.

• Worked on various interfacing systems involved in project and ensured proper xml and log files

are created appropriately.

• Involved in BAU testing with the other teams in the project and helped in meeting the deadlines.

• Represented the team during the defect triage meeting and liaised with business users.

• Managing Daily Status Report and tracking of defects to closure.

Bank Nizwa –UAT – Functional – Senior Test Engineer

Location : Muscat

Duration : May 2012 – Oct 2012

About the project:

Bank Nizwa is first bank in Oman (Under Formation) anchored by the values of Islam, offering an entire

portfolio of commercial banking services. IMAL, Core Banking System (CBS) has been considered by

the emerging Bank which serves the business needs with ease. IRIS and ECC have also been considered

as external interfacing application with CBS which helped the business to carry out Cheque processing

and ATM processing respectively. Bank has projected to roll over to market with Liabilities, Assets, and

Treasury during the phase-1 and necessary testing has been performed to meet the business needs.

Tools and Applications involved:

iMAL – Core Banking System

ECC – Electronic Cheque Clearing System

IRIS – Card Management System

ACH – Automated Clearing House

RTGS – Real Time Gross Settlement

SWIFT Alliance – Swift Messages Processing Interface

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Tested ATM interface, Islamic Treasury, Retail Liabilities, ECS, SWIFT and Core banking

system.

• Participated in Requirement gathering meetings and involved in preparing final test deliverables.

• Prepared EMI calculators and reports which facilitated the test team and business units.

• Escalating defects encountered on a timely basis with the Business / Developer and bringing it to

closure within the stipulated timelines.

• Streamlining the knowledge from other critical modules associated with Core System.

• Extending support to the business from professional experience attained through past projects

L&T Infrastructure –UAT – Functional –Test Engineer

Location : Mumbai

Duration : Feb 2011 – Apr 2012

About the project:

Keeping in view of exponential growth of Project Financing through NBFC’s, business has opted to move

from contemporary system to Corporate lending system provided by TCS “BaNCS” which handles the

business quicker and more convenient way. The key objective of business to migrate to a lending system

is to reduce the ease of effort followed in legacy model as financing involved Rs.200-500Cr. Critical

Functionalities like Repayment Schedule, Amortization, Yield, Delayed Interest, NPA, Additional Interest

have been customized in TCS-BaNCS as per the NBFC business requirement, to drive the business

smoothly. Adequate testing has been carried to mitigate the risk of functionality deviating from its

expected behavior

Tools and Applications involved:

TCS BaNCs – Core Banking System

DIGITE – Defect Management System

MS-Excel – Legacy system

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Functional Specification documents and clarifications with the business before

preparing the Test design.

• Designing of Test Design which includes Test data, Test Cases and receiving approval from the

Business on the same.

• Involved in preparing the Defect Report and sharing it to the Client and Developer on a timely

basis.

• Involved in Production support post GO-LIVE, helping the business users in understanding how

to carry out end-to-end workflow in the application.

• Identifying the key dependencies & mitigating the risks involved while carrying out the

Regression on the enhancements done over the existing modules.

• Suggesting the business on future enhancements/challenges that could arise based on the

knowledge of business flow of events.

T24(Temenos) –UAT – Trade Finance –Test Engineer

Location : Chennai

Duration : Sept 2010 – Jan 2011

Description:

Export Letter of Credit is a document in writing where Advising Bank receives Letter of Credit from

issuing bank (Foreign Bank). Advising bank checks the authenticity of Letter of Credit and informs the

issuing bank and beneficiary about its ability or inability to advise the Letter of Credit. This is a concept

involving both the importers and exporters of a commodity.

The modules handled were:

• Export LC

• Import LC

• Negotiation

• Amendment

• Settlement

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Functional Specification documents and clarifications with the business before

preparing the Test design.

• Designing of Test Design which includes Test data, Test Cases and receiving approval from the

Business on the same.

• Helped in preparing the traceability matrix and daily status reports with leads support.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

● Acquired stakeholder management skills and analytical skills from professional exposure in the last few

years.

● Created calculators with MS-excel formulas which helped the business and testing team in validating and

mapping with the expected results.

● Application and domain knowledge in Banking & Insurance verticals.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Languages: C, C++

• Databases: Oracle SQL Query Language

• Database Interface : TOAD

• Operating Systems: Windows 7, 8, XP, Vista, DOS, Unix and Linux

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