Project Management

SHANT SWAROOP SAMAL

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Summary:

. Software engineer with 8+ years of Software quality assurance and testing

experienced in wide variety of projects and environments as QA Lead. High

expertise in Banking and Financial domain with focus on credit cards

lines of business.

. Extensive skills in Software Test Life Cycle and Test Methodologies.

. Expertise in SDLC 2.0 waterfall and Agile methodologies.

. Expertise in Manual and Performance testing with basic knowledge on

automation testing.

. Expertise in HP Quality center, Test Director, Load Runner, Performance

Center, Selenium and hands on experience QTP and VB scripts.

. Expertise in Test Data Characteristics documents, and Test plan

preparation, Test Case Designing, Test Case Execution and Test Case

Reviewing based on Design & Requirement documents.

. Expertise in Project Planning, Estimation, Test Strategy Preparation

. Involved in Functionality, Regression Testing, System Integration, User

Acceptance Testing and Browser Compatibility Testing.

. Expertise in SIT and UAT report creation as per SDLC 2.0 standards.

. Experience in Logging Defects, Reviewing and tracking Defects & Fixed

Defect Validation.

. Experience in preparing Requirement Traceability Matrix, Risk Assessment

of requirements (RRA) and also Bug Tracking.

. Expertise in project management activities like capacity planning,

providing estimates, managing teams, managing the billing of the projects

and providing sizing based on the impact for the impacted applications.

. Experience on AS-400, JCL, COBOL, IMS and DB2 databases and IMS online

screens.

. Verification of data entered by the users through application at back end

through IMS, DB2 and online screens.

. Validation of UI screens by executing scripts in UNIX platform.

. Comparing the back-end data retrieved using queries with the front-end

data in application through online screens.

. Experience in working with different operating systems Windows

98/2000/XP/2007/2008, UNIX, and LINUX.

. Expertise in Microsoft Excel, Word, Power point and Microsoft Project

Plan.

. A team player with excellent Technical, Analytical, Communication and

Interpersonal skills.

Education:

. Bachelor of Technology (Engineering) from National Institute of Science

and Technology.

Certifications:

. Foundation and Intermediate certifications on Banking and Financial

domain.

. Foundation level on Testing

. Certified Scrum Master

Achievements:

. Was awarded Certificate of Excellence Award (5 times) from client for

outstanding test and project management activities.

. Numerous Appreciation mails from clients for good performance, hard work,

dedication and delivery of quality product.

. Consistent High performer - Continuously achieved high appraisal ratings

for the last 5 years.

. Cross trained resources for upcoming projects which required specialized

testing.

. Knowledge Prime, Contribution in Knowledge Shop, Participation in

Internal Audit

. An active member of American Premier Association of Pool Players (APA)

and qualified for APA finals at Las Vegas, Nevada in 2013 from Broward

county of Florida.

Technical Skills:

Elements Particulars

Primary Skills Database and Manual Testing, performance

and automation Testing.

Test Deliverable artifacts complaint to

SDLC 2.0 standards

Functional, User Acceptance and Regression

Testing

Defect Tracking, Database Testing and

Application testing.

Project Management Activities, capacity

planning and estimates

Quality Management Tools Test Director, HP Quality Center 10.0,

Rally

Automation Test Tools QTP, Load Runner, Selenium and Performane

Center

Project Management Tool Clarity (Used for forecasting and magament

of resources allocated to a project)

Operating Systems Windows 98/2000/XP/2007/2008, Unix, Linux,

MS-DOS

Languages COBOL, JCL

Documentation MS Office

Databases IMS, DB2, AS-400

Professional Experience:

Client: American Express Technologies, Plantation, Florida, USA

April 2011 to Present

Project: World Wide Credit and Collections

Role: Technical Test Lead

WCC (Worldwide Credit and Collections) is an inventory which deals with

customer's credit history status along with the collection details of their

American Express credit cards.

It stores the both the credit as well as fraud details of the transactions

made on a card.

The application is complex in the sense it deals with many interfacing

systems like GRMS (Global Risk and Management Systems), RMSi (Risk

Management Systems), and Triumph and fulfillment systems to name a few.

Testing plays a major role in this application since it deals with sending

and maintaining the updates of the customer on a daily basis.

Responsibilities:

. Batch job execution through JCL in jobtrac as well as in Control-M

environment.

. IMS and DB2 database validations after batch job execution and on online

screens.

. IMS Online screen validations, performing various online activities and

validations.

. E2E co-ordination with different teams in order to meet the test

deliverables.

. Analyze Business Requirements and System Specifications.

. Designing the Test Plan. Designing the Test cases and executing the same

when required.

. Involved in System, Functional & Regression testing.

. Defect Tracking and Reporting of Bugs.

. Identified bugs and interacted with developers to resolve technical

issues.

. Involved in daily status meetings with the Client.

. Preparation of SIT and UAT Test summary Report.

. Project Management Activities through SDLC compliant project management

tool, Clarity.

Project: World Wide Credit and Collections

Client: American Express Technologies, Weston, Florida, USA

Duration: November 2009 to March 2011

Role: Test Analyst

WCC (Worldwide Credit and Collections) is an inventory which deals with

customer's credit history status along with the collection details of their

American Express credit cards.

It stores the both the credit as well as fraud details of the transactions

made on a card.

The application is complex in the sense it deals with many interfacing

systems like GRMS (Global Risk and Management Systems), RMSi (Risk

Management Systems), and Triumph and fulfillment systems to name a few.

Testing plays a major role in this application since it deals with sending

and maintaining the updates of the customer on a daily basis.

Responsibilities:

. Analyze Business Requirements and System Specifications.

. Designing the Test Plan. Designing the Test cases and executing the same.

. Job setup and execution in test region through JCL.

. Executed Test cases manually to test application functionality against

user requirements.

. Executed and Modified Test scripts for Regression testing.

. Involved in System, Functional & Regression testing.

. Defect Tracking and Reporting of Bugs.

. Identified bugs and interacted with developers to resolve technical

issues.

. Involved in daily status meeting with the Client and co-ordination with

application Test Managers

. Preparation of Test summary Report.

. Performance testing of a portal using Load Runner and Performance Center

Tool by recording the scripts, running and analyzing the downtime and

spikes observed during the run time of an application.

Project: Ameriprise Testing Center of Excellence Team (TCoE)

Client - Ameriprise Financial Services, Mineapolis, Minnesota, USA

Duration: May 2009 to October 2009

Role: Test Analyst

Ameriprise is a financial institution which deals with multiple financial

instruments like brokerage, mutual funds, bonds etc. to name a few.

I was involved in the brokerage unit for Ameriprise team and the role was

testing the application which was UI based and used mainframes as well as

Unix as its back end to store the data in its database.

Responsibilities:

. Analyze Business Requirements and System Specifications.

. Designing the Test Plan. Designing the Test cases and executing the same.

. Executed scripts in UNIX platform.

. Executed Test cases manually to test application functionality against

user requirements.

. Executed and Modified Test scripts for Regression testing.

. Involved in System, Functional & Regression testing.

. Defect Tracking and Reporting of Bugs.

. Identified bugs and interacted with developers to resolve technical

issues.

. Involved in daily status meeting with the Client.

. Preparation of Test summary Report.

Project: Global Risk Test Team (GRTT)

Client: American Express Technologies, Weston, Florida, USA

Duration: September 2007 - April 2009

Role: Senior Test Engineer

This project deals with the BAU (Business As Usual) activities in which the

accounts of clients of American Express are pulled and loaded for testing

purposes and also this project dealt with providing service support to

other teams like CRPS team with the valuable information they required like

helping them through online screens etc.

Responsibilities:

. Understanding the business requirements and preparation of Test Case

document.

. Involved in Functional testing and Integration testing.

. Execution of Test cases in Quality Center (QC).

. Defect tracking using QC.

. Maintaining the bug reports and tracking the status of bugs.

. Involved in Daily Status Reporting and coordination with Development

teams and Business Analyst.

. Performing BAU activities like pulling the data from production and

loading it in the test regions.

. Was involved in automation testing on a mainframe online screen by

recording the scripts and automating the regular BAU tasks in QTP

Project: American Express Prepaid Card Enabling Project

Client: American Express Technologies, Tuscany, Salt Lake City, USA

Duration: June 2006 to September 2007

Role: Test Engineer

The project functionality included prepaid services that American Express

provides to its customers all over the world. American Express' Travel

Related Services Company, Inc. ("TRS") includes the Travelers Cheques &

Prepaid Services Group ("TCPS" or the "Company") business unit which

manages an array of paper and plastic products.. TCPS continues to enhance

its existing prepaid products and introduce new products for its customers

and distribution partners in the U.S. and internationally. TCPS currently

offers the prepaid card products using its in-house AS400 processing

platform which will slowly be changed to an external vendor platform in

which the testing related services are taken care by Infosys Testing Team.

Basically the project that I was involved with AMEX dealt with mall cards

which finally went into hard launch very successfully.

Responsibilities:

. Understanding the business requirements and preparation of Test Case

document.

. Running the query on AS-400 application in order to validate the data on

tables and databases.

. Involved in Functional testing and Integration testing.

. Execution of Test cases in Quality Center (QC).

. Defect tracking using QC.

. Maintaining the bug reports and tracking the status of bugs.

. Involved in Daily Status Reporting and coordination with Development

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