ARCHANA KUDARI
**** ****** *** *****, *****: 603-***-****
Apex NC 27502 E-mail: *************@*****.***
Summary:
●8.5 years of professional experience in Business/System Analyst, Quality Assurance Engineer, Project Consultant for financial software services industry.
●Experience in end-to-end software development and test life cycle for HR Payroll and Health & Benefits applications based on Oracle HRMS suite.
●Worked with end clients as Business System Analyst to capture requirements, create specification for development purposes, perform gap analysis, development, defect tracking, defect prevention and daily deliverables.
●Worked on implementation of HR Payroll Data Warehouse system for clients.
●Worked on Talent Management System focusing on talent planning, compensation planner and performance management applications and integration into HR Payroll.
●Worked on Integrating Hiring Management System to HR Payroll.
●Experience in PL/SQL programming and also HRMS forms debugging.
●Exposed to off-shoring model of work.
●Expertise in writing test plans, test cases, triaging the issues and execution for Q.A. Testing.
●Usage of Test Management Tool Test Director and Quality Centre as part of project test case repository, running the test cases and report generation.
●Usage of Business Data Modeling tool to create specifications.
●Usage of Apex Data Manager in conjunction with QTP to run automation scripts
●Working knowledge of COBOL, JCL and Mainframe technologies
●Beginners knowledge of SAHI Automation Tool
Educational Qualification:
Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Communication from Poojya Doddappa Appa College of Engineering. 1998 – 2002.
Technical Expertise:
System Worked on : Windows NT/XP/2000, Mainframe
Programming Languages : PL SQL, C, HTML, Java Script, COBOL, JCL
Databases : ORACLE 9i/8i, DB2
Tools Used : Test Director, Kintana, Business data modeling, Quality Centre,
Orchestrate, Toad, SQL Navigator, Humming bird,
Quick Test Pro
Work Experience:
Infosys Technologies Ltd. – Nov 2002 to Mar 2011
Projects:
1.HR Payroll testing project – Quality Assurance
Role Played : Test Lead
Duration : Aug 2007 – Mar 2011
Responsibilities:
●Create test strategy and test plan.
●Test all impacted applications ranging from Interfaces, Alerts, Reports, eWorkplace (web based application for HRP), Run PAYROLLS, Balance element output and verify STATEMENT OF EARNINGS (PAYSLIP).
●Interact with the requestor, the developer to understand the enhancement request or new requirement implementation and test the application.
●Interact with client to get the test results verified and signoff.
●Manage a group of 7 people at offshore
●Resolve the issues and validate the testing results for the offshore team.
●Run automation scripts through Quick Test Pro and Apex Data Manager
●Run Regression test suite
●Estimate the cost and time required for a module
●Assign modules to team member for testing and track the status.
●Conduct daily status calls, and report the progress and metrics to manager on weekly basis.
2.HR Payroll implementation project – Business Systems Analyst
Role Played : Business Systems Analyst
Duration : May 2005 – July 2007
Responsibilities:
●Interacting with end clients for requirement gathering, design, development and gap analysis for the project implementation.
●Responsible for defining specification for the applications used by end client.
●Responsible for loading/mapping the client specific data into end client’s database tables by developing DATAWAREHOUSE system at client end.
●Coordinating with development team and QA team to develop and test the application.
●Creating SDS and TSD documents.
●When in testing phase, answers queries from QA team and verify the entire required test scenarios are tested.
●Send test results to client for validation and compatibility check with their system.
●Transition to ongoing team after the implementation is complete.
●Authored many documents for the processes involved in an implementation.
●Responsible for specifying REPORTS and ALERTS and also testing the application that supports the REPORTS and alerts.
●Testing HRMS model based on Oracle package and the web base eWorkplace suite.
●Manage a team of 9 people at offshore.
●Providing estimates for the application development and testing groups.
●Create specification for Reports and Alerts for client and walk through the same process
●Logging bugs/defects and triaging the issues to find the root cause of it.
3.Health and Welfare – Development/ Quality Assurance/ Maintenance
Role Played : Team Lead/Programmer Analyst
Duration : Oct 2003 – Apr 2005
Responsibilities:
●Interacting with clients for requirement gathering, design, development and gap analysis for the project implementation.
●Developing requirement documents that will be used by the team members to generate the test cases and scripts in PL/SQL.
●Managing 7 resources in Offshore and delegating work; coordinating with the team to make them understand, work on the tasks assigned, resolving their issues and concerns.
●Induction program and training on domain on all the applications used while testing for fresh entrants into the project.
●Facilitating application maintenance.
●Developing test cases and PL/SQL scripts as part of the on going maintenance.
●Debugged ORACLE FORMS for any issue, by taking trace and then analyzing the trace file.
●Managed the team of developers for the software development and implementation of the system offshore.
●Authored and updated several technical system design documents for the implementations.
●Used RADAR as the Defect Tracking Tool.
●Quality Review of all the deliverables from the team members.
●Logging bugs/defects and triaging the issues to find the root cause of it.
4.Life Insurance – Development project
Role Played : Developer
Duration : Nov 2002 – Sept 2003
Responsibilities:
●Interact with Business team to understand the requirements.
●Worked on the entire Software Development Life Cycle from development to testing.
●Based on the requirements do overall analysis, prepare requirement documents.
●Developing test cases for the requirements given and scripts for data mining.
●Deploying and setting up environment to test applications.
●Development in COBOL and JCL to create interactive pages based on DB2 database.
●Triaging the issues and analyze the root cause of it.
●Logging Incidents in the bug-tracking tool called RADAR.
Achievements:
I have received a spot award for my outstanding work in Implementation team.
I have completed certification in Oracle 9i PL/SQL.
I have created a tool in excel to help support client testing in implementation phase. The tool reduced the client acceptance testing effort considerably.