Project Engineer

Resume of Jayashree Balasubramanian

Summary:

** ***** ** ** ********** performing functional and UAT of client server and web applications using MS technologies in different domains. CSQA certified in October 2015. Presently looking for a full time career in QA/ Analytics departments

Personal Data

Email: *********.****@*****.***

Residing in Franklin, MA

Phone: 503-***-****

GREEN CARD HOLDER

Academics

Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering, 1994-1998, India

Technical Skills

Testing and Agile Tools : Test Director, TFS & Visual Studio 2013, SOAP UI, SAHI Automation tool

Certified in Testing with Visual Studio 2013, CSQA

Web Programming: ASP, C#, VB, VB Script, Java Script,Dot NET, HTML, XML

Database: MS Access, PL/SQL programming in SQL server 2005/Oracle, DTS, Excel Pivot Tables

Web Server: Microsoft IIS, JWS 2.0, Apache 1.3

Other Utilities: UML, MS Office(Excel/Word/Outlook), Visio, Rational Rose, VSS 6.0, Cold Fusion, Crystal Reports, Track IT

Software Engineering Skills

AGILE/SCRUM processes

Client product support, tier 2 support to clients, product training, UAT

Adherence to CMM Level 5 standards, QA processes, writing unit/system test cases, ensuring requirements traceability, executing unit/system test cases, test management, defect management, test reporting

Data Analysis, TSQL

Experience in translating business requirements to functional /UAT test cases

Experience transitioning portfolio of applications from in-house to outsourced teams, Issue resolution, coordination between technical and non-technical users

Created technical, functional, business process documents and documents for audits

Experienced in documenting Release notes, bug reports, defect tracking

Employment History

Cognizant Technology Solutions - Jun 1998 till Mar 2005

Genesis Financial Solutions - Oct 2011 -June 2012

Saylent Technologies - Jan 2013- Oct 2015

Experience Details:

1.Senior QA engineer at Saylent Technologies Jan ’13- Oct ‘15

Project Overview: Saylent specializes in data analytics and relationship products and pricing platforms which leverages financial institution's demographic and transaction data, creating insights that empower them to influence customer behavior – resulting in increased deposits, loans, and non-interest income. As a QA lead for Saylent’s products I was responsible for leading offshore QA team in designing test scripts-both manual and automation, performing tests to validate web service methods, security enhancements and database validations.

Responsibilities:

Test lead for products CARD 360, Account 360

Coordination with Engineering, Product and Customer QA and Operations/Support team

Manage offshore QA and automation team

Writing, reviewing, executing QA/UAT test scripts

Running automation regression scripts

User Interface testing, UAT, Data validation using SQL

Project Specific Skills: Agile /SCRUM practices, Web services testing using SOAP UI, TFS 2013, SQL 2005, Excel, Banking industry practices

2.UAT & Support engineer at Genesis Financial Solutions, Oct ’11 -June ‘12

Project Overview: Genesis Financial Solutions originates and manages non-prime consumer credit and student loans. Genesis' partners include educational institutions, retailers and health care organizations who want to serve more customers and increase sales volume by offering affordable and flexible financing.

My role was to handle user acceptance of the Genesis lending portal and integration of the Genesis Retail Lending platform with multiple partners of Genesis, including Aspen Dental, Venue.Com, Oregon dental services and Zales.

Responsibilities:

QA for multiple projects, Support to Operations team and clients

Writing, reviewing, executing QA/UAT test scripts

Business rules and credit criteria validation

User Interface testing

Testing of dot net web services using SOAP API Calls

Data validation using SQL

Project Specific Skills: Web services testing using SOAP UI, SQL 2005, Excel, Lending industry practices

3.Project Transition Lead at Marks & Spencer (M&S), UK, Feb ‘04 till Mar ‘05

Project Overview: Cognizant transitioned application support of Microsoft applications in the M&S Foods and Finance business units from in-house team to Cognizant team. Transition included 18 applications developed in Microsoft platform

Responsibilities: Lead a transition team comprising technical support resources to

Perform Due Diligence on the application portfolio, document process flow

Coordinate guided support phases and transition into steady phase support

Manage steady state support team

Project Specific Skills: MS Access, Excel, SQL Server, Project Management

4.Test Project Lead for CSAA’s Auction Web Site, Oct ‘03 to Feb ‘04

Project Overview: CSAA Auction web application is part of the CSAA Passport intranet site to realize monetary returns from salvaged items and disposal of redundant items. Cognizant was contracted to perform application enhancements to the existing application.

Responsibilities: Lead a team of 6 developers to

1.Gather, analyze and estimate customer business requirements

2.Document functional specifications and build enhancements and unit test them

3.Test and Implement changes into production

Project Specific Skills: Dot Net (C#), Dot net framework, ASP, VB, Excel and SQL 2000

5.Project Lead to Re-architect Enterprise Application for CSAA, Oct ‘03 to Feb ‘04

Project Overview: The objective of the project was to cleanup PASSPORT, CSAA’s Enterprise wide communication channel, making it suitable for hosting by vendors. Major areas of focus were removal of network and server dependencies in the code.

Responsibilities:

1.Documenting functional specifications

2.Building tool to remove dependencies on a single asp file and generate UI dynamically

3.Build and Deploy functional enhancements using ASP.NET, ASP, C#, JavaScript and VB

4.Database migration using SQL 2000, MS Access 2000 and Upsizing Wizard.

Project Specific Skills: C#, DOT net, ASP, VB and SQL 2000

6.Module Lead for Carrier Contract Auction App for Schneider Logistics, Feb ’03 - Jul ‘03

Project Overview: SUMIT CVA is used by Schneider Logistics to perform carrier contract auctions. The project provided administrative enhancements to improve the usability for internal SNI associates to modify carrier bids recalculate auctions and improve reporting

Responsibilities:

1.Assessment of business requirements from end users

2.Design review, Code review, Product review

3.Unit, system testing of enhancements

4.Assisted customers with User Acceptance testing.

5.Implementation

Project Specific Skills: VBA, Excel and DB2

7.Test Engineer for NM Web sites for Schwans, USA, Aug '02 till Feb '03

Project Overview: Testing and implementation of the Commercial Policy website that allows insurance companies to conduct status inquiries

Project Specific Skills: C#, Dot Net, ASP, IIS, VB 6.0, VSS 6.0, Informix and DB2

Responsibilities: Involved in unit and system testing

8.Developer for Pricing Simulation System for Case New Holland, Jan ’02 till Jul ‘02

Project Overview: Developed Pricing simulation software considering the price and discount rates of the competitor parts and other market data

Responsibilities:

. Development of web application in ASP

. Development of database access components (PL/SQL, stored procedures),

. Unit testing and bug fixing, system testing, Defect logging

Project Specific Skills: ASP, IIS, VB 6.0, COM, VSS 6.0, crystal reports and Oracle 8

9.Developer for Forms and Letters application for Liberty Mutual, Oct ’01 till Dec ‘01

Project Overview: Development of a web based application to automate the generation and printing of claims letters.

Responsibilities:

. Coordination with clients and offshore team

. Development, testing and implementation

Project Specific Skills: Haht Basic, Java Script and DB2

10.Developer for Portfolio Generator App for Ziff Brothers Investments, Oct ’01 - Dec ‘01

Project Overview: Development of Portfolio Generator Application to decide future investment models using forecasting rules and technical analysis of data from Bloomberg and Factset.

Responsibilities:

. Analysis of business requirements

. Design and development of software using VBA to download data from Bloomberg and Factset databases into excel spreadsheets

. Development of Portfolio Generator

. Testing

Project Specific Skills: VBA, MS Excel COM, Bloomberg and Factset APIs, SQL Server

11.Developer in Re-engineering Court Management System of ISD Corp, Jan ’00 - Oct ‘00

Project Overview: Was a developer in the e-ICMS modernization project to create a web-based application with rich GUI in place of the legacy MF-Cobol application.

Responsibilities:

. Development of web application in ASP

. Testing for data accuracy using SQL and bug fixing.

Project Specific Skills: ASP, EXCEL,XML, DHTML, and Java script, VB-COM, IIS and Oracle database

June’98-Dec ’99-Part of Y2K conversion team for Rosenbluth International

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