Lead QA

mallikarjuna RP

Professional Summary:

Extensive experience in Project Management, test planning. Creation of Test Strategy, Test plan, Estimation, Test execution and managing a team

Provided value adds such as process improvement, productivity improvement, new initiatives, effort reduction, proof of concept for automation

Extensive experience in Functional Testing, System Integration Testing, User/Business acceptance, Regression, Interface testing, Browser compatibility, Batch Process and Production Acceptance Testing, Workflow testing, E2E

Extensive experience in testing web, windows, Character based applications

Extensive experience in onsite offshore co-ordination & handling multiple teams across the globe

Extensive working experience and knowledge of testing methodologies, testing life cycle and automation tools like Quick Test Professional and HP ALM v12.0

Expert in test management & defect tracking tools like ALM, Quality Center (QC), JIRA, DTS, Test director, Bugzilla, Team Tracker

Extensive experience in testing app on iOS and Android platform for Mobile & Tablet devices.

High performing troubleshooter, excellent problem solver consistently enlisted to identify root- cause problems and resolve issues and implement new processes.

Proven track record of exceeding customer expectations in delivering quality product on time and under budget.

Proven leadership and mentoring capabilities. Good judgment and the ability to work effectively with a diverse workforce

Extensive experience in Banking, Securities, Insurance, Retail, Health care and Energy Utilities domain

Worked at customer place in USA, UK, Thailand for 5+ years

Proficient in SQL, Unix & Linux concepts

Expert in Testing products like Oracle RPAS, cXc/P2P, S1-CRM, S1-ET, Temenos core banking, Finacle, Foreign Exchange, citi direct, Trade Finance

Extensive experience in SDLC & STLC with Agile, Water fall, hybrid models

Worked as technical panelist for recruiting resources.

Prepared RFPs and provided turn-key solutions to Customers

Technical Skills:

Test Management Tools

HP ALM v12, Quality Center, Test Director 5.0, JIRA, DTS,Team Tracker, Bugzilla

Testing Tools

QTP, Winrunner 7.0, Confluence, Selenium IDE

Products

Oracle RPAS, cXc/P2P, S1-CRM, S1-ET,Temenos core banking, Finacle, citi direct

Trade Finance

Languages

C, C++

Database/ Tools

PL/SQL MS, Oracle, TOAD, Putty

Testing Devices

Apple iPhone 6S, 6S+, 6, 6+,5,5S,5C,ipad Pro, ipad air, ipad mini,

Samsung S6,S5, S4, S3,S3 Mini, Galaxy note, Samsung Galaxy, Samsung Mini, HTC

Trainings

Data ware house, SQL, Selenium

Professional Experience:

Client: Wall -Mart, Bentonville, USA June 2015 – Ongoing

During my tenure with Wall -Mart, involved in managing & testing Oracle - Retail Predictive Application Server (RPAS) data migration from AIX (Unix) V13.2 to Linux v15.0

RPAS stands for Retail Predictive Application Server and is a Retailing package solutions provided by ORACLE (originally from Retek). The Oracle Retail Predictive Solutions are a set of products used for generating forecasts, developing trading plans, and analyzing customer behavior. These products use predictive technology to examine historical data and to predict future behavior.

The applications are customized to MVP (Merchandise value Planner) and UP (Unit Planner). RPAS is a combination of Database, front end client and configuration tools.

Merchandising Value Planning :

Measures are stored at Sub-category level

Levels above are the rollup of the lower level

Provides data at Week, Month(4-5-4) and Day level

Used by all divisions across Wal-Mart

Implemented in US,CA,UK and CHILE for WM

Implemented in US for SAMS which is called MFP instead of MVP

Unit Planning :

Measures are stored Fine line level

Provides data only at Week level (4-5-4)

Mostly used by Apparel Division

Implemented in US for WM and SAMS

Implemented in CA for WM only

Roles & Responsibilities: Project Lead, Sr. Quality Analyst

Onsite – Offshore coordination, evaluate Business and System Requirements

Preparing Test Plan / Strategy & presenting to all the stake holders & get approvals

Bridge between development team and testing teams, taken initiatives to reach QA testing goals.

Audited Business & functional necessity documents and recognized test scenarios.

Received test artifacts & getting necessary sing-offs for Test cases and Test Scenarios

Preparing and executing test cases during SIT, E2E, and UAT testing

Performed Smoke testing and format testing of RPAS Linux V15

Reported test defects and outcomes to defect manager, project managers and application developers.

Contribute in regular status meetings to report any bugs, problems and risks.

Preparing & presenting requirement traceability matrix, daily/weekly/monthly status report

Test estimation Planning, prioritizing, Allocating and tracking work

Support during CA7 scheduler Batch job run - pre batch & post batch run

Support during UAT phase and resolve issues raised by the UAT testers

Training UAT or business users

Created Executive Preseason work book by Seeding process in RPAS app

Executive creates the plan and Publishes the target in RPAS

Manager Reviews the target set by executive in RPAS app

Manager creates the plan and Publishes the target

Planner Reviews the target set by manager

Planner creates the plan and Sends to Manager for Approval

Client: US Bank, MN, USA Aug 2010– Apr 2015

During my tenure with US Bank, involved in managing & testing various projects developed using Clear X change(cXc) & Wealth Management banking Application

Clear X change(cXc) :

Clear X change(cXc) is a U.S. based digital payments network that enables customers to quickly and securely send payments to anyone using only the receivers email address or mobile device number. Currently, Pay A Person payments in Online Banking and Mobile Banking via a receivers email address or mobile device number is implemented using Fiserv Pop money solution. The overall purpose of this project is to use cXc instead of Pop money for all Pay a Person transactions done via a receivers email address or mobile device number. Pop money will continue to be used for Pay A Person payments via the receivers account number. Phase 2 of this project is to continue converting existing Pay A Person functionality onto the cXc platform. Phase 1 of this project laid the foundational work to enable cXc transactions Phase 2 will implement additional functionality to achieve parity with existing functionality

Wealth Management (WM) :

Currently Online Banking Application (OLB) provides access to Self Service features including updating address, phone and email information, alerts and a Contact Us section. But, Brokerage and/or Trust customers do not have access to Online Banking Application and hence do not have access to editor manage their profile information through the Online Banking platform. The Brokerage customers access the Sci-vantage site to edit/manage their profile information. Â With this project, US Bank Wealth customers that are no already enrolled to Online Banking, to enroll to Online Banking using their Brokerage or Trust account information. Successful enrollment will allow the customers to login to online banking and view their brokerage and trust accounts and other restricted accounts such as loans, lease, lines, and mortgage(restricted access). It will also provide them the ability to avail login assistance features within online banking

Commercial loan documents (CL Docs) :

U.S. Bank Document Solutions Group is undertaken a project to replace the loan document system, Loan Calculator, which is running on Windows XP, an operating system that will not be supported beyond 2014.

Magenic is engaged in the application renewal project that delivers a new loan document system, Commercial Lending Document Ordering and Creation System (CL DOCS)

The application comprises of 8 groups and the test execution is done in 7 drops, where each drop will include certain set of screens to be tested, Group 1 deals with majorly General information, Loan information, different types of additional terms, different types of FCD, different types of FRD, Loan Facility Fee, Overdraft Protection, and Temporary Increase screens Group 2 deals with Loan Amendment Information, Payment Default Screen and Amortization Calculation screens. Group 3 deals with how different parties like Company Individual, Trust, Land Trust are linked to a particular loan under a deal. Group 4 deals with Collateral summary, Collateral information, Overdraft protection, Loan facility screens Group 5 deals with Real Estate, Real Estate Amendment, Real Estate existing and different state level Real Estate screen Group 7 deals with EFS and Financing Statement SOS/RER screens. Group 8 deals with Dashboard, administration, Search, Notification and Additional Info-Production Summary screens

Roles & Responsibilities: Test Lead, Sr. Quality Analyst

Developing test plan and evaluating functional specifications of software products

Designing test cases and strategies by gathering and reviewing business requirements

Conducting functional, System, regression & UAT testing for successful implementation of QA process

Security Testing, Database Testing, Cross browser testing on IE, Firefox, opera, Safari browsers

Tested the application to see if it complies with all the integrity constraints and business rules that were to be imposed

Tracking and reporting bugs by utilizing standard defect tracking system

Developing procedures for improving and standardizing QA methodology and processes

Providing directions in peer review to ensure that the product deliverables meet the deadlines

Contribute in regular status meetings to report any bugs, problems and risks.

Preparation of Test Data request & Review of Test cases & executing the Test cases.

Driving Defect Triage calls and managing the entire Defect Life Cycle

Created requirement traceability matrix (RTM) to ensure test scenarios is created for the entire system requirements and business requirements

Tested the application under different networks and Internet speeds including on 3G, 4G/LTE and Wi-Fi.

Involved in testing application on different mobile Platform such as iOS and Android devices.

Client: K-Bank, Bangkok, Thailand Nov 2008 – Jun 2010

During my tenure with K-Bank, worked on various phases of transformation into CORE banking using S1-CRM, S1-ET, Temenos core banking Application

KBank staff is being requested by Party to open a deposit account. Agent needs to perform Party search; and if the Party is not found then Agent must add The Party information and submit to the CIS system, in order to obtain a CIS ID. However if the Party is found and authentication process has been successfully performed, Agent will directly be guide to the Customer Session Dashboard. Agent can select Open Account link on the Left hand menu in the Customer Session Dashboard, Then Agent will be able to select Deposit product in the Product Section screen to open account.

K-Transformation has 90+ applications. These applications are migrated form CT-win to Latest technology with the help of products like S1-CRM, S1-ET, TCB, PSC, and AMS. Following are few major applications for which I was involved K- Email Statement, Phone banking, Credit card, Prepare Commercial Loan/Personal Loan application

Roles & Responsibilities: Quality Analyst

Planning scheduling, allocating & tracking work on daily basis both at offshore & onsite

Attending defect review meeting with customer & Vendors

Escalating the issues to concern vendors/Client

Preparing & presenting status meeting with Stakeholders

Reviewing Test artifacts such as TC’s & defects logged by team members

Lead the team of 9 members

Testing Application for security with the techniques like Authentication, Authorization, Input validation based on profiles & policy defined by bank etc & Functionality

Test case preparation, TC execution & Defect Tracking & getting signoff for Test artifacts.

Provided walk through on the Requirement Traceability Matrix & managing defect triage calls.

Client: Lehman Brothers, USA Dec 2006 – Oct 2008

During my tenure with Lehman Brothers, worked on Fixed Income derivatives Lens Automation using QTP 9.2

Lens is a pricing tool for Fixed Income derivatives, Deal scan be priced using Swaption deal, ESP_IAS deal, Complex swaption deal, ComplexESP deal, Periodic deal, HJM/Capfloor deal, Cofi Deal, Swap deal, European Swaption deal, Cap/floor deal, FPA deal, Lens is used world-wide by sales and trading.

Roles & Responsibilities: Module Lead

Contacted application owner for knowledge transfer of the application

Prepared Test case, Executing TC & Tracking defects

Developed VB Script Programming and Script Modified using QTP

Automated Testing using Quick Test professional 9.2

Worked with Modular Data Driven Framework

Performed Functional, System, Regression and Smoke Testing

Preparing daily/weekly/Monthly reports

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