Ravi Kumar

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Professional Summary

Over 12+ years of comprehensive experience in the field of Information Technology as Automation Test Lead, Solution Architect, Requirements Analyst, Project Test Management, in Banking, Health Care & Telecom domains.

Expert in Design & Developing automation frameworks, Automation tools, Complex Web services framework using, Blue prism.

Expertise in developing Web Services testing architecture using Blue Prism

Expertise in implementation of Automation in Agile Methodology.

Proficient in creating the Test Strategy, Test Approach (TA), Test Estimate, Test Design, System Requirement Specifications (SRS) and identifying interfaces and business process specifications.

Strong experience in working with all phases of SDLC throughout the project life cycle.

Mature understanding of Quality Assurance Methodology relative to SDLC and Agile Methodology.

Extensive experience in various testing strategies like Automation Blue prism, Functional Testing, Defect Management, Quality Center, Agile Testing, UAT Testing, Webservices Testing and Production Certification. Broadly worked on many of the complex projects which include requirements analysis, creating the Test plans, functional Test cases, developing the automation test suites and reviewing them for quality assurance. Having played significant role in defect triage, also have good experience in Performance testing

Excellent interpersonal and customer relational Skills. Enthusiastic and a self-starter with a need of minimal inputs.

Experience in SQL DB, Sybase, Netezza and MRMAID testing.

Expertise on System Automation, IBM Mainframe automation, Desktop apps automation.

Strong experience in QA Methodologies (AGILE/SCRUM and Waterfall).

Experienced in developing automated test cases using Blur prism.

Expert in Black box testing and Knowledge with White box testing.

Dealing with many third-party vendors to achieve their business needs with quality standards.

Strong experience in Plan, Analyzing, facilitating testing efforts and coordinating test environments - System Integration testing.

Experienced in domain of Banking - Capital Markets, Payments and core Banking

Experience in of Business/Data analysis, ETL Testing and Data Modeling

Experience in Preparation of E2E Test Plans, Preparing Integration Test Cases Review of Test cases.

Technical Expertise

Operating System : Windows, UNIX,AWS

Programming Language : VB,

Database : SQL, MS Access,DB2, Sybase, Netezza, MRMAID,SAS tool

Scripting Languages : VB Script

Web technologies : HTML, XML, AWS (S3 Services), Informatica DX Console

Browsers : IE, Firefox Mozilla, Chrome

Automation Testing Tools : Blue Prism,

Quality Center / ALM– 9, 9.2,

JIRA, IBM Mainframe – Attachmate Extra, Blue-chip, Git

Testing Approaches : Automation, Manual, Water-fall, Agile, Mobile, Web Services

Areas of Specialty

S.no

Area

Functional/Technical Specialty

Technology > Solution Planning & Delivery > Testing > Functional Testing

Industry Specialty

Industry > Financial Services > FS-Banking > ABS-Core Banking

Other Specialty

Technology > Solution Planning & Delivery > Delivery Lifecycle > Analyze Solution

Professional Experience

Oak Street Health, Chicago IL Mar-2019 -Mar -2020

Role: Test Manager

Project description: Oak street health is the Medical project aims to give convenient 24 hrs. access to the patient health information and medical records. It is called an electronic health record or EHR. By registering and setting up an account the user will be conveniently ready to access the health information and medical records. The portal may provide the user with features like accessing the medical record, doctor visits, discharge summaries, medications, immunizations, allergies, and most lab results anytime from anywhere with an internet connection.

Responsibilities:

Involved in Design, Documentation, and Scripting and Testing phases of the application in Agile Methodology.

Wrote SQL queries to perform on database testing

Logged defects using QC and communicated with developers.

Used Jira for updating the Test tasks and user stories and defect tracking.

Involved in Integration Testing and Regression Testing.

Support testing in UAT phase.

Involved in Release Activities.

Responsible for all code deployment activities into QA and UAT Env.

Designed & developed automated software test plans, automation test strategy, automation test estimation for given project requirements

Developed & executed automation test scripts performed black box testing, white box testing.

Designed & developed Functional Test plans, Test cases, Test case Scenarios for given functional requirements.

Design & Developed of Automation GAP document for given requirements

Executed Automation & Manual test scripts in multiple test environments such as SIT, UAT, Dev- CIT, Production environments

Provided Project estimation, Resource planning for various projects

Performed User acceptance testing, Risk base testing, Black box & White Box Testing, End to End testing, Security testing, Mobile testing, Data base testing for the Online banking applications.

BCBST, Chattanooga TN April 2018- Feb 2019

Avility Integration Automation Testing, Web services testing

Role: Automation Test Manager / Solution Architect

Tools: UFT API, GUI, REST API, Blue Prism, RTC, HP ALM, VB Script, XML

Project Description: Availity is a new in-house system that has been built on the .NET platform. The system replaces Blue Exchange application and was technically released into Production step by step with the Business go live on TBD

Responsibilities:

Responsible for full end-to-end Integration testing the for Availity Application.

Involved in Design, Documentation, and Scripting and Testing phases of the application in Agile Methodology.

Design & implementation of the automation solution for complex benefit runes using UFT API.

Develop & execute UFT Automation test scripts for windows applications, IBM mainframe desktop application, run regression scripts after the production deployment, Code fix.

Create Automation Strategy, Automation Framework for API / Web Services Testing

Code reusability, Continuous integration strategy followed.

Develop/maintain capacity and demand management process, Impact Analysis/ Risk Based Suite Determination.

Support testing in UAT phase.

Used RTC for updating the Test tasks and user stories and defect tracking.

Prepared test plans, test scenarios, test completion report and requirements traceability matrix artifacts

Responsible for creating detailed business test scenarios for effectively covering the end to end functional and regression testing

coordination and implementation of the QA methodologies/QA processes.

Responsible for defining the key identifiers for each mapping/ Interface

Code reusability, Continuous integration strategy followed.

Coordinate with Development team &offshore test teams to complete the deliverables.

Design & Develop of Automation GAP document for given requirements

Good usage with Wait stages and Exception handling

Technology Stack:

UFT API, GUI, REST API, Blue Prism Windows XP/7, MS-Excel, RTC and QC (for QA and UAT defects logging), MS Office, SQL server and Facets

Project Name: BANK OF AMERICA, New Jersey Mar-2017- Mar 2018

Project: REL - MORTGAGES

Project & Assignment Description

The BMT Implementation effort within Mortgage Transformation requires that BMTs be modified and tested to ensure alignment to future state business and technology goals. Specifically, BMTs currently requiring data from affected schemas within CMIDW1 must be modified to retrieve data from EDW in future state

Role: Test Manager/Lead

Gathering detailed requirements from Client for business requirements.

Designed & developed automated software test plans, automation test strategy, automation test estimation for given project requirements

Developed & executed test scripts performed black box testing, white box testing.

Responsible for creating detailed business test scenarios for effectively covering the end to end functional and regression testing.

Implementing wait and Exception handling stages

Executing process from control room.

Responsible for full end-to-end Data Analysis for SaaS Application.

Logging defects using ALM, JIRA and communicated with developers.

Executed Automation & Manual test scripts in multiple test environments such as SIT, UAT, Dev- CIT, Production environments

Provided Project estimation, Resource planning for various projects

validate recorded objects against PeopleSoft object metadata definitions.

Performed responsibilities of preparing system documents and analyzing functional and non-functional requirements

Responsible for updating testing status and preparing testing requirement specifications

Assigned the tasks of testing data set-up, testing environment, and reviewing test scripts on a periodic basis

Created requirements analysis matrix, Conducted formal and informal reviews with clients on requirements.

Performed User acceptance testing, Risk base testing, Black box & White Box Testing, End to End testing, Security testing, Mobile testing, Data base testing for the Online banking applications

Team management which involves in USA, Mexico & India locations continuous monitoring the project deliverables, handled 15 - 16 members team.

Project Name: BANK OF AMERICA, New Jersey Dec-2014- Feb 2017

Applications worked on: Core banking and Payments, Mortgages.

Project: PLEXUS - CMMD

Role: Test Lead

Project Description:-

This Project has been deals primarily with consumer banking comprising all kind of Credit Transactions and Margin Calculations.

Roles and Responsibilities

•Involved in Design, Documentation, and Scripting and Testing phases of the application in Agile Methodology.

•Wrote SQL queries to perform on database testing

•Logged defects using QC and communicated with developers.

•Used Jira for updating the Test tasks and user stories and defect tracking.

•Involved in Integration Testing and Regression Testing.

•Support testing in UAT phase.

•Involved in Release Activities.

•Responsible for all code deployment activities into QA and UAT Env.

•Responsible for to setup the QA Env.

•Responsible for to Create the Prepord and Prod activities checkout lists and sent to SSPM teams.

•Responsible for to support testing after post Production deployment activities.

•Prepared test plans, test scenarios, test completion report and requirements traceability matrix artifacts

•Responsible for creating detailed business test scenarios for effectively covering the end to end functional and regression testing

•Execution of business critical test cases/test scenarios

•Coordinated with offshore to get the latest testing results as well as defect updates.

•Planned the activities of the QA team members to ensure quality and timeliness of QA project completion

•Worked closely with the QA Manager in coordination and implementation of the QA methodologies/QA processes.

•Defined resources and work estimation requirements for test deliverables in accordance with project scope and timelines

•Responsible for defining the key identifiers for each mapping/interface.

•Responsible for defining the functional requirement documents for each source to target interface.

•Documented, clarify, and communicate requests for change requests with the requestor and coordinate with the development and Client team.

Client /Company: Bank of America Aug 2014- Oct 2014

Project: I contact Application

Project & Assignment Description

Role: Test Lead

Project Description: AstraZeneca has made a strategic decision to move to the Salesforce.com platform for their Enterprise CRM system to leverage an adaptable and customizable solution with the ability for rapid deployment of enhancement/releases.

Role Description: Test Lead

Involved in Test Estimations

Involved in Test Plan & Test Approach

Involved in Test scripting

Involved in Test Execution

Logging the defects and Report to Business team

Involved in daily calls with End Clients to update the Test Status.

Client /Company: Bank of America Apr 2013- Jul 2014

Project: Middleware MRP & FRP

Role: Test Manager

Project Description:-

This Project has been removing the legacy systems and Migrated to Linux Environments

For all Middle ware Payment applications

Role and Responsibilities :

Involved in Test Plans, Preparing Test Cases Review of Test cases.

Act as single point of contact for all testing for all initiatives.

Facilitate testing effort for an initiative across multiple applications

Establish and facilitate communication between test teams.

Responsible for full end to end testing view of the initiatives.

Confirm availability of test resources (people, environments, data, etc.)

Communicate overall initiative test schedule to all appropriate parties.

Track status and completion of test deliverables across teams for all initiatives.

Provide status of end to end testing efforts for all application testing.

Provide support for test phases as required.

Drive test defects to resolution as required.

Created consolidated test plan for all initiatives.

Identify test teams including test leads for each test cycle/phase.

Consolidate all information from test teams for a consolidated view of testing for all initiatives.

Review consolidate test plan as required with appropriate parties.

Coordinate cross-application test scenario planning.

Resolve discrepancies and issues related to cross application testing efforts.

Schedule/coordinate test environments.

Escalate risks/ issues identified during testing to appropriate parties.

Created consolidated defect reporting.

Client /Company: Bank of America Oct 2011- Jul 2012

Project: ARM- ACBD

Role: Test Lead

Project & Assignment Description

Companies selling goods and services want to achieve automated accounts receivable straight-through processing (STP) to close open invoices. Payment systems in most countries in Asia do not support sending remittance detail with the payment. Due to this limitation, these companies’ customers (payers) either do not send remittance detail with the payment or send the remittance detail separately. This project is being run in order to help clients to streamline their accounts receivables processing, by providing receipts matching, data enrichment and invoice matching capabilities to our clients who wish to outsource these functions to BAML.

E2E Testing is Performed on these modules MRP, FRP,GBS,File net, Informatica, XML Msgs etc.

Role Description: - E2E Manager.

Act as single point of contact for all testing for the initiative

Facilitate testing effort for an initiative across multiple applications

Establish and facilitate communication between test teams

Responsible for full end to end testing view of the initiative

Confirm availability of test resources (people, environments, data, etc.)

Communicate overall initiative test schedule to all appropriate parties

Track status and completion of test deliverables across teams for the initiative

Provide status of end to end testing efforts for all application testing

Provide support for test phases as required

Drive test defects to resolution as required

Create consolidated test plan for initiative.

Identify test teams including test leads for each test cycle/phase.

Consolidate all information from test teams for a consolidated view of testing for the initiative.

Review consolidate test plan as required with appropriate parties

Coordinate cross-application test scenario planning

Resolve discrepancies and issues related to cross application testing efforts

Schedule/coordinate test environments.

Escalate risks/ issues identified during testing to appropriate parties.

Create consolidated defect reporting

Client /Company: Bank of America Mar 2010- Sep 2011

Project: Trust Web

Role: Test Lead

Project & Assignment Description

Trust Web is intended to be your main system for updating customer information such as name and address changes, making cash disbursements and receipts, reporting, and initiating a fee or statement request.

Role Description : - Offshore Test Lead

Key Client Communication and participate in the KT calls.

Interaction with the Business, Technology and interfacing application Teams on scoping, data setup, and test execution strategies.

Conduct workgroup meetings and brain storm sessions

Implement standard testing process

Analyze Business Requirements and Design Documents

Test Planning, Execution and Management

Coordinate SIT & Regression testing

Task Allocation, tracking and coordination with the Offshore teams

Testing coordination with the interfacing application teams

Data Management

Defect Management through Quality Center

Participate in the Release Management Defect Review calls and Triage calls

PACE Validation

PACE Validation and comparison between Trust Web and TA21,TA14,T9PS and TA13.

Batch Jobs monitoring and testing.

UAT and Production Deployment Support.

Client /Company: Bank of America May 2009- Feb 2010

Project: CMG

Role: Test Lead

Project & Assignment Description

Project Description: -

Columbia Management is an integral part of asset and investment management and offers a variety of products to meet the needs of individual and institutional investors. The offerings include mutual funds in every major asset class, 529 plans, separately managed accounts, money market funds and institutional separate accounts.

Role Description :- Offshore Test Lead

- Task assignment to the Team Members

- Preparing Status reports

- Requirement gathering followed by Test script planning and Test condition identification

- Test Condition walkthrough to the Client and Functional Team

- Test script Execution

- Defect management and defect discussion with the Functional team

Client /Company: Bank of America Aug 2008- Apr 2009

Project: NFS Bond Desk

Role: Test Lead

Project & Assignment Description

Project Description: -

The API NFS Bond desk involved in placing bond orders for the different asset types provided as per the requirement. The orders placed during the execution were validated with the screenshots that were taken during the order placing and with the screenshots received from the NFS

Role Description:- Offshore Test Lead

Performing business area analysis

Interaction with SMEs to acquire knowledge on the applications

RTM, Test Planning, Execution and Management

Defect Management and Status Reporting

Metrics Analysis

Client /Company: Barclays pool UK Nov 2007- Jul 2008

Project: BAM and BCM

Role: Test Manager /Test Lead

Project & Assignment Description

Project Description:-

BCM is the system for monitoring the Payments traffic across the various payments applications (QMS,AFTS,SMS,Sanctions,GPS, & GLM).It provides increased functionality for Barclays Global Payment business. It derives its source data from BAM database.

Role : Onshore Test Lead

Key Client Communication and requirements scoping

Analyze Business Requirements and Design Documents

Test Estimation, Planning, Execution and Management

Coordinate SIT & Regression testing

Task allocation, tracking and coordination with the interfacing application teams

Defect Management through Quality Center

Participate in Defect Calls and Defects Walkthrough with the stake holders

Backend Data Validation (Database and Web Services)

Coordinate testing with the interfacing QMS,AFTS,SMS, Sanctions, GPS, & GLM applications.

Status Reporting to the stake holders.

UAT Support and Defect Analysis

Reporting Project Metrics

Client /Company: Barclays pool UK Nov 2007- Jul 2008

Project: SMS Data Archiving

Role: Test Lead

Project & Assignment Description

Project Description:-

This project has been borne out of the bank initiative for spring 2 that was to ensure that the bank has appropriate controls in place. SMS Data Archiving is specifically concerned with controls and data integrity around the data archiving within RRD systems(Edo star) or SWIFT messages processed by the secure Message switch(SMS)

Role Description :- Test Manager

Key Client Communication and requirements scoping

Analyze Business Requirements and Design Documents

Test Estimation, Test approach, Execution and Management

Coordinate SIT & Regression testing

Task allocation, tracking and coordination with the interfacing application teams

Defect Management through Quality Center

Participate in Defect Calls and Defects Walkthrough with the stake holders

Backend Data Validation (Database and Web Services)

Coordinate testing with the interfacing,SMS and Mainframe applications.

Status Reporting to the stake holders.

UAT Support and Defect Analysis

Reporting Project Metrics

Client /Company: Barclays May 2007- Oct 2007

Project: ADSTS – BFOM

Role: Test Lead

Project & Assignment Description

Project Description:-

BFOM is xsl Template driven, it can actually report in any format. Its new application BFOM keeps track of each registered customer's accounts & Preferences and Reporting Frequencies etc. Receive XML payment message from FPS (Hub) and store them against the relevant customer(s).At a time that corresponds with the customers preferred reporting frequency,BFOM will transform the payments received into their desired output format & dispatch it to them via the selected channel (Message way or Xtranet)

Role Description :- Tester

Test Scripting, Execution and Management

Coordinate SIT & Regression testing

Testing coordination with the interfacing application teams

Data Management

Defect Management through Quality Center

IVRS, India & Dubai Apr 2005 – May 2007

Company: Patni Computers

Role: Test Lead

Project Description: DU is the service brand of EITC, the new telecommunication services provider in the UAE. They will be an integrated service provider offering voice, data, video, and content services over fixed and mobile networks to residential and corporate customers. DU portal will offer a variety of online services for subscribers and non-subscribers such as viewing content about news, events and offers, viewing and paying bills for Post Paid subscribers, viewing balance and top-up for prepaid subscribers, an e-shop, etc. The caller is automatically routed to the appropriate Sub Tree based on caller type.

Responsibilities:

Involved in Design, Documentation, and Scripting and Testing phases of the application

Involved in Test Plans, Preparing Test Cases Review of Test cases.

Responsible for full end to end testing view of the initiatives.

Log the defects using QC and communicate developers.

Used Jira for updating the Test tasks and user stories and defect tracking.

Involved in Integration testing and Regression Testing.

Support testing in UAT phase.

Provide status of end to end testing efforts for all application testing.

Escalate risks/ issues identified during testing to appropriate parties.

Worked closely with the business team to understand the business processes and requirements and also was part of UAT. In addition, as a lead of the team he has trained new resources in the team.

Prepared test plans, test scenarios, test completion report and requirements traceability matrix artifacts

Responsible for creating detailed business test scenarios for effectively covering the end to end functional and regression testing

Execution of business-critical test cases/test scenarios

Coordinated with offshore to get the latest testing results as well as defect updates.

Planned the activities of the QA team members to ensure quality and timeliness of QA project completion

Worked closely with the QA Manager in coordination and implementation of the QA methodologies/QA processes.

Defined resources and work estimation requirements for test deliverables in accordance with project scope and timelines

Technology Stack:

Java, XML, LDAP, Windows XP/7, QC (for QA and UAT defects logging), MS Office, UNIX

Certifications

Certified ScrumMaster®

Credential Id: 1023125

Credential URL: http://bcert.me/seqmmzxme

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Validation Number: V8FM3VCKP1QQQFCP

https://aw.certmetrics.com/amazon/public/verification.aspx

Blue Prism (AUTOMATION CERTIFICATION- RPA)

https://www.youracclaim.com/badges/42ca4eb6-e9eb-4b57-9808-bd9f4169660d

Credentials:371507872,877066301

ISEB /ISTQB - Testing Practitioner

ISTQB - International Software Testing Qualifications Board

Fundtech Products: Global Payment Plus (GPP)

ITIL V4

Credential Id: GR671007460VL

Education Qualification& Work Authorization

Degree - Bachelor of Technology Master of Business Administration (Systems)

Graduation diploma in computer Science.

Achievements

Received Accenture Celebrate Excellence Awards (highest award in Accenture) across Business Operations, Value Creator and People Development.

Work Authorization – H1 B VISA

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