Engineer Loan
Resume:
MANOGNA BIRUDURAJU
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Coquitlam, BC, CANADA
Summary:
8+ years of experience in IT industry during the course of which the majority of the experience was in software testing. Extensive experience in testing software developed in .NET and web applications
Experienced in manual testing, Automation testing using QTP 11.0, and XML testing.
Experienced in preparing test cases and scenarios, generating the test data, running the test data, documenting the test data for web applications and client/server applications.
Has expertise in Functional, Regression, Smoke and Integration testing
Collaborated with our Business Clients, Business Analysts, Application Developers, Application Deployment Engineers and Test team members during all phases of Software Development Life Cycle and have good knowledge of V-Model and Waterfall SDLC models and the Agile methodology.
Thorough knowledge of the defect life cycle. Ability to identify defects and clearly articulate the same while reporting to development teams. Monitor/follow-up of defects in Quality Center, ALM, JIRA to meet the SLA
Have good knowledge on SoapUI.
Experience in Review of Design Documents, Test Scenarios, Test Cases
Educational Qualification:
•MASTER OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS (MCA) from Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantapur with 87% in 2006.
•B.Com (Hons) from Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Puttaparthy with 90% in 2003.
•+2 from Sri Sathya Sai Higher Secondary School, Puttaparthy with 92% in 2000.
•SSC from Sri Sathya Sai Higher Secondary School with 70% in 1998.
Work Experience:
Worked in Bank of America from June 12 to Nov 14
Previously worked with Semanticspace Technologies from Aug 06 to May 12
Software Skills:
Test Automation Tools : QTP 11.0,
Test Management Tools : Quality Centre 9.2, Test Director 8.0, JIRA
Languages : C, C++, Java
Database : MS-Access, SQL Server 2000, Oracle
Certifications:
Certified on Microsoft SQL Server 2012.
Project Details:
1. Project : iFulfill (Fraud &Compliance charters)
Client : Bank of America Continuum
Environment : Java, SQL Server
Duration : Jan 2014 to Nov 2014
Description : iFulfill is a new Origination and fulfillment system for Bank of America for Mortgage Loan processing. This system will fulfill all the phases of loan Mortgage loan life cycle from Origination, Pricing, underwriting, closing and funding. It is a web based application developed in Java. The main responsibility for this project is to test various critical functionalities of the loan life cycle with different products and pricing.
Compliance: Compliance Charter deals with business rules which the Bank validates for a loan so as to comply with the rules and regulation set by the government.
Fraud: This charter deals with validating the authenticity of the Borrower before approving the loan.
Role: Test Lead
Responsibility:
Involved in Business walkthroughs for Requirement specifications in High Level and Low level Design document (HLD and LLD) reviews.
Coordinate with Line of business, System Analyst and Development team to identify the technology issues and requirement dependencies in the existing applications.
Deep understanding and analysis of the requirements and identifying the requirement defects.
Providing KT sessions to the team members on need basis on technical and application front.
Developing and reviewing Test plans and Test scenarios to meet System Requirements and Technical Specifications
Preparing, reviewing and executing the Test scripts.
Defect reporting using Test management tools.
Implemented the Smoke, End to End and the Regression testing to ensure the functionality and system integration behavior.
Documenting the defect reports and Test results by maintain testing standards.
Work across the Build, Dev teams for issues resolution.
Estimate the Business Call Flows.
Prepared the Traversal Documents.
Preparing weekly status reports and QA metrics.
2. Project : Artificial Intelligence (AI) – MUSTANG & CLUES Client : Bank of America (formerly Countrywide Housing Financiers)
Environment : .NET, LISP, C++, VC++, AS/400, MS-SQL Server, XML, Art
Enterprise, Merlin, Medusa, Lotus notes, AI Test Tool
Duration : Feb 2009 to Jan 2014
Description : Artificial Intelligence (AI) Project is the answer to the automated Underwriting process in Loan Lifecycle. Loan underwriting is the process of evaluating a loan application to determine whether the loan should be funded or not. This Project has an abstract decision-making model that evaluates a loan file in the same way that a human would, and this has been implemented using AI. All the AI Services are used in underwriting process in Mortgage Banking. The main responsibility for this project is to test the various AI Services.
MUSTANG : Mustang is a Business Rules Engine, and all the loan program guidelines are implemented in the form of Business Rules in Mustang. When a loan file XML is passed to Mustang system, it verifies the input values against the Business Rules and returns a guideline violation for each deviation. It also checks data validation and issues Warning messages if there are any discrepancies.
CLUES: CLUES (Countrywide's Loan Underwriting Expert System) is an automated underwriting system that can evaluate and underwrite loans, which makes the underwriting process more efficient. The system was developed to increase the production capacity and productivity of Countrywide branches, improve the consistency of underwriting, and reduce the cost of originating a loan.
The system receives selected information from the loan application, credit report, and appraisal. It then decides whether the loan should be approved or whether it requires further review by a human underwriter. If the system approves the loan, no further review is required, and the application is funded. A CLUE has been in operation since February 1993 and is currently processing more than 8500 loans each month in over 300 decentralized branches around the country.
Role: Sr. Test Engineer
Responsibility:
Daily Status Reporting to the Client and Onsite Coordinator.
Planning, Scheduling and reviewing of test plan and test cases.
Design and implementation of test cases using boundary value analysis, Equivalence class partition, and error guessing.
Logging and tracking defects using Quality Center.
Regressing bugs and interacting and resolving issues with developers.
Coordinating with onsite people and interacting in walkthroughs with the client.
Involved in defect reviews, release notes reviews and known issues reviews with developers.
Preparing test plan and test summary reports
Preparing traceability matrix.
3. Project : iOriginate
Client : Bank of America (formerly Countrywide Financial Corp.)
Environment : ASP.NET, ASP, SQL Server
Duration : Dec 2008 till Jan 2009
Description : iOriginate is an application for automating the Mortgage Loan Originating process. iOriginate is primarily a data capture and integration platform for selling, originating and fulfilling mortgage loans. The data capture constitutes primarily borrower data relating to loan applications, plans to integrate or build significant contact management and features for a variant of the product to be provided to a distributed sales force. iOriginate is mortgage loan origination system, which allows originators to create loan applications at various branches across United States. These loan applications will be validated, processed, registered and submitted to fulfillment systems for funding. NexOS is a multi-phase (and multi-release) program to develop loan origination and fulfillment applications supporting Consumer Market Division(CMD), Full Spectrum and Whole sale lending divisions, and Countrywide business partners, such as mortgage brokers, strategic alliance partners, and joint venture partners. The first phase of the program involved the point of sale application used by retail originators and mortgage brokers. The second phase will offer fulfillment capabilities.
Role: Test Engineer
Responsibility:
Status Reporting to the Client on a daily basis.
Planning, Scheduling and reviewing of test plan and test cases.
Design and implementation of test cases for PCRs.
Logging and tracking defects using Quality Center and Viper.
Regressing bugs and interacting and resolving issues with developers.
Involved in technical and business walkthroughs with the client.
Involved in defect reviews, release notes reviews with developers.
Preparing test plan and test summary reports.
Preparing traceability matrix.
4. Project : EDGE
Client : Bank of America (formerly Countrywide Housing Financiers)
Environment : Fox Pro
Duration : Oct 2007 to Nov 2008
Description : EDGE is the most widely used system in Bank of America. The application handles every phase of the loan origination process from prequalification to funding, tracks inventory pipelines, and facilitates printing of loan documents. EDGE caters to the huge loan processing needs of two major divisions (CMD & WLD) of BOA, with the help of about 700 branch servers in the production Environment. Each branch is linked with the corporate office so that loan data can be transmitted frequently to provide current information for management and secondary marketing purposes. This system interfaces with other systems on Bank’s network such as CLUES (Countrywide’s Loan Underwriting Expert System), Nexos (Bank of America’s Loan Origination System), Status mart WLWS and a Reporting System for processing loans to closing and funding.
Role: Test Engineer
Responsibility:
Writing test cases to test the Functionality of the application
Conducted Functionality and Regression testing during the various phases of the application
Executed the test scripts and analyzed the results
Reporting bugs using Test Director
5. Project : CWBC-Countrywide Wholesale Business Channel
Client : Bank of America (formerly Countrywide Financial Corp.)
Environment : ASP.NET, ASP, SQL Server and QTP11.0
Duration : Aug 2006 till Sept 2007
Description : CWBC, a Mortgage Banker is a subsidiary of Countrywide Financial Corporation, America's leading wholesale lender which is recently acquired by Bank of America. Countrywide's Wholesale Lending Division (CWBC) provides home loans to consumers, whose loans are originated and processed by a mortgage broker. Approximately 25,000 mortgage brokers work with this division through a nationwide network of more than 50 branch offices, four regional processing centers, and via Countrywide Wholesale Business Channel, a robust business-to-business Web site at www.cwbc.com. Countrywide hence is in need of an application which can cater nearly 5k applications a day with more than 3k varieties of Loan programs. A total of 60 WLD Branches and 6 Centers use Branch. CWBC is to handle the incoming volume of loan application. These branches use the Edge system for processing, funding, and document preparation. Countrywide Wholesale Business Channel is the Web application which makes all the application procedures online and hence hastens the process as well as makes it hassle free.
Role: Test Engineer
Responsibility : 1. Test Requirement Analysis
Detailed study of Business Documents and understand the criticality of the Business.
Analysis of System Requirement Analysis Document.
2. Test Planning
Preparing the Test plan which includes the enhancements and addition of PCR’s to the present scripts.
Test Case design for PCR’s
3.Preparation of Scripts
Recording and modifying the scripts according to the business requirement using the automation tools.
Making the Automated scripts completely Data Table driven.
4.System Testing
Execution of Test Scripts.
Execution of Scripts as a Batch.
5.Causal analysis and Reporting of the Defects
Raising Incidents and reporting the Bugs.
Raising Fix PCR’s
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