Merin Rachel Mathew

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

12+ Years of working experience in Software Testing (Automation), Client & team co-ordination, test results & defect analysis and status reporting.

HP Quick Test Pro (QTP/UFT) Certified

Working as Lead Consultant (Test Automation) at Virtusa Corporation for BMO in Toronto.

Worked as Sr Product Tester in Intellect Design Arena Limited (IDAL) for CIBC in Toronto.

Worked as a QA Analyst (Test Automation) in JP Morgan Chase

Worked as a Senior System Engineer (Test Automation) in Infosys Technologies.

Experienced in incoming and outgoing payment flow of Canadian payments systems.

Worked on Wires, EFT, ACH, Cheques and Remittance payment flows and test data payment file creation in MT101, MT104, ISO001, ISO008, ISO Remit001, NACHA, EDI ANSI X12, CPA005 and other supported formats.

Worked on BESS migration and Incoming swift message types MT101, 103, 200, 202, 202cov, 205, 205cov, 203, 910

Experience in Manual Software Testing and predominantly in Automated Testing using HP UFT (QTP), Selenium WebDriver

Knowledge of Cucumber BDD framework.

Knowledge of Webservices Testing using SoapUI.

Knowledge of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) using UI Path.

Experience converting manual test cases to automated scripts.

Extensive experience in designing Test Automation Frameworks suitable for Smoke, Regression, and Integration Testing etc.

Extensive experience in Development, Execution and Maintenance of Automated test scripts

Expertise in Test Case Preparation, Developing Test scripts, Test Cases Implementation, Test Cases Execution and Bug/Defect Tracking

Experience in Functional Testing, Agile Testing, Regression Testing and Integration Testing and expertise in developing Automation Test Estimations, Test Plans, Test Cases/Scenarios, Test Procedures, analyzing Test Results and Test documentation and Test Metrics

Sound knowledge in Back-End integration testing to ensure data consistency on front-end by writing and executing SQL queries on the database applications

Knowledge on creating functional automation scripts using Selenium WebDriver and Cucumber BBD framework

Self-reliant, approachable, and comfortable with a rapidly changing environment and with good problem solving and analytical skills

WORKING EXPERIENCE IN TESTING

Virtusa Corporation (1 year and 7 months – In Progress)- Toronto, Canada – in progress

Intellect Design Arena Limited (IDAL) (11 months)- Toronto, Canada

JP Morgan Chase (3 years and 8 months) - Hyderabad, India

Infosys Technologies (5 years and 7 months) - Hyderabad, India

SKILLS USED AT WORK

Web Application Automation

Java

Bit Bucket

Jira

Selenium WebDriver

Soap UI

UFT

QTP

SVN

Cucumber

Jenkins

TestNG

ALM

EDUCATIONAL ACADEMIC RECORD

B.Tech. (Bachelor of Technology) from JNTU, Hyderabad, India.

PROFESSIONAL ACADEMIC RECORD

HP Quick Test Pro (QTP) Certified

Independent Validation Services (IVS) Technical Foundation from Infosys

WORKING EXPERIENCE IN TESTING

Project Name : BESS MIGRATION – PSH

Description: BESS Migration is to utilize and enhance the existing Core Payments Services Hub (PSH) application from vendor Fiserv to process BMO payments, in addition to utilize and enhance existing supporting applications for AML Scanning (FMF), Channel Interfaces (ISO messaging), Risking and Posting to DDA, FX Interface, Extracts and Reporting (PODR). And initiative is place BMO strategically ahead of its competitors in the Wire Payments processing space and position BMO well for upcoming Payments Canada major initiatives such as Lynx and RTR (Real Time Rail).

Client : BMO

Duration : Nov 2018– present

Tools/Technologies: Web Application, BDD, Selenium, JAVA, Cucumber, JIRA, HP ALM

Responsibilities:

Responsible to coordinate with the QA lead at client

Development of new manual test cases, scripts and execution of test cases

Responsible for maintenance/enhancement of the existing automation work items

Development of new work items which include design new framework/enhancement of the common automation framework

Involved in defect reporting and tracking using JIRA

Automating the Web Application using BDD, Selenium, JAVA, Cucumber

Worked extensively on data conditioning to create the test data for various payment methods

Worked on automating the workflows involving various interfaces.

Had been successfully training the new joiners both on the Application Knowledge and the Automation Frameworks

Project Name : Automated Funds Transfer (AFT) Phase 1 – Payment Modernization (PSH-C)

Description: AFT Phase 1 will focus on adding a new exchange deadline, taking the total number of daily exchange windows to 3 and minimizing the lead time to credit funds in to client accounts. Release Date Calculation in Payment Services Hub – Corporate (PSH–C) takes Serviceability Code into consideration and determines the day on which the payment will be released from PSH-C. Purpose of the testing team was to ensure that proper testing methodology is implemented while all these changes are being made to PSH.

Client : CIBC (Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce)

Duration : Dec 2017– Nov 2018

Responsibilities:

Understanding the requirements using the sketches in user stories created in SRD Phase.

Test Traceability creation and Test case drafting.

Review of Test cases written by team members.

Test data creation using upstream system and test data payment file creation in MT101, MT104, ISO001, ISO008, NACHA, EDI X12, CPA005 and other supported formats.

Test environment shakedown to validate connectivity with all required interfaces.

Test execution for Application UI and Wires, EFT, ACH, Cheques and Remittance payment flows in SIT and UAT using the different input file formats.

Coordinating with downstream systems as needed for end to end testing of the payment processing flows.

Project Name : Mortgage Express (Loan Origination Application) – Test Automation

Description : JPMorgan Chase is a financial institution offering wide variety of financial services and is divided into multiple Lines of Business, one of them being Mortgage Banking Technology. MBT deals with mortgage home loans. Home loan life cycle runs over multiple applications at each status of the cycle. Most critical applications are Mortgage Application Express system provides a single, integrated platform for sales-related activity to collect borrower data, subject property, and asset information. Mortgage Processing Express is the Mortgage Loan Origination system that supports processing, closing, and funding. On base is a workflow-based document repository.

Client : JPMorgan Chase

Duration : Nov 2012 –Jul 2016

Responsibilities:

Responsible for driving the end-to-end Automation testing cycle using HP UFT/QTP tool. Involved in Test Planning.

Responsible to coordinate with the QA Managers at onshore and offshore, work allocation to team.

Development of new manual test cases, scripts and execution of test cases

Responsible for maintenance/enhancement of the existing automation work items

Development of new work items which include design new framework/enhancement of the common automation framework

Automation Feasibility analysis for the new applications

Effectively coordinated the regression activities for every release

Responsible for testing the patches and repairs to the application software components in the development and QA environments

Successfully coordinated with the QA teams at vendor location and multiple client locations for the transition activities and release activities

Worked on automating the workflows involving various interfaces.

Had been successfully training the new joiners both on the Application Knowledge and the Automation Frameworks

Automated most of the manual tests for various application across MBT which helped drastically reduce the testing efforts.

Worked extensively on data conditioning to create the test data for various loan scenarios

Involved in backend testing which are involved writing sql scripts and database data validation

Involved in defect reporting and tracking using HP QC/ALM

Active member of the interview panel and assisted the management in recruitment

Environment:

Windows, SQL Server, VB Script, MS Office, Agile Methodology (Scrum), Java, Citrix, Mainframe, UNIX, Reflection, ATC virtual machines

Project Name : Global Trading Investment Tool

Description : Global investment is a web-based portal which offers international investing and trading capabilities to its customers designed to retire the Alternate investment database and replace the manual processing of Ai confirmation with Schwab Systems.

Client : Charles Schwab

Duration : Jan 2012 –Oct 2012

Roles and Responsibilities:

Responsible for driving the end-to-end Automation testing cycle

Preparing the Automation plan for the portal and involved in preparing POC

Automating the Application using QTP pro 10.0 (earlier version of UFT), prepared automation Framework, Automating the regression suite, Test data preparation

Mentoring junior team members and Work assignment & monitoring

Project Name : Trading QA

Description : Equity and Option trading business is a main frame application which mainly deals with the process of trading through different screen. The various step involved is checking the available balance for a security, placing a trade, Executing the trade, verifying the trade after the execution and verify the balance after the trade is been executed.

Client : Charles Schwab

Duration : July 2010 – Dec 2011

Responsibilities :

Preparing the Automation plan for the Application

Identifying Test Scenarios, Test Case Design, Functional Testing

Preparing Framework, Automating the Test cases using QTP (older version of UFT), test data preparation, execution

Mentoring junior team members and Work assignment & monitoring

Project Name : Mutual fund Order Management Trading Operation and Reporting System (MOTOR)

Description : MOTOR Application is a windows application Which can manage bulk orders which is been received from different portfolios which is been managed by Schwab apart from management of the order from the different application it also helps in placing the single or bulk orders, verify them, submit those orders, override the edits if it exist.

Client : Charles Schwab

Duration : Oct 2011 – Dec 2011

Responsibilities :

Preparing the Automation plan for the Application

Preparing Framework, Automating the Test cases (QTP), test data preparation, execution

Coordination with required teams for successful execution and reporting.

Project Name : Alternate Investment portal

Description : Alternate investment web-based portal is the designed to retire the Alternate investment database and replace the manual processing of Ai confirmation with Schwab Systems. Based on the access privileges given to the user the portal provides following features. Process daily confirmation daily by entering, position and position’s as of date, transaction, and transaction as of date, upload file with position and transaction in the portal, View and update the manage company entry, View and update the manage user entry, administer the transaction review Queue.

Client : Charles Schwab

Duration : Jan 2010 – June 2010

Responsibilities :

Requirement analysis, Test Planning, Test Case Development, and Review

Test Automation Scripting using QTP, Test Execution, Onsite Co-ordination.

Client Interfacing, mentoring junior team members and Work assignment & monitoring

Project Name : Class Test Automation Suite

Description : Test Automation suite 1.0 is a tool for the automated testing of device control logic and will be executed by control system engineers, safety system engineers. Test Automation 1.0 Suite (TAS) tool compares the actual control and/or safety device operation against the expected operation.

The tool will do this by executing the logic in a staged system or a simulator-based system. The primary output of the Test Automation tool will be a test report which will be used internally, by IPS engineers to verify the application they have built, and externally by clients so they may be assured that the device control logic is an accurate implementation of their (client) needs. A secondary output of detailed results for each test will used for more detailed analysis and to aid in debugging and fault finding.

Client : Invensys Process Systems

Duration : Sep 2009 – Dec 2009

Tools/Technologies: .NET 3.5(C#), Change Synergy Bug Reporting Tool.

Responsibilities :

Involved in giving KT to newly joined team members.

Test Case Design, setting up test Bed.

Functional and Non-functional Testing including System Testing (manual), Regression Testing, Smoke Testing

Project : InScape Engineering Workbench System Test

Description : Inscape Engineering Workbench is a tool used for industrial automation. It generates the control database which is provided as an input to the PLC devices in the Plant. Testing involves the functional verification as well as usability and performance study of the application.

Client : Invensys Process Systems

Duration : Jul 2009 - Aug 2009

Tools/Technologies: C# / ASP.NET / MS SQL Server 2005

Responsibilities : Test Case Development and Review, Functional testing (manual testing)

Project Name : LED2.0 (Low Effort Deployment)

Description : This project was developed to enhance the functionalities of LED 1.0 supporting its existing functionalities as well. With LED 2.0 user can install the IA Software and all its components through PUSH mechanism from server as well as PULL mechanism from client. This software is also to facilitate the user to maintain Software Inventory, Pre-requisites, Add on, Back up & Recovery, Reports with ease.

Client : Invensys Process Systems

Duration : Nov 2008 – Jun 2009

Tools/Technologies : Net 3.5(C#), Change Synergy

Responsibilities : Identifying Test Scenarios Test Case Design, Functional and Non-functional Testing including System Testing, Regression Testing, and Smoke Testing (manual testing)

Project Name : BTGS Website (Supersite)

Description : Super Site website delivery involves the design and development of pre-login journey website for the customer enabling users to browse through various sections of the site i.e. Products, solutions etc. The navigation paths of this website are detailed as in the website Site Map. This site is constructed keeping in mind the mobile/PDA users.

Client : British Telecom (BT)

Duration : Nov 2007 – Oct 2008

Methodology : Agile

Tools/Technologies: Java, CMS, Endeca, Quality Center

Different types of testing performed:

Functional Testing/Regression Testing - E2E functionality testing includes CMS, Endeca testing. UI Testing, Pixel Perfect Testing, Multilingual testing on all CMS templates includes testing languages like Chinese, German etc with the data.

Activities Performed in the project:

Prepared Functionality and UE / pixel perfect test cases by referring in to wireframes. Functionality test cases include E2E, CMS, and Endeca cases.

Executed the test cases on different browsers once the build is available.

Involved in automating test cases used for regression test using QTP tool (old version of UFT).

Project Name : BT GS Portal Testing

Description : British Telecom Portal is going through a change where all the applications and facilities will be available through one common platform. This project is known as Collaboration program. Purpose of the testing team was to ensure that proper testing methodology is implemented while all these changes are being made to GS Portal.

Client : British Telecom (BT)

Duration : Jul 2007 – Oct 2007

Responsibilities : Identifying Test Scenarios, Test Case Design, Functional Testing and Smoke Testing (manual testing)

PERSONAL DECLARATION

First Name : Merin

Middle Name : Rachel

Last Name : Mathew

Location : Toronto, Canada

PERSONAL DECLARATION

I hereby declare that the above-mentioned information is true to best of my knowledge and belief.

Merin Rachel Mathew

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