Manager Test
Resume:
Resume Kalpana T. Thakur
Kalpana T. Thakur
Email: *******************@*****.***
Mobile: +1-313-***-**** (USA)
Qualification
Master of computer Application, Mumbai University, India Employment Summary
Duration Organization Role Client/LOB
Since Jan 2010
– Nov 2019
TATA Consultancy Services,
Mumbai
UAT Test Lead,
QA Analyst,
Onshore Co-
Ordinator
Bank of America -Merrill
Lynch
Jun 2008 – Dec
2009
Financial Technologies,
Mumbai
Software Tester ICICI Lombard, ATOM
Dec 2006 –Apr
2008
Nelito Systems Ltd, Mumbai Software Tester Tata Consultancy services limited-FNS
Experience Summary
• Over 11+ years of experience in Functional Testing on Banking & Finance domain applications.
• Well acquainted with all the phases of Test Life Cycle, Testing methodologies and Software Development Life Cycle.
• Well acquainted with Agile, Waterfall methodologies,
• Hands on experience in Validating Web Based Applications- Responsive, Accessibility, Mobile Apps, Simplified Site, Cross Browser, Cross Device testing.
• Involved in preparation of Resource Estimation matrix, Test Summary Reports, Bug Reports, Issue Trackers.
• UAT and Production validation.
• Active participation in transitioning over Water Fall to Agile Methodology.
• Experience in handling tools like HP ALM 12.50, Rally, JIRA.
• Experience in Accessibility Testing for visually impaired users using JAWS screen reader.
• Experience in querying the database using SQL to check for successful data transactions.
• Experience in preparing Test Plan, Test Scenario, Test Data, Test conditions, Traceability Matrix, Test Matrices and Test Report.
• Experience to all phases in Testing Life Cycle I.e. Functional testing, Integration testing, User Acceptance testing, System testing, Data driven testing and Regression testing.
• Good exposure on various methodologies and technique of Software Testing.
• Expertise in Finance Domain.
• Comprehensive problem-solving abilities, good analytical and communication skills. Certifications.
NSE’s Certification in Financial Market (NCFM) – Mutual Funds: A Beginner's Module
NCFM
America software Testing and Quality Board(ASTQB) –Foundation ASTQB SAFE Agilist SAFE
SAFE POPM (Product Owner, Product Manager)
SAFE
Projects Undertaken
Client Bank of America -Merrill Lynch
Position. Test Lead, Agile Test lead, Onshore Co-Ordinator, UAT, Production Support Period. 9.5 Year
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Application
Name.
Bank of America-MyMerrill, Merrill Edge
Application
Description
Bank of America is one of the world’s leading financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle-market businesses, and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services.
MyMerrill and Merrill edge are web based applications by Bank of America developed in
.NET & provides live data from market, keeps a record of client’s investments & also helps the firm as well as financial advisors to deepen the client relationship, deliver a robust technology platform to extend capabilities, accelerate time to market and improve efficiencies. It helps online capabilities to deliver services at a low cost to the mass affluent market.
This application supports below key functionalities:
• Online Account Opening
• All trade related activities (Buying and Selling Equities, Mutual Fund, Options, Fixed Income, extended Hour trading)
• Online funds transfer
• Online Securities Transfer
• Checks & Withdrawals
• Client Profile management
• Market Research
Responsibilit
ies
• Working with Business (Product Owner) and stakeholders towards understanding the business flow of the project.
• Assigning and reviewing daily tasks to Offshore team.
• Creating Technical User Stories in Rally.
• Conducting Agile ceremonies like Retrospective, Project Demo, Scrum of Scrum, Daily stand-up’s.
• Providing effort estimations and Timelines.
• Production and Pre-prod validation with Business.
• Simulating Triaging and Managing Production issues.
• Working with business and managing Funtional/ App entitlements in Lower and Live environment.
• Preparing and assisting team for Testing Artifacts like Test plan, Test cases, Test scenario, Test data, execution and release report.
• Sanity test post Build
• Validating new features in Simplified and Mobile apps
• Validation in Dev environment using Stub data,
• Assisting in recruitment of team members
• Planning test execution as per the Release cycles.
• Analysing the problems & need and providing solutions.
• Validating and assisting team for Functional, Cross browser, integration, System, Accessibility, cross browser, Cross device and Service down testing.
• Working closely with Dev team for Open issues
• Communicating with the client for status updates and issues.
• Coordinating tasks of Regression and Functional Testing and review the deliverables accordingly.
• Web service testing using Banks internal tool -MLIF service tester.
• Arranging training sessions for new associates in the team.
• Uploading requirements and tracking requirement updates through HP ALM/Quality Center, JIRA and Rally
• Creating Test reports and Audit documents.
• Review of scenarios and test cases prepared by team members.
• Retesting the defects raised by testing and business team and updating test scripts accordingly.
• Motivating team members for effective productivity and help them in improving technical and functional skills.
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• Working closely with Production support team for issues reported by End users Tools Used. HP ALM 12.5, Rally, Clear Quest, JAWS Screen reader, JIRA, MLIF Service tester, Internal Test Data management and reporting tools
Location Pennington, New Jersey -USA(Onshore), Mumbai- India (Offshore) Projects undertaken in Financial Technologies
Client. ICICI Lombard India
Position. Software Tester
Period. 10 months
Application
Name.
Pathfinder/Online Manager, ICICI Lombard Mumbai
Application
Description
Pathfinder and Online manager are web-based applications developed for ICICI Lombard for carrying out their general insurance business. It provides facility to manage all accounting transactions along with intermediary creations, proposal creations, and policy generations for intermediary and direct customers
Responsibilit
ies
• Requirement gathering
• Requirement analysis
• Project Demo
• Test case preparation using requirement documents/Change requests
• Test management and Defect Management
• End to End functional testing
• Reviewing & Execution of test cases
• Finding & raising defects
• Retesting defects till closure
• Regression testing of affected modules
Client. Atom Technologies Ltd.
Position. Software Tester
Period. 7 months
Application
Name.
ATOM
Application
Description
This application is mainly developed for families who come under below poverty limit. This application will be used by hospitals and insurance companies to facilitate benefits of rastriya swasthya bima yojna declared by government of India for poor families. It provides facility to block, unblock and discharge treatment for beneficiary or their family members. It also facilitates to extract customized reports transactions performed at hospital. Process module facilitates to upload the transactions to district server at the end of the day either online or offline. Same way hospital can down load, hotlist details, Insurnace company details, package details from district server either online or offline. Responsibilit
ies
• Requirement gathering
• Requirement analysis
• Project Demo
• Test case preparation using requirement documents/Change requests
• Test management and Defect Management
• End to End functional testing
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• Reviewing & Execution of test cases
• Finding & raising defects
• Retesting defects till closure
• Regression testing of affected modules
Projects undertaken in Nelito Systems Limited
Client. Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
Position. Software Tester
Period. 1year 4Months
Application
Name.
Financial Network Services
Application
Description.
FNS, Financial Network Services is a Banking Software Company, H.O. in Australia. Currently Operating in 38 Countries. Around 300+ staff world wide .FNS is a major developer of Core banking software providing installation, support, consultancy services for BANCS product.
BANCS supports: Retail/Corporate Banking, Internet Banking . BANCS consists of different modules like : Deposits, Loans, Loans Tracking, Loan Originating System(LOS), Treasury, Payments, Collaterals, Safe Deposit Vault, Cheque Tracking, Trade Finance, Customer Information Facility, Branch Accounting, Contingent Accounting etc
Responsibilit
-ies.
• Functional Testing
• Reporting and Tracking of bugs on Mercury Test Director
• Functionality testing for all new Modules and Change Requests
• Regression testing of affected modules
• Adhoc Testing like sanity to test Infrastructure patches Tools Used. HPQC
Personal Details.
Date of Birth. 10th June 1985
Languages Known. English, Hindi, Marathi.
Address Parel, Mumbai
Passport Number S3080413
I hereby declare that the all the above-mentioned information is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
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