Mainframe Manual Testing Lead

SUMIT RAJ

TEST MANAGER/BUSINESS ANALYST

COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

Mob: 347-***-****

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

13+ years of experience in the field of Quality Assurance in Functional Testing as a Test Manager role in Cognizant Technology Solutions.

Have experience as the Business Analyst role.

Good knowledge in the domains – Disability Income, Life Insurance and Annuities.

Experience in Agile and SDLC methodologies.

Experience in ETL Testing, API Manual testing and Webservices, Mainframe testing, Desktop Application testing, Web testing and Database testing.

Knowledge in automating web applications using Selenium.

Experience in web-based testing including GUI testing, API/Webservices Testing through SOAP UI and POSTMAN, Sanity testing, Smoke testing, Functional testing, Integration testing, System testing, Regression testing, Adhoc testing, Unit testing and UAT testing.

Knowledge in database testing using SQL queries on Oracle and MySQL.

Expertise in use of Quality Center, Bugzilla, JIRA for test/ defect management.

Proficient in all areas of test life cycle from test planning to defect managing.

Extensive experience in coordinating testing effort, responsible for test deliverables, status reporting to management, issue escalations.

Extensive experience in developing Test Strategy, Test Plans, Test Requirement analysis, Test Cases Design and Execution, Defect Management and Test Closure activities.

Involved and maintained the Test Matrix and Requirements Traceability Matrix.

Ability to adapt and learn new things quickly.

Excellent communication, documentation, analytical and problem-solving skills.

Hands-on work experience in working with offshore-onsite team model.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System

Unix, Windows XP, Windows 10, MVS 390 (Mainframe Testing)

Tools

POSTMAN, SOAP UI, Selenium

Test/Bug Tracking tools

Quality Center, Bugzilla, JIRA, Redmine

Methodologies

Waterfall, Agile

Languages

SQL, C++, C, COBOL, JCL.

Database

MySQL, MS Access, Oracle, DB2

Browsers

Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari

Packages

MS Office (MS Access, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Word)

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS AND TRAININGS

Cognizant Certified Professional (CCP) in Life Insurance (Level-0).

Cognizant Certified Professional (CCP) in Vantage-One Business.

Cognizant Certified Professional (CCP) in Software testing L0.

External Certification (LOMA 280).

External Certification (LOMA 290).

External Certification (ISTQB).

Performance Testing (CCP).

PROJECT PROFILES

Client: Lincoln Financial Group, Greensboro, NC Jan 2021 – Till Date

Role: Test Lead

Domain: Compensation (Life and Annuity)

Responsibilities:

Responsible for analyzing requirements and writing Test Scripts.

Developing QA Test Plan, QA Test Strategy, Test Execution Plan, publishing Weekly Status of the project and creating the Test Summary Report.

Test Automation assessment.

Test Execution in the Compensation app for the commissions.

Extracting the PDS test files from the JCLs and validating them by mapping with the copybooks.

Validating the Mainframe Reports.

Accessing DB2 database for the data validation.

Setup status meetings and the defect triage meeting with the stakeholders and resolve the queries.

Used QC ALM tool for test management and defects tracking.

Create test plan, test cases, test suites and test data based on BRDs and technical specifications.

Prepared the Test data for testing.

Responsible for Functional, Regression testing, System Integration testing and providing support to Business in UAT.

Client: Mass Mutual Financial Services, Springfield, MA Aug 2019 – Dec 2020

Role: Test Manager

Domain: Life Insurance

Responsibilities:

Responsible for analyzing requirements and writing Test Specifications.

Developing QA Test Plan, QA Test Strategy, Test Execution Plan, publishing Weekly Status of the project and creating the Test Summary Report.

Test Automation assessment.

Test management activities in carrying out the complete End-to-End testing.

Setup status meetings and the defect triage meeting with the developers (front-end, admin, downstream) and resolve the queries.

Used JIRA tool for user stories and defects tracking.

Participated in scrum meetings to ensure that the business rules have been addressed properly.

Followed Agile Methodology (SCRUM) for this project.

Create test plan, test cases, test suites and test data based on BRDs and technical specifications.

Prepared the Test data for testing.

Perform API manual testing through SOAP UI.

Responsible for Functional, Regression testing and System Integration testing.

Client: Mass Mutual Financial Services, Springfield, MA July 2015 – July 2019

Role: Business Analyst

Domain: Disability Income

Responsibilities:

Responsible for Defining business requirements and reporting them back to stakeholders.

Scheduling the Requirements walkthrough meetings with the stake holders.

Developing the Business/Functional Requirement Document (BRD/FRD).

Providing solutions and clarifications on business problem statements.

Leveraging support to the Dev and the QA team by providing clarifications during the design and execution phase of the project.

Client: Mass Mutual Financial Services, Springfield, MA January 2014 – June 2015

Role: Test Lead

Domain: Annuities

Responsibilities:

Responsible for analyzing requirements.

Developing QA Test Plan, QA Test Strategy, Test Execution Plan, publishing Weekly Status of the project and creating the Test Summary Report.

Executing the test cases for the Mainframe Application.

Validating the Mainframe reports.

Setup status meetings and the defect triage meeting with the developers (front-end, admin, downstream) and resolve the queries.

Used Quality Center (ALM) tool for test management and defects tracking.

Followed SDLC Methodology (Waterfall) for this project.

Coordinate with the offshore on daily basis and resolve the queries.

Prepared the Test data for testing.

Responsible for Functional, Regression testing, System Integration testing and End-to-End testing.

Client: Voya Financials, Kolkata, India March 2009 – December 2013

Role: Offshore Test Lead

Domain: Retirement Services

Responsibilities:

Responsible for analyzing requirements.

Involved in developing Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Execution Plan and Test Summary Report.

Executing the test cases for the Mainframe Application.

Used Quality Center (ALM) tool for test management and defects tracking.

Followed SDLC Methodology (Waterfall) for this project.

Coordinate with the onsite on daily basis to work on the queries.

Prepared the Test data for testing.

Responsible for Functional, Regression testing, System Integration testing and End-to-End testing.

Client: MetLife, Kolkata, India September 2007 – February 2009

Role: Offshore Tester

Domain: Life Insurance

Responsibilities:

Responsible for analyzing requirements.

Involved in developing Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Execution Plan and Test Summary Report.

Executing the test cases for the Mainframe Application.

Used Quality Center (ALM) tool for test management and defects tracking.

Followed SDLC Methodology (Waterfall) for this project.

Coordinate with the onsite on daily basis to work on the queries.

Prepared the Test data for testing.

Responsible for Functional, Regression testing, System Integration testing and End-to-End testing.

EDUCATION

Branch

Year

Institute

Percentage/CGPA

B.Tech.(Civil Engg)

2007

Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Odisha, India

7.91

12th

2002

St. Xavier’s School, Hazaribag, Jharkhand, India

76%

10th

2000

St. Xavier’s School, Hazaribag, Jharkhand, India

74%

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