Software Test Engineer - Manual & Mobile QA

AJIT S. KHANDEKAR

Software Test Engineer

Address: Mumbai, Maharashtra Contact No: +91-965******* Email ID: ***************@*****.*** OBJECTIVE

• Software Test Engineer with 3.5 years of experience in Manual Testing across Investment Banking, Internet Banking, and Digital Payments / UPI domains.

• Mobile QA Specialist with 2 years of expertise in Android and iOS app testing, specializing in end-to-end validation of mobile banking and UPI payment applications.

• Strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).

• Hands-on experience in Agile Scrum methodology, test case design, execution, and defect tracking.

• Skilled in Functional, Regression, System, Integration, Database, and Mobile Payment Testing.

• Experienced with JIRA, HP ALM, and SQL for defect tracking and database validation.

• Strong ability to collaborate with developers, business analysts, and product owners to ensure high-quality software delivery.

PROFESSIONAL SYNOPSIS

Software Test Engineer Cognizant, Mumbai

• Analyze business requirements and functional specifications to understand application functionality.

• Prepare test scenarios and detailed test cases to ensure complete test coverage.

• Execute manual test cases to validate application functionality and business requirements.

• Perform Functional, Regression, Smoke, Sanity, and Integration Testing.

• Conduct database testing using SQL queries to verify backend data and ensure data accuracy.

• Identify defects, log bugs in JIRA and HP ALM, and track them through the Defect Life Cycle.

• Work closely with developers, product owners, and business analysts to resolve issues.

• Participate in Agile Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint review, and retrospectives.

• Perform retesting and regression testing after bug fixes.

• Maintain Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to track requirement coverage.

• Prepare daily status reports, weekly reports, and release reports.

• Assist in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and ensure application readiness for production release.

• Perform API Testing using Postman to validate REST APIs, request/response data, status codes, error handling, and end-to-end API workflows.

• Validate banking and payment transactions such as UPI, NEFT, RTGS, IMPS, fund transfers, and account-related functionalities across web and mobile applications.

• Support production releases by performing pre-release validation, post-deployment smoke testing, defect verification, and coordinating with cross-functional teams for issue resolution. PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN

Project 1: Equity Trade Book System

Domain: Investment Banking

Role: Sanity Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, and Database Testing Client: Wells Fargo Securities, San Francisco, California, USA Project Description: Wells Fargo Securities provides institutional clients, alternative asset managers, and large corporations with a comprehensive approach to the sales, trading, structuring, and execution of a wide variety of financial market products, including bonds, equities, market-linked products, clearing services, and risk management.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements, system requirements and interacted with developers.

• Followed Agile Scrum methodology as part of SDLC.

• Prepared Test Scenarios, designed Test cases, and reviewed them.

• Interacted with business analysts for requirement analysis.

• Participated in daily scrum, sprint planning, review, and retrospective meetings as part of the Agile process.

• Performed Functional Testing, Smoke Testing, Retesting and Regression Testing.

• Generated Status reports and shared them with the management team in a timely manner.

• Involved in Behavioral, Input Domain, Error Handling, Calculation, and Service Level Testing.

• Logged defects, monitored their status and tracked them to closure using HP ALM 12.53.

• Participated in client interactions.

Environment: Manual Testing, MS Excel, HP ALM, SQL Server 2014, Windows, Agile. Project 2: Internet Banking System

Client: Axis Bank

Role: Functional Testing

Project Description: This project deals with banking operation of user (customer) and employee. This system based on Internet banking. It provides facility like fund transfer within same bank RTGS, NEFT, IMPS, cheque book request, stop cheque payment, user registration. Wide range of online banking, personal banking including credit cards, personal loans, fixed deposit, saving account and current account. Responsibilities:

• Understanding the SRS requirements and project functionalities.

• Designed the test cases from CRS Customer Requirement Specification and reviewed them.

• Identified End to End Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Data.

• Execution of test cases from Test Lab in ALM 11.5/12.5.

• Performing Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Retesting.

• Validation of Expected Output Vs Actual output in respective database tables using SQL.

• Identification of defects, registering them in HP ALM and reporting them to the onsite lead.

• Active participation in weekly/daily status calls with the client. Project 3: Axis Bank – UPI and Mobile Banking Application Domain: Digital Payments and Mobile Banking

Role: Software Test Engineer

Project Description: A mobile banking application that lets customers register for UPI, link bank accounts, and send or receive money using a UPI ID, mobile number, or QR code. It supports collect requests, payment status tracking, refunds, and reversals for failed payments. QA covered registration and login, UPI payment journeys, failure and reversal scenarios, and testing across Android and iOS devices. Responsibilities:

• Prepared and executed test cases for customer registration, login, UPI registration, and bank account linking.

• Tested UPI ID creation and management, person-to-person and person-to-merchant payments, and QR code payments.

• Tested collect requests including creation, acceptance, rejection, and expiry cases.

• Covered successful, failed, declined, timeout, pending, and reversed payment scenarios.

• Tested negative cases such as wrong UPI ID, incorrect PIN, duplicate payment, and insufficient balance.

• Tested refund and reversal flows for failed and cancelled payments.

• Performed Android and iOS testing across different devices and OS versions.

• Checked transaction and customer records in the database using basic SQL queries.

• Logged defects in JIRA with clear steps and evidence, and supported UAT and status reporting. SOFTWARE SKILLS

• Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows 7, 8, 10.

• Database: SQL Server

• Software Testing Skills: Test Case Design, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Sanity Testing, Retesting, Defect Logging.

• Tools: JIRA, HP-ALM.

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE

• Working as a Software Test Engineer in Cognizant, Mumbai from March 2023 to till date. EDUCATION

• Completed Graduation in B. Tech - Shivaji University. PERSONAL INFORMATION

Name: Ajit S. Khandekar.

Permanent Address: Mumbai.

Marital Status: Unmarried

Language Known: English, Hindi, Marathi

Declaration:

I hereby declare that the above written particulars are true to the best of my knowledge and belief. Place: Mumbai.

Ajit S. Khandekar

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