cobol, DB2, SQL

Shraddha Patel

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Software Consultant – Tester / Project Quality Lead, Configuration Manager (CM) Jan 2008 – Dec 2009

Capgemini, Mumbai, India

Client Description: EDF Energy is one of the largest Electricity and Gas suppliers in London

Domain : Energy

Roles : Tester and Project Quality Lead (PQL)

Responsibilities include:

 Role: Played the role of Project Quality Lead (PQL) and Configuration Manager (CM) for team size of 21. I was required to prepare quality related documentation on monthly basis which included tracking phase wise data, utilizing metrics data, calculating schedule variance, effort variance and causal analysis of defects found. Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology and Waterfall Model was used for the project. For CM activities, I was required to check whether all the project related documents were in place with appropriate versions. Source forge tool was used for CM.

 Developing Business Requirements and Strategy Deployment: Understanding the requirements, writing the test conditions and test scripts, test environment set up, test data preparation, test execution and problem reporting, capturing test evidences and preparing End of test reports.

 Development Plan: Coordinating with business for conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT). This involved identifying the key business stakeholders to participate in the UAT, helping the business to see that system meets all their requirements, developing test scripts and supporting the business for which this system was designed.

 Communication: Coordinating and managing communication with multiple offshore groups on daily status report, new deliveries in pipeline and resolutions on raised issues.

 Training: Significant contribution to the project by preparing the learning’s document after each Change Request and conducting the knowledge transfer sessions, both one-to-one and classroom training for the other team members.

Software Engineer / Mainframe Programmer June 2006 – Jan 2008

Infosys Technologies Limited, Pune, India

Client Description : Worked for Data ware housing project for Wachovia which is one of the largest banks of U.S.A.

Domain : Banking

Roles : Module lead and developer

Responsibilities include:

 Analysis and Design: Analyzing the impact of the change on the system and designing new codes after receiving the business requirements from the client

 Coding: Coded in languages like COBOL and JCL (Job Control Language). The data received from the source systems was raw data. I was required to write COBOL code to process the received raw data as per the client requirement. Apart from this, the coding phase involved creating copy books for the output files, Parmcards, Procedures and JCLs to take backup and to sort the files. I had to create JCLs which calls the COBOL program, which holds the business logic. During unit testing phase I was required to create Unit test plan and Integrated test plan which contain the test cases. Negative test cases were also considered. The output files from Mainframe were required to be sent to the downstream which was the server side (Oracle) by using JCLs. All the components of a particular requirement were then packaged and staged in Changeman, which is a configuration tool, and then sent to production after it is base lined.

 Testing: Used tools like File-Aid for verification of the file logic

 Promotion: Change-man for promotion and packaging

 Client Interface: In this project, most of the work at onsite was handled by the client and hence it was required to directly interact with the client on day to day basis. Status reporting on progress achieved and strategy used to achieve the quality deliverable was discussed through telephonic conversations and emailing daily wrap-up reports.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Certification : ISTQB (International Software Testing Qualifications board)

Programming Languages : COBOL, XML, HTML, C# , C, C++

Databases : DB2, Oracle, MSSQL

Tools : HP Quality Center, File Aid, Change man, CA-7

Operating Systems : Windows 9x/2000/XP/2003/Vista/MVS (Multiple Virtual Storage)

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EDUCATION

Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunication June 2006

Mumbai University, India

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Developed an Automatic Speech Recognition system at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), India 2005-06

intended to be used in automated interactive phone answering system for Indian Railways

TECHNICAL PAPER PRESENTATION

Fiber Optic Communication at IEEE Tech Fest ‘FISSION’ 2003

AWARDS

Received the ‘Project Star’ award for outstanding performance and lasting contribution to the EDF Energy project 2009

Received the ‘Outstanding Tester’ Award from the client EDF Energy while at onsite 2009

First prize in ‘Traffic Safety for Two Wheelers’ Banner making competition at Infosys 2007

Ratan Tata and J.R.D Tata Scholarship for excellent academic performance 2003-2004

AFFILIATIONS

Vice Organizer, IEEE events and seminars at Vasantdada Patil College of Engineering 2004-2005

Organizer, Marketing & Publicity Committee, IEEE Tech Fest ‘FISSION’ 2003-2004

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