Project Management

Vandana Gupta

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Kailash Dham SAS, Sector 50,

NOIDA, UP, 201307 (INDIA)

Mobile: +91-991*******

Email: **********@*****.***

Date of Birth: 27/11/1972

OBJECTIVE : INTERESTED FOR WORK FROM HOME OPTION ONLY.

SUMMARY:

• 12+ years of experience in Application Development and Testing Projects. She has been part of Test Planning, Defect Tracking/ Management, Test Scheduling, Functional/Integration/Regression and System testing process in several projects. She has more than 1.0 years of experience in automated testing using RFT. Her major skill set includes improving software quality, meet customer expectations and reduce defects by planning and performing effective software testing through a combination of familiar structured test techniques, rapid test practices and test automation where applicable. She has experience of working on projects, which include different technologies like AS/400,Main frame, Java etc

• Technology: Manual testing, Automation Testing using RFT, Clear Quest ,DTS AS/400,COBOL, Main Frame, C, C++, Java ,Visual Basic

• Industry/Domain: Banking, Insurance, Healthcare and Telecommunication

• Processes: ISO 9000 family, CMMI, P3MM Methodology.

• Soft Skills: Customer Relationship, Excellent communication skill, People Management, Working in teams, Personal Grooming, Effective Presentation, Time Management

• CSQA Certified

• Associate performance award for Alliance and Leicester project of Perot systems,

• Received special recognition award for helping Amdocs Development Centre - Cyprus by managing the QA team to achieve a zero defect release of Clarify CRM upgrade version

TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

Project Management tools and Methodologies Microsoft Project

Operating Systems OS/400, WINDOWS 95, UNIX, WINDOWS NT, Solaris

Programming Languages AS/400, COBOL/400, RPGLE, CLLE, C, C++, Visual Basic, MF Cobol, Vax Cobol , Java ,JCL

Utilities / Tools SDA, SEU, RLU, PDM, Y2KIT, Win runner, Mercury Quality center, Load runner ,Test director , RFT ,RMT, SharePoint ,Toad ,QTP

Databases DB/400 , MS-ACCESS, ORACLE

ASSIGNMENT DETAILS:

ORGANIZATION: PEROT SYSTEMS (SEP 2006 – NOV 2010)

PROJECT: A&L Automation and REGRESSION (October 2007- Nov 2010)

Client: Alliance & Leicester

Environment Used: Hardware: Intel Pentium Software: IBM Rational Functional Tester 7.0, Eclipse Java editor, Microsoft Visual Source Safe 6.0 and Defect Tracking System, Java, Rational Manual tester, SharePoint

Project Description:

Alliance & Leicester is one of the UK's major financial services groups

Alliance and Leicester Bank (A&L) is replacing its existing banking business process/systems with Alnova core banking system from Accenture. In order to implement Alnova and to meet its cost objectives, A&L engaged Perot Systems (Perot) to support CORE and other requirements from offshore (India). During this assignment the offshore team provided automated testing solution for the ALNOVA system which was being implemented in A&L as per the automation approach suggested to client. The TCERs prepared during previous phase were automated and were used during regression test cycle

ROLE: Test Manager (Team size of 20)

Form testing team

Handle Testing aspect of the project by understanding the business

Define the high level test strategy

Create testing strategy; Test planning, Risks analysis, initiating testing phases, collecting project metrics, requirement traceability matrix

Designing automation framework using RFT/Java

Deliver detailed test execution plans, ensure the preparation of traceability matrix for automation scripts

Provide a detailed project plan with tasks, durations, resources, & dependencies

Ensure the creation and review of various management plans and test cases

Ensure the preparation and execution of Automation test suite by RFT and Regression test suite.

Allocate activities and tasks to the team members

Consolidate and provide weekly status reports with test case coverage and defect metrics to various stakeholders

Guide the team and provide solutions for any problems faced by them

Develop and implement QA Processes with focus on achieving CMMI Certification

Ensure the preparation of test Scenario’s, test Data and test Cases for various modules of Core Banking by using RMT

Risk Management within Testing area

Generate and distribute various reports related to Project management & testing

Collect data and compute various managerial and engineering related metrics and reporting

Also lead the role of Knowledge champion in the project.

Handle clients’ reported defects, issues

Participate in project’s status reporting meetings with client

PROJECT: CHW CONNEXION (September 2006- September 2007)

Client: Catholic Health WEST, Phoenix, Arizona

Project Description:

Catholic Health West (CHW) headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, operates 41 acute care hospitals that span a service area that encompasses parts of Arizona, Nevada and most of California Perot System is currently responsible for migration of the existing Neon interfaces in the new WBI framework based on IBM websphere and supporting the application for any Enhancements or bug fixes in an onsite offshore model.

Environment used: H/w: Intel Pentium S/w: Mercury Quality center, CVS, Core Java, Websphere MQ, Websphere Business Integration Message Broker, DB2, Oracle

Role: Test Lead

Define the high level test strategy

Design Document understanding and Review

Deliver detailed test plans

Provide a detailed project plan with tasks, durations, resources, & dependencies

Ensure the creation and review of various management plans and test cases

Ensure the execution of these test cases by assigned QA engineer(s)

Allocate activities and tasks to the team members

Consolidate and provide weekly status reports with test case coverage and defect metrics to various stakeholders

Guide the team and provide solutions for any problems faced by them

Develop and implement QA Processes with focus on achieving CMMI Certification

Risk Management within Testing area

Generate and distribute various reports related to Project management & testing

Collect data and compute various managerial and engineering related metrics and reporting

ORGANIZATION: AMDOCS DEVELOPMENT LIMITED, CYPRUS (JULY-2004 TO AUGUST-2006).

PROJECT: Testing of AMDOCS CRM (July-2004 to August-2006)

Client: Amdocs Development limited, San Jose, USA

Project Description:

Amdocs CRM (Customer relationship management) solution provides a comprehensive system for managing the relationship with the customer throughout the customer life cycle CRM enables the “universal” rep to handle calls related to sales/telemarketing, account management, billing inquiries, adjustments, payments, deposits, collection, reported problems and complaints. CAP (Customer agent facing product) is a part of Amdocs clarify CRM. It consists of various customer facing products as sales, support, quality, change manager, Admin, rule manager etc.

Project Environment: H/w: NT workstation, Sun Solaris, HP, Win2K, IBM-AIX O/s: Windows NT/95, Window 2000, Solaris S/w: Test Director, Cusums, Calendar, Win runner

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ROLE: QA (Testing) Lead and focal point.

Work with Client’s QA manager and QA core team lead to define the high level test strategy

Design Document understanding and Review

Deliver a detailed test plan for their product area

Provide a detailed project plan with tasks, durations, resources, & dependencies for their product area.

Ensure the creation and review of various plans and test cases for their product areas.

Ensure the execution of these test cases by assigned QA engineer(s)

Allocate activities and tasks to the team members

Consolidate and provide weekly test status updates with test case coverage and defect metrics to the QA release core team lead

Guide the team and provide solutions for any problems faced by them

Also the focal point of three customer agent facing products like change manger, Quality, Admin.

Collect data and compute various managerial and engineering related metrics and reporting

Risk Management within Testing area

Went to San Jose, USA for requirement understanding.

ORGANIZATION: TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES (SEPTEMBER-1998 TO JUNE-2004).

PROJECT: Migration of Application from Unisys to AS/400(June 2003 – Jul 2004)

Client: Vaudoise Assurances, Switzerland

Project Description:

La Vaudoise Assurances (VA) is a very successful group active in all insurance segments (Life and non-life). Its market share in Switzerland is about 25%. VA is viewed as being one of the most performing Swiss insurance companies. VA invited TCS for the application Migration of the UNISYS platform to AS/400 environment..

ENVIRONMENT: H/w: NT workstation, Sun Solaris, IBM AS/400 820 O/s: Windows NT/95, Window 2000, Solaris S/w: COBOL/400, CL/400, RPG/400, CLLE, RPGLE Tools: QA Run, Load Runner, Migration Tool

ROLE: Team Leader.

Migration Strategy document preparation and Review.

Coordination for Migration tool development.

Review and client interaction.

Testing

Appraising team members

Project management

Allocate activities and tasks to the team members

Plan/conduct adequate quality reviews as defined in the overall process

Guide the team and provide solutions for any problems faced by them

PROJECT: Annuity Board Migration. (February 2003 – MAY 2003)

Client: Annuity board Dallas, U.S.A.

Environment: H/w: AS/400 O/s: Windows NT, OS/400 V5R1,Mainframe S/w: Net Express 3.1, ISAM files Control Language, Cobol/400, MF-COBOL, and RPG/400.

Project Description:

Omni Plus, a package marketed by Sunguard exists on various platforms including AS/400, Main Frame, UNIX & WINDOWS. Annuity Board has decided to move to Omni Plus on Windows. Annuity Board had over the period of time developed some small applications (about 60) around this product, which use the data of Omni Plus. As a result of the above migration, these 60 stand-alone small applications need to be migrated to MF COBOL on Windows, Windows Scripts & ISAM files.

ROLE: Module leader.

Resolve Inventory issues

Allocate activities and tasks to the team members

Guide the team and provide solutions for any problems faced by them

Monitor project progress and manpower utilization

Maintain problem log and defect statistics

Plan/conduct adequate quality reviews as defined in the overall process

Report status to the Project Leader

Assist the Project Leader in design activities for the project

Went to Dallas for the implementation of project

PROJECT: Maintenance of Global Plus applications on AS/400. (July 2001 – January 2003)

Client: GE Insurance Holdings, Ireland

Environment: H/w: AS/400 , S/w: RPG, Control Language, Cobol

Project Description:

GE Insurance Holdings – The main business area for the project is ‘Insurance’. GEIH is a B2B service provider to various banks & institutions across Europe. GEIH either underwrites policies or acts as a TPA (third party administrator) for various clients.

The system is based on AS/400. Core work includes maintenance of existing system (Global Plus application) & introduction of new functionality into the system.

ROLE: Module Leader

Analysis & estimation of a CR

Preparation of design

Development & maintenance of programs

Preparation of Test Plans & Testing

Internal Quality Assurance

Allocation of CRs to various team members

Ensuring timely delivery of CRs

Resolve Inventory issues

Allocate activities and tasks to the team members

Guide the team and provide solutions for any problems faced by them

Monitor project progress and manpower utilization

Maintain problem log and defect statistics

Plan/conduct adequate quality reviews as defined in the overall process

Report status to the Project Leader

Assist the Project Leader in design activities for the project

PROJECT: EMU SYSTEMS COMPLIANCE, Ireland (April 2000 – June 2001)

Client: EMU SYSTEMS , Ireland

Environment used: H/w: AS/400 S/w: RPG, Control Language, COBOL, Tools: Eurokit/400, Client Access/400

Project Description:

The project work includes

• Initial assessment of the Euro problem in the application

• Impact analysis of Euro changes in the application.

• Actual conversion of the application to make it Euro compliant

ROLE: Module Leader

Verifying code for Euro compliance

Remediation of code

Testing the software for Euro compliance.

PROJECT: Euro Currency Tools and Support (November 1998 – March 2000)

Client: TCS Noida

Environment used: H/w: AS/400 O/s: OS/400, Windows 95 S/w: RPG, COBOL, Control Language, SQL, Visual Basic

Project Description:

• The project involved development and launch of international product for comprehensive solution of the Euro Changeover on AS/400.

• The product Eurokit/400 has features like Wrapper, Scrambler and Browser. Product is regarded as one of the best available worldwide.

ROLE: Team Member

Design and Development of Eurokit/400

Maintenance and Support of Eurokit/400

ORGANIZATION: ENPRO INDIA LIMITED, NOIDA (JULY-1997 TO AUG-1998).

PROJECT: Development of Y2KIT for COBOL-400 (July-1997 to Aug-1998)

Client: Enpro India limited

Environment used: H/w: AS/400 S/w: RPG, CLP, COBOL, SQL

Project Description:

The project involved development of international product for comprehensive solution of the Y2K Changeover on AS/400 for COBOL/400.

ROLE: Team Member

Design and Development of Y2KIT for COBOL-400

ACADEMICS

• Master of Computer Applications (MCA) from IMS , GHAZIABAD, INDIA (June 1997)

• Bachelor of Science (Major - Computer Science) from KURUKSHETRA UNIVERSITY, INDIA (April 1994)

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

MANAGERIAL SUBJECTS

• Quality Management System

• Microsoft Project

• SEI-CMM

• Configuration Management

• Software Metrics

TECHNICAL

• Software Engineering

• Requirements Engineering

• Structured Systems Analysis & Design

• Walkthrough, testing and debugging

• UNIX

• C

• Software Maintenance

• Data Communication & Networks

• Object Oriented Methodology

• RDBMS Concepts

• RFT

• Main Frame

• AS/400

SOFT SKILLS

• Working in teams

• Personal Grooming

• Effective Presentation

• Time Management

• Leadership workshop

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