Associate
Cognizant Technology Solutions, India
Total years of experience :6 years, 9 months
Employer: Cognizant Technology Solutions, India
Dates of employment: March 2010 to Till Date
Designation: Associate
Project Information
Project #1 Cancel and Correct Data Mart
Type: Testing (Manual)
Client: Credit Suisse, US
Domain: BFSI (Investment banking)
Duration: Jan 2011 to till date
Role: OffshoreTest Lead.
Team Size: 7
The objective of this project is to develop an investment Banking Securities-wide system for effective supervision of cancel and correct activity on trades. This application intends to show all relevant trade details (including version history) post-amendment and pre-amendment, highlighting the data fields which have undergone amendment. The Supervisory Control application will enable the viewing supervisor to review and perform signoff action on the trades which are flagged for review by the application based on the inclusion and exclusion rules provided by business.This system has been developed for monitoring purpose for trading into different instruments viz. Equities, FID portfolio, Prime Services, Loan IQ etc.
Test Activities Involved in: • Requirements Gathering: Attending calls with stakeholders to understand requirements from Business Analysts.
• Raising the Clarification queries and getting the resolution of the queries.
• Task allocation to team members and reviewing their deliverables.
• Preparing the Test Scenarios based on the Requirements and getting them signed off.
• Preparing the Test Plan, getting the signoff.
• Preparing the Test Data as per the required test conditions.
• Preparing the Test Cases based on the Test scenarios prepared.
• Exporting the Test Cases to ALM or QC.
• Performing the Test Execution and logging defects into QC.
• Defect retesting, re-execution of Test scripts.
• Regression Testing.
• Preparing the Closure report, readiness report.
• Perform the release signoff.
Skills Used: IB knowledge, Basic UNIX commands, SQL queries, data mockup through Notepad++
Project #2 IVR Call to Activate:
Type: Testing (Manual)
Client: Lloyds Banking Group, UK
Domain: BFSI (Retail banking)
Duration: July 2010 to Dec 2010
Role: Test Lead.
Team Size: 5
Your Finances is the account boarding system for Lloyds Banking Group Plc (UK) . This system is the heart of the bank as this is the primary sales platform for the bank.
This application is used to sell different banking products like Current Account, Saving Account, Credit Cards, Personal Loans. This application captures the details of the customer, like personal details, customer requirement, customer product eligibility and inform about the list of product the customer can avail.
Involved in studying the requirements, understanding of the business logic and acquiring sufficient domain knowledge required for the project.
Test Activities Involved in:
As Test Lead: * Analysis of the task & requirements
* Assisting Project Manager in collecting metrics
* Allocation of Tasks among team members
* Compiling Daily and Weekly status and status reporting to client
* Coordinate with Client for task and deliverables
* Communication with Client and offshore team to resolve the issues/queries
* Estimation of the tasks
* Tracking of defects in QC
Skills Used: Manual Testing, Basic SQL.
Client: Lloyds Banking Group, UK
Domain: BFSI (Retail banking)
Duration: March 2010 to June 2010
Role: Test Analyst.
Team Size: 3
I posses the experience of working in different phases of Integration of Lloyds banking group. This Integration project is one of the largest Integration project across the globe in which the integration of three banks is going to take place, viz. Lloyds TSB, Halifax and Bank of Scotland.
I was part of following projects which were executed on different phases of the Integration.
➢ IVR CTA Testing
This project was meant to perform the activation for the credit card holders from Lloyds banking group through IVR system. Earlier Credit card holders had to visit the branch for getting their credit cards activated. But with this new application (CTA- Call To Activate), in place the users could call a IVR line and get their credit cards activated.
This project involved work in Vision Plus tool provided from FDE, the tool is used to manipulate the credit card data for testing purpose.
Test Activities Involved in:
* To Understand and review the call flows received.
* Assist Onsite to ensure Test Coverage
* Test Case Preparation
* Test Case Reviews
* Issue Resolution / Status reporting to onsite members
* Preparation of Status Reports DSR and WSR
* Handling responsibility of review and execution
* Impact analysis to CR's and Implementation of CR's in Test cases
* Test Case Execution
* Amendment of Test Data, Card data through Vision Plus commands.
* Defect Reporting in QC
Skills Used: Manual Testing, IVR Testing, Basic commands from Vision Plus to amend card data, Unix vi editor to update the files.
➢ Project #3: SR4 YF Integration - Lloyds Banking Group (Telephony)
Type: Testing (Manual)
Employer: Infosys Technologies Ltd, India
Dates of employment: Oct 2007 to Feb 2010
Designation: Software Engineer
Project Information
➢ Project #1: Windows SE
Type: Testing (Manual/Automated)
Client: Microsoft Inc, USA
Domain: Product Domain
Role: Test Engineer
Description: Testing Windows security components for service pack releases The project involves automation and testing of various DS and Security related components of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008. Various activities involved in the process include understanding of Windows OS Components, test case development, test automation and execution, test results analysis and debugging.
Test Activities Involved in:
As Team Member / Test Engineer: * Development of traceability metrics, test cases and test data
* Self-Review, Peer to Peer review of Test Artifacts
* Performing functional testing and Integration testing
* Tracking of defects in Product Studio.
* Test execution either as per test plan or as per Client's guidance / request, defect reporting, status reporting, defect retesting and co-ordination with various stakeholders involved with project.
• Defect Tracking tool Development: Developed BugSniffer Tool (a command line tool in C#) which is being used by Infosys to track all the bugs reported by Infosys team. The tool reports the discrepancies in the Bugs opened by Infosys Team. The tool has Auto mailer facility and generates a daily report which is available through intranet site for tracking purpose.
Professional Honors/Awards
* Awarded as "High Flyer Award" which is given at BU level at Cognizant.
* The BugSniffer tool development as a part of defect prevention in client reporting helped the project won Pune Development Center level award for the team.
* Bugsniffer tool also received appreciation from Infosys Management and I was awarded with Spot award for this contribution.
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION INSTITUTE / UNIVERSITY YEAR OF PASSING PERCENTAGE B.E. (Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering) S S Jondhale College of Engineering, Mumbai University. Aug 2007 67%
Class 12th Birla College, Kalyan May 2003 89.17% Class 10th Saraswati Mandir, Kalyan May 2001 85.46%