Joslyn Dias

Project 3: Capital Finance Enhancements 2012
Client: Royal Bank of Canada
Role: QA Analyst

The purpose of the Capital Finance Enhancements 2012 is to ensure the system components of Capital IT applications (RWCA, ALGO, and FRS) reflect changing business requirements within Fiscal 2012. The project core deliverable is to ensure RWCA (Regulatory and Economic) and ALGO/FRS applications continue to support the ongoing change in regulatory and economical capital business, and to ensure that business/system processes remain current.
Responsibilities: * Technical Specification Analysis.
* Interaction with clients and BSA (client side) regarding clarification of requirements. Have given inputs to BSA on unclear requirements and faulty requirements.
* Creating individual Test Plans for the individual SCRs. Also includes understanding the SCR's for which functional testing was not required and creating test plans for these changes. Ensured that coverage was complete during Unit Testing and all documentation is in place.
* Test Scenario/ Test Case design.
* Identifying and responsible for the test data.
* Functional test execution (Backend)
* Verification of Unit test results.
* Reporting issues and tracking it to closure.
* Self and Peer review of test deliverables.
* Took part in defect Triage meetings along with development, business and PM teams to prioritize the defects.
* Execution of test cases - FST, End to End, regression.

Duration: November 2010 - Till date
Environment: DB2 and Mainframes
Domain: Finance Solutions
Tools used: HPQC

Brief description of the project: The purpose of the application RWCA is to enable consistent measurement of the Potential Risks inherent in the business (current or emerging) so as to facilitate calculation of the Regulatory and Economic Capital.

Operating Systems: Windows XP, NT, Windows 98 and Windows 2000

Technology: Mainframes, Web Based, BPT.
Software Engineering: Requirements Analysis, Architectural study, Application Design, Testing, Configuration Management.

Client: Royal Bank of Canada
Role: QA Analyst
Duration: January 2012 - March 2012
Environment: DB2 and Mainframes
Domain: Finance Solutions
Tools used: HPQC

Brief description of the project: The purpose of this project was to upgrade the ALGO application, 4.5.4 version to 4.7.1 to replace the AIX platform with new Linux platform. The project was a joint collaboration between Algorithmics Inc. and RBC.

Responsibilities: * Technical Specification Analysis.
* Involved in planning the functional testing phase which includes time lines and resource planning.
* Discussed with clients the procedure to test the given requirements and convinced them on the use of the method that we follow.
* Interaction with clients and BSA (client side) regarding clarification of requirements.
* Test Scenario/ Test Case design.
* Identifying and responsible for the test data.
* Functional test execution (Backend)
* Verification of Unit test results.
* Reporting issues and tracking it to closure.
* Self and Peer review of test deliverables.
* Execution of test cases - FST, End to End.

Client: Royal Bank of Canada
Role: QA Analyst
Duration: August 2010 - November 2010
Software: Java, Web Focus & DB visualiser
Tools used: HPQC

Brief description of the project: EAR provides reporting managers and their delegates with instructions for fulfilling their responsibilities for reviewing employees' access to information, using the Enterprise Access Reporting (EAR) site. This application enabled employees holding various roles to manage their roles and responsibilities and the roles, responsibilities and access of their subordinates.

Responsibilities: * Use Case Document Analysis.
* Requirement Analysis and giving estimates for Design & Execution.
* Interaction with clients and BSA (client side) regarding clarification of requirements.
* Test Scenario/ Test Case design.
* Prepared Traceability matrix to ensure the test case coverage.
* Identifying and responsible for the test data.
* Functional test execution.
* Reporting issues and tracking it to closure.
* Self and Peer review of test deliverables.
* Took part in defect Triage meetings along with development, business and PM teams to prioritize the defects.
* Daily conf calls with QA lead (client side)
* Execution of test cases - FST, End to End, regression.
Project 2: ALGO Upgrade