vinay sawant,

vinay sawant

Tata Consultancy Services Limited

Location
India - Kalyan
Education
Bachelor's degree, Foundation Fares and Ticketing
Experience
15 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :15 years, 3 Months

at Tata Consultancy Services Limited
  • India
  • June 2011 to May 2014

Tata Consultancy Services Limited Jun2011 Till date

Carrier Profile at Tata Consultancy Services
  • United Arab Emirates
  • June 2011 to May 2014

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Since Jun2011 - Till date Tata Consultancy Services
Title Fares & Pricing Quality Assurance

BPS Workflow Specialist (BPO at Travel port
  • India
  • June 2011 to May 2014

Period Jun 2011 - till date
Client Travel port
Position BPS Workflow Specialist (BPO-3)


Job Responsibilities
* Preparation of scripts
* Running of Scripts
* Checking E-pricing accuracy monitor
* Capturing the results based of E-pricing accuracy monitor.
* Verification of Base Fare Differences across TPF & E-pricing system.
* Verification of Tax Differences across TPF & E-pricing system.
* Verification for TPF Error Differences across TPF & E-pricing system.
* Verification for no solution for E-pricing system
* Analysis of Base Fare Differences across TPF & E-pricing system.
* Analysis of Tax Differences across TPF & E-pricing system.
* Analysis of TPF Error Differences across TPF & E-pricing system.
* Analysis for no solution / 0 solutions for E-pricing system.
* Logging projects for E-pricing discrepancy
* Analysis of projects with the status as final
* Checking Customer Service Report
* Closing projects with status as final
* Sending monthly statistics to customer.
* Working On RAPID REPRICE project
* Preparing test plans on HP ALM (Application Lifecycle Management)
* Creating Dummy PNRs for testing
* Report discrepancies by raising defects in HP ALM
* Retest and closed defects when Fixed
* Working On Ebursting Verification using ShopperCompare tool.

Project
* Conduct research analysis by developing test cases, analyzing them using specialized skills, and presenting research results in HP ALM thereby maintaining accuracy, integrity and reliability of the Travelport Fares &Pricing database.

Hardware -
Operating System • TPF, ePricing and eBursting.
Special Software • VM4, PARS, ATPCO. SITA, Service Centre, Galileo Desktop. Shopper Compare Tool, HP ALM (Application Life Cycle Management)
Project Location Mumbai, India.

at Zero Octa A Kale group of companies
  • October 2004 to June 2011

Zero Octa A Kale group of companies Oct2004 Jun2011

Senior Airline Fare Auditor at ZeroOcta A Kale group of companies
  • October 2004 to June 2011

Since Oct 2004 - Jun2011 ZeroOcta A Kale group of companies
Title Senior Airline Fare Auditor

Auditor in operations at Qantas, British Airways, Jet Airways, Jet Lite, Singapore Airlines, Air India, Gulf Air & US Airlines
  • October 2004 to June 2011

Employer From To
Tata Consultancy Services Limited Jun2011 Till date
Zero Octa A Kale group of companies Oct2004 Jun2011
Le Royal Meridien, RODAS Ecotel Mar1999 Sep2004


Carrier Profile
Since Jun2011 - Till date Tata Consultancy Services
Title Fares & Pricing Quality Assurance
Period Jun 2011 - till date
Client Travel port
Position BPS Workflow Specialist (BPO-3)


Job Responsibilities
* Preparation of scripts
* Running of Scripts
* Checking E-pricing accuracy monitor
* Capturing the results based of E-pricing accuracy monitor.
* Verification of Base Fare Differences across TPF & E-pricing system.
* Verification of Tax Differences across TPF & E-pricing system.
* Verification for TPF Error Differences across TPF & E-pricing system.
* Verification for no solution for E-pricing system
* Analysis of Base Fare Differences across TPF & E-pricing system.
* Analysis of Tax Differences across TPF & E-pricing system.
* Analysis of TPF Error Differences across TPF & E-pricing system.
* Analysis for no solution / 0 solutions for E-pricing system.
* Logging projects for E-pricing discrepancy
* Analysis of projects with the status as final
* Checking Customer Service Report
* Closing projects with status as final
* Sending monthly statistics to customer.
* Working On RAPID REPRICE project
* Preparing test plans on HP ALM (Application Lifecycle Management)
* Creating Dummy PNRs for testing
* Report discrepancies by raising defects in HP ALM
* Retest and closed defects when Fixed
* Working On Ebursting Verification using ShopperCompare tool.

Project
* Conduct research analysis by developing test cases, analyzing them using specialized skills, and presenting research results in HP ALM thereby maintaining accuracy, integrity and reliability of the Travelport Fares &Pricing database.

Hardware -
Operating System • TPF, ePricing and eBursting.
Special Software • VM4, PARS, ATPCO. SITA, Service Centre, Galileo Desktop. Shopper Compare Tool, HP ALM (Application Life Cycle Management)

at Le Royal Meridien
  • United Arab Emirates
  • March 1999 to September 2004

Le Royal Meridien, RODAS Ecotel Mar1999 Sep2004

Counter Executive at Le Royal Meridien, RODAS Ecotel
  • March 1999 to September 2004

Since Mar 1999 -Sep 2004
Title Counter Executive
Client Le Royal Meridien, RODAS Ecotel

at Reservations
  • March 1999 to September 2004

Period Mar 1999 - Sep 2004
Job Profile
* Car rentals for customers
* Reservations
* Ticketing

Description
Worked as counter executive looking after hotel reservations, car rentals & assisting in rail, bus & air ticketing for hotel guests.

Senior Airline Fare Auditor at ADM handling for different airlines
  • India
  • to

Project Location Mumbai, India.


Since Oct 2004 - Jun2011 ZeroOcta A Kale group of companies
Title Senior Airline Fare Auditor
Client Qantas, British Airways, Jet Airways, Jet Lite, Singapore Airlines, Air India, Gulf Air & US Airlines.
Period Oct 2004 - Jun 2011
Job Profile
* Auditor in operations
* Auditing airline tickets which are issued via BSP by agent for stations across the globe as per specifications & requirements of airline
* Raising debit memos for airline tickets
* ADM handling for different airlines
* Auditing sales, refunds, exchanges, e-ticketing, POSD contract, Net fares.
* Cross check for tickets already audited for quality control
* Fare audit of published and unpublished domestic and international above given airlines tickets for violations consisting of under collected fares, taxes, commission, Q surcharge or wrong sales validity, travel validity, deal code, flight, etc
* OAL ticket audit, refund audit, document re-pricing and ADM generation
* Quality check on various sales, refunds & handling disputes for refunds ADM
* Refund reconciliation for the ADM's raised by the company and Airline using ATPCo, Amadeus, Worldspan& PARS
* Authorizing refunds for various Airlines
* Audit of sales generated through BSP, ARC and GSA's
* Audit refund application of various Airlines generated through BSP

Description
As an auditor the main job was to Audit tickets of various Airlines generated through BSP using ATPCo, Amadeus, Worldspan and PARS. Authorizing refund application for these Airlines. Issuing ADM's to the defaulting agents after taking into consideration Airline Rules and Regulations. Was also involved in handling disputes for the refunds of ADM's.

To create Audit schedules for different Airlines as per their requirement. Was also involved in Quality Checks to ensure that potential revenue was not lost. Maintaining the ADM checker for the Refunds Audit Team.

Auditing airline coupon issued by travel agent (audit coupon is one of the four coupon issued by agent) and finding out any manipulation or errors such as fare calculation error, missing out on tax or intentionally under collection, wrong season charged, violation of fare rule conditions etc.
Raising debit memos on error tickets

Back dating and pricing the fare in the system which we compare with audit coupon to find out any difference in fare

Checking historical data in ATPCO for purged fares, checking past PNRs and subjecting them to fare audits

Also assisting the team in solving their queries, conducting refreshers for the team and maintaining Quality Check reports for different audits.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Foundation Fares and Ticketing
  • at Line of Technology
  • March 2004
Bachelor's degree, Accountancy
  • at Mumbai University
  • March 2002

Specialties & Skills

Quality
Amadeus
Banquets
Cooking
CLOSING
CUSTOMER SERVICE
DATABASE
HOTEL RESERVATIONS
LIFE CYCLE
PRICING
QUALITY ASSURANCE
RESEARCH ANALYSIS

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Marathi
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