EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• Having around 10 years of experience as a QA lead and Techno - functional Business Analyst in banking domain & Utilities domain with specialization in Unsecured Lending, Collections, Securities, Credit Initiation, Parameters Migration & CDI. Proficient in Mainframe technology. Worked on various development projects for financial Domain (credit cards) on Vision Plus platform and Hogan platform.
• Experience in Core Banking Systems, including 8+ years of experience in Implementation, Support, Testing and 5+ Years in Requirement gathering, Business Analysis, and 2 Years in Agile Methodologies.
• Experience in Utilities domain in Implementation, Support, Testing and in Requirement gathering.
• Working on financial processes/areas like CACS (Computer Assisted Collection system), CI (Credit Initiation) for both cards & Banking CI (Credit Initiation), SSC (Security Subsystems) a sub-module of CMS (Credit Management System).
• Technical expertise in IBM Mainframes in Vision Plus, which involves development, maintenance/enhancement and testing of application
• Proficient in Mainframe technology. Worked on various development projects for financial Domain (credit cards) on Vision Plus platform and for banking.
• Extensive Mainframe experience in languages and tools like COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2, VSAM, FILEAID, CHANGEMAN, STARTOOL, SPUFI, QMF, DCLGEN, TSO/ISPF,AS/400 and also in BLUE PRINT for documentation and testing tools/framework - Selenium, page factory, Jbhave, Maven, Gradle, Git, Jenkins, Version One and JAVA.
• Experience includes Studying the BRD and functional specs, High level as well as low level design, Programming, Level 1 Production Support, Unit Testing and System Testing (Test case generation and test plan execution) and Documentation.
• Resource allocation and Capacity planning.
• Have prepared test metrics & clear quest updates for all assi gned projects & activities.
• Excellent leadership abilities, interpersonal skills, communication skills, quick learner, hardworking, motivator and team player.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools/Utilities: Selenium, Page Factory, Jbhave, Maven, Gradle, Git, Jenkins

Enterprise software platform: Version One

Utilities: TSO/ISPF, Change Man, STARTOOL, File-Aid

SPUFI, QMF, DCLGEN:

DB/DC System: CICS.

Application Language: COBOL & JCL.

Operating System: MVS/OS/390, Z/OS, AS/400

File Access System: VSAM.

Database: IBM DB2, SQL Server,PL/SQL developer,Toad,Query surge

EAI: TIBCO Active enterprise suite, TIBCO BW

Web technologies: SOAPUI 4.0/3x

Testing Tool: Mercury QC v 8.2, HP QC v 10.0, HP ALM v11.52, SoapUI Pro 4.x

Defect tracking tools: Mercury QC v 8.2, HP QC v 9.2 & 10.0, HP ALM v11.52, Bugzilla

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Minneapolis

Responsibilities:

• Interact with the business team to understand the gaps and requirements
• Resource allocation and Capacity planning.
• Responsible to develop the automated queries using Query Surge tool.
• Involved in ETL testing and regression testing.
• Identify the scope of the testing for SIT & UAT from the documents provided and Prepare Test Plan, Strategy documents.
• Automated the comparison between harmonized to load ready files.
• Created and maintained detailed test cases to perform various types of testing in Test Plan module of Quality Center.
• Used Test Lab module of Quality Center to perform test execution activities by creating various test sets.
• Worked on data mapping and report generation for various criteria defined by business
• Documented and reported defects within established process and tracking systems using Quality Center
• Host the defect triage meetings on daily basis. Test Metrics collection for every release.
• Host the daily sync up calls with the client and team.
• Lead analysis, development and deployment activities with
• Mentored team members on day to day activities to progress for the closure of the project .

Confidential, Richfield, Minneapolis

Responsibilities:

• Interact with the business team to understand the gaps and requirements
• Resource allocation and Capacity planning.
• Functional Requirement gathering, analysing requirements and preparing FRD,BRD Document preparations.
• Understand the test deliverables from BRD, FRD & FDS.
• Identify the scope of the testing for SIT & UAT from the documents provided and Prepare Test Plan, Strategy documents.
• Created and maintained detailed test cases to perform various types of testing in Test Plan module of Quality Center.
• Used Test Lab module of Quality Center to perform test execution activities by creating various test sets.
• Worked on data mapping and report generation for various criteria defined by business
• Documented and reported defects within established process and tracking systems using Quality Center
• . Lead various project delivery activities for the implementation of data conversion processes
• Lead analysis, development and deployment activities with
• Mentored team members on day to day activities to progress for the closure of the project

Confidential, Richfield, Minneapolis

Responsibilities:

• Performed Functional, System, Security, and Regression & User Interface testing of software applications.
• Interact with the business team to understand the gaps and requirements
• Functional Requirement gathering, analysing requirements and preparing FRD,BRD Document preparations.
• Understand the test deliverables from BRD, FRD & FDS.
• Identify the scope of the testing for SIT & UAT from the documents provided and Prepare Test Plan, Strategy documents.
• Created and maintained detailed test cases to perform various types of testing in Test Plan module of Quality Center.
• Used Test Lab module of Quality Center to perform test execution activities by creating various test sets.
• Worked on data mapping and report generation for various criteria defined by business
• Documented and reported defects within established process and tracking systems using Quality Center
• . Lead various project delivery activities for the implementation of data conversion processes
• Lead analysis, development and deployment activities with
• Mentored team members on day to day activities to progress for the closure of the project

Confidential, Richfield, Minneapolis

Responsibilities:

• Performed Functional, System, Security, and Regression & User Interface testing of software applications.
• Interact with the business team to understand the gaps and requirements
• Functional Requirement gathering, analysing requirements and preparing FRD,BRD Document preparations.
• Understand the test deliverables from BRD, FRD & FDS.
• Identify the scope of the testing for SIT & UAT from the documents provided and Prepare Test Plan, Strategy documents.
• Created and maintained detailed test cases to perform various types of testing in Test Plan module of Quality Center.
• Used Test Lab module of Quality Center to perform test execution activities by creating various test sets.
• Worked on data mapping and report generation for various criteria defined by business
• Documented and reported defects within established process and tracking systems using Quality Center
• . Lead various project delivery activities for the implementation of data conversion processes
• Lead analysis, development and deployment activities with stakeholders.

Confidentia, Chicago

Responsibilities:

• Interact with the business team to understand the gaps and requirements
• Functional Requirement gathering, analysing requirements and preparing FRD,BRD Document preparations.
• Testing effort estimation for Planning & Execution.
• Understand the test deliverables from BRD, FRD & FDS.
• Identify the scope of the testing for SIT & UAT from the documents provided and Prepare Test Plan, Strategy documents.
• Address any gaps identified during execution.
• System analysis to develop solutions for various business intents
• Developed application programs in COBOL for source to target data conversion
• Worked on data mapping and report generation for various criteria defined by business
• Developed several EZT report programs and analysed source and target data fields
• Lead various project delivery activities for the implementation of data conversion processes
• Lead analysis, development and deployment activities with stakeholders and agile teams of Various other applications
• Mentored team members on day to day activities to progress for the closure of sprint stories

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Interact with the business team to understand the gaps and requirements.
• Provide solutions, help in design and development of product Manage offshore teams on the business scenarios, design changes, coding and unit testing. Engage with Testing and deployment Team.
• Publish dossier to the management team support the Application Changes in production Environment.
• Host the release control board (RCB), retrospective and daily stand-up meetings.
• Manage project applications, change and bug fix releases Quality control the code and content releases between DEV, QA, UAT and PROD environments.
• Responsible for release roadmap, risks and RAG (RED, AMBER, GREEN) status .Support of SEV1 bug fixes and environment issues reported and manage the Teams with their agreed deliverables on Time Communicate and coordination with stake holders and teams for issue resolution.
• Host the release control board (RCB), retrospective and daily stand-up meetings and manage project applications, change and bug fix releases Quality control the code and content releases between DEV, QA, UAT and PROD environments. Manage the teams with their agreed deliverables on time designed user interface using BMS
• Supporting UAT & SIT and r esolving Issues and bugs
• Solved Production Abends and Bugs.

Confidential

Techno functional consultant

Responsibilities:

• Working on gaps and heading meetings with business and architecture team. Lead and manage project execution modules bringing in technical, functional, process or other core ERP product created expertise.
• Should be able to lead small cross functional teams to ensure delivery and effectively coordinate between onsite an offshore. Creating DDLs, Loading data into Hive persistence tables and stage tables.
• Managed project execution modules bringing in technical, functional, process and other coreERP product created expertise.
• Also handled / setup ESB module for BIAB Mx-Sandbox environment along with mainframe batch activities.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Handled project deliverables.
• Handled entire SDLC Cycle, GAP analysis.
• Supports SIT/UAT/PAT batches.
• Managing team.
• Handling escalations.
• Assigning work & maintaining shifts.
• Metrics preparation.
• Tracking work schedules and work to complete the defects within SLA.
• Reviewing the abend trackers.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Functional Requirement gathering, analysing requirements and preparing FRD,BRD . Document preparation.
• Coding. Code review.
• Preparation of SEW.
• Co-ordinating with front-end team for testing.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Functional Requirement gathering including documentation, analysing requirements and preparing FRD, BRD.
• Coding
• SIT/UAT Batch Support,
• SIA Deliverables ( SEW, SCW, SCRC )

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Functional Requirement gathering including documentation, analysing requirements and preparing FRD, BRD.
• Coding
• SIT/UAT Batch Support,
• SIA Deliverables ( SEW, SCW, SCRC )

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Functional Requirement gathering including documentation, analysing requirements and preparing FRD, BRD .
• Coding
• SIT/UAT Batch Support,
• SIA Deliverables ( SEW, SCW, SCRC )