SUMMARY

• Around 9 years of experience in IT Consulting with 7 yrs. Of experience in payments and banking domain.
• Agile/Lean practices and Methodologies: Scrum, Kanban.
• Facilitated and make sure that Agile processes are being followed and support the product owner requirements. Major strength is ability to quickly learn new technologies and adapt to new environments.
• Expert in using Automation Tools like SOAPUI, Parasoft SOA, POSTMAN.
• Expertise in using Software testing tool like SQL, HPQC, JIRA.
• I am a quick learner and have good ability to multi task; as a result, I can handle 3 - 4 projects and ensure delivered are as per CIBC standards.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skill, good communication skills.
• Self-starter and able to work independently or as part of a team.
• My Strength is my Domain and Functional Knowledge.
• Expertise in Payments and Cards Concepts. payments - swift(iso15022 mt, iso 20022 mx - mt series) as per the fintrac requirements
• I have worked as SME for TCS in ABM and POS batch for CIBC.
• I have led the POS teams (onshore/offshore) along with ABM for batch, mobile testing, visa debit settlements and some of the CSP and CAMS system, and POS Payment Hub.
• Having strong knowledge in SDLC and STLC Life Cycle.
• Have good experience in Settlement and Reconciliation for various networks (VISA, Interact and MasterCard) for ABM and POS channels.
• Having extensive experience in Payment Gateway SEPA (Credit Transfer and Direct Debit), SWIFT (MT101, MT103), XML (PAIN001, PAIN008).
• Expertise in Batch Reports Validations for both ABM and POS channels.
• Managing the project right from the analysis to Test case execution.
• Creative and pragmatic problem-solving approach.
• Emphasize Collaboration among cross functional teams.
• Drive productivity throughout the project lifecycle.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

API Automation Test Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Leading as an Automation test lead in CPE2E project.
• Involved in Payments and Cards Concepts.
• Involved in Reviewing of Regression as well as Functional Script prepared for the above project.
• Prepared Test Strategy and Test Plan Document.
• Involved in Resource Planning for the project.
• Raised Impediments / blockers during daily stand up meeting.
• Involved in Story size estimation and product backlog refinement.
• Conducted demo to the business and stake holders at the end of each sprint.
• Coordinated Interlock testing activities between HOJ and Confidential .
• Currently playing the role of SME for the credit protection product for MTG and LOC for the testing team.
• Emphasize Collaboration among cross functional team.
• Involved in Sprint Retrospective meeting where provided the input for what we have learned in the previous sprint and what can be done better in the future sprints.
• Involved in Sprint Planning Meetings where the task creation as well as estimations was performed for each system stories for the sprints.

SCRUM MASTER / Test lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• I played the role of Test lead, leading ATM and POS (Point of Sale Testing) in CIBC.
• I have been involved in leading various testing phases such as CIT (Component Integration Testing), SIT (System Integration Testing), UAT (User Acceptance Testing) and LCT.
• Facilitated events including daily standup, backlog grooming, sprint planning, estimating/sizing user-stories, sprint retrospective and customer demo.
• Focused on shielding team from external distractions, resolving obstacles and to handle unanticipated events during sprint execution.
• Extremely passionate about keeping team morale high and be attentive to team member’s well-being, empower teams to self-organize and collaborate, share best practices.
• Helped the team to keep focus and maintain their Scrum tools (story board, action items, charts, backlogs, JIRA etc.)
• Providing estimation of testing timelines and test deliverables.
• Active participation of SRD Walkthrough with the business.
• UAT and Production support to clients.

Confidential

QA Module Lead

Responsibilities:

• Played a key role in Test Planning activities
• Prepared different file formats: ISO messages Pain001, Pain008, Pain007.
• ISO messages Pain001, Pain008, Pain007, MT 101, MT103 mt 102,mt103,iso15022 mt, iso 20022 mx - mt series.
• Understanding the Business Requirement (BRD) and mapping it with HLD (High Level design) and the Functional Spec (FS) to maintain Traceability.
• Leading the team and preparing and reviewing the Test Scenario, Test cases and participating in the execution.
• Interaction with clients to have a clear understanding of Process related document.
• Leaded module individually and provided quality work to the clients.

Quality Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the Specifications and Client requirements.
• Have been involved in Production Support Testing.
• Writing Test Cases in Test Link
• Reviewing Test Cases (Peer Review)
• Involved in creation of Test Case Matrix and Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Have been involved in Soap UI Testing.

Functional Test Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Prepared different file formats: ISO messages Pain001, Pain008, Pain007, MT 101, MT103 mt 102,mt103,iso15022 mt, iso 20022 mx - mt series.
• Involved in creation of various file formats: Fixed File format, CSV and XML, Pamula.
• Understanding the Business and Functional Requirements, HLD Documents
• Schema Analysis and validation for the Payments files
• Scenario matrix preparation.
• Test Case/Scenario Preparation.