Vinod_Resume

Vinod_Resume

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  CURRICULAM VITAE Vinod Panchal ContactNumber: (M) +91 9890902595 E-mail Addresses: [email protected] Career Objective Key leadership position in a fast-paced technology company with varied responsibilities and the potential for advancement. Summary:  7.8 Years of Software Testing experience in the role of QA lead/Sr QA supporting areas of Web applications in diverse business & technical environments with demonstrated leadership abilities and setting up Test environments  Experienced QA Lead on off-shore teams, including hiring, mentoring, and performance appraisals.  6 Months experience in QTP Automation.  Experience in Regulatory projects: FATCA-US,FATCA-CD and CRS.  Experience in interaction with Clients, Multiple Vendors and End Users.  Extensive experience in testing of large client server applications, Web based applications, E- Commerce Applications and Middleware applications on various Window and UNIX Environments  Strong Experience in OEDQ (Oracle Enterprise Data Quality) Application Performing Quality profiling, analysis, parsing, standardization, matching and merging designed to help, understand, improve, protect and govern the quality of the information business uses, all from a single integrated environment.  Certified ISTQB and L0 BFS CCP by cognizant.  Scrum Fundamentals Certified and Understanding of Agile Methodology.  Experience in BFS domain like cards and payments, governance and have sound knowledge of the related domains.  End to End testing knowledge: ETL, Manual and Report Testing.  Proven hands-on experience with quality assurance practices, including project test plan development, Test scenarios, test cases, test data and Test closure reports.  Expertise with Black Box test design techniques like Boundary value analysis, design table testing, smoke, regression, functional, integration testing .  Expertise in Manual/Functional Testing and establishing Automation testing using VBA macro.  Expertise in problem solving and defect reporting using defect tracking tools quality center/ALM, Bugzilla and Issue Tracker.  Handle the tasks of ensuring that the Pre-UAT activity is performed accurately and efficiently 1
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   Experience indeveloping UAT test process and monitoring SIT execution phases.  Handle the tasks of identifying defects and perform root cause analysis by analyzing data quality issues  Experience in understanding the customer requirements and deriving the test scenarios/conditions based on the requirements.  Experience in preparation of Test Data Characteristics for Master Test Bed.  Involved in Peer Reviews, Walkthroughs and Inspections.  Involved in handling Client interaction for daily Status meetings and review meetings.  Creative problem solver with advanced analytical, planning, and scheduling skills with a focus on timely delivery.  Good knowledge on VBA Macros,SQL and Linux/Unix  Motivated to work individually as well as in a team that has rapidly changing priorities and proven ability to deal effectively with change and to exercise good judgment.  Good Analytical, Communicational skills and Innovative presentational skills Technical Skills: Testing Tools: Basic knowledge on QTP, Informatica. Test Reporting Tools: HP Quality Center/ALM Operating Systems: Windows 98/2000/XP/ UNIX, LINUX Databases: SQL Programming Languages: VB Scripting, SQL Bug Reporting Tool: HP QC/ALM BugZilla Work Experience  Oct 12th 2011- Till date- Cognizant Technology Solution as Associate Project  Mar 24th 2008 – 30th Sep 2011 – Syntel Ltd Pune, as an Analyst Programmer  Sep 18th 2006 – 1st Nov 2007- Infosys BPO Ltd Pune as an Executive Career Highlights Company : Cognizant Technology Solutions, Pune Project Name : IL Duration : From 12th Oct 2011 to Aug 2012. Description: ICICI Lombard GIC Ltd. is the largest private sector general insurance company in India Tested ICIC lombard Health application is advanced tool used by IL stake holders internally for tracking various activities like Policy creation, member enrollment, claim processing and payment Generating Reports, Benefit’s for policy. The Benefit table CR strives to eliminate manual validations performed at transactions side and enabling system level validations based on business rules applicable for that policy or the product. 2
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  The rules willbe configured for each policy and product at the setup and will be applicable for all the UHIDs enrolled under that policy or product. Currently, the system has set of rules which are set up at policy or product level however this CR will enable a more comprehensive and specific set of rules which can be customized at policy/product level .Also within a policy, the rules could be customized based on member specific information & claim specific information Responsibilities:  Analyzing and Understanding System Requirement Specification  Participation in Test Planning Process and developing Test Plan.  Prepare test cases, Test scenario, Test Data.  Creating, Managing and Executing Test Cases.  Presenting Application Demo to client  Perform Sanity, Smoke, ADHOC, SIT and Regression testing.  Arranging KT for team Company : Cognizant Technology Solutions, Pune Project Name : FATCA (World’s Leading Bank) Duration : From Sep 2012 – till date Description: The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) was signed into law on 18 March 2010 by President Obama as part of the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act. The purpose of FATCA is to reduce the possibility of US tax evasion by US individuals (through personal accounts or legal constructs) via financial institutions and investment vehicles outside of the US. The IRS plans to do this by requiring all financial institutions such as Barclays – banks, asset managers, global custodians and insurance companies – to identify and report US accounts to the IRS. FATCA introduces a withholding tax of 30% to be applied on any US source income and gross proceeds paid to non-participating foreign financial institutions and/or any other person or entity that does not identify themselves (where they are seen to be US). The new withholding tax can be avoided if foreign financial institutions enter into an agreement with the IRS to carry out due diligence on their new and existing accounts and report on specified US persons annually. Responsibilities:  Responsible for managing a team, planning activities, assigning task and managing onsite UAT support.  Expertise with functional test, system testing, integrating testing, smoke testing, expertise testing the application on data driven testing to test the application UI.  Leading and work with development team to create the suite data (Both input files and expected results) that fully exercises data validation.  Performing peer reviews and estimates.  Improving specifications and design documents through active review and feedback with developers.  Experience with Integration of data across from ETL landing area to OEDQ application.  Expertise working with Requirement Matrix Traceability in QC/ALM.  Tracked testing progress using Quality Center Graphs/Reports and updated the Project Manager on weekly progress of testing.  Expertise with Testing various services to validate data for smoke testing, QA testing and UAT testing  Held UAT sessions to assist the client’s business users with getting familiar with the new System. 3
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   Identifying andlogging defects if test fails, if necessary to narrow down the root cause of the problem for efficient investigations by the development team and log accordingly  Experience in testing the application to validate the functional flow of the business logic on OEDQ system and unix/Linux.  Preparing Daily status Report for daily meetings and sending them to all the stakeholders of the project.  Worked with the Project Manager and other leads to come up with a manageable testing timeline for UAT testing phase.  Conduct Interviews and surveys to know about current artifacts, regression usage, applications stability, test data and test assert management.  Established innovative Testing processes for the application and building utility for project in improving existing testing process.  Involve in requirement analysis, designing test plan, test closure report, identifying test conditions, designing test cases, reviewing test cases and executing test cases  Perform technical and cost feasibility study, requirement gathering and analysis.  Environment: Informatica, Ab initio, OEDQ,Unix/Linux,Winscp,Qulaity center/ALM,  Experience in Easy, data-led creation and extension of validation and transformation rules  Expertise on Master Data Management of large volume customer records, Reconciliation.  Performing Quality profiling, analysis, parsing, standardization, matching and merging designed to help, understand, improve, protect and govern the quality of the information business uses, all from a single integrated environment.  Extensive knowledge on OEDQ case Management: validation on cases, alerts, working records, external attributes, flags and Workflow set up.  OEDQ :Handling of User Configuration set up, Project deployment processes. Company : Syntel Ltd Pune Project Name : USMF (State Street) Duration : From 24th Mar 2008 – Dec 2009 Job Profile: Asset Reconciliation (Management) for State Street, Boston US Responsibilities:  The Purpose of Asset Reconciliation is to Reconcile the data between the records of Custody and Accounting in terms of shares, which may differ due to various Reasons  Research the Exception and find out the variance between Accounting and Custody With the help of Mainframe and Bloomberg Application.  Coding the Exception in SMAC database and add necessary comment to it.  Developed the micros for the process using Mainframe Application.  Strong Exposure to Bloomberg Application for Various Securities. Cash Reconciliation (Kansas City)  Performing Cash Reconciliation and Availability of incomes and trades. Manual Matching and Exception coding the variance in Cash Recon System Company : Syntel Ltd Pune Project Name : Lego Pack Engine (Amex ) Duration : From Jan 2010 – Feb 2011 4
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  Description: American Express(Amex) is one of the major Credit Card and Travel Related services providers in the world. It operates in more than 130 countries; the credit card business of American Express is primarily concentrated in the United States, though the company is widening its network elsewhere in the world. The new product is an entry level low fee Charge Card with basic benefits and the ability to add on incremental benefit packages for a fee. Job Profile: Quality Assurance Tester for Cards and Payments Responsibilities:  Preparation, Execution and Reviewing of Functional, Integration, UAT and Regression test cases for all modules ( Feature , Pack , Pack Template and Offer )  Bug Reporting according to Severity & Priority in Mercury Quality Centre  Participate in daily test Status calls with client and other teams  Participated in walkthrough session with the team members to find out missing test cases and to understand requirement using the screen mock ups.  All lessons learnt especially regarding test execution have been documented for future purpose for any references Company : Syntel Ltd Pune Project Name : MYCA MM (Amex ) Duration : Mar 2011– Sep 2011 Description:  MYCA Test Bed is a repository of 8000+ test ready accounts for Unit / Assembly, SIT and UAT testing.  All accounts are synched across Triumph, USMR, GRMS / CRPS, MYCA and CAS systems.  MYCA Test Data AR characteristics on accounts include, but not limited to, i)Wide variety of Product codes and IA codes ii) Active, Cancel-Derog or Replaced cards iii) Zero, Negative, Positive balance with or without Suspense Amount iv) Good Standing or Delinquent (30/60/90 days past due, NG check, late fee) status MR characteristics on accounts include, but not limited to, i) Enrolled in LF, MR, PR or Other Loyalty Program (FF/RF) tiers ii) Zero to ten million vested or PA loan points available for redemption iii)Good Standing or Past Due with pending or forfeited points Responsibilities:  Involved in handling projects deliverables. Involved in the requirement analysis, Test Plan walkthrough sessions with Triumph.  Involved in Preparing the Test Data characteristics for 6 applications and triumph repository.  Responsible for preparing in X933 validation document which served as the major input for validating the downstream files from systems like Triumph, USMR, CAS and CRPS  Involved in daily status calls with the Manila and Onsite team. Involved in validating the event lists and files from Triumph.. Company : Infosys BPO Project Name : British Telecom Duration : From 18th Sep 2006- 1st Nov 2007 Description: 5
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  BT controls anumber of large subsidiaries. BT Global Services division supplies telecoms services to corporate and government customers worldwide and its BT Consumer division supplies telephony, broadband, and Subscription television services in Great Britain to around 18 million customers. Job Profile:Test Engineer for British Telecom, United Kingdom Responsibilities  Executing Internet based application Test Cases from IVOR which is a universal work queue using Testing Tools like Woosh, Siebel, RamboMax, xDSL IP Test, Circuit Diagnostic, xDSL repair check, xDSL Copper Test, Tam Test.  Whoosh is master web based diagnostic tool which is used to conduct various tests which enables us to conduct series of checks on a End user in order to help identify where a fault may exist.  Test Cases consist questions based on Broadband interactive procedures and structured questions  After Test execution all the results are notified to Service provider through Clarify tool. Service Provider assigns Technical Engineer to close the case. Academic Background  BSC Electronics TY Score : 74 % Dr D Y Patil ACS College, Pimpri, Pune-18 Training and Certification  Diploma in Software Testing ( 1ST Dec 2007 to 1st April 2008) – SEED INFOTECH  ISQTB Certified.  Scrum Fundamentals Certified.  Certified in MS Office from NIIT.  Trained in Analytical and Problem Solving Skills from Infosys  Trained in Presentation and Client Interfacing Skills from Infosys  Lean Certification Training from Syntel Ltd Academic Projects Project Name: Clear Focus Call Centre Duration: 2 Weeks Role: Team Member Description:  Recorded a Baseline scripts using QTP and executed it with the help of test director.  It is an Application made to handle operations of call center associate in call center Responsibilities  Studying Requirements, Writing test cases, reviewing test cases, executing them and Reporting Bugs, Creating test Bugs. 6
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  Project Name: Pedometer(Digital Step Km) Description: It measures distance travelled during walking. Date of Birth : 8th Dec 1983 Sex : Male Marital Status : Married Nationality : Indian Languages Known : English, Marathi and Hindi Passport : Z3274034 Mailing Address : MSR Queenstown M-602 UdhogNagar Chinchwad Pune Contact No :9890902595 Declaration I hereby declare that the information provided above is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. If appointed, I assure you that I will leave no stone unturned in carrying out my duties to your entire satisfaction 7