Summary



Working with CMC Limited A subsidiary of Tata Consultancy Services Limited, Hyderabad for the past 26 years. Presently in the role of QA of System Integration Group-Hyderabad.

9 years experience in Software Testing and Quality assurance. 17 years experience in Finance and Accounts.
3 years experience in Software Quality Assurance.
2 years experience as test lead of e-governance projects in J2EE and. Net environments.
4 years experience in product testing and customer support of a core banking product.
17 years experience in Finance and Accounts in the role of managing the PF Trust activities.
Software Quality Assurance : Monitoring the QA activities of 6 projects of System Integration group-Hyderabad.
Conducting Process audits and Software Configuration audit of 4 projects in the e-governance and defence domains.
Assisting PM/PL s in establishing Project Plans, standards and procedures for the project.
Monitoring the QA activities of the other SQA s of the location.
Tracking defect prevention activities and facilitate root cause analysis.
Involved in continuous process improvement activities.
QA review of all work products of projects.
Performing Delivery audits before release of work products to client.
Responsible for review and reporting of metrics, process audits, weekly dashboard, data for monthly score card for all projects of the location based on CMM Level 5 compliance requirements.
Responsible for facilitation of Project status reviews of all projects of the location.
Test Lead for 3 projects in the e-governance and .Net environments : Planning test strategy.
Planning test case design and review of test cases.
Analysis of requirements received from onsite.
Analysis of defects reported from onsite.
Monitoring test activity of the project.
Monitoring defect logging and tracking.
Co-ordination of release activity.
Functional testing of the product.
Reporting of test results to senior management.
Test Engineer : Involved in Functional and Manual Testing of a core banking product.
Addressing Request for Proposals.
Involved in gap analysis of few modules for customization of the banking product for a foreign bank.
Preparation of test plans, test cases, training material for the modules handled.
Testing MIS reports on Business Objects.
Used Rational Robot for testing.
Provided support during Product Acceptance Test and User acceptance test.
Remote support to the production system of a domestic bank by co-ordinating the problems between the development team, test team and the onsite team leader.
Involved in automated testing of the product using Rational Robot.
Interacting with RBI, Financial Institutions, RPFC, IT authorities for all activities relating to the PF Trust
Involved with all accounting functions of location.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Experience in handling a team.
Key Tasks Handled across Projects




Employment

September, 2005 -  Present
as a Test Lead

Police Department of the City of Pittsburg is using a combination of Case Tracking System CTS and Evidence/Property Reporting System EPRS to track and manage the cases being handled by them. The present system is being developed for : Migration of the Case Tracking system and Evidence Property reporting system from Access Database to SQL Database while retaining the functionality and the look and feel of the existing system.
Development of a workflow based Case Reporting System which will automate the case reporting workflow being handled in the PPD.
Provide enhanced application level security with Biometric interface.
Role
Preparation of Test Strategy, Test Planning, Test Case Design, Review of Test cases.
Preparation of test plan and test cases for every release.
Review of issues reported from onsite and classification into bugs and change requests.
QA Testing and clearing the final release to be sent to the customer for Beta testing.
Reporting of test activity to senior management.

Plan for Defect Management activities viz. Defect Prevention, Root Cause Analysis and implement the same.

July, 2005 -  April, 2006
as a Test Lead

An eGovernance project that deals with Computerization of all administrative services of Police Department units of Andhra Pradesh.
Role
Preparation of Test Plan and Test Case design.
Review of Test cases.

QA review of all work products of the project.
Test planning and review of test logs for every iterative release.
Involved in Functional testing of product based on requirements.

Reporting of test status after every release.
Defect tracking.

January, 2005 -  June, 2005
as a Test Lead

An integrated enterprise wide tool for increasing the efficiency of police units in crime control, law and order and administrative operations.
Role
Leading a test team of 3.
Preparation of test plan and test case design.
Review of test cases.
Preparation of test strategy for every release and allocation of release for test.
Review of Test reports.
Tracking of defects.

Reporting of test status of the application to senior management.

January, 2001 -  December, 2004

Education

Training

Rational Functional Tester and Rational Test Manager
Software Process Control Techniques
Configuration Version Management

ISMS-Security Policies
Defect Prevention
Metrics Orientation
6 sigma Orientation
Effective interpersonal communication

Brainbench certification in Software Quality Assurance


Miscellaneous

TC/4 is a state-of-the art Core Banking Solution. It is a secure, parameterized, multi-currency, multi-language system that provides rich core banking functionality. The system has a integrated and highly flexible multi-currency general ledger. The system is interfaced to a multitude of new-age delivery channels like ATMs, remote terminals, kiosks, internet banking, tele-banking, e-cheques and other delivery and payment systems. The open framework provides immense scalability and allows easy integration to external systems like Trade Finance, Treasury, Asset liability management systems etc. It offers comprehensive and cost-effective data warehousing and disaster recovery systems and online bank-wide MIS and automated inter-branch reconciliation.
TC/4 is implemented in The United Western Bank with 40 branches and over 400000 accounts which are moved over to the centralized TC/4 environment.
TC/4 is being implemented at The National Bank of Bahrain, 1 of the premier banks in the Gulf countries.
Environment : The architecture is N-tier client server based and uses Tuxedo as middleware for transaction management. The front end branch delivery system is a Graphical User Interface. TC/4 system supports 2 types of delivery interfaces : Visual Basic interface and Browser based interface. The core engine is open system compliant and is available on UNIX platforms like HP-UX, SUN Solaris, Linux, HP-COMPAQ Tru64 and IBM AIX.
National Bank of Bahrain
Worked as a team member in Client support group for the implementation of TC/4.
Role
Involved in Gap analysis of Deposits and Loans modules for customization of the banking product.
Preparation of Test plans and test cases and training material for the modules handled.
Responsible for ensuring the software application is of high quality standards meeting the business needs of the bank by conducting system, functional, regression and UAT testing.
Involved in User acceptance testing with the client.
Testing of MIS Business Objects reports.
United Western Bank
Worked as a team member in Client support group for the implementation of TC/4.
Role
Testing of the core banking application TC4.
Reviewing change requests.
1 point support for co-ordination of problems reported from production system. Co-ordinated between the onsite project manager, development team and test team. Tracking of problems reported to closure.
Preparation of responses for Request for proposals.
Involved in demos to prospective clients.
Preparation of Training Material.
Review of Online Help documentation.
Involved in automated testing of the product using Rational Robot.