Seeking assignments in Software Testing / Quality Assurance with a growth oriented organization of repute in ITsector

8/2007 – 6/2011

Major Projects:

Cognizant Technology Solutions Pune, India / Zurich, Switzerland

Project: ESOS
Client: Credit Suisse Financial Services
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Period: Apr’11-Jun’11
Role: Requirements Engineer
Description: The Employee Share Ownership Service Plan Management (ESOS PM) application provides comprehensive and state-of-the-art solution for the implementation & on-going management of equity compensation plan. The ESOS PM Application allows Credit Suisse to manage the Equity Based Compensation for its Corporate Clients.
Role: Carried out entire testing and requirement gathering based activities inclusive of:
• Eliciting & specifying business requirements
• Understanding, analysing and documenting business requirements of clients
• Creation of screens for new functionality with a tool called Balsamiq Mockups
• Handing enhancement & maintenance of ESOS PM Application
• Ensuring coordination in Test Management with the off-shore team

Project: HECR
Period: Jan’11-Mar’11
Role: Requirements Engineer
Description: The goal of this Project was creation of a scalable, high-flexible, industry-leading reporting platform with an online and paper-reporting channel for institutional clients, UHNWIs and mandate clients with a total of 323 billion of assets under reporting.
Role: Carried out entire testing and requirement gathering based activities inclusive of:
• Eliciting & specifying business requirements
• Understanding, analysing and documenting business requirements of clients
• Creating screens for new functionality with a tool called Balsamiq Mockups
• Development of Use Case for the assigned modules
• Ensuring coordination in Test Management with the off-shore team

Project: MAMBA
Period: Aug’07-Dec’10
Role: Test Lead/Domain Expert
Description: The client was in business of Managed Lending which is very similar to Securities Lending. The Client used Global One as a Book Keeping Application for its Managed Lending Business and its primary function was Trade/Return Capture, Automatic inter-company trade creation/linking, Client availability/portfolio capture, feed to back office settlement system, Settlement Capture-either directly in G1 or via feed, exposure/risk monitoring, Mark to market revaluation processing, Fee/Rebate(P & L) reporting etc. The aim of this assignment was to do exhaustive testing of the new application which was under development and ensure a smooth transition from G1 to the new application called Mamba.
Role: Carried out entire testing and requirement gathering based activities inclusive of:
• Identifying business scenarios and functional specifications for testing purpose
• Test Program Scoping & Planning
• Test Phase management comprising of function & application testing
• Serving as Subject Matter Expert w.r.t. functional and non-functional testing
• Test Case creation & packaging from High level FRD
• Performing & coordinating Manual Test Execution (System & Integration)
• Regression Testing
• Defects & Issues Management thru HP Quality Centre
• Status Reporting - Generating reports on a daily / weekly basis to track the project and defects status
• Guiding Automation team to build regression suit for Automated Testing
• Assisting business users through UAT