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Pradeep
Pune
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India
QA lead with 9yrs of IT experience in Agile, Waterfall across Banking, Wealth Management & HR domain
34560 USD / Year
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Immediate: Available
9 Years
About Me
- Worked with complex applications in Banking (Canadian Wealth Management, Capital Markets) and HR (Recruitment) domains.
- Experience in software development life cycles – Waterfall and Agile – SCRUM models.
- Extensively...
- Extensively involved in SDLC phases like Requirement Analysis, Test planning, Test case design, reviews and client walkthrough.
- Performed Analysis of Business Requirement, Feasibility Study, Effort Estimation and Coordination with the onshore counterparts.
- Closely interacted with Stakeholders like Business Analysts, Technical Architects and developers to baseline test artifacts and requirement specifications.
- Extensive experience on Functional/Regression testing, Database testing using SQL queries and UNIX testing using batch jobs and commands.
- Capped functional SME role for Automation team to automate regression test cases for every release.
- Groomed team to maintain and execute existing regression suite for every release.
- Effectively managed multiple tasks and responsibilities in high-pressure environments; experience in leading team through an entire QA Release cycle.
- Team management activities like task allocation, reporting/tracking team status, conducting knowledge management training sessions.
- Highly efficient in Complex, Agile, Dynamic, Onshore-Offshore project environments.
Skills
Software Engineering
Database
Software Testing
Development Tools
Web Development
Others
Portfolio Projects
Company
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) – SCUBA
Role
QA Tester
Description
- Performed Requirement Analysis of business/technical documents such as Requirement Package, TDD, Use Case Document, and Data Requirements etc.
- Estimated testing scope, effort and negotiated with management to acquire the necessary resources.
- Prepared Master Test Artifact/Test Plan and Test cases based on Requirement documents.
- Led MTA and test case walkthroughs with BA, UAT team and Business Owner to freeze scope and procure sign-offs.
- Maintained and mapped Releases, Test Cycles and Test cases to requirements through HP ALM.
- Ensured proper configuration management of the test-ware produced and traceability of the test to test basis.
- Managed test environment before and during QA execution cycle
- Collaborated with QA Support team to perform QA activities such as Smoke, Functional, Regression, Database, AS400 testing.
- Participated in the planning, monitoring, and control of the testing activities and tasks.
- Prepared MS Excel Dashboards and Status Reports to communicate the test progress, the product quality status and the test results/observations.
- Facilitated Daily Status, Defect Triage meetings and shared Minutes of Meeting.
- Designed UAT test cases to assist UAT Testing before Production.
- Authored Signoff documents and coordinated with onshore counterpart for review and release of the same.
Company
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) – Client Link
Role
QA Tester
Description
- Organized SRS/Requirement, Code Manifest and Test Plan walkthroughs for with relevant stakeholders.
- Conducted Requirement Analysis of business/technical documents such as SRS, Test Plan, Use Cases, and User Stories etc.
- Estimated testing scope, effort and negotiated with management to acquire the necessary resources.
- Analyzed, documented and mapped test cases to requirements through Test Objective Matrix (TOM).
- Designed test case using TCS Modeling Framework in Eclipse and HPALM.
- Ensured proper configuration management of the test-ware produced and traceability of the test to test basis.
- Conducted TOM walkthroughs and managed stakeholders for freezing scope and signoffs.
- Managed test environment before and during QA execution cycle
- Collaborated with stakeholders to perform QA activities such as Smoke, Functional, Regression, Database, UNIX batch testing.
- Participated in the planning, monitoring, and control of the testing activities and tasks.
- Prepared MS Excel Dashboards and Status Reports to communicate the test progress, the product quality status and the test results/observations.
- Participated in Daily Status, Defect Triage meetings and shared Minutes of Meeting.
- Authored Signoff documents and coordinated with onshore counterpart for review and release of the same.
- Performed Requirements Life Cycle Management, Software Test Cycle Management, and Defect Life Cycle management with HP ALM and CA Rally.
Company
ReSOLUTE & ReSOLUTE360
Role
QA Tester
Description
- Reviewed Business Requirement Document (BRD) and Functional Requirement Specification (FRS) for various HR Domain products.
- Worked in close co-ordination with the BA and Development team to review functional and business requirements for Functional testing, Integration testing and Regression Testing.
- Translated user requirements, enhancement requests, change requests and technical specifications into test cases and updated test cases mapping in Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
- Managed QA team through all phases of Test Estimation, Test Planning and Test Designing.
- Executed test cases, documented results, investigated result mismatches, report defects and follow up.
- Worked with Technical and development team to resolve identified issues in a timely manner.
- Developed UAT test suite and manually tested Products in HR domain covering end to end Recruitment life cycle based on User Requirements.
- Designed Excel Dashboards for Daily Status, Defect List and participated in Daily Scrum, and Project Planning meetings.
- Managed Backlog Management, Software Test Cycle Management, and Defect Life Cycle management with Team Foundation Server (TFS).
- Performed mentor role and conducted Knowledge Transfer (KT) sessions for new members.
- Reviewed documented training material for accuracy and assist in end user training and support.
- Provided product demos to Training Staff, HR Operation Heads and End users.
- Prepared understanding documents, DIY user manual videos to ensure clear understanding for the users.
Company
Manulife Investments
Role
QA Tester
Description
- Updated/designed test cases as per new changes, business requirements, and derived expected results for complex investment banking products.
- Involved in the development of the test plan. Actively participated in enhancement meetings.
- Performed functional/defect testing manually, updated actual results, investigated discrepancies in results, reported defects and followed up defects till closure.
- Executed IBMs Rational Robot scripts; thereby verifying that the previous code is not affected. Updated to Rational Robot scripts on a regular basis, hence achieving flawless regression suites.
- Managed Requirements Life Cycle Management, Software Test Cycle Management, and Defect Life Cycle management with Microsoft Office Suite and IBM Lotus Notes.
- Prepared proposal presentation on Rational Quality Manager for the client explaining benefits of RQM if used in project.
Verifications
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Profile Verified
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Phone Verified
Preferred Language
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English - Fluent
Available Timezones
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Eastern Daylight [UTC -4]
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Central Daylight [UTC -5]
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Eastern European [UTC +2]
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Australian CDT [UTC +10:30]
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Australian EDT [UTC +11]
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Eastern EST [UTC +3]
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Dubai [UTC +4]
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New Delhi [UTC +5]
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China (West) [UTC +6]
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Singapore [UTC +7]
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Hong Kong (East China) [UTC +8]
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