Gowri shanker S.

Gowri shanker S.

Lead QE

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Experience: 11 Years

Gowri shanker

Lead QE

29360.3 USD / Year

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11 Years

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About Me

A Software Testing Professional with over 11+ years of experience in Software Testing and possess strong knowledge in Banking, Payments & Cards domain who has gained expertise in Testing Methodologies and Processes of testing various products / ap...

Had worked extensively on various testing projects for Global & Indian clients like;

  • IDFC First Bank
  • Fincare Small Finance Bank
  • Diamond Trust Bank(DTB)
  • Lakshmi Vilas Bank(LVB)
  • Total System Services (TSYS)
  • International Payments Advanced Solution (IPAS)
  • National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)
  • GE Money Home Lending
  • ICS Compliance(AML)
  • Microlink
  • BNP Paribas, Onsite

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Portfolio Projects

Description

Client : IDFC First Bank.

Domain : Banking

Location : Offshore

Role : Lead QE

Module : LOS & LMS

At IDFC FIRST Bank, we are dedicated to the upliftment and advancement of women in India. To improve their livelihoods, we offer a loan for women - the Sakhi Shakti Loan. It helps boost their business as well as their material needs. As a business loan for women in India, it comes with many benefits, such as credit & savings solutions, wider reach, better coverage, simple documentation, quick processing and doorstep service.

It is designed to truly empower women and helps them fulfil their dreams.

Now avail a loan designed specifically for your renovation needs! With IDFC FIRST Bank Suvidha Shakti Loan, you can avail credit to meet various home improvement requirements like fixing water connection, sanitation or basic repair work.

Features that make this a reliable loan option include –
• Wide coverage for loan purpose
• Loan applicable only for existing Sakhi Shakti Customers

Responsibilities Handled:

• I had been leading a team 16 member’s(Manual + Automation).

• Used to track the (Status of CRs, Open Internal Jira’s, UAT Jira’s & Production Fixes) with help of TRELLO.

• In the daily stand-up we used to discuss the on going task’s(Status of CRs, Internal Jira’s, UAT Jira’s & Production Hotfix) w.r.t development and testing statuses.

• Allocation of daily task to team member’s based on the priority of the deliverable’s.

• Involve me in bank stand-up as well along with the BA and stakeholder’s to discuss about the open point’s at client end.

• Reviewing of efforts shared by the team member’s for CRs.

• Once the final FSD is being signed off from bank and shared to QA, Need to ensure that team goes through the CR and raise as many as possible clarification in ICL tracker.

• Review of TestCase document before sharing to the client once testing is completed for that particular release.

• Tracking of test execution status in TestRail.

• And with the regard to any OPEN issue need to chase/sync with the respective developer on the status of bug fix.

• Timely check from the QA team w.r.t the activity assigned and if any issue reported the same needs to be actioned by assigning the issue to the respective developer to have a look into it.

• Once the build is certified by QA team, Need to do a round of sanity in that respective server before shipping it bank.

• Also once status of sanity is confirmed the build will be uploaded in the SFTP location along with (WAR, TAR, PENTAHO) files, and respective path will be shared via mail with the fixes mentioned in release notes

  • Handling of multiple projects parallelly

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Description

Client : Fincare Small Finance Bank

Domain : Banking

Location : Offshore

Role : QA Lead

Module : ATM, OTP purpose, Toll Free Number Change

Fincare Small Finance Bank commenced banking operations on 21st July, 2017, after receiving the final license from the RBI under Section 22 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949. Fincare Small Finance Bank enables financial inclusion of the underbanked base of pyramid, mass retail and micro & small enterprise segments. With 500+ banking outlets and 5000+ employeesFincare Business Services Limited is a Core Investment Company managing a clutch of businesses operating in banking and financial services sector in India.

Responsibilities Handled:

• Preparation of BRD & FSD based on new requirement’s.

• Co-ordinating with various stakeholders to get the assigned activity done until closure.

• Co-ordinating with FIS & NPCI through mails & calls to certify the bank w.r.t ATM, AEPS etc.

• Preparation of pre-requisite document from initiation of the project till Go-live.

  • Involved in daily status calls with the respective stakeholder’s

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Description

Client : CreditAccess Grameen Limited

Domain : Banking

Location : Offshore

Role : QA Lead

Module : Loan Origination System.

CreditAccess Grameen Limited was born out of the need for timely and affordable credit to India’s poor and low-income households. CreditAccess Grameen was founded in May 1999 as a project under the T. Muniswamappa Trust (TMT), an NGO in South Bangalore.

CreditAccess Grameen adapted the Grameen Bank’s group lending methodology of microfinance to the Indian setting and launched operations in Avalahalli on the outskirts of South Bangalore. It offered collateral-free loans as well as other services to women from poor and low-income households with the aim of creating equal opportunities and inclusive development of both urban and rural poor. The loans intended to help customers raise their standard of living and break the cycle of poverty.

CreditAccess Grameen offers a multitude of both financial and non-financial products and services to cater to the life cycle needs of its customers. CreditAccess Grameen products (Udyog Loan, Savaari Loan, Vikas Loan, Suvidha Loan) are subject to periodic modifications based on feedback from customers and input from staff.

Responsibilities Handled:

• Knowledge Transfer to offshore team about the requirement of the project.

• Getting the clarifications collated and sharing the same to the vendor’s for their input.

• Review of Test Scenario’s & Test cases.

  • Co-ordinating with stakeholders w.r.t clarifications/status etc

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Client : Diamond Trust Bank

Domain : Payments

Location : Onsite

Role : QA Lead

Testing Tools : Payment Safe, SafeWatch Filtering, SafeWatch Profiling

Module : Anti Money Laundering

Diamond Trust Bank (DTB) is a leading regional bank, listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE). An affiliate of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), DTB has operated in East Africa for over seventy years.

Responsibilities Handled:

• Knowledge Transfer to offshore team about the requirement of the project.

• Creation and documentation of test cases, test scenarios and test scripts based on FSD & BRD.

• Executed the test cases and validated results by comparing the actual and expected results.

• Documenting the test results and publishing the analysis for business review.

  • Defect Tracking & Retesting.
  • Review of Pass Logs & Defect Logs which was executed by offshore team

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Description

Client : Lakshmi Vilas Bank

Domain : Banking

Location : Offshore

Role : Test Lead

Testing Tools : Flexcube (CBS), Bugzilla, API

Module : Retail Loans, CASA

LVB for the first time has been engaged with Oracle Financial Software Solution Ltd & Yethi Consulting Pvt Limited in upgrading their Core Banking System from Flexcube v6.6 To 11.7 along with OBDX version 18.1.

Responsibilities Handled:

  • Review of Test Scenarios.
  • Identification of test data.
  • Review of pass logs & defect logs and finally delivered to the client.
  • Identifying critical Defects and creating Defects in BUGZILLA.
  • Understand the requirements based on FS.
  • Communicating with bank SPOC & OFSS with respect to clarifications and bug fix.
  • Participate Review meetings and Stand up meetings.
  • Reporting the Status on a daily basis.
  • Preparing learning documents

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Description

Client : BNP Paribas Fortis

Domain : Payments

Location : Onsite, Belgium

Testing Tools : Swift, XML, Isabel, Mainframe (Back-end), MTS (Payment Engine)

International payments (IPAS): IPAS is the solution provided to the corporate customers of Belgium. Main focus is to combine all CIB entities (within Europe) to negotiate the charges and conversion rate with the bank for the transactions made by them.

To make this feasible international payments engine used is adapted to handle the payments from other entities and to communicate with the other systems that are maintained in other regions.

Responsibilities Handled:

  • Understanding the functionality by reading through the business requirement.

document (BRD) and functional specification document (FSD).

  • Requesting access to the required system.
  • Preparation of LVP (Logical validation points) into TVP (Test validation points).
  • Raising clarifications to the concerned persons.
  • Identification of test data.
  • Execution the test cases.
  • Identifying, raising, tracking incidents and attending defect meetings.
  • Supporting BAT and NRT during execution.
  • Attending handover sessions from analysts.
  • Training the new resource.
  • Providing weekly high level updates.
  • Preparing learning documents

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Description

Client : National Payments Corporation of India

Domain : Payments

Location : Offshore, Chennai

Testing Tools : Olive-Simulator, Mainframe

Module : IMPS, ATM, AEPS

National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) was set up to build a state-of-the-art central payment system infrastructure which would be used by all the banks/financial institutions/intermediaries in India in a cost effective manner and would help the banks provide superior payment services to their customers. Vision and formation of NPCI was backed by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and Indian Banking Association (IBA).

NPCI is using the ITM (Mainframe) as their switch application to route the transactions traffic between their Member banks. ITM application is developed and maintained by Euro net.

Responsibilities Handled:

  • Understanding the functionality by reading through the specification document for each of the products.
  • Preparation of Test Plan & Checklist for new banks coming for Certification.
  • Perform day zero / Sanity Test.
  • Co-ordination with the bank for execution of certification test cases.
  • Raise & Track issues with NPCI / Banks.
  • Provide inputs regarding daily execution status.
  • Testing support over calls.
  • Publish end of the day testing status to the respective bank.
  • Preparation of daily status tracker & MPP tracker and the same is being published to business team (NPCi).
  • Preparation of UAT script document

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Description

Client : BNP Paribas Fortis

Domain : Banking

Location : Onsite, Belgium

Testing Tools : PC banking Application

BNP Paribas Fortis bank provides banking facilities for the Individuals and Corporate customers and gives a full coverage of banking features through the web application PC Banking, using the customers are brought into the Fortis system.

In PC Banking, the some of the important features are SEPA transfers and international transfers are going to be provided directly to the customers.

Responsibilities Handled:

  • Involved in planning of Short Term Release.
  • Preparation of pass logs & defect logs and finally delivered to the client.
  • Handled execution for three modules in Short Term release.
  • Handled Defect Re-tests and raised new defects.
  • Involved in Scripts Planning and Execution.
  • Involved in split up of test requirements from Business Requirement documents.
  • Payment module was handled by myself.
  • Involved in the co-ordination with IT analysts and tested requirements related to european payments and international payments.
  • Updating the status, logs and test wares in QC.
  • Involved in defect review meeting & walkthrough with the clients and developers

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Description

Client : Microlink, Malaysia

Location : Offshore, Chennai

Domain : Banking

Testing Tools : MIBS Banking Application

Microlink Solutions Berhad is an award-winning Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) status company specializing in the provision of end-to-end banking solutions for both conventional and Islamic financial institutions. Operating in Malaysia for more than 15 years which includes products Al-Ijarah, AITAB and Ar-Rahnu. MiBS Islamic includes the deposits products of Al-Wadiah and Al-Mudharabah. The Islamic Financing module is in a class of its own, which caters to hybrid or combined contracts covering various areas of Islamic financing like Al-Musharakah, Bai’ al Dayn, Bai’ as Salam and Al-Qardhul Hassan.

Think soft Global Services is a Financial Software Testing Specialist company. Software testing, verification and validation are some of the services offered by Thinksoft.

Microlink flagship product – MiBS caters to both Conventional and Islamic Banking Modules with multi-currency and multi-financial institutions capability. It is complemented with various integrated delivery channels such as Branch Delivery System, Internet Banking, Intelligent Device Banking, Phone Banking, Electronic Banking Centre, ATM and Inter-Bank Gateway.

Responsibilities Handled:

  • Understanding the functionality by reading through the business requirement

document (BRD) and functional specification document (FSD).

  • Preparation of clarification document.
  • Preparation of test scenarios from the sub-function arrived.
  • Preparation of Test scope.
  • Preparation of Test scripts.
  • Execution of Test Scripts.
  • Raising Defects in Bug tracking system.
  • Client co-ordination by attending Defect calls.

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Description

Client : ICS Compliance, US

Location : Offshore, Chennai

Domain : Banking

Environment : Yellow Hammer

Project Type : Anti Money Laundering

Bank of East Asia is one of the leading banks in US who serve the business for their US based customers. ICS compliance is leading compliance entities who review the compliance policies and BSA regulations for all US based banks and financial institutions. As part of the engagement between ICS and its US based clients, ICS required a periodical review of the implementation of AML regulatory and BSA for each of its customers

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Description

Client : ICS Compliance, US

Location : Offshore, Chennai

Domain : Banking

Environment : Yellow Hammer

Project Type : Anti Money Laundering

Bank of East Asia is one of the leading banks in US who serve the US based customers. ICS compliance is a leading compliance entity who reviews the compliance policies and BSA regulatory for all US based banks and financial institutions.

Responsibilities Handled:

  • Understanding the functionality by reading through the business requirement document (BRD) and functional specification document (FSD).
  • Preparation of test scope.
  • Preparation of Test scripts.
  • Execution of Test Scripts.
  • Preparation of clarification document for small projects.
  • Raising Defects in MQC

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Description

Client : GE Money Home Lending, United Kingdom (UK)

Domain : Mortgage Servicing Application (Front End)

Environment : Omnis

Project Type : Mortgages

Testing Tools : Microsoft SQL Server2000/ 2005, Business Objects,

Mercury Quality Centre.

GE Money Home Lending (GEM HL) is one of UK's leading service providers of specialist

mortgages and secured and unsecured loans to customers. GEMHL mortgage business

covers both 1st charge and 2nd charge mortgages.

GEM-HLUK Core team (Testing Centre of Excellence) works on testing the Work Request

and BAU (Business as Usual), i.e. minor changes in the existing functionalities and

resolution of existing issues in the originations and the servicing Mortgage Applications.

GEM-HLUK Small project team is involved in testing major changes in the Mortgage applications.

GEM-HLUK Trafalgar is a migration Project between two servicing applications of GE

Money.

Source system: Centrac

Target system: Phoebus

Responsibilities Handled:

  • Understanding the functionality by reading through the business requirement
  • document (BRD) and functional specification document (FSD).
  • Preparation of test scope.
  • Preparation of Test scripts.
  • Execution of Test Scripts.
  • Preparation of clarification document for small projects.
  • Raising Defects in MQC.
  • Client co-ordination by attending Defect calls

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