Arvind Kumar

ARVIND KUMAR

Experienced Agile Test Lead

Mobile: 043 252 7709 (M), 043 204 3460 (H)

Email: [email protected]

 

OVERVIEW

§  CSTM/ISTQB certified Software Test Analyst with 9+ years of testing and development experience

§  2.5 years of experience in Finance/Banking domain that includes testing and development activities

§  7+ years of experience in Utility domain that includes functional testing activities on SAP projects

§  Excellent knowledge of the Utility processes, Financial markets business processes and products.

§  Experience in leading teams and managing onshore-offshore work model

§  Experience in Agile, V-model and Waterfall methodology

§  Proficient in writing / enhancing of Test Plan, Test Strategy specifying the system’s inputs, outputs, limitations, entry and exit criteria

§  Prepare requirements traceability matrix and perform GAP analysis.

§  Oracle PL/SQL certified resource, Proficient in writing SAP SQVI and SQL queries

§  Excellent communication, leadership and problem solving skills

§  Experience in different kinds of tests such as functionality, positive, negative, smoke, integration, user acceptance, performance, regression, load, security, installation etc.

§  Interaction with Business/clients and provide a test strategy, test plan walkthrough and get the approval.

§  Ability to understand complex, wide-ranging issues quickly and effectively assist resolution.

§  My niche in Testing covers, Digital Testing, Risk Based Testing, Agile testing methodology, Black box testing, White box testing, Unit testing, Integration testing, Functional testing, System testing, End-to-end testing, Sanity testing, Game testing, Regression testing, Acceptance testing, Supported Load testing, Supported Performance testing, Usability testing, Install/uninstall testing, Security testing, Compatibility testing, Alpha testing, Beta testing.

 

Education

2014 – 2016   Certified Scrum Master 

2006 – 2007   Six Sigma Green Belt Certification     

2007 – 2008   Certified Software Test Manager (CSTM, equivalent to ISTQB)

2000 – 2004   PUNE UNIVERSITY (SCOE)  Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology

 

Role responsibilities and Achievements

Sep2013 – Till Date

Tata Consultancy Services (Permanent)

Assistant Consultant/ Agile Test Lead (Commonwealth Bank, Australia)

Responsibilities

§  Analyzing and formulating Test Requirements of Agile project “Peloton” from Sprints (JIRA) /FS.

§  Preparation of Test Strategy, Test Plan and Test Estimation for the project

§  Creation of Test Conditions and Test Cases from Test Requirements

§  Create, Execute and Maintain over 110 Sprints in JIRA for Functional, UI, E2E Testing (Helios, SAP BP, CMS, OSCA, HLS, GDW, TMS, TRANSACT for RBA Reporting project).

§  Performed the E2E testing of $ 9 million PELOTON implementation projects for RBA reporting and also conducted the E2E testing of Helios BAU enhancement projects.

§  Test execution covering System, System Integration, Regression, E2E and UAT Testing

§  Issue/Bug logging and tracking during all testing phases

§  Steering Test status/Issue Review meetings with Project Managers, Business Analysts and Developers

§  Supporting test manager in delivering release level test strategy, test processes and test environments

 

Achievements

§  Consistently met challenging deadlines and maintained high level of customer feedback

§  Provided work instruction document on training to business users and assisted them in PVT.

§  Preparation of Test Recommendation Report and Defect Consolidation Report

 

Technical Environment

§  Tools: Unix, Abinitio, JIRA, Confluence, HP Quality Center, MS SQL Server

Applications: Helios (Securitization System), CHL/CTU, CMS (Collateral Management System), GDW (Group Data Warehouse), HLS, OSCA (Collections System), SAP BP, TRANSACT (Credit Decisioning) TMS, CBS.

 

 

Apr2007 – Sep2013

Tata Consultancy Services (Permanent)

Assistant Consultant/ Test Lead (AGL Energy, Australia)

Responsibilities

§  Analyzing and formulating Test Requirements based on Functional Specifications/Business Requirements /Technical Specification documents of $ 10 million project

§  Test Estimation and preparation of Module Test Plans

§  Creation of Test Conditions and Test Cases from Test Requirements

§  Create, Execute and Maintain over 350 Test Cases in QC for Functional, UI, E2E Testing (FICO, CRM, Billing, Device and AEO web portals).

§  Performed the E2E testing of $ 8 million consumer customer SAP implementation projects and $ 10 million C&I business customers SAP implementation projects, also EHP3, EHP4 & EHP6 SAP enhancement packs projects.

§  Test execution covering System, System Integration, Regression, E2E and UAT Testing

§  Defects logging and tracking during all testing phases

§  Steering Test status/Defect Review meetings with Test & Project Managers, Business Analysts and Developers

§  Supporting test manager in preparation of release level test strategy, test processes and test environments

 

Achievements

§  “Nice One” award from customer in appreciation of successful completion of complex projects

§  Consistently met challenging deadlines and maintained high level of customer feedback

§  Performed UAT testing of SAP R/3 Applications in FICO, Billing, CRM, Device (CRM/IS-U). As a result, I was able to gather excellent understanding of end to end business workflow and process.

§  Assisted 3rd party business team outside my core testing group to test integration with Payment gateways from portals like Westpac and ANZ

§  Single handedly tested and delivered test results for Price Variation Event (PVE) project for Consumer Customer & Business Customers.

§  Preparing Master Test Plan and getting it approved by relevant stakeholders

§  Single handedly conducted Digital Project E2E testing: Testing of AGL web portals application (Consumer Customer & Business Customers), iPAD, iPhone, Android, HTC tablets, phablets and Window one tablets.

§  Provided work instruction document on training to business users and assisted them in PVT.

§  Preparation of Test Recommendation Report and Defect Consolidation Report

 

Technical Environment

§  Tools: HP Quality Center, JIRA, Oracle PL/SQL developer

§  SAP Applications: CRM, Device, Billing, FICO, Web portals and Digital Project.

 

Jun 2006 – Jun 2007

Tata Consultancy Services (Permanent)

 IT Analyst/ Test Analyst (Citigroup, USA)
 This project is acquisition of Wholesale mortgage business of ABN AMRO by Citigroup

Responsibilities

§  Reviewing  Unit Test Scripts and System Test Scripts and providing feedback to the team

§  Assigning and coordinating the execution of Unit/Functional and Integration test cases of $4 million project

§  Resource and task tracking with respect to the Test Plan and the Project Schedule

§  Managing defect life cycle process

§  Coordinating shakedown testing

§  Steering team meetings and organizing knowledge transfer sessions for the team

§  Created different tools in excel (individual TM daily effort tracking, outage of environment tracking)

§  As an Environment Manager, single handedly monitored and reported any issue related to test environments.

 

Achievements

§  Successfully delivered the testing project (ABN-AMRO Integration system) with zero production defect

§  Carried out SIT for IBM Mainframe System. This system holds master/transactional data to be used by various other applications by Citigroup.

§  The CHE & MHE system automates and facilitates faster loan processing (in bulk pools of loans).

§  Highest number of valid defects was logged in Forecasting Testing project and was highly appreciated by the customer for testing quality

§  Received Quarterly Best Performer award and got promoted sooner. Our team received Best Team award.

 

Technical Environment

§  Tools: Test Director/Quality Center, QTP, TOAD, Filenet, SharePoint, TFS, VisionPLUS.

§  Applications: Mortgage Lending, Broker Web, Real Estate Lending, Delphi, CitiHomeEquity (CHE) & (MHE)

 

Jun 2004 – Jun 2006

Godavari Commodities Limited, India, (Permanent)

Programmer Analyst (Godavari Commodities, India)
Godavari Commodity is a leading provider of Commodities /IT services & solutions in India.

Responsibilities

§  Analyzing/gathering business requirements, preparing effort estimates and other project documents

§  Carrying out application development and enhancement tasks and providing support to end users.

§  Resource and task tracking with respect to the Effort Estimates and the Project Schedule

§  Program the computer by encoding project requirements in computer language in the areas of Oracle PL/SQL, Forms/Reports, Visual Basic, Pro*C and C; entering coded information into the computer.

§  Consistent Support while the application goes live

 

Achievements

§  Single handedly managed overall responsibility to solve day-to-day technical problems

§  Consulting with IT and business staff to understand and develop the varied and complex business needs.

 

Technical Environment

§  Tools: Oracle Forms and Reports v6i, PL/SQL Developer, Pro *C, Bug Tracking Excel.

§  Applications: Tally, Coal/IT System, Communication System (Order/Vender Management).

 

ReferencES

 

 

 

Michael Hall

Application Manager, Commonwealth Bank

Mobile: 041 211 1309

Zoran Lah

Test Manager, Commonwealth Bank

Mobile: 041 457 3558