PADMALAYA SAHOO

( 6144771096

Hackensack,NJ,07601

padmalaya.sahoo@gmail.com

 

Professional Summary:

·   Possesses 10 years and 7 months of extensive experience in  IT industry as QA/Test Lead/Test Consultant/Test Manager with excellent analytical & testing skills, in a variety of applications including Client Server and Web enabled applications using Manual and Automation testing

·   Possesses 6 years of experience at Onsite, USA and worked with prestigious clients like Merrill lynch, Citigroup, Abercrombie & Fitch , Wal-mart, Nationwide Insurance & KPMG

·   Certified Software Quality Analyst CSQA from Quality Assurance Institute, Florida

·   Certified Software Test Engineer CSTE from Quality Assurance Institute, Florida

·   Certified AICPCU INS21 on Property and Liability Insurance Principles

·   Have good knowledge of the equity/derivatives markets domain and acquired National Stock Exchange Certification in Financial Markets NCFM

·   Have good knowledge on Banking (Investment, Retail ), Insurance, Retail & Telecom domain

·   Have good knowledge on testing methodology Agile concepts, in-depth understanding of QA and SDLC processes

·   Strong leadership skills to oversee testing efforts of several projects simultaneously

·   Experience in analyzing Request For Assessments and estimating budget, schedule and resources

·   Experience in creating Master Test Strategy/Test Plan

·   Experience in developing and execution of automation test scripts using QTP and Rational Robot

·   Expert in administration of Mercury Quality Center

·   Experience in Service Provisioning, Service Assurance and Trouble Ticketing 

·   Possesses knowledge of databases including Oracle, SQL Server and MS Access. Worked on data migration and database  testing

·   Expertise in complete Test Development Cycle, QA Metrics & Test Documentation

·   Expertise in functional testing process, including Test Estimates ,Test scope identification, Test requirements management, Test Plan and Test case development, Test scheduling, Test execution and Defect management

·   Expertise in various phases of testing which include Functional Testing, System Testing, system integration, Regression testing, end to end testing of business processes , support for User Acceptance Testing

·   Experience of testing  Java, .Net, Mobile, Peoplesoft and Mainframe applications

Experience:

Organization	Designation	Duration
IBM India	Senior QA Lead	July 2009 – Till Date
Satyam Computer Services Ltd.	Quality Analyst	Nov 2003 – July 2009

Educational Qualification:

Degree	University
Bachelor of Engineering  (Electronics & Tele Communication)	Institute of Technical Education and Research (ITER) Utkal University

Technical Skills:

Operating Systems	DOS, Windows 95/98/NT, Windows XP/7
Languages	C, C++, Visual basic 6.0, VB Scripting
Databases	MS-ACCESS, Oracle, MS SQL Server
Data Modeling & Design Tool	MS Visio, Rational Rose UML
Web Technologies	HTML, XML
Tools & Utilities	Testing Tools: Quick Test Professional, Rational Robot, Ruby (Cucumber), Load Runner Test Management Tool: HP Application Lifecycle Management/ Quality Center 11.0, Test Director 8.0 Defect Tracking Tools: Rational Clear Quest Change management Tools : Rational Clear Case, MS VSS
Telecom & Networking	OSS, Remedy

Projects Profile:

10.	Project Name:  ITS QA , KPMG , New Jersey
Role	Project/Test Lead
Duration	Nov 2013 – Till Date
Team Size	Project : 10
Environment	Software IOS	iPad and iphone, HRMS Peoplesoft, Ariba, Remedy

Project Description

Infrastructure Testing Services QA (ITS-QA) is a division of testing in KPMG that implements service pack release ,Minor Upgrade and Major Change Releases . The QA team has the responsibility for certifying all releases (Minor/Major/Service Pack). As part of the project work, Functional testing is carried out applications such as Conference and Catering Mobile App Release, ARIBA/SaaS  Purchase-to-Pay, HRMS Salary Review and Remedy Virtela Bridge Integration.

Contribution

As a Test Lead , is responsible for carrying out the complete testing for the entire Project which includes:

·   Performing all responsibilities of a Project/Test Lead while looking after project management activities such as Project Initiation, Project Scope, Estimates, Schedule, Work Breakdown structure, Test Strategy and Test Plan creation, Conducting meetings for project progress, Status reports, Effort Utilization, Creating training plans, Client Interaction & managing the testing team

·   Understanding requirement specifications/use cases/high level design and resource planning.

·   Maintaining Defects Matrices and TER

·   Creation of Test Readiness Review (TRR), Traceability/Test Coverage Matrix.

·   Creation of Risk and issues log.

·   Reviewing of Test Cases and track execution

·   Writing and executing SQl queries to get the test data from the database and provided test data needs to team

·   Creation of project quality document and ensure process compliance.

·   Conduct Bug triage meeting.

·   Requirement tracking & Defect management using HP Quality Center

·   Provide  Daily, weekly and monthly status reports to higher management and clients.

·   Create the EOP/sign-off document.

·   Participating in the RCA and lesson learnt meetings to identify corrective and preventive actions for upcoming projects.

·   ARIBA is an SaaS (software as a service) 3rd Party Purchasing application - hosted, configured and supported by a third-party SaaS provider. Various file changes, data changes and rules changes are tested as part of current release

·   Cnc IOS(iphone/ipad) App is tested to use within the company network and outside the network. All functionalities like reservation tasks are tested that can be done through Cnc Web Interface.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9.	Project Name:  Agency Solutions, Nationwide Insurance , Columbus Ohio
Role	Test Lead
Duration	Jan 2011 – Oct 2013
Team Size	Project : 7
Environment	Software	Platform : Mainframes CICS & TSO, Passport client Database: DB2  O/S: Windows 7

Project Description

Nationwide is one of the largest insurance and financial services companies in the world. Agency Solutions provides day to day IT operations as well as technological innovations to Nationwide's front line agents and sales staff. Agent Gateway sales & service is used to quote, release a policy to new business, service existing policies, updating Property, Liability and Medical coverage and offering different discounts and surcharges.

Contribution

·   Managing functional testing activities on multiple IT projects, concurrently. Includes analyzing requirements, working with project leaders on resource planning and timelines, coordinating the work of multiple testing resources to develop test scenarios and test cases, facilitating test execution and defect management activities and providing regular status to project and business leaders

·   Excels at working in a project environment and on cross-functional teams

·   Estimate and execute testing for change requests

·   Involved in major releases - Company placement , New Company, Multicar/Multi auto /Smartride/ Preferred bundle discounts and testing critical production defects

·   Submitted and queued batch jobs to process policies using TSO

·   Create and maintain Master Test Strategy/Test Plan

·   Work closely with business analysts, external teams and development team for analyzing system behavior and various risks and own the identification and communication of any issues/risks for the testing work stream on the projects

·   Provide testing signoff  and support for UAT team, deployment of the project

 

 

 

8.	Project Name:  NM1 Mobility, Bell Canada
Role	Test Lead/Manager
Duration	August 2009 – Jan 2011
Team Size	Project : 10
Environment	Software	Platform : Web logic 10.0  Database: Oracle 9i O/S: Windows XP Hardware: Pentium PCs

Project Description

Bell Canada is one of the Leading Company providing Telecom Services all over the world. MAX+ system is a CRM tool used by Bell CSR(Customer Service Representative)’s or consumer BCH contact centre and provides Interactive Voice Response Service, Account Status, Product Ordering and Fulfillment, Qualification and recommendation, Customer  retention and handling customer complains & resolution .It is used across all Line of business - Wireline, Cellular, Internet and Television.

Contribution

·   Leading and Coordinating the Testing for Bell Canada project

·   Act as the one point of contact for the project team for SFT (UAT) Testing

·   Analyzing Request For Assessments and estimating budget, schedule and resources. Estimate and execute testing for Out-of-Release (OOR) change requests

·   Experience leading multiple resources on projects, on-site and remote

·   Involved in major releases -  Max+ IPTV and Max+ FTTH

·   Create and maintain Test Strategy/Test Plan

·   Prepare and maintain  testing Work Breakdown Structure

·   Facilitate and schedule walkthroughs of critical test artifacts

·   Partner with business analysts, test primes and development teams to ensure that all test requirements are addressed on a prioritized basis and Clarify system behaviors

·   Provide test data requirements for testing to the appropriate Prime

·   Facilitate Test Environment planning and set up

·   Tracking test execution and progress using Quality Center

·   Generating  status reports in Quality Center and provide overall status updates

·   Provide system testing signoff to the Project Manager/Project team and support during deployment/ Normalization of the project as required

 

7.	Project Name: Service Offering - Automation
Role	Test Lead
Duration	August 2008 – July 2009
Team Size	Project : 5	Module : 5
Environment	Software	Tools: QTP 9.5, Quality Center 9.2 O/S: Windows XP  Hardware: Pentium PCs

Project Description

Service Offering - Automation project comprises of developing automation scripts for various critical to business applications for different clients. The aim is to support the Projects in RFP, Estimations, Quality Center and QTP POC’s.

Contribution

·   Analyzing  the specifications provided by the clients and  Identifying  automation opportunities

·   Performing POC and submit Statement of work

·   Creating & Developing automation design, defining automation framework

·   Creating and Reviewing of Test scripts for automation using QTP

·   Enhancing the scripts using different features in QTP

·   Execution and Maintenance of automation scripts

·   Defect tracking management through Quality Center

·   Working as Quality Center administrator, responsible for creating Domains and Projects etc

 

6.	Project Name: Wal-mart Brazil Tax Project
Client	Onsite – Wal-mart, Arkansas, USA
Role	Test lead
Duration	April 2008 – July 2008
Team Size	Project: 30	Application: Store backroom, GDS, Tax, Accounts payable, PurchaseOrder
Environment	Software	Languages: Java/J2EE  Platform : Mainframes Database: Oracle O/S: Windows XP, Unix Hardware: Pentium PCs

Project Description

Taxes in Brazil are charged in relation to how freight moves across 26 Brazilian states.  As the freight travels from state to state, from Distribution Centers to stores or clubs, each shipment is taxed multiple times.  Because tax laws change frequently in Brazil, the team has worked on a system, “Brazil tax project” with ever-changing rules and requirements.

Wal-mart’s current Brazil tax applications are existing in Microsoft Excel and Wal-mart has decided to rewrite the Brazil tax application using various technologies like Mainframe, MQ series, UNIX and JAVA which involves 11 major applications like Store backroom, GDS, Tax, Accounts payable, Purchase Order.

Contribution

·   Leading and coordinating Negative testing for Brazil Tax project; which involves 11 different teams with different technologies - mainframes, Unix and Java

·   Providing support to team members on effective use of Negative testing

·   Understanding the business flows and creating flow level negative test conditions and helping each team to create the test cases with all sort of negative data

·   Tracking execution of test conditions and progress

·   Generating different reports to track status of each module and provide overall status updates

·   Worked as part of Implementation team during implementation and coordinating Dry runs in Brazil tax project

·   Generating different reports like Status Report, Metrics Report and Defect Reports to track status of each task and provide overall status updates

·   Conducting regular meetings and working closely with the Development leads, Business process owners , Users and Senior Management

·   Developing reference documents for  Implementation tasks, Flow related Visual Diagrams

 

5.	Project Name: Retail Merchandising System
Client	Onsite – Abercrombie & Fitch, Columbus, USA
Role	Quality Center Administrator/ Test lead
Duration	Aug 2007 – Mar 2008
Team Size	Project: 30	Application: Retail Merchandising System, Oracle RMS
Environment	Software	Languages: Java/J2EE,SQl  Database: Oracle, SQL Server Framework : SOA Architecture and Spring Tools: QTP 9.2, Load runner, Mercury Quality Center 9.0, Toad

Project Description

RMS (Retail Merchandising System) is a core business application which is developed and customized as per ANF business requirements, which includes PO Commitment, Custom PO, Return PO, CSI, ITM, RMS Core and HTS. The custom application complies with SOA architecture specification which includes Web services, BPEL, ESB and Java port lets. Also RMS integrates through ESB/BPEL with 30 existing systems (with different technology like people soft-HR, people soft-Finance, Ecomm, JKIPS, WIMS, mainframes applications) which consumes web services of RMS.

Contribution

·   Leading the configuration and administrating Mercury Quality Center 9.0 for RMS project

·   Developing training for team members on product features, how to use Mercury Quality Center tool and conducting training sessions and providing support to test team members

·   Set up project users with different roles like Admin, Business Analyst, Project manager, Development lead, developer, test lead and tester

·   Customizing project lists according to requirement of the project. Added new lists and set traceability notification rules.

·   Analyzing business requirements and interacting/coordinating with business analysts and development team to convert business requirements to testable requirements

·   Creating requirements for each module in QC, helping each team to upload test cases and mapping them to requirements for traceability

·   Tracking testing requirements and progress (in Mercury Quality Center) with different phases of requirements like Business Review, Technical Review, tech design, tech design review, development and system integration testing

·   Generating Test Summary Report to track status of each module and provide status updates

·   Conducting regular meetings and Coordinating with the Development leads, Interface teams to get the status

·   Working under the supervision of the Quality Assurance testing manager as well as worked closely in support of the Project Managers, Development lead and Business process owners

·   Understanding the SOA architecture and Reviewing use cases, functional and technical requirements

·   Writing and executing SQl queries to get the test data from the database

·   Involved in functional ,regression and performance testing

·   Preparing , Execution and Maintenance of automation scripts

·   Defect tracking management through Quality Center

·   Coordinating with the development team for resolution of defects

 

4.	Project Name: National Banking System
Client	Onsite - Citigroup, Cincinnati, USA
Role	Team Member
Duration	Mar 2007 – July 2007
Team Size	Project: 10	Application: NBS,CitiSmart (Mainframes), Citi Workstation Test management
Environment	Software	Languages: VB.Net  Framework : .Net  Database: Oracle Tools: Mercury Quality Center, Toad

Project Description

Citibank's National Banking System (NBS) is a distributed network processing system that integrates Citibank teller and customer service applications. NBS provides easy access to all platform, service, and teller functions from the branch workstation, enabling branch personnel to provide Citibank customers with a wide range of services from a single workstation. NBS workstations are connected to Dip Pads , document printers, and check (MICR) readers in order to provide customers with fast, high-quality service. Modules worked on NBS are: Teller System, Operations Supervisor, Type 1 Platform, Tools, and NBS Services

Contribution

·   Reviewing  requirements and Test Scripts before execution

·   Preparing test data. Created data pool for different types of accounts which helped reducing execution time

·   Involved in functional & regression testing

·   Coordinating with team members for preparing various documents

·   Analyzed test results, documented and reported through Mercury Quality Center

 

3.	Project Name: Infrastructure Development Services QA (IDS-QA)
Client	Merrill Lynch Investment Banking Corporation, USA
Role	Module Lead
Duration	Feb 2006 – Dec 2006
Team Size	Project: 4	Application: One Bill Web and Reports
Environment	Software	Languages: Html ,Cognos Report Net  Database: Oracle 8i,10g Tools: Mercury Quality Center, Toad , Rational Test suite

Project Description

One Bill includes all technology billing information in a single, web-based platform. One Bill tool will allow Product Managers to explain and Customers to better understand their charges.  It’s a charge back tool used by Merrill Lynch to record and report the charges incurred by the different units within Merrill Lynch. Cognos reports and cubes forms the system in consolidating and aggregating the data to reporting requirements. The purpose of this release is to upgrade database from Oracle 8i to Oracle 10g for Faster Code, Improved Optimization and Easier Management.

Contribution

·   Preparing data migration testing test strategy and  test plan

·   Preparing data migration framework to define stages of migration testing which includes migration testing phase, application testing and stabilizing phase

·   Creating test cases for all the components that have been migrated, which includes data integrity of tables,views,functions,triggers,stored procedures and constraints

·   Preparing test data for performance check and response time of reports

·   Validating data- checking the Number of Records  and their content in each table in Pre and Post Migration

·   Application testing - comparing data in different reports against different tables by developing comprehensive SQLs and executing them through Toad after migration. Performing data validation for the records for different reports in the application

·   Stabilizing phase – Involved in regression testing and coordinating performance testing

·   Involved in execution of automation scripts using rational robot for data validation between reports and cubes as regression testing

·   Coordinating with onsite team and clients. Secondary contact for the entire Test release and test access issues for Business, Dev, and Test for Offshore

·   Analyzed pre- and post migration test results, documented and reported through Mercury Quality Center

·   Preparing production support checklist and participate in production verification

 

2.	Project Name: Infrastructure Development Services QA (IDS-QA)
Client	Merrill Lynch Investment Banking Corporation, USA
Role	Module lead/ Team member
Duration	Aug 2005 – Jan 2006
Team Size	Project: 3	Application: ML Apps Portfolio - QA Testing
Environment	Software	Database: Oracle 8i, SQL Server , MS-Access Tools: Mercury Quality Center, Toad, Rational Cmxtra  O/s: Win 2000/XP

Project Description

Infrastructure Development Services QA (IDS-QA) is a division of testing in Merrill Lynch, QA certification effort and tests the applications developed by Merrill Lynch. Applications are released for QA/Testing either as a Minor Upgrade, Major Change Release or a service pack release. The QA team has the responsibility for certifying any release (Minor/Major/Service Pack).

As part of the project work, Functional testing was carried out applications such as Application Inventory, BCP -Business Contingency Planning, DCAR- Data Center Accountability Repository, IPTS -Infrastructure Project Tracking System, Audit Database, ML Health Check, PIRRT -Privacy Incident Response, Reporting & Tracking, PODS-Production Online Documentation System, TCIC- Technology Command Information.

Contribution

·   Preparation of Estimation, Test Plan and Test Scenarios

·   Developed data driven tests for easy maintenance of the scripts and to test with various data including positive and negative test data

·   Creating requirements in Quality Center, uploading of Test cases to Quality Center and mapping them to requirements

·   Involved in system testing and regression testing

·   Preparing production support checklist and participate in production verification

·   Handling the entire system testing for pilot support and coordination with different support teams at onsite and offshore

·   Performing data validation for tickets in TCIC QA against TCIC production site

·   BCP integration was tested with proper integration test cases, so that all vital records are replicated onto BCP site

·   IPTS incorporates integration of PMR and EPR II, PMR being in SQL server and IPTS in Oracle. Data migration testing was done from SQL server to Oracle database.

·   Coordinated with mainframes testing team in validating the mainframes based applications (DCAR, PODS) data and functionality and e-mail notifications

·   Security testing -  developed application user privileges matrix and validated it to make sure that users with certain privileges should be able to access corresponding functionalities of the system

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1.	Project Name: Infrastructure Development Services QA (IDS-QA)
Client	Merrill Lynch Investment Banking Corporation, USA
Role	Team Member
Duration	Jan 2004 – July 2005
Team Size	Project: 2	Application: Remedy Helpdesk System
Environment	Software	Tools: Mercury Quality Center, Action Request Server 4.5 & Remedy User 4.5, MS-Access, Rational Clear quest

Project Description

Remedy is primarily a problem/request tracking client server based system. It allows an organization to track information about itself as well as internal and external requests placed upon the organization. This information is tracked using various Remedy applications such as the Asset Management, Service Level Agreements, Change Request, and Help Desk applications.

Contribution

·   Preparing and uploading test cases and Mapping requirements in Quality Center

·   Developed and executed integration test cases for various systems that interact with remedy helpdesk and provisioning systems

·   Involved in data verification and validation against people database and Responsible for defect tracking