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RESUME
Name : Pawan Kumar
Contact : +1- (404) 388 6283; topawan20@gmail.com
Passport details : L8210965 (Valid till 19 Mar 2024)
Visa details : H1B (valid up-to June 2017)
Objective:
I have 8.2 years of experience working in the IT profession. I have worked at various levels in
various organizations. I have the required skills you are looking for and I am interested to pursue
my future in your firm. I am open to learn new techniques and implement those for the progress of
the project. I have my resume attached and hope to hear positive soon.
Work Experience:
Name of the Company Designation From To Duration(Years)
Cognizant Technology
Solutions US Corp.
Senior Associate –
Projects
19th
May
2010
Till Date 4.9 Years
(57 Months)
Infosys Technologies
Ltd.
Test Engineer 22nd
Jan
2007
14th
May
2010
3.4 Years
(40 Months)
Skill-Set
Domain • Asset management
• Investment Banking (Equities)
• Auditing
Testing Methodology • Agile Testing
• Manual Testing (Sanity testing, Adhoc testing,
functional testing and Recovery testing)
• Regression testing
• Integration testing
• Basic automation using QTP and AutoQA tool
• SoapUI (basic)
Databases & Tools • Quality Center 10.0 / 11.0 / 11.5 (HP ALM)
• MS SQL Server 2012
• Rally
• TFS
Fix Protocol • 4.2
Operating System • Windows XP, Vista, 2008, UNIX (Putty)
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Training and certifications:
• Undertaken Open System training in Infosys and Passed.
• Undertaken IVS (Testing Training) in Infosys and Passed.
• Undertaken IVS(Domain Certification securities Overview) in Infosys and passed
• Undertaken process certification in Infosys and passed
• Undertaken Banking and Financial Services (Level 0) in Cognizant and passed
• Undertaken Investment Banking and Brokerage (Level 1) in Cognizant and passed.
• Undertaken Brainbench “Business Communication” assessment in Cognizant and
passed
• Undertaken Brainbench “SQL (ANSI) Fundamentals” assessment in Cognizant and
passed
• Undertaken Brainbench “RDBMS Concepts” assessment in Cognizant and passed.
• Undertaken Edista Testing assessment in Cognizant and passed.
Achievements:
• Star of the Month award for successful delivery of critical release
• R&R Award for making the difference
• Most Valuable Player award for being trusted QA advisor
• Worked for 2 years and 3 months as Knowledge management anchor.
• High flier of the Month award for successful delivery of critical release
• Spot (R&R) award for best QA resource
• MVP award for best QA resource
Educational Details
Qualification / Course
of Study
College/Institution From
(MM/YYYY)
To
(MM/YYYY)
Bachelor of engineering
(Computer science)
Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada
University, Nanded, Maharashtra
08/2002 06/2006
XII (Science)
Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 2, Udhampur,
J&K (CBSE Board)
04/2001 04/2002
X (English, Math,
Science, Social
Studies)
Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1, Ahmadabad,
Gujarat (CBSE Board)
04/1999 04/2000
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Professional Summary:
• Experienced in Agile testing, Black box testing ( Sanity, Adhoc, Exploratory, Functional,
Regression, Integration), Recovery testing, backend validation;
• Lead and coordinate tasks among testing and development teams to meet established
goals;
• Worked at client location (New York-US) as an onsite coordinator for investment banking
(equities) project;
• Worked at client location (Atlanta-US) as test lead in agile testing project;
• Active involvement in all sprint ceremonies like sprint estimation, sprint planning, scrum
call, retrospective;
• Thorough understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC), involved in various
phases like preparation of test plan, test scenarios, test cases, test cases execution,
defect reporting & tracking;
• Perform analysis of requested changes to determine impact to existing functionality;
• Perform analysis of unsuccessful test results, document failures, and work with
development to re-test resolution and deployment of proposed fix;
• Perform post implementation analysis and testing for quality assurance of new or
enhanced functionality;
• Ensure applicable documentation is updated according to client standards;
• Builds effective working relationships with other members of the team; co-operative;
shares information; supports others;
• Prioritizes and tracks activities effectively to meet commitments and schedules;
consistently meets deadlines. ; reliable and trustworthy; adheres to the organization's
code of conduct and work practices
• Involved in verification of requirements specifications, stories. Suggested many
requirement changes and got accepted by POP and story authors
• I worked closely with the Business Analysts/developers to gain a complete understanding
and knowledge on the Equities domain spanning the end to end flow.
• Have done service level testing on cubbies pages using soapUI although we have very
limited scope.
PROJECT 1:
Project Title ATF – Audit Tool for Future – (Ernst & Young)
Client Ernst & Young, Atlanta - Georgia.
Duration (01/14/2013 – till present)
Location Atlanta, Georgia, US
Testing Methodology/Tools Agile Testing / QC (HP ALM)
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
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Audit Transformation (AT) is a key initiative by client’s Assurance practice which will replace the
existing legacy system (GAMx) used for global audit with a new platform
Audit Tool of Future will enable the design and execution of an audit in accordance with the
client Global Audit Methodology. The vision for ATF is to build a solution that will assist client in
following ways.
• Improves the efficiency and effectiveness of assurance audit services for client
and their clients
• Collaborative platform to facilitate audit services
• Enhance communication and information exchange
• Increase audit quality
• Improve issue management
• Review of audit documentation
• Coordination of project activities and excite our teams.
Major features in Scope & Strategy (Manage engagement, Team members, Audit data, Audit
program); Execution (Manage Tasks, documents, team communication); Conclusion and delivery
(Manage conclusion, Archive); other features (Reporting & Dashboards, Manage numbers
integration)
CLIENT DESCRIPTION:
Ernst & Young (EY) provides services to thousands of clients globally. These services are
offered through four primary service lines: Assurance, Advisory, Tax, and Transaction Advisory
Services (TAS) which are further divided into sub-service lines.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
I am working as an Onsite lead and am involved in all the scrum team ceremonies – Concept
team, sprint estimation, sprint planning, gathering all the requirements from client, Creation of
high level test scenarios as per acceptance criteria, Creation of test cases, Review by PO /
POP, Test Execution (Functional, sanity, regression, offline mode, online-offline sync), Defect
reporting & Tracking, Retest of fixed defects, user stories acceptance demo, Retrospective
for the sprint, collaboration within the scrum team along with other scrum teams for delivery of
better product. Lead the offshore team in doing all the sprint activities.
PROJECT 2:
Project Title CS Equities Testing India – (Credit Suisse)
Client Credit Suisse, New York.
Duration (10/05/2012 – 01/11/2013)
Location Pune, India
Operating Systems Unix
Automation tool AutoQA
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
The Project CS Equities Testing India is an Investment Banking project of Credit Suisse operating
out of Credit Suisse managed test center in Pune. It covers the entire spectrum of Equities front
to back office applications used by the client.
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I am working on the Gobus application which is part of CS equities testing India.
The Global Order Bus (Gobus) system is an electronic order routing system that uses a single
API, based on the FIX protocol, to facilitate efficiency in electronic communication of securities
transactions between clients of Credit Suisse First Boston and a wide range of trading desks and
systems
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
I am working as a Team Member and Responsible for automating the test suite which is
feasible for automation. I am using AutoQA tool for activities like log capture (manual
execution), test cases design using tcb script, and automated execution using AQC script.
CLIENT DESCRIPTION:
As one of the world's leading banks, Credit Suisse provides its clients with investment banking,
private banking and asset management services worldwide.
In investment banking, it provides financial advisory and capital raising services, sales and
trading for users and suppliers of capital around the world. Credit Suisse has a global platform of
services delivered through regional teams for funding, investing, risk management, and financial
advisory. Products and services include Debt and equity underwriting, Sales and trading.
Financial advisory services including M&A, divestiture, corporate sales, restructuring and
Investment research
PROJECT 3:
Project Title CS Equities Testing India – (Credit Suisse)
Client Credit Suisse, New York.
Duration (05/06/2010 – 11/13/2011) and (02/04/2012 – 09/05/12)
Location Pune, India and New York, US
Hardware AMD Sempron, Sun SPARC
Operating Systems Linux 32, Linux 64, Solaris 64 , Unix
Database Sybase ASE, Sybase IQ
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
The Project CS Equities Testing India is an Investment Banking project of Credit Suisse operating
out of Credit Suisse managed test center in Pune. It covers the entire spectrum of Equities front
to back office applications used by the client.
I am working on the Agora application which is part of CS equities testing India.
Agora is the order / trade management and routing system. It is the core of Equities trading
globally, driving trade capture, booking, position management, and trade reporting and exchange
connectivity. Worked on components like T-proxies, A2A, DBCopy, EoD loader, process &
hardware recovery testing, TifSweep. I used various tools for testing like AgrSql, Atest, Alisten,
AgrLog, Creplay and Areplay.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
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Onshore Role – I was working as an Onsite coordinator and was responsible for
verification of enhancements for agora; gather the requirements from clients, performing
analysis on the business requirements and development of high level and detailed system
design, test environment setup, system testing, implement the system in to the production
and providing warranty support. I was also involved in preparation of various technical and
functional documents, high level analysis and approach document, system test plan and test
plan procedure document and implementation plans.
Offshore Role - I am working as a Team Member and am Responsible for Analysis of the
business requirements for new releases, test case preparation, test cases design, test cases
execution, defect Management and report generation by using test management tool Quality
center.
CLIENT DESCRIPTION:
As one of the world's leading banks, Credit Suisse provides its clients with investment banking,
private banking and asset management services worldwide.
In investment banking, it provides financial advisory and capital raising services, sales and
trading for users and suppliers of capital around the world. Credit Suisse has a global platform of
services delivered through regional teams for funding, investing, risk management, and financial
advisory. Products and services include Debt and equity underwriting, Sales and trading.
Financial advisory services including M&A, divestiture, corporate sales, restructuring and
Investment research
PROJECT 4:
Project Title UBS Global Asset Management
Client UBS, New York.
Duration 14/04/2007 – 14/05/2010
Location Pune, India
Operating Systems Unix
Tools Quality Center 9.2 (HP ALM), Basic QTP
Programming Languages C, C++
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
The Project UBS Global Asset Management was a project of Infosys Technologies Ltd. Operated
in Pune India. It covers the investment capabilities across all major traditional and alternative
asset classes for private clients, financial intermediaries and institutional investors around the
world.
I have worked on the following applications which are part of UBS Global Asset Management.
1. GIMII application developed by third party vendor Fiserv is an integrated portfolio
management system which provides many services like Extensive reporting, custodian
interfaces, and customized processing allows to service business clients in a timely and
cost effective manner. It provides full record keeping functions for investment portfolios of
banks, financial institutions, mutual funds, housing authorities and family offices.
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2. Global Reconciliation application developed by third party vendor SS&C which is to
manage reconciliation standing data, manage reconciliations and generate client report.
3. Global Astra application was developed to provide functionality as a common global
billing platform, to be utilized for invoice generation, computation of fees and accruals
across all institutional client accounts for US, UK, Zurich and Canada region.
CLIENT DESCRIPTION:
UBS is a client-focused financial services firm that offers a combination of wealth management,
asset management and investment banking services on a global and regional basis. It is
headquartered in Zurich and Basel, Switzerland. By delivering a full range of advice, products and
services to its private, corporate and institutional clients, UBS aims to generate sustainable
earnings, create value for its shareholders, and become the choice of clients worldwide.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
I was working as a Team Member and was responsible for test planning (i.e. Estimation, Test
strategy preparation, etc.), Analysis of the business requirements for new releases, Test Case
Preparation, Test Case Design and Execution, and defect Management, and Defect analysis
discussion with the dev team. I also lead the team of 5 members for GIMII application.
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