1. MOHAMMAD SHAFI Y. QURAISHI
Email: shafi312@gmail.com Contact # +447400553406
IT Professional Dated:01/09/2016
Objective
IT professional with versatile experience specializing in SDLC Projects, seeking roles as B.A,
Implementation Manager, Test Lead / Senior Test Analyst, Environment manager in IT sector.
Summary
- A forward thinking, committed, result-driven and enthusiastic IT Professional with Hands-On
proven ability in test management, planning, test scripting and test execution in order meet
project deliverables within stipulated timelines. A complete Team player.
- Focused and able to utilize existing testing knowledge and experience to come up with
practical and acceptable solutions with good negotiating and communicating skills and
capable of providing guidance and advice to team members.
- Experienced in designing Test Strategies in leading Projects testing using Agile and
Waterfall techniques across distributed applications and platforms.
- Test Lead with hands on experience Payments Project involving schemes such as FPS,
CHAPS, BACS, CLEARINGS, International, SEPA, Industry Account Switchers and P2P
Mobile Payment.
- A proven record of extensive Industry / Scheme Testing for CASS and FPS.
Key Abilities
 Excellent Communication and Soft skills with a flexible attitude and positive approach
 Strong and dynamic including leading by example with hands on delivery experience in Test
designing and execution.
 Ability to lead offshore and onshore testing teams and coordinating testing with 3rd parties.
 Good Analytical skills, technical & functional skills, attention to detail, customer focused,
collaborative team work ethics and task master maintaining accuracy of work.
 An understanding & appreciation of SDLC and STLC.
 Leading testing delivery as Business Analyst / QA Lead involving Requirement Analysis,
Test planning, Designing Testing Strategies and providing walkthroughs.
 Acting as Industry Test Lead at UKPC for Account Switchers & FPS projects for Lloyds.
 Developing Code Deployment and Back Out SOE’s with E2E Testing.
 Proactive in developing KT documents wherever feasible to help new joiners within the
team.
 Excellent SQL, Web Services, SOAP UI and Database Analytics, Flat Files understanding
skill and XML Messages, Connect Direct, WMQ. CICS API’s, PEGA PRPC and FTP.
 E2E Batch planning and execution for SIT / UAT Testing.
 Environment Delivery Manager and Analyst with basic support on UNIX and Mainframe
Expertise and running batch using OPC / TWS on Mainframe.
 Ability to quickly learn and understand with minimal documentation.
 23 Months of ITES experience in 3G in telecom industry as technical advisor diagnosing
various kinds of mobile network or handset related problems.
Work Experience: 11+ years of experience in IT with 6+ years in Lloyds.
Royal Bank of Scotland, London
Seniors Business Test Analyst (Clearings) - June 2015 – Sep 2016
• Business Requirement Analysis and Accounting Model understanding for clearings.
• Test design, scripting, test Execution, logging defects, review and giving input for Test plan.
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2. • Defect submission, tracking and management
• Highlighting Risk & Issues upfront to management and giving suggestions wherever there is
an opportunity of saving any time, efforts and Cost.
• Maintaining a query log and setting up weekly status call with SME, other teams.
• 3rd
party (HPE) co-ordination for Test execution planning.
• Preparing and maintaining an Execution SOE for all the events including 3rd
party.
• Working with Business PM and Lead BA to discuss any critical defect / issue having direct
impact on RBS customers or Business.
• Coordinating Technology Test requirement with HPE and giving suggestions to improvise.
• Technology used – HP QC, DB2 / SQL, FILE-AID, CICS based Host application.
Cognizant Technology Solutions – Senior Associate
TEST MANAGER/TEST LEAD Dec 2009 – June 2015
Client – Lloyds Banking Group, London, UK
• Test planning, estimation, gathering requirements, liaising with business stakeholder &
Business Analyst
• Preparing Code Implementation and Back-out Strategies in E2E Environment.
• Attending sprint planning, daily scrums, Sprint Reviews, Retrospection, Show & Tell.
• Prepare test strategies, Master Test Plan, Detail Test Plan, Functional Test plan for projects,
Review of Test design documents and signing off testing
• Leading a Team of Test Analyst with Onshore / offshore teams and 3rd
party testing
teams and active as a Active Team player.
• Leading a team of test analyst monitoring Requirement Analysis, Requirement traceability in
test-cases, test scripting, execution, tracking testing progress and reporting to Stakeholders.
• Defect submission and tracking, setting up defect triage.
• Keep track of testing deliverables and deliver them with quality meeting the deadlines.
• Mentoring new team members and preparing knowledge transfer documentation.
• Flagging any Risk and Issue to Project Managers well advance and help defining a
mitigation plans for the Risk
• Working on Various Testing Projects in Lloyds Bank i.e. Industry Account Switcher, P2P
payments, SEPA PSD 2012, Lloyds + HBOS Integration, SEPA DD and SEPA PSD 2009.
• Analyzing the E2E Batch Requirement for SIT and UAT
• Supporting Business and attending Defect triage with Business explaining the impact of
each defect on customer and business functions.
• Preparing EOTR for any Testing completed and getting sign-offs.
• Planning for ensuring E2E Environment is available and connectivity established.
• Defining requirement for test environments and preparing test environment usage strategy
for various test phases.
• Execution of Payment Batches and analysis of Job failures for applications under test.
• Being a QA single point of contact for any queries from ADM, EAD and BA team on any
Issues and providing inputs in the solution for any defects.
• Code configuration and management.
• Application Code deployment on Unix platform using perl script.
• Tracking the overall testing delivery by and code movement and code configuration into SIT/
UAT Environments.
• Environment usage planning in parallel for SIT, UAT and Industry testing.
• Maintaining Environment low level information of critical interfaces.
• Acting as a Functional SME in Payments domain for FPS, BACS, Account Switching, etc.
• Mainframe Batch Testing and Execution from Mainframe TWS Scheduler.
• SOAP UI web services testing and API testing.
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3. • PEPA-PRPC based application testing.
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Environment Analyst / Delivery Manager - Dec 2008 – Dec 2009
Client – Lloyds Banking Group, London, UK
• Responsible for gathering test environment requirement.
• Holder Environment definition Workshop.
• Setting up Interface connectivity between different applications.
• Code Deployments on Payment Applications.
• Reference data Loading on Test Environments
• Code Release / Configuration Management.
• Handling Issues and Incidents and holding war room calls to resolve the Incidents.
• Booking Testing environments and handling project environment usage clashes.
• Stake holder management.
• Preparing Environment Definition document for Projects.
• Sending Daily Environment availability Reports to Stakeholders.
• Clearly define the dependencies on test environments and book the environments as per
the testing requirements by coordinating with environments team.
• Manage multiple projects as Environment delivery manager.
• Tracking issues till closure with ADM and Infrastructure experts like DBA, MQ, etc.
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Production Control and Support Analyst - July 2006 – Nov 2008
Client – IMS International, Pune, India
• Setting up the Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Semi-Annual and Annual batch set up for
Production execution.
• Analyzing the Production Data from Stake holders upon receival.
• Sanity Testing the DATA and reporting any uncertainty.
• Execution of the Production Batches and close monitoring.
• Analyzing and Batch Job failures and reporting the issues to L3 support team.
• Taking the code fix and retesting the failed batch jobs.
• Identifying any improvement areas and suggesting that to stake holders and
implementation of improvement in batches.
• Analyzing requirements, translate them into clear and comprehensive test scenarios and
preparation of Test cases.
• Arranging KT / Training sessions for New joiners in the team.
• Execution of test cases and preparation of test logs.
• Defect logging, coordinating with developers in fixing defects, retesting and status reporting
• Train new team members
• Creating/changing programs to process special requests
• Automate some of the time consuming manual processes
Direction Software Solutions
Programmer Analyst - Dec 2005 – June 2006
Client - Spielberg Brands, Mumbai, India
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4. • Production fixes on any overnight batch job failures.
• On Call production support in the Batch runs at the EOD batch suite.
• Producing documentation for any production failures.
• Support and Maintenance for any production issues and enhancements.
• Requirement Analysis for new work and enhancements.
• Code development, Unit testing and System test in Dev Regions
• Preparing user test cases before handling to UAT and creating support handover rundecks.
• Providing fix for any overnight production issues in batch.
• Technology used – JCL, COBOL, DB2 / SQL, FILEAID, CICS and Expeditor.
3G Global Services
Technical Support Engineer - Oct 2003 – Sept 2005
Client – 3G Mobile UK, Mumbai, India
• Handle any Technical Issues of Mobile phone and Network issues.
• Take customer technical queries and try to solve them 1st hand.
• Do 1st level diagnostics and help resolve that problem on call
• Log issues to technical support engineer in UK.
• Handle any Billing Related issues when need be.
• Arrange training for new joiners in the organization.
Academic Qualification
BE, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology, Mumbai University 2000 – 2003
Diploma, Vivekanand Education Society Polytechnic, Mumbai University 1997 - 2000
Key skills
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
• HP QC, ALM, PEGA-PRPC application testing.
• Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project Plan, Power-point
• FPS, BACS, Account Switching, Cheque Clearing and CHAPS Payments in UK
• Flat Files (fileout) validation and preparation for stubbing.
• Web Services & API Testing using SOAP UI and IWS Simulator.
• Web-Services Testing / SOAP UI Testing /XML / WSDL&XSD
• SQL – on UNIX & Mainframe DB2 / Oracle.
• Unix – Basics
• Mainframe – JCL, COBOL, DB2, CICS, ISPF
• Waterfall / Agile methods
• Defect and Incident management
• Connect Direct / FTP Testing
• WMQ Exposure
• Mobile Payment Application Testing.
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