1. Vineet Kumar
VINEET KUMAR
Email: vineetchattha@hotmail.com
Mobile No: +44 7706238904
LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/vineetchattha
Experience Summary
• An accomplished Test Manager with 9.5+ years of experience in Project management,
QA Test Management and functional testing using manual testing methodologies and
automated testing tools (such as QTP).
• A forward thinking, capable and committed test manager with a proven ability to meet
agreed deadlines, co-ordinate work and work to defined testing methodologies within a
structured environment.
• Focused on any task at hand and able to utilize existing test knowledge and
experiences to come up with practical solutions and alternatives to testing processes.
• Having first class executive leadership, stakeholder management, negotiating and
communicating skills and capable of providing authoritative guidance and advice to
both in house and third party test teams.
• Extensive experience in Payments - Banking & Finance services domain. Also holds
knowledge of Logistics Applications and Client Server applications.
• Experience in implementing/introducing Payments processing products (GPP –
Fundtech, FTM – IBM) in the complex Payments architecture.
• Experience in delivering large programmes with IT changes to Payments Schemes like
Faster Payments, BACS, Clearings, International & CHAPS.
• Actively involved in project estimation, preparation of Statement of work, project
planning & tracking, Status – MI reporting, Finance Management.
Expertise
Process Skills:
• Waterfall, V-Model, Release Based model & Agile methods
• System Testing, Component Integration testing, System Integration testing
• Business Testing, User Acceptance Testing
• Defects & SLA tracking/management
• Rational Tool Set – RRC, RSA, RTC
• Test Management Tools – HP QC/ALM
• Worked along with automation team to implement Service Virtualisation using
CA LISA & automation using QTP.
Professional Skills:
• Experience across multiple types of testing i.e. static testing, system testing,
user acceptance, system integration & Operations Acceptance testing.
• Experience of working on Business, Technical and Functional Requirements.
• Knowledge of MS Office tools including MS project, PowerPoint and Visio.
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Able to take preventative action when any risks become unacceptable.
• ISEB/ISTQB accredited.
• ITIL Foundation accredited.
• Actively maintain awareness and understanding of current developments and
best practice in testing.
• Making sure that all testing plans comply with company guidelines, standards
and regulations.
Managerial Skills:
• Strong influencing and Communication skills.
• Having a flexible attitude and positive approach.
• Ability to lead offshore testing teams with 100% offshore test execution model.
• Ability to plan & manage testing in extending working models like 14*6 or 19*7.
• Tracking and reporting monthly MI’s to showcase testing parameters and
incorporating continous improvements to make testing effective and efficient.
• An understanding & appreciation of the full project life cycle & how testing
relates to it.
• Training/Motivating test team members.
Career Profile
9.5+ Years of experience in software testing
• Presently working with “Cognizant Technology Solutions, UK”, as Manager Projects
since March 2008.
• 2.4 years of experience as Analyst programmer with SYNTEL LTD. INDIA Pune from
Nov 2005 to February 2008.
Education
• MCA (Master of Computer Application) from GIMT Institute of Management &
Technology, Greater Noida affiliated to UP Technical University Lucknow in 2005.
• BCA (Bachelor of Computer Application) from Kurukshetra University in 2002.
• Senior Secondary from CBSE board in 1999.
• Higher Secondary from CBSE board in 1997.
Professional Experience
Project: Future Clearing Model
Duration: 5+ months
Client: Lloyds Bank
Team size: 50
Project Detail: Lloyds bank is one of the leading banks in UK with over 30 million
customers and is the UK's leading provider of current accounts, savings,
personal loans, credit cards and mortgages. Future Clearing model is a
regulatory & mandatory project which is automating the current cheque
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clearing process. Clearing cheques via a ‘cheque imaging’ model would
mean that images of cheques are exchanged between the relevant
banks, removing the need for the actual paper cheque to be transported
physically around the country. One of the main benefits is that the
cheque clearing process could be speeded up.
Responsibility: As an Onshore QA Manager,
• Developing and maintaining test strategy.
• Involved in the vendor selection process for the new Clearing Engine.
• Attending project workshops and identifying functional testing scope.
• Engaging all the supporting QA teams.
• Estimating all the testing end to end cost & timelines including
system testing, system integration testing, and User acceptance test.
• Coordinating the work of a large number of test teams and
monitoring their delivery.
• Providing inputs to Service Virtualization strategy using LISA
• Finance Management
• Arranging testing workshops.
Project: Payments Simplification Programme
Duration: 30 months
Client: Lloyds Bank
Team size: 50-60
Project Detail: Lloyds bank is one the biggest banks in UK. Payments Simplification
programme was a bank initiative to simplify the complex Payments
architecture. This was a Release based programme which delivered 3
new applications in the payments architecture. Objective of the
programme was to simplify the future changes in Payments by
introducing a Transaction Management Hub (TMH) which will be the
central hub for all Payments Schemes and will reduce the point to point
connections between the Payments applications. Total 8 releases have
been implemented in live who have implemented Transaction
Management Hub across different payment schemes like Faster
Payments, International Payments, BACS & CHAPS Payments.
Responsibility: As an Onshore QA Manager,
• Developing and maintaining test strategy.
• Defining test strategies for Release based approach.
• Coordinating the work of test teams and monitoring their
performance.
• Providing inputs to Service Virtualization strategy using Greenhat &
LISA
• Following up any outstanding open test risks / issues.
• Managing the gathering of results.
• Compiling test metrics for management.
• Reporting to senior managers on progress and issues.
• Organizing extended testing model to meet timelines.
• Planning and estimating.
• Finance Management
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• Arranging team meetings and workshops.
• Advising clients on Testing best practice.
Project: Lloyds Bank – Payments STP Platform
Duration: 38 months
Client: Lloyds Bank
Team size: 30
Project Detail: Lloyds Bank is one the biggest banks in UK. STP is a central gateway for
all the Faster Payments & BACS payments coming in and going outside
Lloyds. STP processes/filters and stores all the inbound & outbound
payments. STP processes both the 3 day batch payments & faster
payments. My role was to manage the testing delivery of all the projects
impacting STP and providing STP support to projects for their SIT & route
to live. Supported a number of critical programmes like Integration of
LTSB & HBOS, SEPA compliance projects like SEPA DD, SEPA PSD and
Divestment of Verde bank.
Responsibility: As an Onshore Test Manager
• Preparing the Master Test Plan and maintaining the MPP (Project
plan).
• Review of Test scenarios, test cases & requirement traceability
matrix.
• Running the regression suite through the mainframe OPCO scheduler.
• Validation of reports generated at the end of settlement cycles & end
of day.
• Performing System functional testing, Ad-hoc testing and Regression
testing of the application.
• Regular Review meetings with Development team for current defects
logged for identifying and setting the defect priority and severity.
• Maintenance of Defect life cycle in Mercury Quality Center.
• Preparation of daily, weekly test progress reports & End of Test
report for the client.
Project: Lloyds Bank – Starlight Programme
Duration: 12 months
Client: Lloyds Bank
Project Detail: Lloyds Bank was using third party First Data Internationals product for
managing their Credit Cards processing and have been using Equasion as
a solution. Our Project is facilitating the FDI migration from Equasion to
VisionPlus. Our Project is responsible for integration of the new system
i.e Vision plus with the other downstream systems used by the end users
and also internal bank customers.
Responsibility: As an Offshore Team Lead,
• Preparing the drafts of the Master Test Plan & Functional Test Plan.
• Preparation of Test scenarios, test cases & Test Coverage Matrix.
• Participated in Test case reviews & Test cases walkthroughs with the
client.
• Creation of Test Data.
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• Hands on experience in Mainframe testing which included -
o CICS validation in Vision Plus.
o Layout validation of VSAM files.
o Testing of batch jobs for Rebuild & Reconciliation processes
o Connect direct jobs for sending VSAM files to other systems.
• Performing System Integration testing, Ad-hoc testing and
Regression testing of the application.
• Regular Review meetings with Development team for current defects
logged for identifying and setting the defect priority and severity.
• Maintenance of Defect life cycle in Mercury Quality Center.
• Preparation of daily, weekly, Monthly test progress reports and End of
Test Report for the client.
Project: FedEx Revenue GUI’s Testing
Duration: 9 months
Client: FedEx Corporation
Project Detail: Revenue GUI’s project consists of 29 GUI screens used for FedEx
applications and the screens are used by both internal and external users
of the FedEx. The goal is to provide the users a friendly and accurate
interface of the services provided by the FedEx. The GUI’s project include
the interfaces like Earned Discount tool, FedEx
Discount Detail tool, FedEx Billing Online, Message centre, Revenue Data
Access, Error Correction GUI’s, Table Maintenance, Controls etc. GUI’s
testing included validation of results displayed on GUI with the result of
queries/stored procedures fired against the database on the UNIX
/Mainframe platforms.
Responsibility: As a Team Lead, also worked as an onsite coordinator for the transition
and testing of GUI’s at the client office in Orlando, Florida.
• Attended knowledge transition sessions at the client office at Orlando,
Florida.
• Transitioned the same to offshore team.
• Study of business rule document.
• Attending Walkthrough and regular inspection meetings with client.
• Study of CICS Mainframe and UNIX system.
• Conducted Test case reviews & Test cases walkthroughs with the client.
• Maintenance of Defect Life Cycle in Defect Register and updating it in
Quality Center.
Personal Information:
Date of Birth : 26th
Oct 1982
Marital Status : Married
Contact Address : 18, Chamberlain Close,
Ilford, Essex, IG1 1JQ
Passport No : F6531743
Visa Type : Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR)
References : Available on request.
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