Ashok Poreddy is seeking a career in Information Technology with over 8 years of experience in testing, designing, developing, supporting and enhancing business applications using mainframe systems. He has strong skills in COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM and testing tools like HP Quality Center and ALM. He has experience working for clients like IBM, Scottish Southern Energy, TD Bank, Canadian Pacific Railway, and SunTrust Bank performing roles such as Senior Test Engineer, Senior System Engineer and Test Analyst.

1. ASHOK POREDDY
Mobile: +91 9010573518
E-mail: ashokp4886@gmail.com
Objective:
Seeking a challenging career in the field of Information Technology, to explore my knowledge and make my
employer to feel the importance of my presence.
Experience Summary:
• 8 years of experience in Testing, design, development, support and enhancement for business
applications using Mainframe systems.
• Having one year of on-site experience in Canada
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and
Testing Methodologies.
• Good exposure to domains like Banking, Insurance, Healthcare and Retail under Mainframe
environment
• Good understanding of Software quality processes and practices.
• Strong skills in COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, Eazytrieve, SPUFI/QMF, TSO/ISPF, Changeman,
PANVALET, File-Aid, Endeavor.
• Having good knowledge in HP Quality Center 9.2, ALM 11.5, HPSC, CA-7 and Control-M.
• Attained a good test case drafting/execution capability through the experience that I acquired in
domains and various process methodologies.
• Experience in preparing Test Plan, Requirements Traceability Matrix, Test Cases, Test Report,
reviewing and testing of Mainframe, web based and Client server applications.
• Performed Integration testing, System testing, Functional testing and Regression testing.
• Possess a sound knowledge of HP Quality Center, ALM, SQL.
• Good interpersonal skills, commitment, result oriented, hardworking, Team player with deal to learn
new technologies and undertake challenging tasks
• Good analytical and technical skills with strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.
Education:
• Master of Science (M.Sc) from Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University,
Aurangabad, M.H.
• Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) from Osmania University, Hyderabad, A.P.
Experience:
• Working as a Sr. Test Engineer in IBM India Pvt Ltd, Pune from Jul 2015 to Till date
• Worked as a Sr. System Engineer in IBM India Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad from Dec 2007 to May 2015
Technical Skills:
Operating Systems: Z/OS Operating System, Windows 98, 2000, XP and 7.
Languages: COBOL, JCL, EAZYTRIEVE
Databases: DB2, VSAM
OLTP: CICS
Tools & Utilities: SQL, Quality Center 9.2, ALM 11.5, Control-M, Endevor, Changeman, Panvalet, File Aid
DB2, Expeditor, SPUFI/QMF, HPSC, CQ, Microsoft Office

2. Project Profile:
1. SSE (Scottish Southern Energy)
Client : Scottish Southern Energy, UK
Role : Senior Test Analyst
Organization : IBM India Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad
Duration : Jul 2015 to Till date
Team Size : 6
Testing Tools : HP ALM 11.5, SQL
Project Description:
SSE plc (formerly Scottish and Southern Energy plc) is a British electric utility company headquartered
in Perth, Scotland. It is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
SSE operates in Ireland and the United Kingdom, and is the UK's second largest energy supplier,
ranking 23rd in the FTSE 100 on 31 March 2009. It is involved in the generation and supply of electricity, the
supply of gas, the operation of gas and telecoms networks and other energy-related services such as gas
storage, contracting, connections and metering.
It is considered as one of the Big Six, which dominate energy market in the United Kingdom.
Contribution:
• Analyzing the Requirements from the client
• Participating in preparing Test Plans
• Preparing Test Scenarios
• Preparing Test Cases for module, integration and system testing
• Preparing Test Data for the test cases
• Analyzing the Test Cases prepared by other team members
• Executing the Test Cases
• Defect Tracking using ALM
• Giving mandatory information of a defect to developers in order to fix it
• Preparing Lesson Learnt documents from the previous project testing experience
• Actively communicating with the stakeholders on the Project.
• Conducting Review Meetings within the Team
• Work with multiple project teams to handle Test Data requirements
• Work with Onsite teams to execute, obtain and manage Test Data
• Execution of test cases, logging and tracking Defects
• Performing Regression testing.
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2. CIT - Cheque Image Transformation (TD Bank)
Client : TD Bank, Canada
Role : Sr Test Analyst
Organization : IBM India Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad
Duration : Jan 2014 to May 2015
Team Size : 12
Application Tools : HP ALM 11.5, XVision, Vision IP, SQL and File Manager
Project Description:

3. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with more than 85,000 employees in offices around the world, The
Toronto-Dominion Bank and its subsidiaries are collectively known as TD Bank Group (TD). TD offers a full
range of financial products and services to approximately 24 million customers worldwide.
TD Canada Trust is TD Bank Group's customer-focused personal and small business banking business.
Serving more than 12 million customers nationally, TD Canada Trust provides a full range of financial products
and services through its retail branch network, telephone, Internet banking, and ‘TD Green Machine’
automated banking machines.
The CIT Program involves transforming TD’s core manual paper-based item process to an image-
based item capture process presented through TD’s 1,150+ branches across Canada. This will be achieved by
integrating Retail with Day 1 and Day2 projects as part of EIT Project.
Contribution:
• Understanding the requirements, developing test cases, updating the test cases based on the
implementation changes.
• Involved in Test Coverage Matrix, test scenarios, Test Preparation and Test Execution.
• Involved in Test Strategy and Test Plan preparation.
• Defect tracking using ALM.
• Conducted Shakedown testing, Regression testing, functional testing, Integration Testing.
• Attending various calls with Business, Managers and Teams for updates.
• Handling the Defect Triage and status calls in the absence of the Managers.
• Interacted with Business and Leads to update the status and to discuss the risks and issues.
• Generating Weekly Dash Board report, Executive Reports and sending to the Business.
• Generating Daily Dashboard, updating them and sharing the status to Client.
• Executing the test scripts and reported defects.
• Conducting Retesting and Regression testing on every modified function to close bugs.
3. CPR (Canadian Pacific Railway)
Client : Canadian Pacific Railway, US
Role : Senior Test Analyst
Organization : IBM India Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad
Duration : Jan 2013 to Dec 2013
Team Size : 6
Testing Tools : HP Quality Center 9.2
Project Description:
Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, through its subsidiaries, operates a transcontinental railway in
Canada and the United States and provides logistics and supply chain expertise. CP provides rail, transload
and intermodal transportation services over a network of approximately 14,800 miles and through more than
40 classification yards and 14 intermodal facilities’ transports bulk commodities, merchandise freight and
intermodal traffic.
CP Railway planned for a better performance by introducing new Machines, software up gradation and
changes in the existing implementation and came up with the migration Project where we migrate from old
machines to V block (New machines) and Upgrading the software.
Contribution:
• Understanding the business requirements, developing test cases, updating the test cases based on
the implementation changes.
• Guiding the team based on the Knowledge I possess.
• Assigning tasks to the team and delivering the work within timeliness.
• Following and tracking the defects in HP QC (Quality Center)

4. • Responsible for managing scope, Estimations, planning, tracking, change control, aspects of the
project.
• Responsible for effective communication with the customer and updating the regular project status to
the customer.
• Attending various calls with Clients, Managers for updates
• Transparently communicated the emails, Feedback and updates to the team.
4. SUNTRUST BANK
Client : SunTrust Bank, Atlanta.
Role : Test Analyst
Organization : IBM India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore
Duration : Oct 2009 to May 2012
Team Size : 24
Environment : Mainframes (JCL, CA-7, VSAM, ENDEAVOR, $AVRS, PROJCL, FILE-AID), Quality
Center, Citrix,
Project Description: SunTrust Inc is one of the leading Banks in the United States with a huge customer
base predominant in the south-east of United States. The bank offerings include retail and commercial
banking as well as trust services, mortgage banking, credit cards, mutual funds, insurance, equipment
leasing, asset management, and securities underwriting and dealing.
IBM as one of the off-shore vendors for SunTrust Banks provides services as Production support,
application development, application testing, functional testing, full life cycle testing, batch cycle testing and
online (CICS) testing for more than 50 mainframe and distributed system applications.
Contribution:
• Responsible for performing Release Testing (Batch & Online) for 4 major applications like Automated
Clearing House, Large Cash Reporting, Consumer Relationship System, Hierarchy Officers.
• Responsible for fixing abends in mainframe applications during Release testing batch cycles and data
preparation activities.
• Preparing the Test Environment (Data capture and scheduling) including updating the Data Capture
model packages, DB2 Unloads and Loads.
• Capturing production data and restoring back to Test environments.
• Updating the Testing Information Document (TID)
• Monitoring the ICAT/PRDR/INTG cycle and fixing the abends.
• Planning, preparing, and executing ICAT (Integration Testing, Client Acceptance Testing), PRDR
(Production Readiness/Dress Rehearsal) events, and Implementation events.
• Fixing the abends in the batch cycles and Closing the defects in Quality Center (QC)/HPSC.
• Tracking all the changes happening in production and implementing them in test environments with
day to day changes.
• Execution of regression test cases for the applications for every release.
• Coordinating with application contacts for successful completion of application testing.
• Status Reporting to Test Manager
5. CBA (Commonwealth Bank of Australia)
Client : CBA, Australia
Role : Test Analyst
Organization : IBM India Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad
Duration : Aug 2008 to Sep 2009
Team Size : 3

5. Environment : Software Languages: COBOL, JCL,
Eazytrieve And Endevor
Database: DB2
O/s: Z/OS
Project Description: The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) is one of the largest financial institutions
in Australia, Founded in 1911 By the Australian Government. Largest domestic Australian Retail Bank with
over 8 million retail customers. No.1 in retail deposits, No.1 in home lending. Over 1,000 branches, around
3,800 agencies and 3,200 ATMs. Strong positions in each segment of business banking.
The Data Load and Matching Application [DLMA] is an infrastructure application that is key to
the Bank’s stated strategic objective of delivering a single view of customer.It provides a reusable customer
“matching engine” which enables customer data sourced from any product system to be matched and loaded
to the Bank’s operational and analytical customer data stores.
The main functions perform by DLMA are Accept and validate & parse the data sent by the
source systems. Convert the data into desired format which DLMA can process. To identify changes in data
from previous set of data provided by the Source systems. Standardize, de-duplicate and match the data
(both within and across source systems) using Quality stage.
Contribution:
• Preliminary discussion of the project with core team
• Involved in Test case preparation and execution
• Preparing test data (Masking/Converting data)
• Extracting, Archiving, loading data
• Backup & Restoring data to relevant test environments
• Scheduling batch jobs
• Involved in both System & Regression testing
• Coordinate with developers and onsite people
• Review of test scenarios and Test Cases
6. DBS (Development Bank of Singapore)
Client : DBS, Singapore
Role : System Engineer
Organization : IBM India Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad
Duration : Dec 2007 to Jul 2008
Team Size : 3
Environment : Software Languages: COBOL, JCL, Eazytieve
Tools: Changeman and File-AID
Database: VSAM
O/s: Z/OS
Project Description: DBS is one of the largest financial services groups in Asia, with operations in 15
markets. DBS is the largest bank in Singapore as measured by assets, and a leading bank in Hong Kong, with
leading positions in corporate, brokerage, equity and debt fund raising. With one of the highest credit rating
that specializes in Asia.
IBM provides technical support to various applications of DBS, operating from various geographic
regions viz. Singapore, Hong Kong, China and India. IBM offshore development facility is used to provide the
majority of the day-to-day software development, maintenance and support activities using split project
teams at onsite and at offshore. Services include Maintenance and Production support, Enhancements and
Application Development Projects for DBS systems.
The Foreign Currency Current Account (FCCA) facilitates processing of foreign currency transactions.
The application caters to processing of 13 currencies.

6. Contribution:
• Analysis of the new Business Requirements and coding the program specs, new programs according to the
Design specs.
• Code reviewing and documentation.
• Preparing Unit test plans and results.
• Unit Testing.
• Preparing the SIT specs, defect logs.
• Involved in SIT, UAT runs.
• Involved in pre-implementation activities.
• Status reporting to the team lead.
PERSONAL DETAILS
Father’s Name : Mattareddy
Sex : Male
Date of Birth : 15th Aug 1979
Marital Status : Married
Nationality : Indian
Languages Known : English, Hindi & Telugu
Address : H.No 2-3-71/6 Plot # 93/1,
Road No.6, Lalitha Nagar,
Hyderabad – 500068

7. Contribution:
• Analysis of the new Business Requirements and coding the program specs, new programs according to the
Design specs.
• Code reviewing and documentation.
• Preparing Unit test plans and results.
• Unit Testing.
• Preparing the SIT specs, defect logs.
• Involved in SIT, UAT runs.
• Involved in pre-implementation activities.
• Status reporting to the team lead.
PERSONAL DETAILS
Father’s Name : Mattareddy
Sex : Male
Date of Birth : 15th Aug 1979
Marital Status : Married
Nationality : Indian
Languages Known : English, Hindi & Telugu
Address : H.No 2-3-71/6 Plot # 93/1,
Road No.6, Lalitha Nagar,
Hyderabad – 500068