Asif_QA Lead & Analyst_VirtusaPolaris

QA Analyst & Lead – Asif Iqbal Altaf
ASIF IQBAL ALTAF
+91-99629 81586(Bangalore)
Professional Background
 Overall 9+ years of experience with 7+ years in IT experience in Quality Analyst and 2 Years of Non IT Experience
in Customer Relation
 Have been part of and played vital role in end to end project implementations for RBS Insurance
 Have extensively worked in Retail Banking, Islamic Banking, Internet Banking and Credit Card Domain
 Have hands on experience in Core Banking Applications T24
 Exposure to all stages of SDLC, STLC, testing types and testing methodologies
 Analyzing defects and interacting with development team members in fixing the defects
 Experienced in System Integration testing, Sanity testing, Regression testing and User Acceptance testing
activities in Manual Testing.
 Possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills with ability to work in a team and individual
environment
 Possess excellent leadership, organizational, analytical and problem solving skills.
 Well versed in Defect Tracking & Bug Reporting using Test Director, QC, and Clear Quest.
 Experience in coordinating with the on-site team to handle multiple stakeholders.
 Experienced in working with overseas (Riyadh) clients in T24.
 Hands on experience with INFORMATICA Powercenter9.0
 Strong knowledge in various security testing standards like OWASP and threat modeling. Experience in
vulnerability assessment and Pen testing.
 Developing the vulnerability assessment report with required recommendation to fix the security issue/flaws and
present them to internal and external customer.
 Performed Manual and Automated Penetration testing with Burp Suite, IBM AppScan.
Educational Qualification:
 Post Graduated in Master of Computer Application from Anna University
 Graduated in Electronics from Bangalore University.
Domain Expertise:
 Insurance domain
 Temenos T24 (Retail Islamic Banking)
 Banking domain (Corporate Banking)
 OWASP – Peneration Testing – Security Vulnerabilities
 Siebel CRM
Technical Skills:
 Testing Tools : HP Quality Center 9.2, HP ALM 11, Test Director, Spira and Clear Quest
 Operating Systems : Window XP/Vista/7
 Technology : Mainframe (Spufi, File Aid), Linux, SQL,VB Scripting, SQL Server (Data warehouse), INFORMATICA
Powercenter9.0
Professional Experience:
 Sr Consultant in VirtusaPolaris , Bangalore/Hyderabad/Chennai/Middle East since Feb’2011
 Sr Transaction Processing Officer in Mphasis, an HP Company, Bangalore from Jan’2008 to Oct’2010
 Senior Customer Executive in Sutherland Global Services Ltd, Chennai BPO from Oct’2005 to Sept’2007
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Project Summary
Project #1 (Polaris Financial Technology, Hyderabad)
Project Name : CITI Siebel- CRM
Client : CITI - USA
Role : Test Lead
Duration : Dec’15 – Till Date
Team Size : 18
Project Description:
GTS Customer Relationship Management application enables Sales Automation using SIEBEL e-Finance tool for
the GTS Sales organization globally. The desire of the GTS business is to move its client management organization
onto a sales incentive plan (SIP) ,which directly correlates pay with the performance of the individual. The project
objective is to compute the variable commissionable pay of Cash, Agency & Trust and Securities and Fund services
sales representatives based on performance. There are 3 modules involved in CRM, ICM, and Analytics. Data Flow
from CRM to ICM and the incentives of the sales representatives are calculated based on performance. The data feed
is sent to Analytics.
Key Modules include in CTS CRM:
• Deal Review process
• Sales Incentive program
• Order Management
• BIP Reports
• Account Opening
• Analytics Reporting
• Product Configurator
Project # 2(Polaris Financial Technology, Chennai)
Project Name : CITI Direct – CitiConnect Insource
Client : CITI - USA
Role : Test Lead
Duration : Sept’13 – Nov’15
Team Size : 12
The Citibank File Xchange (CFX) Insource Project is the initiative to move services currently provided by an
external vendor GXS to within Citi. The services include File translation and connectivity for the payment processing.
The file translation portion involves conversion of client files based on a industry standard formats like IDOC,
EDIFACT or client custom formats to a citi proprietary format named BPDTD (Batch Processing Data Type
Definition)which is xml based format processed downstream by citi Application called Citi Direct.
Now Abinitio is replacing the maps to convert the input formats to BPDTD which is the input for the Citi Backend
payment processing system. This Insulates application level changes from ever changing formats. It involves creation
of standard maps & custom maps. Inbound Process - Import transforms the file to BPDTD according to the
specification for the file format and host profile, produces a syntax file & response file, and sends an even log
message to CFX connector. Migrate Customer data from Citi Connect Insource Client Migration, Data Migration Tool
is designed to meet the migration from GXS to Insource Client Migration and attempts to migrate connectivity of all
its customers to Insource.
Project # 3(Polaris Financial Technology, Riyadh SA)
Project Name : AL INMA – T 24 R8 to R11 Upgradation Project
Client : Al Inma Bank - Riyadh
Role : Test Consultant
Duration : Jan’13 – Sept’13
Team Size : 20
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SIT and UAT Testing for Al Inma Bank for their up gradation existing Core Banking Platform from Temenos R8
to R11. Upgrade from T24 R8 to R11 release with latest technology TAFC, with new modules (AA) to enhance the
performance improvisation, stability, scalability into web services and with process workflow to design the new
products by business/IT. Also, to reduce the complexity of architecture, Temenos will support latest T24 3 versions; it
is Al-Inma strategy to be on latest technology (Like web services). This project consists of Core Banking
functionalities/modules like Customer Origination, Lending, and Funds transfer, Teller, Collections, Internet Banking,
Cards, Limits and Payment Due Processing. Also involves Islamic Banking Loan Products.
Project #4(Polaris Financial Technology, Gurgaon)
Project Name : RBS Solvency II
Client : RBS, London
Role : Test Analyst
Duration : Feb’ 11 – Dec’12
Team Size : 29
Solvency II introduces new legislation across Europe to improve insurance capital adequacy. Solvency II
regulates companies according to the risk inherent in the business. Each company must define its own risk profile
and demonstrate that it has in place both sufficient capital and the appropriate governance and risk management
processes to meet this risk. The objective of Solvency II is to strengthen the soundness and stability of the
International Insurance system. The extraction of financial data from Mainframe Input Files and loading into Solvency
Data Warehouse (SDW) is a key step in the process for facilitating reporting for Solvency II valued assets and
liabilities. The High level objective of the Data acquisition test is to ensure that the files are captured for historical
and ongoing process as per the data component design documents for Solvency II program.
Roles and Responsibilities @ PolarisFT:
 Understand Business and System requirements from the FSD
 Involved in SIT & UAT Testing for Accounts, Customer, Interest & Charges, Internet Banking, Cards, Limits, Funds
Transfer, Teller, Collections, and Investments and other Islamic Banking Loan Products modules.
 Understand Business and System requirements from the FSD
 Involved in Business User interaction
 Preparation of Test Scenarios/Scripts for SIT and UAT.
 Executing Test Scripts and documenting Test Results.
 Preparation of Traceability Matrix.
 Performed Functional and Regression Testing for SIT and UAT.
 Validated the SMS Group with Production and created Users accordingly.
 Performed Functional and Regression Testing in Mainframe and Linux
 Validated the output PS File against VSAM input File using file-aid
 Used Sort JCL’s to extract data from Input Files for Data Validation
 Verified the Data in LINUX region using grep, egrep commands
 Work on Mainframe front end Application for Home, Motor, Travel, Rescue & Pet products
 Involved in Functional, Regression and PTE & PROD validations
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Project #5 (Mphasis)
Project Name : Customer Relation (Internal Organizer)
Client : Deutschmark Bank
Role : Test Analyst
Duration : Dec’ 09 – Sept' 10
Team Size : 11
This project enables the organizations to efficiently organize, populate, and maintain information of their
customer credit card. It provides integrated management of customer accounts such as balance transfers, payment
to their credit card account, transaction details, about their interest’s charges, personal information and other
relevant details. The system seamlessly blends all of the functionality required to manage information on many
aspects of your business into an intuitive and user-friendly graphical interface.
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Project Name : Health Care System
Client : United Health Group
Role : Test Analyst
Duration : Feb’ 09 – Dec’ 09
Team Size : 10
Health Care System is an integrated information management system for clinics and hospitals, addressing all
critical areas of a typical healthcare setup. It is modular and flexible. The various modules are fully integrated. While
computerizing the various functions ranging from patient registration to clinical services, it provides immediate
access to clinical and administrative data, streamlines the scheduling and management of clinic visits and admissions,
improves the dispensing of medications, facilitates management of Laboratory and Radiology functions
And so on. The overall system is extensively parameterized thus allowing greater flexibility in terms of operating and
managing the entire application in any Hospital/Clinic.
Project Name : HRM System
Client : Accpac system
Role : Test Analyst
Duration : Aug’ 08 – Feb’09
Team Size : 8
The aim of the project is to develop a Human Resource Management system for the Intranet Automation of HR
Software .HR system provides the information regarding the employees I the company. The system has been to
facilitate good Interaction/ communication facilities between the employees and HR Administration. The web pages
about an employee are created dynamically based on the user id and password and links are provided to web pages
containing information about employee General details, Contact details, skill details etc., he also has the facility of
viewing a summary report of all the projects done by a particular employee. A list of all employees is provided along
with employee’s Designation and Department.
Project Name : NSBBS
Client : Ward Christen
Role : Test Analyst
Duration : Dec’ 07 – Jul’ 08
Team Size : 11
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North Star Bulletin Board System (NSBBS) is a bulletin board available on Internet to post the user's opinions on
any topic and share the ideas with others. This is a forum where intelligentsia will meet and participate in discussing
various issues related to any topic. The NSBBS allows people to communicate with each other at their leisure unlike
chat rooms where you always have to be online. They also allow you to become more versatile if you run a business.
The NSBBS could be utilized for tech support, public relations and marketing. And if you’re an educational or non-
profit organization, forums can keep your students or members informed and up-to-date on current events. People
using forums for personal use can easily stay in touch with family members and friends.
Project @ Sutherland Global Services Ltd, Chennai
Project Name : HP Compaq CSR
Client : Hewlett Packard Compaq
Role : Sr Customer Executive
Duration : Oct’ 05 – Sep’ 07
Team Size : 750 (Across different GEO in India)
The aim of this process is to provide the customer service (Sales and Technical support) for US
customers over the phone regarding the HP and Compaq products such as Desktop, Laptop, All-In-One Printers,
DigiCam etc. Sales include selling the products/warranty/Technical support over the phone via credit card payment
and Support includes the technical support over the phone.
Passport Detail:
Passport No : K2144900
Name : Asif Iqbal Altaf
Place of Issue : Bangalore
Date of Expiry : 17/01/2022
Personal Information:
Father’s Name : Altaf Pasha
Nationality : Indian
Sex : Male.
Date of Birth : 20.04.1980
Contact Details:
+91-99629 81586 (Bangalore)
+91-98864 81586 (Bangalore)
Email:
rasif.280412@gmail.com
asifa@virtusapolaris.com
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