1. ISITA PALISITA PAL Mobile no: +91-8939157553|
9804025150
Email Id: isitapalciem@gmail.com
CAREER GOALCAREER GOAL
Technically skilled Mainframe & Functional Test professional with 2.10 years of IT experience.
Looking for an opportunity to work at a responsible position as a Mainframe Tester or a Functional
Tester in a renowned organization
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARYPROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
 As a Quality Analyst, remain involved from requirement study, providing Test Strategy and Project
Estimation. Preparing Test Plan and Test Scripts.
 Well-versed in software functional testing practices, methodologies, and standards
 In-depth knowledge of SDLC, STLC test life cycle, risk management, quality assurance methodologies
and software assurance planning
 In-depth knowledge of IBM mainframe COBOL, JCL and programming and Testing.
 Extensive knowledge of mainframe tools and techniques as well as Unit regression testing
 Experience in testing batch process and validating the same.
 Very good working knowledge on utility programs SORT, MERGE and JCL PROC.
 Extensively used the tools like AON, XPEDITOR, SPOOL, FILE-AID, TSO and ISPF
 Possess strong analytical, problem solving and communication skills
 Excellent communicator with strong analytical and problem solving skills
 Ability to handle multiple tasks and meet strict deadlines
 Carried out responsibilities of organizing knowledge transfer sessions to project peers.
 Conduct User Acceptance Testing before signing off any project.
 Have domain knowledge in Health Insurance domain.

2.  Have work experience in Payment Card Industry based project.
 Have work experience in end to end product testing (Mainframe application).
 Developed tools for project related needs using VBA coding.
EXPERIENCEEXPERIENCE
2.10 years of experience in IT industry in Mainframe Testing and Functional Testing.
Organization : Accenture
Period : Jan 2014 to till date
Position : Software Engineering Analyst
Location : Bangalore
EDUCATIONEDUCATION
BTECH: “Electronics and Communication Engineering” from Calcutta Institute of Engineering and
Management with 8.21 DGPA in 2009-2013 from West Bengal.
WBHSE: Sir Nripendra Nath Girls High School with 70.28% in 2009 from West Bengal.
WBSE: Sir Nripendra Nath Girls High School [State Board] with 79.75% in 2007 from West Bengal.
PERSONAL DETAILSPERSONAL DETAILS
Date of Birth: 10th Oct, 1990
Passport: Indian Passport
Passport Validity: 09/05/2012 to 08/05/2022
Languages Known: English, Hindi and Bengali
Current Address: Bangalore, Karnataka.
TECHNICAL SKILLSTECHNICAL SKILLS

3. Operating Systems : Windows Family
Database : IDMS
Skills : C, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, IMS DB, File Aid, TSO/ISPF, XPEDITOR, AON
Macro : VBA Macro (created some automation tool to reduce manual work)
Certification : Completed and passed level 1 of ASDA (Application Tester) certification and
level 2 is in progress.
Microsoft Family : MS OFFICE
OTHER ACCOLADE:OTHER ACCOLADE:
• Won ‘Significant Contribution towards Delivery – Award’ from Finance North America Association at Accenture
Services Pvt. Ltd for SPP project where contributions to the project were highly appreciated by Client and
Accenture Senior Managers.
• Received Appreciations certificates from Clients for excellent contributions in PCI project.
• Received Appreciations certificate from client for excellent contribution towards multiple base projects.
• Active member of Project’s Fun Team which is responsible to organize all kind of Bay connect, Fun event,
organizing client visit, project Fest and other events management.
SAMPLE PROJECT SUMMARYSAMPLE PROJECT SUMMARY
Project # 1
Project Name : SPP NATIONAL PRODUCT ROLL OUT WAVE 1 & WAVE 2
Client : Combined Insurance, a CHUBB company
Company : Accenture, Bangalore
Role : Mainframe Tester
Tools and Technologies Used:
Mainframe, COBOL, DB2, MS Excel, VB Macro
Description:

4. SPP was a new insurance product launched by Combined Insurance, a CHUBB company where
the responsibility was to do end to end testing for the new product for 30+ states in US.
Responsibilities: Worked for CHUBB as a Mainframe Tester.
• The project was all about launching new insurance product in 30+ states in US.
• Analyze business and technical requirements to create test cases, approach and script.
• Test the batch and online modules to verify whether the change meets the new business requirements.
• Testing CICS mapping manually checking the validations of the maplets.
• Testing the batch program, compiled and executed by JCL.
• Created traceability matrix between requirements and test cases.
• Validate that new product is giving as expected result for each and every scenarios.
• Responsible for planning testing procedures and test conditions under the instructions of Team Lead.
• Perform the tasks of writing test scripts, Test Approach and test cases by referring the specifications of
requirements
• Developing functional testing plans and performing end-to-end phases of test execution
• Responsible to create Test Data for all kind of positive and negative scenarios.
• Handle responsibilities of analyzing test results and troubleshooting environment issues
• Responsible for verifying database interaction defects as well as conduct performance and capacity
testing
• Assigned the tasks of testing and evaluating mainframe interactions with distributed systems
• Handle responsibilities of preparing detailed test cases by analyzing technical requirements
• Documenting functional, regression, and acceptance testing procedures
• Refining full functional test plans and developing Quality Assurance test plans
• Tracking defects found at software release phase and develop test data to be used in software
development life cycle

5. • Estimating work load requirements and developing standard test strategy plans
• Updating test plan status to the test manager on a weekly basis
• Created Macro based tool to reduce manual policy entry in CICS screen.
• Always performed regression testing to validate the existing functionalities after the new changes.
Project # 2
Project Name : Payment Card Industry (PCI)
Client : Combined Insurance, a CHUBB company
Company : Accenture, Chennai
Role : Mainframe Tester and Functional Tester
Description: PCI is one of the biggest projects in Combined Insurance where the project’s goal was to remove
all the real credit card numbers from all systems and databases, application in Combined Insurance like Finance,
web, claims, imaging etc and replaced the credit cards with tokenized credit card numbers where a lot of third
party vendors are involved for this whole process. The projects motto was to follow end to end PCI standard to
make the client PCI compliance. Worked in this project for 8 months and involved in end to end mainframe testing
to satisfy all the PCI compliance and achieved the same.
Tools and Technologies Used:
COBOL, JCL, IDMS, DB2, MS Excel, VBA Macro,
Responsibilities:
• Took complete ownership as a PCI tester and performed both Mainframe (batch and online) and non-
mainframe testing for Finance and Imaging portfolio.
• Responsibility was to understand the requirement and the importance of multi portfolio involvement, and
have written Test Script, Test Approach, Test Plan and Schedule for the PCI project.
• Involved in end to end testing to ensure that storing, processing and transmitting cardholder’s data is
meeting the PCI standards.
• Tested and used various third party applications which were part of the project.

6. • Responsible to communicate with multiple vendors while testing where third party vendors were involved
to supply tokenized Credit card number and Third party bank was responsible to do billing and return
process.
• Involved in validation of token number of the customer credit card to test the standard of PCI.
• Performed end to end testing for both batch and online system.
• Created several negative test scenarios in SIT phase itself to test negative testing.
• Created a VBA tool macro to automate the Test Data entry in Credit Card online system.
• Created bug reports and tracked all the defects in all the phases of testing in the JIRA tool.
• Performed data validation and mainframe testing in interactive mainframe environment
• Handled the tasks of cross-system testing and prepared test cases for the project team
• Responsible for executing and maintaining scripts in mainframe applications
• Developed and executed functional test plans and test cases
• Worked closely with development teams in resolving bugs and verified and closed bug reports once
solved.
• Always performed regression testing to validate the existing functionalities after the new changes.
• Provided support in all phases of functional test execution and documentation.
• Involved in Preproduction Testing with actual Production data to ensure everything goes file post-
production deployment.
Date: 04/11/2016
Isita Pal