Monali Phatak has nearly 5 years of experience in quality engineering and assurance. She has worked on projects for Barclays Bank, Tucson Electric Power, and Florida Power and Light. Her responsibilities have included requirements analysis, test scenario design, test execution, defect reporting, and production support. She has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a Master of Computer Applications.
Professional with diverse experience in IT Business Analysis, IT project management, IT project planning and software design and programming. Proven team leader with an excellent technical, communication and organizational skills to manage and execute full aspects of project management while applying currently published IT standards.
Professional with diverse experience in IT Business Analysis, IT project management, IT project planning and software design and programming. Proven team leader with an excellent technical, communication and organizational skills to manage and execute full aspects of project management while applying currently published IT standards.
12 years of IT experience in Quality Assurance, Business Consulting, Process Improvements and experience in Testing, Maintenance and Mainframe Production Support, Project Management, Leadership, Planning and Execution
1. Monali Phatak
Experience Summary
Nearly 5 year of experience in Quality Engineering and Assurance as well as production support
projects. As part of my assignments, I have done Requirement Analysis, Functional Studies, System
Testing, Acceptance Testing of incidents / problems and Production Support.
Relevant Project Experience
Organization: Cognizant Technology Solutions
Project #1
Project BARCLAYS FATCA
Client Barclays Bank
Location Pune, India
Application OEDQ 4
Team Size 9
Role Quality Assurance Tester
Period Dec 2014- till date
Project Description
Barclays Bank has come up with the FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act) agreement. According
to FATCA the costumer found with the FATCA indicia need to pay extra thirty (30) percent of tax to
home country they belong currently implemented for US and UK territories.
Role and Responsibilities
• Requirements gathering and analyzing.
• UAT Support.
• Provide Test Estimation in terms of the Test Effort required.
• Preparing Test closure report.
• Test Scenario designing based on understanding of business requirements and converting it
into system test scripts.
• Framing SQL queries for finding the test data.
• Test execution and Defect Reporting.
• Assisting the Offshore Test Lead in preparing test execution, defect and defect trend
reports.
• Preparing the daily Status report.
• 10 Successful Releases and 4 zero UAT defects.
• Moving into Agile.
Project #2
Title Strategic Debit Card processing
Client Barclays Bank
Tools QC, QC add in, Open text, Host Explorer
Role QA Analyst
Period May 2014 – Nov 2014
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2. Project Objective: Barclay’s retail bank uses a bespoke application-card system, for the launch &
management of debit card products which is an aging & complex application. As a consequence of a
joint exercise carried out in 2010, between Barclays & CSC, who develop & market an industry leading
package called CAMS, it was recommended that the existing card system application could be replaced
by CAMS as this provide a 90% fit to the existing card system &could provide significant business
benefits & cost saving going forward.
The strategic debit card programme (SDCP) was mobilised to take this work forward.
Project Description:
SDCP program basically involves Creation of Cards data in IMS, Migration of database from cards to
CAMS , and testing of various CAMS CICS screens.
As a part of the programme I have been involved in various work-streams (Authorization/Servicing)
and projects in varying capacity:
1. Test data creation using CGS front-end for CPU project
2. Test design which involved
a. Execution of test cases, identification and re-test of defects
b. CR analysis and testing
c. Testing the migration process via front end CAMS screen
d. Tested for bulk / volume
e. Creation of test Scripts
f. Involved in creation of Data.
Role and Responsibilities
• Requirement Analysis with a view to understand requirements and also identify any static
defects.
• Designing Test scenarios / test cases
• Test execution involving defect analysis, explanation / clarification to development team
as needed, defect retest and eventual closure
Project #3
Title Tucson electric Power
Client Tucson Electric Power.
Tools BMC Remedy , Windows XP , Oracle PL/SQL
Period May 2010 – Arl 2014
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3. Project Objective: It is a Oracle based application CC&B (Customer Care and Billing), where all
residential areas were served with this TEP meters. The electricity they consumed are recorded in the
Meters and bill are generated a regular cycle basis.
Project Description: Provides 24/7 Support for Stores System
Role and Responsibilities
• Requirement Analysis
• Batch job Monitoring
• Coding and Bug fixing
• Being available during offshore timings, team calls, Spreadsheet reports
• Taking and resolving incident and Problem Tickets within the Given SLA time
Project #4
Title Florida Power and Light
Client Florida Power and Light.
Tools Oracle SQL, PL/SQL , JAVA
Period June 2011 – Jan 2012
Project Objective: Florida Power & Light Company is the largest electric utility in Florida and one of
the largest rate-regulated utilities in the United States. A clean energy leader, FPL has one of the lowest
emissions profiles and one of the leading energy efficiency programs among utilities nationwide. FPL is a
subsidiary of Juno Beach, Fla.-based NextEra Energy, Inc.
Project deal with energy distribution within Florida state. Here in this project, it deals with the Energy
distribution within Commercial and Residential Area. They have different plans and ideas to save energy
through which provide solar equipment’s such as solar heaters and photo voltaic registers.
Roles And Responsibilities:
• Involved in developing and testing.
• Involved in fixing defects.
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4. Education and Certifications
Degree College/University
Bachelor of Science (Computer Science)
Govt. Autonomous Holkar Science College ,
Indore
Master of Computer Applications (MCA) MITM, Indore
Technical Skills
Email
Monali.phatak133@gmail.com
Contact Details
Mobile No. 9158256273
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Primary skills Manual Testing, Functional Testing, Database Testing
Secondary Skills Mainframe Testing
Defect Management Tools Quality Centre, Jira