Mukesh Kewale is a software testing professional with over 9 years of experience in manual testing. He currently works as a Test Lead at Cognizant Technologies focusing on the banking and payments domains. He has experience leading a team of 6 people and has worked on projects involving SWIFT payments, SEPA transfers, and other financial applications. Mukesh is certified in software testing and has experience in test planning, requirements analysis, test case design, and defect tracking.

1. Curriculum Vitae Mukesh Kewale
Mukesh Kewale
B-503, Aryavedant Residency, E-mail address: mukesh.kewale@gmail.com
Nakhate Wasti, Rahatni,  (M) +91 992 348 4244
Pune-411017
Experience Summary
• A Dynamic software professional involved in manual testing having expertise in domains
like Banking and Financial Services i.e. Payments and Cards domain. The total 9+ years of IT
experienced as Software Testing Professional in Manual Testing.
• Currently working as Test Lead with Cognizant Technologies Solution Ltd., Pune (CTS) since
Jan 2011.
• Working as CSI (Continuous Service Improvement) as CSI Champion.
• Working as Training Anchor. Handling resource Training activities
• Experience of working on two domains as Payments and Cards.
• Payment includes SWIFT and SEPA payments.
• Experienced in End to End Testing.
• Leading team of size 6 from last 2 year.
• Mostly involve in Management level activities.
• Experienced of working from client location based in UK as Onsite co-ordinator.
• An ISTQB Certified Software Tester.
• Well Versed in different types of Black Box Testing such as System testing, System
Integration testing, Regression testing, etc.
• Have experience in Test Planning, Requirement analysis and scenarios identification, Test
Case design, Test Case Point Estimation, Test Execution using Quality Center, Defect
Tracking, Daily progress status report and Weekly Status Report to client.
• Effectively coordinating with onshore team and development team for quality assurance
related activities.
• Regularly conducting sessions for team members on topics like testing approaches, testing
processes and quality assurance standards and application testing.
• Excellent Experience on various tools such as Quality Center 10.00, Project Portal.
Education and Certifications
BE (Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Technology – 2005 )
From MIET Collage, Nagpur University
DE (Diploma in Engineering in Computer Technology – 2001 )
From Nagpur Polytechnic, Nagpur.
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Technical Skills
Relevant Project Experience
Cognizant Technologies Solution Ltd. (Jan 2011 – Till Date)
Project : FXShare
Role Played : Test lead
Domain : Banking and Finance (Payment)
Application used : FXShare, GPP(Global Pay Plus) and SMB
Project Description:
The FXShare application AS400 based and it’s working on mainframe platform. The objective of
FXShare application is to process SCT (SEPA Credit Transfer) payments. It process payments
types like pacs.008, camt.056, pacs.004 and camt.029.
Responsibilities:
• Involve in Resource planning and onboarding, Billing discussion.
• Working as CSI (Continuous Service Improvement) as CSI Champion.
• Working as Training Anchor. Handling resource Training activities at LOB Level.
• Involve in Governance call with Client.
• Working as HCM supervisor for the team of 9 people.
• Responsible for requirement coverage, test scenarios identification, requirement
traceability matrix, Test plan preparation, deciding test data approach, End of Test
Report Preparation.
• Perform test scenario identification for end to end testing, design test cases, End to End
Test execution, Defect management etc.
• Sending daily and weekly status report, attend the status call.
Project : PMRT (Payment Monitoring and Recovery Tool)
Role Played : Associate
Domain : Banking and Finance (Payment)
Project Description:
The objective of PMRT is to monitor the Payment flow and to verify whether the payments
received on destination channel. PMRT also perform the reconciliation of payments. The major
functionality is to replay the payments after reconciliation those have not received at destination
and verify they have successfully received at BEM.
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Tools Used: Quality Center 10.00,
SMS (Secure Message switch)
IPSWITCH, FTS, PMRT, WebSEAl, GPP
Languages: C
Database: SQL Server
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP/Windows 7

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Responsibilities:
• Responsible for requirement coverage, test scenarios identification, requirement
traceability matrix, Test plan preparation, deciding test data approach, End of Test
Report Preparation.
• Perform test scenario identification for end to end testing, design test cases, End to End
Test execution
• Responsible for project delivery reporting such as Daily Status report, Weekly Status
Report, review logs etc.
Project : SMS (Secure Message switch)
Role Played : Associate
Domain : Banking and Finance (Payment)
Project Description:
Secure Message Switch (SMS) is the Bank’s strategic interface to the SWIFT NET FIN service and
supports the transmission of messages to, and receipt of messages and responses from, the
SWIFT network.
In the past, Barclays had various connections to SWIFT on various platforms. SMS was
commissioned to move almost all Barclays message traffic on to a SMS shared services resulting
in cost savings. All messages to SWIFT from the Barclays Network are routed through SMS,
including Payment messages, New CHAPS payments, Collection messages, statements, non
payments messages and payments to EBA Target2 and CHAPS Euro Interaction between SWIFT
and SMS happens through SWIFT Secure IP Network. Interaction between SMS and Barclays
business applications happens mostly through MQ.
Responsibilities:
• Responsible for requirement coverage, test scenarios identification, requirement
traceability matrix, Test plan preparation, deciding test data approach, End of Test
Report Preparation.
• Tracking, review of project deliverables, prioritization of the activities, task allocation to
resources and schedules
• Responsible for project delivery reporting such as Daily Status report, Weekly Status
Report, review logs etc.
• Effectively interacting with client to understand the requirements, reporting the progress
of the project on daily and weekly calls.
• Leading team of size 6 from last 1 year.
Achievements:
• On the basis of performance got an opportunity to work from Client Location based in
UK as onsite Co-ordinator.
Capita India limited (Nov 2010 – Jan 2011)
Project : Elixir
Role Played : Test Engineer
Duration: 2 Months
Domain: Insurance
Project Description: Elixir was JAVA and Web based application having the functionality like
creation and deletion of insurance policies, updating the customer details, insurance claim like
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Critical illness and Death claim and correspondence includes change in mode of payment,
payment cycle etc.
Responsibilities:
• Tracking, review of project deliverables, prioritization of the activities, task allocation to
resources and schedules
• Responsible for project delivery reporting such as Daily Status report, Weekly Status
Report, review logs, query logs etc)
• Scripting the Test Cases as per the BRS and FRD.
TCS e-Serve Ltd. (May 2007 – Nov 2010)
Project : SE collections NA CARDS UAT
Role Played : Test Analyst
Domain : Payments Cards
Project Description: Project Description: ‘SE Collections NA CARD UAT’ uses RPL, IWS & SCD to
test the different phases of credit card products. Project Portal is used as test management tool
for loading and executing scripts. Quality Center is used for defect tracking.
Project 1: Retail Private Label Cards (RPL)
RPL, developed by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), with front end in Visual Basic and back
end as Oracle. It utilizes the Collections application for Consumer, Commercial, The Home
Depot, Diners and more credit card products. It receives applications from data acquisition
systems such as Internet, etc. and provides application approval, decline or void information to
the fulfillments areas such as DCF. Testing scope covers GUI and Functionality.
Project 2: Intelligent Work Station (IWS)
IWS is a customer service application which is developed by Tata Consultancy Services
(TCS), with front end in Visual Basic and back end as Oracle. After an application is approved
and a Credit card is been issued, IWS is used to Increase/Decrease Credit/Cash line,
Update/Change information and Re-open an account. Testing scope covers GUI and
Functionality.
Project 3 : DCF (Document composition facility) Post implementation validation
Worked on mainframe, using Job control language to write the macros, generate exception
and volume reports, datasets comparison and executing the macros to validate the datasets
from server, latter and email validation and raise the defect (if any).
Platform : Working on IBM Mainframe (3270 Rumba) Screen, Job control language.
Responsibilities:
• Scripting the Test Cases as per the BRS and FRD.
• Executing the Test cases in Quality Centre.
• Involved in Test Execution, Test result Analysis.
• Involved in defect reporting and tracking in Quality Centre.
• Worked closely with Application Developers to fix defects
• Weekly update meetings with Test Lead to discuss the status
RIPL (Reliance Info Stream Pvt. Ltd.) (Dec 2005 –May 07)
Profile : IT service desk
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Designation : Customer Service Executive
Job Description: Worked as Customer Service Executive with IT service desk used to handle
the escalation regarding IT and networking related issues.
PERSONAL DETAILS
Father Name : Shri Ganesh Kewale
Date of Birth : 18th
December 1979
Native Place : Nagpur
Marital status : Married
Gender : Male
Language : English, Hindi, Marathi
I hereby declare that above information is true to best of my knowledge.
Date:
Place: Pune (Mukesh Kewale)
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6. Curriculum Vitae Mukesh Kewale
Designation : Customer Service Executive
Job Description: Worked as Customer Service Executive with IT service desk used to handle
the escalation regarding IT and networking related issues.
PERSONAL DETAILS
Father Name : Shri Ganesh Kewale
Date of Birth : 18th
December 1979
Native Place : Nagpur
Marital status : Married
Gender : Male
Language : English, Hindi, Marathi
I hereby declare that above information is true to best of my knowledge.
Date:
Place: Pune (Mukesh Kewale)
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