Vinayak Awati is a senior test analyst with over 7 years of experience in software testing, documentation, reporting, team management, and client servicing. He has extensive experience transitioning testing teams and training new members. Some of his responsibilities include test planning, defect tracking, requirements analysis, and ensuring successful project delivery. He has worked on various banking applications at ANZ Bank and has a proven track record of effectively managing resources and meeting tight deadlines and budgets.

1. Vinayak Awati
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E-Mail: win3142@gmail.com, vinayakawati@yahoo.com
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Team Lead Assignments
Senior Test Analyst with invaluable knowledge of managing resources & staff in an effective & efficient manner
Highly focused with a comprehensive understanding of Analyzing Pre deployment Solution, RTM and Testing. Proven
track record of successfully employing best business practices that improve efficiency, reduce operating costs whilst
increasing performance in tight time scales and within budgets
Profile Summary
A focussed and result oriented professional with over 7.3 years of experience in:
~Documentation & Reporting ~Client Servicing ~Team Management ~Software Testing
~Operations Management ~Liaison & Coordination ~On Shore transition of process and building team
• Transition of UAT team activities to China and training team on the new payment platform
• Hands- on experience in Software Testing (GCP, GPP and Docflow app.’s) and processing high value payments
• Demonstrated excellence in conducting testing in various financial applications like Payment System & Money
Transfer Management System
• Proficiency in mapping business requirements, business verification testing (BVT), preparing test plan, defect
management, troubleshooting of applications, active time of management (ATOM), presentation skill, conducting
interviews and training
• Knowledge in SWIFT messages its message structures like MT103, MT202 etc.
• Conversant with Project Timelines, Phases and dates on an overall basis, and specifically with Testing phases from
SIT, UAT and BVT
• Skilled at writing test cases based on functional specifications and business requirement documents
• Adept at performing Functional / System / IT Analysis, Impact & Risk Analysis, Gap Analysis and Feasibility Analysis
• A proactive planner with excellent interpersonal, problem solving and analytical skills
Organisational Experience
ANZ Bank, Bangalore as Senior Test Analyst
Production Lead
Senior Analyst
Key Result Areas:
Transition of team
• Building team, training on the end to end testing process, providing hands on experience of testing to the new team,
managing the time lines, defect identification and reporting, reporting on the progress to the off shore team in order to
make sure the transition of UAT team and the new platform testing is completed successfully
Business Analysis
• Engaging and coordinating Business Analysis sessions for understanding client business requirements and mapping
them to required framework standards
Software Testing
• Designing test strategy, developing plans and approving cases while scheduling project for releases in coordination
with project managers and clients
• Testing software programs to compare specifications and documenting the same
Client Relationship Management
• Building and maintaining healthy business relations with clients and ensured high customer satisfaction matrices by
achieving delivery & service quality norms
• Mapping client’s requirements, identified areas of improvement & implemented measures to maximize customer
satisfaction levels
Accomplishments:
• Transition of UAT team to China and Manila (Visited for a period spanning 14 weeks each)
• Record of supporting new & critical functionality release while co-ordinating with UAT Team Bangalore in ANZ
Singapore

2. • Recognized as Best Performer for 20 times from 2009 till date
• Acknowledged with:
o Spot Awards for handling critical issues and projects in the team (22 times)
• Honoured with an appreciation email by Managing director (ANZ Bangalore) for outstanding contribution on the
critical project
• Co-ordinated critical release for 32hrs and successfully implementation of Cash ops application for which appreciation
received from CEO, global project director, global head, MD, Project head and others
Education
• MBA from East West Institute of Management, Bangalore in 2009
• Bachelor of business management from Dharwad University in 2007
IT Skills
• Well versed with:
o MS Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook
o Operating System: Windows 95/98/2000/XP/07/vista
o Automation Tools: Quality Centre and ALM
o Others: Internet Applications, GPP
o Core banking systems : Midanz, Finnet, Finacle, CTM
• Skilled at carrying out Manual Testing/ Black-Box Testing/UAT; executing test case & bug logging / tracking by using
Quality Centre and ALM
• Deft at preparing testing strategies for Regression Testing, System Testing, UAT and BVT
• Conversant in performing UAT testing of various financial applications like GPP, docflow and GCP
• Knowledge of:
o Rendering production implementation support during checkout process
o Processing of high value payments and ensuring all transactions are completed within the cut off period
o Investigating and preparing incident root cause analysis, fish bone method, presenting and providing
mitigations
o SWIFT messages its message structure ( MT103, MT202 etc)
Personal Details
Date of Birth: 01th
September, 1986
Current location: Bangalore, Karnataka
Languages Known: English, Hindi and Kannada
Refer annexure for detail of processes handled

3. ANNEXURE
Process / Projects Handled with ANZ Bank
Process Title: Transition of UAT team activities to China for New Platform implementation
Period: Since Jun’16 till now
Role: Team Lead
Description: The company ANZ aspires to become bank of choice for corporate under Super Regional Strategy
by providing Cash Management services; the project / process is mainly a Transitive Asia
Program attempting to provide business banking services to 11 Asian countries. The banking
functions will represent Cash Management and Payments Front Office with PAC Python, Back
Office with PAC OPEE. The Payments Application Consolidation (PAC) payment solution at
proposed bank will comprise of the following:
Client User functionality through Payments Transaction Manager (PYTHON) – using which the
clients can originate cash management transactions and view the transaction status along with
reports.
Bank User functionality through Operations Payments Entry Enrichment (OPEE) – using which
the Bank admin can process the transactions for the customers as required.
To provide user entitlements and customer privileges in the use of above applications Customer
Onborading & Registration Application is built. These applications are in-house build by ANZ.
Responsibilities:
• Acting as Team Lead and guiding a team of 5 resources
• Training team on the UAT concepts, testing methods, testing phases, defect identification and reporting,
identifying the right resource for the modules and assigning the tasks
• Assisting in preparation of test plan and To-be process flows
• Participating & contributing in business requirement meetings with respective Product/ Business Stakeholders
• Understanding requirements and thereby helping in reviewing, clarifying and building traceability for testing
• Training team to prepare Test scripts & cases to be executed
• Test Plans, Test Metrics presentations, designing Test Scenarios, performing Test Reviews and also preparing Test
Data.
• Assessing test cases as well as enhancing and appending after sufficient review respective stakeholders
• Collaborating with SIT Teams early in project phase to understand changes that will be undertaken
• Provide technical leadership while estimating and evaluating the effort/ schedules and managed the team and its
grievances while training team members on the project architectures.
• Escalating showstopper or issues impacting test execution to stakeholders and getting them resolved to resume
the execution to the earliest.
• Conducting and participating in SIT exit and inherit UAT Phase in good order
• Implementing UAT test cases, managing defect raising & resolution while ensuring adherence resolution
management
• Generating MIS, Metrics and various reports and submitting to Project Stakeholders
• Accountable for stakeholder management with various teams in the project lifecycle
• Make statistical presentation of Test Execution Reports and Data

4. Process / Projects Handled with ANZ Bank
Process Title: Global Cash Plus, GPP and Doc flow
Period: Mar’13 till Jun’16
Role: Senior Test Analyst
Description: The company ANZ aspires to become bank of choice for corporate under Super Regional Strategy
by providing Cash Management services; the project / process is mainly a Transitive Asia
Program attempting to provide business banking services to 11 Asian countries. The banking
functions will represent Cash Management and Payments Front Office with GCP Cash web, Back
Office with GCP Cash in. The Global CASH plus (GCP) payment solution at proposed bank will
comprise of the following:
Client User functionality through Global CASH plus – Cash Web – using which the clients can
originate cash management transactions and view the transaction status.
Bank User functionality through Global CASH plus – Cash In and Cash Web Admin– using which
the Bank admin can process the transactions for the customers as required.
The use of above functionality is supported through ancillary modules and functionality as
Charging, Accounting, Reporting and querying etc. The Cash Management system would be
interfaced to various ancillary systems within the bank and also with the customers.
Responsibilities:
• Acting as Module Lead and guiding a team of 8 resources
• Assisting in preparation of test plan and To-be process flows
• Participating & contributing in business requirement meetings with respective Product/ Business Stakeholders
• Reviewing Functional Specification Document sent by the Vendor and comparing it with BRD raising Clarification.
• Understanding requirements and thereby helping in reviewing, clarifying and building traceability for testing
• Preparing Test scripts & cases to be executed by team
• Test Plans, Test Metrics presentations, designing Test Scenarios, performing Test Reviews and also preparing Test
Data.
• Assessing test cases as well as enhancing and appending after sufficient review respective stakeholders
• Collaborating with SIT Teams early in project phase to understand changes that will be undertaken
• Provide technical leadership while estimating and evaluating the effort/ schedules and managed the team and its
grievances while training team members on the project architectures.
• Escalating showstopper or issues impacting test execution to stakeholders and getting them resolved to resume
the execution to the earliest.
• Conducting and participating in SIT exit and inherit UAT Phase in good order
• Implementing UAT test cases, managing defect raising & resolution while ensuring adherence resolution
management
• Generating MIS, Metrics and various reports and submitting to Project Stakeholders
• Accountable for stakeholder management with various teams in the project lifecycle
• Make statistical presentation of Test Execution Reports and Data.
• Working on project timelines, phases and dates on an overall basis and specifically with Testing phases from SIT,
UAT and BVT
• Multiple critical BVT’s completed along with co-ordination of development team, vendor, tech support team,
implementation team etc.

5. Process / Projects Handled with ANZ Bank
Process Title: GPP and Doc flow
Period: Jan 2011 till Mar 2013
Role: Production Lead
Responsibilities:
• Acting as module Lead and guiding a team of 5 resources
• Collecting requirements from the operation teams, participating & contributing in business requirement meetings
with respective Product/ Business Stakeholders
• Understanding requirements and thereby helping in reviewing, clarifying and building traceability for testing
• Preparing Requirement Traceability Matrix for UAT phase.
• Preparing Test scripts & cases to be executed by team
• Assessing test cases as well as enhancing and appending after sufficient review
• Responsible for looking after the quality of the project/ solution deliverables (including bug reports & execution
reports) and the team performance.
• Generating MIS, Metrics and various reports and submitting to Project Stakeholders
• Accountable for stakeholder management with various teams in the project lifecycle
• Working on project timelines, phases and dates on an overall basis and specifically with Testing phases from SIT,
UAT and BVT
• Performed BVT to ensure smooth transition and also supported operation team post live to ensure the stability
Process / Projects Handled with ANZ Bank
Process Title: Cash Operation
Period: Aug 2009 till Jan 2011
Role: Senior Analyst
• Acting as production Lead and guiding a team of 22 resources
• Define key result areas for team members and provided them periodic feedback on their performance levels.
• Conduct performance appraisals and identified high potential contributors to groom them with enabling skills to
take up higher assignments in future.
• Planned the process effectively with overall responsibility for maintaining various process metrics while adhering
to compliance procedures at all times.
• Delegating work to Team members and ensuring the work within timely and accurate manner with zero error.
• Responsible for achieving SLA’s and KPI’s in terms of Quality/Productivity/Escalations/Transfers.
• Participating in analysis & review process quality deliverables in terms of process errors, TAT problems, customer
dissatisfaction, inter-process dependability and yielded benefits in terms of cost reduction and revenue
generation.
• Periodically analyzing training needs of the teams and arranging refresher trainings to keep the team skill levels
up-to-date.
• Assuring that appropriate processes are maintained and identifying weak areas to improve process and providing
suggestions regarding improvement of processes.

6. Process / Projects Handled with ANZ Bank
Process Title: GPP and Doc flow
Period: Jan 2011 till Mar 2013
Role: Production Lead
Responsibilities:
• Acting as module Lead and guiding a team of 5 resources
• Collecting requirements from the operation teams, participating & contributing in business requirement meetings
with respective Product/ Business Stakeholders
• Understanding requirements and thereby helping in reviewing, clarifying and building traceability for testing
• Preparing Requirement Traceability Matrix for UAT phase.
• Preparing Test scripts & cases to be executed by team
• Assessing test cases as well as enhancing and appending after sufficient review
• Responsible for looking after the quality of the project/ solution deliverables (including bug reports & execution
reports) and the team performance.
• Generating MIS, Metrics and various reports and submitting to Project Stakeholders
• Accountable for stakeholder management with various teams in the project lifecycle
• Working on project timelines, phases and dates on an overall basis and specifically with Testing phases from SIT,
UAT and BVT
• Performed BVT to ensure smooth transition and also supported operation team post live to ensure the stability
Process / Projects Handled with ANZ Bank
Process Title: Cash Operation
Period: Aug 2009 till Jan 2011
Role: Senior Analyst
• Acting as production Lead and guiding a team of 22 resources
• Define key result areas for team members and provided them periodic feedback on their performance levels.
• Conduct performance appraisals and identified high potential contributors to groom them with enabling skills to
take up higher assignments in future.
• Planned the process effectively with overall responsibility for maintaining various process metrics while adhering
to compliance procedures at all times.
• Delegating work to Team members and ensuring the work within timely and accurate manner with zero error.
• Responsible for achieving SLA’s and KPI’s in terms of Quality/Productivity/Escalations/Transfers.
• Participating in analysis & review process quality deliverables in terms of process errors, TAT problems, customer
dissatisfaction, inter-process dependability and yielded benefits in terms of cost reduction and revenue
generation.
• Periodically analyzing training needs of the teams and arranging refresher trainings to keep the team skill levels
up-to-date.
• Assuring that appropriate processes are maintained and identifying weak areas to improve process and providing
suggestions regarding improvement of processes.