1. CURRICULAM VITAE
Vinod Panchal
Contact Number: (M) +91 9890902595
E-mail Addresses: panchalvinod@gmail.com
Career Objective
Key leadership position in a fast-paced technology company with varied responsibilities and the
potential for advancement.
Summary:
 7.8 Years of Software Testing experience in the role of QA lead/Sr QA supporting areas of
Web applications in diverse business & technical environments with demonstrated leadership
abilities and setting up Test environments
 Experienced QA Lead on off-shore teams, including hiring, mentoring, and performance
appraisals.
 6 Months experience in QTP Automation.
 Experience in Regulatory projects: FATCA-US,FATCA-CD and CRS.
 Experience in interaction with Clients, Multiple Vendors and End Users.
 Extensive experience in testing of large client server applications, Web based applications, E-
Commerce Applications and Middleware applications on various Window and UNIX Environments
 Strong Experience in OEDQ (Oracle Enterprise Data Quality) Application
Performing Quality profiling, analysis, parsing, standardization, matching and merging designed
to help, understand, improve, protect and govern the quality of the information business uses, all
from a single integrated environment.
 Certified ISTQB and L0 BFS CCP by cognizant.
 Scrum Fundamentals Certified and Understanding of Agile Methodology.
 Experience in BFS domain like cards and payments, governance and have sound
knowledge of the related domains.
 End to End testing knowledge: ETL, Manual and Report Testing.
 Proven hands-on experience with quality assurance practices, including project test plan
development, Test scenarios, test cases, test data and Test closure reports.
 Expertise with Black Box test design techniques like Boundary value analysis, design
table testing, smoke, regression, functional, integration testing .
 Expertise in Manual/Functional Testing and establishing Automation testing using VBA macro.
 Expertise in problem solving and defect reporting using defect tracking tools quality
center/ALM, Bugzilla and Issue Tracker.
 Handle the tasks of ensuring that the Pre-UAT activity is performed accurately and efficiently
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2.  Experience in developing UAT test process and monitoring SIT execution phases.
 Handle the tasks of identifying defects and perform root cause analysis by analyzing data quality
issues
 Experience in understanding the customer requirements and deriving the test
scenarios/conditions based on the requirements.
 Experience in preparation of Test Data Characteristics for Master Test Bed.
 Involved in Peer Reviews, Walkthroughs and Inspections.
 Involved in handling Client interaction for daily Status meetings and review meetings.
 Creative problem solver with advanced analytical, planning, and scheduling skills with a focus on
timely delivery.
 Good knowledge on VBA Macros,SQL and Linux/Unix
 Motivated to work individually as well as in a team that has rapidly changing priorities and proven
ability to deal effectively with change and to exercise good judgment.
 Good Analytical, Communicational skills and Innovative presentational skills
Technical Skills:
Testing Tools: Basic knowledge on QTP, Informatica.
Test Reporting Tools: HP Quality Center/ALM
Operating Systems: Windows 98/2000/XP/ UNIX, LINUX
Databases: SQL
Programming Languages: VB Scripting, SQL
Bug Reporting Tool: HP QC/ALM BugZilla
Work Experience
 Oct 12th
2011- Till date- Cognizant Technology Solution as Associate Project
 Mar 24th
2008 – 30th
Sep 2011 – Syntel Ltd Pune, as an Analyst Programmer
 Sep 18th
2006 – 1st
Nov 2007- Infosys BPO Ltd Pune as an Executive
Career Highlights
Company : Cognizant Technology Solutions, Pune
Project Name : IL
Duration : From 12th
Oct 2011 to Aug 2012.
Description:
ICICI Lombard GIC Ltd. is the largest private sector general insurance company in India
Tested ICIC lombard Health application is advanced tool used by IL stake holders internally for
tracking various activities like Policy creation, member enrollment, claim processing and payment
Generating Reports, Benefit’s for policy.
The Benefit table CR strives to eliminate manual validations performed at transactions side and
enabling system level validations based on business rules applicable for that policy or the product.
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3. The rules will be configured for each policy and product at the setup and will be applicable for all the
UHIDs enrolled under that policy or product.
Currently, the system has set of rules which are set up at policy or product level however this CR will
enable a more comprehensive and specific set of rules which can be customized at policy/product
level .Also within a policy, the rules could be customized based on member specific information &
claim specific information
Responsibilities:
 Analyzing and Understanding System Requirement Specification
 Participation in Test Planning Process and developing Test Plan.
 Prepare test cases, Test scenario, Test Data.
 Creating, Managing and Executing Test Cases.
 Presenting Application Demo to client
 Perform Sanity, Smoke, ADHOC, SIT and Regression testing.
 Arranging KT for team
Company : Cognizant Technology Solutions, Pune
Project Name : FATCA (World’s Leading Bank)
Duration : From Sep 2012 – till date
Description: The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) was signed into law on 18 March
2010 by President Obama as part of the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act. The
purpose of FATCA is to reduce the possibility of US tax evasion by US individuals (through personal
accounts or legal constructs) via financial institutions and investment vehicles outside of the US. The
IRS plans to do this by requiring all financial institutions such as Barclays – banks, asset managers,
global custodians and insurance companies – to identify and report US accounts to the IRS.
FATCA introduces a withholding tax of 30% to be applied on any US source income and gross
proceeds paid to non-participating foreign financial institutions and/or any other person or entity that
does not identify themselves (where they are seen to be US). The new withholding tax can be
avoided if foreign financial institutions enter into an agreement with the IRS to carry out due
diligence on their new and existing accounts and report on specified US persons annually.
Responsibilities:
 Responsible for managing a team, planning activities, assigning task and managing onsite
UAT support.
 Expertise with functional test, system testing, integrating testing, smoke testing, expertise
testing the application on data driven testing to test the application UI.
 Leading and work with development team to create the suite data (Both input files and
expected results) that fully exercises data validation.
 Performing peer reviews and estimates.
 Improving specifications and design documents through active review and feedback with
developers.
 Experience with Integration of data across from ETL landing area to OEDQ application.
 Expertise working with Requirement Matrix Traceability in QC/ALM.
 Tracked testing progress using Quality Center Graphs/Reports and updated the Project
Manager on weekly progress of testing.
 Expertise with Testing various services to validate data for smoke testing, QA testing and UAT
testing
 Held UAT sessions to assist the client’s business users with getting familiar with the new
System.
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4.  Identifying and logging defects if test fails, if necessary to narrow down the root cause of the
problem for efficient investigations by the development team and log accordingly
 Experience in testing the application to validate the functional flow of the business logic on
OEDQ system and unix/Linux.
 Preparing Daily status Report for daily meetings and sending them to all the stakeholders of
the project.
 Worked with the Project Manager and other leads to come up with a manageable testing
timeline for UAT testing phase.
 Conduct Interviews and surveys to know about current artifacts, regression usage,
applications stability, test data and test assert management.
 Established innovative Testing processes for the application and building utility for project in
improving existing testing process.
 Involve in requirement analysis, designing test plan, test closure report, identifying test
conditions, designing test cases, reviewing test cases and executing test cases
 Perform technical and cost feasibility study, requirement gathering and analysis.
 Environment: Informatica, Ab initio, OEDQ,Unix/Linux,Winscp,Qulaity center/ALM,
 Experience in Easy, data-led creation and extension of validation and transformation rules
 Expertise on Master Data Management of large volume customer records, Reconciliation.
 Performing Quality profiling, analysis, parsing, standardization, matching and merging
designed to help, understand, improve, protect and govern the quality of the information
business uses, all from a single integrated environment.
 Extensive knowledge on OEDQ case Management: validation on cases, alerts, working
records, external attributes, flags and Workflow set up.
 OEDQ :Handling of User Configuration set up, Project deployment processes.
Company : Syntel Ltd Pune
Project Name : USMF (State Street)
Duration : From 24th Mar 2008 – Dec 2009
Job Profile: Asset Reconciliation (Management) for State Street, Boston US
Responsibilities:
 The Purpose of Asset Reconciliation is to Reconcile the data between the records of
Custody and Accounting in terms of shares, which may differ due to various Reasons
 Research the Exception and find out the variance between Accounting and Custody
With the help of Mainframe and Bloomberg Application.
 Coding the Exception in SMAC database and add necessary comment to it.
 Developed the micros for the process using Mainframe Application.
 Strong Exposure to Bloomberg Application for Various Securities.
Cash Reconciliation (Kansas City)
 Performing Cash Reconciliation and Availability of incomes and trades.
Manual Matching and Exception coding the variance in Cash Recon System
Company : Syntel Ltd Pune
Project Name : Lego Pack Engine (Amex )
Duration : From Jan 2010 – Feb 2011
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5. Description: American Express (Amex) is one of the major Credit Card and Travel Related services providers
in the world. It operates in more than 130 countries; the credit card business of American Express is primarily
concentrated in the United States, though the company is widening its network elsewhere in the world. The
new product is an entry level low fee Charge Card with basic benefits
and the ability to add on incremental benefit packages for a fee.
Job Profile: Quality Assurance Tester for Cards and Payments
Responsibilities:
 Preparation, Execution and Reviewing of Functional, Integration, UAT and Regression test
cases for all modules ( Feature , Pack , Pack Template and Offer )
 Bug Reporting according to Severity & Priority in Mercury Quality Centre
 Participate in daily test Status calls with client and other teams
 Participated in walkthrough session with the team members to find out missing test cases
and to understand requirement using the screen mock ups.
 All lessons learnt especially regarding test execution have been documented for future
purpose for any references
Company : Syntel Ltd Pune
Project Name : MYCA MM (Amex )
Duration : Mar 2011– Sep 2011
Description:
 MYCA Test Bed is a repository of 8000+ test ready accounts for Unit / Assembly, SIT and UAT
testing.
 All accounts are synched across Triumph, USMR, GRMS / CRPS, MYCA and CAS systems.
 MYCA Test Data AR characteristics on accounts include, but not limited to,
i)Wide variety of Product codes and IA codes
ii) Active, Cancel-Derog or Replaced cards
iii) Zero, Negative, Positive balance with or without Suspense Amount
iv) Good Standing or Delinquent (30/60/90 days past due, NG check, late fee) status
MR characteristics on accounts include, but not limited to,
i) Enrolled in LF, MR, PR or Other Loyalty Program (FF/RF) tiers
ii) Zero to ten million vested or PA loan points available for redemption
iii)Good Standing or Past Due with pending or forfeited points
Responsibilities:
 Involved in handling projects deliverables. Involved in the requirement analysis, Test Plan
walkthrough sessions with Triumph.
 Involved in Preparing the Test Data characteristics for 6 applications and triumph repository.
 Responsible for preparing in X933 validation document which served as the major input for
validating the downstream files from systems like Triumph, USMR, CAS and CRPS
 Involved in daily status calls with the Manila and Onsite team. Involved in validating the
event lists and files from Triumph..
Company : Infosys BPO
Project Name : British Telecom
Duration : From 18th Sep 2006- 1st Nov 2007
Description:
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6. BT controls a number of large subsidiaries. BT Global Services division supplies telecoms services
to corporate and government customers worldwide and its BT Consumer division supplies telephony,
broadband, and Subscription television services in Great Britain to around 18 million customers.
Job Profile:Test Engineer for British Telecom, United Kingdom
Responsibilities
 Executing Internet based application Test Cases from IVOR which is a universal work queue
using Testing Tools like Woosh, Siebel, RamboMax, xDSL IP Test, Circuit Diagnostic, xDSL
repair check, xDSL Copper Test, Tam Test.
 Whoosh is master web based diagnostic tool which is used to conduct various tests which
enables us to conduct series of checks on a End user in order to help identify where a fault may
exist.
 Test Cases consist questions based on Broadband interactive procedures and structured
questions
 After Test execution all the results are notified to Service provider through Clarify tool. Service
Provider assigns Technical Engineer to close the case.
Academic Background
 BSC Electronics TY Score : 74 %
Dr D Y Patil ACS College, Pimpri, Pune-18
Training and Certification
 Diploma in Software Testing ( 1ST
Dec 2007 to 1st
April 2008) – SEED INFOTECH
 ISQTB Certified.
 Scrum Fundamentals Certified.
 Certified in MS Office from NIIT.
 Trained in Analytical and Problem Solving Skills from Infosys
 Trained in Presentation and Client Interfacing Skills from Infosys
 Lean Certification Training from Syntel Ltd
Academic Projects
Project Name: Clear Focus Call Centre
Duration: 2 Weeks
Role: Team Member
Description:
 Recorded a Baseline scripts using QTP and executed it with the help of test director.
 It is an Application made to handle operations of call center associate in call center
Responsibilities
 Studying Requirements, Writing test cases, reviewing test cases, executing them and
Reporting Bugs, Creating test Bugs.
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7. Project Name: Pedometer (Digital Step Km)
Description: It measures distance travelled during walking.
Date of Birth : 8th
Dec 1983
Sex : Male
Marital Status : Married
Nationality : Indian
Languages Known : English, Marathi and Hindi
Passport : Z3274034
Mailing Address : MSR Queenstown M-602 UdhogNagar Chinchwad Pune
Contact No :9890902595
Declaration
I hereby declare that the information provided above is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
If appointed, I assure you that I will leave no stone unturned in carrying out my duties to your entire
satisfaction
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