Aditya Kumar

 Aditya Kumar M Mobile: -, E-Mail- Test lead seeking opportunities to create value for the company & it’s customers by delivering IT solutions. PROFESSIONAL SYNOPSIS 5.6 years of progressive IT experience, delivering testing projects to Banking and Financial Services Company in Cards and Payments domain and HealthCare Company in Broker payments. Proven track record in leading highly skilled workforce to successfully complete Application Testing through onsite/offshore model. Expertise in all the phases of software testing life cycle requirements gathering, Estimation, Test design, Test Execution, Defect Management & End of Test Summary. Solid experience working in client locations with culturally diverse, globally distributed cross-functional teams. Built long term, trust based relationships with customers through delivery of projects that significantly enhance their ways of working. Have exposure working on agile projects, leading scrum team and handled in sprint testing and status tracking. Delivered the projects in Agile Methodology. Involved in Product Backlog refinement, Sprint planning, Pre/Post card hurdle and Retrospective meetings. Strong experience in developing the Automation scripts using Selenium Web driver. Knowledge in various frameworks like Keyword Driven, Data Driven, Hybrid Frameworks. Good knowledge on DB Testing (SQL queries), SOAP & REST services Testing using SOAP UI & Postman tools. Have In-Depth knowledge on Service Virualization & Automation using CA LISA tool. Deep understanding of financial services applications. Evolved as a subject matter expert in a complex financial aspect of the Consumer Travel Technologies application. Excellent analytical skills, understands functional aspects of applications related to area of work; adapts to apply any key testing techniques to add value to Business. QUALIFICATIONS Bachelor of Technology (First Class) from JNTU University, Hyderabad, India -) CERTIFICATIONS Cognizant Certified Professional in Software Testing. Cognizant Certified Professional in BFS L0. Cognizant Certified Professional in HealthCare L0. KEY AWARDS & RECOGNITION Cognizant - Associate of the month Award – Making a Difference (Chennai, India) - 2013 (Q3) Cognizant – Monthly Award – High Flyer of the Month (Hyderabad, India) - 2014 (Q4) Received several appreciations from various client IT & business stakeholders - 2012 – 2016. SKILLS SET Technologies – Core JAVA, HTML, CSS, Gherkin, Python (Beginner) Testing Tools – Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber (BDD) Testing Frameworks – Junit, TestNG LifeCycle Management Tools – HP ALM, Rally, JIRA Build Tool – Maven CI/CD Tools – Jenkins, XL Release Web-Service Testing Tools – SOAP UI, Postman Virtualization – CA LISA Database – SQL Other Tools – Eclipse IDE, IBM Data Studio Software Testing Domain Project Scoping Requirements Gathering Estimation Resource Planning Test Design Test Execution Defect Management Daily Status Report Broker Payments (HealthCare) Cards & Payments (BFS) Others Manual/Automation Testing Regression Testing Functional Testing API Testing Service Virtualization/Automation PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (Summary) Organization Client [Domain] Role Location From To Exp (mths) Cognizant Technology Solutions American Express [CTT] SME and Offshore Test Lead Hyderabad, India Mar-15 Till Date 35 American Express [CTT] Application Test Lead/Offshore Test Lead Hyderabad, India Jan-14 Feb-15 13 Aetna HealthCare [Broker Payments] QA Offshore tester Hyderabad, India Jun-12 Dec-13 18 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (Detailed) Cognizant Technology Solutions, Test Lead - (May 2012 to till date) Project Details: Project 1: Project Name : ENCORE Client : American Express. Duration : Jan-2014 to till date Role : Test Lead and SME of the application. Testing Methodology : Agile Tools Used : IBM Data Studio, ALM 11.5, Selenium Web Driver, Eclipse IDE, SOAP UI, Rally, LISA, Jenkins. Project Description: Encore is an Agent Desktop Tool that will be used by Amex Travel Counselors in the US. Encore will enable the Travel Counselors to create and modify bookings for various travel segments including – Air, Car, Hotel, Tour, Limo & Rail. The tool will also provide the TCs with a number of other features like Queue Management, Alerts, Currency Conversion etc. This web application was tested in IE10 and it it the only compatible browser. Roles & Responsibilities: Feasibility study of manual test scripts and Design of Automated Test scripts using Selenium Web Driver. Maintained a central repository using SVN to maintain the automated test scripts. Reviewed the automation test scripts and provided optimized solutions. Provided KT sessions to the new joiners in the team in both on functional and automation aspects. Delivered the projects in Agile Methodology. Involved in Product Backlog refinement, Sprint planning, Pre/Post card hurdle and Retrospective meetings. Performed the API testing using SOAP UI Rest Services. Worked on Agile projects, involved in Requirement Analysis (User Stories) for major modules in the application & Knowledge Acquisition through Client calls. Prepared Test scenario, Test cases and Test data requirement for the requirements. Monitored and enhanced the test process and defect methodology. Shouldering overall responsibilities to understand Client Processes and to work efficiently to meet targets and deliver solutions in accordance with Cognizant quality control standards and business practices and procedures. Prepared End of Test report. Co-ordinate with onshore team and update the Daily status report for all phases in testing life cycle. Performed in-depth analysis of impact assessments to identify the modules that could be potentially impacted and arrive at testing strategy. Execute the SQL queries to identify and prepare the test data characteristics. Configure the Jenkins jobs to run the Automated tests built as part of user story testing in different environments. Project 2: Project Name: BAES (Broker Account Entry System) Client: Aetna Inc. Duration : June-2012 to December-2013 Role : QA Test Analyst. Testing Methodology : Waterfall Tools Used : IBM Data Studio, Quality Center 10.0. Project Description: Callidus application provides compensation to external brokers for Aetna. This application involves 3 phases i.e. BAES UI, True comp Engine, Datamart. BAES UI will be used to create Brokers, Agreements between Customer and Broker, Premium, Adjustments, Installments, etc. True comp Engine is third party licensed software that is used to calculate the compensation for brokers based on the data provided by BAES. Datamart is used to store the calculated compensation details and generate reports. Roles & Responsibilities: Understanding the Requirements and Functional Specifications of the application. Test Scenarios and Test cases preparation and uploading into Quality centre 10.0. Executed Test Cases as per System Requirements. Raised defects in IBM ClearQuest tool. Execute the SQL queries to validate results. Defect Reporting and Tracking using IBM ClearQuest. Prepared and reported Day-to-Day reports. Participated in Daily status call with Clients, Business team and Dev team. Ensured high Quality Deliverables within stipulated deadlines PERSONAL PROFILE Full Name : Aditya Kumar M Date of Birth : 02 February, 1990 Languages Known : Telugu, English and Hindi Nationality : Indian