Rajita Jog

RAJITA JOG     - After taking 9 years of break because of family responsibilities, started working as an independent Recruitment Manager since Oct ’16 (managing the resourcing from home). Mainly involved in IT recruitment. IT Management Professional with 16 years of progressive experience in managing applications/projects focusing on Quality Assurance. Excellent Project Management skills coupled with strategic outlook and leadership ability. Determined, self-starter and quick learner with strong interpersonal skills with proven ability to manage the positive and productive client relationship. Professional Experience          Currently working in the end-to-end recruitment process. Served in various pre-sales activities, management and technical positions including: Test Manager, Technical Lead and Programmer Analyst. Actively driven Pre-Sales initiatives for the Testing line of Business – creation of proposals, presentations and proof of concepts. Experienced delivery-focused Test Manager with experience in full SDLC, including Agile, Vmodel and Waterfall models. Worked offshore and on-site and have managed projects with onshore – offshore model, using fixed price and Time and material models. Actively involved in various project phases: Business Requirements, Functional Design, Program Specification, Construction, Testing and Implementation. Strong expertise in Software Project Lifecycle, Quality Assurance, Testing, Project Management Processes and Process Improvement with industry experience in Finance, Health Care and Logistics domain. Solid analytical skills, strong problem solving, decision making and people management skills. Automated Test Tool experience: Quality Center, QTP, Test Director, WinRunner. Overseas Exposure      On-site Training at BUPA, UK in London for Business knowledge for SWAN Product for 4 months. Project Study and Implementation of BUPA-Mainframe Migration project onsite at BUPA in Melbourne, Australia for duration of 6 months. On-site Training at Manugistics Inc, U.S.A Washigton D.C., for Business knowledge for SCPO Product for 3 months. On-site Training at Manugistics Inc, U.S.A Philadelphia, for Business knowledge for Transportation Product for 2 months. Requirements Analysis, Project Implementation & User Training at United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) – Switzerland for 8 months. Academic Qualification  Honors Diploma in Systems Management from NIIT, Mumbai. 1 RAJITA JOG  - Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce (B.Com.). Key Achievements       Received ‘Accountability Award’ from BUPA, Australia during Health Insurance System Implementation. Received an award for ‘Leadership in Execution’ for Canon, UK Project. Received Merit Award for Year 2004. CSTE Certified in June 2006 Written White paper for ‘Product Certification’. Presented Case Study “Automation of Production Tasks” in STC 2008 conference. Career Overview Year 1997 - - – 1994 Organisation Datamatics Global Services Ltd. Raymond Ltd. M/s. Amritlal Chemaux Ltd. Position Last Held Test Manager Programmer Analyst Programmer Technical Skills 1. Development Hardware Intel Based Servers and Workstation Operating Systems Unix, Solaris, Windows NT/ 95, Windows 2000 RDBMS Sybase (4.9.2,10.0.2), Oracle (7.3, 8i), MS SQL server 6.5/7.0 Internet Tools HTML, Java Script, ASP 2.0, IIS 4.0, Visual InterDev 6.0, VB Script Front End Tools Power Builder (4.0, 5.0, 6.0), APT 5.2, PB Internet Development Toolkit, Visual Basic (6.0), Crystal Reports for VS 2006 Programming Languages C, COBOL, Java, Perl, HTML Design Tools S-Designer 5.1 2 RAJITA JOG - 2. Testing Automation Test Tool SilkTest (5.0, 5.0.2), Winrunner (7.0), Mercury QTP (8.0) Test Management Tool Test Director (8.0), Quality Centre (9.0), Silk Test Bug Tracking Tool JIRA, Quality Centre (9.0) Platforms Unix, Windows 2000 Testing Types Sanity Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing 3. Management Project Management Tool MS-Project (2006, 2007) General Skills  Designing and facilitating project-specific workshops for Test Teams  Team Leadership  Training and Mentoring Test Management      Test Planning Design Test Strategy and Plan Test Environment Establishment Test Metrics collection and Tracking Defect Management Project Management      Project Planning, Initiation, Organization Accurate estimating and cost control Project execution and control Manage client engagement services Project Tracking Domain Experience  Recruitment Working for end-to-end recruitment from home since Oct ’16. The role and responsibilities include:  Explores the market best practices in the recruitment and staffing and implement appropriate best practices in the organization  Builds a quality relationship with the customers and external recruitment agencies 3 RAJITA JOG -  Sets the social media communication strategy for different job profiles and functions in the organization  involved with volume / bulk hiring activities  Responsible for end to end recruitment, i.e, from sourcing to onboarding.  Involved in hiring through various channel mix (portals, referral, Social media, consultants, etc)  Ensure that the right quality of resources get engaged in compliance with predefined parameters as defined by process excellence  Health Insurance Experience over 3 years in the current domain. Worked for health insurance projects for leading Health Care Group - BUPA for UK and Australia sites. The product offered personal, company-financed health insurance and medical-subscription products.  Financial Services Experience over 2 years in ‘Financial Services’ domain. Exposure to Capital Market solutions from leading Software and Technology service company - SunGard. The application offers a suite of front-to-back, multi-asset, multi-market solutions that cover: integrated, enterprisewide market and credit risk management, order and position management, securities financing and collateral management, data management, accounting and tax reporting and compliance. The application solutions give control of the entire lifecycle of a trade - from pre-trade analysis to post-trade risk management, from high volume trading to complex structured products  Supply Chain Management Experience for over 3 years in this domain. Exposure to three products,viz., Supply Chain Planning and Optimization (SCPO), Transportation Management and Demand Planning /Extended Edition (DP/EE) for Manugistics Inc., USA [Acquired by JDA and known as JDA now]. This software manages the entire supply chain – from Raw Materials to Finished Products and into customer’s hands. Worked on-site for product training. Companies such as Black & Decker, Ikea, Georgia Pacific and British Airways have used Manugistics products. Professional History  Datamatics Global Services Ltd. 1997 – 2009 Clients Project Name Position Trustware Re-engineering BUPA, UK BUPA, Australia SunGard, USA SWAN BOSS Migration Project Test Manager Test Manager Test Lead Canon, UK Manugistics Inc., USA My Learning Zone Supply Chain Planning and Test Lead Test Lead Duration (in Months- 4 RAJITA JOG - Optimization (SCPO) Transportation Management Test Lead 9 Demand Planning /Extended Edition (DP/EE) Material Management System Test Lead 8 Programmer Analyst 12 United Nations Office, Geneva NITTSU, JAPAN General Accounts System Team Lead 24 Inventory System Team Lead 8 International Trade Center, Geneva Trade Analysis System Programmer Analyst 5 Vishakhapatnam Port Trust, India 5 RAJITA JOG  1994 – 1997 Raymond Ltd. Clients Project Name Position Singhania Hospital, India Park Avenue, India Piece Rate System Finished Goods Inventory System Payroll Accounting System Share Accounting & Management System Team Lead Programmer Analyst Park Avenue, India Raymond Ltd., India  - Duration (in Months) 7 8 Programmer Programmer 6 12 1993 – 1994 M/s. Amritlal Chemaux Ltd. Clients Project Name Position Duration (in Months) Mumbai Municipal Corp., India Mumbai Municipal Corp., India Octroi Management System Budgeting System Programmer 4 Programmer 11 Training Courses              OOAD organized by Quality Assurance India Ltd Oracle DBA Software Testing Best Practices & Configuration Management. ‘Software Estimation’ by Quality Assurance India Ltd. (QAI). Software Internal Audit organized by Quality Assurance India Ltd. Automated Test Suite – Rational Robot Crystal Reports from Synergetics ‘Software Engineering’ organized by Quality Assurance India Ltd. Overview on SEI-CMM organized by Quality Assurance India Ltd. Structured Methods for Software Testing organized by Quality Assurance India Ltd. A course on JAVA including EJB, JSP, Servlets from Astrisk Computers, Mumbai. ‘Perl Programming’, ‘Internet Security’ from CSI. MS-Project from Quality Assurance India Ltd. 6 RAJITA JOG - Professional Experience  Datamatics Global Services Ltd. 1997 – 2009 PROJECT: Trustware Re-engineering 2009 Client Technical Environment Position Jan. 2007 Till April SunGard USA Oracle 10g, J2EE Test Manager, Build Manager, UAT Support Lead The project is re-engineering the existing Trustware application for Shareholder accounting and Bond accounting. A solution for modernization of the Trustware application is being provided. As a Test Manager,  Responsible for Resource planning, project forecasts, project estimations etc.  Successfully built an offshore Team.  Involved in Test Planning, Budgeting and Resource Planning.  Responsible for assignment and monitoring of the work and mentoring offshore Team.  Involved in facilitating weekly status calls with the client.  Handled a team of 16 resources.  Performed Role of UAT Support Lead.  Co-lead the UAT effort with team of 4 UAT Analysts.  Involved in UAT Test Planning and estimation and day-to-day management UAT Test activities.  Setting up of UAT Environment.  Performed Role of Build Manager :  Involved in setting up Build Release process with the Deployment Staff of 3 .  Implemented and controlled formal test, validation and release procedures.  Release Build Notes for each build.  Plan the deployment in conjunction with change and knowledge management and configuration management.  Provide technical and application guidance and support throughout the release process. PROJECT: SWAN Client Technical Environment Position May 2005 Till Dec. 2006 BUPA, UK Oracle 9i, VB 6.0 Test Manager The British United Provident Association (BUPA), largest and most recognized independent health and care organization in the UK has the SWAN product developed on the VB 6.0. 7 RAJITA JOG - SWAN being an Health Insurance product, manages the entire Health Insurance process – manages members, providers, Claim processing and overnight Batches. As a Test Manager,  On-site Product Training at London office.  Preparation of System Test Strategy, Test Plan and Test Effort Estimation.  Synchronize schedules, Set expectations and establish service level agreements (SLA), Escalate issues with internal tools.  Accountable for Setting up the QA environment in coordination with customer infrastructure teams  Formations & Mentoring of Test Team, work assignments, track the progress.  Handled a team of 6 resources.  Schedule Preparation, Reviews on Test Process, Client Interaction  Track project Development and team costs  Test Management for System, System Integration, Regression and UAT testing.  Worked closely with Client for test strategy, planning, interacted on various issues of enhancement, maintenance and support. PROJECT: BOSS Migration Project Client Technical Environment Position Test Automation Feb 2004 – Apr. 2005 BUPA Australia Source Environment – Database (CA-DATACOM & IMS), Source Code (IBM COBOL & IDEAL), OS (MVS) Target environment – Database (Oracle 9i), Source Code (MF-COBOL), OS (Solaris 5.8), Test Lead TALC 2000 The British United Provident Association (BUPA), Australia has the BOSS Branch Online Support System) application developed on the IBM Mainframe with MVS operating system and CICS as transaction support software. The BOSS application system was migrated to the SUN machine(s) with Solaris 5.8 operating system and MicroFocus Server Express2.2.0 SP1 and MicroFocus Application Server. The target database is Oracle 9i. All application source code was migrated to Microfocus COBOL. As a Test Lead,  Worked on-site for project study and Implementation at Melbourne office.  Preparation of System Testing and Integration Testing strategy.  Involved in assignment and monitoring of the work. Handled a team of 12 resources.  Preparing, updating and reviewing the Test Scenarios using the original source code for application (COBOL and IDEAL programs).  Plan, Organize and Lead the Testing kick-off Meeting.  Create the Test Schedule  Identify the training requirements of the Test Team 8 RAJITA JOG     - Implementing and evolving appropriate measurements and metrics. Keep track of the new requirements / change in requirements of the Project. Test Case Automation using TALC 2000. Organize the status meetings and send the Status Report to the Client and Top Management. PROJECT: My Learning Zone Client Technical Environment Position Oct 03 – Jan 04 Canon Oracle 8i, .Net Test Lead The purpose of the system was to establish a Learning Management system for Canon. Canon employees and their resellers would be using the system. Canon would use this system to determine competency gaps at the employee level, division/department level, company level and reseller level and a means to bridge the competency gaps. MLZ is a elearning portal designed for the employees of Canon. The release of the system comprised of Member Management, Role Management, Course / Assessment Creation Wizard, User & Group level Personalization, Reports, Site Administration, Course / Assessment Delivery, Auto e-mail notification. As a Test Lead,  Involved in assignment and monitoring of the work. Handled a team of 4 resources.  Preparation of System Testing and Integration Testing Strategy.  Organize the status meetings and send the Status Report to the Client and Top Management. PROJECT: Supply Chain Planning and Optimization (SCPO) Client Technical Environment Test Automation Tool Position Jun. 2002 – Sep. 2003 Manugistics Inc. – U.S.A. Oracle 8i, Windows (NT , 2000), Sun Solaris 2.8 , HP-UX 11i, AIX 5.1 Silk Test 5.0.2 Test Lead SCPO is a decision support system that provides tools for planning and controlling manufacturing and distribution operations. These tools used to determine how much product is needed to meet customer demand, in which location and during what time-period and how best to supply the products needed to meet these demands. As a Test Lead,  On-site Training at Rockville-USA office related to Business knowledge for the product.  Carried out Certification activities of for three (3) Releases.  Carried out development / updation of Silk Scripts as per the requirements of the release.  Functional Testing of the product using SilkTest. 9 RAJITA JOG -  Organize the status meetings and send the Status Report to the Client and Top Management.  Involved in setting up of Configuration Management process for Silk Scripts for the product. Preparation of Testing Strategy for Acceptance Test, System Test, Regression Test and Gold CD Testing. Scheduling, Monitoring and Tracking of testing activities. Building & Mentoring offshore Team.    PROJECT: Transportation Management Client Technical Environment Test Automation Tool Position Sept. 2001 to May 2002 Manugistics Inc. – U.S.A. Oracle 8i, Windows (NT , 2000), Sun Solaris 2.8 , HP-UX 11i, AIX 5.1 Silk Test 5.0.2 Test Lead The NetWORKS Transport system was designed to generate a cost-effective transportation plan while meeting customer service shipping and delivery commitments. NetWORKS Transport automated the process of matching supply and distribution requirements to carrier resources to minimize costs and improve service through optimal shipment routing. As a Test Lead,  On-site Training at Philadelphia-USA for the Business of the Product.  Preparation of Test Plan, Testing Strategy for System Test, Regression Test and Gold CD Testing.  Scheduling, Monitoring and Tracking of testing activities. Handled a Team of 4 resources.  Preparation, updating and review of Test Cases.  Certification across different languages (French, German and Spanish). PROJECT: Demand Planning/Extended Edition (DP/EE) Client Technical Environment Test Automation Tool Position Jan. 2001 to Aug. 2001 Manugistics Inc. – U.S.A. Oracle 8i, Windows (NT , 2000), Sun Solaris 2.8 , HP-UX 11i, AIX 5.1 Silk Test 5.0.2 Test Lead DP/EE is supply chain management software, which is a decision support system for developing accurate forecasts of product demand. It is based on the Lewandowski method of advanced statistical forecasting, which calculates a forecast by analyzing actual sales data and detecting patterns in the demand history. As a Test Team Lead, 10 RAJITA JOG       - Carried out Certification activities of for Three(3) Releases. Preparation of Testing Strategy for System Test, Regression Test and Gold CD Testing. Preparation of schedules for Testing. Involved in preparation, updation and review of Test Cases., Script Execution. Involved in communication with the client and solving Technical problems Involved in building & Mentoring offshore Team. PROJECT: Material Management System [Jan 2001 to Dec. 2001] Client Technical Environment Position Vishakhapatanam Port Trust, India Oracle 8.0, Visual Basic 6.0, Crystal Reports Programmer Analyst Material Management System is developed for Vishkhapattanam Port Trust, India that maintains the stock of items in the warehouse. It involved inventory control of material in order to ensure adequate supply of materials as and when needed. It maintained different nature of inventories Dependent (components, sub-assemblies) and Independent Demand (lubricants, service parts, greases, preservatives).The system kept track of Ordering cost, Inventory Carrying cost, Out-of-stock cost. As a Programmer Analyst,:  Involved in creating Report Interface.  Involved in Development and Testing of various analytical Reports like ABC Analysis [Always Better Control], VED Classification [Vital, Essential and Desirable classification], FSN Analysis (Fast-moving, Slow-moving, Non-moving).  Coding & tuning of PL/SQL procedures. PROJECT: General Accounts System Client Technical Environment Position Jan 1998 – Dec 2000 United Nations of Geneva, Switzerland Sybase 11.0.3.2 & PowerBuilder 6.0 Team Lead The Accounts section of United Nations Office at Geneva used General Accounts System which was already present on Mainframe. The system was downsized into Client-server. The system included the Data Capture of vouchers, Verification, Certification, Approval, Rejection of Vouchers and transmitting the approved voucher to IBM. It also included the uploading the data from the Travel Agencies into Client-server and generating the Voucher into the system. As a Team Lead,  Worked on-site for 24 weeks for Preliminary Design & Functional Prototype for the system.  Involved in Detailed-Design of the system offshore.  Involved in scheduling, Monitoring and tracking of daily activities.  Involved in conducting reviews for the Components Specifications, Test Plans.  Involved in preparation & review of System Installation Manual, User Manual.  Worked on-site for 8 weeks for Implementation of the system. 11 RAJITA JOG - 1. PROJECT: Inventory System Client Technical Environment Position May 1998 - Dec. 1998 NITTSU, Japan Oracle (7.0), Unify Vision Team Lead Inventory System maintains the stock of Sun machines in the warehouse at Japan. It maintains the stock by the machines arriving at the warehouse from Sun-US, machines sold to customers, machines received in damaged condition from supplier or customers, machines sent to supplier or received from customers for repairing purpose. As a Team Lead,  Involved in Detailed Design and development for Stock Inquiry and Inventory Modules.  Involved in writing & reviewing Component Specifications and generating Test Plans for the Module.  Involved in Testing Team for Integration Testing.. 2. PROJECT: Trade Analysis System Client Technical Environment Position Nov. 1997–March 1998 International Trade Center, Geneva Sybase 11.0.3.2, PowerBuilder 5.0, SQL Anywhere (5.5), PB Internet Development Toolkit. Programmer Analyst Trade Analysis System covers the trade data from reporting countries and partner countries for the trade of products. The System is divided into 2 parts - TAS - Personal Edition which holds the trade data on CD-ROM. TAS-Enterprise System is in-house system which provides the trade data for CD-ROM. TAS - Personal and Enterprise is updated annually. As a Programmer Analyst,  Worked on the design and development of Web components for the system  Involved in Construction, Testing and Implementation of the System. Involved in creation of Installation Kit of the System.  Raymond Ltd. 1. PROJECT: Piece Rate System Client Technical Environment Position 1994 – 1997 Apr.1997 - Oct. 1997 Singhania Hospital (Thane), India Sybase 10.0.2, Power Builder 5.0 Team Lead 12 RAJITA JOG - Piece Rate System is based on the daily production of the workers. It is a standard package developed for Daily Piece-Rated computation. Monthly Data of Workers is transferred to Payroll System where actual calculation and pay slips are generated. As a Team Lead,  Involved in Designing, development, Testing and Implementation of the system.  Coding & tuning of Sybase procedures, queries & triggers.  Troubleshooting of server problems.  Involved in Development & Testing of the system. 2. PROJECT: Finished Goods Inventory System Client Technical Environment Position Apr.1997 - Nov. 1997 Park Avenue, India Sybase 10.0.2, Power Builder 4.0 Programmer Analyst The system deals with maintaining the perpetual inventory of Garments and Accessories in the multiple warehouses. Inventory is maintained at Style, Color, Size and Quality level. The current software provide business solutions for managing inventory, sale, purchase and shipping etc. It supports barcode system. It also had multiple features like Demand Forecasting, Inventory Planning, purchase order management, sale and shipping order management, scheduling warehouse appointments, automatic stock report generation, sale quotations, stock transfer. As a Programmer Analyst,  Involved in Requirements Gathering, System Design and Development of the system.  Coding & tuning of Sybase procedures, queries & triggers.  Involved in user training of the application. 3. PROJECT : Payroll Accounting System Client Technical Environment Position Nov. 1995 - Sept. 1996 Park Avenue, India Sybase 10.0.2, Power Builder 4.0 Programmer This system efficiently manages organization’s entire payroll system. It maintains Personnel Information and involves the calculation of payroll for all Employees. It also generates the Payslips of the employees, various MIS reports like Salary registers, Salary Reconciliation, Cumulative Pay slip, Cumulative Pay Register, , etc. The system also maintains the service records as well. Overall HR costs, employee Cost To Company (Estimated and Actual), departmental costs, Income-Expenditure analysis, and a host of such MIS tools are also provided with system. As a Programmer ,  Involved in Development and Testing of the system.  Involved in preparation of User Manual and User training. 13 RAJITA JOG - 4. PROJECT: Shares Accounting & Management System Client Technical Environment Position Oct. 1994 - Oct. 1995 Raymond Ltd. , India Sybase 10.0.2, APT 5.2 Programmer Shares & Debentures Management System used to handle share registration and transfer process in the share Market, It contains processing modules for Equity Shares as well as Debentures and maintains in central repository. It keeps record of Share certificates, and Share Transactions for both transferor and transferee. It calculates the interim and final Bonuses. As a Programmer,  Involved in the development of various Transaction Modules.  Involved in development of various MIS & Management Reports. Also, involved in Dividend and Bonus calculation modules.  M/s. Amritlal Chemaux Ltd. 1993 – 1994 1. PROJECT : Octroi Management System Jan. 1994 - Sept.1994 Client Mumbai Municipal Corporation, India Technical Environment Foxpro (2.5) Position Programmer Octroi Management System keeps track of key figures related to daily collection of Octroi. OMS aids in octroi consolidation across all points of collection within the boundary of the Municipal Council. The system performs automatic octroi calculation based on weight / value / quantity and generates various types of receipts. As a Programmer,  Involved in Development of the various modules like Receipt Generation, Challan Generation, Octroi Refund and security modules.  Involved in various MIS reports like Daily collection, Point collection, Head office collection  Involved in user training and preparation of User Manual. 2. PROJECT: Budgeting System Client Technical Environment Position Feb. 1993 - Jan. 1994 Mumbai Municipal Corporation, India Foxpro (2.5) Programmer Funds are allocated annually by Bombay Municipal Corp. for improvement schemes like Improving Roads, Health Services, Conservation of treess, maintenance of different properties,etc. In order to optimize the allocation of available budget funds for these 14 RAJITA JOG - schemes, Budgeting was computerized. Budgeting system was implemented at different wards in Mumbai As a Programmer,  Involved in the development various Transaction Modules, MIS Reports consisting of Daily, Monthly and Annual Reports related to Budgets of different Wards, What-If Reports 3. PROJECT : Mailer System [Feb. 1994 - May 1994] Client : M/s. Amritalal Chemaux Ltd., India Technical Environment: FoxPro (2.5) Position: Programmer Analyst Description: Mailer System is a mail-merge package developed to take care of all the documents related to business correspondence. It provides Label Generator and Letter Generator facility, which allows to selectively retrieve any, stored information and convert it into a Letter Format for mailing purpose. As Programmer Analyst,   Analysis and Development of the System. Worked on Label and Letter Generator Modules. 4. PROJECT : Budgeting System [Sept. 1993 - Jan. 1994] Client : Mumbai Municipal Corporation, India Technical Environment: FoxPro (2.5) Position: Programmer Description: Funds are allocated annually by B-Budget division of Bombay Municipal Corp. for improvement schemes like maintenance of different properties. In order to optimize the allocation of available budget funds for these schemes, Budgeting was computerized. Role: As a Programmer Analyst,  Involved in the development of Worked on Transaction Module, Report Module consisting of Daily, Monthly and Annual Reports related to Budgets of different Wards. Personal Details  Address 101, Gautam Dhara , Edulji Road, Charai, Thane (400602), India 15 RAJITA JOG -  Contact No. - (R) - (M)  Date of Birth 4-Dec-1970 16