Vinay Pratap C-503,Gardenia Square Crossing Republik Ghaziabad,UP-201016

Mail To: er.vinnay@gmail.com Cell: 91-9310484112

O b j e c t i v e

To be an active member of an established business group where values like sincerity, loyalty and dedicated hard work are appreciated and rewarded suitably where development of the employees are taken care of along with the growth of the organization.

P r o f e s s i o n a l S y n o p s y s

Goal oriented Software QA lead, with total 10Yrs of experience out of which more than 8.5 Yrs in the IT Industry. I have proven expertise in Software QA lead roles, building highly successful teams, innovating and directing high-impact and cost-effective testing strategies, framework, and Quality resulting in technological and commercial success for the organizations.

Presently associated with Sapient Consulting Pvt Limited, Noida, India as QA Lead. Responsible for Managing QA activity, Customer / Stakeholder Management, Work

prioritization, Task tracking / monitoring, Risk Management, Onsite-offshore co-ordination, Status reporting (internal and to client), Establishing and monitoring Issue and Change Management, Reviewing status of the project and taking corrective measures as required, Resource Planning, Performance Management.

Manage client relationships (expectations, communications, negotiations, escalation, feedback, etc.) and proactively manage all risks and escalates accordingly. Collect and analyze client project feedback to understand health and take action where required.

Managed a combined team of 10 associates. Worked with teams across multiple continents: USA, India, UK

Experience in Test Automation frame work creation, using QTP, Selenium and SOAP UI. Acquires a clear understanding in Retail Banking, Payment Gateway Credit Union Banking,

Commercial and Investment banking along with E-commerce and finance domains with the distinction of instituting new practices to achieve business excellence.

Possess excellent interpersonal, communication and analytical skills with demonstrated abilities in customer relationship management.

Good Expertise in Software Testing of Applications in BFSI – Banking and Financial Service, Investment Banking Payment Gateway, Mobile application and ecommerce domain.

Expertise and thorough understanding of (manual/automated) Testing Procedures, Test Estimation, Test Planning, Risk Identification Strong Expertise in Functional, Integration, Usability testing, Mobile Application, Payment Gateway testing ,API testing Regression testing Database testing, Acceptance testing and conducting quality assurance by taking stringent quality measures.

Expertise in HP ALM(QC 11.5) and JIRA test management tool with SVN, Share Point and VSS as configuration management tool.

Having expertise and hands-on on creating various QA artefacts like Test Plan, test strategy RTM, Project Health Report, Weekly Status Report, Defect Triage , Root Cause Analysis etc..

Root Cause Analysis etc..S u m m a r y o f Q u a l i fi c a t i o n

B.E. (with 72%) in Computer Science & Engineering from the Rajiv Gandhi Technical University, Bhopal (M.P.)

O r g a n i z a t i o n E x p e r i e n c e

Sapient Consulting PVT ltd. Delhi, as QA Lead - Since Sep 13th 2010 to till date. Fiserv Global Services (Fortune 500 Company) Noida, as Test Engineer- since May 26 th 2008

to Sep 2010 Quinnox Consultancy Services Pvt. Ltd, Pune as Consultant - since Feb 05th 2007 to May

09th 2008 Worked as Lecturer for MCA department of ‘Jayant Rao Swant college of Engineering

Pune’ from July 24th 2006 to Feb 3rd 2007

Worked as Lecturer for MCA department of ‘D.Y Patil Institute of Management And

Research Pune’ from Aug 22nd 2005 to July 22nd 2006Technical & Domain Skill

Used ALM (QC), JIRA and result space as test management and reporting tool. Worked on QTP 11.5 and Selenium Wewbdriver as test automation tool. Worked on SOAP UI tool for web services/API testing Well verged with SQL queries Used SVN, SharePoint and VSS as configuration management tool. Worked in BFSI, Investment Banking, Payment gateway and ecommerce (ATG) domain. Having sound knowledge of : Fixed Income, Money Market, Credit Risk ,Bond, Equity, Loan, T-

bill, CP, Credit Notes, SWAP, Option ,Future, Trading desk, Front Office application etc. Having hands-on in Functional, UI, Accessibility, Mobile, API, Database, Regression and

Integration Testing.

P r o j e c t s H a n d l e d

Sapient Consulting, Noida (13th SEP 2010-Present)

Project#1.European Dataware House:

A central repository for ABS loan-level data in Europe.it was setup to meet the following objectives:

• Restore confidence in the European securitization market • Bring standardization and consistency to ABS loan-level data reporting• Improve access to ABS data through a data warehouse infrastructure• Support risk, collateral, compliance and statistic management objectives for structured finance

assetsProject#2.Trade Allocator

Client: Bain Capital

The goal of this project is to implement a rules engine for trade allocation, system to make the allocation and management of trade, provide the traded data as input other internal system for market/trade analysis, also enable the traders to create recommendation for future trading and analysis of different portfolios.

Project#3.Fiserv CPS(Card Processing System):

Client: Fiserv Inc(US)

Fiserv Credit Processing Services (CPS) provides a web service interface to retrieve credit card transaction data and maintain account information. It also provides the ability to create new data in CPS such as notes and new card requests.

Project#4.Global Premier Customer: HSBC Bank

The Global Premier Re-Launch Program (HSBC Bank) comprises five Functional Pillars; one of which is International Services. A key tenet of this pillar is the provision of enhanced Internet Banking capabilities to selected customers.

These new capabilities comprise four new functional capabilities:

1. Provide single view of account balances with other HSBC entities.2. Launch a PIB session from another PIB session 3. Link in a PIB system to a ‘primary’ denominated PIB system.4. Effect me-to-me international transfers.All new capabilities are to be designed as ‘adjuncts’ to existing PIB systems – in other words the customer experience is one where the new capabilities appear as an extension to the existing Internet Banking service rather than a new service for which customers need to register for.

Responsibilities Handled Currently handling the QA team of 10 people, having manual as well as automation (Selenium)

track, with Development and production support mode. Managing QA task and delivery. Resource allocation, efforts estimation, risk identification and delegate task for routine

activities. Day to day issue and query resolution of team like requirement, automation approach, test

strategy etc, Sync-up with Development team as well as client for defect and requirement discussion. Client handling, like status reporting, daily sync-up on status, Negotiation on estimates and

time line. Gathering requirement from client. Enhance QA methodology for test and defect management and tools supporting processes. Feasibility analysis for automation. High and low level Effort estimation. Designed and developed test Plan and strategy documents. Review of test deliverable like manual and automation test script, traceability matrix etc. Decide approaches for regression suite automation.

Rewards and Recognitions

NCFM certification : Financial Markets: A Beginners' Module Awarded with ‘Super-Nova’ award for demonstrating excellent leadership quality QA lead in

Sapient Consulting Awarded with Team Award for outstanding performance as a team member from HSBC GLT Awarded with Shining Star Award From Fiserv India Pvt Ltd. Cleared 14 Module of Basic of US Financial System certification from CUES

(An independent professional development association designed exclusively for credit union executives).

PCI-DSS Certified Client Focus Deliver award(Quarterly) From Sapient

Personal Details

Name: Vinay Pratap Marital Status: Married DOB: 27th feb 1982 Willing To Relocate: Yes