Kunal Pramod Patil

The details of the various key assignments that I have handled in TATA Consultancy Services for different Clients are listed below, in reverse chronological order.

Client: CIBC (Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce)

Period: 06/2017 – Till date

Work Location: Toronto, Canada

Role: Sr. QA Lead in Robotics Process Automation

Domain: Banking and Financial Services

Responsibilities:

• Requirement analysis, attend walkthrough meetings with business.
• Coordination with offshore team, attend daily meetings with offshore and get the updates.
• Attend daily meeting and huddles as onsite lead/coordinator and provide daily updates to management.
• Review test case design as per PDD requirements and provide comments to offshore team.
• Prepare project estimates #days required for analysis, test data preparation, SIT and UAT execution and get all the approvals from business.
• Prepare Test Strategy/plan for the overall project, prepare Test Entry and exit criteria.
• Review Test Plan and Test cases with business before SIT execution
• Test Execution in Blue Prism - Control room and process studio.
• Test execution using Multi BOT testing.
• Identify Regression scenarios and test cases and get execution done from offshore team. Provide daily updates to client and management.
• Schedule UAT Demo with business after SIT completion and get all the approvals from Business to promote the process to Production.
• Agile Testing - Attend Spring Planning meetings, daily scrum meetings, Sprint retrospective etc. as a part of Agile project.
• Involve in Pilot testing and support after server implementation.
• Offshore team management and represent client on the daily progress.

Client: BMO (Bank of Montreal)

Period: 04/2012 – 06/2017

Work Location: Toronto, Canada

Role: Sr. QA Lead

Domain: Banking and Financial Services

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of TLA (Test Level Agreement) and Test plan document, conducting review meetings with business to get approval for TLA and Test Plan.
• Involved in the Requirement gathering activities from business, make sure that onshore and offshore team is having proper understanding on the business requirements and setup required meetings with BA.
• Attend meetings/calls with Project Manager and provide daily updates.
• Preparation of Test scenarios, test cases and co-ordination with offshore team. Conducting review meetings with business to get approval for test scenarios and test cases.
• Co-ordination within a team for Internal review of test plan and test cases before sharing to the external teams (Business/Stakeholders, Project Manager, Dev team, Business Analyst etc.).
• Online application testing, test verification using Star tool and DB2(run queries).
• Managing onshore and offshore team. Co-ordination and daily sync up calls with onshore and offshore.
• Defect Tracking and Reporting. Highlighting issues in daily discussion forums.
• Co-ordination with Environment team and schedule for offline runs.
• Manage test case execution. Co-ordinate with offshore team. Keep tracking on the execution on daily basis, get status from offshore team.
• Daily interaction (meetings/calls) with the Clients / Project Manager / Dev Team.
• Support to E2E team to execute end to end scenarios.
• Identify and execute the regression test pack.
• Prepare QA Sign-off letter after completing all the QA activities and share with project teams.
• UAT Support – Provide support to Business team to execute UAT scenarios and arrange necessary setup for the business users.
• Implementation Support – Involved in production support activities before moving code to the production and post production support.

Client: British Telecom, UK

Period: 05/2009 – 03/2012

Work Location: Pune, India

Role: Sr. Quality Engineer

Domain: Telecom.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible in Network Reporting part of the project. Testing was performed on the UNIX OS.
• Preparation of the Test scenario, test case design.
• Responsible in test case execution activities.
• Highlight the risks/critical/blockers in daily discussion forums.
• Involved in Onshore-Offshore co-ordination. Attend calls with Onshore lead, get new CR related information and share information among team members at offshore.
• Responsible to send Status Report to Onsite coordinator.

Client: National City Corporation, USA

Period: 10/2008 – 05/2009

Work Location: Pune, India

Role: Software QA Engineer

Domain: Banking and Financial Services

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for writing test cases on the assigned modules.
• Responsible in Test Case Review activity.
• Involved in test case execution.
• Involved in test case execution as well as raising defect in HP QC.
• Responsible for requirement mapping with the test cases.
• Analysis and review the Test Cases prepared by other team members.

Client: Saudi Telecom Company (STC)

Period: 08/2007 – 09/2008

Work Location: Mumbai, India

Role: Software QA Engineer

Domain: Telecom

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for writing scenarios, test cases and review activities.
• Responsible for distributing tasks among team members at offshore.
• Involved in Test Cases execution for Functional, Integration and System testing and Test Data preparation.
• Identify regression scenarios and execution
• Involved in Sanity testing and creating sanity checklist in each project.
• Provide training to new joiner and update KT documents periodically.
• Highlight defects/issues in a daily discussion forum.
• Attend onshore-offshore meeting on daily basis and provide individual project updates.

The details of the key assignments that I have handled in LnT Infotech are listed below.

Client: Guy Carpenter, USA

Period: 01/2006 – 08/2007

Work Location: Pune, India

Role: Software QA Engineer

Domain: Insurance

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Business Requirements of the client and accordingly create understanding docs and the test cases.
• Responsible for testing quality checks for the client deliverable before sharing with onshore lead.
• Involved in test scenario preparation, test case creation and execution
• Responsible for creating testing setup for Sanity testing.
• Responsible for verifying change requests and tickets on production environment and sending reports to the onshore lead.
• Responsible for executing Regression Test cases after every new build and send results.