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Work History
Education
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Software
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Personal Information
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Manager

AMAR NATH DEO

QA Manager / Test Architect
Bengaluru,KA

Summary

Encouraging manager and analytical problem-solver with talents for team building, leading and motivating. Proficient in using independent decision-making skills and sound judgment to positively impact company success. Dedicated to applying training, monitoring and morale-building abilities to enhance employee engagement and boost performance. Having 15+ years' experience specialized in Team Handling, Agile delivery, QA Management, Service Management, Technical leading, monitoring and controlling the effort of Banking and Finance Systems.

  • Involved in project and resource estimation, scheduling, internal and external communication, stakeholder management, project tracking, escalation management.
  • Experience in handling multiple projects with seamless delivery.
  • Experience across all project phases, including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control.
  • Effective communicator with interpersonal abilities and total commitment to project delivery
  • Experienced in building & leading high-caliber teams of professionals.
  • Experience in formulating robust test strategies, test plan, setting up methodology & processes.
  • Experience in Agile, Iterative and conventional waterfall SDLCs.
  • Experienced developing and maintaining Test Automation framework for SOAP/REST Webservices/API's and performance testing of Enterprise Applications and SOA based applications.
  • Evaluate training needs (technical, role based) and get the required training programs implemented.

Overview

2
2
Certifications
8
8
years of post-secondary education
17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Project Manager -Testing (Technical)

Fidelity Information Services
Bangalore, KA
04.2009 - Current
  • Supporting the Delivery Manager in achieving their strategic goals for the Test Team by providing technical support to the team.
  • Formulate test strategies, test plans and detailed test cases as per the business requirements.
  • Adjusted project plans to account for dynamic targets, staffing changes and operational specifications.
  • Defining the scope of testing within the context of each release / delivery; Planning, deploying and managing the testing effort for any given engagement.
  • Possess broad awareness of testing approaches, practices and techniques in order to help design and deliver the overall testing methodology used by the team.
  • Identify what tools and technologies can be implemented, aligning with that already used across the broader development function and in-line with the skill-set of the team.
  • Design and develop the test automation framework, harnesses and code libraries to enable the team to both use and enhance them across successive projects.
  • Take responsibility for test infrastructure including environments and software, liaising with teams such as DevOps and Support in areas such as CI/CD.
  • Driving the automation effort in terms of scope, strategy and delivery.
  • Supervising and managing testing activities, risks and dependencies.
  • Deploying and managing resources for testing for multiple scrum teams.
  • Conducting meeting such as Defect triage, QA update and SOS to ensure communication across the team to ensure seamless delivery.
  • Close interaction with global Business and Development teams to synchronize QA activities.
  • Manage test planning and monitor test execution cycles till successful business sign-off and release.
  • Collate different project metrics and detailed status reports, handle regular communication with business and technology stakeholders.
  • Identify gaps in current testing methodologies /processes, formulate and implement improvement plan.
  • Mentor team members and managing their performance reviews

Senior Product Engineer

Symphony Services India Pvt. Ltd
Pune, MH
08.2008 - 03.2009
  • Enhance test frameworks and develop automated tests using Quick Test Professional to ensure consistency.
  • Develop and execute test automation through QTP.
    Estimate test accurately and coordinate with team members for work activities.
  • Apply, design and develop automated testing strategies and build automated testing frameworks.
  • Analyze and verify best automated and manual test approaches and execute acceptance, integration and system testing.
  • Record test results and report and verify software bug fixes to accept automation criteria.
  • Answer technical issues to resolve and follow up.
  • Review of functional specifications, test scenario creation and reviews, test case creation and reviews.
  • Identification of test cases for automation candidates and estimation.
  • Assigned and monitored automation tasks among team members, collecting matrices, maintaining daily/weekly status to onsite coordinator/client, status meetings etc.
  • Participated in recruitment drives for Functional /Automation Testing Resources.
  • Conducted training sessions on QTP

Associate-Project

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Pune, MH
03.2007 - 07.2008
  • Enhance test frameworks and develop automated tests using Quick Test Professional.
  • Develop and execute test automation through QTP.
  • Identifying and selecting the automation test cases
  • Creating, enhancing, debugging, and running the test cases
  • Managing the changes and executing regression tests
  • Coming up with exact solutions for problems related to object identity and error handling
  • Interacting with customers/clients to solve the various issues they face and updating on the situation

Member-Technical

IAP Company Ltd
Gurgaon, HR
09.2006 - 02.2007
  • Review and analyze system specifications
  • Collaborate with QA Engineers to develop effective strategies and test plans
  • Created/ Execute Manual test cases and analyze results
  • Evaluate product code according to specifications
  • Create logs to document testing phases and defects
  • Report bugs and errors to development teams
  • Help troubleshoot issues

Professional Consultant

Silicon Biztech India Pvt. Ltd
Gurgaon, HR
03.2006 - 09.2006
  • Review and analyze system specifications
  • Created/ Execute Manual test cases and analyze results
  • Evaluate product code according to specifications
  • Create logs to document testing phases and defects
  • Report bugs and errors to development teams

IT Executive

Samsung India Pvt. Ltd.
New Delhi, Delhi
02.2002 - 07.2004
  • Installing and configuring computer hardware, software, systems, networks, printers, and scanners
  • Monitoring and maintaining computer systems and networks
  • Responding in a timely manner to service issues and requests
  • Providing technical support across the Service Center
  • Setting up accounts for new users
  • Repairing and replacing equipment as necessary

Education

Master in Computer Application (MCA) - Computer Application

IGONU
New Delhi
04.2002 - 06.2004

Advance Diploma in Information Technology - Computer And Information Sciences

IGNOU
New Delhi
12.2000 - 12.2002

Bachelor of Science - Math

Vinoba Bhave University
Hazarinagh
06.1996 - 12.1999

Skills

    Automation Testing

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Accomplishments

  • Increased productivity motivating team with positive reinforcement and setting achievable goals.
  • Conducted the SOS call to discuss the blockers and get it addressed immediately which improved delivery timelines greatly.
  • Implemented significant improvement in automation approach to reduce the regression cycle and reduce effort by 60% in execution for Web Services an UI.
  • Implemented review process for Test cases and Test script by peer and BA review also implemented BA testing to ensure quality and reduce defect leakage by 20%.

Software

QTP/UFT

SOAPUI

Postman

REST Assured

Selenium

Load Runner

JIRA

ALM (Quality Center)

JMeter

Dynatrace

Appium

BDD, Cucumber

VSS, MKS, TFS

VBScript, Groovy

Additional Information

1. Project Name: Enterprise Costumer (EC)

Role: Test Manager / Test Architect

Tools &Technologies: SOAP UI, Selenium, Postman, Test Rail, JIRA Description: Enterprise Customer is a part of FIS’s Enterprise Banking Components suite providing financial institution with a comprehensive solution for customer information management, across lines of businesses. It is an operational customer data management solution that delivers real time master information of the customer and prospects not just to bank agents but also different processing systems. It allows institutions to promulgate a consistent and complete view of customer relationships to internal as well as customer facing channels.

2. Project Name: Limit and Exposure (LnE)

Role: Technical Test Lead,

Tools &Technologies: SOAP UI, SharePoint, JMeter, TFS and Agile-Scrum

Description: The Limit and Exposure (“LNE”) management solution will help banks manage credit risk by providing a view of credit exposure across the Financial Entity (“FE”). The component will provide a consolidated view of direct and indirect credit limits, usage and availability for all active customers and customer groups across the bank’s various lines of business (“LOB”).

3. Project Name: Common Arrangement Processing Engine (CAPE),

Role: Technical Test Lead

Tools &Technologies: SOAPUI, JIRA, JMeter

Description: CAPE is the Common Arrangement Processing Engine designed to handle Core Arrangement Set-up, Charging and Transaction Processing requirements of arrangements belonging to various product lines. The objective is to build a generic “framework” covering the common processing across product lines which can further be extended by each product line according to their business requirements.

4. Project Name: ACBS Add-on components-CashLink

Role: Technical Lead

Tools &Technologies: SOAPUI, QTP, QC, SharePoint, JMeter

Description: ACBS is world leading Commercial Lending system it consists of integrated functional modules that support the lending process from deal building through servicing and trading.

5. Project Name: Billpointe

Role: Sr. Automation Test Analyst,

Tools &Technologies: QTP, QC, SharePoint, MKS, Agile-Scrum

Description: BillPointe is a single-source, user-friendly solution for payment acceptance anytime, any way and anywhere. It gives your customers the ability to pay your bill wherever, whenever and however they want. Whether they prefer to pay online, over the phone or in-person, through the mail, by check, credit card or debit, your customers will appreciate the fast, secure and efficient. It is an electronic bill presentation and payment acceptance system handled through a single point.

6. Project Name: Tremor Media (ACUDEO)

Role: Sr. Automation Test Analyst

Tools &Technologies: Charles, Fiddler, Rally, Agile-Scrum

Description: Tremor Media is WEB-application that allows the user to play various videos with Ads and allows the clients to create programs that are displayed on user side and collects statistics regarding played Ads and Videos, playing time, user IP and so on. Tremor provides publishers with a full suite of products and services to monetize streaming video. It provides advertisers with both in-banner and in-stream video advertising opportunities.

7. Project Name: Business Workflow Management System (BWMS)

Role: Automation Test Analyst Tools &Technologies: QTP8.2, Test Director, TOAD

Description: Business Workflow Management System (BWMS) is a banking domain project for Card Services. It can assist staff in executing the relevant business processes in a consistent manner across all customer channels. This deals with all levels of queries and solutions related to card. This application is vitally used by customer care executives to handle all the queries of their customers. BWMS implements dozens of processes - documented as use cases. Some are relatively simple, but many contain complex deferred workflow, updating multiple systems and coordinating activities with back office functions. The implementation also includes full audit trail functionality and management reporting.

Certification

HP0 –M16 (QTP) from Mercury

Affiliations

  • Received SOQ award in Fidelity Information Services.
  • Received FAIM award in Fidelity Information Services
  • Received MAD award in Fidelity Information Services
  • Received SPOT award in Symphony Services.

Interests

Reading

Sports

Social Work

Personal Information

Nationality : Indian
Date of Birth : 03-Oct-1977
Passport : M5075594, Expiry Date: -05/01/2025
Marital Status : Married

Declaration

I hereby declare that all the information given by me in this application is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Signature : Amar Nath Deo

Timeline

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe 4.6)

10-2019

Senior Project Manager -Testing (Technical)

Fidelity Information Services
04.2009 - Current

Senior Product Engineer

Symphony Services India Pvt. Ltd
08.2008 - 03.2009

Associate-Project

Cognizant Technology Solutions
03.2007 - 07.2008

HP0 –M16 (QTP) from Mercury

10-2006

Member-Technical

IAP Company Ltd
09.2006 - 02.2007

Professional Consultant

Silicon Biztech India Pvt. Ltd
03.2006 - 09.2006

Master in Computer Application (MCA) - Computer Application

IGONU
04.2002 - 06.2004

IT Executive

Samsung India Pvt. Ltd.
02.2002 - 07.2004

Advance Diploma in Information Technology - Computer And Information Sciences

IGNOU
12.2000 - 12.2002

Bachelor of Science - Math

Vinoba Bhave University
06.1996 - 12.1999
AMAR NATH DEOQA Manager / Test Architect