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Ankit Khatri

Ankit Khatri

IT Professional-Test Manager
Lucknow,UP

Summary

11+ years of comprehensive IT industry experience working as business analyst and test lead. Delivered quality projects specializing in core banking system, payments and supply chain. Successfully facilitated end to end testing projects using agile and waterfall methodology. Profound in test planning, test execution, defect lifecycle management, risk assessment and mitigation. Ensure enriched client experience by constantly striving for continuous improvement, standardization of processes and automation penetration. Defining and implementing Project Strategies covering all testing activities within each project. Represent testing at all key project meetings and provide a single point of accountability and escalation for testing within the project. The development and ownership of testing documentation in line with HSBC standards. Managing the risk and the quality of deliverables against scope, budget and schedules. Provide on-going input into the overall process improvement of the Testing discipline within CDD. Establish effective working relationships with other areas of HSBC related in the end-to-end testing cycle (eg Business, Information Security & Risk, Change Delivery etc), the testing sign-off and recommendations for the production release. Lead the test team by providing a proper vision with a confirmed plan, strategy and a clear action. Ensure development projects are delivered on time, meet business requirements and fulfil end-user requirements. Assist with identifying and resolving systems issues.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Lead software Engineer

PERSISTENT
04.2023 - Current
  • Promos Project:- Promos are kind of coupons provided to customer to get extra discount depending on items.
  • Analyzing the business requirements in the Agile Meetings like Pre-Grooming and Grooming.
  • Impact Analysis.
  • Designing (Test case preparation, High Level and Detailed Level Design)
  • Proper gathering of requirements, doing analysis and then writing Test Cases.
  • Data setup in mainframes tables.
  • Creating JCL and Cobol code analyzing.
  • Automation test cases using Leapwork.
  • Test Cases upload to Azure DevOps, finding the defects, and raising it to Azure DevOps.
  • Follow up on the defects and after it is resolved retesting the same then uploading proper comments on the same.
  • Lead functional and automation testing teams and test data teams.
  • Driven strategy for test data management for lower environments including data anonymization and data reduction sub-projects.
  • Implement, maintain and improve test team principles and strategy that address all aspects of the Test process.
  • Ensure the test function follows an auditable robust process where controls can be evidenced.
  • Enhance processes without adding unnecessary red tape or admin overhead.
  • Ensure test automation is used effectively to minimize test cycle timescales while maintaining high-quality standards.
  • Coach project and scrum teams in proper test procedure, and review techniques used for all types of testing practiced in the test function.
  • Produce project estimates and work closely with the Development Manager to ensure project work is delivered to required timescales and quality levels.
  • Work alongside business analysts, scrum masters, and project managers to understand business goals/drivers and deliver testing artifacts to the required timescales.
  • Provide regular reports to senior management to demonstrate the progress of the test function.
  • Participate in project meetings with business stakeholders to understand and deliver projects.
  • Responsible for test improvement and optimization.

Lead software Engineer

Teksystems
08.2021 - 03.2023
  • Project UK2G Switcher
  • Analyzing the business requirements in the Agile Meetings like Pre-Grooming and Grooming.
  • Impact Analysis.
  • Designing (Test case preparation, High Level and Detailed Level Design)
  • Proper gathering of requirements, doing analysis and then writing Test Cases.
  • Data setup in mainframes tables.
  • API Testing with Postman.
  • API automation test cases using TOSCA.
  • Test Cases upload to JIRA and finding the defects and raising it to JIRA.
  • Follow up on the defects and after it resolved retesting the same then uploading proper comments on the same.
  • Lead functional and automation testing teams and test data team.
  • Driven strategy for test data management for lower environments including data anonymization and data reduction sub projects.
  • Implement, maintain and improve test team principles and strategy that address all aspects of the Test process.
  • Ensure the test function follows an auditable robust process where controls can be evidenced.
  • Enhance processes without adding unnecessary red tape or admin overhead.
  • Ensure test automation is used effectively to minimize test cycle timescales while maintaining high quality standards.
  • Coach project and scrum teams in proper test procedure, review techniques used for all types of testing practiced in the test function.
  • Produce project estimates and work closely with the Development Manager to ensure project work is delivered to required timescales and quality levels.
  • Work alongside business analysts, scrum masters and project managers to understand business goals/drivers and deliver testing artefacts to the required timescales.
  • Provide regular reports to senior management to demonstrate progress of the test function.
  • Participate in project meetings with business stakeholders to understand and deliver projects.
  • Responsible for test improvement and optimization.

Senior software Engineer

Lowe’s
08.2020 - 08.2021
  • CCPA: CCPA stands for the California Consumer Privacy Act. It is a new data privacy law that provides privacy rights to California residents. Below are the task we usually perform.
  • Define test strategy, test plan, defect management, publish status reports for system and integration tests.
  • Give input on critical release timelines, testing timelines, define entry exit criteria.
  • Drive data anonymization, data reduction and test data management in test environment.
  • Active participant in PI planning, scrum meeting and drive daily stand ups.
  • Involved deeply in user acceptance testing, finding defects alongside with the client and follow them until closure.
  • Initiate and drive best practices and lessons learned sessions.
  • Understanding the requirements, break it down to doable pieces and making them understand to the team as well.

Lead Consultant

ITC Infotech
05.2019 - 08.2020
  • Loyalty: Giving extra discounts to privilege customers. Below are the task we usually perform.
  • Analyzing the business requirements in the Agile Meetings like Pre-Grooming and Grooming.
  • Impact Analysis.
  • Designing (Test case preparation, High Level and Detailed Level Design)
  • Proper gathering of requirements, doing analysis and then writing Test Cases.
  • Data setup in mainframes tables.
  • Test Cases upload to JIRA and finding the defects and raising it.

Consultant

Capgemini
05.2016 - 03.2019
  • Credit Dormancy: - Customer/Bank accounts not used more than 1 year for saving and 2 year for current are put to dormant. Below are the task we usually perform.
  • Analyzing the business requirements.
  • Impact Analysis.
  • Designing (Test case preparation, High Level and Detailed Level Design)
  • Proper gathering of requirements, doing analysis and then writing Test Cases.
  • Data setup in mainframes tables.
  • Given Knowledge transfer to team members.
  • Creating JCL from scratch and then executing them. Resolving abends.
  • Test Cases upload to QC and finding the defects and raising it to QC tool.

SOFTWARE Engineer

Syntel Pvt.ltd.
03.2014 - 04.2016
  • Yankee Project: - Apple Pay Concepts provided extra discount to count customer on Iphone6 when buying with Amex card.
  • Write test scenarios, test cases and test scripts adhering to the requirements ensuring 100% coverage.
  • Recognized as subject matter expert for the project functional knowledge and quality of defects identified.
  • Create business user training material on how to use the new features introduced in a release.
  • Authoring and updating test scenarios and scripts on ALM V.11.
  • Reporting bugs with clarity, precision, accuracy and detailed information using HP QC.
  • Work on test maintenance requests, production requests and work requests in pre prod environment.

Education

B.Tech - ECE

Uttar Pradesh Technical University

Skills

  • Self-motivated
  • Effective communicator
  • Result oriented
  • Meticulous
  • Analytical skills
  • Team player
  • Business analyst
  • Test scope identification
  • Test cycle management
  • Defect management
  • Test management tools
  • ALM
  • Qtest
  • Defect lifecycle management
  • JIRA
  • Report extraction
  • Metrics extraction
  • Payment knowledge
  • Stakeholder management
  • Requirement elicitation
  • SIT testing
  • UAT testing
  • Defect identification
  • Root cause analysis
  • Severity designation
  • Priority designation
  • Triage
  • Agile methodologies
  • Scrum
  • Sprint planning
  • Project milestone planning
  • User story acceptance criteria
  • Test strategy
  • Test plan
  • Forecasting estimate
  • Test infrastructure
  • Release planning
  • Resource planning
  • Waterfall model
  • Automation tool assessment
  • Suitable framework identification
  • Production incident analysis
  • Cause assessment
  • Mitigation measures
  • DB's SQL
  • Oracle
  • Functional Testing
  • System Testing
  • Regression Testing
  • Integration Testing
  • Exploratory Testing
  • Interface Testing
  • API testing
  • Point to point testing
  • End to end testing
  • Test summary reports
  • Weekly status reports
  • Requirement understanding
  • GAP analysis
  • AS-IS analysis
  • TO-BE analysis
  • Requirement document analysis
  • JIRA stories analysis

Certification

  • ISTQB Certified
  • CP-MAT (Certified Professional Master Agile Testing)
  • IBM- DB2 Certified
  • Katalon Expert Certification, 2027-12-31
  • Tricentis Testim Certified
  • Playwright 102 Certified

Accomplishments

  • Appreciated by client for identifying the processes for Demand Management and providing a quick and effective approach for solution to the problem.
  • Got SMART Award for RTF Tool from Syntel Ltd.
  • Received Award from Client-HSBC for Automation of the mainframe file idea.
  • Received Customer Excellence Delivery Award from ITC Infotech.
  • Received Bravo Awards from Persistent Systems for Outstanding Proactiveness for Client work.

Tools Used

  • HP QTP/UFT
  • TOSCA
  • HP Quality Center (QC) 11.5
  • JIRA
  • TSO/ISPF
  • RACF
  • Control-M
  • SUPER-C
  • SDSF
  • FTP
  • JCL
  • VSAM
  • CICS
  • COBOL
  • DB2 UTILITIES
  • POSTMAN
  • Microsoft Office
  • Jenkins
  • QTEST
  • POWER BI
  • Leapwork
  • Azure DevOps

Timeline

Senior Lead software Engineer

PERSISTENT
04.2023 - Current

Lead software Engineer

Teksystems
08.2021 - 03.2023

Senior software Engineer

Lowe’s
08.2020 - 08.2021

Lead Consultant

ITC Infotech
05.2019 - 08.2020

Consultant

Capgemini
05.2016 - 03.2019

SOFTWARE Engineer

Syntel Pvt.ltd.
03.2014 - 04.2016

B.Tech - ECE

Uttar Pradesh Technical University
Ankit KhatriIT Professional-Test Manager