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ARUNADITYA BAGCHI

Pune

Summary

Experienced Test Manager with a passion for delivering high-quality software solutions. Over 15 years of proven expertise in managing testing activities and coordinating teams. Successfully led testing efforts in both Waterfall and Agile methodologies, resulting in improved efficiency, reduced defects, and successful project delivery. Known for strong leadership, problem-solving, and attention to detail skills. Equipped with a Master's degree in Computer Application. Eager to contribute to a challenging and dynamic environment, excited to leverage skills and experience to drive software quality forward.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Manager

CAPGEMINI
03.2014 - Current
  • Managed the quality assurance approach for software development phases and deployment resulting in improved efficiency and reduced defects
  • Coordinated and managed testing activities across multiple teams
  • Communicated testing progress and results to project stakeholders
  • Worked collaboratively with members of operations department to improve processes and optimize productivity
  • Scope control and prioritization based on customer needs and scope change management
  • Drive creation of common standards such as design documents, traceability matrix
  • Building up new QA teams by reviewing resumes, conducting interviews and decision making
  • Partner with customer to define their requirements; elicit requirements from solution envisioning workshop
  • Conduct impact analysis of any scope changes across phases and negotiate with customer for scope prioritization
  • Review quality trends to prevent or reduce defects, determined problem causes and initiated actions for correction
  • Actively participated in automating functional and regression testing approaches to streamline software production
  • Communicated automation test results to stakeholders and different team members and highlighted potential risks

ASSOCIATE

COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS
10.2010 - 01.2014
  • Reviewed project requirements, created test scenarios and participated in testing of legacy system for update to new one
  • Designed and updated test cases to complete consistent manual tests
  • Worked with on-site teams to complete timely tests and facilitate smooth product releases
  • Consulted with product owners and developers to fully understand intended features and functionality
  • Observed all testing standards as outlined in testing approach and directed fellow employees to follow optimal protocols

Software Engineer

UST Global
07.2008 - 10.2010
  • Tested functionality, performance and compliance of each product against design specifications to maintain strong development standards and high customer satisfaction
  • Analyzed and interpreted test data and prepared technical reports
  • Implemented quality assurance testing methodologies and controls
  • Evaluated test results and prepared system-level reports to detail findings and validate system performance
  • Created JCLs and COBOL programs for testing Mainframe Applications

Education

Master of Computer Application (MCA) - Computer Applications

West Bengal University of Technology
Kolkata, India
01.2007

Bachelor of Science (BSC) -

University of Calcutta
Kolkata, India
01.2004

Skills

  • Java
  • Automation Testing
  • Functional Testing
  • Unit Testing
  • Selenium Web Driver
  • BDD
  • TestNG
  • Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA
  • Postman
  • JIRA
  • ALM
  • QTest
  • API Testing
  • Agile Methodology
  • Waterfall Methodology
  • TeamCity
  • Git Hub Actions
  • SauceLabs
  • GitHub Copilot
  • Project Planning
  • Strategic Planning
  • Team Leadership
  • Project Management
  • Decision-making

Strengths

Leadership

Led and coordinated testing activities across multiple teams, ensuring successful project delivery.

Problem-Solving

Identified and resolved complex issues and defects, resulting in improved software quality.

Attention to Detail

Thoroughly reviewed test plans and test cases, ensuring comprehensive testing coverage.

Certification

Scrum Fundamentals Certified (SFC)

Projects

Project Title: T2 Application Support – Validation and Testing

Client: LPL Financial

Organization: Capgemini Technology Services

Technology: Functional and Automation Testing

Duration of project:Apr 2024-Till Date

Description about the project: T2-Support Team is responsible for overall health of all applications. The team is newly built and QA activities includes – Regression Testing, Daily Health check Testing and Pre and Post Release testing of around 110 in scope applications.

Roles & Responsibilities:

  • Resource Fulfilment
  • Effort Estimation
  • Preparing Guidelines for test preparations (test environments, test cases/test scripts, test data, etc.)
  • Setting up the Quality Standards and providing the guidance of Improvement of processes
  • Setting up of Metrics that are relevant for the project
  • Co-ordinate with all stakeholders involved in the different phases

Project Title: Affiliation Model

Client: LPL Financial

Organization: Capgemini Technology Services

Technology: Functional and Automation Testing

Duration of project:Apr 2021- March 2024

Description about the project:Affiliation Model is to handle with Advisors affiliated with different special programs.

Employee Model program is introduced for Employee Advisors where they get rebate during Advisory Billing.

Premium Advisor program enables advisors to receive special advantages and they are charged with a fee for the premium services.

Affiliation Model deals with billing of those advisors for different Fees/Charges and benefits.

Roles & Responsibilities:

  • Resource Fulfilment
  • Review of Estimation and resourcing for each Sprint/Program Increments.
  • Preparing Guidelines for test preparations (test environments, test cases/test scripts, test data, etc.)
  • Setting up the Quality Standards and providing the guidance of Improvement of processes
  • Setting up of Metrics that are relevant for the project
  • Co-ordinate with all stakeholders involved in the different phases
  • Set up TDM environment, creating logical relationship in TDM, defining Data Subset component
  • Manage and facilitate communication related to the project with Client

Project Title: Client On boarding and Management

Client: LPL Financial

Organization: Capgemini Technology Services

Technology: Functional and Automation Testing

Duration of project:Sept 2017 –March 2021

Description about the project:Client On boarding - Bulk Upload is a system which allows financial advisors or back office users to load multiple client data together. This system helps much when an advisor is joining the firm from other firm with his/her client profile. The client data is loaded and Bulk Upload system sends request for additional paper work (Uploading LPL specific forms) which is called as Re-Papering.

Roles & Responsibilities:

  • Requirement Analysis.
  • Estimation
  • Preparing Test Strategy
  • Preparing and reviewing Test Plan
  • Preparing and reviewing System Test Cases and Automation Scripts
  • Maintenance of Automation Script
  • Writing and reviewing Test Scripts
  • Performing System Testing and monitoring the entire team.
  • Analysis of Test Results.

Project Title: LPL Imaging Services and Documents

Client: LPL Financial

Organization: Capgemini Technology Services

Technology: Functional

Duration of project:Apr 2014 – Aug 2017

Description about the project:There are 3 applications for Capturing and storing documents as Image and index the information from the document and store in DB.

The 3 applications are – CAPTIVA, IDOC and DOCUMENTUM. CAPTIVA and DOCUMENTUM are tools developed by EMC2. IDOC is the application where advisors for LPL Financial stores documents. The application manages documents along with the metadata or information for each document. I has both web and Mobile version

There are multiple projects for these applications. Some of the projects are handled in Agile and some are in waterfall model.

Roles & Responsibilities:

  • Requirement Analysis.
  • Estimation
  • Preparing Test Strategy
  • Preparing and reviewing Test Plan
  • Preparing and reviewing System Test Cases
  • Writing and reviewing Test Scripts
  • Performing System Testing and monitoring the entire team.
  • Analysis of Test Results.

Project Title: Aetna Mobile

Client: Aetna Inc.

Organization: Cognizant

Technology: Functional

Duration of project:Feb 2013 – Jan 2014

Description about the project:Aetna has functionality customized for mobile. The Aetna- Mobile allows a member to perform certain activities through mobile. The existing functionalities were Managing Claims, Coverage, Benefits, Health info, Viewing and ID card. These applications are built through Kony.

The Application is being launched in Mobile Web (for Native browsers) and Mobile App (can be downloaded and installed). So thorough testing is performed in both platforms to ensure the technical and business needs. Mobile devices used are Android; I phone (IOS) and Blackberry.

Roles & Responsibilities:

  • Requirement Analysis.
  • Estimation
  • Preparing Test Strategy
  • Preparing Device Strategy
  • Preparing and reviewing Test Plan
  • Preparing and reviewing System Test Cases
  • Analysis of Test Results

Project Title: SIT Member - IMI

Client: Aetna Inc.

Organization: Cognizant

Technology: Functional

Duration of project:Oct 2010 – Jan 2013

Description about the project:The IMI or Individual Master Index is a system to individualize members enrolled via different or same systems. The same member enrolled for health insurance coverage through different systems or different customers are identified as a single entity. If the same member is also introduced to DB with some different details, IMI has the ability to individualize the member, i.e. to make them as a single member and vice versa.

The scope of the project is to perform System Testing for quarterly Releases of SRs (System Request) and Quarterly Projects. SRs are introduced for some changes of the IMI system to handle deferred defects or modification of Services. Projects are introduced for new Services and enhancement.

As a member of System Testing Team, our responsibility is to perform complete Testing procedure which starts with Requirement Analysis and includes Test Strategy Preparation, Test Plan Preparation, Scripting, Test Execution, Test Result Analysis and Deployment Support.

Also automated the navigation of Online Interface of IMI application, Clerical Tool using Rumba Script and VB Script.

Roles & Responsibilities:

  • Requirement Analysis.
  • Estimation
  • Preparing Test Strategy
  • Preparing and reviewing Test Plan
  • Preparing and reviewing System Test Cases
  • Analysis of Test Results

Project Title: Contract Migration

Client: WellPoint

Organization: UST Global

Technology: Functional and Mainframe

Duration of project:Jul 2008 – Sep 2010

Description about the project:Present WPD system adjudication requires manual intervention, the conditions are presented to the analyst and the potential BAGs are configured and displayed for selection. Auto bagging uses the new eWPD database to make adjudication an automated process, requiring limited manual intervention. Present adjudication system is based on Legacy System this is a strategic decision to migrate from Legacy to ETS – Auto bagging System.

A number of Colorado and Nevada contracts are migrated till Nov 2009. In Phase II some California contracts were chosen for Migration. From July 2010, a next set of Colorado and Nevada contracts are to be migrated. The mainframe team is responsible for setting up the contracts in Mainframe system.

Also various no of reports are generated to deliver to clients. Code fixes and enhancements for small system changes are also done.

Before migration Functional-Testing is performed to test the new systems functionalities. Also after small system changes, system testing is performed.

Roles & Responsibilities:

  • Requirement Analysis.
  • Estimation
  • Preparing Test Strategy
  • Preparing Test Plan
  • Preparing and System Test Cases
  • Analysis of Test Results

Timeline

Manager

CAPGEMINI
03.2014 - Current

ASSOCIATE

COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS
10.2010 - 01.2014

Software Engineer

UST Global
07.2008 - 10.2010

Master of Computer Application (MCA) - Computer Applications

West Bengal University of Technology

Bachelor of Science (BSC) -

University of Calcutta
ARUNADITYA BAGCHI