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ASHISH RAJ

Project Management
Gandhinagar

Summary

With over 15.5 years of diverse professional experience at TCS, Wipro, and Intellect Design Arena, excelled in roles such as Project Manager, Business Analyst, Test Lead, and both Functional and Automation Test Engineer. Astute Test Lead specializing in complex banking software testing, collaborate closely with QA analysts, developers, and internal teams to ensure comprehensive testing throughout the development process. Extensive background includes working in agile development environments and conducting quality assurance testing to drive successful project outcomes.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
6006
6006
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages

Work History

Project Manager

Intellect Design Arena
Gandhinagar
07.2023 - Current
  • Successfully managed multiple projects simultaneously by prioritizing tasks according to urgency, resource availability, and alignment with organizational goals.
  • Got to work with RBC BANK(Royal Bank of Canada), M&T Bank, Santandar Bank and Northern Trust.
  • Planned, designed, and scheduled phases for large projects.
  • Identified plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives.
  • Monitored project performance to identify areas of improvement and make adjustments.
  • Developed comprehensive project plans with clear timelines, milestones, and budget requirements, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality results.
  • Coordinated cross-functional teams and resolved conflicts, maintaining a positive work environment throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Developed strong relationships with stakeholders through regular communication updates, fostering trust and confidence in the team''s ability to deliver results.
  • Collaborated closely with senior management to align project objectives with strategic company initiatives, ensuring that efforts contributed to overall business growth.
  • Enhanced overall project success by conducting thorough post-project evaluations and incorporating lessons learned into future efforts.
  • Improved stakeholder satisfaction with detailed project updates and proactive issue resolution.
  • Completed projects within tight deadlines, coordinating team efforts and prioritizing tasks effectively.
  • Facilitated workshops to collect project requirements and user feedback.
  • Provided detailed technical and operational direction in project challenges, consistently meeting deliverables according to deadlines.

Test Lead

Wipro Ltd
Pune
01.2023 - 06.2023
  • Joined Wipro on 19th January 2023 and pursuing a Senior Consultant role in BSU for Flexcube Application
  • In this role we are responsible for requirements analysis and QA and configuration activities as per country or Client requirements
  • Team also participates in the testing of the functionalities for which the configuration performed.
  • Collaborated with developers and product owners to stay current on product features and intended functionality.

Business Analyst

CitiBank, Tata Consultancy Services
Gandhinagar
04.2021 - 01.2023
  • Company Overview: Oracle FLEXCUBE provides a comprehensive, integrated, inter operable, and modular universal banking solution that enables banks to manage evolving customer expectations. A complete banking product suite for retail consumer corporate investment and internet banking consumer lending asset management and investor servicing including payments.
  • Worked for LATAM countries like Dominican Republic, Coasta Rica, Paraguay and Argentina.
  • Got to work on CASA, Loan, FT and few other modules.
  • As part of Business requirement Analysis team, we are responsible for understanding business process, studying workflows to design solutions, mapping business requirements and providing suitable solutions for resolving same.
  • Accountable for directing End-to End project life cycle, define scope, set timelines, analyze requirements, identify dependencies, evaluate risks/issues and acquired release approvals.
  • Collaborate with multiple IT teams, stakeholders on effecting project planning & delivery, costing, gap analysis, quality assurance, risk identification and complex issue solution.
  • Interacted with internal customers to understand business needs and translate into requirements and project scope, analyses requirements, identify dependences , evaluate risk/issues and acquired release approvals.
  • Review of Functional BRDs, User Stories and FRD solution documents Data Analysis and Cleanup activity.
  • Process Mapping/Definition/Modification.
  • Drafting future state process flows through Blueworks.
  • Participation in test data and test scenarios/script preparation in E2E/UAT Defect and Change Request Analysis Support.
  • Support Regression testing.
  • PVT Strategy-PVT Plan-Preparation and Sign offs.
  • Training Strategy development and Delivery.
  • Post-Production Monitoring and Issue Resolution.
  • Post Migration Support/BAU transition.
  • We integrate modules, test them for new functionalities and provide post go-live support.
  • Oracle FLEXCUBE provides a comprehensive, integrated, inter operable, and modular universal banking solution that enables banks to manage evolving customer expectations. A complete banking product suite for retail consumer corporate investment and internet banking consumer lending asset management and investor servicing including payments.

Test Lead

CitiBank, Tata Consultancy Services
Gandhinagar
06.2019 - 04.2021
  • Lead a testing team with all sprint planning, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives and daily scrums with the development team resulting in product features.
  • Working closely with developers, analyst and testers to clarify the schedule, status and details of each product.
  • Coordination with different team members to collate data and present them in the form of meaningful dashboards and reports for the management.
  • Leading and coordinating daily stand-ups, sprint demos, sprint retrospectives and backlog refinements resulting in ontime delivery.
  • Serving as the main point of contact to drive effective communication throughout all project and testing phases.
  • Maintaining the JIRA portfolio for all sprints and managing the defects.
  • Provided reports on milestones, issues and test concerns to project managers for assistance.
  • Collaborated with product owners to stay current on intended functionality.
  • Executed test cases and documented defects, confirming resolution and mitigation of defects.
  • Wrote detailed requirements to create robust test plans and realistic work estimates for testing phases.
  • Streamlined testing processes to identify areas in need of improvement.

Test Lead

CitiBank, Tata Consultancy Services
Gandhinagar
07.2017 - 05.2019
  • EPS- Electronic Payment System is digital transaction between two parties , with e-payment type that includes ACH.
  • Lockbox banking is a service provided by banks to companies for the receipt of payment from customers where payments made by customers are directed to a special post office box instead of going to the company.
  • Electronic Payment System 24X7 File Processing File Handling, Translation, Enrichment.
  • ACH and Corporate Payment handling.
  • Completed a project in waterfall model.
  • Implemented user acceptance testing with focus on documenting defects, identifying bottlenecks and executing test cases.
  • Monitored resolution of bugs, tested fixes and helped developers tackle ongoing problems by providing QA perspective.
  • Documented testing procedures for developers and future testing use.
  • Evaluated function, performance and design compliance of every product against design standards and customer needs.
  • Provided reports on milestones, issues and test concerns to project managers for assistance.
  • Collaborated with product owners to stay current on intended functionality.
  • Documented diagnostic findings in reports to inform stakeholders of product performance.

Test Lead

CitiBank, Tata Consultancy Services
Gandhinagar
06.2015 - 06.2017
  • Flexcube DDA| CASA MODULE implementation from Legacy application GRB.
  • Included myself in all the phases of testing for this application like Planning, execution, exit Doc and Signoff.
  • Completed a project in waterfall model.
  • This includes Preparing Test data, Test cases, BSM, Test Summary report, Requirement Traceability Matrix and Release Notes.
  • Led to the Business walkthrough calls.
  • Led to the Technology Walkthrough call.
  • Led Functionalities like Target Balancing, Customer Maintenance, Account maintenance, BacenJud or Amount Block etc.
  • Conducted regression testing of existing products.
  • Checked configuration files and logs to uncover root causes of problems.
  • Worked with supervisors to improve testing capabilities.
  • Trained new test employees on equipment and company guidelines to promote productive and high-quality work.
  • Collaborated with developers and product owners to stay current on product features and intended functionality.
  • Provided reports on milestones, issues and test concerns to project managers for assistance.
  • Executed test cases and documented defects, confirming resolution and mitigation of defects.

Software Tester, Test Lead

CitiBank, Tata Consultancy Services
Mumbai
01.2009 - 06.2015
  • Company Overview: EBAM(Electronic Bank Account Management) .eBAM is an online account opening and maintenance(AOM) platform that offers our clients a web based solution to manage their corporate accounts housed within different banks in different countries.
  • Included myself in all the phases of testing for this application like Planning, execution, exit Doc and Signoff.
  • This includes Preparing Test data, Test cases, BSM, Test Summary report, Requirement Traceability Matrix and Release Notes.
  • Led to the Business walkthrough calls.
  • Led to the Technology Walkthrough calls.
  • Following the production support until Defect or bugs gets resolved.
  • Collaborated with QA team to test software quality through manual and automated testing.
  • Carried out tests to identify, report and repair bugs and glitches.
  • Wrote and optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing with consistent, thorough approaches.
  • Provided reports on milestones, issues and test concerns to project managers for assistance.
  • Executed test cases and documented defects, confirming resolution and mitigation of defects.
  • Conducted regression testing of existing products.
  • Documented diagnostic findings in reports to inform stakeholders of product performance.
  • EBAM(Electronic Bank Account Management) .eBAM is an online account opening and maintenance(AOM) platform that offers our clients a web based solution to manage their corporate accounts housed within different banks in different countries.

Education

BCA -

Utkal University

Associate of Science -

Magadha University
05.2001

High School Diploma -

CBSE Board

Skills

Requirements Analysis

Quality Assurance Standards

SQL

Power BI

Quality Assurance

Automation using Selenium with (PYTHON)

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Timeline

Project Manager

Intellect Design Arena
07.2023 - Current

Test Lead

Wipro Ltd
01.2023 - 06.2023

Business Analyst

CitiBank, Tata Consultancy Services
04.2021 - 01.2023

Test Lead

CitiBank, Tata Consultancy Services
06.2019 - 04.2021

Test Lead

CitiBank, Tata Consultancy Services
07.2017 - 05.2019

Test Lead

CitiBank, Tata Consultancy Services
06.2015 - 06.2017

Software Tester, Test Lead

CitiBank, Tata Consultancy Services
01.2009 - 06.2015

BCA -

Utkal University

Associate of Science -

Magadha University

High School Diploma -

CBSE Board

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