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Avijit Mishra

Avijit Mishra

Sr.Business Analyst and Test Engineering Consultant
Pune

Summary

Dynamic IT professional with over 16 years of industry experience, ready to excel in a new role that offers growth and advancement opportunities. Skilled in bridging the gap between business and IT stakeholders to successfully deliver complex projects through data analysis, system integration, and process optimization. Accomplished in designing and implementing DevOps and CICD solutions for DWH projects, with a diverse background in roles such as Test Manager, Business Analyst, Test Lead, and Individual contributor. Demonstrated success in presales consulting, stakeholder management, and development of automation solutions for clients. Proven track record of creating test documents, test strategy solutions, and collaborating with project teams to deploy test solutions using automation tools and SQL scripts. Recognized for reducing overall testing hours by 20-30% through optimization of automation test scripts in SQL for regulatory compliance projects. Experienced in enhancing SQL automation queries for increased efficiency in large data warehouse projects. Skilled in working with cross-functional teams and geographically dispersed customer bases. Proficient in eliciting requirements, developing manuals, and job aids. Strong ability to manage end-to-end test solutions and execute projects within specified time, quality, and cost parameters. Quick to adapt to new technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the cloud/IT technology space. Effective team leader with exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.

Overview

2026
2026
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
7
7
Certifications
2
2
Languages

Work History

Test Execution Admin/SME-Lead to Quote

Teradata
Pune
08.2024 - Current
  • Spearheaded 30+ UAT test scenarios under the guidance of the Test Champion
  • Represented the LTQ stream in Defect Triage Calls, ensuring effective communication and resolution of issues
  • Executed UAT scenarios for business users, providing support and guidance throughout the process
  • Served as the Subject Matter Expert for the newly developed module, DCW, offering expertise and insight into its functionality

Senior Business Systems Analyst-P&CB-RBC

Teradata
Pune
03.2023 - 12.2024

Responsible for gathering requirements, initiating business discussions, data analysis and reporting.
Coordinating with business and client to understand their requirements and propose feasible solution.
Translate the business requirements into Software Requirement Specification and Mapping Documents
Coordinating with the Developers, Testers for providing the walkthrough of the scope changes through
Software requirement specification and mapping documents.
Working on preparing the functional/non-functional requirements package.
Guiding the technical team for data mock-up and integration.
Conducting the Post Implementation Verification for the projects worked upon.
Walkthrough of the proposed and implemented scope to the business users.
Providing extensive support for users during User Acceptance Testing.
Performing extensive Data Integrity Testing by executing SQL Statements.

Senior Test Project Lead- Revolving Credit Systems

Teradata
01.2021 - 03.2023
  • Responsible for gathering requirements, initiating business discussions, data analysis and reporting
  • Coordinating with business and client to understand their requirements and propose feasible solution
  • Coordinating with the Developers, Testers for providing the walkthrough of the scope changes through Software requirement specification and mapping documents
  • Working on preparing the functional/non-functional requirements package
  • Guiding the technical team for data mock up and integration
  • Conducting the Post Implementation Verification for the projects worked upon
  • Walkthrough of the proposed and implemented scope to the business users
  • Providing extensive support for users during User Acceptance Testing

Business Analyst

Teradata
01.2020 - 03.2021


  • Interaction with Business owners after their research and spadework for breakouts is completed
  • Transforming their research and spade work notes/diagram into conceptual designs from business objectives to deliver software and applications according to specifications for usability and functionality
  • Documenting business process and standard operating procedure with help of respective business owners

Offshore Test Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
  • Identified and resolved variances to bring LOBs data in line with requirements
  • Drafted technical documents such as deviation reports, testing protocol and trend analyses
  • Determined root cause of deviations and non-conforming results and implemented appropriate corrective and preventive actions throughout product development process
  • Liaised between quality control and other departments providing project updates and consultation
  • Responsibility of mentoring and coaching and managing team of 5 members
  • Requirement elicitation and leading defect triage calls across teams
  • Participating in calls where crucial decisions were taken with senior and key stakeholders
  • Reviewing test artifacts prepared by team members
  • Point of Contact from testing desk for co-ordination of testing activities

Test Manager

Cognizant Technology Solutions
  • Participating in Sprint Review Planning Session
  • Participating in Sprint Retrospective Meeting at end of each Sprint
  • Understanding Logical flow of Application from Business Knowledge
  • Self-review & IQA review for Test cases and Test execution reports
  • Preparing daily status report and sharing with onshore counterparts
  • Estimating efforts in Jira for resources in team for items planned in Sprint
  • Produced test strategy document for portfolios under test
  • Leading defect management calls
  • Reviewing reconciliation reports for portfolios and comparing it with quarter end regulatory reports
  • Visualizing validated/reconciled reports on Qlik dashboard using drill down functions
  • Coordinating weekly meeting with Onsite team for assisting in UAT support
  • Reviewed bug reports and error logs, translating data into digestible reports for senior leadership personnel
  • Gathered data on integration issues and vulnerabilities and reported all findings
  • Collaborated with developers and product owners to stay current on product features and intended functionality
  • Operated under Agile and Scrum frameworks to complete releases every 4 weeks and well-organized sprints


Module Lead

Tata Consultancy Services


  • Introduced Traceability matrix in project to find requirements flaws and ensured that team adheres to this process
  • Client interaction for refining Defect Management Process with respect to HP-ALM11
  • Assisted Architecture team in carrying out POCs' for better throughput
  • Preparing test plan and test approach document
  • Validating data flow from source to target and analyzing for any valid record drop using Toad (Oracle) for validation
  • Preparation of functional scenarios through help of source to target mapping
  • Handling complex transformation logic using SQL
  • Enhanced and reconstructed SQL automation queries resulting in 30-40%increased efficiency for business end-users
  • Coordinating weekly meetings with Onsite team for assisting in UAT support
  • Lead weekly connect calls with client

PoC Lead

Tata Consultancy Services
  • Performed PoC on data masking using TCSL proprietary tools for the customer in virtual private network mode
  • Providing de-sensitized data for Siebel and CRM Applications
  • Understanding the sensitive field types i.e., PII field categories
  • Understanding the privacy regulation rules
  • Understanding the different methods of data masking techniques
  • Applying the in-built masking rules for PII fields, defining application-level constraints
  • Creation of fake but realistic and masked data as per the requirements
  • Generating the database loader scripts and loading the masked data in customer’s application
  • Validating masked data by executing the business applications

Sr Quality Analyst

Persistent Systems
  • Responsible for Production environment health check and regression for basic functionality run
  • Managing all virtual instances created under cloud environment comprising base OS, firewall, Network connectivity and functional testing
  • Involved in executing on CLI (Command Line Interference) tool to verify creation of instance, images, storage, IP and different offerings of cloud
  • Identify various scenarios for functional & negative testing
  • Importing Test Cases in RQM (Rational Quality Manager)
  • Executed backward compatibility test cases and regression test cases
  • Acted as point of contact for status and communication reporting due to dispersed geographic teams

Quality Analyst

Persistent Systems
  • Developed test scripts utilizing comprehensive business requirements, functional documentation, and processes
  • Involved in analysis and posting defects in bug tracker
  • Performed Load Testing on some modules (where traffic flow was high) to check concurrency of users on networking site
  • Effort analysis for automated testing and manual testing
  • Deciding strategy and methodology for automated testing
  • Verifying points during play of games
  • Evaluated and recommended test automation tools and determined suitability with various testing tools like Automation Anywhere 5.0, Neo load 3.0



Education

Post-Graduate Certificate - Financial Management

Symbiosis International University
Pune,India
08.2017 - 09.2018

Bachelor of Science - Electronics &Telecommunication Engineering

Priyadarshini College Of Engineering
Nagpur,India
08.2003 - 07.2007

Skills

Microsoft Excel

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Certification

Teradata Vantage Masters, 11/24

Accomplishments

  • Achieved multiple Start Performer awards, Employee of the Quarter recognition, and Employee of the Year title during tenure at Teradata
  • Contributed to Global Consulting Enablement Initiatives for Data-Ops practice by developing sales enablement collaterals for Teradata proprietary tools
  • Received Quarterly Performer and On the Spot Awards at prior companies
  • "E&Y Schedule Manager" award from Client for delivering projects on time at previous organization
  • Certificate in Risk Management (Internal to TCSL)
  • Demonstrated leadership as a proxy product owner/scrum master for a limited period.
  • Reduced overall testing hours 20-30% by writing and optimizing automation test scripts in SQL in a regulatory compliance project for a bank.
  • Assisted Architecture team in carrying out POCs' for better throughput. Enhanced and reconstructed SQL automation queries resulting in 30-40%increased efficiency for business end-users for a large Data warehouse project.

Interests

Badminton,Swimming,Listening to Music and Singing

Timeline

Test Execution Admin/SME-Lead to Quote

Teradata
08.2024 - Current

Senior Business Systems Analyst-P&CB-RBC

Teradata
03.2023 - 12.2024

Senior Test Project Lead- Revolving Credit Systems

Teradata
01.2021 - 03.2023

Business Analyst

Teradata
01.2020 - 03.2021

Post-Graduate Certificate - Financial Management

Symbiosis International University
08.2017 - 09.2018

Bachelor of Science - Electronics &Telecommunication Engineering

Priyadarshini College Of Engineering
08.2003 - 07.2007

Offshore Test Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Test Manager

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Module Lead

Tata Consultancy Services

PoC Lead

Tata Consultancy Services

Sr Quality Analyst

Persistent Systems

Quality Analyst

Persistent Systems
Avijit MishraSr.Business Analyst and Test Engineering Consultant