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Bheemappa Arer

Bheemappa Arer

Bangalore

Summary

About 15 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance Testing, Manual Testing, Automation Testing, API Testing, and Databases/ETL in a variety of applications.

Analysis of business and functional requirements and preparing the test plan and test summary report.

Experience in functional testing, integration testing, regression, database testing, E2E testing, and ETL testing.

Automation testing using Selenium, and API manual testing using Postman.

Experience in defect tracking and reporting using defect management tools (QC, ALM, JIRA).

Experience in banking, insurance, billing, and Salesforce Billing domains.

Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Test Lead

CGI
Bangalore
09.2024 - Current

Riwal is a rental management application and customer portal for managing rental equipment needs. Riwal is in the business of sales and rental machines, like aerial work platforms and telehandlers, and runs its business operations all over the world.

Responsibilities:

  • Understand NetSuite, Shepherd, and InspHire. Performed regression testing using Agile test methodology.
  • Analyze the requirements, create a test plan for regression testing, and attend the daily stand-up call.
  • Worked in a fast-paced agile environment (2 weeks of sprint). Attended sprint planning at the beginning of each sprint, and at the end of each sprint, we had a mid-sprint review/product backlog review (PBR) meeting to go over our backlog and prioritize user stories.
  • Created sprint-wise stories in Jira, updated stories as per testing, created new test data according to the data requirements of regression test cases, and provided weekly project status to the client.
  • Identifying the defects, reporting them to the corresponding team, and providing final sign-off for regression testing.
  • Lead a team on continuous process improvement activities for the project. Ability to focus on deadlines and deliverables.
  • Riwal is a rental management application and customer portal for managing rental equipment needs. Riwal is in the business of sales and rental machines, like aerial work platforms and telehandlers, and runs its business operations all over the world.

Test Lead

CGI
Bangalore
01.2019 - 07.2024

ADT provides digital security services to various types of residential and business customers. ADT uses MMB (Mastermind Business) and the Salesforce Billing application for order entry, job creation, billing, and invoicing to customers.

Responsibilities:

  • Attending calls with the client/BA on a daily/need basis for requirement understanding for project-related activities.
  • Understand the requirements and functional specifications of the application.
  • Actively involved in giving scope walkthroughs for individual work items to the business.
  • Prepared test scenario and test execution based on the requirements.
  • Performed smoke, functional, SIT, retesting, and regression testing.
  • Responsible for reviewing test scenarios with the peer group.
  • Involved in automation testing with Selenium and building QA automation BDD frameworks.
  • Involved in weekly regression automation script execution by using Selenium.
  • Regression test cases were written and automated using Selenium WebDriver.
  • Involved in writing automation scripts and generic functions using Selenium.
  • Involved in API testing, designing and executing test cases, identifying and logging defects, and working closely with developers to resolve issues and enhance the API quality.
  • Experience in updating the existing automation script and automating the new test cases using Selenium.
  • Involved in API testing with Postman, writing and executing tests using Gherkin, and validating API responses.
  • Actively attending the team meeting and providing a progress report.
  • The project is based on Agile methodology, updating in the daily stand-up, refinement call, and retrospective meeting.
  • Lead a team on continuous process improvement activities for the project group.
  • Independently analyzes issues and writes detailed bug reports with steps to reproduce.
  • Hands-on experience using tools such as the Selenium WebDriver.
  • Execute and automate API tests using Postman. Identify, document, and track bugs.
  • Collaborate with developers and QA teams to resolve defects.
  • Continuously improve testing processes and methodologies.
  • ADT provides digital security services to various types of residential and business customers. ADT uses MMB (Mastermind Business) and the Salesforce Billing application for order entry, job creation, billing, and invoicing to customers.

Senior Test Engineer

HCL Technologies
Bangalore
10.2013 - 05.2015

GLAS (Group Leads and Sales) is loading leads produced by ARM6 (Retail Leads) and MSC (Business Banking Leads), campaign metadata, employee, and organization hierarchy to SAP CRM.

Responsibilities:

  • Testing and reviewing of ETL mapping and transformation specifications based on the business requirements.
  • Testing of jobs that are scheduled for file transfers from Operational Data Stores' designated file systems/directories.
  • I tested various reusable transformations, which facilitate daily, weekly, and monthly loading of data.
  • Involved in ETL testing. Logged defects through Quality Centre and tracked them until closure.
  • Used SQL for testing the execution of ETL processes' PL/SQL procedures and packages for business rules.
  • Prepared system test scenarios, test cases, and test data preparation.
  • Performed functional testing, regression testing, and monitoring test results, as well as data validation testing.
  • Validated data between the source and target after running the mapping.
  • Identifying the defects, reporting them to the corresponding team, and doing follow-up for defect fixing.
  • Worked and reviewed along with BA and functional team members to translate business requirements into ETL specs.
  • GLAS (Group Leads and Sales) is loading leads produced by ARM6 (Retail Leads) and MSC (Business Banking Leads), campaign metadata, employee, and organization hierarchy to SAP CRM.

Senior Test Engineer

HCL Technologies
Bangalore
10.2006 - 09.2013

First Gulf Bank (FGB) is an expanded financial services company providing banking, payments, and investments.

Maybank is an Internet-based platform offering institutional clients the flexibility of online management of their custody accounts with the Group. Custody would be used to handle trade and settlement, corporate actions, proxy voting, fees, charges, and billing requirements. Maybank Malaysia deals with domestic custody operations, such as Corporate Actions Processing, along with SWIFT messaging.

Deutsche Bank Direct Internet (DBDI) is a secure electronic banking system that provides corporate and institutional banking services over the Internet. Deutsche Bank's cash management, FX, trade finance, custody, and netting services. Customers can make the payment by uploading files such as UDF IDOC, CSV, and XML.

eSure Insurance can offer a competitive car insurance quote to drivers and retrieve a motor insurance quote. The current extract is for Sainsbury's Car Insurance products only. To provide HBOS with the information that they need on eSure policyholders (excluding home), the extract needs to be changed to include the information about the customers who hold motor policies.

Responsibilities:

  • Understand the requirements and functional specifications of the application.
  • Attending calls with clients and business analysts on a daily or as-needed basis for requirement understanding for project-related activities.
  • Involved in requirement review sessions, and provided feedback to ensure clarity and completeness of testable criteria.
  • Create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans, scope, and test cases.
  • The team is responsible for performing complete testing of the Payments module.
  • Involved in writing test cases by applying test case design techniques, and in reviewing and executing test cases.
  • Actively worked with functional teams to analyze and identify test cases, and identify test data requirements.
  • Prepared system test scenarios, test cases, test data preparation, and test environment.
  • Involved in writing test cases by applying test case design techniques.
  • Performed functional and regression testing, and monitored test results and back-end testing using SQL.
  • Involved in end-to-end testing for the payment module.
  • Engaged in functional, integration, and system testing of payment modules.
  • Performed regression testing to verify that recent changes did not adversely affect existing functionalities.
  • Create and manage a risk and mitigation plan based on discussions with project stakeholders.
  • Takes ownership of the Defect Life Cycle until closure, once a ticket has been issued.
  • Identified, documented, and tracked defects using defect management tools, collaborating with development teams.
  • Involved in performing smoke testing, E2E testing, regression testing, and browser compatibility testing.
  • Responsible for handling functional testing, end-to-end testing.
  • Sending daily and weekly status reports to the manager.
  • First Gulf Bank (FGB) is an expanded financial services company providing banking payments, and FGB is an expanded financial services company providing banking investments.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communication

Gulbarga University
Raichur, Karnataka, India

Skills

Testing: Functional, Integration, System, SIT, CIT, Database, Regression, UAT, ETL, API & Automation Testing

Testing Tools: Selenium, Cucumber, Jenkins, JIRA, Azure DevOps, DataStage

Defect Tracking Tools: HP Quality Center, ALM, JIRA, Bugzilla

Version Control Systems: GitHub

Web service testing: Postman, Swagger

Domain: Billing, Salesforce, Banking (BFSI), Insurance

Languages: C, Java, SQL, TOAD

Trainings and certifications: ISTQB, Postman, Safe Agile SAFe 5 Practitioner

Awards & Achievements: Star Performer’ Awardee during tenure at HCL Technologies
Knowledge: DW/BI, Big Data, AI tools

Accomplishments

Star Performer’ Awardee during tenure at HCL Technologies.

Certification

ISTQB, Postman, Safe Agile, SAFe 5 Practitioner

Timeline

Test Lead

CGI
09.2024 - Current

Test Lead

CGI
01.2019 - 07.2024

Senior Test Engineer

HCL Technologies
10.2013 - 05.2015

Senior Test Engineer

HCL Technologies
10.2006 - 09.2013

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communication

Gulbarga University
Bheemappa Arer