Chandan has more than 14 years of experience in the Information Technology sector out of which he has spent almost 9 years with Cognizant. During this tenure he has worked in various roles as QA Analyst, QA Lead, MarkIt EDM developer in Insurance, Banking and Financial Services and healthcare industry. On the technical front, he has worked extensively in various technologies like MarkIt EDM 11.4 and 19.2, Sql Server 2012 and 2018, Service Now, Azure Dev Ops, Red gate (SQL Data Compare), Jama , Jira, ALM , Charles River IMS ,Compare It, Udeploy.
He has been involved in all phases of SDLC in most of the applications he has worked on and have more than 6years of experience in working in Agile delivery model.
He is a very dependable resource who can take end-to-end ownership of the project tasks, motivate & guide the team with his leadership skills and technical knowhow. His leadership skill bundled with strong technical knowledge has made him a very effective technical lead and made the project delivery a big success within very stringent timeline.
Title Nationa-NN Minimum Viable Squad
Client Nationale-Nederlanden
Operating System Windows 7 Enterprise
Tools Skills MarkIt EDM 11.4 and 19.2, Sql Server 2012 and 2018, Service Now, Azure DevOps
Markit EDM (Web UI, Data porter, Data Inspector, Data Constructor, Security Matcher, Data Generator, Data Illustrator, and Data Manager), SQL Server, Red Gate (SQL Data Comparing Tool), TIDAL Web Client (Scheduler), JIRA and Service Now
Project Description: Role and Responsibilities
Project Objective:
The objective is to support NNIP’s existing application, enhancement to the existing application and develop new modules / application as business needs. Few of modules like New Price Source as BVAL, Solvency II, Implementation of MOST (Windows legacy system) in Markit EDM WEBUI, Enhancement for Implied Volatility Publication, Security Master, Rating Master, Price Master, Data Quality Report, Rate Master, Curve Master, Master Volatility, Black Rock Trade Processing, Publication to Simcorp.
Delivery model we follow in current project with SPRINT (DevOps) methodology.
Key Deliverable sprint items as part of DevOps –
· Markit EDM WEBUI Infrastructure setup
· Implemented WEBUI for DM static (Bloomberg Security Setup, Exception Summary, Publication and override screen)
· Adding new source BVAL in existing pricing flow.
· Implementation of Simcorp Reconciliation Process
· Phase 1 implementation of MOST (Windows legacy system) in Markit EDM WEBUI
· Responsible for solution development using Markit EDM and Sql Server.
· Responsible for end to end onsite application management across multiple business teams using Markit EDM at a major Investment Banking corporation in The Netherlands
· Job monitoring and deployment
· Identifying bugs / issues across acceptance and production environments and aligning with Squad, for developing structural fixes for issues identified in acceptance.
· Functional and Integration testing
· Defect Creation in Service Now and reporting
· Requirement Analysis
· Regression testing and analysis
Project Description: Roles and Responsibilities:
Title STOXX Digital Transformation
Customer STOXX
Technology Java
Tools Testopia, Spritz
STOXX website is completely getting revamped for improvising its business plan of addressing and expanding its reach to global audiences thereby, enabling possibilities for additional revenue from the web. STOXX Limited is a globally integrated index provider, covering the world markets across all asset classes – developing, maintaining, distributing and marketing a comprehensive global family of strictly rules-based and transparent indices.
· Taking the complete ownership of project assigned modules
· Involved in preparation of Test Plan and Test Scenario and Test cases
· Handling testing breakout calls and requirement gathering & analysis.
· Test execution and reporting in Bugzilla
· Creation of automation script by using Spritz tool.
· Completely owned and maintained defects in Bugzilla
Title OFI QA Service
Client Oppenheimer Funds
Operating System Windows 7 Enterprise
Tools Charles River IMS, SqlDbx version 3.6.1, SQL Server 2014, JIRA, Compare It, Udeploy, Autosys, HP ALM, Excel
Project Objective:
The objective was to work on Investment LOB; wherein Cognizant was assigned the task for report validation, upstream and downstream application testing, ETL testing, Database testing and web service testing. Charles River IMS (CRD) is an order management application which dealt with trade lifecycle; so the QA activities in this area was to test the impact of upstream applications on CRD and monitor application behavior. QA also has the task to monitor job cycles and batch processing, batch deployments, package deployments and more.
OFI transforming all the business flow which currently handled by ESM system to markitEDM system which accepts trade information from various upstream application like Barclay, Bloomberg etc. to downstream applications like PRIME, CRD, IDW etc. by transforming business logic which handled by markitEDM.
Project Description
Oppenheimer Funds is a leading investment company based out of New York. The project involves with end to end testing of all the involved segments of application. These products, till the booking of the trade and also the impact of the trades on different accounting, payment and regulatory reporting.
Role and Responsibilities
· Gather requirements from the Business Analyst/SME’s, Test Planning, Test Strategy and Test Estimation by attending sprint pre-planning and planning sessions.
· Preparing different test case documents like System/Regression/Functional Test Cases and Test Scenarios fulfilling the Business Requirement of the system.
· Perform System Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Database Testing, Report Testing, Cross Browser Testing, Migration Testing
· Prepare test summary reports, acquire test sign-offs and attend retrospection meetings
· Co-ordinate and gather walkthrough sessions with Business Analyst/SME and developers
· Arrange cross-training sessions for various projects across the LOB and understanding to joiners
· Preparation of Daily status report
· Involved in daily status report calls with customer where shared day over activities and risks and challenges
· Developed framework for UI login and navigate to various security repositories.
· Developed Frame work in selenium for Login details to various assets repository and validating attributes as per business requirements.
Project Description:
Title SPRINT
Customer ING IM
Technology SQL SERVER2008, MarkIt EDM 10.1
The main objectives of Solution for PRicing INTegration (SPRINT) is to prepone/bring forward in time, the Dutch Pricing Data Management processes from the currently implemented time window and align the timings with the current Luxemburg pricing schedule implemented in the OTC Tool.
SPRINT consists of five different phases with multiple test items combined together to confirm the application meets the documented functional, technical and quality requirements of the project. During System testing data quality and correctness will be confirmed across all the modules and systems within the scope of the project.
Roles and Responsibilities:
· Taking the complete ownership of project assigned modules
· Involved in preparation of Test Plan and Test Scenario and Test cases
· Handling testing breakout calls and requirement gathering & analysis.
· Test execution and reporting in HP ALM
Title Time, Attendance & Payroll project (TAP)
Customer Toyota Financial Service
Tools: HP ALM/ Quality Center
Project Description:
The Time, Attendance & Payroll project (TAP) is a joint project between TMS and TFS with the
Objective to replace the existing system called ‘eTime’. eTime is a web-based workforce Management system that captures associate’s time and attendance. The current system is being
in production since 2005 and it serves approximately 3500 TFS users.
The goal of TFS portion of the project is to successfully launch a new Time and Attendance Solution provided as an asp services by ‘Workforce Software (WFS)’ with minimal customizations
and automate the time and attendance processes and integrations with dependent systems. The scope of this project for TFS will be focused only on the integrations with TFS systems.
From TFS perspective, systems to be impacted include: Workday (HR), NICE
(For schedules and clock data for CSC), CARS (Compensation & Reward System), SEC1 and FMLA/LOA system. (Note: While the Workday integration is not changing for this project, it is used in conjunction with the time and attendance data for the FMLA interface.)
Roles and Responsibilities:
· Taking the complete ownership of project
· Involved in preparation of Test Plan and Test Scenario and Test cases
· Handling testing breakout calls and requirement gathering & analysis.
· Test execution and reporting in QC
Title Associated Press Customer
Technology Java
Project Description:
The primary objective of the project has two main functionalities.
One is Red It Application and Other is Picker Application.
Through Red it application news reporter have option to gather news information and its related video, audio, and images from around world and through MAC machine they will share to centralized server.
From server Picker application will pick the related information like video, audio and images and process them and share it to the destination point for publishing
Roles and Responsibilities:
· Taking the complete ownership of assigned modules testing deliverables
· Involved in preparation of test Strategies & test plans.
· Handling status tracking meeting with customer
· Test execution and reporting
Title Asset Serv - GM DAM Transition
Customer General Motors (GM)
Testing Tools JIRA Defect Management Tool
Technology Java
Project Description:
The primary objective of the project is to increase efficiencies and improve customer’s ability to support digital asset creation, distribution and production as can be realized by implementing and deploying a “world class” Digital Asset Management (DAM) product that addresses customer’s current and future needs. With the quickly evolving digital space (agency and consumer) and the push for more engaging content, customer’s goal is to greatly enhance the current user experience (UI, search, structure).
Roles and Responsibilities:
· Taking the complete ownership of assigned modules testing deliverables
· Sharing knowledge to newcomers regarding the fundamentals of Media Beacon on which application is developed
· Involved in preparation of test Strategies & test plans.
· Handling testing breakout calls and requirement gathering & analysis.
· Test execution and reporting
Title Dow Jones Risk and Compliance.
Customer Dow Jones (Factiva Public Figure and Associates) Operating System Windows XP
Tools Resolve Tracking Tool
Team Size 3
Role Team Member
Period Oct 2008 – Feb 2011
Project DescriptionFactiva Public Figures & Associates is a comprehensive, up-to-date database of government officials, politicians, and people of political influence, blacklisted people and their associates in
every country of the world. Basically it is a financial domain project. All the applications are Web application and developed in Microsoft.net technology.
This application has different module like Edititorial Interface (EI), User Interface (UI) and Feeds.
· Editorial Interface (EI): - This is a web application by which editor from different location can enter all business news, financial related document. Basically this application is meant from client internal purpose only.
· User Interface (UI): - This is a web application by which data entered through Edititorial Interface are available for end user.
· Feeds: These are window applications in XML and CSV format which are generated on the basis of data entered through EI application.
Roles and Responsibilities:
· Involved in Test Plan, Test Scenarios, and Test Script preparation by covering all the aspect from the functional specification.
· Involved in Functional, GUI and Regression testing.
· Involved in Database testing to check the flow of data from database to the application.
· Involved in Test cases execution and Bugs reporting
· Involved in Prepared and logged defect in defect management tool like Resolve Tracking.
· Involved in working parallels in various applications in the project.
· Reported bugs proactively and discussed with developers to resolve them.
· Received certificate of appreciation from the client for all the contribution made towards the success of the project.
· Got Pat on Back for successful release of corporate connection.
Title GSK – LIFT (Laboratory Information for Tomorrow).
Customer GlaxoSmithKline Operating System Windows XP
Tools Quality Center, CDMS (Document Management System)
A Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) is the industry standard application used to manage quality data and manage the quality assurance laboratory function. The LIFT Solution is a global, centrally based Laboratory Information Management System. The key component of this solution is Sapphire LIMS – Supplied by the Lab Vantage Solutions Inc and is the primary LIMS application.
The LIFT System provides a description of the activities connected with laboratory management. System deals with efficient management of every event conducted in a lab on the samples. The LIFT system will provide functionality in support of the business process.
Sapphire is a LIMS application that contains a combination of rich functionality and simple user configurability, providing laboratories with a robust solution that will help them decrease costs, and improve quality, productivity, and profit margins. It has a concept of a paperless laboratory. Sapphire has been integrated around 15 functional modules.
Role and Responsibilities:
· Involved in Preparation of Validation Test Case (Manual)
· Involved in Execution of Test cases and maintained defects in Quality Center.
· Involved in Preparation of Traceability Matrix.
· Involved in Bug Reporting and did a gap analysis between requirements & application.
· Involved actively as a member of Incident Management team to analyze created incident during test execution.
· Assisted in the preparation of the Test Report.
· Incorporating review comments from GCV, Business Analyst
Title UBS INTEGRATOR & FEDBCP
Customer Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS)
Operating System Windows XP
Tools Test Director
Period Jan 2006 – May 2006
Project Description
This is an Enterprise Application Integration Project. BizTalk Server, C#, and SQL Server used as technology. This project known as GMB. The main functionality is messages is coming from different application which is received by “receiver pipeline” and in GMB (which is nothing but a BizTalk engine) the application is decoding that incoming message and encoding it again and send it through the destination pipeline.Usually different type of input we are receiving from different source and the application is sending it to its end user as per the needs in an encrypted format.
Role and Responsibilities:
· Involved in Execution of test cases for FEDBCP and GMB modules.
· Involved in unit testing for developed modules using NUnit tool.
· Assisted in the preparation of the Test Report.
· Prepared and logged defect in defect tracking tool like Test Director.
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