Lakshmi Selvaseeman

To secure a challenging career in an environment to implement and enrich my skills which provides job satisfaction and self-development that helps to achieve personal and organizational goals.

Test lead with experience of 13+ years in software development processes and optimal testing strategies. Lead and manage a team of size 15. Helps teams produce exceptional deliverables by offering in-depth quality assurance support. Interact with client on requirement gathering, test designing, execution and report status to client on daily basis. Open and clear communicator with good multitasking skills, organized nature, and strong attention to detail.

• Bachelor of Engineering (ECE) from Periyar Maniammai college of Women

   Year of Passing : 2006

   Percentage : FIRST CLASS with 74%.

• 12th from Sri Jayendra Mat Higher Secondary School, Trichy

   Year of Passing : 2002

   Percentage : 88.7%

• 10th from Girls Higher Secondary School, Lalgudi

   Year of Passing : 2000

   Percentage : 84.8%

• Interact with Client for gathering Requirements, project deliverables and status reporting.
• Delegate the task to the team members and track the progress and deliver it on time to client.
• Experience in understanding Business Requirements, Preparation of Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test conditions and Test cases documents etc.
• Experienced in Functional Testing in banking and financial domain (Transfer Agency & Cards domain).
• Experienced working in various type of testing - SIT, UAT, Regression, Compliance, Migration, PROD support and Upgrade Testing.
• Experienced in Preparation of Risk Priority Matrix (RPM), Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) and Execution Run Plan.
• Experience in Upload test artifacts and status in HP ALM, ADO and JIRA.
• To allocate tasks to team members, track until completion and deliver to client on time.
• Preparing and publishing Daily, Weekly Status reports and Test Summary reports to client.
• Participate in Scrum, Retro and defect meetings with stakeholders.

• Appreciated and recognised by the client for being pro-active and having expertise functional knowledge and rapport.
• Have been recommended by client to work in certain critical projects and complex modules
• Rated as Best performer consecutively in the appraisals

• Lead a automation pilot team for regression suite implementation for a desktop based application.
• Experience in testing of Mainframe and Web Based applications using QTP and UFT.
• Prepared test data for Data driven and Keyword driven testing
• Perform regression test runs for the automation test scripts, verified results and reported to client

United Kingdom (UK), Wales - Cardiff - 9 months

Project :  Credit Risk Module

Project Description:

The project involves testing of credit risk related functionalities in First Vision for Halifax and Bank of

Scotland banks product acquired by monopoly Bank which migrating from Base2000 to First Vision.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Co-ordination with subject matter experts (SMEs) of credit risk work stream throughout the planning the execution phase

• To understand the BRC and prepare the scope of testing, Run plan and test conditions

• Co-ordinate with SMEs and prepare test cases and upload to QC

• Co-ordinate with the simplification data team to get the data required for testing •  Co-ordinate with SMEs for execution evidence, prepare the test log and upload to QC.

• Updating the execution status, raising defects, retest and close in QC.

United Kingdom (UK), Scotland - 2 months

Project : Base2000 – Knowledge Acquisition & Testing

Project Description:

Knowledge Acquisition on Vision Plus and Base2000 Mainframe applications and its surround systems and for pilot project activities.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Gained knowledge on the Base2000 system and its surround systems from business SMEs .

• Prepared Knowledge Acquisition documents on the knowledge gained and shared with client and offshore team.

• Disseminated the acquired knowledge to the offshore team members.

• Understanding the Business requirement and Functional specification documents for Base2000 application

• Uploaded and Mapped the test cases in QC Test Plan to Lab.

• Prepared the files for Presentment transaction requests

• Performed testing of test cases for transaction posting, fees and interest calculation in B2K system for the HBOS products

Organization : Cognizant Technology Solutions

Project Description: Transfer Agency Services - Multifonds Application Testing

The major role of the transfer agency is to track and record ownership of securities/mutual funds/partnership funds and to act as an intermediary for the company. Transfer agency manages and maintains ownership details of securities by individual and entities.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Lead the team - Allocate tasks, track the progress status and deliver to client.

• Govern SIT, UAT and Regression Testing.

• Handle End to End functional Testing including upstream and downstream systems.

• Understand Business requirements (BRD’s and FSD’s) and raise clarifications to business if any.

• Preparation of Test Strategy, Test Plan, Requirement Traceability Matrix(RTM) and Test Closure Report.

• Review the deliverables of team members Test Scenarios, Test Conditions and Test Cases and other artifacts.

• Raise defects in Azure DevOps (ADO), JIRA and track it to closure.

• Perform Database testing using SQL queries.

• Govern Automation Regression Testing

• Prepare Daily, Weekly Status report and publish to Client.

• Provide Knowledge transfer to the new resources joining the team and train them.

Organization : Thinksoft Global Services

Project Description: Cards domain - Credit Cards - Vision Plus Testing

The project involves testing of Credit Card End to End functionalities in First Vision for a monopoly bank in United Kingdom and its acquired banks.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Worked on First Vision modules such as CMS, ITS, FAS, LTS, ASM, OMS and TRAMS 

• Understanding the BRD, FSD documents to prepare Test Scenarios and Test Cases

• Preparation of test cases, Execute and prepare pass logs.

• Defect Analysis and prepare defect logs and upload to HP QC and track it to closure.

• Preparation of new datasheets for automating the Regression Test Cases.

• Conduct dry run for the prepared datasheets using the automation tool (QTP).

• Lead the BAU team members and track the project deliverables.

• Publish Daily Execution Status Dashboard to Client and participate in status meetings.

• Preparation of End of Test Summary Report and Closure reports

Organization: CSS Corp

Project Description: Networking Domain (From NOV 2006 to NOV 2009)

• Configure and troubleshoot Linksys products (SOHO Routers, Switches and Wireless Products)

• Support end user and small enterprise across globe by providing solutions to networking problems

• Configure VOIP Phone adapter and support both “Residential and Business Users

I hereby confirm that the information provided by me are true to the best of my knowledge.

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                                                                                                                             Lakshmi