Pooja Thawani
Vice President as Lead Software Engineer
Mumbai,MH
Summary
I oversee the end-to-end automation flows for various low-value (SEPA, RIBA) and high-value (Saudi) clearings using the Cucumber framework. My role involves enhancing and maintaining automation frameworks while ensuring project delivery timelines are met for the UAT and product teams and conducting demo sessions on completed deliveries. I also assess and manage the stability of test environments (dev, QA, UAT) to minimize downtimes and facilitate quicker handovers to stakeholders. Additionally, I drive defect triage with the development team and collaborate with business analysts to formulate strategies for steering the entire project. Furthermore, I possess strong people management skills, leading a diverse testing team in India with various skill sets. managing a high-performing team fostering a collaborative environment that drives exceptional delivery quality
Seeking a position to utilize my skills and capabilities, to contribute towards the growth of the organization and thereby present my skills & knowledge.
Talented Vice President with excellent employee development, customer service and analytics skills coupled with more than 10+ years of experience. Comfortable giving engaging presentations to clients to drive new business, expand accounts and establish brand profile. Excellent team builder and leader of initiatives.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
4
4
Languages
Work History
Vice President, Lead Software Engineer
JP Morgan Chase
01.2024 - Current
- By leveraging my leadership skills, technical expertise, and strong communication abilities, I empower my team to succeed, drive project excellence, and deliver high-quality automation solutions that meet business objectives.
- HV – Saudi Clearing for end to end flow for Graphite application.
- End to End flow of driving the testing along with the stake holders and Product team for the RIBA flow.
- Strategizing the Delivery of the project
- Driving the Automation framework designing of the e2e payment lifecycle model.
- Providing walkthroughs and demo to the product on the low value and high clearing flows for the clearings
Associate, Sr. Software Test Engineer
JP Morgan Chase
01.2023 - 12.2024
- Driving the End-to-End flow of migration of SEPA Testing for the Payment Graphite application
- Designing and strategizing the testing timelines with the Product stakeholders and handing over the PVT testing.
Associate, Environment and Release Manager
JP Morgan Chase
06.2021 - 12.2022
- Environment Stability and Production Release Management: Oversee the stability of environments and manage production releases to ensure seamless deployment and minimal disruption to services.
- Incident Management Reporting: Report incident management activities to stakeholders and senior management, providing clear and concise updates on issues and resolutions.
- Collaboration with Development and Testing Teams: Coordinate with the development and end-to-end testing teams to ensure alignment and smooth execution of projects.
- Documentation and Knowledge Sharing: Create comprehensive documentation and facilitate knowledge sharing on the Confluence page, focusing on environments and deployment processes to enhance team understanding and efficiency.
Financial Services Consultant/ QA Analyst
SWIFT Financial Services
05.2018 - 04.2021
- Working on projects for the RBI Clearing as SWIFT being mediator for various banks on Interbank Trade/Treasury flow of messages
- Payments flow packages for various corporate and banks to convert their BO messages into MT and MX flow for exchanging among them
- Setting up customized packages for privileged customers like HDFC Bank for bulk flow message and 6-Eye Approval
- Setting up another customized package for customers like J.P. Morgan called Fin-Modifier for processing the cross-border messages with India and South Asia specific countries
- Automating the deployment packages for Alliance Access which is web-platform for SWIFT and automating the test cases to reduce the testing timelines in the AGILE model.
- Currently working on the ISO standards A1/A2 project which is on processing the Pain v9 messages for various customers like Reliance and TATA
Associate, QA Analyst
JP Morgan Chase
08.2016 - 04.2018
- GPS – Prod Parallel testing on various clearings
- Gathering the requirements, Test Scenario Creation.
- Grouping the test conditions and Designing the test scenarios
- Executing the testcases and review them
- Executing Batch processing test scripts and checking database for results
- Raising defects in JIRA and informing them to stakeholders
- Coordination with stakeholders and Business Ops
- Signing off the Testing before the implementation live date
- Reviewing the production environment for a week and resolving any P1’s at the same moment
Quality Assurance Analyst
JP Morgan Chase
08.2012 - 12.2015
- Distech Applications – Multiversa, SEPA Services, CBIS, IDHS, iPAY, iBUS
- Gathering the requirements from product team
- Test Scenario Creation
- Designing the test scripts and reviewing them
- Executing the Regression Test pack
- Raising defects and assigning them to the stakeholders
- Coordinating with various teams and stakeholders to perform the system test
- Signing off the Testing before the implementation live date
- Reviewing the production environment for a week and resolving any P1’s at the same moment.
- Working as an individual contributor and working on multiple projects simultaneously
UAT Tester
JP Morgan Chase
05.2010 - 07.2012
- IPAY
- Understand the new requirements from the Business owner
- Worked upon various SEPA rulebook changes and gained my expertise on the same
- Create a requirement doc in ALM
- Smoke Testing
- Defect Reporting /Tracking using ALM
- Design of Test Scenario Creation
- Handle the deployment process
- Interactions with multiple teams – sourcing, environment management team, implementation, business analyst and operations
- Functional testing, End to End Testing, Regression Testing
- Worked on multiple reports – Daily status report to stake holders, Defect Tracking Report based upon priorities, sign off reports, Production defect reporting
Ad Operations, HTML developer
ZEDO Ad Serving Inc.
11.2008 - 07.2009
- Setting up Campaigns for Publisher
- Creative and 3rd party tags – testing and uploading
- On boarding the various publishers and advertisers as their clients
- Generating the revenue report
Education
Diploma in Engineering -
MSBTE
01.2005
B. Tech - undefined
MIT College of Pune
01.2008
Skills
Integration Testing and E2E Testing
undefinedCertification
Certified as ISTQB Foundation level in the year 2012
Interests
Aspiring to obtain AGILE Certification to advance as a Scrum Master, Aiming to excel in leadership roles by managing projects independently as an Individual Contributor, while actively seeking knowledge to transition into a product management role in the future
Disclaimer
I hereby declare that the information furnished above is true to the best of my knowledge. (Pooja Thawani)
Timeline
Vice President, Lead Software Engineer
JP Morgan Chase
01.2024 - Current
Associate, Sr. Software Test Engineer
JP Morgan Chase
01.2023 - 12.2024
Associate, Environment and Release Manager
JP Morgan Chase
06.2021 - 12.2022
Financial Services Consultant/ QA Analyst
SWIFT Financial Services
05.2018 - 04.2021
Associate, QA Analyst
JP Morgan Chase
08.2016 - 04.2018
Quality Assurance Analyst
JP Morgan Chase
08.2012 - 12.2015
UAT Tester
JP Morgan Chase
05.2010 - 07.2012
Ad Operations, HTML developer
ZEDO Ad Serving Inc.
11.2008 - 07.2009
B. Tech - undefined
MIT College of Pune
Diploma in Engineering -
MSBTE