Praveen Kumar
Bangalore
Summary
- 15+ Years’ experience in IT industry in onsite implementation, Software Quality Control and part of Software Quality Assurances activities.
- 10+ years’ experience in banking domain both offshore and onsite implementation.
- Worked for major banking clients as Kasikorn Bank, PT. Common Wealth bank (Thailand) and Wells Fargo India, Bank of Scotland(Germany), Bandhan Bank, FINO, ESAF and Suryoday Bank and CITI bank.
- Global exposure, Worked in various customer locations in India, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Germany and Tokyo(Japan).
- Involved in preparing Functional Specification, Requirement Documents preparation and gathering requirements from Clients.
- Risk Analysis, Gap Analysis, Feasibility Analysis, Cost/Benefit Analysis.
- Having experience as product owner, Involved in PI Plannings, Backlog grooming, Spring Planning, User Stories Writing.
- Having experience in requesting and validating the Rest API services using Postman.
- Involved in project planning preparing test cases, test scenarios, test plans, generating test data, executing test cases and defect reporting.
- Defect analysis and Defect triage. Worked on Agile Testing Model.
- Having experience as Product Owner, Business Analyst, Test Lead, Test manager and Defect manager. Hands on Experience in data migration testing.
- Expert in Regression testing, User Acceptance testing, Functional testing and System Testing.
- Experienced in Defect Tracking Tool Bugzilla 2.18.3 and HPQC-9.2, ALM, JIRA.
- Developed many complex Dashboards/Reports with different Analytics Views (Drill-Down / Dynamic, Cascading Style Sheets, Pivot Table, Chart, Column Selector, Tabular with global and local Filters in Excel.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Implementation Specialist
LTIMindTree
03.2023 - Current
- Working as Senior Implementation Specialist at LTIMindTree, Bangalore from March 2023 to till date.
Senior Principal Consultant
OFSS
05.2017 - 03.2023
- Worked as Senior Principal Consultant at OFSS, Bangalore from May 2017 to March-2023.
Senior Test Consultant
FIS
05.2016 - 05.2017
- Worked as Senior Test Consultant at FIS, Bangalore from May 2016 to May 2017.
Test lead
Wipro Technologies
05.2010 - 05.2016
- Worked as Test lead with Wipro Technologies, Bangalore from May 2010 to May 2016.
Senior executive
SRA Systems LTD
06.2006 - 05.2010
- Worked as Senior executive with SRA Systems LTD, Chennai from June 2006 to May 2010.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communication
Ranipettai Engineering College
Vellore, India05.2005
Skills
- Implementation Management
- Requirements Gathering
- Risk Analysis, Gap Analysis,Feasibility Analysis,Cost/Benefit Analysis
- Validating Rest API services using post man
- Loan Management
- Banking Operations
- Transition Management
- Payment
- Product Owner
- Quality Assurance
- FS Documentation
- User Acceptance Testing
- Issue Resolution
- Project Planning
- Configuration Management
- Data Migration
- Project Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Business Analysis
- User stories in BDD formate
- Project scope assessment
- Customer Support
- Software Implementation
Projectengagements
- Senior Implementation Specialist, Core DDA Processing, Citi bank, Bangalore, , PISMO cloud-based core banking, LTI MindTree, The current project Core DDA account and core DDA transaction building CIP (common Interface platform) services for Payments and Earmarking as part of global build in SaaS product. project is to building interface to post the request and response from the partner’s by understanding the current BAU features and current available features in the new System (Pismo SaaS Product) and performing gap analysis, identified gap need to convert the backlog items and bring to the Sprint as new user storied to bridge the gap by developing them in the upcoming sprints. Modules worked on: Payments, Earmarking, Float Cheque. Responsibilities: As product owner, requirement gathering, Requirement analysis, User stories writing, PI-Planning, Sprint Planning, DATA analysis and data Mapping between core system and CIP services, Writing the user stories in BDD format, Backlog grooming for upcoming sprints, Status reporting of daily Standup call, Test execution, Production Support.
- Senior Principal consultant, Shinsei Core banking Upgrade, Shinsei Bank, Tokyo, Oracle Flexcube Version 12.1, Oracle Financial Software Services, The current project Flexcube UBS implementation project is to implement core-banking system in Shinsei BANK (Tokyo), a leading bank in Japan, provides banking services to its customers across cities with over branches. The bank has embarked on a core-banking program and is upgrading implementing Oracle FLEXCUBE. Modules worked on: CASA, TD, RD, Retail Lending, SI, Teller. Responsibilities: Requirement analysis, Preparing the Requirement Specifications documents, Tracking the requirement under development and provide clarification when required, Requirement explaining and training when ever required for QA team, Tracking the allocation of test cases and monitored the status of execution, Status reporting of daily execution status to bank / stake holders, Involved in regression testing strategy and execution, Project reporting to Bank/ vendor/ partners and other stake holders, Attending defect meetings, tracking the defects for the closure, Production Support.
- Principal consultant, PSB Core banking Implementation, PS Bank, Metro Bank, Manila/Bangalore, 16, Oracle Flexcube 12.03, Oracle Financial Software Services, The current project Flexcube UBS implementation project is to implement core-banking system in PS. BANK (Philippines Saving Bank and Metro Bank Philippines), a leading bank in Indonesia, provides banking services to its customers across cities with over 151 branches. The bank has embarked on a core-banking program and is implementing Oracle FLEXCUBE. Modules worked on: CASA, TD, RD, Retail Lending, SI, Teller. Responsibilities: Requirement analysis, Preparing the Requirement specification documents, Preparing the use cases, Mentoring the test team in different test execution cycles –System Test (ST), System Integration testing (SIT) and Regression, Status reporting of daily execution status to bank / stake holders, Involved in regression testing strategy and execution, Project reporting to Bank/ vendor/ partners and other stake holders, Decision making in CR (change request) classification, Attending defect meetings, tracking the defects for the closure.
- Senior consultant, Profile Core Banking Implementation, Bandhan Bank, ESAF, FINO, Suryoday, India, 16, Profile WEB CSR, Profile Web Admin, and web teller, FIS Global LTD, The current Profile Implementation project, Currently FIS is implementing the green field projects for FIS India markets the current FCUBS version 7.5V version for Bandhan Bank, ESAF, FINO, and Suryoday bank with new banking features. As part of Customization, testing to make sure the system is stable as per the Business requirement and there should be any impact to existing application and data. Modules worked on: CASA, TD, RD, Loans, SI, Teller, GL and micro finance. Responsibilities: Requirement analysis, Detail Test planning, Managing the testing Team, Test Case reviewing, Mentoring the test team in different test execution cycles –System Test (ST), System Integration testing (SIT) and Regression, Tracking the allocation of test cases and monitored the status of execution, Status reporting of daily execution status to bank / stake holders, Involved in regression testing strategy and execution, Project reporting to Bank/ vendor/ partners and other stake holders, Decision making in CR (change request) classification, Attending defect meetings, tracking the defects for the closure.
- Test lead & Defect manager, Bos-Flexcube Upgrade, Bank of Scotland Germany, Berlin, Germany, Oracle Flex cube UBS 11.0.3, and FCDB, Wipro LTD., The current project Flex cube UBS migration project, upgrading the current FCUBS version 10.x to 11.x version Bank of Scotland Germany with new features. As part of migration testing upgrade version to make sure the system is stable as per the Business requirement and there should be any impact to existing application and data. Modules worked on: Oracle FLEXCUBE Internet Banking (Version 6.x), Oracle FLEXCUBE Universal Banking Solutions (Version 11.x). Responsibilities: Requirement analysis, Detail Test planning, Managing the testing Team, Test Case scripting and reviewing, Mentoring the test team in different test execution cycles –System Test (ST), System Integration testing (SIT) and Regression, Tracking the allocation of test cases and monitored the status of execution, Status reporting of daily execution status to bank / stake holders, Involved in regression testing strategy and execution, Project reporting to Bank/ vendor/ partners and other stake holders, Decision making in CR (change request) classification, Attending defect meetings, tracking the defects for the closure.
- Test lead & Defect manager, PT. Common wealth Bank Indonesia Flex cube Implementation, PT. Common wealth Bank, Bangalore, Indonesia, 30, Oracle Flexcube UBS 12.0.3, Wipro LTD., The current project Flexcube UBS implementation project is to implement core-banking system in PT. BANK COMMONWEALTH (PTBC), a leading bank in Indonesia, provides banking services to its customers across 32 cities with over 91 branches. The bank has embarked on a core-banking program and is implementing Oracle FLEXCUBE. As part of this program, the Bank would like to engage Wipro with suitable experience to augment the needs of the bank on this large testing transformation program. Modules worked on: Oracle FLEXCUBE Internet Banking (Version 12.x), Oracle FLEXCUBE Mobile Banking (Version 12.x), Oracle FLEXCUBE Universal Banking Solutions (Version 12.x). Responsibilities: Requirement analysis, Project planning, Managing the testing Team, Test Case scripting and reviewing, Mentoring the test team in different test execution cycles – System Integration testing (SIT) User AT, Regression, Tracking the allocation of test cases and monitored the status of execution, Status reporting of daily execution status to bank / stake holders, Analyze / Validate defects logged by the team before assigning it to development team, Involved in regression testing strategy and execution, Mentoring the team members and provide them training, Project reporting to Bank/ vendor/ partners and other stake holders, Decision making in CR (change request) classification, Attending defect meetings, tracking the defects for the closure.
- Test Lead, K Bank Transform project, Kasikorn Bank, Thailand, Temenos Core banking (Lending Module), Wipro LTD., Temenos Core Banking Implementation Project, where in K-Bank is replacing their existing core banking application (SAFE) with TCB (Temenos Core banking application). This project includes product level testing of TCB and integration of TCB with existing legacy applications. The Project is a phase wise implementation with the current phase focusing at loans and promissory notes and seamless integration of TCB with existing applications. This phase includes all the functionalities of Loans and PNs as per K-Bank business requirements and corresponding General Ledger entries validations for all types of transactions performed. Modules worked on: Loans, Promissory Notes, Accounting (General Ledger), Multiple Legacy applications and their interaction with TCB, Data migration testing. Responsibilities: Requirement analysis, Leading Migration test Team, Test Case writing and reviewing, Mentoring the test team in test execution, Tracking the allocation of test cases and monitored the status of execution, Status reporting of daily execution status to project manager, Owning complex scenarios and testing them, Validate defects logged by the team before assigning it to development team, Involved in regression testing strategy and execution, Mentoring the team members and provide them training on new functionalities and enhancements, Involved in defect triage with application vendors and clients and advising on the priority to fix the issues based on client’s requirements.
Key Capabilities
- Customer focused Senior Business analyst with over 15+ years of IT experience in Onsite and offshore implementation in Banking Domain.
- Hands On experience in ,PISMO(Sas product),FLEXCUBE FCUBS & Direct Banking version 14.1, 12. 3 and 11.50 versions and Temenos Core banking, Profile Core Banking products (Lending & Deposit Module) .
- Having experience in implemented successfully of core banking projects across the globe with specialist skill in Data Migration testing, Customization and Business Functionality.
- Having Test manager and Test Lead experience in both onsite and offshore banking implementation Projects.
- Quick learner, Innovative and able to perform under pressure with positive and Proactive approach. Excellent Communication and leadership skills with strong Analytical, Problem-solving skills.
- Excellent Client facing skills, experience in working at the client location and interacting with key customers and Business partners.
Languages
Hindi
Advanced (C1)
Tamil
Advanced (C1)
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Telugu
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Timeline
Senior Implementation Specialist
LTIMindTree
03.2023 - Current
Senior Principal Consultant
OFSS
05.2017 - 03.2023
Senior Test Consultant
FIS
05.2016 - 05.2017
Test lead
Wipro Technologies
05.2010 - 05.2016
Senior executive
SRA Systems LTD
06.2006 - 05.2010
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communication
Ranipettai Engineering College