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Academic chronicle
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PREMA MURAGESH

PREMA MURAGESH

Summary

Quality assurance test lead offering several years in Functional software testing of BFS and Insurance sectors of software Industry. Collaborated daily with qa team to conduct testing, detect issues and resolve problems. Meticulously updated project documents to record status, results and findings.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Assistant Consultant (Test Lead)

Tata consultancy Services
07.2021 - 07.2023
  • Involved in Test Preparation, Estimate and Execution of Trade Finance projects with agile methodology in Common Wealth bank of Australia.
  • Worked in Global Trade, SAP Remediation, Trade Innovation (Finastra) projects and gained knowledge of Trade Finance functionalities
  • Involved in coordinating with multiple vendors of project like CITI, Finastra, HCL , CBA which helped to complete the Test activities on time even though there were challenges faced related to delay in start of project
  • Involved in giving application functionality KT to teammates and Test Scenario/Results walkthrough to Product Owners and all stakeholders of project.

Production Support QA Lead

Tata Consultancy Services
05.2018 - 06.2021
  • Involved in Testing Production Incident fix in lower environments of CommBiz Always on Application of an Australian Bank CBA.
  • Involved in BVT of preprod and production environments I was responsible for taking all testing activities like test planning, updating test dashboard in Jira, Baseline, Post Fix test execution in all test and prod environments
  • Involved in analyzing the production incident and suggesting developers on fix
  • Involved in raising change, coordinating with change management team for approval, testing the change and seeking Test Sign off for the same
  • Involved in giving application functionality KT to new joiners of the team.

Test Lead

Tata consultancy Services
07.2015 - 04.2017
  • Involved in meetings like requirement walkthrough, Analysis, Test estimate, Test Resource management and Project Design meeting from Tech architects and was giving inputs representing Testing Team for HDFC Life Insurance Project.
  • Involved in coordinating with Business Analysts, Project Managers, Developers and QA team members to achieve the Project Objectives.
  • Involved in Test Estimation and Test Scenario Preparation of CRM applications.
  • As a test lead, assisted a team of eight members to analyze the CSPS project requirements, prepare test scenario and test data with maximum coverage and giving walkthrough of Test documents and project Demo to BA, project managers and customers.
  • I was responsible for monitoring the Test Execution; guiding Team members; Sending status reports, Test Completion Reports, DPCA reports to stakeholders.

IT Analyst (Test Analyst)

Tata consultancy Services
05.2011 - 07.2014
  • Involved in functional testing of Mainframe and Ecomm applications and giving KT to Trainees.
  • As a STA involved in preparing Test Plan, Test Coverage and giving walkthrough on those documents to customers.
  • As a test lead, was responsible for monitoring the test execution of two members, sending the Daily Status Reports, Test Completion Report and Defect Prevention Casual Analysis reports to Legal and General UK Insurance client.

Assistant System Engineer (Development and Support)

Tata Consultancy Services
08.2007 - 04.2011
  • Involved in generating Jasper Reports by gathering business requirements of the reports, exporting it to different formats and integrating those reports for SBI and Tata Capital customers.
  • Involved in generating UI screens JSP creator tool.
  • Involved in enhancement of the UI screens by understanding functionality.
  • Involved in building and Deploying SOA applications into development and test environments.
  • Involved in SOA application server environment support

Skills

  • Functional Testing,Test Planning, Test Estimation ,Test Reporting in Banking and Insurance sector
  • Worked in Test Management tools like Jira , QC ALM,Quality center 92 , Blaze meter and Bugzilla
  • Performed BVT in Production Support team for Business Banking project
  • Worked in My Service/Service Now for Incident Management
  • Created Project related Confluence pages for Knowledge sharing purpose
  • Worked in tools like Cruise Control 240, Sub version 163 for Configuration Management
  • Worked in SQL as sql developer to modify and extract reports
  • Worked in Waterfall , V – Model and Agile methodologies of Project
  • Created Jasper Report using IReport tool and MasterCraft tool of TCS(Java) and JSP Page using JSP Creator development
  • ETL Testing
  • Power BI Desktop

Certification

  • National Certificate for Financial Markets (NCFM)
  • Sun Certified Java Programming 1.5 (SCJP)
  • International Software Testing Qualification Board Foundation (ISTQB)
  • Planning to take up Digital Banking Certification from IIBF

Academic chronicle

  • BE, 2006, Vemana Institute of Technology, Electronics and Communications
  • PUC, 2002, M.E.S Kishore Kendra, PCMB

Languages

kannada
First Language
Hindi
Proficient (C2)
C2
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Telugu
Beginner (A1)
A1
french
Beginner (A1)
A1

Accomplishments

  • On the Spot Award for Test activities performed for Global Trade project within CBA Account from client.
  • On the Spot Award for the dedication towards Analysis of SAP Remediation project within CBA from client.
  • Start Team award for CommBiz project within CBA Account from Client.
  • Learning Achievement Award for completing Leadership training in TCS.
  • Service and Commitment Award in recognition of 15 years of dedicated service.
  • Appreciation and on the spot award received for Test Completion of critical CSPS project in HDFC Life Account from Account head and Project managers.
  • Appreciation and on the spot award received for dedication and test execution of regulatory projects within Legal and General Account from Client and project Managers.

Job Profile

  • Produce test documents, test scenarios, test cases and plans for the various stages of the project to identify defects or missed requirements quickly and efficiently
  • Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with different vendors and stakeholders to achieve Quality objectives of project.
  • Experience in all different types of testing System , Integration, Regression , Smoke , Sanity and Business Verification Testing.
  • Quick Learner, adaptable , coordinator and Reliable QA Professional having 11+ years of Functional Testing experience in Banking and Insurance sectors of software industry.

Disclaimer

I hereby declare that the above information is true to the best of my knowledge & belief.

Timeline

Assistant Consultant (Test Lead)

Tata consultancy Services
07.2021 - 07.2023

Production Support QA Lead

Tata Consultancy Services
05.2018 - 06.2021

Test Lead

Tata consultancy Services
07.2015 - 04.2017

IT Analyst (Test Analyst)

Tata consultancy Services
05.2011 - 07.2014

Assistant System Engineer (Development and Support)

Tata Consultancy Services
08.2007 - 04.2011
PREMA MURAGESH