Samuel Bathula

• Result-oriented professional having overall experience of 7 years in software testing and understanding of Payments domain (SEPA, SWIFT).
• Understanding of financial messaging standards including SWIFT MT1xx to MT9xx series, ISO 20022, IPAYMENT CSV, CUSTPAY CSV.
• Understanding of end-to-end payment processing workflows, inbound/outbound messages, happy and error scenarios.
• Knowledge and proficiency of different testing types, including functional testing, integration testing, regression testing, exploratory testing, and security testing.
• Experience in creating and executing test cases, test scripts, test plans and maintaining test documentation, and test summary reports.
• User-level knowledge in test management tools for test case execution (Functional Testing, User Acceptance Testing), and bug reporting (e.g., JIRA, Confluence, HP-ALM, Azure DevOps) to ensuring optimal software performance.
• Integrated cutting-edge technologies into existing systems for enhanced functionality and user satisfaction.
• Attended project management calls, client meetings and daily scrum calls with onsite/offshore team members∙
• Ability to work independently, establish priorities, meet project milestones and deliverable dates.
• Excellent analytical & problem-solving skills and a motivated team player with exceptional inter-personal skills.
• Self-driven, zeal to learn, adapt to new technologies and processes.
• Regularly reviewed peers'' code contributions, offering constructive feedback to enhance overall product quality.

PROJECT INFORMATION:

Project 1: CCS payment transfer ∙

Client : SCB (Standard Chartered Bank)

Role : Tester ∙

Tools : H2H, CCS, SQL ∙

Duration : May 28, 2022 – Till date

Project Description:

Common channel services (CCS) is a intermediate channel which transfers the customer file to next interface understandable file format and it also does the customer authentication and customer information validation.

Project 2: SWIFT RELEASE 2022, 2023. ∙

Client: SCB ∙

Role: Tester ∙

Tools: H2H, CCS, SQL ∙

Duration: Jun 2022 to till date

Project Description:

Society for the Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) is a co-operative organization dedicated to the promotion and development of standardized global interactivity for financial transactions. SWIFT's original mandate was to establish a global communications link for data processing and a common language for international financial transactions.

Roles & Responsibilities: ∙

• Understanding Business /Functional Requirement documents. ∙
• Uploading requirements to Test Cases in Quality Centre 11.2, Azure DevOps.
• Prepare Test plan ∙
• Prepare Test Scripts ∙
• Log and Prepare Test Plan and Test scripts.
• Execute Test scripts.
• Log and retest defects retest defects.
• Preparing and sending daily status report to immediate manager.

Project 3: SWIFT RELEASE 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021

Client : ANZ

Role : Tester

Tools : MERVA and FI

Duration : Aug 7, 2018 – Nov 18, 2018, Aug 10, 2019 – Nov 17, 2019 and Aug 8, 2020 – Nov 23 2020

Project Description:

Society for the Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) is a co-operative organization dedicated to the promotion and development of standardized global interactivity for financial transactions. SWIFT's original mandate was to establish a global communications link for data processing and a common language for international financial transactions.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Understanding Business /Functional Requirement documents.
• Uploading requirements to Test Cases in Quality Centre 11.2, Azure DevOps.
• Prepare Test plan
• Prepare Test Scripts
• Execute test script.
• Log and Prepare Test Plan and Test scripts.
• Execute Test scripts.
• Log and retest defects retest defects.
• Preparing and sending daily status report to immediate manager.

Project 4: Cross Border and Payments messaging routing (PMR)

Client : ANZ

Role : Tester

Tools : MERVA, PAYplus, GPP and FIM

Duration : Sep, 2018 – Aug, 2019

Project Description:

Cross-border payment is a transaction in which a company or individual in one country transfers money to an

individual or company operating in a different country. The countries do not necessarily need to share a border – trade between

the UK and Spain requires a cross-border payment, for example.

Cross-border payments which ruled that banks have to apply the same charges to cross-border transactions as they apply for

domestic (or national) transactions where these payments are in euro.

When the two countries involved in the transaction use different currencies, the parties need to carry out a foreign currency

exchange to complete the payment.

Roles & Responsibilities:

● Handled a heavy work load with multiple projects and frequent interruptions

● Analyse requirements, architect testing and quality assurance strategies, implement continuous automation, as well as all the required testing disciplines / artifacts to ensure highest quality for all deliverables

● Procure or create test data required for testing

● Coverage analysis and proactively adjust testing to improve test coverage

● Participated in Progression Testing and Regression testing

● Create test cases and prioritize based on the criticality of the business operation

● Uploading the requirements to Test Cases in HP ALM Quality Centre 11.2

● Log and Prepare Test Plan and Test scripts

● Execute Test scripts

● Log and retest defects

● Log and retest defects retest defects.

Project 5 : Alliance Messaging Hub

Client : ANZ

Role : Tester

Tools : AMH

Duration : April, 2019 – March 2022

Project Description:

Alliance Messaging Hub enables the processing of financial message flows and integration with back-office systems.

Processing a large volume of messages every day, your organization requires a messaging solution that offers high levels of availability, high performance, flexible flows and a modular structure.

AMH is also built to perform under heavy message load, processing thousands of messages in a second. Features include an automatic failover mechanism, seamless recovery, automatic reconnection mechanism and auto retry functions. Easily extendable, the platform can provide additional services and protocols as your business develops.

Roles & Responsibilities:

● Client interaction for requirement gathering / clarification and issue escalation

● Document and prepare the documents for issues and maintenance activities

● Uphold existing quality assurance standards and processes, and be a champion in driving further improvements.

This includes the creation and documentation of QA standards and best practices that can be leveraged by the

entire QA organization

Follow standard procedures while preparing technical documents for ST and SIT