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SYED KAUSAR ALI

Pune

Summary

Dynamic Test Lead with 8+ years in Software Testing, specializing in Manual/Functional Testing, Project & Defect Management, and Production Support. Expert in testing web/mobile apps across digital banking, UPI, BBPS, and SWIFT payments. Skilled in Functional, Regression, Integration, Sanity & Smoke Testing, with proficiency in JIRA, DevOps, POSTMAN, and WATERMELON.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Test Lead

Quality Kiosk Technologies Pvt Ltd
01.2023 - 04.2025

Client: Aditya Birla Capital Digital Ltd

Project Description: ABCD is a digital banking app offering UPI, BBPS, prepaid cards, wallets, loyalty programs, and merchant onboarding, with card processing via ISO 8583 for authorization, clearing, and settlement.

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Oversee end-to-end testing to ensure quality and timely stakeholder updates.
  • Create and manage test plans, traceability, and defect logs.
  • Drive execution, regression, and sanity testing.
  • Coordinate business reviews, track KPIs, and deliver daily status, effort, and quality reports

Test Lead

Quality Kiosk Technologies Pvt Ltd
11.2022 - 01.2023

Client: Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd

Project Description: Kotak MB 2.0 is basically online Mobile banking with UPI payment for Kotak Mahindra Bank which provides/ avails to perform all basic banking function with UPI Payment

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Oversee end-to-end testing to ensure quality and timely stakeholder updates.
  • Create and manage test plans, traceability, and defect logs.
  • Drive execution, regression, and sanity testing.
  • Coordinate business reviews, track KPIs, and deliver daily status, effort, and quality reports

Associate Test Lead

h2e power system Pvt Ltd
12.2020 - 05.2021

Client: Hexis AG, Switzerland

Project Description: Web-based system for real-time monitoring and control of hydrogen-to-electricity conversion.

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Oversee end-to-end testing to ensure quality and timely stakeholder updates.
  • Create and manage test plans, traceability, and defect logs.
  • Drive execution, regression, and sanity testing.
  • Coordinate business reviews, track KPIs, and deliver daily status, effort, and quality reports

Senior Test Engineer

A.T.E. Group
04.2018 - 10.2020

Client: UCO Bank Ltd.

Project Description: BHIM UCO UPI is a UCO Bank mobile application utilizing NPCI’s UPI platform to enable secure, real-time digital payments directly from customers’ bank accounts.

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Create and execute test scenarios and cases with the team.
  • Manage defect logging, tracking, and regression/sanity testing.
  • Support test planning, maintain traceability, and prepare defect reports.
  • Track and update testing status, and submit daily time sheets, and work logs.

Software Test Engineer

A.T.E. Group
01.2016 - 03.2018

Client: UCO Bank Ltd

Project Description: BHIM UCO UPI is a UCO Bank mobile app using NPCI’s UPI platform to enable secure, real-time bank-to-bank digital payments

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Create and execute test scenarios and cases with the team.
  • Manage defect logging, tracking, and regression/sanity testing.
  • Support test planning, maintain traceability, and prepare defect reports.
  • Track and update testing status, and submit daily time sheets, and work logs.

Test Engineer

Newtronic Lifecare Equipment Pvt Ltd
12.2014 - 01.2016

Client: Cipla Ltd

Project Description:A web-based application for real-time monitoring and control of environmental parameters in pharmaceutical testing chambers, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and regulatory compliance.

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Create and execute test cases, manage defects, perform regression/sanity testing, support test planning, maintain traceability, and provide daily status and quality reports

Education

BE - Pune

Pune University
Pune
08-2012

Skills

Functional Testing

Test Planning and Monitoring

Defect Management

Test Metrics and Reporting

Internet Banking

UPI BBPS

Card and Payments

ISO 8583/ISO 20022

Swift

Wallet Payment

SQL

API Testing

Test strategy development

Certification

  • ISTQB foundation
  • Watermelon
  • Scrum Assessment

Personal Information

Date of Birth: 06/26/90

Technology Expertise

Windows 7/10, Android and iOS, Postgresql, JIRA, DevOps, WATERMELON, POSTMAN, Intellij

Timeline

Test Lead

Quality Kiosk Technologies Pvt Ltd
01.2023 - 04.2025

Test Lead

Quality Kiosk Technologies Pvt Ltd
11.2022 - 01.2023

Associate Test Lead

h2e power system Pvt Ltd
12.2020 - 05.2021

Senior Test Engineer

A.T.E. Group
04.2018 - 10.2020

Software Test Engineer

A.T.E. Group
01.2016 - 03.2018

Test Engineer

Newtronic Lifecare Equipment Pvt Ltd
12.2014 - 01.2016

BE - Pune

Pune University
SYED KAUSAR ALI