Imran Ahmed

JCL, COBOL, DB2, CICIS, VSAM

IMRAN AHMED

MALE, 34 YRS

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY -

Total 7 years of professional experience in the Software Testing industry. 

Worked with Wipro Technologies as Mainframe Tester, MedRC Edutech Ltd (currently known as Medisys), a Medical e-learning company based in Hyderabad as Senior Testing Engineer, with Sonata Software as a Consultant Contract through SBL Global Tech & conducted software tests on Web-based & Media Applications and Mobile e-learning application. Worked as a Contractor in Broadridge Financial Services in the Capital Markets domain. 

Worked as QA Tester with Aheadrace Software Development Services Private Limited for US client Kaplan.

Mainly worked in both Mainframe Testing & Manual Testing of Web and Mobile Applications in Banking, Capital Markets, Financial Services, Insurance domain, Retail, CRM & Salesforce, Workday HCM

Good knowledge and experience in various activities involved in testing like Test Analysis of requirements, Test Estimation, Preparation of detailed test plan and test strategy, Preparation of test cases and test scenarios, Updating stakeholders via progress reports and status updates, defect meeting and updates, Preparation of Test Completion report and various other test activities.

Experienced in various types of testing like Mainframe Testing, Manual Application Testing, Functional Testing, Usability Testing, Regression Testing, GUI Testing, UI & UX Testing, Integration Testing and System Testing.

Well acquainted with Software test life cycle and bug life cycle.

TECHNICAL SKILLS -

Testing Skills: Web Application Testing, .NET Web applications and Android applications testing, Web Services Testing, Mainframe Testing, Mobile Applications Testing, Functional Testing, Database Testing, SAP Cloud for Customer (C4C) Testing, SAP Hybris (Smartedit & Backoffice, Console, Cockpit) Testing, Salesforce Testing (Sales & Service Cloud), Dynamics 365 

Languages : COBOL, DB2, TSO, JCL, CICS, XML

Tools: ALM , JIRA, Qtest,  Azure DevOps, Confluence, ServiceNow, MySQL, Postman, SOAP UI, QTP (Intermediate), Unix (Basics), MS-Office, Open Office.

Domain: Insurance, LMS, Capital Markets, Retail, Customer Relationship Management 
(CRM), Workday HCM, Sales, Retail, E-commerce, POS

Operating Systems: Windows XP, z/OS

STRENGTHS -

  Good domain knowledge of Insurance and Securities. Understanding of financial services and banking domain, Retail, Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Good analytical and presentation skills.

Excellent communication skills.

Knowledge of Agile and Scrum testing.

WORK EXPERIENCE 1

Organization: Wipro Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Designation: Project Engineer

Domain: Insurance 

Duration: June 2010 – April 2013

Role: System Test Analyst

Project Description:

 Aviva UK Life is a global insurance company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. As a part of this project, I mainly worked on the following systems, Office Management (OM), and York Quotes.

Mainframe Testing –

OM is a DB2 and CICS based system developed by Aviva itself for performing various tasks like creating new business policies, executing existing business requests like policy surrender, increase/decrease premium,partial withdrawals etc and generating post-sales policy documents.

Manual Testing -

York Quotes is a Web based quotes system used mainly for generating pre-sales quotations for customers. NUQuote is a standalone quote application to generate pre-sales illustrations. Worked on manual application testing of Java applications. 

Received many client appreciations and awards for my work on RDR project various releases.

I had received 3 Feather in My Cap Awards in Wipro for my project performance and also received one Feather In Your Cap award from our client Aviva.

Responsibilities:

Involved in Requirements & Design walkthrough sessions.

Involved in Planning and Estimation of Testing Activities for project releases.

Preparation of Detailed Test Plans, Test Conditions, Test Strategies, Test Schedules.

Preparation of Test Scenarios and Test Cases.

Requirement mapping (mapping the test cases to the test requirements).

Conducting design, Test plan walkthrough meetings with project stakeholders and TQG (Test Quality Gate) meetings.

Test data requirements gathering & coordination with onsite/offshore team.

Execution of Test cases and sending status reports to stakeholders.

Defect logging and retesting.

Status Tracking, Issue resolution.

Reviewing Test deliverables within the team.

Preparing KT documents and giving training to new team members.

Involved in Daily/Weekly Status Report, Maintaining downtime sheet, Root cause analysis of defects.

WORK EXPERIENCE 2

Organization: MedRC Edutech Ltd. (Medisys)

Designation: Sr. Testing Engineer

Domain: Medical E-learning

Duration: August 2013 – October 2014

Location: Somajiguda, Hyderabad

Testing of Learning Management System (LMS) domain Web and Mobile applications, Multimedia and e-learning applications on Android Tablets, Preparing Test Plans, Developing and executing Test cases, Issuing Test and Defect Status Reports. Testing of .Net Applications

Work Experience 3 -

Employer: Sonata Software Pvt Ltd (Contract with SBL Globaltech payroll). 

Client: TUI Nordics & UK 

Duration: July 2018 to November 2019

Role: Software Test Engineer 

Domain: Travel Domain, CRM, E-commerce

• TUI Group is a company that covers the entire tourism value chain under one roof. It has a unique hotel portfolio, cruise lines, six European airlines, the distribution strength of tour operators, both online and through travel agencies all over NORDIC countries such as Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark. It offers a consistently high quality end-to-end customer experience through fully-integrated tourism business, from inspiring and booking to flight and transfer right through to the holiday itself in a hotel or on board a cruise ship. TUI has unique holiday concepts, great deals, direct distribution channels and strong portfolio of hotels and cruise ships that enable it to design the whole holiday experience, giving a clear competitive advantage in the leisure tourism industry. 

Worked in Web Hybris & SAP C4C CRM, Salesforce applications. My responsibilities include:

• Analyze the requirements, identify the business Scenarios
• Preparation of Test Cases and updating in Test link.
• Preparing Test Requirements (HLS) and Test cases based on the Functional document (User stories from Rally).
• Installation, Functional, Integration, Database and Regression Testing.
• Responsible for running test cases and posting defects in Qtest.
• Responsible for tracking and reporting bugs in Qtest.
•  Keep tracking bugs in Track and retesting the bugs and updating the bug’s status with comments.
• Testing GUI screens for all web pages
•  Interacting with the developers to make sure that they have understood the issues and proactively involved in Defect review meetings

 Work Experience 4 -

Employer: Broadridge Financial Solutions (Contract with Samsdegorec Software Services & Softsol). 

Client: UBS 

Duration: Feb 2020 to Sep 2020

Role: Software Test Engineer 

Domain: Capital Markets 

Responsibilities – Mainframe Testing of Capital Markets, Analyze Requirements, prepare Test scenarios & Test Cases, Test execution and reporting defects. Test execution review meeting with Clients. 

Work Experience 5-

Employer: Aheadrace Software Development Services Private Limited

Client: Kaplan Inc

Duration: Sep 2021 to Sep 2022

Role: QA Analyst

Domain : E-learning 

Responsibilities - Test Case Preparation, Test Execution and Interacting with Clients to understand Requirements, Defect reporting, Giving application Demo to clients

EDUCATION -

Master of Commerce 2010  Osmania University College Of Commerce & Business Management -73%

B.Com (Honors)     2008 Jagruti Degree & PG College, Hyderabad  - 75%

HSC (CEC)                2005 Wesley Junior College, Hyderabad             - 85%

SSC (ICSE)                2003 St. Martin’s High School , Hyderabad        - 70%