Amol Pokale

Experience

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  Tieto

  Jun 2011 - Nov 2016

  Test Engineer

  Project 3: Mortgage Banking (Summit Application)Client: UK societies [ June 2011 to November 2016 ]Role: Test Engineer Project Description: Summit is a mortgage banking system designed for use by many institutions within the financial sector, including banks, building societies, mortgage processing companies, finance houses, housing associations, and property builders. Summit provides a wide range of financial services covering not only traditional banking and lending facilities, but also insurance, and investments. The Core Summit Release v2.0 project is focused on delivering a version of the Summit mortgage and savings suite on a fully supported platform based on version 10G of Oracle Forms and Database using n-tier architecture. The product provides the creation of account and processing them. Key activities performed: • Worked as a Manual Tester and fallow the agile methodology. • Review Functional Specification and involve in QA task.• Writing & Executing Test Cases for Functional, GUI Testing through JIRA.• Perform Regression, System Testing and Compatibility testing on Firefox, IE browser.• Defect Tracking and Reporting using JIRA and QC 11.• Creating & executing KT plan to new joiners in the team.• Document all CR (Change request) which I worked. Technology/Skills/Tools used• Tools: Jira, QC, Wink, Oracle Database 11g (SQL database).• Technologies: COBOL, Oracle forms, Windows 7, Windows XP.• Skills: Functional testing, GUI Testing, database testing, Integration testing, UAT. Show less

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  Zensar Technologies

  Mar 2017 - Sept 2017

  Senior Test Engineer

  Project: DALEY, Return to the trunkClient: Prudential, Stirling , UKRole: Senior Test EngineerDescription:Prudential launched a brand-new retirement pension product with a new personal pension and Income drawdown plan using SONATA as its platform where independent and in-house advisers would key business from front end Sonata and the keyed data flows down to various downstream data lakes and data marts. My job was to key data on front-end Sonata, run web-based manual tests, then ensure keyed data flows down to data lakes and data marts correctly.Accountabilities:• Review and understand the functional requirement specifications provided by Business Analyst.• Validation of the identification of eligible customers, the validation of exception and exclusion.• Performing various types of Testing which includes Database Testing, Data Integrity, Functional Testing and Regression Testing.• Defect finding and reporting through ALM tool Quality Center 12.0.• Daily Status meeting with Product Owner & team for and follow-up on impediments.• Verifying the data in the target database by ETL process.• Verified column mapping between source and target.• Reporting daily testing status.• Designed, Reviewed & Executed Test cases.• Identified Test cases for Regression testing.• Communication with client for Data management.Technology/Skills/Tools Used:• Tools: Toad for Oracle, Quality Center, Jira, Informatica, Qlik View, Salesforce, Zephyr, Sonata• Technologies: ETL testing, Web-based testing, BI reporting• Skills: Functional testing, Integration testing, UAT Show less

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  Zensar Technologies

  Nov 2017 - Feb 2022

  Senior Test Engineer

  Project: Sanlam Personal FinanceClient: Sanlam, Cape Town, SA Role: Senior Test EngineerDescription:Sanlam is a South African Financial services group. The group's areas of expertise include insurance, financial planning, retirement annuities, trusts, wills, short-term insurance, asset management, risk management and capital market activities, investment and wealth.Sanlam Personal Finance (SPF) is a process of implanting Robotics Process Automation in their business operations. The bot identifies the valid process and process the service request as per different business rules.Accountabilities:• Review and understand the functional requirement specifications provided by Business Analyst.• Creating test approach document for each process and following the same while test execution cycle.• Performing various types of Testing which includes Database Testing, Data Integrity, Functional Testing and Regression Testing.• Defect finding and reporting through JIRA tool.• Daily Status meeting with Product Owner & team for and follow-up on impediments.• Coordinating with developers, stakeholders and BA's throughout the test cycle and UAT support• Preparing defect reports, status reports & test summary Technology/Skills/Tools Used:• Tools: Automation Anywhere, JIRA, SQL, SOAP, Postman.• Technologies: Web-based testing• Skills: Functional testing, GUI Testing, database testing, Integration testing, UAT. Show less

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  Cognizant

  Feb 2022 - now

  Senior Associate

  Project: Raven Client: Bayer GermanyRole: Senior Test LeadBayer is a German multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company and is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies and biomedical companies in the world.This project was mean to collect data from various feeds, resources and create a transformed and processed data feeds for clinical research. There are multiple business rules and transformations in between to create a final processed data feed. The feed of clinical data involves sample data, patient data, prescription data and others. TAT (Test Automation Tool) is used to cross verify Source vs Target data, and DWH was connected to dashboards to analyze the reports using Spotfire.Accountabilities:Collaborated with clients, product managers and development and testing team to prioritize deliverables.• Guided team through delivery by managing scope, risk, and issues, resloving at the lowest level and escalating as needed.• Lead Agile ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprit review and sprint retrospective.• Tracked sprint metrics and maintained.• Created a change request document and obtained client approval to start the change request, as well as assisted in the planning of releases.• Coordinated UAT testing with various stakeholders.• Played various roles including scrum master, tech lead and individual contributor. • Work across the SDLC phases in agile scrum and waterfall model.• Developed a testing KM portal for resolving recurring issues. Show less