Nirmal Kumar Surana

Nirmal Kumar Surana

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  • About me

    UAT / Test Manager

  • Education

    • Madras University, Chennai

      2000 - 2004
      M.C.A - Master of Computer Application Computer Science First Class
    • D.G. Vaishnav College

      1997 - 2000
      B.Sc. Computer Science Computer Science First Class

      Activities and Societies: Joined NCC, Attended National Integration Camp (NIC) 12 days at Kanyakumari, TN, India

  • Experience

    • Cognizant

      May 2000 - Aug 2023

      Test Manager : Client - BNYM - (1 Year and 9 Months)Managed System Testing, SIT and Support UAT for Pershing EMEA Transformation Mainframe Migration projectTest Manager : Client - FCA - (4 Years and 4 Months)Testing of DMT Migration programme to SharePoint OnlineTesting of ExaCC - Exadata cloud at customer migration projectE2E GDPR requirements testing across most of the applications E2E testing for Axway Refresh Migration project (Secure transfer of data between UK’s Conduct Regulator and it's clients)Testing Data Intrusion and Prevention on Oracle databaseTesting business and security rules for Mimesweeper to Symantec Cloud migration projectTesting migration from Blue coat to Forcepoint Web SecurityTest Manager : Client - LGIM - (7 Months)Managed AD Migration upgrade project at LGIMCreated and maintained Test Strategy, Test Plan, testing schedule Test Manager : Client - Credit Suisse - (5 Years and 7 Months)UAT/SIT testing of regulatory projects related to Dodd Frank, EMIR and CFTC across teamsUAT Testing for Ownership and Control reporting (OCR) projectE2E UAT/SIT Straight through processing (STP) testing with Inter Dealer brokers(IDB)SIT/UAT Testing for SEF Mandatory - FX Option and NDF testing with tradition and GFI broker to DTCCTest Manager for Fixed Income - Single Dealer Platform (FID-SDP) trade execution application in CS Plus Hands on experience in testing FX Cash, FX Option, Rates trade executionTest Manager : Client - Lloyds - (4 Months)Coordinated Integration testing with various banking platform teams with in SR3 under sub release model in one of the largest integration project between Lloyds & HBOSTest Lead : Client - HBOS - (4 Years and 3 Months)Managed 7-member client output team in CPAS and 4 member ELAS team based in ChennaiExecuted Annuity migration project like BIGBEN. Involved in many confidential and critical projects. In charge of testing and managing all rectification projects Show less Mainframe Developer : Client : AMEX - (6 Months)Managed UCRS Sprint projects 5-member team, responsible for credit card statement processing for US Market. Analysed, estimated and allocated projects to the team members.Mainframe Developer : Client : JPMC - (1 Years, 9 Months)Setup and trained W2W (Wins to Warehouse) Fund Accounting 6-member team at offshore.Analysed, estimated and prepared Milestones for the new projects.Involved in coding, testing of COBOL programs and setting up testing regions.Attended 2 Month Knowledge Transition (KT) Training and prepared KT documents in Dallas, US.Mainframe Developer : Client : FDR - (3 Years, 5 Months)Member of team TMF3A coding and maintaining COBOL programs for credit card processingInvolved in coding, Unit testing, System testing and Integration testingCoded around 1000 Standard requests (SRs), 50 CRs (Custom requests) & many Adhoc projectsProvided 12 * 7 Oncall production support for more than 20 teams at onsite Show less

      • Test Manager

        Feb 2006 - Aug 2023
      • Mainframe Developer

        May 2000 - Jan 2006
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • ISEB – Practitioner Certificate in Software Testing

      Jan 2010
    • MCP - Microsoft Certified Professional

      Jan 1999