Ajay Rakade

Experience

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  SunGard - now part of FIS

  Jun 2011 - May 2012

  Student Project Trainee

  Developed a simple web application to read/edit FIX(Financial Information eXchange ) messages which are real-time exchange of information related to the securities transactions and markets.Major role in designing of the web-application and development

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  Cognizant

  May 2012 - May 2014

  Programmer Analyst

  • Gained sound knowledge of Retails and Business Banking domain by working on various application and platforms of different B.U.s. ranging from payments, lending, wealth, alerts, customer on-boarding to complaint platform. • Worked on BPM solutions such as system for settlement and closure of deceased customer of bank, system for providing regular payments system(scheduled fund transfers, direct debits) to customer from branch office via agents• Initially worked as a BPM tester. This involved Test design and test execution of complex BPM workflows for various BPM applications catering to needs of major banking client. • Worked as SOA tester. This involved performing functional testing of SOAP web-services developed for Barclays Enterprise Middleware(BEM) and TCV(True Customer View – A Master Data management solution for Barclays).• Responsible for Component Integration testing of Barclays Enterprise Middleware(BEM) and TCV(Web-services only).• Created Automated Sanity and regression suites for SOAP Web-services using GH-Tester. This involved interaction with various backend-application and their different messaging formats. Simulation of E2E workflows out of box for applications.• Role involved activities from test planning, test design, execution and defect management, stakeholder engagement and adherence to software testing lifecycle to certification. Show less

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  EQ Technologic

  Jun 2014 - Dec 2014

  QA Engineer

  • Worked as QA Engineer for Horizontal Platform Testing team. Role involved out of the box testing of plug-ins developed for eQube Platform(BI,MI etc.)• Creation of the cube and applying various filters, aggregating results, performing various operations on data outside the application using in-house test framework.• Played major role in creating automated-build-process for various plug-ins and scheduling of automated regression test suite for all plug-ins Using Jenkins• Implemented Incremental feature in the automated-build process and automated regression test suite to run build creation only for changed plug-ins and to run regression suite was also implemented to run for these changed plug-ins as soon as change is performed/detected. Show less

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  Barclays

  Dec 2014 - Jun 2017

  Test Analyst

  • Designed and developed an automation framework for testing of micro-service (JSON) where the user is not required to code for automating a JSON-micro-service. Provided the user is able to submit details of test in specified JSON Template. Used Core java and java libraries as REST Assured, Jackson, JSON simple.• Designed and developed a simple utility to compare two SOAP responses when triggered on two different servers. This was used for a code migration project where 1600+ services were impacted due to in-house code clean up activity. Used Core java and xmlunit API for xml comparison.• Designed and developed automation Regression test suite for UK-Cards dispute project and Global Payments Acceptance – complaints plat form projects in BTCI• Lead the Services testing team(of 6 members) for BPaid Correspondence where the Goal of the project was to generate Correspondence for existing or new merchants.• Worked on Multiple strategic deliveries such as B-pay(Barclays wearable Band and watch), B- Paid(Transformation of existing legacy/3rd party systems and building an in-house future ready Merchant on-boarding/servicing/global payment application), Strategic Instant Lending, Business Instant Lending, Customer System Real-time(To enhance MDM state from current T+1 to T+0), IDAP(UK Gov. Initiative for citizens to verify their identities from identity providers registered with UK Gov. where Barclays was one of the identity providers).• Worked on tools such as Parasoft SOATest and GH Tester for Creation of Automated Sanity and regression suites for SOAP Web-services, Creating reusable utilities to support E2E testing teams Show less

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  Microsoft

  Jun 2017 - now

  I worked in the project Shell-Lube-Analyst-Next-Gen is Oil condition monitoring, which is an early warning system, helps to save money on maintenance and potential lost caused by failures in equipment & vehicles of shell customers. It is live in 70+ countries and more than 30K Oil samples are being monitored and serviced on daily basis• I Worked in the project as tester/test lead for onboarding module of the project. I Worked on Functional, UX, Accessibility, Data migration Testing. I also worked on API Automation and Data Migration Automation Testing. I was involved in Sprint planning, test planning, test execution, UAT support. Show less

  • Senior Consultant

    Nov 2023 - now

  • Consultant

    Oct 2019 - Oct 2023

  • Associate Consultant

    Jun 2017 - Sept 2019