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Neketa Thool

Pune

Summary

Dynamic Assistant Vice President with a proven track record at Barclays Global Service Centre, showcasing expertise in SEPA Payments, GPP MassPay, adept in Agile methodologies, PL/SQL and automation testing using BDD and Feature file. Excelled in leading a team, enhancing project delivery through agile methodologies. Renowned for exceptional problem-solving abilities and effective team management, significantly improving operational efficiency.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Assistant Vice President

Barclays Global Service Centre
12.2014 - Current

I am involved in a masspay project as a functional SME and utilize a top processing engine called GPP. Credit transfer, Direct Debits, return etc are handled by GPP MassPay. Agile is applied to our project. Regression is Automated for this project and all new changes are implemented in Automation.

Roles and Responsibility

  • Working as a senior functional SME and Test Lead.
  • Managing Team of 7 members, assigning JIRA items per Iteration.
  • Leading discussions with Product Owners, planning Iteration, running daily calls.
  • Working as PROD support during go live, review and prepared LCT files.
  • Working on controlled start i.e. monitored business day post PROD deployment.
  • Preparing necessary Release documents.
  • Reviewing code changes done by vendors for each Release before go live.
  • Analyzing traces and resolving PROD issues.
  • Discussing and taking updates from vendor company Team members about issues planned per Iteration.
  • Testing complex functionality, finding issues, raising same in JIRA.
  • Leading E2E test and related discussions with different Interface teams.
  • Hands on test experience with AB INITIO jobs, data loading in various layers.
  • Working on Data validation in BIW, Data lake etc. down streams.
  • Analyzing IRD’s for new change requests and its impact.
  • Written User stories in JRA for change.
  • Using JIRA to track ever Iteration and log oneself work and respective efforts.
  • Analyzing and resolving PROD issues.
  • Assisting Team members with Functional and technical queries.
  • Working in Agile, Scrum team(MassPay Engineering Team), using JIRA.
  • Working on Agile Central for Scrum Tracking.
  • Working as a Scrum Master.
  • Provide project related training, guidance and support to peers and team members.
  • Taking interview for new roles in project.
  • Working as a Automation Tester, BDD and Selenium.
  • Experience in defect triaging and getting its RCA.
    Worked on Java and Selenium.
  • Written Feature files for automating Regression pack.
  • Validated CART Reports for Regression testing.
  • Knowledge in PL SQL queries.
  • Written Automation scripts for validating TC’s.
  • Working on SWIFT and SEPA payments.
  • Participation in Production Testing.
  • Worked for major clients in various testing phases like – ST, SIT and UAT.
  • Knowledge of Software Developing Life Cycle and Testing
  • Life Cycle including Agile methodologies.
  • Strong experience in analyzing a new defect.
  • Upgraded and performed sanity of test environment.
  • Performed controlled testing for many reports.
  • Analyzed and tested related to BG, WEB and DB.
    Conducted Regression testing with Feedback released application.
  • Tested many interface related issues.
  • Did setup for new Office from scratch.
  • Organized test data and created data profiles for test execution.
  • Conducted functional, Sanity, Smoke and End-to-End testing for the application.
  • Created and executed the Test scripts for new Change Request.
  • Performed Automation Testing using Green Hat Tester.
  • Performed backend testing

Associate Consultant

ORACLE FINANCIAL SERVICES SOFTWARE. LTD.
04.2010 - 11.2014

Project : Bank Of Ireland CT OUT

Brief: BOI is an indirect participant of SEPA. CT Outbound deals with Outgoing payment.

Responsibilities:

  • Understanding the architecture and testing block by block functionality.
  • Used defect tracker tool Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
  • Tested connectivity amongst various blocks.
    Handle the Responsibility of Module
  • Analyzing positive and negative aspect of each block.
  • Prepared Test cases and Test data for many modules.
  • Analyzing positive and negative aspect of each block
    Processed SEPA payments in xml format.
  • Tested PAIN001, PAIN002 and STD18 format of SEPA payment.
  • Active participating in walkthrough and Defect report meetings periodically.


Project : Bank Of Ireland CT in

Brief: BOI is an indirect participant of SEPA. CT Inbound deals with Incoming payment.

Responsibilities:

  • Understanding the architecture and testing block by block functionality.
  • Used defect tracker tool Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
  • Prepared Test script and executed them.
  • Prepared Test cases and Test data for many modules.
  • Analyzing positive and negative aspect of each block.
    Processed SEPA payments in xml format.
  • Tested Blocks and Reports related issues.
  • Creating and executing the Test script for new Change request.
  • Performed controlled testing for few reports.
  • Tested SWIFT MT 103, MT 202, MT 103 202 COV, MT 199.
    Tested generation and verified MT 199.
  • Analyzed and tested related to WEB and DB.


Project : CITI Bank

Brief: The Citibank Fund Transfer i.e. CitiFT is one of the biggest projects under development in Oracle Financial Services Software Ltd, Pune. The goal of the project is to implement a single funds transfer system for Citigroup, replacing the individual systems now used by each country. Citibank fund transfer project is for migration of CITI bank to new electronic payment processing product, Global Pay plus (GPP) across the globe. GPP is a product of Fundtech Co., Israel, for processing of electronic payments. GPP in CITI bank can receive electronic payments coming from networks external to CITI bank like SWIFT, CHIPS, FED & other messaging systems of CITI bank. OFSS is involved in this project to develop interfaces for GPP to interact with other systems working along with GPP in CITI bank. GPP back end developed in C++ in UNIX uses ORACLE as database & BEA tuxedo as transaction manager.

Paylite a GUI based application static data upload system which helps in making setup for processing various Payments.

Responsibilities:

  • Understanding the client requirements as per the Requirement documents.
  • Coordinated with development and business in verifying issues and defects.
  • Defect triaging in HP Quality Centre.
  • Written Procedures and Functions.
  • Deploying the new or modified binaries of a defect.
  • Strong experience in analyzing a new defect.
  • Worked on MT 103, MT 202.
  • Processed many SWIFT and BSI payments.
  • Interaction with the clients and onsite team.
  • Upgraded and performed sanity of test environment.
  • Analyzed and tested related to BG, WEB and DB.
  • Conducted Regression testing with Feedback released application.
  • Tested many interface related issues.
  • Organized test data and created data profiles for test execution.
  • Conducted functional, Sanity, Smoke and End-to-End testing for the application.
  • Created and executed the Test scripts for new Change Request.
  • Deployment testing and making of Release Notes.
    Performed Automation Testing using Selenium for GUI based application.
  • Prepared Test script and executed them.
  • Performed Black and White box testing.

Education

Computer Engineering - Computer And Information Sciences

Rajive Gandhi College Of Engineering
Chandrapur
06.2009

High School Diploma -

Janta Mahavidyala,
Chandrapur India
06.2005

No Degree - 10 Th

Mount Carmel Convent High School
Chandrapur India
06.2003

Skills

  • Testing Tools : JIRA, Agile Central, Java Selenium(Feature file model) IBM Rational Integration Tools
  • Data Base : PL/SQL
  • Operating Systems : MS DOS, MS Windows, 98/NT/XP/Vista,UNIX
  • Other : HTML, PL/SQL Developer, Global Payplus,WinScp, Putty, Jenkins, IBM Web sphere MQ ,Citrix VDM, GPP v34, GPP MassPay ,Java Selenium, Green Hat Tester (GHT)
  • Reporting, Meeting Minutes, Records Management
  • Project Management
  • Corporate presentations
  • Consulting
  • Recruiting and Hiring
  • Business Planning
  • Decision Making & Judgment
  • Issue Resolution Skills
  • Operations Management

Timeline

Assistant Vice President

Barclays Global Service Centre
12.2014 - Current

Associate Consultant

ORACLE FINANCIAL SERVICES SOFTWARE. LTD.
04.2010 - 11.2014

Computer Engineering - Computer And Information Sciences

Rajive Gandhi College Of Engineering

High School Diploma -

Janta Mahavidyala,

No Degree - 10 Th

Mount Carmel Convent High School
Neketa Thool