Snehal Thorat
Summary
ISTQB certified Methodical and efficient Senior Quality Assurance Engineer bringing 9 years of experience in UAT, SIT, ST on digital platforms such as Investment Banking, Home Loan Originations, Home loan core and servicing, Instant Mortgages,Home loan Refinance, Automobile, and Trip management, Biometric VOI domains.
Experienced in developing and executing manual and automated test cases. Highly proficient in testing tools, systems and software. Proven history in coordinating crisis responses, projects and problem resolutions. Proficient at adhering to tight deadlines and quality assurance parameters and fully versed in complete SDLC.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Test Analyst
CloudMarc @BOQ
07.2023 - 05.2024
- Testing Home Loan Core & Servicing mobile applications In SIT & UAT Phase
- Supported successful product launches with thorough end-to-end testing of all features and components being Epic Lead
- Experience testing Home Loan Repayment, Statement generation,Account closure, Account Maintenance, Your Money, NPP Payments, BPay, Arrears & Collections
- Provided comprehensive reporting of test results to stakeholders, enabling informed decisionmaking.
- Enhanced software quality by identifying and resolving critical defects before product release.
- Optimized resource allocation by accurately estimating required testing effort for each project phase.
- Validated system requirements through targeted functional, regression, and performance testing efforts.
- Conducted root cause analysis on recurring defects to identify areas for process improvement and future prevention.
- Worked on Testing customer loyalty program for home loan applications via Ascenda system
- Hands on experience in core banking application Temenos Transact T24
- Testing ETL extracts, verifying data sources between source and target with provided mapping
- Check that the data is accurate, complete, and consistent
- Verify that the data is in the same format, with the same data types, constraints, and validation rules
- Experience testing HL and core servicing mobile application using T24 where primary responsibilities were to prepare test data, execute test cases, logging and triaging defects
- Triggering Home loan transaction form T24 as a part of test data set-up
- Arrangement Architecture (Account, Deposits, Lending), Funds Transfer, Payments (TPH), Loans and Deposit
- Supporting shakeout testing post deployment
- End to End testing of Home Loans originated from Nextgen and PEGA
- Hands on experience in creating home loans from broker portal settling them from PEGA
- In depth understanding of System Testing (ST), System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Experience in testing Payments, statements, home loan repayments, complex servicing, Loyalty & Rewards functionalities as a part of home loan core servicing
- Help troubleshoot issues/ defects via Charles log and Microsoft Azure logs
- Deliver effective and efficient testing solutions by meeting key project milestones and overall project deliverables on time, and adhering to development and quality standards
- Operated under Agile and Scrum frameworks to complete releases and well-organized sprints.
Quality Assurance Engineer
Tritusa Consulting @Westpac
05.2022 - 06.2023
- System testing of Digital Mortgages application's functionality
- Testing Digital Instant Mortgage applications with various flows
- Created successful test scripts to manage automated feature testing
- Tested Digital Authorization project post settlement.
- Worked on testing Open Banking for income verification
- Tested conditional and unconditional approval for home loan in Apply online flow
- Tested Biometric Verification of Identity for home loan customers in onboarding process.
- Hands on experience in Home loan creation and settlement in OBP
- Reduced manual testing efforts with the development of reusable automated test scripts.
- Work with QA Analysts and Developers to ensure that all aspects of the system have proper testing coverage and overall system reliability, performance and quality
- Analyze the testing needs and develop testing strategy and plans
- Review and approve test plans, scenarios, scripts or procedures such as database impacts, software scenarios or usability
- Execute test cases (manual or automated) and analyze results
- Worked on UI Web Automation for Instant Mortgage Digital application
- Create logs to document testing phases and defects
- Help troubleshoot issues/ defects by checking logs in splunk
- Work with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle
- Effort estimation activities for given scope
- Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility
- Deliver effective and efficient testing solutions by meeting key project milestones and overall project deliverables on time, and adhering to development and quality standards
- Following Agile Practices.
Technical Tester
Hexaware Technologies @NSW Transport
01.2021 - 01.2022
- NSW Transport
- Preparing and Executing test cases Requirement gathering and understanding
- Running jobs/ batches on windows and Linux
- Database testing by executing SQL Queries
- Reading and Understanding API Documentation
- Verifying compliance of an API to its contract
- Importing and configuration of API project in Postman checking logs and validating XML responses
- Using SQL queries to validate API and DB elements
- Validating flags in database using SQL for flag generation
- Ensuring that right error code is returned; Ensuring that the API is performant etc
- Ensuring that the response follows the right schema
- Data Verification on backend system by using emulators like ZOC and PUTTY.
Quality Engineering (QA to QE)
Infostretch Corporation Pvt. Ltd
08.2018 - 05.2019
- This Project was to offer Manual to Automation tester transition program, in which i worked on the automation project assigned to me which included below
- Develop the automation scripts by using Selenium WebDriver using POM
- Manage the parallel execution by using TestNG
- Continues Integration by Jenkins
- Pushing code to BitBucket
- Implementation of test scripts in QAF.
Senior QA Engineer
Infostretch Corporation Pvt. Ltd @WelllsFargo
05.2016 - 05.2019
- Provided clear and concise time estimates for each phase of testing from test phase planning to final regression testing
- Teamed with in-house and offshore teams to test web, mobile and client-server software applications for Investment Banking Applications
- Worked alongside developers and other project stakeholders to understand function, features and testing needs of each program
- Performed Smoke, Sanity and Regression tests according to strict production schedules
- Managed Technical and non- technical documentation for different procedures and projects
- Maintain an effective relationship with client, Project Manager, Scrum Team
- Timely and appropriate escalation of issues
- Risk Management & mitigation plan
- Delivered training and on-going quality assurance guidance to onsite and offshore professionals
- Documented, triaged and managed defects in ALM QC and worked with developers to facilitate timely resolutions
- Used JIRA and VersionOne tools to document project features, capabilities and requirements
- Performed extensive user interface testing in mobile devices, including Windows, Android and iOS
- Assigned jobs to team members and evaluated performance
- Experience with American Disabilities Act, WCAG 2
- Testing tools Experience working with accessibility testing tools on mobile & web applications in investment banking domain
- JAWS Handling Mobile Brokerage project from offshore individually as a SME
- Interacting with Business for getting the requirements for User acceptance testing (UAT) via all scrum meetings
- Triaging test execution results and validating against product requirements and with product teams
- Filing bugs where appropriate and defect management
- To understand and analyze new functionality requirements from user stories, and identify potential areas of impact for testing
- Preparing Test plan, Sign Off, Weekly & monthly report Test Case execution using HP ALM
- Coordination between SIT & UAT team and Product team Successful delivery within cost, time constraints
- Effective reporting of testing progress and relative impediments.
QA Engineer
Infostretch Corporation Pvt. Ltd
05.2013 - 04.2016
- ALLDATA, International SOS, Cequient Preparing the High Level scenarios from the requirement Active participation in stories estimation in Sprint planning
- Documented identified defects using JIRA and helped developers resolve issues by completing further testing
- Developed and wrote concise Test Cases
- Performed extensive user interface testing in mobile devices, including Windows, Android and iOS
- Worked with Agile and Scrum methodologies to accomplish project milestones and meet demanding timelines
- Documented, triaged and managed defects in JIRA and worked with developers to facilitate timely resolutions
- Communicated effectively with customers and contractors to facilitate business operations
- End to end deliverable of maintenance tickets Testing patches coming every month
- Querying SQL database for retrieving records and updating them
- Maintain/Organize the Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)
- Reviewing the Test Cases Prepared by the Team Members
- Regression suite creation and maintenance
- Involved in weekly client calls and daily scrum calls.
Education
Bachelor of Computer Engineering -
Pune University
Pune, Maharashtra06.2010
Diploma in Computer Engineering -
AISSMS
Pune, Maharashtra06.2006
Skills
- Functional Testing
- Test Automation
- Test Data Management
- User Acceptance Testing
- Regression Testing
- Data Validation
- System Integration Testing
- API Testing
- Batch Testing
- System Testing
- ETL Extract Testing
- Open Banking
Certification
ISTQB Foundation Level Certification
Software
- Selenium Web Driver
- Serenity BDD
- Cucumber
- Github
- Oracle Banking Platform OBP
- Open Banking
- Microsoft Azure
- HP ALM
- qTest
- Zephyr QMetry
- Silk Central
- Agile Management Tools
- JIRA
- VersionOne
- JAWS
- Mobile Cloud DeviceConnect Perfecto
- Selenium Web driver
- Jenkins Maven
- Autosys- Batch Processing
- Postman
- API Testing Postman ReadyAPI
- Test Automation
Awards
- Bright Spark
- Star Performer
- Pat on the Back
- Employee of the Quarter
- Milestones Award
- You Made My Day
Timeline
Senior Test Analyst
CloudMarc @BOQ
07.2023 - 05.2024
Quality Assurance Engineer
Tritusa Consulting @Westpac
05.2022 - 06.2023
Technical Tester
Hexaware Technologies @NSW Transport
01.2021 - 01.2022
Quality Engineering (QA to QE)
Infostretch Corporation Pvt. Ltd
08.2018 - 05.2019
Senior QA Engineer
Infostretch Corporation Pvt. Ltd @WelllsFargo
05.2016 - 05.2019
QA Engineer
Infostretch Corporation Pvt. Ltd
05.2013 - 04.2016
Bachelor of Computer Engineering -
Pune University
Diploma in Computer Engineering -
AISSMS