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Anil Chavan has over 15 years of experience as a Test Manager in the banking and financial services industries. He has experience managing teams of up to 38 resources and has led testing for projects with revenues up to $2 million. Some of his key skills and responsibilities include test estimation, strategy, planning, automation, risk management, and people management. He has extensive experience testing financial systems including trading platforms, payments, loans, and investments.
Anil_Chavan
- 1. ANIL CHAVAN Email: anilvchavan@gmail.com Mobile: +91-9819644818 /9819641372 Test Manager • An experienced and versatile testing professional with a track record of directly building and managing scalable transversal test services covering functional testing and test automation. • Software Test Manager with around 15 years of overall IT experience, that includes 11 years of managing global test account teams primarily in the Banking and Financial Services vertical with project revenues of USD 1-2 million • Key career achievements include managing new test account with 30+ resources in diverse test domains and leading Testing Service Line operations. Implemented automation and achieved automation index set as high as 70% • Onsite client facing engagement roles for 5 years in multiple geographies including USA and South Africa working for reputed organizations such as Standard Bank, United Airlines. Tools and Domain TECHNOLOGIES: Eximbills Enterprise (Trade and Payments), Murex, SAP, Mainframe, Java TOOLS: MS Project, HP Quality Centre 11.0(ALM), Load Runner, Jmeter, QTP, BPT, SOAP UI DOMAIN: o Financial Services (Online and Branch Banking Systems, Trade & Payment System, Electronic Fund Transfer, Real Time Clearing, Corporate Investment Banking & Retail Banking, SAP banking) o Insurance Services (Annuities and Life Insurance) o Airline Industry (Material management and Reservation systems) Key Roles and responsibilities • Hands on involvement in Test Estimation, Test strategy, Test Planning, Test Closure using best of breed Test Metrics, Test Reporting, Test Automation and Risk Management practices • Experience in creating Test Strategy and Test plans • Expertise in Functional testing (Black box testing) using Quality Centre, Regression testing, Exploratory testing, Risk based testing, Performance testing using load runner and Automation testing using QTP, BPT • Managing System Integration testing, User Acceptance testing and Performance testing at client location • People management including annual performance reviews, coaching, performance management and team augmentation • Internal auditor and member of SEPG during CMM level-5 assessment at organization level • Multiple tool evaluations through POC and tool creation creating value additions • Expertise in preparing Proposals for RFPs and creating SOWs
- 2. Current Project details: Zensar Technologies Limited Apr 2014 - till date Project- 1 : Quotations, SEED and IAF Team Size : 14 Role : Sr. Test Manager Client / Project Detail : Liberty Corporate has engaged Zensar for testing of Quotations, SEED and IAF projects. Quotations project involves a new online quote tool to cater for the Corporate Selection Umbrella Fund (Existing and Tiered umbrella) and Group Risk products in terms of quoting for new and existing business and be able to run quote comparisons without recapturing information. Liberty Corporate is creating an exclusive series of unitised portfolios for Seed Investments (SEED), an investment management company owned by the Hereford brokerage house, to use when advising new and existing Corporate Selection Umbrella Fund customers with regards to investment selection. Investment Adviser Fees (IAF) payable to advisers for specialised investment advice provided to Participating Employers on the Corporate Selection Umbrella Fund. Functional testing is carried out for all the three projects as a part of System Integration Testing. Responsibilities: • Responsible for creating Statement of Work & Estimation • Test planning, monitoring and execution • Conduct formal reviews • Offshore Test Delivery Project- 2 : ITAPS (International Trading and Payment Solution) Team Size : 11 Role : Test Manager Client / Project Detail : ITAPS project is aimed at replacing multiple trade processing systems (ITRADE, Retail Forex System) by single integrated automated product named Eximbills Enterprise (EE). This implementation will enable the customer with Internet front end capability for Global trade products like Guarantees, Letter of Credit and Payment products like Inward Telegraphic Transfers, Outward Telegraphic Transfers using the SWIFT messaging system. The implementation is planned for 8 trade products and 3 payment products into 17 African countries for CIB customers. Load runner tool was used for Load & Stress testing. Testing involved SIT, UAT and Performance testing. Responsibilities: • Responsible for Test estimation, Risk management, Test strategy and Test plan creation and tracking • Manage activities of the test personnel and assess their performance within Test projects • Enforce the adherence of project teams to quality processes and standards • Conduct formal reviews at the completion of each test/phase • Offshore Test Delivery
- 3. Previous Employment History Summary Jul 2000 to Apr 2014 Employer Duration Designation Client / Project Tools/Technologies LnT Infotech Ltd Feb 2013 to Apr 2014 Test Manager Confluence IRD Murex, Java Steria (I) Ltd Mar2012 to Feb2013 Test Manager STARS Java, Oracle Paracon/Nihilent Sep2007 to Nov2011 Test Manager Standard Bank SAP, MUREX, C++, Sybase Patni Computers Feb2005 to Aug2007 Project Manager Conseco Insurance Java, Oracle, COBOL Skytech Solutions Jul2000 to Feb2005 Programmer Analyst United Airlines IBM Mainframe LnT Infotech Limited Feb 2013 – Apr 2014 (1.3 years) Project- 1 : Global Markets Porfolio Management / Confluence IRD Team Size : 38 Role : Offshore Service Delivery Manager Client / Project Detail : Standard Bank is largest bank in South Africa located at Johannesburg. Confluence IRD project will enable the Standard bank's London users to book trade on Murex GTS and use SBSA's balance sheet. Testing involves System Integration testing of Murex GTS system to ensure that the various money market instruments like FX SPOT, TBILLS, BONDS etc can be traded by SBSA users and settlements get reflected on SBSA balance sheet. Responsibilities: • Preparing Weekly/ Monthly / Quarterly Portfolio management Reports • Resourcing, Replacement plans, KT plans • Offshore Test Delivery • Test management (Estimation, planning, monitoring & controlling) • Effective use of Test metrics for Reporting & Controlling Steria (India) Ltd Mar 2012 to Feb 2013 (1 year) Project- 1 : STARS (Steria Advance Remote Services) Team Size : 14 Role : Test Manager Client / Project Detail : STARS project is about customizing the HP service manager tool to cater for various internal services for Steria. All the requirements are functionally tested for the new release followed by automation testing to prepare regression base for future releases. Thereafter Performance testing was done using Jmeter tool. Automation of 70% test cases was achieved for current release. Responsibilities: • Test management ( for Manual, Automation & Performance teams) • Review of test deliverables • Liaised & managed communication with stakeholders, resolution of testing issues & defect resolution • Test Closure report creation
- 4. Paracon / Nihilent Sep 2007 to Nov 2011 (4.3 years) Project- 1 : Hockenheim Money Markets (Bonds and Repos) Team Size : 5 Role : Test Manager Client / Project Detail : Hockenheim Money Market Dematerialisation (Bonds and Repos) project provides for the trading, reporting and settling of Electronic Money Market Securities in the dematerialized environment managed by Strate using Front end system called Murex. SWIFT messaging system was used for secured transfers. This implementation enabled the customer to calculate the present value of future cashflows. Testing of various Standard bank and Government bonds was performed using Murex as a front end and verification was done on back end named Calypso and various downstream systems. Testing involved System Integration testing and User Acceptance testing. Responsibilities: • Test Strategy preparation (Implemented Risk Based Testing) • Test Estimation • Oversaw User Acceptance Testing and Sign-off with clients • Project Status monitoring, RAIDs and Reporting to various management levels • Reporting & Delivery Project- 2 : ITAPS (International Trading and Payment Solution) Team Size : 18 Role : Test Manager Client / Project Detail : ITAPS project is aimed at replacing multiple trade processing systems (ITRADE, Retail Forex System) by single integrated automated product named Eximbills Enterprise (EE). This implementation will enable the customer with Internet front end capability for Global trade products like Guarantees, Letter of Credit and Payment products like Inward Telegraphic Transfers, Outward Telegraphic Transfers using the SWIFT messaging system. The implementation is planned for 8 trade products and 3 payment products into 17 African countries for CIB customers. Load runner tool was used for Load & Stress testing. Testing involved SIT, UAT and Performance testing. Responsibilities: • Responsible for Test estimation, Risk management, Test strategy and Test plan creation and tracking • Managed UAT conducted at multiple countries across Africa while being at client side • Review of System training documents • Conducted project test assessment and traceability requirements • Test closure report Project- 3 : CUESAP Team Size : 21 Role : Test Lead Client / Project Detail : The SAP Banking program was part of a global Standard Bank initiative aimed at decommissioning the Globus and replacing it with a new package SAP solution. The project was aimed at testing this new SAP solution. CUE SAP is a retail banking solution that covers many products and services to cater for various investment and loan accounts as well as Forex. The system, spreading over 3 continents and 6 countries is powered by the SAP technology comprising the modules of SAP-CRM, SAP-
- 5. BPP, SAP-FI CAX/TRM, SAP-BI, SAP-XI and CSC ADD designed to operate with 16 different currencies Responsibilities: • Managing exploratory testing team • Review of Functional Specifications • Review of Test deliverables • Conduct Defect Management Meetings Patni Computers Ltd Feb 2005 to Aug 2007 (2.7 years) Project- 1 : PIES Surrender system Team Size : 4 Role : Project Manager Client / Project Detail : PIES-Surrenders deals with the surrendering of the Life Insurance policies. The Surrender application was developed as a simplified web-based front-end tool for the activities required for Surrender or 1035 exchange business processes for a Life policy. It reduced the turnaround time from 10 business days to two business days. PIES Front-end interacts with Legacy Admin Systems such as Lifepro and CK4, using MQ Series. Responsibilities: • Project plan preparation • Estimation • Monitor & Tracking project • Project Closure report creation Project- 2 : Online Annuity System Project Type : Maintenance and Production support Platform : IBM Mainframes at Conseco, USA Technologies : Mainframe COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM Client : Conseco Services, LLC, USA. Duration : February 2005 to August 2007 Role : Project Manager Description : This was maintenance and production support kind of project. Conseco is one of America's leading sources for insurance, investment and lending products. Conseco has mainframe based annuity applications called OASYS & BNST, which support both fixed and variable annuities. As part of this project, Patni provides services for Production Support, Production ITSR and Production Issues & Ad-hoc queries, to Conseco. Responsibilities: • Project management (Project plan preparation, Project monitoring and Project Execution) • Analysis of maintenance change request • Preparing estimates and allocating work to the team. • Conducting reviews at various phases of the software life cycle • Code Walkthrough • Delivery of the work product. • Client interaction
- 6. • Monitor the daily production batch cycles and resolve any job abends • Internal Quality Auditor Skytech Solutions Pvt Ltd Jul 2000 to Feb 2005 (4.8 years) Project- 1 : Wiring Diagram System project Team Size : 6 Role : Project Manager Client / Project Detail : Wiring Diagram system provides engineers with detailed wiring and electronic equipment specifications as per the FAR 121 requirements. United Airlines (UAL) had decided to modify its Wiring Diagram System by using CICS/DB2 environment instead of the conventional flat files on the Unisys platform. Skytech offshore team developed 27 new programs (10 online and 17 batch jobs) using VS-COBOL-II on IBM CICS/DB2 platform Responsibilities: • Project Management • Estimation and work allocation • Conducting reviews at various phases of the software life cycle • Delivery & Client engagement Project- 2 : Financial Management System Type : Conversion Platform : IBM Mainframes at United Airlines, USA Software : Mainframe COBOL, JCL, MARKIV Client : United Airlines Ltd, USA. Duration : Jan 2004 – Mar 2004 Role : Project Manager Description : This project was a conversion project of software for UAL (United Airlines Limited). This application generates various financial reports for United Airlines. It involved converting MARKIV programs to COBOL programs. Responsibilities • Project Management • Detailed analysis of the requirements • Preparing estimates and allocating work to the team. • Conducting reviews at various phases of the software life cycle. • Code Walkthrough. • Delivery of the work product. • Client interaction Project- 3 : Passenger Inventory Reporting System Type : Maintenance Platform : IBM Mainframes at United Airlines, USA Software : Mainframe COBOL, JCL, VSAM Client : United Airlines Ltd, USA. Duration : Oct 2001-Dec 2003 Role : Project Manager
- 7. Description : This project involved maintenance of the Passenger Inventory Reporting System for UAL (United Airlines Limited). It involved servicing of Maintenance Enhancement Request raised by the client. Responsibilities • Project Management • Detailed analysis of the requirements • Preparing estimates and allocating work to the team. • Conducting reviews at various phases of the software life cycle • Code Walkthrough. • Delivery of the work product. • Client interaction Project- 4 : COSMO MMS Maintenance project Type : Maintenance Platform : Univac Mainframes at United Airlines, USA Software : Mainframe COBOL, ECL Client : United Airlines Ltd, USA. Duration : July 2000- Sept 2001 Role : Programmer & Onsite Site Coordinator Description : This project was software maintenance support for system COSMO Materials Management System. It involved servicing of Maintenance Enhancement Request or Function Problem Log raised by the client. It involved analysis of MERs/FPLs, Impact Analysis, Coding, Testing, and delivery. It also involved development of new programs and maintenance of the system and the Specification preparation for the programs. Responsibilities • Analysis of the requirements • Coding • Reviews • Unit testing Education: B.E (Electronics) from Mumbai University, Mumbai (May 1995) Diploma (Computer Technology) from Vivekanand Polytechnic, B.T.E, Maharashtra (May 1991) Personal Information: Name : Anil Chavan Date of Birth : 6-Nov-1972 Current Address : C 403, Hari Heritage, Sector 22, Kamothe, Navi Mumbai
- 8. Contact No : +91-9819644818 / +91-9819641372 Email : anilvchavan@gmail.com