DEVI AYYAPPAN PILLAI

▪ Functional testing in FIRCO Continuity application, Statestreet.

▪ Test activity mainly includes the screening of messages flowing from source system(BESS, PEP+, RITS, T2S, LYX, CBPR+, CHAPS).

▪ Part of Kanban model. Attends daily stand up meetings and provides updates.

▪ Worked on HP ALM QC for test updates and RTC as part of agile ceremonies.

▪ Currently test updates are in JIRA application.

▪ Proactively interacting with clients, development manager/team and also with configuration management teams whenever there is a need.

▪ Coordinated with State Street clients, development team and Wipro testing team.

▪ Worked on retesting production issues with time constraints/emergency and delivered the test items effectively.

• Worked as a tester and lead for two complex applications with Statestreet- RKS and EXE
• RKS (Record Keeping System) is a complex portfolio asset management system that records and accounts for allinvestments in an investment portfolio and interfaces with other systems for data entry and data export
• EXE (Extended Enterprise) acts as a middleware application through which data flow (Trade flow, corporate actions, base rates) happens between major applications like RKS, MCH, GTM etc based on the rules defined.Responsibilities: Worked as Project manager/Test Lead on Agile project – Investment Banking domain at the same time for twodifferent applications RKS (Investment banking domain oriented) and EXE
• Responsibilities include Resource onboarding, resource allocation, resource handling, demonstration of test artifacts to business (USA and UK), preparation of test plan, test strategy, traceability metrics, task allocation,review of test case and execution (Functional, Integration and Regression), defect reporting and tracking, coaching team members,
• Scheduling and Conducting meetings and Internal Stand-up calls
• Expertise in testing of Investment banking domain, provide guidance to employees of vendor as well and suggest roll up cases for regression suite based on the new requirements added
• Also, part of agile room, attended all agile offshore ceremonies
• Communicate regularly with internal (WIPRO) and customer (State street - Bangalore, Chennai,China and USA)

• Worked in USA state street office on deputation from WiPro limited to Test, lead and manage two Statestreet applications: RKS and EXE
• RKS (Record Keeping System) is a complex portfolio asset management system that records and accounts for allinvestments in an investment portfolio and interfaces with other systems for data entry and data export
• EXE (Extended Enterprise) acts as a middleware application through which data flow (Trade flow, corporate actions, base rates) happens between major applications like RKS, MCH, GTM etc based on the rules defined
• Daily interaction with clients, development manager/team and also with configuration management teams
• Coordinated with State Street clients, development team and Wipro testing team
• Smooth transition from waterfall methodology to agile model
• Responsibilities include effort estimation for testing based on requirements, resource allocation, resource handling, preparation of test plan, test strategy, traceability metrics, design of test case, test case execution, defect reporting and tracking
• Meetings with business as QA Test Lead and provides status updates
• Attended regularly agile ceremonies; backlog refinements, pre-planning, planning, daily stand-ups iterationreview and retrospective meetings
• Provided demo as QA Lead on each iteration for the stories worked on to development team, product ownerand business team
• Worked on retesting production issues with time constraints/emergency and delivered the test itemseffectively
• Scheduling and Conducting Account level Internal Stand-up calls and pass on the information to offshore-teams
• Provided reports on milestones, issues and test concerns to project managers for assistance.
• Directed teams completing regression tests to support successful product development stages.
• Optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing.
• Executed test cases and documented defects, confirming resolution and mitigation of defects.
• Documented diagnostic findings in reports to inform stakeholders of product performance.
• Conducted regression testing of existing products.
• Created testing scenarios for long-term and expedited development schedules.

• Team Size 15
• Duration 4 years 5 months
• RKS (Record Keeping System) is a complex portfolio asset management system that records and accounts for allinvestments in an investment portfolio and interfaces with other systems for data entry and data export
• Responsibilities: Worked as Test Engineer on waterfall project – RKS application testing team
• Responsibilities include preparation of test plan, test strategy, traceability metrics, design of test case, test case execution, defect reporting and tracking to the WIPRO and SS SQA, project metrics preparation like dailystatus report, weekly status report and monthly status report and involved in smoke testing, functional testing,regression testing and user acceptance testing
• Worked with existing automated test scripts through TAF (Wipro internal automation Framework).
• Tracked test reports and failures determined by RCA.