Atanu_Sarkar_Resume

Atanu Sarkar
Permanent Address:2/221A, Sree Colony P.O: Regent Estate, Kolkata-700092
Phone: +919008555099, Official Email Id:
ats.sarkar@gmail.com/ata.sarkar@yahoo.co.in
Objective:
• Dedicated results-oriented Delivery Manager off-shore having a precise
objective on Project/QA Management position with a focus on Team
Leadership, Customer Care and Earning maximum gain for organization
PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES
• Maximize productivity by setting clear expectations and proactively
communicating project status, issues and risks to internal stakeholders and
top management.
• Draft and distribute project objectives and tasks to the solutions team.
• Negotiate successfully with clients, staff and outside vendors.
• Nurture relationships with project sponsors as well as business and IT
executives.
• Craft and disseminate a clear vision by linking projects to the company’s
objectives and results.
SUMMARY:
• Internal PMP certified of Dell – my current organization
• 1 year experience as off-shore Test delivery manager. Currently managing a
team size of 90+ resources at off-shore for Gentera- a microfinance bank in
Mexico
• Led the team to set up TCOE process for current client having predominantly
SAP Core Banking applications
• Played key role in bringing project out of legal threat and thus turned the
project to consistent ‘Green’ status from red
• Overall 4+ years of project management experience as a Software
Development Manager & QA-Test manager
• Pioneered risk based testing and optimization across multiple projects and
thus garnered effort savings averaging 15-30% across those projects
• Saved about 30,000 USD in 3 months by incorporating test automation for QA
testing in Experian – previous account
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• Extensive experience in team handling/ project management.
• Close to 8 years’ of experience providing global technology solutions for
industry leaders in CRM, loans and mortgages, insurance, business and
consumer credit reports
• 9+ years’ of experience in interacting with clients/end-users/customers of
the Banks, gathering functional requirements, test-planning, QA testing,
creating functional and technical testing documents. Extensively used test
director, QC, Microsoft Visio tools to execute test cases and document test
results.
• 10+ years of extensive experience in mainframe development and testing.
Also having expertise in end-to-end functional and technical testing.
• 6+Years of experience as budgeting, estimation and team leading /project
management. Handled team size around 15-20 on an average.
• About 3.5 years of onsite (Denmark and Singapore) experience as on-site
coordinator for QA-testing, development, maintenance practice.
• 3+ years of experience in migration project
• Having extensive experience in creating functional and technical design specifications
using various tools (such as WBM, RSM, Microsoft Visio/word document), delivering
quality product to the clients.
• Extensively worked in online trading system of UBS, CRM systems of Danske bank and
Mortgage lending/Loan systems of HSBC
• Experienced in singlehandedly handling several applications simultaneously
• Extensive design and programming experience using PLI, COBOL, DB2, IMSDB, JCL,
CICS, XML, MQ Series, along with HTML Script and JAVA Script.
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• Good experience in VAG(Visual age generator), EGL (Enterprise generation
language), WBM(Web sphere business modeler), RSM(Rational software
modeler),RDZ
• Comfortable in team and situation handling with good analytical, problem-solving
skills.
ACHIEVEMENTS:
• Internal PMP certified of Dell
• In 1 year, led the team to set-up a TCOE for the current customer(Gentera)
• Increased the revenue by 10% while leading the team to setting up test
factory and implied best testing practices for current client.
• In 1.5 years, propelled customer satisfaction by earning maximum score and
reversed failing account performing from 10% below target to exceeding
target.
• Trimmed time spent troubleshooting technical problems by overhauling
outdated and incomplete service procedures and holding team members
accountable for process updates.
• Substantially increased application response time by initiating an initiative of
improving the SQL queries across the applications
• Elevated expertise and credibility of team by appointing subject matter
experts based on individual strengths to become "go-to" person and trainer
for any issue related to that specialty.
• Received outstanding performer award from my client Danske Bank and
Experian
• Received award for performance enhancement in Dell Services and ITC
Infotech
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TECHNICAL SUMMARY:
Management Dell Internal PMP Certified
Operating Systems Windows XP/7, MVS, OS/390, ZOS
Programming Languages PL1, CICS, JCL, QUICKJOB, COBOL
Scripting HTML script and JAVA script(not extensively)
Tools
EGL (Enterprise generation language), WBM (Web
sphere Business Modeler), RSM (Rational software
Modeler), VAG(Visual Age Generator), IBM
debugger tool, Xpeditor, Test Director, Quality
center
Databases DB2, IMS-DB
Other
TSO/ISPF, CHANGEMAN, FILEAID,
FILEAID for DB2, FILEAID FOR IMS, SPUFI,
LIBRARIAN, ENDEVOR , QMF, XML files,
Change Management
ASSIGNMENT DETAILS
ORGANIZATION: DELL (FROM 29-08-2011 – TILL DATE)
JOB TITLE: SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT MANAGER II/TEST DELIVERY MANAGER
PROJECT NAME: GENTERA – MEXICO (GENTERA TESTING - AUG’15- TILL DATE)
CLIENT: GENTERA
ENVIRONMENT USED: SAP CORE BANKING APPLICATIONS
Project Description:
Gentera - The project is about setting up a test factory (TCOE) at client’s place by
implementing industry best practices for testing. The project is about owning up
complete testing exercise of client and reduce their testing cycle time by implementing
automated scripts for available manual test cases.
ROLES:
• Managing 90+ resources at off-shore and direct and oversee multiple streams
running across the projects.
• Ensure integrity and delivery of multiple projects with respect to time,
budget, scope, change, risk and resources.
• Assess project issues and identify solutions to meet productivity, quality and
customer goals.
• Manage resource allocation across multiple projects including tracking
resource bandwidth and forecasting future availability for scheduling new
projects.
• Guarantee the attainment of key milestones by proactively tracking metrics
and project outputs.
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• Apply effective project management methodologies and control techniques.
• Mitigate risk by identifying, escalating and resolving issues across multiple
delivery groups and/or projects.
• Conduct planning and operational readiness assessments to provide an
effective transition into production.
JOB TITLE: SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT MANAGER II/PROJECT MANAGER
PROJECT NAME: EXPERIAN PRODUCT TESTING –UK (NOV’14- AUG’15)
CLIENT: EXPERIAN
ENVIRONMENT USED: OPENSYSTEMS AND MAINFRAME
The project is about validating various products across various client to ensure
that the products would held up once the system got migrated from legacy to Expin.
ROLES:
customer goals.
projects.
• To manage and lead the team of 20 people (Development and QA) and spear-
heading the development and QA testing activities to deliver the best possible
product.
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JOB TITLE: SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT MANAGER/QA TEST MANAGER
PROJECT NAME: EXPERIAN GDG,AUSCOMP,CORR-EX, EMEA –US(GLOBAL DATA
GATEWAY- APR’13 – NOV’14)
CLIENT: EXPERIAN
ENVIRONMENT USED: OPENSYSTEMS AND MAINFRAME
GDG, Auscomp - The project is about creating a global identification for
businesses of 16 different countries
Corr-ex – This project is about managing credit history for commercials,
especially Banks, of Australia.
EMEA – This project is about credit bureau and tax of Norway and Denmark.
ROLES:
• Ensure integrity and delivery of three projects with respect to time, budget,
scope, change, risk and resources.
customer goals.
projects.
heading the development and QA testing activities to deliver the best possible
product.
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JOB TITLE: SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT MANAGER/QA TEST MANAGER
PROJECT NAME: EXPERIAN-I-PLATFORM (INSURANCE PLATFORM FOR HOME AND
MOTOR AND NCD (NO CLAIMS DISCOUNT) JULY’12 APR’13)
CLIENT: EXPERIAN
ENVIRONMENT USED: MAINFRAME & OPEN SYSTEMS
The project was about migration from ADABAS to DB2 database and consequent
changes to I-platform for home and motor.
ROLES:
• Ensure integrity and delivery of multiple projects with respect to time,
budget, scope, change, risk and resources.
customer goals.
• Manage resource allocation across two projects including tracking resource
bandwidth and forecasting future availability for scheduling new projects.
• Continuous interaction with onshore team to plan and execute development
and QA testing activities
• Reviewing/Monitoring technical and functional specs, BRD documents, test
plan, TSM, test cases and prepare test data for QA
• Mentoring new joiners to the team to ensure the successful delivery of the
agreed product
headed the development and QA testing activities to deliver the best possible
product.
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JOB TITLE: SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ADVISOR
PROJECT NAME: TICS- FXMM (INDIA CCIL CHANGES AND PRODUCTION FIXES MAR’2012
JUNE’2012)
CLIENT: UBS
ENVIRONMENT USED: MAINFRAME.
The project was about gathering different payment messages for the trades
settled in different payment methods and delivering those to CCIL(Clearing
Corporation India Limited). Also, simultaneously worked on several production fixes
scheduled for the release.
ROLES:
• Active participation in SIT and QA testing and played a role of an onsite
coordinator
• Creating functional and technical testing documents (using Microsoft
word/VISIO)
• Continuous interaction with end-users to gather requirements
• Responsible participation in whole SDLC life cycle using agile methodologies
• Impact analysis, reviewing and executing programs/jobs using COBOL, DB2,
IMS DB, JCL, CICS, MQ Series for back-end / batch testing. Rigorous testing
on GUI components as part of SIT and extensive end-to-end testing
experience in QAT.
• Team handling, mentoring new members when needed
• Preparing test data and executing SIT and QA test plan and test cases using
QC
• Took Responsibility in Internal and external Review of the deliverables
• DB2 maintenance through SPUFI and accessing IMS using STARTOOL
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JOB TITLE: SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ADVISOR
PROJECT NAME: TICS- FXMM (INDIA SSTS MIGRATION AND PRODUCTION FIXES SEP’2011
– MAR’2012)
CLIENT: UBS
The project was about migration of the account numbers for the existing and
future Indian trades. . Along with the migration project, extensively worked on
production issues.
ROLES:
• Continuous interaction with end-users/business analysts to gather the
requirements
• Responsible for SIT and QA testing team and leading testing practice
• Impact analysis and creating functional and technical testing documents
(using Microsoft word/VISIO)
• Preparing test data and executing test plan , test cases using QC
• Responsible participation in whole SDLC life cycle using agile methodologies
• Reviewing and executing programs/jobs using COBOL, DB2, IMS DB, JCL,
CICS, MQ Series for back-end / batch testing. Extensive experience in testing
GUI components/mainframe components as part of SIT and end-to-end
functional and technical testing in QAT.
• DB2 maintenance through SPUFI and accessing IMS using STARTOOL
ORGANIZATION: YASH TECHNOLOGIES (FROM 02-05-2011 TO 27-07-2011)
JOB TITLE: TECH LEAD
PROJECT NAME: DISTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT (02’05 – 27’07)
CLIENT: JOHN DEERE
Distribution management was about managing different parts of tractors and
mowers.
ROLES:
• Leading the mainframe and GUI testing team
• Creating and reviewing functional and technical testing documents using
Microsoft word and Visio
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• Reviewing and executing programs/jobs using COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS, MQ
Series
• Team handling, mentoring new members, system and project management
• Preparing test data and executing SIT and QA test plan and test cases using
QC
• DB2 maintenance through SPUFI, QMF and accessing IMS using FILEAID
ORGANIZATION: ITC INFOTECH (FROM 02-05-2007 TO 27-04-2011)
JOB TITLE: SENIOR IT DEVELOPER
PROJECT NAME CRM Systems (Customer relationship management- Customer portal)
DURATION :(07’09 – 04’11)
CLIENT: DANSKE BANK, DENMARK
Danske bank is one of the top five banks in Europe and CRM systems is one of the
largest and renowned team of Danske Bank.CRM team has also been declared as best team of
Danske Bank several times. This project mainly pertains to the various ways of
building/enhancing strong relationship with the customer. This project contains several
systems for which I played key roles in enhancing, developing, and maintaining .To name a
few of the systems that I worked on are, comments system (used to see the performance of
the customer), activity tray(to do list for advisors), Advisor system, meeting booking
system(to book new meetings for customers)
ROLES:
• Played a role of on-site coordinator and led testing (SIT/QAT) and
maintenance teams.
• Relentless interaction with end-users/customers to gather business
requirements as CRM used to be the gateway for the rest of the
systems/departments of Danske Bank.
• Impact analysis and creating functional (using WBM and RSM) and technical
testing documents (using Microsoft VISIO/word)
• Knowing Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, and Finnish languages in bits and
pieces to interact with the customers and meet business requirements, as the
customer portal of Danske Bank was designed to support customers of all the
aforementioned languages.
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GUI components (using HTML script, JAVA Script)/mainframe components as
part of SIT and end-to-end functional and technical testing in QAT.
• Responsible for the whole SDLC life cycle and guided the team through to the
quality delivery
• Thoroughly participated in data masking for QA / SIT region.
• Prepare test data, review and execute SIT and QA using QC
• Team handling, mentoring new members as part of system and project
management
• DB2 maintenance through SPUFI, QMF
• Delivering products using IBM tool - Service Center (Change Management)
PROJECT NAME: Customer portal - Sampo Migration (Meeting Booking system-
Customer relationship management- Customer portal)
DURATION:(05’07 – 06’09)
CLIENT: DANSKE BANK, DENMARK
Danske bank of Denmark took over Sampo Bank of Finland in the year 2007 from
when the Migration projects started. The Migration finally ended in the year 2009.As a part of
migration project several systems were newly developed/enhanced to support Finnish
customers in a better way. As a part of migration project meeting booking systems was
developed through which advisors of the bank used to book meetings with customers for
various reasons. I played a key role from the scratch of the project to the postproduction part
of it.
ROLES:
• Played a role of on-site coordinator and led testing (SIT/QAT) teams.
• Relentless interaction with end-users / customers (especially Finnish
customers) to gather business requirements as Danske Bank had to upgrade
it’s several areas to meet the expectations of Finnish customers
• Impact analysis and create test planning, test case, functional (using WBM
and RSM) and technical testing design documents (using Microsoft
word/VISIO)
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• Knowing Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, and Finnish languages in bits and
pieces to interact with the customers and meet business requirements, as the
customer portal of Danske Bank was designed to support customers of all the
aforementioned languages.
GUI components (using HTML script, JAVA Script)/mainframe components as
part of SIT and end-to-end functional and technical testing in QAT.
• Responsible participation in whole SDLC life cycle
• Prepare test data , review and execute SIT and QA test plan and test data
using Test director
• DB2 maintenance through SPUFI, QMF
• Delivering products using IBM tool - Service Center (Change Management)
ORGANIZATION: KANBAY SOFTWARE (FROM 23-01-2004 TO 24-03-2007)
JOB TITLE: ASSOCIATE IT CONSULTANT
PROJECT NAME: Interest only Lien (HSBC US)(02’06-04’07)
CLIENT: HSBC
HSBC US launched a new type of loan named as Interest Only Lien which required it’s
takers to pay only the interest amount for initial months of closure. A new flow was created to
support this type of loan. Also, the documents printed for these types of loans were handled
by Installment lending team.
ROLES:
• Leading the development and testing team for SIT and active participation in
QA testing
• Creating and reviewing test planning and test case documents for SIT and QA
and active involvement in test data preparation for SIT and QA.
• Interacting with customers of the bank to gather business requirements
• Impact analysis, creating functional and technical design
documents/specifications (using Microsoft word/VISIO)
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• Developing and executing programs using COBOL, DB2, IMS DB, JCL, CICS, MQ Series
• Preparing test data, reviewing and executing test plan and test cases using Test
Director
PROJECT NAME: Dart Bankruptcy (10’05-02’06)
CLIENT: HSBC
This project dealt with different type of loan accounts of HSBC, which were bankrupt.
It also contained printing of various documents for such accounts.
ROLES:
• Leading team for testing and development
• Active participation in SIT and QA testing
• Interacting with customers of the bank to gather business requirement
• Creating and reviewing test planning and test case documents for SIT and QA
and active involvement in test data preparation for SIT and QA.
• Impact analysis, creating functional and technical test design documents
(using Microsoft word/VISIO)
• Preparing test data, reviewing and executing test plan and test cases using
Test Director
• Developing and executing programs using COBOL, DB2, IMS DB, JCL, CICS, MQ Series
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PROJECT NAME: MOD and DART (09’05-10’05)
CLIENT: HSBC
MOD process was basically a procedure followed to deliver the copy of the letters in
the process of closing loans. It contained documents of various stages of a loan
and the delivery was done based on the choice(email,postal,in hand) of the
consumers.
DART (Dynamically assembled readable text) in which documents related to a loan
are created from a single source with the content being driven by the internal
rules and values taken from the driving XML data file and other data elements
made available to the composition engine at run time.
ROLES:
• Active participation in testing practice, especially in test planning, test cases
for SIT, QA and test data preparation
• Started interacting with end-users to gather business requirements
• Active participation in whole SDLC life cycle
• Just started Team handling
• Preparing test data, reviewing and executing test plan and test cases using
Test Director
• Impact analysis, creating and reviewing functional and technical testing design
documents/specifications (using Microsoft word/VISIO)
• Developing and executing programs using COBOL, IMS DB, DB2, JCL, CICS, MQ Series
• Got involved in Internal and external Review of the deliverables
PROJECT NAME: DART (Dynamically assembled readable text) (12’04-08’05)
CLIENT: HSBC
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DART (Dynamically assembled readable text) in which documents related to a loan
are created from a single source with the content being driven by the internal
rules and values taken from the driving XML data file and other data elements
made available to the composition engine at run time.
ROLE:
• Impact Analysis, creating and reviewing functional and technical
specifications (using Microsoft word/ VISIO)
• Preparing test data and executing unit and system test plan using Microsoft
excel
• Developing and executing programs using COBOL, IMS DB, DB2, JCL, CICS,
MQ Series
• Participating in whole SDLC life cycle
PROJECT NAME: RL Offline flow analysis (09’04-12’04)
CLIENT: HSBC
Analysis for the revolving lending loans to enhance the process
ROLE:
• Creating functional and technical specifications and getting them reviewed
• Developing and executing programs using COBOL, IMS DB, DB2, JCL, CICS, MQ Series
• Involved in Internal and external Review of the deliverables
• Preparing and executing unit and system test plan and test data using Microsoft excel
PROJECT NAME: Account Copy (08’04-09’04)
CLIENT: HSBC
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The Account copy process was a very important part of testing as this process
allowed people to test in different test regions with production test cases. The
aim of this project was to copy the loan accounts for various users from
production to different test regions for testing.
ROLE:
• Creating functional and technical specifications and getting them reviewed
• Developing and executing programs in COBOL, IMS DB, DB2, JCL, CICS, MQ Series
PROJECT NAME: Suzuki Conversion (03’04-08’04)
CLIENT: HSBC
Online to batch conversion of the subsequent insurance enrollment for the
existing customers.
A development project which required understanding of database concepts
and programming concepts
ROLE:
• Creating technical specifications and getting them reviewed
PROJECT NAME: BIP Tasks (01’04-03’04)
CLIENT: HSBC
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Bacth Input processing was a process by which loans were closed through
batch programs
ROLE:
• Creating technical specifications and getting them reviewed
ACADEMICS:
• Bachelor of Electronics Engineering ,Nagpur University, India. (74%)
• Diploma in Electrical Engineering, The Calcutta Technical School, Kolkata(76 %)
• Higher Secondary from Jadavpur Baghajatin High School, Kolkata (55%)
• Secondary from Jadavpur Vidyapith, Kolkata (67%)
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING AND CONTINUING EDUCATION:
Completed the following on job training
PL1 training
Easytrieve Training
Quikjob training
WBM Training
RSM Training
VAG Training
EGL Training
IBM Certified Database Associate DB2 701
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ACHIEVEMENTS AND AWARDS:
• Received outstanding performer award from my client Danske Bank and Experian
• Received award for performance enhancement in ITC Infotech
• Received many appreciations from clients (Experian, UBS, Danske Bank and HSBC).
PERSONAL DETAILS:
Passport Number : J1549125
Nationality : Indian
Marital Status : Married
Languages Known : English, Hindi, and Bengali
Hobbies : Singing, painting, solving puzzles
I here by declare that all the above-mentioned details are true to the best of my
knowledge.
<Atanu Sarkar>
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