1. MOHAMMAD SHAFI Y. QURAISHI
Email: Mohd.Shafi.Quraishi@cognizant.com Contact # +447590484130
IT Professional Dated: 01/02/2015
Summary
Committed, result-driven and enthusiastic IT professional with complete
knowledge in SDLC working as specialist in functional / business analysis and
IT testing in banking domain.
Proven track records of handling complex / major programme as QA Test
Architect in designing Testing Strategies to lead Project testing using Agile
methodology and Waterfall techniques across distributed applications.
Working experience on projects of Payment schemes such as FPS, CHAPS,
BACS, International, SEPA, Account Switchers and P2P Mobile Payment.
Playing various roles as QA Test Architect, Business Analyst, Environment
Analyst, E2E Test lead, Tester, Mainframe application Developer / Support,
well versed in platform like mainframe, UNIX and SQL and SOAP / XML’s.
My strength lies in my analytical thinking and problem solving skills, allowing
me to easily identify gaps and making it presentable to various business
stake holders.
Career Profile
Senior professional capable to leading a team / individuals in order to deliver
an objective of IT deliverable such as Testing, Environments delivery and
Development within an organization.
 Proven 11+ years of IT experience displaying strong interpersonal and
communication skills enabling to work effectively at all levels of an
organization using AGILE and Waterfall techniques.
 Strong and dynamic leadership including leading by example with
hands on delivery.
 Good Analytical skills, technical & functional skills, attention to detail,
customer focused, collaborative team work ethics and task master.
 Leading testing delivery as Business Analyst / QA Lead involving
Requirement Analysis, designing Testing Strategies and providing
walkthroughs.
 Representing Lloyds as Industry Test Lead at UKPC for Account
Switchers & P2P Mobile Payments as functional SME of FPS.
 Proactive in developing KT documents wherever feasible to help new
joinees within the team.
 Strong SQL and Database Analytical skill and XML Messages.
 E2E Batch planning and execution for SIT / UAT Testing.
 Senior Test Analyst and Batch Planning and execution.
 As Environment Delivery Manager and Analyst with basic support on
UNIX and Mainframe Expertise.
 As Mainframe Developer having exposure to COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM,
DB2.
 Production Executioner for IMS International Ltd. at CTS Pune for 28
months with good exposure to Job Scheduler, JCL and Cobol with 1st
level support.
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2.  23 Months of ITES experience in 3G in telecom industry as technical
advisor diagnosing various kinds of mobile network or handset related
problems.
Work Experience: Total of 10+ years of experience in IT with 5+ years in Lloyds.
 Cognizant Tech. Sol. –Senior Associate - 28th Jul 2006 till date QA FT Lead.
 Worked in Direction Soft. Sol. - Mainframe Prog Analyst – Dec 05 – 06 2006
 3G Services Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai – Technical Supp Adv. – Oct 2003 – Sept 2005
Project experiences:
Current Project : Accounting Hub, IT – Resilience - Lloyds BANK
Duration April 2014 – Present
Tools Used HP QC, RFH Util., SOAP UI, Unix SSH client,
WMQ, Fundtech Product SIP(GPP)
Description of Project:
QA Lead / Manager of Accounting Hub application in Lloyds which is used to provide
Account Enquiry and Posting Service within payments landscape of LBG.
At present its being re-designed for IT Resilience enabled to post payments to Halifax
and BOS Accounts, along with this worked on E-Payments which was to STP
international Payments using a Engine Developed on GPP – Fundtech product.
Roles and responsibilities in the project: QA Lead / Manager
• Test planning and deciding on test strategy, discussing with various
stake holders and getting an Agreement.
• Driving Testing progress and day to day execution planning, status
reporting and progress monitoring.
• Working in Offshore / Onshore model, getting their queries clarified
and work assignment to the team.
• Working with PM, ADM, BA and EAD for the Testing Delivery in SIT
Phase and provide business testing support.
• Stake holder management with IT PM and Business Representatives.
• Defect Analysis, tracking and code movement into E2E environment.
• Documenting Application changes to get new team members trained.
• Flagging any Risk and Issue to Project Managers well advance and help
defining a mitigation plans for the Risk
Project Profile 2: P2P Mobile Payments, Lloyds Bank
Duration Feb 2014 – March 2014Present
Tools Used HP QC, RFH Utility, Unix SSH client
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3. Description of Project:
P2P Mobile payments was a UK Payment Council Mandated Programme delivering to
allow Payments to be send from Person to Person using their Mobile Phone numbers
a Proxy to their Account numbers via FPS Scheme.
Roles and responsibilities in the project: QA Lead / FPS Functional SME
• Planning for ensuring E2E Environment is available and connectivity
established with FPS gateway of Vocalink.
• Acting as Functional SME for FPS Payments.
• Liaising with Payment council in day2day execution and connecting
Lloyds FPS lines with Vocalink.
• Supporting day2day test execution with other banks.
• Identifying any functional defects and its analysis in E2E testing.
• Performed a POC in E2E testing to identify a critical bug in the P2P
solution and received accolades from stake holders.
• Validating if Payments have been successful by check various
payments application database entries using SQL.
Project Profile 3: Industry Account Switches, Lloyds BANK
Duration Feb 2012 – Feb 2014
Tools Used HP QC, Ms Visio, PPT, PEGA PRPC, Unix,
Mainframe batch testing.
Description of Project:
Industry Account Switchers was a UK Payment Council Regulated Mandatory
programme which very tight timelines to meet the planned launch, the programme
was intended to provide Account Switching Functionality Active in UK banking
domain within 7 workings Days of SLA, Programme Test Lead and Industry Test Lead
representing Lloyds at UK Payment council Testing forums with hands on experience
of E2E Testing with other banks.
Roles and responsibilities in the project: Programme QA Lead
• Test planning and preparing Test strategy, writing FTP and MTP,
arranging walkthrough to all, managing various Code releases in SIT
for various Business functional flows.
• On boarding usage of AGILE Methodology for one of the Key
application within Lloyds bank on PEGA PRPC product.
• Preparing Testing Estimates and SOW Allocation for the different
teams of offshore.
• Understanding Business requirements and the E2E Solution for those,
working with offshore team in preparing Test Scenarios arranging
walkthrough with all stakeholders
• Leading Industry testing for both IAS and FPS, right from Scenarios
understanding to data set up to day to day execution with all the other
Participant banks, liaising with them for test completion along with UK
Payment Scheme teams of BACS and FPS.
• Validating Database entries and analysis the XML MSG’s.
• Supporting ADM in UAT defects to understand and analyse the defects
and various issues.
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4. • Being a QA single point of contact for any queries from ADM, EAD and
BA team on any Issues and providing inputs in the solution for any
defects.
• Tracking the overall testing delivery by and code movement and code
configuration into SIT/ UAT Environments.
• Environment usage planning in parallel for SIT, UAT and Industry
testing.
• Maintaining Environment low level information of critical interfaces.
• Defect logging, triaging and follow-up with ADM teams till re-test and
closure and UAT defect support.
• Analysing workarounds and impacts of open defects and high-lighting
those to business and stake holder.
• Maintaining daily run rate in SIT Execution and status reporting and
ensuring the glide path.
• Flagging any Risk and Issue to Project Managers well advance and help
defining mitigation plans for the Risk.
• Batch planning and tracking of E2E batches to be run for SIT / UAT
reconciliation.
Project Profile 4: SEPA PSD 2012, Lloyds BANK
Duration July 2011 – Jan 2012
Tools Used HP QC, Ms Visio, SOAP UI, PEGA PRPC, Unix,
Mainframe batch testing.
Description of Project:
SEPA PSD 2012 was a UK Payment Council Regulated Mandatory programme to meet
the major functional requirement for the Payee banks to send payments to
destination bank in Day + 1 window from the current Day + 3 window to increase
the transaction flow in UK Market and help in economic recovery.
The design to achieve this requirement was very complex and lot of new interfaces
Online and batch being established in Lloyds Bank IT Solution.
Roles and responsibilities in the project:
• SIT Test Lead for one of the Functional area which checks the sortcode
reachability before deciding if the Payment would go in D+1 or D+ 3
windows from Internet Banking channel.
• Test lead for Environment issues and smoke Testing for various
interface for different flows.
• Code Release in SIT and its configuration maintenance in SIT / UAT
Environment.
• Defect logging, triaging and follow-up with ADM teams till re-test and
closure.
• Flagging any Risk and Issue to Project Managers well advance and help
defining mitigation plans for the Risk.
• Analysing the impact of any Open defect on business functions and
informing Business teams.
• Batch planning and tracking of E2E batches to be run for SIT / UAT
reconciliation.
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5. Project Profile 5: Low Care Integration Payments, Lloyds BANK
Duration May 2010 – June 2011
Tools Used QC, TWS / OPC, Mainframe JCL, C : D
Description of Project:
LTSB and HBOS integration was major programme after 2 banks decided to merge.
This project was to integrate the Low value Payments flow within between the 2
banks though one structure of IT system called as STP (Straight through Payments)
which works as a Payment Routing Engine in LTSB for BACS and Faster Payments.
Roles and responsibilities in the project: Technical Test Lead
• Setting up the Reference Data for testing in STP application for SIT and UAT.
• Supporting SIT / UAT, Critical Business Testing in Functional and Volume test
execution.
• Supporting Industry and Dress Rehearsals testing for Integration &
Implementation support.
• Quality control activities QA and UAT support – Defect raising and handling in
SIT / UAT
• Analysis of Critical business defect and Reconciliation.
• Regression Test Lead for the STP.
• Hands on Execution of SIT and Regression testing providing daily updates to
all stakeholders.
Project Profile 6: Integration of LOA of LTSB & HBOS and ETL for Comm Acc,
Lloyds BANK
Duration May 2010 – June 2011
Tools Used QC, TWS / OPC, Mainframe JCL, C : D
Description of Project:
The Project covered the Integration of Limit Renewal and Limit History application
which was handles the Overdraft Limit and renewals for Lloyds Accounts. The
application was a combination of Mainframe Batch for Auto-renewals and online support
for front end channels through IWS API’s.
LBG integration required Migration of commercial Accounts from HBOS to Lloyds
Excess Management System via Extract transform and load. It was batch testing for
load the Data in EM Database.
Roles and responsibilities in the project: Onshore Test Lead / Analyst.
• Analyzing the requirement and preparing Functional and Master Test Plan for
System Testing
• System testing execution and validation, doing SIT testing and provide UAT
support.
• Preparation of EOTR and providing support to front end channels for SIT
testing.
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6. Project Profile 7: SEPA PSD 2009, Lloyds BANK
Duration May 2009 – Nov 2009
Role E2E Environment Manager
Description of Project:
SEPA PSD Phase 1 was a mandatory implementation for all the banks in UK in order
to achieve a one Single European Payment Area for banks in UK and Europe.
Roles and responsibilities in the project:
• Test Environment engagement and Environment Support and configuration
management in E2E Environment.
• Setting up the E2E Environment for SIT testing by getting all the relevant
interfaces set-up through service delivery experts for SIT and UAT testing,
• Environment health checks and reporting to service delivery if any issues with
any servers in terms of space or clearing unwanted messages from the
queues using WMQ explorer
• Execution of STP for SIT / UAT and code deployment and Configuration on
STP.
Project Profile 8: STP Environment Manager
Duration Dec 2008 – Nov 2009
Role STP Environment Manager
Client LTSB - UK
Description of Project:
STP (straight through payments) a Payments Routine Engine in LTSB Bank and lots
of project run parallel for IT requirement needing a lot of Test Environment to be
managed for various projects running simultaneously.
Roles and responsibilities in the project:
• Managing the booking of test environments for various projects without
conflicts and trying to support and resolve the issues.
• Build Deployment on these Test Environments and loading the reference data.
• Level 1 support to the testing activities in system test or E2E testing.
• Environment health checks and reporting to service delivery if any issues with
any servers in terms of space or clearing unwanted messages from the
queues using WMQ explorer.
• Execution of regression pack of STP on mainframe through TWS / OPC
scheduler.
Project Profile 9: WWM medical production, IMS International UK
Duration June 2006 – Nov 2008
Operating Systems MVS/ESA,OS/390
Programming Languages COBOL, JCL
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7. Description of Project:
IMS (International Medical System) provides statistical information and
consulting to various drug manufacturing organizations all over the world.
The world wide medical (WWM) system produces medical reports
summarizing Doctor Patient encounters and prescriptions.
The World Wide Medical Production control handles Medical production for 45
countries. The reports generated by the system are used by the
pharmaceutical companies.
Roles and responsibilities in the project: Programmer Analyst
• Provide support during production run, Planning production schedules &
Monitoring production jobs.
• Verification of Input data and correction and Handling enhancement requests
• Creating/changing programs to process special requests
• Automate some of the time consuming manual processes
Project Profile 10: Mainframe Dev. and Prod. Support, Spielberg Brands, USA
Duration Feb 2005 – June 2006
Description of Project:
Spielberg Brands a one of the leading retailer and manufacturer of branded cloth and
fashion materials had its IT applications on Mainframe Batch & Online which were
maintained and enhanced by DSS.
Roles and responsibilities in the project: Programmer Analyst
• On Call production support in the Batch runs at the EOD batch suite
• Support and Maintenance for any production issues and enhancements.
• Requirement Analysis for new work and enhancements.
• Code development, Unit testing, System test and preparing user test cases
before handling to UAT and creating support handover rundecks.
• Providing fix for any overnight production issues in batch.
• Technology used – JCL, COBOL, DB2 / SQL, FILEAID, CICS and Expeditor.
Project Profile 11: 3Global Services Pvt. Ltd., Technical Supp. Analyst / Advisor
Duration Oct 2003 – Sept 2005
Description of Project:
3G UK is a mobile service provided in UK and it was the 1st
3G service launched in UK
and our role was to provide support on technical issues and solve queries.
Roles and responsibilities in the project:
• Take customer technical queries and try to solve them 1st hand.
• Do 1st level diagnostics and log issues to technical support in UK.
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8. Education and Certifications : BE (Intrumentation), Diploma (Instrumentaion)
Technical Skills
Operating Systems Z/OS, MVS, UNIX 5.3AIX. PEGA-PRPC
Languages COBOLII, SQL, JCL & QUICKJOB, Shell Scripts, Natural Adabas.
RDBMS DB2, Oracle 9i, SQL Server 2000
Access Method VSAM.
Data Com CICS, SDF-II.
Tools ISPF/TSO, ENDEVOR, XPEDITOR, FILEAID, CEDF, ESP. TWS
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