APARAJITA PATRO

Ph: +91-9666166624, Email: aparajita.patro@gmail.com

LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/aparajitapatro

SCRUM Master | Functional | Agile Practitioner | IT Testing

10 years of life cycle management of Testing services across various industries like Education, Banking & Financial services
and Oil & Gas. Currently working on Business Analyst and Scrum Master for a CST Project for a Largest Oil & Gas Company.
I am also leading various teams to ensure the client deliverables are met.

PROFILE AUTOMATION
− Rest Assured
• Remarkable experience with test design, construction, execution, results
− SOAP UI (Groovy Scripting)
analysis, results reporting, Defect logging and tracking
• Profound knowledge of testing SOA services, requirements and Architecture.
• Deep knowledge of web services automation METHODOLOGIES
• Experienced in Groovy Scripting and designing mock services. − Agile Methodology
• Database Testing using SQL developer − Waterfall
• Strong knowledge of Software Testing Life Cycle
• Experienced in defining Testing Methodologies and expertise in Functional TESTING SKILLS
Web Testing, Regression Testing, Ad-Hoc and Smoke Testing
− Functional web testing
FUNCTIONAL SKILLS − Regression Testing
− Ad-Hoc Testing
− Smoke Testing
• Working as a Functional Consultant (Business Analyst) and Scrum Master in
CST STO Project. − Testing Tools
• Planned, drove and moderated Techno-Functional workshops involving − Quick Test Professional 10.0
Product Owners, SMEs, Architects and Designers and other technical tracks − TOSCA 9.1 (UI and non-UI)
across multiple locations globally (Bangkok and Prague) to brainstorm and − Functional Testing
prioritize business requirements − Test Management Tools
− ALM 11/11.5
• As a Business Analyst, directly communicating with the Stakeholders and the − HP Quality Centre 10
Product Owners and grooming the requirements based on the feasibility of − JIRA
the system which we are delivering it to the customers. − RALLY
• As a Scrum Master handling all the scrum ceremonies − Project Management Tools
− Team Foundation Server
• Groomed and mentored Business Analysts who joined project and help set
− JIRA
up Agile processes across work streams − OS: Windows 7, MAC 10.4 & 10.6
− MS Office: Word, Excel, Power Point
TESTING SKILLS − Databases: -Oracle 11g, SQL
Developer
• Functional and Automation Testing. − Internet Technologies: HTML
• Have led 7 releases in the Project − Web Servers: Tomcat 7.0
• Requirement Analysis, Testing Effort Estimations, working on RFP’s,
Coordinated UAT and E2E, Testing Execution.
 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Consultant (Sep 18 – Present)

Consultant (Nov 15 – Sep 18)
Deloitte Consulting India Pvt. Ltd.
Hyderabad

Project 1: Oil & Gas Company

ExxonMobil is an Oil and Gas company which has spread across the world. ACE portal provides multiple features for customers like
Ordering, Promotions, Invoices and Payments, Service request management etc. The portal provides customized solution to cater to
specific requirements for a region/country/line of business.

Client ExxonMobil Functional/Scrum Master Responsibilities (Current Role)

Duration 48 Months
Role Team Lead ▪ Currently acting as a Business Analyst/Scrum Master for STO work
Domain Oil & Gas streams of Order Fulfillment module (Oil and Gas Industry giant (Highest
valued firm in the sector))
Technology/Tools Hybris, Java, Selenium, ▪ Taking care of multiple scrum teams across multiple work streams
TOSCA ▪ Understand all requirements coming from client, analyzed and provided
Methodology Agile business suggestions and acted as a link between various tracks
(development, design and Q/A) and client, hence managing expectations
Database Oracle of all stakeholders in project Goal of the project is to replace existing
systems of client by a one-stop Online portal, to provide easier access to
Team Size 12
customers
▪ As a Scrum Master, I am handling all the scrum activities and keep a track
of all deliverables. Part of a team which helps in setting up of Agile
processes and ceremonies common for all streams, to ensure scrum
team work and deliver at optimal level.
▪ Over the course of 3 years, I have documented business requirements in
workshops, translated them to user stories in tools like JIRA and TFS and
worked with different functions to get them implemented.
▪ Led daily interaction call with functional SMEs to provide all clarifications
on requirements for offshore teams.
▪ Driven multiple discussions with Product Owners and SMEs for
controlling changes to requirements and subsequent prioritization
discussions to handle capacity vs estimates for successful delivery
▪ Provided numerous KT sessions to different tracks and team members,
to remove any gaps on the requirements across tracks and always keep
all teams aligned.

Testing Responsibilities: (Previous Role)

▪ Project Test Estimations
▪ SME of all the modules across the project
▪ Have led 7 releases as a test lead
▪ Project delivery
▪ Requirement Analysis
▪ QA Team Management
▪ Part of Functional Team
▪ Test Data Preparation
▪ Test Execution and Reporting
▪ Coordinating UAT and E2E
▪ Supporting Warranty
▪ Part of Final Sign off the releases
Awards:
▪ Honored with multiple recognitions and awards from Clients and Deloitte across my tenure as Business Analyst/Scrum
Master and Test Lead.

Associate (Mar 13 – Oct 14)

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Hyderabad

Project: Ameriprise ODS web services testing

Ameriprise Financial is the fourth largest financial advisory firm in the United States established in 1894 by John Tappan. The company
has over 12,000 financial advisors and 2.8 million clients, although less than a million are using financial advisors. The company
specializes in meeting the retirement-related financial needs of the mass affluent. Ameriprise acquired H & R Block Financial Advisors

Client Ameriprise Responsibilities:

Duration Jun 14 – Sep 14 ▪ Understanding Client requirements
Role Test Lead ▪ Automating Web services suite.
Domain BFSI ▪ Handled team of two members and helped them in implementing the web
services automation.

Project: Wells Fargo India Solutions (AES)

Wells Fargo has different lines of business like Wholesale, Retail, Insurance. This Project AES belongs to Wholesale banking, the goal of
AES is to expedite the enrollment process by automating paper processes, tracking sales order requests and managing the workflow
associated with the enrollment process, thereby reducing the overall time spent on enrolling a customer for a given product (s).At the
end of the enrollment process AES / UAM is responsible for writing product enrollment data to various Systems of Records (SORs) based
on the products selected by the customer. AES currently writes to over 20 SORs and maintains its own system of record for Sales Order
Form data. This project aims at Customer enrollments for various products. AES is an internal bank application with different roles and
subgroups for different departments and it provides the whole customer products. Here sales person collects the requirement of the
customer as per that he creates a sales order form for that company by selecting suitable products. And respective Implementer will
verify that sales order form and enrolls the customer to applicable products to customer at company, account and user level.

Client Wells Fargo Responsibilities:

Duration Mar 13 – Jun 14 ▪ Preparation of Test Plan document after understanding the client’s
Role Test Lead requirement
Domain BFSI ▪ Project Estimations
▪ Interact with BA/SA to understand their requirements and suggest any
enhancements if required.
▪ Involved in Implementation of SOAPUI for Web Services testing of the
Project
▪ Handled the design and execution of test cases for the complex parts of the
application.
▪ Performed Manual Testing using the Black Box Test Methodology.
▪ Actively participated in peer reviews and bug analysis, strictly adhered to the
process.
▪ Reviewed Test Cases and Test plans and Logged review defects

Awards:
▪ “Pillar of Excellence” Award for my contribution towards Wells Fargo-AES team
▪ “Employee of the Month” Award for my contribution towards Wells Fargo
▪ Received many awards directly from the client

Project Engineer (Oct 09 – Mar 13)

Wipro Technologies
Hyderabad

Project: EMC Corporation (NGOE)

EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver Information Technology as
a service.

NGOE is online portal for providing facilities to customer like Support, Trouble shooting, Registration, and Administration of products.
NGOE is a Rich UI and SOA based implementation. The application would be hosted on Java platform with complete SOA Architecture.
System allows user to perform all the activities like Chat, Content Search, and SR create directly from dashboard without going through
the normal process of executing it from power link which is an existing EMC site. NGOE Phase 2 project has aimed to help users to
identify and overcome their business challenges, while reducing risk and speeding time to value of their information infrastructure
implementations

Client EMC Corporation Responsibilities:

Duration Aug 11 – Mar 13 As part of the Dev-QA team have:
Role Automation Tester ▪ Involved in Sprint Pre-Planning meetings to groom the backlog items
Domain Manufacturing & Hi-Tech ▪ Actively participated in Scrum Calls and backlog estimations
▪ Interacting with Business Analysts to understand the business implication of
the backlog item
▪ Design test cases for each web service and the operations involved
▪ Validating test cases using SOAP UI
▪ Involved in functional testing as well as regression testing of the backlog
▪ Have written the groovy scripting for automating the testcases.
▪ Database Testing using SQL developer
▪ Highlight the sprint features in the retrospective meetings
▪ Also Involved in UI Automation using Selenium IDE and Selenium RC
Project: Pearson Education

Client Pearson Education Responsibilities:

Duration Jan 10 – Jul 11 ▪ Test case design for both Legacy service (Course Compass) and the Upgraded
Role Automation Tester application –Course Compass Next Generation (CCNG)
Domain Education ▪ Involved in execution of Automated Regression test cases for legacy systems
▪ Involved in review of functional, Regression and SOAP UI test cases, designed
by fellow team mates
▪ Involved in Service Oriented Architecture Testing of CCNG web services via the
SOAP UI Tool
▪ Involved in refactoring / Automation of SOAP UI tests for Nightly Build Process.
▪ Involved in customization of reports as per client standards.
▪ Have written the groovy scripting for all the soap mock services
▪ Recognized test automation opportunities and analyzed SOA requirements.
▪ Developed automated check scripts
▪ Analyzing end to end testing scenarios involving all BPEL as well as Utility
services
▪ Tracking of metrics for testing efforts and consolidation of status reports on
daily and weekly basis - tracking and reporting of test results, test case
coverage, defects discovered and their status
▪ Interacting with the Development Team, Project Manager and Onshore Lead
▪ Forecast / Estimate the Project future requirements
▪ Document, implement, monitor, and enforce all processes and procedures for
testing, established as per standards defined by the organization.
▪ Follow Customer standards, if any specifically mentioned.
 Awards:
▪ Appreciated by client and top management for my contribution to the ‘Pearson-Course Compass’ project
▪ “Feather in my Cap” Award for my contribution towards NGOE team
▪ “Feather in my Cap” Award for my outstanding contribution towards testing deliverables

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION
▪ B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from one of the premiere institutes of Orissa, University College of Engineering, Burla with 7.9 CGPA in
2008.
▪ HSC in Science (Math, Physics, Chemistry & Biology) with 74% in 2003.
▪ SSC with 80% from ICSE board in 2000.

PERSONAL DETAILS

Spouse Name Sudeep Patnaik

Date of Birth 20-August-1985
Languages English, Hindi, Oriya, Telugu
Permanent Address G-1401, Aparna Cyber Life, Nallagandla, Hyderabad