Rakesh Bhat Email & Phone Number

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Hyderabad Area, India

14 years of Industrial experience and 13 years of IT experience mainly in the Test data Management , Master Data Management and Data Ware house Testing ,Test Management in various Data ware Housing tools and in Automation Testing tools. Has worked on Agile /DevOps project and played multiple roles lke Scrum Master , Technical Manager , Implementation Manager and test manager . Experience in Program Management , project planning, scheduling, tracking and status reporting. Hands on experience in using various Infosys project management tools/applications.He has very good expertize in DW/BI and MDM project management.He has good exposure in working with US/EMEA client resources, having worked on several projects from customer locations in US, UK and Switzerland. Very good communication and coordination skills to manage multiple stakeholders including business and IT teams.Experience in managing Agile and SDLC projects

Hyderabad Area, India

APL GEM project is a DW and BI Report Project Aims at Switching over from Legacy Data Model to Teradata Warehouse and extracting the BI Reports using SAP BOBJ. The new system will enable a robust dashboard portal for retrieval of all necessary reporting and analysis elements. The new system will eliminate all satellite reporting, systems and manual manipulation of the data. New Data Model is aimed towards maintaining historic data in Teradata EDWAccountabilities Test strategy and Designing test approach for DW/BI Report testing.Test planning , Test Execution and reporting on daily and weekly meetingLeading 10 member team in offshore and offshore and providing necessary support andguidance.Logical and technical analysis for the complex BI reports and dashboardDriving Scrum calls and daily calls with the team. Capably managed & mentored a team of 10 people.

Portland, Oregon Area

Project Description and Details: Grand Slam Project -Grand Slam Project is a Data Migration Project Aims at Switching over from Legacy order Management System to IBM's Sterling Order Management System.Also it aimed at providind better BI and reporting structure to the Nike business team for the Trend Analysis.As part of this project 3 years Historic Data was getting migrated and reports were being generated by Cognos.Currently working at the Client Side where my major responsibilities include. Test strategy proposals for 2 sub projects data Migration and Report testing.Test planning , Test Execution and reporting on daily and weekly meetingLeading 7 member team in offshore and offshore and providing necessary support and guidance.Logical and technical analysis for the complex Data Migration and transaction Reporting.Driving Scrum calls and daily calls with the team.

Seattle Usa

Project Description and Details: Customer Contact Management (CCM) & Personal Book Redesign (PBR) -CCM (Customer Communication Management) project aims to create repositories for core customer data, customer contact history, and customer purchase history for near real time availability of the customer information. For this Informatica MDM (Master Data Management) and MDM hub i.e BDD front end tool is used.During the testing phase of CCM implementation, Test Data Management (TDM) is a key factor in for overall testing efficiency. CCM project (and subsequently PBR project as well) is using SOA methodology with increased real time availability of data across various systems. This increases the need for having integrated test data across various systems for effective testing. This also warrants a significant effort in coordination to ensure proper utilization of test data as several test teams are accessing the test environment concurrently. It is also essential to ensure timely availability of quality test data corresponding to specific test requirements.Currently working at the Client Side where my major responsibilities include. Test Data Management and Data ware House Testing Consultant to NordstromHelp Various Projects in data Provisioning as per the needs and requirements in Various stages of testing Manage a team offshore, involved in Data Warehouse TestingProviding support in UAT and System testing based on the Test data requirements.Data provisioning across the projects and Successfully implemented Test Data Management in the major release CCMAs a Data ware house testing Lead, performed additional role of handling testing team from onshore which primarily include reviewing and preparation of DWT Test strategy and test plan.Review day to day activities, capturing requirements from business, status reporting, driving calls during test execution cycles.

Project Description and Details: Payments and Cross Products SWISS - This Project primarily Deals with the Payments Message processing for UBS internal and External client's .Project involves message processing using Swift, SIC and Euro Sic Terminologies The development of this project has now switched to the AGILE mode. It involves End to End Manual and Automation Testing of CH payments processing using various protocols and UBS internal applications. Automation was implemented by using QTP.Worked at the Client Side where my major responsibilities include. Requirement gathering/Analysis and Business/Domain Knowledge capture from the client. Test Plan / Test case design and Test Execution (manual and automated).Results and defects reporting. It includes defect prevention activities as well.Automation script maintenance and development of scripts (QTP) for testing the new requirementsHandling the onsite team comprising of manual and automation testers.Actively contributed in Scrum call and regular meeting with business sponsors of the program

Hyderabad Project Description and Details: Global Cash Utility - PCPIT - This Project primarily Deals with the Payments Message processing for UBS internal and External client's .Project involves message processing using Swift, fed and Chips Terminologies. It involves End to End Manual and Automation Testing of US payments processing using various protocols and UBS internal applications. Automation was implemented by using QTP.Originally the project was based out from US and then it was off shored and I was involved in the project from pilot phase in the offshore.Worked from offshore Hyderabad where my major responsibilities include. Analyzing system requirementsTest Plan / Test case design and Test environment setup.Test execution (manual and automated).Leading the offshore and coordinating with clients in various deliverables.Also involved in Regression and System testing.Working in coordination and interaction with Client, Business and Development Teams.Automation script maintenance and development of scripts (QTP) for testing the new requirements.Results and defects reporting.DP, CM and KM anchor.

Project Description and Details: Historic Market data application - The project was a Data warehouse for Static and Time series Historic Data. This was data ware housing testing project using informatica ETL Tool which involved the end Analysis of the Market data from Various sources like Bloomberg , Reuters, Tics. As a Quality Assurance member major responsibilities included understanding the Financial Data, interpreting the requirements and data and map them to a test plan, executing the test cases, performing independent integration and system testing and highlighting technical and design issues. During this period worked in UBS compliance application which was a involving capturing the Authenticated data in a better way. The tools used in this project were Informatica, Oracle and UNIX shell scripting and VB.Worked from client side in London and Pune where my major responsibilities include. At onshore UBS, Pune:Defining Strategy and Direction for the Test Planning and Test Execution. Defining, developing and implementing QA processes and Procedures. Managing a team of 3 people to ensure timely completion of appropriate & accurate testing deliverables. Involved in Effort estimation, resource allocation, scope planning.Root cause analysis & issue resolutionInterfacing with the Client to understand the existing testing procedures followed.At onshore UBS, UK: Customer Interaction, Offshore coordination, working closely with the business analyst to understand the requirement coordination with all the stakeholders in the creation of Test Strategy/Test plan. Involved in Estimation and managing adhoc changes (in the form of change request) coming up from the customer. Actively involved in scheduling and prioritizing work especially in crunch timelines.

RECENT ASSIGNMENTS

HyderabadProject Description and Details: Historic Market data application - Worked as a Planning Engineer for 1 year starting from 02-Sep-2004to 17-Sep-2005.I was dealing with Retail Outlet and the Infocomm business of reliance. During this tenure I worked for the Planning Division of Reliance EngineeringAssociatesLimited. Responsibilities included planning and estimation for Retail Outlets and Estimation using MPP.I was also associated with QA division in which he used to do Quality Assurance for the Retail Outlets and OFC cabling.Worked from Hyderabad and Vijayawada my major responsibilities include. Worked as a Mechanical Engineer for a Tenure of 1 Year and was a planning Engineer. Responsibilities involved Planning, Estimation, and Reporting

Bachelor Of Technology (Btech), Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Technology (B