Summary:Ravi has about 12 years of experience with 7 Granted Patents, while currently leading the Mastercard's Customer Test Environment and Mastercard Simulators covering core and emerging products at Mastercard. Ravi had previously served as Consultant Specialist for Payment Services (ACH/SWIFT) Payments at HSBC. He has strong expertise in Fundtech's Global PayPlus (GPP), the payment processing engine, a scalable solution to banks growing payment demands. He has also pursued his MBA, which has nurtured him in Management Techniques, adding value to his technical expertise.Technical Expertise:Apart from expertise in test processes, he has differentiated capabilities to triage (reading traces/logs) and debug issues (validating in code), in addition to a tester's capabilities of identifying such issues; which gives him an added edge of being Techno-Functional in his role. While on the other hand, Ravi has demonstrated capabilities in all phases Software TestingDomain KnowledgeRavi has worked in varied but complementary domains like Cards, Banking, Telecom and Travel. He is currently working in end to end flows of Cards transactions in cards payments and specializes in mobile payments (digitization and contactless transactions). In the past, he had worked in Payment Services (Banking) which is about supporting online payment systems. He is well equipped to know a banks requirements w.r.t. End to End flow of a payment starting from Capturing payment from source (customer/other bank/SWIFT network) over to validation, to routing and settlement of a payment to beneficiary. While, he has brief knowledge on worldwide payments, his area of expertise lies in European and British (UK) payments, with the settlement systems being SEPA, TARGET2, EBA, CHAPS etc.Achievements:SOFTWARE AUTOMATION TESTINGHas introduced Multi-Threaded approach in QTP/VBScript leveraging system capabilities and reducing turn around time for Automation Scripts