Sumesh Kumar Email & Phone Number

Avon, Connecticut, United States

Greater St. Louis Area

Senior Test Analyst Perform duties of a Test Analyst, which involves entire Test Planning, Test Preparation, and Test Execution. Conduct walkthroughs with business as well as development teams, to understand the requirements, and work towards finalizing Testing Approach. Conduct walkthrough of Test Plan with business, and procure approvals on the same, from all business and IT stakeholders. Meet with Testers to help them with preparation of test scripts, and execution of the same. Take up clarifications raised by testers with business/dev teams, and get them clarified in the shortest time possible. Conduct internal/external walkthrough of test cases, with business/dev teams, prior to start of execution, so as to make sure that full coverage of requirements is achieved. Coordinate with business/dev counterparts to resolve issues that pose as risk to testing progress. Conduct Triage calls with various teams, to address defects encountered in project, and work towards closure of the same. Perform Defect Management through ClearQuest. Work on tools like RQM, Requisite Pro, ClearQuest in Lean IT based projects.

Cochin Area, India

Senior Test Analyst Perform duties of a Test Analyst, which involves entire Test Planning, Test Preparation, and Test Execution. Conduct walkthroughs with business as well as development teams, to understand the requirements, and work towards finalizing Testing Approach. Conduct walkthrough of Test Plan with business, and procure approvals on the same, from all business and IT stakeholders. Meet with Testers to help them with preparation of test scripts, and execution of the same. Take up clarifications raised by testers with business/dev teams, and get them clarified in the shortest time possible. Conduct internal/external walkthrough of test cases, with business/dev teams, prior to start of execution, so as to make sure that full coverage of requirements is achieved. Coordinate with business/dev counterparts to resolve issues that pose as risk to testing progress. Conduct Triage calls with various teams, to address defects encountered in project, and work towards closure of the same. Perform Defect Management through ClearQuest. Work on tools like RQM, Requisite Pro, ClearQuest in Lean IT based projects.

Cochin Area, India

Business System Analyst Perform duties of a Business System Analyst, which involves elicitation of requirements, and come up with business and technical requirements for the project.  Work on Level of Effort at SA level. Update Functional Documents like Content Matrix, DLMTs, and raise requests for other miscellaneous content changes. Coordinate with Usability team to finalize on Wireframes. Conduct walkthroughs for Development teams based on the finalized requirements.Development Come up with design for the changes that need to be done. Co-ordinate the onsite-offshore communications and clarifications. Leading a small team at offshore and guiding them to attain the objectives of the project. Build and perform Unit Test for the changes introduced. Provide support to the SIT team, by helping with code move to SIT region, and addressing the issues/queries that come through. Generating necessary reports as part of validation/verification of changes. Providing support to IT/Business Checkout as part of implementation. Providing business and technical trainings to team members. Production Assurance Monitoring of daily/weekly batch cycles that constitute the Pharmacy system. Work on abends that make sure that the system is up running as soon as possible, under the slated SLA time (based on the severity of the ticket). End-end responsibility for implementation of fixes as part of closing production abends.  Identify potential areas for automation and performance improvement. Creation and presentation of Production Support Metrics for pharmacy system. Worked as the Release Coordinator for ProServ system. This involved consolidation of all the production move requests, and having the necessary retrofits done, so as to ensure integrity in the changes release to production. Providing business and technical trainings to team members.

Mumbai Area, India

Continued on the role of Programmer Analyst done during my tenure at Phoenix, US.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

 Monitoring of production systems and making sure that any issues that may come up are addressed and the systems are back to BAU (Business As Usual). Reporting on the systems that would track the various parameters like Availability, Throughput etc. Analyze on re-engineering opportunities that could be implemented in the systems. Maintain good metrics on parameters like SLA (Service Level Agreement), MTTR (Mean Time to Restoration), Change Management etc. Review of any change being put into production. Take over the support on new project post-warranty with KT sessions that make this possible. Lead a team that works on the support of systems like Co-Brand, BEQ and PMC. Worked with the SDM Director at onshore on creation of new processes for SDM. Worked as the DR (Disaster Recovery) coordinator for various platforms for American Express. Worked with mitigation of any kind of risk to SLA, MTTR or Change Management. Review the design of new projects and provide reviews from a production perspective that might have been missed. SME reviewer for design and code from SDM. Test support to external systems as required. Onshore co-ordination with different teams within AET. Provide guidance to offshore team on project lifecycle. Providing functional and technical knowledge to the team. Organize KT sessions between SDM and SQP to have the post-warranty support taken over.

Mumbai Area, India

 Analysis and Design of project modules. Build and Test of project modules. Conduct peer review of modules at each phase of the project. Test Support for AT, IT and UAT phases. Performance Testing and Implementation Planning. Conduct KT sessions on newly introduced functionalities. Requirements gathering for the various services changed as part of the project. Design of end-end service modules for various services. Worked on the coding and testing of the main driver module that handles all the services. Was also responsible for coding the backward compatibility for error handling, for all the services. Worked with the Integration Layer team to finalize the XML message format, and created wrap/unwrap modules for XML data passed down to mainframe DPMs (Data Processing Modules).Used QTP and Soap-Tester for performing Batch/Performance testing of all the services.

Mumbai Area, India

 Analysis and Design of project modules. Build and Test of project modules. Conduct peer review of modules at each phase of the project. Test Support for AT, IT and UAT phases. Performance Testing and Implementation Planning. Conduct KT sessions on newly introduced functionalities. Work on issue tickets that get raised through Info-Man tool, and have them resolved in the right timeframe as dictated by the SLA. Trend reporting on the tickets on weekly and monthly basis. Conduct RCA for SLA misses in the system. End-End analysis, design, build, test and deployment of enhancements or fixes in the system. Communicate outstanding issues with Onshore POC, and make sure that he/she is apprised of them.

Master'S Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science

12Th, Science