1. ‍Shalini Polavarapu
Wagholi, Pune -412207 [+918698412833] [ shalinilibra@gmail.com]
Objective
· To perform a role that suits my ability to fulfill challenges and enhance my leadership skills.
Education
[DEGREE] | [DATE EARNED] | [SCHOOL]
· Major: B. Tech in Computer Science Engg. in year 2005 from Indira Gandhi Institute Of Technology,
Delhi, India
Profile
• Test Specialist and Business Analyst with an experience of 10 yrs and 11 months in IBM
Mainframes.
• Performed the role of junior test manager with the British client As a Test manager was involved
in management activities like managing the team working on assignments, deciding on
distribution of work to the team members, meeting with the stakeholders to understand the
requirements, conveying any changes during the course of a project, arranging resource, funds,
reporting the progress, milestones achieved, problems faced during the course of the project and
reporting the issues encountered as well as finding the solution to the issues faced. I was
involved in the requirements gathering, preparation of Test Strategy, Test Data preparation, Test
execution and defect management, was also managing team of few people during the course of
the project
• As a Test Specialist, attended all business meetings and workshops , prepared Test Strategy,
Test One liners, presented workshops to the client. Once the Test Strategy is prepared, prepared
test data, participated in the test execution, test schedule meetings to report the daily status,
prepared the status reports to be sent to the stakeholders, prepared defect reports and
participated in defect management calls. Along with this, mentored the team members,
coordinated with them to complete the project tasks
• As Business Analyst produced documents like FRDs, BRDs and Business Proposals for clients.
Participated in the QA Testing, prepared Master Test Plans. Possess a Functional Experience of
Airlines and Banking Domain of over four and half years. Worked with the clients like : IBM Air
Canada, Malaysian Airlines (IBM Malaysia), Worldspan, Northwest Airlines, Sabre Holdings Pvt.
Ltd, Abacus, Infini, Royal and Sun's Alliance Bank , Liverpool, UK and Travelport. Also worked in
Health care domain in Claims processing for ESI Client.
Skills & Abilities

2. TECHNICAL
• Assembly Language
• MVS Mainframe
• Fitnesse
• Bugzilla
• SQL
• HP QC
• TPF
• TPFDF
• TPFC
• MS Visio
• COBOL
• JCL
• QMF
• DB2 Tables
MANAGEMENT
• Performed as a Junior Test Manager at client’s site in the United Kingdom, managed team
members, was completely involved with the direct interaction with the client, attending all the
respective workshops to supply information to offshore team, coordinated with the team members
to produce the deliverables within stipulated timelines. Reported all the tracking information to the
client. I was involved in management activities like managing the team working on assignments,
deciding on distribution of work to the team members, meeting with the stakeholders to
understand the requirements, conveying any changes during the course of a project, arranging
resource, funds, reporting the progress, milestones achieved, problems faced during the course
of the project and reporting the issues encountered as well as finding the solution to the issues
faced. I was involved in the requirements gathering, preparation of Test Strategy, Test Data
preparation, Test execution and defect management, was also managing team of few people
during the course of the project. I have been involved in day to day reporting activities to the
stake holders till the project was scheduled and delivered to the client.
COMMUNICATION
· Was awarded and appreciated for the best communication skills
· Presented the client with presentations about the deliverables, newly launched projects stating the
strategy of the Testing team to complete the projects
· Was involved in the workshops to depict the client about the understanding of the testing team on a
particular application and convincing the client on the approach taken by the testing team
· Was involved in preparation of various strategies docs stating the approach taken by the testing team to
carry forward the execution of the project
LEADERSHIP
· Was involved in leading the team members to execute the entire project from beginning
· Was involved in distributing the tasks to the team members
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3. · Was involved in reporting the output from the team members and coordinating work between team
members
· Was involved in solving the issues within the team
· Was involved in presenting the team’s outputs and dealing with team issues with the client and in house
management
Experience
[SR. TEST ANALYST] | [SCOTTISH SOUTHERN ENERGY, UNITED
KINGDOM] | [10/2012 - TO DATE]
• As a Sr. Test Anaylst, involved in reading and understanding and gathering the Business
Requirements, Gathering the Design changes as part of proposed solution, Preparing Test
Estimates, Test Strategy Document, Test Scenario Matrices, Test Data Preparation,Test
Execution and Defect Management.
• Was awarded with Orion Performance Award for the excellent contribution to the Project.
[TEST ANALYST ] | [COMPANY IBM INDIA PVT LIMITED, PUNE, INDIA] | [10/2012 -
02/2011]
• As a BA and QA, performed the task of preparing Functional Docs like FRDs, BRDs,
communicating with the client on a regular basis to understand the Business as well Functional
requirements. Prepared, Master Test Plans, Test Cases and Traceability Matrices.Reported
defects and Bugs encountred, prepared Execution Status Reports, Executed Testcases during
SIT, UAT, GO-Live phases.
• Worked for Healthcare industry, client was ESI and Telecom industry with client : Vodafone
Germany.
[SR. SOFTWARE DEVELOPER] | [INTERGLOBE TECH LTD, GURGAON,
INDIA] | [01/2008 - 10/2008]
• Worked as a Sr. Developer for Clients: Worlspan and Travelport. As a Sr. Senior Developer build
technical designs, coded for the Maintainance Projects and performed testing including unit
testing and integration testing.
• Worked in the Edifact Messages and the Error return Codes during ticketing transactions.
[SOFTWARE DEVELOPER] | [HEXAWARE TECH LTD MUMBAI, INDIA] | [06/2005 -
01/2008]
• Joined as a Software Trainee. Was relieved as Software Engineer.
• Worked as a Software Developer for clients like Royal and Sun's Alliance Bank, UK, IBM Air
Canada, IBM Malaysaia for Malaysian Airlines
• Worked as a Business Analyst for Northwest Airlines and Malaysian Airlines, prepared BRDs,
FRDs and Use Cases using the MS visio Tool.
Other relevant information
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4. • Have been awarded with the Deep Skill Adder award for my technical abilities and functional
skills within the project.
• Was a member of VODAFUN team within my current organization to organize Team Building
activities across OPCOS in Vodafone account
• Was awarded SPARK award for putting client at first in the current project called Scottish
Southern and Energy
• Was Awarded STAR Award by Hexaware Technologies in Excellence category for Business
Analyst for Northwest airlines (2008)
• Was recognized by my functional as well as people manager on global level for the work I did in
my project - SSE
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