VINAY DEOKAR 10 10+
yearsyears
 +91 9850 11 99 61
 vin.deokar@gmail.com
Core Competencies

Project Management

Customer Service Orientation

Design and Collaboration

Data Warehouse - ETL / BI Testing

Database / Functional Testing

Master Data Management
Awards/Achievements

LTI’s Pat On The Back

Tech Mahindra’s Bravo

Cognizant’s Feather in the Cap

Striker of the Month

Tech Mahindra’s Pat On The Back
Technical Skills

Programming Languages : C, SQL

Databases : SQL Server, Oracle

Test Management: HP ALM,JIRA,TFS

Utilities : TOAD, SQL Developer

ETL : Informatica, AbInitio, SSIS, ODI

Big Data : Hadoop, HDFS, HIVE

BI Reporting Tools : Cognos, SAP BO

NoSQL Database : Mark Logic

MDM Tool : Reltio

Operating Systems : Windows, Unix

Other Tools : Putty, WinSCP, UC4
Educational Qualification

MCA from Pune University with
65.47% in Apr 2008

BSc Computer Science from Pune
University with 66.33% in Apr 2005

HSC from Maharashtra State Board,
Pune with 60.81% in Mar 2002

SSC from Maharashtra State Board,
Pune with 64.00% in Mar 2000
Personal Details
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Date of Birth : 22 May 1985

Marital Status : Married

Languages Known :
English, Hindi & Marathi

Location : Pune - Maharashtra, India.
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Skills and Experience

Currently working with LTI – Larsen & Toubro InfoTech.

Energetically managing multiple test teams with mission critical projects.

Hand on experience in POC’s / RFP’s for ETL and Big Data Solutions.

Well versed with project management activities such as working on opportunities,
creation of Profit and SOW, contract management, maintaining PHS, resource
management and invoicing.

Involved in project forecasting and budgeting.

Responsible for creating detailed project plans and work breakdown structure to
illustrate resource allocation.

Exposure in facilitating QA Audit, Participate and effectively handle audit activities.

Effective coordination with multiple vendors and maintain healthy relations to meet
the expectations.

Good exposure in people Management: Supervise and coordinate with team members
for projects releases, providing career guidance as well as appraisals.

Expertise in handling all meetings to communicate accomplishments plans and issues
as well as risks and mitigation plan.

Provided Quality assurance on project deliverable releases based on Agile schedule.

Effectively involved in business reporting and documentation activities.

Actively involved in Design and Collaboration. Conduct walkthrough/dip dive sessions
with business management team and scope the required tests.

Working closely with BA/Stakeholders for preparing business/technical documents.

Good exposure in preparing Test strategy and Test Plan, and monitoring and control
of the testing activities.

Estimate the testing to be done and negotiate with management to acquire the
necessary resources. Collecting Project’s KPI-Metrics.

Represent Post Implementation Review & prepare Impact analysis for Go-No Go call.

Handle resource development plan by conducting training sessions for new joiners.

Active participation in recruitment drive and conducting Telephonic/F2F interview.

Technically focused and functionally organized in managing DWH & BI activities.
o Well-versed with software testing methodologies (SDLC & STLC). Good at
requirement capturing, Experience in creating Requirement Traceability Matrix
(RTM), Test Readiness Review (TRR) documents & performing gap analysis.
o Sound knowledge in Star schema/Snowflake schema, Fact & Dimension.
o Analyzed Source Systems, Staging area, Fact and Dimension tables in target system.
o Experience in Extraction, Transformation and Loading of data from heterogeneous
source systems like Flat files, Excel, Oracle, and SQL Server.
o Expertise in Data Analysis and Test Data Creation, Data Validation & Verification and
Identifying data mismatch.
o Proficient in troubleshooting database issues & working with huge volumes of data.
o Experience in scheduling and monitoring of ETL jobs with job scheduler.
o Ability to analyze root cause of a problem and demonstrate good sense when
handing the problem over to development.
o Expertise in validating report functionality developed using Cognos, SAP BO, RPTN
and APEX by writing complex SQLs at the backend.

Good understanding of Defect Life Cycle
o Experience in using HP ALM QC, DDTS, JIRA and TFS for defect tracking & reporting.
o Involved in defect Review, Analysis & Resolutions to provide quality deliverables.
o Experience in working with various teams to present defects and identify design
inconsistencies.

Resourceful team player and result oriented professional, Ability to adjust to the
people, circumstances & responsibility, thrive on working in diverse teams.
 Organization and Project Details
Larsen & Toubro InfoTech, Pune | Test Lead | Jan 2018 – Present
MMC BIDW Analytics| Tool/Environment: Informatica, SSRS, SAP BO, HP Quality
Center, Unix, SQL Developer
Description: This is based on integration of Jelf/Bluefin into Marsh. Focus is on
analysis existing system to have better future goals and offering to
improve the business and customer satisfaction.
Responsibilities:
• Involve with Customer/BA/SME’s to manage design & collaboration for project.
• Delivering and Monitoring - Test Planning, Test preparation, Test execution and
Test closure phase.
• Provide technical leadership on projects to define & Implement best practice.
• Managing Resources, forecasting, and Project start-up phase.
• Organize daily triage calls to facilitate progress review, defect discussion and
issue resolution.
• Attend project management meetings, provide testing updates and highlight
risks (with mitigation plan).
• Capture project metrics, and produce Test completion Report and provide test
recommendations.
• Facilitate UAT and production readiness meetings to mitigate issues and outline
defect deferral process to meet the expectations.
• Provide testing sign off documents for various deployments for project.
• Managing the Project level resourcing, invoicing, and operational activities.
• Active participation in account related tasks like RFP, POC’s.
• Responsible for training the project team/New joiners for project’s needs.
• Responsible for QA/Testing talent acquisition and resource management.
Cognizant Technology Pvt. Ltd., Pune | Test Lead | May 2014 – July 2016
NextGen MDM | Tools/Environment: Node.JS, Mark Logic, Reltio, AWS,
Oracle/DB2/SQL Server, HP ALM QC
Description: The Metadata Service Bureau (MSB) system running on SAP MDM
NetWeaver platform which aggregates and manage the data from 8 system and
distribute it in multiple format to various up-stream and down-stream systems.
The project is associated with replacement for the existing SAP MDM NetWeaver
system with Reltio as the new MDM platform. The solution is implemented to
address following concerns:
o SAP NetWeaver module approaching end of life. o Performance challenges
o Lack of flexibility with the existing data model. o User interface limitations
Responsibilities:
• Work closely with business & development team to gather the requirements;
review and converting them into technical capabilities.
• Responsible for preparing Test Strategy, Test Plan and providing test estimation.
• Involvement in test designing and preparing traceability matrix.
• Conduct reviews, walkthroughs of demands functionality and test cases.
• Allocate and manage team member’s task; focus to ensure that the task is
completed within given deadline and timely highlight the risk.
• Regularly involved in Project & QA status meeting with business users/manager.
• Created detailed Status Reports (DSR, WSR and SIT) for senior management to
keep them posted on the progress of implementation.
• Executing and monitoring end to end process; validating it to make sure target is
populated according the data mapping that satisfies the all business rules.
• Involved in verifying golden copies of records created using Reltio.
• Log, review and monitor defects/issues during test cycles.
• Troubleshooting, resolving and escalating data related issues and validating data
to improve data quality and faster access of data.
• Mentor and Monitor team members.
Cybage Software Pvt. Ltd., Pune | Sr. QA Engineer | Jan 2012 – Apr 2014
Excelshore| Tool/Environment: SQL Server 2008,IE8, TFS
Description: The project is associated to automate processes/activities in Cybage.
It deals with real time needs of various departments. The basic objective is
Centralization of Master information.
Responsibilities:
• Oversee activities for all assigned applications by understanding requirements.
• Analyzing user stories, decide on acceptance criteria’s, and providing/escalating
on testing approvals.
• Works with project team to define and create overall test strategy.
• Define test process including required test activities and deliverables.
• Estimates test effort and define test schedule and milestones.
• Conduct walk-through. Review, modify and approve test cases.
• Analyzed application data using the SQL to identify the ETL processes.
• Execute batch processing and verify the jobs status and data in database tables.
• Performing data validation testing by writing PL/SQL queries to test
integrity of the application.
• Log and review issues and defects identified by testers.
• Create Test Completion Report and provide sign off.
• Allocate and manage team member’s task.
Tech Mahindra Ltd., Pune | Team Lead | Aug 2016 – Dec 2017
UKB Migration| Tool/Environment: Abinitio, ODI, Hive, HP ALM, Storm, Unix, SQL
Description: The project is associated with one of the leading telecom service
provider, British Telecom, UK. UKBM comprises of individual multiple units serving
quality improvement and managing master data for needs of business decisions.
Responsibilities:
• Effectively lead team of on-shore and off-shore test engineers supporting
multiple units.
• Proficiently involved with customer to define scope for release cycles.
• Efficiently look over D&C activity to get complete coverage for quality assurance.
• Active participation in Post Implementation Review & Delivery board meetings.
• Implement programs to identify and drive early test adoption and agile
principles in all projects, validated functional and NFR requirements.
• Provide leadership and supervisory oversight to overall quality assurance.
• Coordinate test strategy, test planning, capacity planning/test estimation,
allocation of test engineers to programs.
• Consistently improve and maintain defect identification and remediation cycles
for quality deliverables.
• Generate test reports; communicate test status to keep informed stakeholders.
• Prepare Impact analysis report & attend Go-No Go meeting, to provide signoff.
• Conduct and participate in reviews, walkthroughs and Show &Tell sessions.
• Provide technical guidance to team and consistently monitor for progress.
• Focused on employee growth to give test engineers visibility and accountability.
• Greatly improved integration of test engineers with design/development team
resulting in a cohesive work environment.
Netze | Tools/Environment: Abinitio, Unix, Oracle, SQL Developer, UC4, Quality
Center, DDTS, JIRA
Description: DWH-Netze is the dataware house project of T-Home which processes
the network data for various business units. It is responsible for monitoring quality
of the network service and it operates in mobile as well as in fixed line business.
Responsibilities:
• As a lead, oversee all testing related activities to provide quality deliverable for
building DWH-Netze data warehouse.
• Work closely with business & development team to gather the requirements;
review and converting them into technical capabilities.
• Responsible for preparing Test Strategy, Test Plan and providing test estimation.
• Involvement in test case design and preparing traceability matrix.
• Conduct reviews, walkthroughs of demands functionality and test cases.
• Allocate and manage team member’s task; focus to ensure that the task is
completed within given deadline and timely highlight the risk.
• Regularly involved in Project & QA status meeting with business users/manager.
• Created detailed Status Reports (DSR, WSR and UAT) for senior management to
keep them posted on the progress of implementation.
• Analyzed source system and cooked synthetic data to cover all the scenarios.
• Executing and monitoring end to end ETL load process; Validating it to make sure
target is populated according the data mapping that satisfies all business rules.
• Involved in verifying Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) and reports using Cognos.
• Log, review and monitor defects/issues during test cycles.
• Troubleshooting, resolving and escalating data related issues and validating data to
improve data quality and faster access of data.
• Create Test Completion Report (LOR) to provide sign off and present Full Proof of
Test Execution (FPTE) to Client.
• Mentor and Monitor team of 8 members.
• Conduct interviews (project and organizational level) to find desired candidate.
Tech Mahindra Ltd., Pune | Technical Associate | Jun 2010 – Jan 2012
UKB Migration| Tool/Environment: Abinitio, ODI, HPQC, Storm, Unix, SQL
Description: The project is associated with one of the leading telecom service
provider, British Telecom, UK. UKB migration is to cover TSR requirements and
move accounts (using ETL process) from legacy (CSS) stack to new stack
(OneSiebel, BAL/Antillia) of UK Business Single Solution (UKBSS).
Responsibilities:
• Understanding business requirement by involving in Design Calls with the
designers and communicating with customers.
• Analyzing requirements and acceptance criteria’s, act on testing approvals.
• Prepare test scenarios/cases, performing data analysis and test data creation.
• Working on Traceability matrix for user stories and test scripts.
• Involved in end to end execution and providing sign-off for user stories.
• Analyzed application data using the SQL to identify the ETL processes.
• Execute batch processing and verify the jobs status and data in database tables.
• Performing data validation using SQL queries to test integrity of the application.
• Coordinating development and various components team for test execution.
• Prioritizing and tracking Issues, maintain records and work on defects closure.
• Active participation in daily defect meeting and report on testing progress.