Prince Varghese

Mobile: +60 173804695, E-mail: prince0084@gmail.comJob Summary

Cards and Payment Specialist.

10 years of extensive hands on experience in Banking Industry.

Worked as developer, specialized in quality assurance process, technical support, manual and automation testing to secure a position of Project Manager.

Area of Expertise

Payment Switch – Base24 and Postilion Cards and ATM/POS Acquirer and Issuer Testing and Support. Hand-on experience with MasterCard, Visa, VocaLink (UK) and MyDebit and MEPS (Malaysia) Schemes. Transaction Message formats – ISO 8583:1987 EMV Transactions( contact and contactless)

Experience

Hastraa Consultancy Service, Malaysia 03-11-2014 – Till Date Role: Project Manager

First Data Corporations, Slovakia 08-04-2013 - 29-10-2014 (Accenture Technologies, India) Role: Project Lead

Standard Bank of South Africa 02/07/2010 - 05/04/2013 (Wipro Technologies South Africa)Role: Test Manager

Cash edge India private limited 21/04/2008 – 19/06/2010 Role: Test Lead, Payments

ISIS India private limited 05/12/2006 – 20/04/2008 Role: Implementation/Support Engineer

Education Qualification

Master of Science in Software Engineering from Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology Chennai India

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Technical Skill

Switch Platform HP non-stop(Tandem) with TACL knowledge

Databases Oracle 9i, Microsoft SQL Server

Programming Language C and C++

SDLC Methodologies Agile and Waterfall Method

Test Management Tools HP Quality Centre (V 11.0-ALM) and Iplan(PMP)

Simulator Asset (ACI) and ISO SIM(In-house product)

ATM Diebold and NCR

Latest and Key Projects/Responsibility Handled (2010-2016):

Location: MalaysiaWorked for: Myclear, AmBank, AgroBank and KTC ThailandRole: Project LeadProject Handled: MCCS (EMV card Migration) at Myclear, Malaysian Clearing HouseMCS (Switch Migration Project) at AmBankECAS (Loan Origination system) at AgroBankDSP++ (Switch Migration) at KTC, Thailand

Responsibility: Managing customer engagements and implementations, including: requirements gathering, developing

Scope, and scheduling, prioritizing and managing risk. Define goals, tasks and resources needed to complete the project. Managing project team and coordinate delivery tasks on a daily basis including coordinating with offshore

delivery team members Managing and tracking all activities to ensure all deliverables will be completed on time. Ensure the project is delivered within the budget outlined in the SOW (statement of work). Review the management process after the project is over. Identify any steps in the process that can be

improved upon for the next project.

Location: IndiaWorked for: First data, global payment service provider.Role: Project LeadProject Handed:All Testing related projects forRBS Bank (UK)NAGE (National Australia Group Europe)

Responsibility: Managing and supporting the all the Testing project which falls under cards, ATM and POS channels. Managing and implementing the certification process and testing service to the Banks in collaboration with

business and other technology service providers. Managing and delivering the Test artefacts based on the Business requirement. Technical discussion with Business Owner/Analyst across various domain.

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Location: South AfricaWorked for: Standard Bank of South AfricaRole: Test LeadProject Handed:Implementing National Switch for GhanaEMV migration in South Africa and NamibiaATM and Cards Projects

Responsibility: Consult and support various project teams to ensure that the deliverables are aligned to Testing best

practice Represent Standard Bank testing team in meetings and workshops. Technical support to the Testing team in terms of Testing. Preparing and Maintaining the Requirement Traceability Matrix. Reviewing all the Test deliverables. Analyse deficiencies in the area and put in place a course of action to

streamline the way the team worked. Preparing Daily Status Report and Weekly Status Report Preparing the Test Closure Report.

From Year 2006 -2010:

Company: Cash Edge India Pvt LtdClient: HSBC, Wachovia, Fifth third bank and Bank of AmericaRole: Test Lead (Automation Engineer)Project Handled: Automating the Money Transfer Application and Testing Automatic clearing House (ACH) processProduct: Online Banking

Responsibilities:

Prepared Automation Scripts for Web based Application. Generated test report based on the Logical Functional checkpoints written in VB. All the functionality in the products is tested using Automation tool e-tester Tested various return processes for Transactional Reversal and Fee Reversal under ACH. Tested the format and the Descriptions for the ACH file

Company: ISIS (Iplan) India Pvt LtdClient: Aricent Technologies, Bangalore and Gurgaon Role: Implementation and Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

Done various testing process starting from Acceptance, Maintenance and Operational testing. Design and develop test scenarios, analyse the test requirements specification and developing the test

strategies. Performed smoke testing, Regression testing and system testing after each fix and version release. Been responsible for updating and verifying test cases of new or modified functionalities based on client’s

requirement document. Conducted trainings both on the testing process and testing tools.

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Personal Details

Date of Birth : 20th March, 1984Sex : Male.Nationality : Indian.Languages known : English, Tamil, Malayalam, HindiStrengths : Leadership qualities, Comprehensive problem solving ability, Good command

over English, Ability to deal with people diplomatically, excellent client interaction skills.

E-mail : v.prince@hastraa.com

Address for Communication : MalaysiaMobile : +60 173804695

I here solemnly and sincerely affirm that the above details furnished by me are true to the best of my knowledge.

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