Brandon Trevor D’Souza

Mobile: +91 9535111772 E-Mail: brandontrevor28@gmail.com

PROFILE SUMMARY

 Initially worked in Trade operations for 6 months to attain knowledge in the Banking Domain and a
hands on experience in the working on trade operating Systems, functions and its processes.
 Worked on Identifying issues in transaction, including both System and Customer related and
provided appropriate rectifications for successful processing of the transactions.
 Involved in Co-ordination with respective stakeholders, various Branches across India including
Foreign Banks, to ensure seamless processing of customers transactions.
 Involved in sending SWIFT messages involving transaction scrutiny and verification.
 Involved in returning of funds back to remitting banks due to customer or compliance related
scenarios.
 Then moved into Application Software Testing for Trade Operation Systems and further worked for
2.4 years.
 Relevant Experience in Analyzing Software Requirement Specification.
 Writing and Executing Manual Test Cases for System Testing, Integration Testing and Functional
Testing Scenarios.
 Good experience in Reviewing Test Cases.
 Good experience in performing Traceability Matrix.
 Performed various Testing like Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing and Adhoc
Testing.
 Good experience in logging and tracking Defects using Bug Management tool.
 Attended triage meetings to discuss Priority & Severity for bugs.
 Knowledge on Automation Testing using Selenium WebDriver.
 Good knowledge in handling and locating elements on the web page using various locators including
XPath.
 Good knowledge in writing and executing Selenium Automation Scripts using Java for Web Based
Applications.
 Knowledge in developing TestNG Classes to execute automation test scripts.
 Knowledge in reviewing various POM and TestNG classes.
 Worked on Hybrid framework and Agile Methodologies.
 Coordinated with various stakeholders, employees, developers and testers to ensure accurate
reporting of bugs to ultimately attain a bug free application.

BANKING – TRADE APPLICATION EXPERIENCE

Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.

Designation: Associate Manager.
Tenure: November 2019 to May 2020 (6 months).
 Part of Pan India Trade operations playing a key role for all Inward remittance transactions.
 Key responsibilities include - validation and scrutinizing of all inward transactions before processing.
 Involved in handling and verifying Swift Transactions.
 Creation of Ad-hoc reports for management - Daily manual event creation reports, error reports etc.
 Manual creation of miscellaneous events include, initializing transaction processing, fund return, etc.
 Creation of Export collection transactions and verification.
 Familiar with various banking software’s - TI+ (Trade processing), Finacle (core banking) and SAP BI (reports).
 Issue tracking and solution of queries from customer branches.
 Fair understanding of banking, types of transactions and overview of the functioning of trade operations
systems.
 SOFTWARE – APPLICATION TESTING EXPERIENCE

Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.

Designation: Associate Manager.
Tenure: May 2020 to August 2022 (2.4 years).
Roles & Responsibilities as a Manual Test Engineer:
 Understanding Business requirements and reviewing SRS Documents.
 Designing Test Cases based on SRS.
 Test Case Execution for functional, integration and system testing on Web based applications.
 Performed Traceability Matrix to ensure accurate test case execution and thorough documentation.
 Filling Bug reports and follow through until rectification on Bug Management Tool.
 Proactive Coordination between with stakeholders, developers and Testers to ensure effective bug reporting
and validation.
 Prepared Test Summary Report.
 Attended weekly meetings to discuss severity and priority of bugs.
 Participated in monthly team meetings to discuss and provide feedback on scope of improvement in the
functioning and processing of the various applications within the system.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

Course Institution Year of Passing

Masters of Computer Applications
Annamalai University (DE) 2018 - 2020
(MCA)
Bachelors of Computer Applications CMR - Institute of Management
2018
(BCA) Studies
Pre-University - Science - (PCME) Sri Sai Satyanarayana College 2011
Class 10 (CBSE) Deva Matha Central School 2009

TECHNICAL SKILLS
 Banking software’s - TI+ (Trade processing), Finacle (core banking), and SAP BI (reports).
 Computer Languages: JAVA, SQL+, C++, C# , HTML,
 Software Testing Tools: SELENIUM, ECLIPSE/IDE, ALM, GITHUB, Maven, Jenkins

 Software Certifications:
- Software Development Engineer for Test – SDET (Manual and Automation),
- CORE JAVA,
- SQL Database/Oracle
- C++ and C#/.Net

PERSONAL DETAILS

 Date of Birth: 28th September 1993

 Address: No: 185, 1 C Main Road, Vijaya Bank Colony, Kalyannagar, Bangalore 560043
 Languages Known: English, Kannada, Hindi and Konkani.