MAHESH Kumar Thotakura

Analytical and people-oriented Engineer with 3+ years of experience in the Banking sector. Involved in Design, Development, Functional, and Regression testing. Interested in accessibility and usability of the latest Technologies.

Designer, Developer and Tester, Wipro Technologies (MasterCard) Sept 2020 – Present

1.  Analysis & Design:
   • Analyzed the code and created the pseudo form of code in the Confluence page as per the story requirement.
   • Documented environment/Setup related issues and respective solutions to help fresher’s or colleagues to overcome them.
   •  Development:
   • Developed the code using UNIX, and C/C++ for about 15 stories in one of the MasterCard Payment types.
   • Developed a new function to upgrade the card payment, which created a new transaction flow in MasterCard.
   • Accountable for payments to receive data from Acquirer and route the response back to the Issuer.
   • Wrote Unit test cases for around 30 functions to satisfy the Sonar Scan in Bit Bucket.
   •  Testing:
   • Created the Test Plan and Test data for more than 50 stories, which covers all the possible combinations.
   • Tested the flow of transactions using numerous logics for various types of functionalities, in order to avoid production issues.
   • Done Regression testing multiple times for many functional changes in the code in different releases.
   • Performed a unique type of regression testing for one of the functions successfully which is not known by any other person on my Team.
   •  Support:
   • Resolved defects and escalated tickets for different types of transaction flows for various countries.
   • Helped production testers in validating the functionality flow for nearly 300 test cases.
   • Gave Knowledge Transfer (KT) sessions to fresher’s and colleagues to understand the transaction flow.

Prasad V. Potluri (PVP) Siddhartha Institute of Technology, Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communication Engineering with a minor degree in Computer Science and Applications, graduated in April 2020.