--- title: "Madan Kumar - Product Specialist Payment and Reservations in Sweden | Tal" description: "Meet Madan Kumar, Product Specialist Payment & Reservation based in Sweden. AI stack includes ollama, openai, and claudecode." image: "https://tal.club/meet/madan-kumar-1/share-image" --- # Madan Kumar on Tal ## Headline Product Specialist Payment & Reservation ## About ๐’๐ฎ๐›๐ฃ๐ž๐œ๐ญ ๐Œ๐š๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐„๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ญ & ๐๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐€๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ž๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐ฌ๐ž ๐ข๐ง ๐’๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐œ๐ž ๐›๐š๐ฌ๐ž๐ ๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐š๐ง๐ข๐ณ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ & ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ ๐ฅ๐จ๐›๐š๐ฅ ๐œ๐ฅ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ โ€“ ๐„๐ฆ๐ข๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ ๐€๐ข๐ซ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ฌ, ๐…๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ƒ๐ฎ๐›๐š๐ข, ๐‰๐š๐ฉ๐š๐ง ๐€๐ข๐ซ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ฌ, ๐€๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐ฉ๐ฉ๐จ๐ง ๐€๐ข๐ซ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ฌ, ๐…๐ข๐ง๐ง๐š๐ข๐ซ, ๐๐š๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ฌ, SAS & ๐ƒ๐„๐‹๐‹ โœ”๏ธ๐ธ๐‘ฅ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘˜๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘’๐‘ฅ๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘’๐‘›๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘š๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘  โ€“ ๐ฝ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘›, ๐ท๐‘ข๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘–, ๐น๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐น๐‘–๐‘›๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ โœ”๏ธ๐ธ๐‘ฅ๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘‡๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘”๐‘–๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘”๐‘› & ๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ก๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”\-๐‘’๐‘‘๐‘”๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘“๐‘ก๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘๐‘™๐‘–๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘  โœ”๏ธ๐ผ๐‘š๐‘๐‘™๐‘’๐‘š๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘œ๐‘๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘š๐‘–๐‘ง๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘ข๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘ , โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘™๐‘๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘š ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘ฃ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘™ ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘”๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘ข๐‘’๐‘ , โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘™๐‘๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘š ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘–๐‘š๐‘๐‘™๐‘’๐‘š๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘๐‘ก๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ โœ”๏ธ๐ธ๐‘ฅ๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐ด๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘ข๐‘  ๐ด๐‘™๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ž ๐‘ ๐‘ฆ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘š๐‘ , ๐‘€๐ด๐‘…๐‘† ๐บ๐ท๐‘†, ๐ด๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘ƒ๐‘†๐‘† \(๐‘ƒ๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘”๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘†๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฃ๐‘–๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘†๐‘ฆ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘š\), ๐‘‡๐‘–๐‘๐‘˜๐‘’๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” & ๐‘…๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฃ๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘ , ๐ผ๐‘›๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ, ๐ท๐ถ๐‘†, ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐น๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘  โœ”๏ธ ๐‘ƒ๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘˜๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘™๐‘’๐‘‘๐‘”๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘…๐‘’๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘™ ๐ต๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘˜๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” \(๐ท๐‘’๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐ฟ๐‘œ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ \) ๐ถ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘‘๐‘  & ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” โœ”๏ธ ๐‘Š๐‘’๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐ด๐‘๐‘๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘๐‘–๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘ฆ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘Š๐‘’๐‘๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฃ๐‘–๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘†๐‘‚๐ด๐‘ƒ ๐‘ˆ๐ผ, ๐ด๐‘ƒ๐ผ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘ƒ๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘› โœ”๏ธ๐ถ๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘’โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘˜๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘™๐‘’๐‘‘๐‘”๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘„๐‘ข๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘ฆ ๐ด๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘ƒ๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘›๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”, ๐‘ž๐‘ข๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘ฆ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘™ ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘‘๐‘ข๐‘๐‘ก ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘™๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” cycles โœ”๏ธ๐‘Š๐‘’๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘’๐‘ฅ๐‘’๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐ถ๐‘œ๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘™๐‘–๐‘”โ„Ž๐‘ก๐‘ โ€™ ๐‘’\-๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘๐‘˜๐‘’๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”, ๐ธ\-๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘๐‘˜๐‘’๐‘ก ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘ข๐‘  ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘ , ๐น๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘š ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘ , ๐‘ƒ๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘”๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ก๐‘ฆ๐‘๐‘’๐‘ , ๐‘’\-๐‘‡๐‘–๐‘๐‘˜๐‘’๐‘ก ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘›, ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘’\-๐‘‡๐‘–๐‘๐‘˜๐‘’๐‘ก ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’\-๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘ข๐‘’ ## Location Sweden ## AI stack ollama openai claudecode ChatGPT Microsoft Copilot ## Work experience Product Specialist Payment and Reservations at SAS \- Scandinavian Airlines, Apr 2023 \- Apr 2026 ยท 3 yrs 1 mo, Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden, โœ”๏ธ Performed end\-to\-end testing of the Sales Reporting System for airline financial transactions, ensuring accurate sales, payment, and revenue reporting\. โœ”๏ธ Validated payment integrations with Bambora, Adyen, and Amadeus Outpayce, verifying authorization, settlement, refunds, chargebacks, and end\-to\-end transaction processing for Visa and Mastercard\. โœ”๏ธ Verified batch processing and receipt files for data completeness, file format accuracy, and financial integrity; investigated and resolved reconciliation discrepancies in collaboration with cross\-functional teams\. โœ”๏ธ Configured and validated Sales Offices, payment methods, and route/region\-based tax rules within the Sales Reporting System to ensure compliance with business and regulatory requirements\. โœ”๏ธ Executed functional and integration testing for multiple payment methods, including Credit/Debit Cards, Digital Wallets, Net Banking, EMI, Split Payments, Gift Cards, Vouchers, and Promotional Coupons, covering online, offline, agency, and airport payment scenarios\. โœ”๏ธ Validated financial data across ticketing, payment, and reporting systems, ensuring accurate reconciliation of revenue, taxes, payments, vouchers, and gift card transactions\. โœ”๏ธ Developed and executed SQL queries to validate backend data, ensuring data consistency throughout the complete transaction lifecycle from booking to payment and sales reporting\. โœ”๏ธ Performed comprehensive User Acceptance Testing \(UAT\) for complex financial reporting and payment workflows, identifying, tracking, and resolving defects using JIRA\. โœ”๏ธ Collaborated with business analysts, developers, and payment stakeholders to analyze defects, validate fixes, and ensure high\-quality releases for airline sales reporting applications\. โœ”๏ธ Ensured accuracy and compliance of financial reporting by validating transaction data, payment reconciliation, taxation, and reporting outputs across integrated airline systems\. Project Lead at Cigniti Technologies, Oct 2021 \- Mar 2023 ยท 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, โœ”๏ธ Executed end\-to\-end testing of Airline NDC 17\.2 & 21\.3 APIs โ€“ Shopping, Booking, Ticketing, and Servicing flows; validated Offer, Order, Seat Availability, Baggage, Ancillary, and Payment functionalities as per IATA NDC standards\. โœ”๏ธ Validated complete Order lifecycle: Create Order, Retrieve Order, Change Order, Cancel Order, and Refund flows\. โœ”๏ธ Tested XML/JSON request\-response structures using SOAP UI performed integration testing between airline systems, payment gateways, and third\-party vendors\. โ€ข Payment Testing: Credit/Debit cards\. โœ”๏ธ Validated airline\-specific payment scenarios: booking with payment \+ ticket issuance, PNR\-not\-generated failures and currency conversion, payment gateway switching/fallback, fraud detection, and declined transaction handling\. โœ”๏ธ Conducted regression, smoke, functional, and UAT testing for airline releases; logged and retested defects in JIRA/ALM; coordinated with developers, BAs, and airline partners for timely resolution\. โœ”๏ธ Designed Test Strategy, Test Plans, and maintained test case repositor Senior Software Engineer at Emirates, Oct 2018 \- Sep 2020 ยท 2 yrs, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, โœ”๏ธFormulate & document test strategy, approach and detailed business testing plan for project and also identify potential risks around testing working with Cross functional teams\. โœ”๏ธUnderstand existing business testing best practices and work with project team to implement guidelines โœ”๏ธUsing Confluence, project teams to understand product documentation, draw process flow diagrams and technical architecture documents\. โœ”๏ธPrepare detailed test plan for business testing on the project, using existing test plan template with team\. โœ”๏ธWork with team to validate business testing scope, coverage, traceability with requirements\. โœ”๏ธWork with team to plan for various aspects related to testing End to End testing, testing environments, testing scope, test management, data management etc\. โœ”๏ธMaintaining Test respository in the Test Rail and HP ALM\. โœ”๏ธParticipate in the scrum meeting of the project and send daily status report\. โœ”๏ธPrepared test cases based on project requirements, executed designed test cases\. โœ”๏ธInvolved in Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, Compatibility Testing, Accessibility Testing, API testing using Postman, Web Testing, Mobile Testing\. โœ”๏ธPrepared Test Summary Report, Defect Summary Report and Regression Document\. โœ”๏ธWork closely with teams to get a thorough understanding of project objectives\. โœ”๏ธWork with team to review quality, accuracy and applicability of test scripts\. โœ”๏ธManage UAT by setting daily testing goals, running meetings on testing progress,defect triage, collaborate with team to get defects resolved\. โœ”๏ธSend daily UAT status information and other relevant communication as part of UAT\. โœ”๏ธOn UAT closure, get signoff from the management\. Senior Test Analyst at IBS Software, Oct 2013 \- Sep 2018 ยท 5 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, โœ”๏ธAnalysing Business Requirements\. โœ”๏ธAnalyse and Execute the in house products to ensure that the functions of the system under testing functional requirements\. โœ”๏ธIdentifying Test Scenarios in Fares Modules โœ”๏ธExecuting Scenarios on RES and Ticketing โœ”๏ธExecuting different scenarios on INV,DCS and ARD โœ”๏ธPerform Integration Test, Functional Test, Regression Test,System Test, UAT, BPT/BATTesting โœ”๏ธIdentifying Test data based on Change Requests โœ”๏ธReviews and report and track defects\. โœ”๏ธTrack and report testing results\. โœ”๏ธInteracting with Clients to understand on the CRโ€™s โœ”๏ธHandling the team and guiding them\. โœ”๏ธWeekly team meeting with Offshore and onsite\. โœ”๏ธReporting to Manager on Daily basis/Weekly Basis Senior Consultant at Capgemini, Jun 2010 \- Sep 2013 ยท 3 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, โœ”๏ธPerformed Functional Testing and regression testing for different releases\. โœ”๏ธUsed SQL Queries while conducting Database Testing\. โœ”๏ธPerformed Web services testing using WCF Client and SOAP UI\. โœ”๏ธResponsible for all launch\-related activities for testing\. โœ”๏ธInvolved in planning meetings, review meetings ## Education Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Kuvempu University, Shankaraghatta, Shimoga ๐‡๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐ƒ๐ข๐ฉ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฆ๐š, ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐’๐จ๐Ÿ๐ญ๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐„๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ , ๐„๐ƒ๐„๐—๐‚๐„๐‹ ๐ˆ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ง๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ [View the original profile](https://tal.club/meet/madan-kumar-1) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "Person", "@id": "https://tal.club/meet/madan-kumar-1#person", "name": "Madan Kumar", "url": "https://tal.club/meet/madan-kumar-1", "image": "https://tal.club/meet/madan-kumar-1/profile-photo.jpg", "description": "Meet Madan Kumar, Product Specialist Payment & Reservation based in Sweden. 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