Professional Background
. Over** years of experience in Software Testing in BFSI, Life Science and
Healthcare including both Manual and Automation Testing.
. Proficient in Web based Client Server related applications, Mainframe
Testing, and Database Testing and Good Hands on Experience in Automation
Testing using QTP, Win Runner and Silk Test.
. Thorough implementation of testing methodology, Planning and Meticulous
Tracking.
. Good Knowledge in Test Automation using Automation Tools like
WinRunner,QTP.
. Expertise in testing techniques and processes.
. Created Effort Estimation, Design, Development and Testing.
. Process oriented approach in accomplishing high quality deliverables
before timelines. Also involved in Metrics collection, Audits and KT
sessions.
. Good leadership skills and have lead the team and brought in lot of
appreciations from the client for the projects with good analytical,
technical and communciation skills.
Professional Experience
Name of the Designation From To Duration (Years)
Organization
Cognizant Senior Jan-2011 July-2013 2 Years 6 Months
Technology Associate
Solutions, Chennai
Polaris Software Consultant May-2006 Dec-2010 4 Years 9 Months
Lab, Chennai
Mastek Private Senior Oct-2005 April-2006 7 Months
Limited Software
Engineer
Ramnarayanan Software Sep- Sep-2005 4 Years 1 Month
Software Solutions Tester 2001
Private Limited
Educational Qualification
. MCA (Master in Computer Application) from Pondicherry University,
India
. Master of Commerce (Finance) from Pondicherry University, India
. Bachelor of Commerce from Pondicherry University
Professional Training and Certifications
. Attended Quick Test Professional 8.2 Training in Polaris Software Lab
Ltd., Chennai.
. Attended Treasury Management, Forex and Payment Systems in Polaris
Software Lab Ltd., Chennai.
. Polaris Certified Insurance Professional
. Trained in ETL Tool - Informatica 7.1.3
. I.C.W.A.I. (Inter) Certified by Institute of Cost Works Accountant of
India in 1996.
Roles and Responsibilities
. Test Planning, Effort Estimation, Work Allocation, Defect
Tracking and Status Reporting.
. Test Scenario Designing, Preparing, Reviewing and Executing
Manual Test Cases.
. Preparation of Automation Test Scripts and Execution of scripts
. Interaction with Business / Clients.
Technical Skills
Testing Tools QTP10.0, SilkTest 6.5, WinRunner 7.5 & SOAP UI
Operating System AIX 5.3, Windows NT4.0 / 2000 / XP, MVS OS/390
Programming C, C++, JCL
Languages
Databases and MS SQL Server7.0, MS SQL Server 2005, DB2, Teradata
Tools
Scripting ASP.NET, VB.NET, JavaScript, VBScript, XML
Languages
Defect Management QC10.0 and Clearquest 7.0
Tools
Certifcations
. Trained in ETL Tool - Informatica 7.1.3
. HP QC9.2 Certified Professional
. I.C.W.A.I. (Inter) Certified by Institute of Cost Works Accountant of
India in 1996
Project Experience :
Name of the Organization: Cognizant Technology Solutions - Jan'11 to
July'13
Project # 1
Name of the Client: Cigna
Project Name: IFP Project
Duration: Sep 2012 to June 2013
Technology: J2EE, SOAP UI, Oracle DB and QC10.0
Role: Project Lead
Project Description: IFP will materially grow its supplemental business
through product and geographic expansion as well as through a robust
marketing and sales/distribution model
The current IFP platform will not meet IFP's scale or multi-product
capability requirements nor the flexibility needed to effectively compete
as a retail consumer business.
Therefore, IFP must establish a modern platform to sell and administer
medical and supplemental products leveraging, where possible, existing
Enterprise solutions and investments
Project Role and Responsibilities:
. Assigning Task for the Team
. Helping the Team Members with regard to functionality
. Preparing the Status Report to the client
. Involved Process related Activities like metrics.
. Conducting Team Meeting Regularly, Coordinating and interacting with
the Team on daily basis
. Involved in Metric Collection Activity.
. Involved in Audits.
Project # 2
Name of the Client: Johnson and Johnson
Project Name: Digital Solutions Regression Project
Duration: July 2012 to Aug 2012
Technology: J2EE and QC 10.0
Role: Project Lead
Project Description: Manual Test Execution for the Trident Pro Application.
Converting the Test Case Document (Word Document) into Quality Center using
Excel Macros.
Project Role and Responsibilities:
. Assigning Task for the Team
. Coordinating and interacting with the Team on daily basis
. Helping the Team Members with regard to functionality
. Preparing the Status Report(daily and Weekly) and presenting the
Weekly Status Report to the client
. Involved Process related Activities like metrics.
. Conducting Team Meeting Regularly and adhering their issues.
. Helped the Corporate Application Group in issue faced in oracle
integration related tickets.
. Worked in Report Data extract (RDE), Trial data extract (TDE) and all
kinds of Integrations and prepared Design Document for different
activities.
. Development of custom Reports.
. Involved in Metric Collection Activity.
. Involved in Audits.
Project # 3
Name of the Client: Walgreens
Project Name: Pharmacy Account Receivable System
Duration: Jan 2012 to June 2012
Technology: J2EE, Oracle9.1, UNIX
Role: Project Lead
Project Description: Pharmacy Accounts Receivable System (PARS) system is
used to ensure that Walgreens get paid for every prescription it fills. It
handles the claims made by customer while purchasing medicines. These
claims are provided by the insurance companies to the customers. The
insurance companies provide the amount of these claims to the bank and in
turn bank provides the amount to PARS. PARS primarily take care of the
rebilling of the claims which did not match with the deposits received from
the bank.
Project Role and Responsibilities:
. Assigning Task, Coordinating and interacting with the Team on daily
basis
. Helping the Team Members with regard to functionality
. Preparing the Status Report(daily and Weekly) and presenting the
Weekly Status Report to the client
. Involved Process related Activities like metrics.
. Conducting Team Meeting Regularly and adhering their issues.
. Involved Process related Activities like metrics and Conducting Team
Meeting Regularly and adhering their issues.
Project # 4
Name of the Client: Take Care Health Systems
Project Name: OHM Web
Duration: Sep 2011 to Jan 2012
Technology: QTP10.0 and Craft Technology
Role: Project Lead
Project Description: Take Care Health occupational platforms Medgate
and OHM are consolidated into one web based application in order to
create one standard platform for all the clients. Pure Safety hosts
this brand &
the objective would be to test the key requirements which are
specific the needs of TCHS clients and
ensure all the existing data has been migrated properly from existing
application to new application
(New Occupational Health Manager (i.e. OHM Web). At the end of the
project development cycle,
the user should find that the project has met or exceeded all of
their expectations as detailed in the
Requirements.
Project Role and Responsibilities:
. Role Creation and Assignment for the Projects.
. Involved Process related Activities like metrics.
. Conducting Team Meeting Regularly and adhering their issues.
. Involved in preparing PMR
Project # 5
Name of the Client: Bayer Health Care
Project Name: Bayer Abbi Itrak Reports
Duration: Jun 2011 to Aug 2011
Technology: Itrak Tool and Teradata
Role: Project Lead
Project Description: Cognizant's pharmaceutical data management product
components iTrak and CODE collectively forms the core of ABBI solution
architecture and helps in answering the business needs of Bayer ABBI. CODE
will drive the ABBI data repositories while iTrak will drive the reporting
layer integrated to the CODE repository structure. Both these platforms
comprehensively provide for ABBI's platform components in an integrated
manner ranging from back end data processing to data storage to front end
reporting
Project Role and Responsibilities:
. Understanding of Business Requirements
. Execution of Regression Test cases in UAT Environment
. Raising Defects and shared with the Development Team
. Prepared Regression Project Closure Report - Findings and
Recommendations
Project # 6
Name of the Client: TIAA, USA
Project Name: Web Projects
Duration: Jan 2011 to May 2011
Technology: Java Web Application and Mainframe
Role: Project Lead
Project Description: Teacher's Insurance Annuity Association (TIAA) is a
Fortune 100 financial services company and a leading provider of retirement
benefits nationwide. TIAA is providing service, support and the value that
you need to effectively manage practice and their client relationships.
Regional Directors meet with interested advisory firms to discuss all
aspects of their relationship, including the many potential ways that you
can partner with TIAA-CREF Asset Management.
Advisor Sales Consultants establish and maintain relationships, ensuring
that each firm thoroughly evaluates its needs and maximizes the benefits of
TIAA-CREF's investment expertise.
Project Role and Responsibilities:
. Role Creation and Assignment for the Web Projects.
. Involved Process related Activities like metrics.
. Involved in Billing Advice and Invoice Creation.
. Conducting Team Meeting Regularly and adhering their issues.
. Involved in preparing PMR.
Name of the Organization: Polaris Software Lab - May'06 to Dec'10
Project # 1
Name of the Client: DTCC, USA
Project Name: NYPC Engine Reporting
Duration: March 2010 to Jan 2011
Technology: Java Web Application, QTP 10.0 and Mainframe
Role: Project Lead
Project Description: New York Portfolio Clearing (NYPC) combines the
clearing expertise of DTCC's Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) with
the market expertise of NYSE Euro next's NYSE Life U.S.
Futures exchange to offer innovative risk management, clearing and
settlement efficiencies
for U.S. fixed income securities and derivatives. By margining cash and
derivatives in a
"single pot," NYPC will bring together the cash positions with their
natural derivatives hedge
in a manner designed to substantially improve operational and capital
efficiency. It will
provide a single view of risk across asset classes and provide regulators
the ability to
monitor market participants' total exposure across multiple interest rate
asset classes.
Changes include new and altered reporting, changes to Master files and CFM
systems, and
changes to various risk systems to support MSA obligations.
Project Role and Responsibilities:
. Understanding of Business Requirements
. Preparation of Test cases and Test data for UAT
. Functional and Regression Testing for UAT
. Raising Defects in Clear Quest
. Preparation Of Status Reports
Project # 2
Name of the Client: DTCC, USA
Project Name: DTC Phase
Duration: Dec 2009 to Feb 2010
Technology: Java Web Application and Mainframe
Role: Project Lead
Project Description: The aim of this project is to further enhance Risk
Management's ability to monitor risk exposure and concentration at DTC.
This project will enhance certain market risk and securities valuation
functions and provide advanced reporting capabilities for DTC positions.
iDTC Phase 2 will use the existing reporting infrastructure successfully
completed in the pilot program to now build active monitoring tools. The
reports will also be enhanced to include other available data.
Project Role and Responsibilities:
. Understanding of Business Requirements
. Preparation of Test cases and Test data for UAT
. Functional and Regression Testing for UAT
. Raising Defects in Clear Quest
. Preparation Of Status Reports
Project # 3
Name of the Client: DTCC, USA
Project Name: Customer Reporting
Duration: June 2009 to Nov 2009
Technology: Java Web Application
Role: Project Lead
Project Description: Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) is to develop
central counterparty (CCP) capabilities for the clearance and settlement of
mortgage-backed securities and government securities. The main objectives
of the project are Implement new FICC Hermes Calculated Components Logic,
Develop GSD and MBSD Clearing Fund Required Deposit and Funds on Deposit
Report full and half letter, Modify/Develop various internal (WEB) and
external (Report Center, E-Mail) Enterprise, GSD and MBSD Reports and
Screens. This project also provides all the reporting requirements, the
remaining internal and all customer facing/external, needed to support FICC
Portfolio Margining Implementation to customers. Hermes is a report
generating application used by the Clearing Houses such as GSD, NSCC and
MBSD.
Project Role and Responsibilities:
. Understanding of Business Requirements
. Preparation of Test cases and Test data for UAT
. Functional and Regression Testing for UAT
. Raising Defects in Clear Quest and Preparation Of Status Reports
Project # 4
Name of the Client: SJP, UK
Project Name: SJP-MIS Reporting
Duration: Jan 2009 to June 2009
Technology: SQL server 2005 environment
Role: Project Lead
Project Description: The proposed system design should help produce a
simple and effective multi-dimensional Client Data Mart that will achieve
the following objectives for SJP's MI Division:
. To automate and generate reports that will help produce business
analytics on various dimensions identified in this document
. To make report generation from Client data mart easier than CDB
. To Support business analytics across multiple dimensions like time,
geography
. To replace the existing MS-Access Database that will reach its
capacity limits very soon
Project Role and Responsibilities:
. Understanding of Functional Requirements
. Preparation of Test cases and Test data.
. Uploaded the Test scenarios and Test cases to QC 9.2
. Functional and Regression Testing
. Logging the defects in IPlan
Project # 5
Name of the Client: CITIGROUP, USA
Project Name: SME Poland Portal Construction
Duration: May 2006 to December 2008
Technology: C#, .Net, SQL server 2005 environment, Team Track
Role: Project Lead
Project Description: The growth and market expansion of the Small and
Medium Enterprise (SME) market has mandated the need to restructure the
current Citi Direct Offerings to match the client's need to manage their
Cash Flow more effectively and efficiently. The Business Requirements from
the SME market detail the need for a single system approach that provides
various Services like DDA, Payments, Direct Debits, Loans and Investments
all under one roof. The SME Poland Portal is a single application, which
will be customised to accommodate the business requirements from SME
market. The various modules involved in this Portal are Homepage, Cash
Accounts, Payments and Collections. This Portal also includes the
navigation to other single sign-on application such as Delphi, GIP and OLT.
Project Role and Responsibilities:
. Understanding of Functional Requirements
. Preparation of Test scenarios, Test cases and Test data.
. Updation of Traceability Matrix
. Uploaded the Test scenarios and Test cases to QC 9.2
. Functional and Regression Testing
. Logging the defects in Team Track
Name of the Organization: Mastek Private Limited- Oct'05 to April'06
Name of the Client: Provident Financial, UK
Project Name: Fund Lending System
Duration: Oct 2005 to April 2006
Technology: VB6.0, SQL Server2000, Windows 2000
Role: Senior Tester
Project Description: The Home Banking Credit System is for lending of
credit to Home users. The available roles are Performance, Security &
Administration. All Fields in the System are created in Primary New Field
System. The Consolidated Data are transferred to CNFS and can be viewed in
reports. All the functions are performed in LNFS where a New Agent, Agency
& Branch could be created. The Project consists of Primary Modules, Primary
New Field System (PNFS), Local New Field System (LNFS), Consolidated New
Field System (CNFS) and Data Migration.
Project Role and Responsibilities:
. Performed Requirement study to identify Test Scenarios
. Preparation of Test cases, Test Data and Execution of Test Cases of
Data Migration
. Preparation of Defect Tracking and Reporting
Name of the Organization: Ramnarayanan Software Solutions Private Limited-
Sep'01 to Sep'05
Project # 1
Name of the Client: Arya Vysa Bank
Project Name: Direct Banking System
Duration: June 2003 to Sep 2005
Technology: VB.NET, MS SQL Server 2000, Windows 2000, WinRunner 7.5
Role: Tester
Project Description: DBS is an integrated modular core banking software
application designed for medium sized Banks, incorporating sophisticated
accounting procedures tailored to specific banking needs. This system has
a front-end interface for all Processes of bank, with other bank related
transactions activities to provide meaningful interaction between different
types of Customers and Banks. This system allows Customers for new
memberships, Loans, Deposits, Accounts and Investments etc. the officer
will make the Transactions and will be crosschecked by the Manager. Major
Modules are Loans, Deposits, Accounts and Investments and Credits.
Project Role and Responsibilities:
. Performed Requirement Study
. Preparation and Execution of Test Cases & Test Data
. Preparation of Test Script for Automation, Defect Identification,
Logging and Defect Reporting
Project # 2
Name of the Client: Suraksha Medicare System
Project Name: MedicalCare System
Duration: Sep 2001 to May 2003
Technology: Windows 2000 & J2EE, JSP, TomCat 5.0, MS SQL Server
Role: Tester
Project Description: The Suraksha Medicare Systems (SMS) Ltd. envisages
providing the medical services globally through the electronic media with
minimum human intervention. The system involves networking of the doctors,
the consultants, the Pharma companies and the patients in a nutshell
economically. The motto is to empower doctors to deliver best treatment to
his/her patients through SMS.
The Medicare System is related to day-to-day healthcare process so as
to give the best healthcare solutions to their clients to implement
sophisticated solutions that support experienced physicians in working
smarter and more productively. This software allows doctors to reduce
the time they spend on administration and free them to focus on safe,
effective patient care. It is a consulting service, which links
Doctors, Specialists and Patients globally.
Project Role and Responsibilities:
. Assisting in developing the coding
. Executing Unit Test cases
. Preparation of Defect Logging and Defect Reporting
Personal Details
Name : B. Karthikeyan
Address : A3, Kamala Homes, Elim Nagar Second Cross,
Perungudi,
Chennai 600 096.
Phone Number : 91-988*******