Santhosh Rakunde

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Coralville, IA 52241

Phone: 703-***-**** ext -124

Email: acokvu@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

• Over 7+ years of software testing experience using manual and automation test

methodologies.

• Very versatile and hands-on using Quality Centre, HP Application Lifecycle

Management (ALM), Selenium, Mainframes, JCL, Rally.

• Experience working in Agile process.

• Experienced in leading/managing testing efforts for multiple projects in various

stages of development in onsite & offshore model.

• Experience in preparing Test Strategy, Test Plan and test cases.

• Experience in defining Testing Scope, Test Effort Estimation, and Risk

Management.

• Experience in providing end-to-end test testing support to enable project delivery.

• Experience in scope definition, estimation and sizing of testing efforts.

• Deriving Test Metrics at each stage of Testing Lifecycle and share the metrics with

the management.

• Strong experience in SQL.

• Experience in performing different types of tests: Integration, System,

Functional, Database and Regression testing.

• Experience in working with Business users to gather non-functional requirements

for Performance Testing.

• Experience in deriving test scenarios/cases based on business requirements and

technical specifications.

• Extensive experience in reporting defects and tracking defects till fixes using the

tools like Quality Center, Rally and Team track

• Experience in coordinating the User Acceptance Testing with Business team.

• Well acquainted with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) / Software

Testing Life Cycle (STLC)

• Extensive experience in coordination and communication with internal and

external team(s).

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

Operating Systems OS 390, MVS, Windows and DOS.

Languages COBOL, JCL, SAS, SQL

Databases/Tools SeleniumRC/Web,driver,

SQLdeveloper,TSO/ISPF,JES2,DB2,File-Aid-EX,

HP-LM(QC),DB2,

FILEAID, CHANGEMAN, CAWA, Teamtrack,

Rally, CICS

Version Controller Change man

Tools MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio

Certifications IBM Certified Database Associate(DB2)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

HCLA, USA

Client – Pearson, USA

Senior Test Analyst (QA Lead)

Feb 2011 – Till Date

Pearson is an international media company with world-leading business in education,

Business Information and consumer publishing. They help children and adults to

teach, business people to make good decisions, and readers to wind down or wise up

with a good book. Pearson Educational Measurement has been a trusted partner in

district, state and national assessments for more than 50 years. As a pioneer and the

largest comprehensive provider of educational assessment products, services and

solutions, PEM helps states and large school districts to meet the requirements of

education reform while using testing and assessment to promote learning. As a part of

Pearson Access testing team test lead I am involved in gathering all requirements for

testing, preparing test plan/strategy, writing test cases as per the new requirements and

manual/automation testing all the functionalities of Pearson Access.

Responsibilities:

• Leading a team located at offshore and onsite, and managing the day to day

activities of the team

• Estimate testing effort for each stage of test life cycle.

• Meet with the Business team to analyze the requirements and get clarifications

and transfer the knowledge to the team

• Participate in planning and estimation meetings to estimate the user stories for

upcoming release and create tasks for each story.

• Define the scope of testing for each release.

• Developing Manual tests for different test scenarios covering all aspects of

project functionality using Mercury Quality Center and Rally.

• Creating and executing manual test cases using Quality Center and reviewing

test cases developed by other testers

• Run regression tests using Selenium to check for the newer versions.

Derive Test metrics at each stage of testing and share the metrics with the

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management.

• Design and execute SQL queries for backend/database testing.

• Work on Application Lifecycle Management (formerly known as Quality

Center) to prepare Test Plan, Prepare Test Cases and defect reporting.

• Generate Test summary reports.

Skills used

Selenium Web driver, SQL developer, JCL, SAS, Change man, File Aid(Mainframes),

File Aid-EX(Windows), Change man, Team track, CAWA, HP-ALM, Rally.

HCL Technologies, India

Client – Pearson, USA

Senior Tester

May 2009 – Jan 2011

Responsibilities:

• Guide team members on task execution.

• Creating test cases based on customer requirements.

• Creating test data.

• Executing test cases and report issues using HP ALM/Quality Center/Rally.

• Update results to onsite team.

Skills used

JCL, TSO/ ISPF, JES2, SAS, Change man, File Aid(Mainframes),File Aid-

EX(Windows), Change man, Team track, CAWA, HP-QC,SQL developer.

Client – LBG, UK

Tester

June 2008 – April 2009

This project involves getting the feeds from different source team and all these feeds getting

translated into the required SAP format file.

Responsibilities:

Analysis of COBOL modules.

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Testing using JCLs and documenting the work done.

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Supporting events compromising for the modules to go LIVE.

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Review of team members’ work.

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Coordinating the team activities.

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Quality standards compliance by the team.

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Skills used

JCL, Change man, File Aid(Mainframes), Change man, HP-QC

Client – HBOS, UK

Software Engineer

Oct 2007 – May 2008

As per the government regulations imposed in UK, all insurance companies had to

perform major changes to their advisor commissioning systems. Which involve large

changes at the front-end. This in turn introduced a requirement to save huge volume of

data at the back end, which is Mainframe server in this case. A solution had to be

designed to save huge data on flat files effectively. Programs to save and retrieve the

data were written in COBOL language.

Responsibilities

• Technical solution design, Coding, and Unit testing.

• Support - System Acceptance Testing, System integration testing.

• Leading the team from technical and process front.

• Defect prevention analyst and Quality Analyst for all deliverables.

• Peer review, Attending Client status calls, providing project status update to the

customers, managing the issues and concerns in the team.

Skills used

JCL, COBOL, REXX, File-Aid, Roscoe, Xpeditor, VSAM, TSO.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Communications.

Kuvempu University, India.

2007.

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