KAUSHIK MELGOD RAMAPRASAD

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OBJECTIVE:

Seeking a technically challenging position which allows the pursuit of career advancement and expand my knowledge and skills in the area of Testing to achieve quality in software products, providing a highly motivated, progressive, friendly environment.

PROFFESIONAL EXPERIENCE

Over 8 years of experience as a QA Tester (Manual and Automation Testing) in healthcare, manufacturing, aviation and logistics domain.

Presently working as Senior Design Engineer in Wipro GE Healthcare Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore from Jan’14 till date.

Previously worked as Information Tester in HP Global Soft, Bangalore from Oct’07-Jan’14.

Experience in co-ordinating the team from both onsite and offshore.

Worked in client place in Malmo, Sweden for 11months.

PROFFESIONAL SYNOPSIS

Extensive experience in Manual and Automation Testing of Standalone Client/Server based Applications integrated with ERP Systems.

Experience as an Offshore/Onsite Coordinator.

Experience as a SME working in Agile Environment and participating in a various Scrum activities.

Involved in interactions with the Onsite Testing Team to trouble shoot the Client issues and provide workaround for emergency customer issues.

Involved in developing, maintenance, reviewing and batch execution of Automation Scripts.

Experience in developing Automation Framework for Regression Testing.

Hands on experience in Quality Centre (ALM/QC), QFT/UFT, Business Process Testing (BPT).

Experience in Manual Test Case Development, Requirement Mapping and Test Cases execution in ALM/QC for Windows and Web Based applications.

Reporting of Defects, Root Cause Analysis of the defects, Tracking and closure of the defects.

Experience in Preparing Test Plan, Test Estimation, Test Execution Metrics, Burn down charts, Defect Summary Reports at the end of each testing cycle.

Hands on experience in Regression Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Imperial, Uni-code testing, installation/uninstallation testing, Licence testing and Compatibility testing.

Was part of a Core Scenario development team of three identified for a critical project and attended training conducted by the product team in New Castle, UK for a month.

Attended a 3 Weeks training in SAP-SD Module held in HP.

Has good knowledge and worked on academic projects using CAD/CAE tools like STAR CD/CCM, Ansys, Hypermesh and Unigraphics.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools & Utilities :HP QC/ALM, HP QTP/UFT, BPT, Selenium WebDriver, Perfecto, Ansys, ProE, Unigraphics, Star CD/CCM, Hypermesh, PDMS/Marine.

PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Project #1

Product : Hospital Operations Management (HOM)

Technology : UFT

Duration : Jan 2014-Till Date

Description:

iCenter is a application to enable data driven decisions and improved operational results in healthcare. iCenter provides reporting and analytics on what happened last year, last month, last week and what is happening this morning. iCenter delivers timely, high quality, planned and corrective maintenance. Planning for new technology, or to retire certain assets, or levels of service coverage necessitates relevant data. iCenter is the primary source for asset management planning data. Performance can be improved with the knowledge of how asset are currently being utilized. iCenter utilization reporting provides machine information about physician referral patterns, types of procedures and the time required to complete various procedures. It also provides an external benchmark.

Responsibilities:

Worked as a SME for various modules.

Responsible for developing, maintenance and execution of automated scripts using a key word driven framework in an Agile Environment.

Participated in Daily Standups, Planning workouts and Estimations, DRB and retrospective meeting for every sprint.

Preparation of Daily, Weekly status reports.

Project #2

Product : American Airlines (AA.com)

Technology : BPT

Duration : 1year 8 Months

Description:

American Airlines has been a global leader for over three quarters of a century. With more than 1.6 million site visits per day, AA.com is American's largest distribution channel and the best place to do business online with the airline, 24-7. Customers who book at AA.com get a lowest-fare guarantee and never pay any online booking fee. Also ancillary services like reservations for hotels, rental cars, destination activities and cruises are also provided.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for developing and maintenance of components using BPT approach

Involved in the execution of the business test scripts.

Participated in regular sessions and team meetings to discuss the issues during execution and development.

Preparation of Daily, Weekly status reports.

Project #3

Product : AVEVA MARINE (Hull, Hole Management,

Pipe Production checks, assembly and weld

planning)

Technology : PML, .Net, RPC

Duration : 3years 11 Months

Description:

AVEVA Marine is a set of integrated marine design and production applications. It provides the fastest, most productive and risk-free way to design and build large, complex ships and offshore vessels. It has an integrated hull and outfitting applications for clash-free, production-friendly design and efficient assembly with Global data sharing and efficient concurrent, multi-site project execution.

Responsibilities:

Onsite coordinator for team of 10 engineers in offshore.

Client interaction for planning day to day activities and providing work allocation and domain support to the team in offshore.

Reporting of Defects in Pivotal, interaction with developers for bug fixing and retesting the defects.

Development, maintenance and execution of QTP scripts on multiple environments.

Involved in preparation of Test Plan, Test Estimation report, Test Summary Report, Metrics and Weekly status reports.

Performed Gap analysis on existing test pack in clients place based on domain knowledge to fill the gaps from testing perspective.

Review of weekly/Monthly deliverables from offshore.

Project #4

Product : VPRM (VANTAGE Project Resource Management)

Technology : Oracle 10i

Duration : 3 months

Description:

VPRM is a computer system consisting of a number of modules. It provides project teams with precise details of project activity status to support tight control of costs, resources, materials, documents and schedule. It facilitates the management of risk, improves the quality of execution, reduces costs and provides cradle-to-grave project control. VPRM uses Oracle 3-tier architecture. When a Client demands a form, the system establishes a persistent connection between the client browser and the server-side tiers, and seamlessly handles queries and data commitments to the database.

Responsibilities:

Team coordinator with 5engineers

Create test objectives, test cases and execution of test cases and defect reporting in various modules.

Involved in preparation of Test plan, test reports, weekly status reporting and other project closure documents.

Project #5

Product : Marine Diagrams Application (Piping, Cable and HVAC Modes)

Technology : PML, .Net, RPC

Duration : 5 months

Description:

Marine Diagrams supports the creation of Piping, HVAC and Cabling Diagrams. The

application is based on the AVEVA Design Platform GUI and diagram layouts are created using an embedded Microsoft Office Visio drawing control. All relevant data entered through the application is stored into the Schematic Database which can later be accessed from P&ID Integrator to create 3D Design objects.

Responsibilities:

Identify, Develop and execute test cases (Business and User Scenarios) in QC9.2.

Reporting Defects and preparing the product test reports.

Setting up a global environment, develop and execute test cases to test the end to end flow between the 2D the 3D interface.

Involved in Exploratory, License, Installation and sanity testing

MSc. Projects:

“Numerical simulation of sloshing in a automotive fuel tank”.

This project is currently been carried out at University of Hertfordshire Automotive Research Centre for CD-ADAPCO Inc, UK under the guidance and supervision of Prof. Eric Holdo, Automotive and Aerospace Dept.

The main objective of this project is to study the mathematical-physics related problem and effects of sloshing in an automotive fuel tank and to develop a new design to overcome the sloshing problem by adapting numerical discretization simulations for improved stability and increased performance and safety of the vehicle.

QUALIFICATION:

MSc. Automotive Engineering. Feb 2006 – Feb 2007.

University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Herts, UK.

Recognised by SMMT (Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders) - Association of UK Automotive Industry.

B.E. Mechanical Engineering. June 2005

Vishveshwariah Technological University.

Bangalore Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India.

AWARDS and ACHIEVEMENTS:

Represented Bangalore Institute of technology in the Inter-college cricket tournament held by Vishveshwariah Technological University, Belgaum, India.

PERSONAL DETAILS:

Date of birth: 5th June. 1983.

Place of birth: Bangalore.

Nationality: Indian.

Languages Known: English, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and Kannada.

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