SUDHARSHANA SOUNDARARAJAN (EAD holder)

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KNOWLEDGE PURVIEW

5+ years of Information Technology experience in the field of Software Testing.

Holding an L2- EAD visa, valid till Feb 2018

4.5 years of experience in testing Alcatel-Lucent networking products, as a Test Engineer

Strong working knowledge on various aspects of product testing such as Functional Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing and Performance testing

Expertise in using HP ALM Quality Center, JIRA, Rally, IBM Rational ClearQuest for Requirement Management, Test Case Management, Defect Management and Test Reporting

Have good knowledge of using network protocols : DHCP,IGMP V2, L2FWD, STP,RSTP

Expertise in Test Automation using TCL.

Strong experience in Test Estimation, Test planning, Test design, Test Execution and Reporting

Expertise in driving multiple projects at the same time and prioritize workloads and time frames

Comprehensive understanding of all aspects of SDLC and extensive experience in implementing QA methodologies and Software Engineering Process

Experienced working in both Agile & waterfall methodologies

Involved in RCA (Root Cause Analysis) for the customer issues

Testing latest generation Alcatel-Lucent network devices

Optimising the testbed in order to minimise the run time for protocol testing

Expertise in OS flavours like unix/linux command line interface and Windows

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages:

TCL, C, Object Oriented Programming

Testing Skills

Manual Testing, Automation Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing, Performance testing

Testing Tools:

Clearcase, Mercurial, Wireshark, PCTA, Spirent Test Center, Rational ClearQuest, Jenkins, JIRA, Rally, HP Quality Center

Testing Methodologies

Agile, Waterfall

Operating system

Windows, Solaris,Linux

Technologies

GPON, Ethernet bridging & VLAN switching

Protocols L2/L3

DHCP,IGMP V2, L2FWD, STP,RSTP

Key projects handled:

PROJECT-1

Product : ALCATEL-LUCENT ISAM Converged Access Product

Title : ATC (Automated test case) design and porting for NGPON2 / Introduction of VOIP batch

Role : Automation Technical Lead/Test Engineer

Team Size : 9

Duration : Sep2014 – Jul2015

Responsibilities :

Work with engineers to drive improvements in code quality via manual and automation testing

Develop automation process to assist Test Driven Development

Establish Test Automation Framework

Build Automation Scripts for setting up Test Environment, create and maintenance of Test Data, Executing Test Cases and Reporting of results

Develop Test Plan, testing resource requirements and overall scheduling of testing activity

Porting of existing ATCs (Automated test cases) to be executed on the next generation device NGPON2

Synchronising and managing the porting related activities across 3 different locations

Automating the VOIP test cases using TCL script and delivered in APME Framework.

Regression/Maintenance and ensuring the quality of the VOIP batch across various software releases

Based on the analysis, Software/ATC FRs (Fault reports) were raised with all the required traces.

Fixed all the ATC FRs within SLA time, responded to the software Query and verified it with needed logs

Experience in managing user stories in Rally, JIRA tools across different modules

Build and Maintain CI/CD Automation process and execution

Key Achievements:

Received ‘Knight out Reward’ for setting up Test Automation Framework & coding for

“Voice over IP” Test cases

Received highest appraisal rating of “Exceeded Expectations” during the appraisal cycle 2014-2015

PROJECT-2

Product : ALCATEL-LUCENT ISAM Converged Access Product

Title : ATC (Automated test cases) validation and Integration

Role : Integration Engineer

Team Size : 2

Duration : Dec2012 – Sep2014

Responsibilities :

ATC (Automated test cases) Integration of deliveries done across all sites of Alcatel-Lucent

Prepare Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Cases for testing the application

Perform Functional Testing, System Integration Testing and UAT

Prepare Knowledge share Document and Mentor new members in the team

Validation of the new content across 20 platforms in daily coverage and 4 platforms across weekly coverage

Single point of contact for all issues pertaining to ATC integration

Fixing all possible issues encountered during validation phase and ensuring all the batches are passing with the expected results

Getting in touch with the ATC authors for issues pertaining to their scripts

Ensuring all content that is causing failures are promptly removed

Maintaining the Quality of the regression batches

Raising ATC defects if required, for issues seen in the batch.

Fixing ATC FRs (Fault reports)

Rolling out the new content to regression teams, to enable increased coverage of product testing

PROJECT-3

Product : ALCATEL-LUCENT ISAM Converged Access Product

Title : Regression Analysis in SB (Super Batch) for ONTs

Role : Automation Engineer

Team Size : Standalone activity

Duration : Jun’13- Sep’14

Responsibilities :

Analysis of the failures seen in the regression runs performed in SB across all ONTs for the current mainstream release

Based on the analysis, Software/ATC FRs (Fault reports) were raised with all the required traces.

Responded to the Software Query and verified it with needed logs.

Consolidated report made for every result with the detailed FR mapping.

Sabbatical - Aug’11 – Dec’12 - To take care of my son.

PROJECT-4

Product : ALCATEL-LUCENT ISAM Converged Access Product

Title : Automating ONE-TC

Role : Automation Engineer

Team Size : 5

Duration : Aug2010 – Jul 2011

Responsibilities :

Automating the ONE-TC(P0/P1) testcases using TCL script and delivered in APME Framework.

Mentoring the contract people and help them understand the framework and ISAM concepts.

Manually tested GPON platform in L2 protocols like L2FWD and L3 protocols like IGMP, DHCP.

Test case execution,Test case uploading into XTSE (Testcase Database) test case results tracking, debugging, logging defects in ASTRA, reproductions and fix verification

Throughput batch execution of various customer premise equipments (ONT’s).

PROJECT-5

Product : ALCATEL-LUCENT ISAM Converged Access Product

Title : large scale release management

Role : Software Engineer

Team Size : 4

Duration : Apr’09 – Jul’10

Responsibilities :

Large scale release management testing to upgrade the 7342 equipment from one release to another and make sure the upgrade is successful

Individual testing of all scripts involved in the release management, and raise bugs for issues found

PROJECT-6

Organization : Procurve, Hewlett Packard

Training Project : LLDP Port VLAN ID

Team Size : Standalone project

Duration : Jul’2008 to Jan’09

Responsibilities :

Designed and coded an exclusive fault finding module for LLDP, in order to check for any misconfigurations in the neighbouring switches in their PVID configurations

ACADEMIA

B.E. in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, 2004- 2008, Madras Institute of Technology, Chennai, with 9.1 CGPA

HSC, Apr 2004, Adarsh Vidyalaya, Chennai; Percentage: 96.75% (First Class with Distinction).

SSLC, Apr 2002, St.Johns senior secondary school, Chennai; Percentage: 91.2% (First Class with Distinction).

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