Karthikeyan Santhamoorthy

Email duxx8f@r.postjobfree.com

Contact # : 919-***-****

Valid EAD till Nov 2012

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Skilled and accomplished Professional having 7+ years of experience in Manual and Functional Testing of Software Applications.

Strong skills in using Quality Centre (QC), TEST DIRECTOR, Test Link, Bugzilla, JIRA, RADAR, Oracle 10g, SQL, IIS, C/C++, SharePoint 2007

Extensive background in Project Life Cycle for delivering cutting-edge technology solutions that conforms to client requirements.

Proven skills in managing projects from the stage of proposal preparation and requirement analysis including Test Procedures, Test plans, Test case design, execution, reporting defects, Test Status Reporting, Test Summary Report and Test Metrics Report.

Having good knowledge on Finance, Insurance, Travel, Banking, Media, Data Warehousing, Manufacturing and License Applications.

Involved in major application releases like STEP 9.1, CORE 10.0, TIME MIRS 8.0, 8.1, Insite 3.0, Emerson.com Web Application, Kalido 8.3, ILFS and having good knowledge on V-Model processing.

As part of my assignments, Involved in interacting with clients, Analysis, Planning, Scheduling, Effort Estimation, Design, Testing, Quality and Delivery activities.

Understanding High Level Requirements from customer and Experienced in Preparing the Test Case Design and Detailed Design Specifications for a Project.

Expertise in documentation using MS-Office Tools (MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-Access and MS-Visio).

Onsite Exposure to US for Knowledge Transfer(TIME) and UK for Project work (NFUM)

An excellent communicator with keen analytical ability and continuous learning skills.

Involved in various types of testing like User Acceptance, Web part, UI,Security,Browser Compatibility

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Language/GUI: C#, J2EE, .Net, C/C++

Software Tools: Test QC, Test Director, RADAR, Bugzilla, JIRA,

Database: SQL Server 2000/2005, Oracle 10g

Documentation Tools: MS Office 2000/XP

Web Technologies: SharePoint 2007, JavaScript, VB Script, HTML

Operating Systems: UNIX, MS Windows 98 / 2000 / NT / XP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Company: Cognizant Technology Solutions www.cognizant.com

Chennai, India Oct‘10 – Aug’11

Project: CORE Client: Standard & Poor’s (The McGraw Hill Company)

Associate Team Lead / Banking and Financial

Environment: Manual Testing and QC

Scope: Rating Management System & CORE 10.0

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. is an American global provider of custom information technology, consulting and business process outsourcing services. The company has an excellent financial health, reporting over $2.2 billion in cash and short term investments for the quarter ending June 30, 2011 which currently provides a wide range of business, technology and consulting services including Banking and Financial services, Communications, Consumer Goods, Energy & Utilities, Health care, Information, Media & Entertainment, Insurance, Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Retail, Technology, Transportation & Logistics and Travel and Hospitality. CORE stands for Corporate Repository. It is the primary storehouse of Standard & Poor’s ratings and ratings-related data. Core allows the entry, storage, manipulation, retrieval, and dissemination of Standard & Poor’s ratings and ratings-related information.

Roles & responsibilities:

Understanding the Functional Requirements for Projects and Releases.

Identifying gap in Functional Requirements

Maintaining clarification tracker for the raised queries

Involved in Test Plan creation

Preparation of Test case estimation

Handling of team members.

Preparation of High level Test scenarios.

Preparation of Detailed Test conditions and Test cases.

Peer review of Detailed Test conditions and Test cases.

Planning the Test Data requirements.

Execution of Test cases

Defect management through QC

Preparation of Test status reports

Preparation of Test summary reports

Verification of Data in the Back end through Basic SQL queries

Attending Client Calls to update the status on a daily basis

Company 2: MindTree Limited www.mindtree.com

Chennai, India Jun ‘09 – Oct ’10

Project 2: TIME MIRS Client: TIME, US (Went Onsite to US for KT)

Senior Test Engineer / Media

Environment: Manual Testing, Test Link, RADAR

Scope: Media Information System & TIME MIRS 8.0, 8.1

MindTree Limited is a mid-sized international information technology (IT) consulting and implementation company. It operates in two units: production engineering services and IT services. MindTree surpassed USD 100 million in revenues in April 2006. MindTree was involved in the creation of Bluetooth technology. One of significant project during the first quarter of the 2010–11 fiscal year was providing application development, maintenance, and support services for the Government of India's nation-wide Unique Identification (UID) project, called Aadhar.

MIRS project contains 11 major applications which were used internally by the Time Inc - business users. All the application are windows based, where client setup is installed in user machine and the server components are installed in the server, the communication between the client and server were happened by remote. The Major applications in MIRS are Campaign Setup and CircManager. The Campaign setup consists of set of modules that automate and standardize the process of creating and distributing marketing specifications for setting up campaigns. The Application consists of nine different Modules for setting up of different type’s campaigns called Direct Mail, Insert Card, Online, Television, Renewal, Billing, Multi-Title, Maghound. Each campaigns have its own behavioral which used across the departments for various business. The CircManager is an application which used to generate reports across all the Campaigns.

Roles & responsibilities:

Got the Knowledge Transfer in the client Place (US).

Done the Reverse Knowledge Transfer to the offshore Team Members.

Executed the Project successfully in offshore.

Understanding the Functional Requirements for Projects and Releases.

Preparation of estimation of Test cases.

Handling of team members.

Preparation of functional handbook.

Finalizing the Test Scope and prepare an understanding document.

Preparation of High level Test scenarios.

Preparation of Detailed Test conditions and Test cases.

Peer review of Detailed Test conditions and Test cases.

Planning the Test Data requirements.

Execution of Test cases.

Verification of Data in the Back end through Basic SQL queries

Test case management through TEST LINK

Defect management through RADAR.

Preparation of test status reports.

Preparation of Test summary report

Preparation of Test Metrics Report.

Involved in Post production Testing.

Company 2: MindTree Limited www.mindtree.com

Chennai, India Feb ‘09 – May ’10

Project 3: STEP Client : NFUM, UK (Work done in Client Place UK)

Senior Test Analyst / Insurance

Environment: Manual Testing, QC

Scope: Insurance Policy Generation System & STEP 9.1

STEP is an acronym for Systems Transformation Enabling People and the aims of the STEP project are to integrate the general insurance systems and improve the processes around these systems. At the Centre of the STEP project is the new IFaces computer system, which is being rolled out countrywide and will enable access to all of the general business via a single front-end. The Motor products and the Personal Lines products are now live in IFaces, and work is well underway in developing both Commercial Insurances and Motor Fleet products, which are due to go live in 2009. New phases include accounting functionality requirements and claims handling. Most of the customer documentation associated to each of the products is printed via Document Science’s xPression printing package. Once printed, PDF images of the documents are stored within the IFaces system, thus providing a history of printed information sent to our customers.

Roles & responsibilities:

Got the Knowledge Transfer in client Place (UK)

Executed the project in client Place

Understanding the Functional Requirements for Projects and Releases

Escalate to Business Analyst for any gap in Requirement

Finalizing the Test Scope and prepare an understanding document

Preparation of High level Test scenarios

Preparation of Detailed Test conditions and Test cases

Peer review of Detailed Test conditions and Test cases

Planning the Test Data requirements

Defect management through QC

Test case Management through QC

Prepare test status reports

Prepare Test summary report

Company 2: MindTree Limited www.mindtree.com

Chennai, India Apr ‘08 – Jan ’10

Project 4: Insite 3.0 Client : Travel Click, US

Test Analyst / Travel

Environment: Manual Testing, QC

Scope: Travel Management System & Insite 3.0

Under the Travel CLICK-AMS project, I worked in the InSite/ EMC module. InSite is the current Travel CLICK internal solution for managing client information, order information and product definition. InSite has the following secondary functionalities: System administration, Organizational management, Pricing and discounting, Reporting tools, Production support, Issue tracking, Communication tools, Price quoting, Document repository and Invoice management. InSite links to a number of external systems for report production and delivery. The Electronic Marketing Centre (EMC) is the current Travel CLICK external portal for providing content delivery to current clients.

Roles & responsibilities:

Understanding the Functional Requirements for Projects and Releases

Finalizing the Test Scope and prepare an understanding document

Preparation of High level Test scenarios

Preparation of Detailed Test conditions and Test cases

Peer review of Detailed Test conditions and Test cases

Planning the Test Data requirements

Defect and Test case management through QC

Prepare test status reports

Prepare Test summary report

Company 2: MindTree Limited www.mindtree.com

Bangalore, India Sep ‘07 – Mar’08

Project 5: Emerson.Com Client : Emerson Corporation, USA Test Analyst / Manufacturing

Environment: Manual Testing, MOSS 2007, Visual Studio 2005, Team Foundation Server

Scope: Content Management System (CMS)

To Migrate Emerson’s corporate website www.emerson.com) and the 14 websites of Emerson Network Power Corporation into a single web platform using the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) Technology in a way that Emerson would have a global interface on the internet and People can go to one place to view about Emerson, its capabilities, innovations and leadership. Also that Emerson can cross-sell its products and services on the web and Customers can go to one place to buy the products, services and solutions of Emerson.

The Main Features of the site:

• A content management system is built to display the capabilities of Emerson Network Power.

• SharePoint list feature is used to store the content and web parts are created to display data dynamically to the end user.

• Content Stakeholder of Emerson Network Power can change the behavior of web part by modifying the tool part properties.

Roles & responsibilities:

Understanding the Functional Requirements for Projects and Releases

Finalizing the Test Scope and prepare an understanding document

Preparation of High level Test scenarios

Preparation of Detailed Test conditions and Test cases

Peer review of Detailed Test conditions and Test cases

Planning the Test Data requirements

Maintenance of Traceability Matrix

Involved in various types of testing like Webpart,UI,Security,Browser Compatibility

Prepare test status reports

Prepare Test summary report

Company 2: MindTree Limited www.mindtree.com

Chennai, India May ‘07 – Aug ’08

Project 6: Kalido MDM Client : Kalido, UK.

Test Analyst / Data Warehousing

Environment: Manual Testing, .Net, SQL SERVER 2005, Oracle 9i and 10g, Nunit

Scope: Master Data Management System & Kalido 8.3

KALIDO Master Data Manager Acts as a centralized repository of shared information. It can provide a clear source of master data. Give a complete view of key business information. Manage authorization and publication of master data to people & systems. Allows distributed users to maintain central key master data.

KALIDO Master Data Manager allows companies to manage shared master data. Once acquired, data can be Related to other data; Validated against business rules; Subjected to an authorization process; Kalido MDM is an enterprise-wide master data management software solution for harmonizing, storing and managing master data over time. Kalido MDM software increases the consistency and accuracy of corporate performance reporting by enabling business people to collaboratively control and manage master data in a workflow-driven web-based environment.

Roles & responsibilities:

Understanding the Functional Requirements for Projects and Releases

Finalizing the Test Scope and prepare an understanding document

Preparation of High level Test scenarios

Preparation of Detailed Test conditions and Test cases

Peer review of Detailed Test conditions and Test cases

Planning the Test Data requirements

Involved in Data flow testing from one product to other

Prepare test status reports

Prepare Test summary report

Company 3: Prar Infotech www.prarinfotech.com

Chennai, India Aug ‘06 – Apr ’07

Project 7: ILFS Client: Govt of Sharjah Economic Development Department, Sharjah.

Test Analyst / License

Environment: Manual Testing, Bugzilla, J2EE, Oracle 10G, Win2K

Scope: This Project is done using Integrated License and Finance System (ILFS) for Sharjah Government (SEDD).Investor Details are master data and are referred in various modules of the ILFS system. The investor details are maintained as part of the Licensing application. Every person who wants a license or trade name needs to get registered as an investor. Investor registration is the first process in licensing. Investor Details are maintained for Individual Investors as well as Companies. The Investor should get a license from Sharjah Government for starting his business and other activities. All the activities are verified by the Inspector in SEDD. Every activity should get permission from SEDD like new registration, Renewal, Amendment and Sales & Promotions. It has 8 modules like Investor Registration, Trade Name Issuance, Trade Name Reservation, Licensing Requirements, Inspection, Sales and Promotions, Complaints and Fraud Management, Billing and Collections. For every activities, permissions, renewal Fees should be calculated based on the appropriate Transaction.

Roles & responsibilities:

Understanding the Functional Requirements for Projects and Releases

Finalizing the Test Scope and prepare an understanding document

Preparation of High level Test scenarios

Preparation of Detailed Test conditions and Test cases

Peer review of Detailed Test conditions and Test cases

Planning the Test Data requirements

Execution of Test cases

Involved in Unit testing

Prepare test status reports

Company 4: Imacsys Technologies www.imacsys.net

Chennai, India Aug ‘05 – Aug ’06

Project 8: BSL Shipping Ltd Client: Balaji Shipping Ltd

Test Associate / Manufacturing

Environment: Manual Testing, Bugzilla, J2EE, Oracle 10G, Win2K

Scope: Balaji Shipping is a non-vessel and container based shipping company which involves in shipping goods, stuffing, De-Stuffing, etc. BSL Shipping is a windows based application which can provide a complete solution for the Shipping domain. It is a full-fledged application which eases the complex tracking of containers and provides the best optimum solution for the business. The application encapsulates all the abstract details from the user and it automatically manages the data in a consistent manner. The company deals with shipping goods from a shipper to a consignee. The shipper books for a quoted goods list, for which a bill of lading is prepared. For the specified list, the company checks for the availability of the containers and performs a load list that is to be shipped into the vessel. When the goods have arrived to the specified destination, a discharge list is prepared for discharging the goods to the destination. Then a delivery order is prepared and the consignee discharges his/her goods from the containers. The staffs in return can attach reports about their activities stating the percentage of work completed. With Risk cube, one can post queries related to the task that would help the in-charge to know more about the work which can be in progress or completed.

Roles & responsibilities:

Test Case Preparation

Test Case execution

Peer Review

Bug Tracking and Reporting

Company 4: Imacsys Technologies www.imacsys.net

Chennai, India Jul ‘04 – Aug ’05

Project 9: Risk Cube Client: Risk Matrix

Test Engineer Trainee / Manufacturing

Environment: Manual Testing, C#.Net, ADO.Net, SQL Server 2000

Scope: Risk Cube is a web based application that can be used by any organization which plans to effectively organize risk management. It helps the person in charge of risk management, to split up the tasks according to departments and sub departments and assign them to the other volunteers/staffs. He can upload or attach documents like department layout and website URLs for their reference. The staffs in return can attach reports about their activities stating the percentage of work completed. With Risk cube, one can post queries related to the task that would help the in-charge to know more about the work which can be in progress or completed.

Roles & responsibilities:

Test Case Preparation

Test Case execution

Peer Review

Bug Tracking and Reporting

Special Achievements / CERTIFICATIONS

Completed HP – QC Certification

Awarded “Pat on the Back” for raising high number defects for SEDD Project in 2006

EDUCATION

BE - Bachelor of Engineering from the Madurai Kamaraj University, India.

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