Engineer Project Manager

xSHYAM SUNDER YAMMANUR

*** *** ****** ***, ***** Clara, CA

95050

Mobile: 732-***-**** Email:

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Objective

Secure a position in Software Quality Assurance and Test Engineering to

improve the products and processes, and to increase efficiency, reliability

and ROI, while reducing risk and revenue loss associated with product

failures.

Professional Summary

. Extensive experience in Software QA.

. Expertise in Performance/Stress, Regression, Integration and System

Testing.

. Well versed in Agile Methodology. Specialized in documenting test plans,

execution of test cases to verify application functionality against

business requirements.

. Strong experience in Installation, Configuration, Troubleshooting of

Unix, Linux, Windows servers (both physical and virtual).

. Created shell scripts using bash shell to perform testing on Unix & Linux

servers.

. Experience working with version control systems, databases, monitoring

tools.

. Currently working as Quality Analyst for HP Server Automation (previously

Opsware) product at Hewlett Packard, Cupertino, California.

. Worked as Platform Engineer at AT&T Hosting & Application services,

Annapolis, Maryland.

. Brainbench certified professional in Software Testing.

. Brainbench certified professional in Unix System Administration.

. A team player with concern for quality at all levels and ability to

perform under stress.

. Ability to effectively work in multiple projects simultaneously and

communicate with stake holders.

Technical Skills

Operating Systems : UNIX (HP-UX, Solaris), Red Hat Enterprise

Linux 4, 5, Windows

Hardware : HP 9000, Itanium, Dell Power Edge, Sun Fire

servers

Languages : C, C++, Java, Awk, Sed, Shell Scripting

Protocols : TCP/IP, FTP, SMTP, SNMP

Version Control : Rational Clear case, Visual Source Safe (VSS)

Bug Tracking Tools : Bugzilla, HP Quality Center 10.0

RDBMS : Oracle, SQL, Sybase

Performance Monitoring : Top, Vmstat, Glance, HP Sitescope

Virtualization Tools : VMware ESX server, VMware Infrastructure

Client

Professional Experience

Hewlett Packard, Cupertino, California (contract through OTSI Inc)

11/2009 - Till Date Quality Analyst

Working as Quality Analyst for HP Server Automation Product. HP Server

Automation (SA) provides a core set of features that automate critical

areas of server and application operations including the provisioning,

deployment, patching, and change management of servers across major

operating systems.

Responsibilities

. Performed Functional, System testing of Patching, Provisioning, and

Virtualization features for HP Server Automation product.

. Performed QA activities for each sprint using agile methodology.

. Prepared Test Plan, Test Cases using HP Quality Center.

. Created functional, regression test cases, defects for each sprint using

HP Quality Center.

. Involved in installation of Redhat & Suse Linux servers on HP, Dell

hardware. Also installed Server Automation product on all these servers.

. Created shell scripts using bash shell to perform testing on Unix & Linux

servers.

. Installed Packages, Patches, Depots, and Bundles on all Unix servers both

manually and using HP Server Automation.

. Executed sql queries to check compliance status of patches, filesets.

. Involved in setting up automated installs using Kickstart, Ignite server.

Capable of doing server provisioning for all SA supported OS(s)

. Installed Oracle database on Redhat Linux servers.

. Created Virtual Partitions & Virtual Machines using HP Vpars & HPVM

software.

. Performed hardware troubleshooting and created extended filesystems on

all Unix servers.

. Replaced bad disk, nics, performed firmware updates for servers, hba's.

. Prepared IE content/documentation for provisioning, patching feature of

SA 7.5, 7.8 versions.

. Attended daily scrum meeting to provide status updates to project manager

and team members.

. Presented QA metrics, HP SAR (Service Automation Reporter) reports,

product demo to R&D lab managers at end of each sprint iteration.

Environment: HP Quality Center, Oracle 11 database, RHEL 4,5, Suse Linux,

HP-UX 11.23,11.31, Solaris 10, HP Virtual Partitions 5.0.7, HP Virtual

Machine 4.2.

AT&T Hosting & Enterprise Applications, Annapolis, Maryland (contract

through MODIS Inc) Platform Engineer

07/2008 - 07/2009

Worked as Platform Engineer for the Global Standards and Process Assurance

(GSPA) team. The GSPA team conducts independent verification/validation of

production environments. We ensured that design standards meet the

statement of work.

Responsibilities:

. Performed testing of HP-UX (11.23, 11.31), Linux (RHEL 4&5), Solaris

(9&10), and Windows 200x servers.

. Basic installation of all UNIX servers and the various software packages.

. Created test plans and test cases to perform post build verification for

Unix and Windows servers (both dedicated & virtual).

. Automated test execution steps using Unix shell scripting (korn, bash).

. Performed testing of NFS, NAS, TCP/IP, and NIC bonding setup.

. Working knowledge of various system performance monitoring utilities such

as vmstat, top, iostat, sar.

. Created new tests for different Hardware and Software configuration in HP

Quality Test center.

. Reported defects to development teams using defect tracking tools.

. Performed installation of Windows 2003 Standard and Enterprise editions

on physical and virtual servers. Responsible for NIC teaming, assigning

frontnet and backnet ips, adding routes, configuring ftp, smtp, adding

member servers to domain controllers on all windows servers.

. Responsible for new documentation as well as regular updates to existing

documentation.

. Tested virtual guests, vlans, data storage, VMware tools and performed

migration of virtual guests.

Environment: HP-UX 11.23,11.31, Solaris 9,10, RHEL 4,5, Windows 2003, 2008

Std Server (32, 64 bit).

Hewlett Packard, Bangalore, Karnataka 7/2006 -

06/2008 Systems Engineer (Hewlett Packard, Cupertino 1/2007 - 4/2007)

HP-UX System Reliability Testing (SRT) team validates the reliability and

stability of the HP-UX operating system, especially on large and complex

configurations under high system stress load. Tests focused on finding

hangs, panics, and deviation of system behaviors from the specifications.

The results of the tests determined the readiness of the system in meeting

delivery requirements.

Responsibilities:

. Involved in System Reliability Testing of HP-UX OS for 11.11, 11.23,

11.31 releases and also legacy hardware systems.

. Contributed to different releases of testing like Enterprise release and

Fusion release. Tested with different test configurations and test

recipes. Monitored test runs to verify system load levels and system

behaviors.

. Cold-Installation of HP-UX PA-RISC, Itanium based machines. Installation

of Software bundles, depots etc. Familiarity with Virtual Partitions

(vpars) and Node Partitions (npars).

. Created shell scripts to check lan connectivity. Also used awk, sed to

extract data from command o/p.

. Creating new file systems & configuring file systems size. Adding &

removing software & setting up swap & dump disks and applying kernel

module fixes and changing kernel configurations.

. Monitored UNIX servers including HP-UX, Solaris, Windows, Linux servers

using HP Site Scope. Installation of Sitescope server on Windows, Solaris

machines. Added UNIX servers including HP-UX, Solaris, Windows, Linux

servers into Sitescope.

. Added system monitors like CPU, Memory, Network monitors for each of

these servers, accomplished these tasks by creating system monitor temple

variables. Testing Cell Online Add/Deletion (COLAD testing) and

Configuration & Testing of 3-way virtual partitions on HP-UX Superdome

machines.

. Created users to login into Sitescope and created database alerts to

write monitored data to backend DB like Oracle.

. Generated and Presented weekly reports of all UNIX servers to lab

managers. Analyzed test results, reported defects and worked with triage

and development teams to help resolve defects and provided timely test

status updates to release lead.

Environment: HP-UX 11.11, 11.23, 11.31 versions. HP Integrity rx7640,

rx8640 Servers with Dual-core Intel Itanium 2 processors. HP-UX PA-RISC

based servers.

Infinite Computer Solutions, Bangalore, Karnataka

05/2005 - 06/2006 Software Test Engineer

America Online was one of the top clients for ICS. America Online Pricing

(Revenue Billing and Member systems) is the system to test the total

billing activities. AOL data center has different servers such as HP-UX,

Solaris, Sybase, and Stratus.

Responsibilities:

. Worked as a QA for their Online Test System applications, installed on

different servers such as Linux, Sybase, and Stratus. The testing has

been accomplished mainly using manual testing.

. My role is to validate whether the data in Stratus (mainframe) files and

corresponding database tables is as per the request on the AOL pricing

website.

. Executed SQL queries to retrieve data & validate price tables & offer

tables based on the business requirements.

. Participated in quality review meetings and also on-call for each quality

assurance request (QAR) production install.

. Added new test cases using Mercury Quality Center.

. Created quality control documents for each pricing cycle using AOL web

track application.

. Reviewed and created test results report (TRR) for each QAR and tracked

TRRs using VSS version control.

. Used Bugzilla, Bug logging and Tracking Tool to file defects.

Environment: AOL Webtrak - Checking QARs, Pricing Website, STRATUS -

Procomm Plus, Control DB - DBArtisan, Redhat Linux - Kerberos ID &

access, Bugzilla, Mercury Quality Center.

NE Technologies Inc, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh 02/2004 -

04/2005 Software Test Engineer

This project consists of porting and testing the Netech Telecommunication

Management Network (TMN) toolkit suites. This toolkit consists of products

like: ASN.1 Compiler, ASN.C/C++ Compiler, and DSG/DSG++ (Distributed System

Generator).

Responsibilities:

. I was responsible for the Porting & System testing of all TMN tools on

all Unix servers.

. Ported toolkit from host platform Red Hat LinuxES3, Intel 686, gcc 3.2.3

to target platform MontaVista Linux, CGE, Pentium3-gcc 3.3.1. These

ASN.C/C++ compilers indirectly use the platform specific C/C++ compilers.

So I had to find the major differences between standard C/C++ compilers

used on both these OS's.

. Created test cases and filed defects and categorized them based on

severity, priority.

Environment: Red Hat LinuxES3, MontaVista Linux, Sun Solaris 2.8 & 2.9 with

Workshop C/C++, HP-UX 11.0, HP-UX 11.11 with aCC/aC++, Linux 7.1 & 7.2

with gcc/g++ Compiler.

Education

Master's degree in Computer Applications (M.C.A) from Birla Institute of

Technology, Ranchi, India.

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