Venkata Subramanian Ramakrishnan

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Hopewell JCT, NY 12533 Email: abou12@r.postjobfree.com

Nineteen years of experience in various areas of SDLC like Development, QA, Release Management, product implementation, performance fine-tuning and post production support. Has implemented various process improvement initiatives and familiarity with Six Sigma Concepts with Green Belt CertificationExperience in managing multiple projects and experienced personnel including co-ordination with teams across different geographies.Experience in creating and implementing automation strategies, QA metrics and overseen creation and management of automated teams.Experience in working with Agile and Waterfall methodologiesExperience in QA practices, including verification and validation strategies, automated and manual testingExpertise and Technical Leadership in areas of Client/Server Applications Technologies using Networking protocols, Unix Internals, Databases and System Administration

SUMMARY OF COMPUTER SKILLS

Operating System : UNIX (SOLARIS, HP-UX, SCO and OSF),

Linux, Windows (98/NT, 2000, XP, 2003)

Languages : Java, C, C++, C#, X- Windows, Shell

Scripting, Perl, HTML, VB Script, AWK and Sed

RDBMS : SQL Server, ORACLE, Sybase, Informix and

MySQL.

DBA Skills : Informix, SQL Server

Webserver : iPlanet, Apache and WebSphere, IIS

Version Control : Clear Case, CVS, PVCS, Perforce

Storage Managers : Legato, ISM

Communication Protocols : TCP/IP, X.25, UDP, ICMP, IPV6.

Automated Testing Tools : Winrunner 7.5 and QuickTest 9.2

Test Management Tools : HP Quality Center 9.0

Debugging Tools : Debugger, dbx, xdb, gdb & Trace

Education : MBA, M.Sc Applied Electronics

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

EMC Corporation, White Plains – NY Oct 04 - PresentOversaw the creation and management of the tools and automation team, which was involved in development and maintenance of the tools and automation suites for QA. Oversaw the creation of tools and automation team from ground up for SMARTS InCharge product.Architected the automation strategy and created an automation environment from ground up. Managed the automation development efforts gathering the requirement, managing risks and priorities, increasing functional coverage and efficient allocation of resources.Initiated process improvement project to improve the process of the Golden CD testing that translated into soft savings of more than $450,000 a year for QA alone and enabled in more efficient use of resources. Also standardized the QE processes for better efficiency by defining well defined entry and exit criteria.Participate in resource budget meetings and co-ordinate with purchasing on hardware and software licenses that is needed for the teamPerform year end appraisals for team members and mentor them as neededEnsure timely delivery of applications.Streamlined manual and performance testing for various products, defect tracking and co-ordination with development teams for fixes. Involved in day to day development and testing of the product using automated test suites developed using the product API and QTP scripts.Familiar in testing Network related products for MCAST, NPM, VOIP, OTM, ATM, IPV6 etc.

Environment: Quick Test 9.2, QC 9.0, Java, Perl, C#, C, Shell Scripts, VBScripts, SQL Server, IIS, CVS, UNIX (Solaris & HP), Linux, Windows (2003, XP and 2000)

SER Solutions, Norwalk - CT May 02 - Oct - 04Created and implemented the automation strategy to leverage existing tools available and increase team performance for Call Processing System application.Developed test suite automation increasing product testing coverage.Duties include manual and automated testing for integration and performance,Set up and maintenance of the test environment, enforce quality standards, defect tracking, work with customer support and development in resolving Customer Issues, development of test suites and Test cases, Document ReviewImplemented source code control for development using CVS.

Environment: SCO 5.05/5.06, Winrunner 7.2, Quick Test 6.0, Astra Load Test, Java, Unix IPCs, TCP/IP, SQL, Apache Webserver, Tomcat 3.3.1, Windows 2000, XP.

Birlasoft Inc, Edison – NJ May 97 - Jan 02 Co-coordinated and streamlined the process of Software Releases at various stages of the Vendor Flow Decisioning product. Duties included enforcing documentation, Manage source code and version control on all the files that go into a Software Release. Oversaw and maintained the availability of all critical services, needed for the systemAssisted in planning and implementation of standards, coordinate & oversaw defect tracking and stress testing of across various Informix Servers for Kernel Connectivity Testing of Informix Server & Network [Backbone] & Portal Testing projects. Lead the QA Development and testing of the product. Enforced Quality standards; oversaw Defect Reporting, Tracking and Validation of. Set up and maintained the Test environment. Initiated process improvements to Automate, Enhance and fix bugs in existing test modules for all of the above projects. Duties include analyzing requirements, design test cases, oversee development of test suites, and perform manual and automated testing of the product. Developed new modules to extract the needed data from the database and feed them to crystal reports for report generation for Abacus Visual Scripts (AVS) project. Duties include interacting with the business people to identify the requirements, testing, debug and fix bugs in existing scripts, post deployment support and functional enhancements of existing scripts.Involved in development of the module that automatically puts the bar code for addresses in all outgoing mail according the USPS specifications for CSS - Postal bar-coding project. Duties included Module integration, testing, Bug fixing, performance fine-tuning and postproduction support.

Environment: Solaris, Windows NT, Java, C, ESQL-C, UNIX IPCs, TCP/IP, Clear Case, ISM, Legato, Informix, Shell Scripts, IBM’s Visual Age, PVCS Version Manager, IBM WebSphere, Oracle, MQ Series, Dazel, SSA, Perl, C++, C, Oracle, iPlanet, Winrunner, Sybase, CVS, Clear Case,

Nucleus Software Workshop (P) Ltd., Chennai, India Nov 95 - May 97Lead development of the local server module using Unix IPCs like FIFOs, Shared Memory etc. and Socket programming using network protocols like TCP/IP, UDP etc. for the Central Exception Monitor & Fully Automated Transfer SystemDuties include managing development of modules for front-end, implementation, post production support and deployment of product on to various production environments.Porting from Sun 4.1 to Solaris, HP and DEC.

Environment: C, C ++, HP-UX 10.0, OSF v3.2, Sun OS 5.1 and Solaris

2.5, X Windows, TCP, UDP, ICMP, IP, and SNMP.

Ennar Inc, Coimbatore, India (Software Engineer) Jul 93 - Nov 95

Various Projects in C and Pro-C

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