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BASANT RAMACHANDRAN

FLAT NO - ***, BLDG NO - 4, SHASTRI APARTMENTS

MOLEDINA ROAD, CAMP, PUNE-411001

E-mail: ************@*******.***

Telephone: (M) +91-988**-*****.

http://in.linkedin.com/in/basantchandran

ISTQB / NCFM Certified Software Testing Practice Consultant.

Total work Experience: 7.5 Years

Presently working at Capgemini India Pvt Ltd, Pune as Testing Practice

Consultant.

In a brief, I am currently employed with Capgemini India Pvt. Ltd. as a

Testing practice Consultant deputed to Morgan Stanley business account. My

current profile includes exposure to Functional, Performance and

ETL/Database testing. My current domain expertise revolves around Capital

Markets, Corporate Banking Technology and Legal and Compliance functions.

In the past, I have garnered immense expertise spanning multiple verticals

like IMPS (Instant Messaging and Presence services), Public Safety, Social

communications and Online Advertisements. My exposure to testing covers Web

based applications, Applications hosted on Linux platforms, API Testing,

ETL / Database testing, Flex applications, online support to customers and

involvement in product base lining.

Professional Summary:

. Strong in-depth knowledge on functional Black-box testing.

. Documenting, Executing and Verifying test cases and testing documents.

. Executed test cases in both manual and automated mode to test the

application functionality against business requirements.

. Good understanding of Bug tracking process and reporting defects using

defect tracking tools.

Technical Skills:

1

Testing Tools Performance Center / Loadrunner, SAHI IDE, WATIR.

Scripting Language HTML, JavaScript

Operating Systems Win 9x, NT, Me, 2000, XP, Win 7

Mac OS9, OSX,

Knowledge of Linux (Ubuntu 9.10, Redhat 4, -5, Fedora Core

5, SUSE 9.3, - 10.2)

Databases Sybase, MySQL, Autonomy's Verity and IDOL, MarkLogic No SQL

DB

Bug Tracking tools Quality Center, Trac, Bugzilla.

Certifications and Training:

. NCFM Certification on Financial Markets - Beginners module - May 2012

. Attended internal training on Root Cause Analysis on Jan 2012.

. Delivered a presentation on 'Testing Techniques for Mobile

Applications' at the inaugural IndicThreads.com International

Conference On Software Quality & Testing in Pune on March 2010.

. Redhat Certification (RHEL 003) - Seed Infotech, Pune - March 2008.

. ISTQB Certified Professional - Oct 2006.

. Certification course in "Software Testing" from i-people, Pune - Feb

2005.

. Certification course in C and C++ from Karrox institute, Pune - May

2005.

Academic Qualification:

. MBA (PGDIT) from Symbiosis College of Distance Learning in 2009, Pune

- ~70%

. B.E. (Production/Industrial) in 2003 from Bapuji Institute of

Engineering and Technology, Davangere. Visveswariah Technological

University, Belgaum - ~67%.

. Intermediate in 1999 from Chinmaya mission (CBSE), Palakkad, Kerala -

63%.

. Secondary school certificate in 1997 from Chinmaya mission (CBSE),

Palakkad, Kerala - ~75%.

Projects Undertaken:

1. Morgan Stanley - Legal and Compliance Division(LCD) Portal

Team Size: 14

Roles: Requirements understanding, Test plan estimation, Test case

writing, Liaisoning with Business Analysts and other stakeholders.

Project Description: This is an internal firmwide application catering

to the access to Legal and compliance related queries and information

for the Morgan Stanley employees across the globe. The project

involved decommissioning an existing static content portal running on

java with a one designed in dot net having dynamic content fuelled by

Sitefinity enabling a high variance of edition at the administrator

level. The project involved validation of migration of existing

contents, creation, edition and management of different content types,

Auto suggest search, Content Notification emails at different

periodicity including Daily and weekly rake job runs.

The Job description involved an end to end responsibility for test

estimation planning to test case development and execution followed

with a regression run. In this project the conventional database model

was replaced with the latest MarkLogic No SQL database for storing the

files and indexing the contents for faster retrievals.

2. Morgan Stanley - Autonomy's IDOL Search Engine Optimization.

Team Size: 5

Roles: Requirements understanding, Test plan estimation, Test case

writing.

Project Description: The project involved integration of a

COTS(Commercially off the shelf) SEARCH product from Autonomy's stable

named IDOL to an existing application by replacing the standard

conventional SQL database to enrich the search capabilities by

reducing the search times by better and faster indexing and embracing

other unique relevancy algorithms.

The project involved decommissioning of VERITY search engine replacing

it with IDOL search engine for multiple applications. It covered

testing of standard Search relevancy rules, sorting and other guided

navigation features.

3. Morgan Stanley - REMI (Regulatory Exam Management Interface)

Project Description: This was a maintenance project catering to

changing business requirements needing testing services to adhere to

the standard quality specifications. The project encapsulated the

business of users having to provide frequent examinations for the

changing trading business trends as per the latest SEC guidelines.

4. Morgan Stanley University.

Team Size: 6

Roles: Requirements understanding, Test plan estimation, Test case

writing, ETL Testing or Reporting / DB Testing, Performance testing,

Mentoring Juniors, Liaisoning with Business Analysts and other

stakeholders.

Project Description: This is an internal firmwide application to

fulfill the internal learning and training needs of the Morgan Stanley

employees across the globe. Job description involved an end to end

responsibility for test estimation planning to test case development

and execution followed with a regression run. The business also

required catering to timely requests on custom generated BI(Business

Intelligence) report testing. The quarterly build test cycle usually

ends with a pre-determined performance test cycle to measure the

applications response times to specific page loads.

5. PurpleTrail ( www.purpletrail.com )

Team size: 8

Roles: Test planning, Test case writing, Manual and Automated testing,

Customer support with troubleshooting.

Project Description: Purple Trail offers free online invitation

management portal with a comprehensive set of features like a design

center modeled around adobe flex framework, Address book and online

store. It is being built using the latest web 2.0 technologies for the

web and mobile devices. Automation is carried out using an open source

tool called Sahi.

Responsibilities:

. Understanding and Analyzing the project requirements and the

business logic in detail.

. Overseeing weekly scrum deployments to closure from requirements

definition to testing till deployment.

. Design of Test Scenarios, and Test Data to check different

reports using MS Excel

. Design and Execution of test case.

. Functional Testing.

. Automation Testing.

. Integration, Regression Testing.

. Troubleshooting customer support issues.

6. Eventuity

Team size: 3

Roles: Test planning, Test case writing, Manual and Automated

testing, Customer support with troubleshooting.

Project Description: Eventuity is an enterprise event management

software for Party Sales Direct Selling Companies. This product

specializes in party planning, management and ecommerce for the

direct selling industry.

Responsibilities:

. Understanding and analyzing the project requirements and

the business logic in detail.

. Design of Test Scenarios, and Test Data to check different

reports using MS Excel

. Design and Execution of test case.

. Functional Testing.

. Integration, Regression Testing.

7. Emergency 911 Text Gateway.

Client: Intrado Inc.

Domain: Telecommunications.

Team Size: 3

Roles: Test Execution

Project Description: Emergency Text 2- 911 messaging is an SMS-to-SIP

gateway to support sending of text messages to 9-1-1 Operators. The

gateway is built as a national system to route calls to any Public

Service Answering Point (PSAP), from a mobile as an sms.

Responsibilities:

. Understanding and analyzing the project requirements and the

business logic in detail.

. Test sending of mock sms through a text based browser, Lynx.

. Receiving of SMS messages through a mock SMPP client using

putty.

. Sending and receiving of multiple sms from multiple mobile

numbers through putty client.

. State transition changes and status checks tested through a UNIX

client.

. Extensive use of VIM editor for testing system status alarms.

. Execution of test case.

. Functional testing and regression Testing.

8. Viewpoint Toolbar testing.

Team Size: 3

Roles: Test Planner and Tester.

Project Description: Viewpoint Toolbar testing. - The toolbar consists

of different modules like Search, Bookmarks, Photos and pop-ups. The

project consisted of overall functional testing, stress / load testing

of the bookmarks and photos module. The testing included feature

testing for Toolbar and Photo view. There was extensive testing of

html pages. These pages are for upload of photos from photo view to

EZprints where a user can upload albums as well as order prints.

Testing was done on workflow charts of how the order process should

work.

Responsibilities:

. Involve in the Peer review and test the code logics, loop

testing, branch and path testing.

. Work closely with the testing team and write the test cases for

the different modules of the project.

. Unit testing.

. Involve in Integration testing and UAT.

. Work closely with the Quality Assurance team.

9. Viewpoint Library of Assets.

Team Size: 3

Roles: Test Engineer.

Project Description: The purpose of the Viewpoint Library of Assets

(VLA) is to enable the sales force with a centralized location where

they can easily search and download demos for client presentations and

can be accessed over the internet. The project specifications detail

the feature set to be tested.

Responsibilities:

. Extracting of data from the database.

. Analyzing the data for integrity

. Loading data to the database manually.

. Analyze the data on the web and populate that data based on the

certain rules.

. Stress and Load testing by feeding high amounts of data.

. Interacting with the clients let the clients aware of the

project process and status.

. Delivering the project.

. Giving support to clients.

Project 10. Fotomat Website.

11. Online advertising::Unicast Website

Location Pune

Role Test Engineer

Summary 10. Fotomat Website.

Project Description: This is a photo management

tool where users can upload, share, order prints

and gifts. The project involved functional testing,

stress / load testing, GUI and web functionality.

11. Online advertising::Unicast Website.

Project Description: Tested to confirm whether all

the links between the pages, external links, email

links and demos are functional. Also tested the

content displays. This project consisted of more

than 200 Ads in different formats like In-page Ads,

Banner Ads, Expandable, Transitional, Custom,

Curtain call etc.

Responsibilit Responsible for testing the overall functionality

ies and compatibility of all the Ad formats in

different browsers and OS configuration.

Understanding and Analyzing the project

requirements and the business logic in detail.

Creation of Data Flow Diagrams, Entity Relation

Ship Diagrams.

Personal Details:

Father's Name: V Ramachandran.

Date Of Birth: 28 May 1981.

PAN Details: AKWPB0306N.

Permanent Address: Melethil House, Kottayi (P.O), Palakkad, Kerala -

678572.

References available on request.

No. Organization Designation From To

1 Capgemini India Pvt. Ltd. Consultant - Mar 2011

Testing Practice. Till date.

2 Mangospring Technologies. Software Quality Jun 2007 Mar 2011

Engineer.

3 Trimity studios Information Quality Analyst. Oct 2006 May 2007

Technology Pvt. Ltd.

(Subsidiary of Synechron

Technologies )

3 Synechron Technologies Pvt Quality Sept 2005 Oct 2006

Ltd.,Pune Associate.

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