VENKATESHWAR RAO

Employer Details:

Tarique Ali

E-mail: ac2dhw@r.postjobfree.com

Phone: 770-***-**** Ext: 307

Executive Summary

Over 15+ Years of experience in the field of Information Technology, specializing in software testing and software development in different web based applications.

10 years of experience in developing test plans, providing sizing estimates, coordinating with business team and managing testing activities between various teams.

Extensive experience in Component, Functional, Integration, System, Regression, End-to-End, User Acceptance, Database, White-Box and Automated testing

Strong experience in Selenium automation using Selenium WebDriver, Java, JUnit, TestNG, and Eclipse IDE.

Highly skilled in developing Test Plans, Creating and Executing Test Cases, and Test Scripts.

Five years of Professional Development experience on .NET Framework, Visual Studio.NET 2000/2005, ASP. NET, VB. NET, C#, ADO. NET, AJAX, XML, XSL, XSLT, WEB Services.

Implemented the migration of ASP.NET version 1.1 to ASP.NET version 2.0

More than 1 Year of experience in creating and customizing Web based applications using ASP, ADO, HTML, DHTML, CSS, VB SCRIPT, JAVA SCRIPT, IIS, MTS, COM/DCOM and Crystal Reports.

More than 5 years of Database experience using ORACLE 9i, SQLServer and MS-Access with respect to Enterprise – Modeling, Handling Business Logic by creating Tables, writing Stored Procedures and Triggers.

Good Expertise in various domains like Financial, Retail, Mortgage and Health Care.

Experience in all the phases of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Experienced in Researching and Developing new software, maintaining existing software.

Experience in providing Production support.

Excellent code reviews and code debugging skills and expertise in testing tools.

Experience in working with PMTA, Return Path and Boogie Pop Tools.

Technical Skills

Testing Tools Selenium, QTP, Win Runner, Load Runner and Test Director

Operating System Windows 95/98/XP, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 and Windows 7

Familiar Languages C, C++, Java

Front - end tools VB (6.0), ASP, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, VB.NET, ASP.NET, C#

Backend Tools MS-SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008 & 2012, Oracle 9i/10g, MS-Access 2000

Database Connectivity ODBC, ADO, OLEDB, ADO.NET

Protocols TCP/IP, SMTP, FTP, HTTP, SOAP

Objects Models COM / ActiveX / DCOM

Software Packages MS Office 2000, Visual Studio .NET

Webserver IIS

Reporting Tools Data Reports, Crystal Reports

Version Controls Tools Visual Source Safe 2005 and TFS.

Education

Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A) from University of Madras, Chennai, India.

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) from Nagarjuna University, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Professional Experience

CLIENT: NCR Corporation, GA Sr QA Analyst Sep’12 – Till Date

Project: Customer Power

APTRA E-Marketing Group has joined into Software Engineering of NCR. APTRA E-Marketing Department has different categories in which “Customer Power” is the one of major team in that group. Customer Power application has been developed in ASP and .NET environment to send emails to the customers of different companies. Customer Power maintains all the database of different companies in order to send emails to all the customers. The application helps all the companies in getting more customers by interacting with all the customers through emails & banner ads for Self Service Terminals (SST). The application has been developed with different modules in order to interact with different clients and was developed technologies like ASP.NET, C#.NET, JavaScript and SQL Server 2008 & 2012.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Worked within a high performing Agile environment, Participated in User Story discussions, grooming sessions to make sure User Stories are testable and measurable

Participated in Scrum planning, Release/Iteration planning and assisted others in estimating task effort and dependencies

Responsible for test deliverables within the sprints

Responsible for communicating (verbal and written) with Business, Development, senior management and partner systems on the progress of the Release goals, objectives and testing efforts

Responsible for prepare and manage QA project plan, prepare test estimates, test timelines (Functional, SIT, UAT and Performance Testing)

Provided the Automation Test Strategy, Test Plan and Automation Estimation for automating web application using selenium.

Development of Automation Scripts for web application using Selenium WebDriver.

Designed and developed Selenium test scripts using Hybrid Framework.

Executed automated test scripts for Sanity, Functional and regression testing using Selenium WebDriver on different browsers/environments and provided Results.

Identify and communicate risks & issues and mitigation plans

Prepare and review test plans, test cases, scenarios and test data requirements

Tracked Test Instances readiness and connectivity. Keep a close eye on code migrations, understand the migrations requested for the project, the impacts to the testing and verify the QA environment is available for testing

Report QA findings, generate metrics & reports and QA Project Closeout Report

Worked with upstream and downstream application teams to create and execute tests

Supported the development, maintenance and end user training on testing procedures

Worked closely with multiple small to medium sized onshore and offshore teams, 3rd party vendors to deliver projects on time, cost and with quality

Have strong working relationships with other IT teams, business and customers to speed up delivery of IT Solution

Environment: VS.NET 2008, ASP.NET, C#.NET, ASP, VB, Web Services, SQL Server 2005 & 2008, TFS, JIRA, Selenium WebDriver.

CLIENT: NCR Corporation, SC QA Analyst June’08 – Aug ‘12

Project: Customer Power

NCR Corporation is a company which maintains E-Commerce department with two different categories like Customer Power and Internet Banking. The Customer Power application has been developed in ASP and .NET environment to send emails to the customers of different companies. The Customer Power maintains all the database of different companies in order to send emails to all the customers. The application helps all the companies in getting more customers by interacting with all the customers through emails & banner ads for Self Service Terminals (SST). The application has been developed with different modules in order to interact with different clients and was developed technologies like ASP.NET, C#.NET, ASP, VB and SQL Server 2005 & 2008.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Worked within a high performing Agile environment, Participated in User Story discussions, grooming sessions to make sure User Stories are testable and measurable

Participated in Scrum planning, Release/Iteration planning and assisted others in estimating task effort and dependencies

Responsible for test deliverables within the sprints

Responsible for communicating (verbal and written) with Business, Development, senior management and partner systems on the progress of the Release goals, objectives and testing efforts

Responsible for prepare and manage QA project plan, prepare test estimates, test timelines (Functional, SIT, UAT and Performance Testing)

Provided the Automation Test Strategy, Test Plan and Automation Estimation for automating web application using selenium.

Development of Automation Scripts for web application using Selenium WebDriver.

Designed and developed Selenium test scripts using Hybrid Framework.

Executed automated test scripts for Sanity, Functional and regression testing using Selenium WebDriver on different browsers/environments and provided Results.

Identify and communicate risks & issues and mitigation plans

Prepare and review test plans, test cases, scenarios and test data requirements

Tracked Test Instances readiness and connectivity. Keep a close eye on code migrations, understand the migrations requested for the project, the impacts to the testing and verify the QA environment is available for testing

Report QA findings, generate metrics & reports and QA Project Closeout Report

Worked with upstream and downstream application teams to create and execute tests

Supported the development, maintenance and end user training on testing procedures

Worked closely with multiple small to medium sized onshore and offshore teams, 3rd party vendors to deliver projects on time, cost and with quality

Have strong working relationships with other IT teams, business and customers to speed up delivery of IT Solution

Environment: VS.NET 2008, ASP.NET, C#.NET, ASP, VB, Web Services, SQL Server 2005 & 2008, Visual Source Safe, Selenium WebDriver.

CLIENT: Disability Access Consultants (DAC), NV QA Analyst Sep’07– May’08

Project: AcTrak & DacTrak

Disability Access Consultants is a company which helps disability persons to access in different places like offices, shopping malls, restaurants, etc. AcTrak project is a Windows Application where as DacTrak is a Web Based application. These applications are developed with .NET Technologies. AcTrak project is organized through Tablet PC. When the application has been developed it has been loaded into the Tablet PC so that it will be easy to access for different inspectors of DAC and easy to explain to clients by inspectors of DAC. The projects are very helpful for disability persons to get the information of that particular place.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Involved in creation of Test Plan.

Created and Executed Test Cases.

Preparing the Test data

Involved in Functional, Regression and System Testing

Reporting Defects into Mercury Quality Center 8.2

Uploading the Test cases in to QC.

Involved in the preparation of Test Summary Report.

Imparting training to the new joiners in the team.

Involved in Reviews.

Created database tables for different modules using SQL Server 2000.

Created Stored Procedures for different modules.

Extensively worked with inspectors in gathering the information of the different places.

Involved in unit testing and integration testing using NUnit.

Environment: ASP.NET, C#.NET, JavaScript, SQL Server 2000, Visual Studio 2005, QualityCentre 8.2.

CLIENT: Thomson Financial, NY Software Programmer 11/06 – 08/07

Project: Next News

Next News Component project is to build a new News application for Thomson One thick and thin. This project is a part of the Next News program, which also includes a redesign of News architecture, addition of News Search Engine and redesigned user Interface.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Involved in Analysis, Design, Development, Maintenance and Support.

Involved In the requirement gathering from the client.

Involved in the migration of project from Version 1.1 to Version 2.0.

Designed and Developed WebForms & Win Forms using ASP.NET and C# in Visual Studio 2005.

Created components using C#.

Created Tree Control, Data Grid Columns Using Custom Controls.

Involved in working with SharePoint Portal Server to create custom views of the Web Page.

Extensively worked with the Websevices and Serialization Concepts.

Worked with the interface like Call back event handlers, Configuration handlers.

Involved in developing secured webservices using ASP.NET, C#.Net, XML, SOAP, HTTPS, WSDL

Written code for database connectivity and interaction using ADO.NET

Extensivley worked in populating the data from the Excel and XML files to End User.

Developed Interfaces for the data exchange using SQL Server, C#.NET, ASP.NET.

Involved in writing Stored Procedures and creating Tables, Triggers, and Views in SQL SERVER.

Extensivley worked with the HTML, JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheets.

Involved in the Unit and Integration Testing.

Environment: .Net2.0, ASP.Net, C#, ADO.Net, Win Forms, XML, XSLT, HTML, JavaScript, SQL SERVER 2005, CSS, Web Services, Visual Studio.Net 2005, IIS 6.0, MS Visual SourceSafe, Windows 2000

CLIENT: Cargill, MN Software Programmer 07/05 – 10/06

Project: Cargill Pipeline System (CPS)

Cargill Pipeline System is a comprehensive web-based application developed for the Grain-IT management division for effectively manages the Barges information for the business process. This application was developed to replace the legacy system that was built long time back. This application was developed to combine 3 systems to one and provide the rich functionality of the Estimated time Calculation as well as the Demurrage Calculation for the barges. Providing web access for all the users and also using the LDAP authentication.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Involved in Requirement gathering, Database design, System analysis, System architecture and design, development and coordinating with the offshore team.

Designed role based security framework for easy maintenance of accesses rights and implemented LDAP user authentication.

Developed data accessing components with ADO .NET.

Implemented Object Oriented Concepts with C# .NET.

Extensively worked with AJAX Controls for developing different pages.

Implemented reports using Reporting Services.

Extensively worked with ASP .NET web forms and web user controls.

Used JavaScript for client-side validations.

Coding, Unit Testing and system integration, data conversion from previous system.

Used Visual Source Safe for version control and Microsoft Visual Studio .Net 2005.

Environment: ASP.NET Framework 2.0, C#.NET, SQL-Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005, IIS, ASP.NET, Ajax controls, HTML, Java Script, SQL Reporting Services 2005.

CLIENT: Care Origin, MI Software Programmer 08/04 –06/05

Project : Care Origin Home Health Care Management Services (COHHCMS)

The product integrates with a web portal for patients and elder citizens. This portal provides various services and features to the users and targets mainly at the senior citizens. The portal provides an interface to the HHCMS product to enable the users of the portal to apply for the HHC services using a user-friendly wizard. The product integrates with a Human Resource Management System (HRMS) to fulfil the gaps with respect to the health care professionals and their availability for Home Health Care services. The HRMS plugs into the application and provides all the details of various health care professionals along with their resumes and availability.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Involved In the requirements gathering and Analysis, Design, Development, Maintenance and Support.

Analyzed, normalized, and designed the database structure to meet acceptable relational database design standards, resulting in increased database performance and Integrity.

Extensively worked with Web Forms in ASP.NET

Designed and Developed Webforms using XML, XSLT.

Written code for database connectivity and interaction using ADO.NET

Developed code behind classes and reusable components in C#

Written SQL Queries, Stored Procedures in PL / SQL

The reports were created using Crystal Reports 9.0

Deployment of Application on Test Server and testing of application

Debugging and fixing and bugs reported and working on enhancement requests.

Environment: ASP.Net, C#, ADO.Net, XML, XSLT, HTML, JavaScript, Oracle 9i, CSS, Crystal Reports9.0, Visual Studio.Net, IIS 6.0, MS Visual SourceSafe, Windows 2000.

CLIENT: Zacks, IL. Software Programmer 12/03 – 07/04

Project: Zacks E-mail Parser System

This is an E-mail parser system being developed for a financial company based in Detroit. The application sits on their pop3 server as a service and reads all incoming mails based on the interval set by the administrator. If any attachments exist then it downloads those attachments and converts them into HTML format or converts the body into HTML format and inserts the same into SQL Server database. The downloaded file again has to be broken into different parts based on company tickers. For each company ticker if the body is more than 4000 characters then it is to be broken further.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Designed and Implemented applications using .NET Framework

Designed and Developed Win Forms.

Applied ADO .NET for database access.

Involved in Unit Testing and System Test and Performance Evaluation.

Debugged and fixed bugs during testing

Used Visual Source Safe for source code management and Visual Studio .Net 2003.

Created installer packages for all utilities using Install Shield Express

Worked on windows services for this application which sits on the pop3 server.

Environment: ASP.NET v1.1, Win Forms, SQL-Server, ASP.NET, C#, ADO.NET, JavaScript.

CLIENT: Malaysia Debt Ventures, Malaysia. Software Programmer 12/02 – 10/03

Project: Malaysia Debt Ventures Credit Module

Malaysia Debt Ventures is a company which offers loans to multinational companies in Malaysia. In this project, Credit Module is developed for all transactions of Loans applied by the clients to Malaysia Debt Ventures. In this module, the application for Loans will be verified with all transactions such as Loan Task Scheduling, Initial Screening, Due Diligence and Post Due Diligence. The module has been developed with ASP.Net with front-end and SQL Server as back-end.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Analyzed the module with Designing and Coding

Designed & Developed Win Forms with ASP.NET & VB.NET

Created all database tables and stored procedures.

Interacted with client to develop the module according to the client requirements.

Involved in Debugging, enhancements of the project.

Involved in implementation of the module.

Environment: ASP.Net, VB.Net, Win Forms, HTML, Oracle 9i, MS VSS, VS.NET & Windows NT.

CLIENT: AG Capital, Malaysia. Software Programmer 10/01 – 11/02

Project: Financial Services Portal

This project is developed as Financial Services Portal. This project has got different modules like Operations, Sales, Agency Support, Real Estate and Admin. I have developed the sales module, which has different options like Leads Report, Leads Note, Client Info and Cold Call. This module will explain about the information about each client.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Involved in design, development and testing the Sales Module.

Involved in System Analysis and Database design.

Created Win Forms in developing the application.

Extensively worked with ASP.NET and VB.NET

Coding has been done in ASP.Net pages with MS Access as back-end.

Created database tables with necessary fields.

Involved in testing and implementation of the project.

Environment: ASP.Net, VB.Net, Win Forms, HTML, DHTML, MS Access, VS.NET, Windows XP.

CLIENT: SMS Pharmaceuticals Ltd, INDIA Software Programmer 03/01 – 09/01

Project: eResource Management

e- Resource Management is comprehensive enterprise e- procurement and supply chain management solution that automates and streamlines the entire procurement and supply chain process of a company. It supports and augments the purchase, supply chain cycle and global trading capabilities of the Pharmacy, Food and Consumer Healthcare companies giving a strategic advantage.

Roles & Responsibilities

Involved in System Analysis and database design.

Extensively worked with Web Forms in ASP and VB6.0.

Implemented Client side validations with Custom Validation controls.

Used CSS for styling the web forms

Written SQL Queries, Stored Procedures using SQL Server 2000, Query Analyzer and Enterprise Manager.

Involved in the Unit testing,Integration and System Testing

Environment: ASP, VB6.0, HTML, JavaScript, SQL Server 2000, CSS, Crystal Reports9.0, IIS 6.0, Windows 2000

CLIENT: Jeevan Softech Ltd, INDIA Software Programmer 05/00 – 02/01

Project: Help Desk Management System

This is a web based Help Desk Management System with rich help desk functionality that can centrally track and maintains help desk issues. With familiar windows interface that is intuitive and user friendly, the system effectively manages problems and eliminates communication bottlenecks. This project was developed to make the support system easy; the queries, which would be logged in, could be tracked by the support engineers and could solve the users query at a short span of time.

Roles & Responsibilities

Analysis and design of the applications.

Developed information and navigation architectures, visual designs, interaction designs, and approaches to maintain accessibility according to current standards.

Created/modified web pages, HTML pages with Macromedia Dream weaver.

Implemented Client side validations using JavaScript

Created of POP3 email accounts, static and dynamic content of web pages.

Created components and DLLs for the application.

Involved in testing and implementation of the project.

Designed internal and external reports utilizing MS Excel, Crystal Reports

Environment: ASP, Visual Basic 6.0/5.0 HTML, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, ADO, IIS, SQL Server, Windows NT.

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