Rupesh Kumar Sivasankaran

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Professional Summary

Testing professional with 10+ years of experience in Quality Assurance of Mobile applications, Web applications and Web Services.

Expertise in Functional Testing, Installation and Integration Testing, Acceptance Testing, Compatibility Testing, GUI Testing, Smoke and Sanity Testing, Build Acceptance Regression Testing and Ad-hoc testing at various stages.

Expertise in testing Native Mobile applications on iOS, Android, Windows and Blackberry platforms.

Experience in validating analytics data using Charles and Mixpanel tools.

Experience in testing applications on Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Roku, Xbox and Samsung TV.

Sound knowledge on Geo-location, Interrupt, Instore Mode, iBeacon and Battery Drain testing.

Experience in testing Mobile native applications on cloud based mobile testing tools like Perfecto Mobile and Device Any Where.

Experience in testing Mobile applications on iOS, Android and Blackberry simulators.

Experience in testing Mobile web application in Mozilla Firefox and Chrome using user agent and mobile native browser.

Extensive experience in Test planning, Requirements analysis, Test design, Test Execution, Defect reporting and tracking.

Experience in working on Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

Good exposure in System Development Life Cycle, System Testing Life Cycle and Defect Life Cycle.

Proficient in Cross Browser Compatibility testing on Web apps built on Java & .Net technologies.

Experienced in performing Database validations using SQL Server for application testing requirements.

Exposure validation of Webservices using Rest, SOAP UI and Postman Expertise in reporting tools like Jira, HP ALM, HP Quality Center, Test Director and Test Manager.

Good exposure in other tools like QTP, Putty, WinSCP, VNC, Perfecto Mobile and Device Anywhere.

Team Lead with Good communication and responsible for leading 15 member offshore team, review of the work done, status reporting on daily and weekly basis to clients and stake holders.

Participating in Grooming and planning sessions, daily scrum calls, defect triage meeting, review meetings and test cases walk through with clients, business and stake holders.

Responsible to perform risk analysis periodically to highlight the project risks

Getting involved and validating during production installation and go live from QA side.

Exposure in QTP automation and OCR (Optical Character Recognition) based text and image recognition mechanism.

HP QC and QTP Certified.

Education

MCA APRIL 2005 BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY

Major: Computer Science

BACHELOR’S APRIL 2002 D.B JAIN COLLEGE

Major: Computer Science

Skills & Abilities

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Agile & Waterfall methodologies

Scrum/Kanbam models

Scrum master

Black box Testing, Automation

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

C, C++, VB Script, Java, Databases, MS SQL

TOOLS

HP ALM, HP Quality Centre, JIRA, QTP, Test Director & Test Manager, Para Soft SOA, Selenium, Winscp, Putty and Charles Debugger

BUSINESS TOOLS

MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-Outlook & MSPP

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Mac, MS Windows XP/Vista/Win 7, Unix and MS Dos

Experience

QA LEAD COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS JUN 2016 – TILL DATE

Project: NBC TVE Apps Testing

Client: NBC Universal, Universal City, CA, USA

Technology: Java/J2EE, MS SQL

Project Abstract: As part of NBC Universal testing engagement, NBC and their subsidiary mobile apps (to name few) USA Now, Bravo Now, Syfy Now, Telemundo., etc which are being rebranded with new features and incorporating UI changes should be analyzed and validated. NBCUniversal (colloquially referred to as NBCU or NBCUni) is an American media and entertainment company engaged in the production and marketing of entertainment, news, and information products and services to a global customer base. The company owns and operates American television networks, numerous cable channels, and a group of local stations in the United States, as well as motion picture companies, several television production companies, and branded theme parks. It is the world's largest mass media group. Our primary objective is to carry out a functional testing of NBC and their subsidiary mobile apps and to validate their UI and also to carry out a round of regression testing to ensure that there are no major breakages in production with respect to functionalities. Role and Responsibilities:

Onsite Test lead.

Requirement Analysis of NBC and their subsidiary mobile apps.

Responsible for Estimations, Planning and test execution.

Perform Smoke, functional and Regression testing on Agile methodology on various devices like iPhone, iPad, iPod & Android mobile and tablets with native apps against various carrier and wifi networks.

Perform Smoke, functional and Regression testing on Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Roku, Xbox and Samsung TV.

Perform Chromecast testing.

Responsible for delivery, defect tracking & defect triage

Creating Test plan and functional test cases.

Review Test cases.

Coordinate with Business team with regard to New CR’s and provide estimates

Interact with the client Business Analysts towards requirements and clarifications.

Perform Smoke, Functional and Regression testing during production installation and go live from QA side.

Develop automated test scripts using Selenium and execute them.

QA LEAD COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS SEP 2015 – MAY 2016

Project: D&B Webservices Testing

Client: D&B, Chennai, India

Technology: Java/J2EE, MS SQL

Project Abstract: As part of D&B Webserivce testing engagement, new products which are being rolled out to customers should be analyzed and to validate their schema structure. Our primary objective is to carry out a functional testing of new products and to validate their schema structure and to carry out a round of regression testing on other products schema structure and elements are not impacted due to the new products so as to ensure that there are no major breakages in production with respect to functionalities.

Role and Responsibilities:

Offshore Test lead.

Requirement Analysis of new products and their schema structure.

Responsible for Estimations, Planning and test execution.

Perform Smoke, System and Regression testing using Rest Web Services on Agile methodology and compare the response with other products response.

Responsible for offshore delivery, defect tracking & defect triage

Creating Test plan and functional test cases.

Review Test cases.

Coordinate with Business team with regard to New CR’s and provide estimates

Interact with the client Business Analysts towards requirements and clarifications. Process management, implementing and recommending Cognizant best practices.

QA LEAD COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS JUN 2015 – AUG 2015

Project: One Walgreens

Client: Walgreens Co., Deerfield, IL, USA

Technology: Java Project Abstract As part of One Walgreens Webserivce testing engagement, there were data from several systems which sends data to One Walgreens database. Among those several systems, EHR was one of the system which has to be decommissioned as it was a mimic of another system with additional data. To validate the decommission process, our goal is to carry out a system testing to make sure data are not being sent to One Walgreens database from EHR system and to carry out a regression testing on other systems to make sure data are being sent and getting updated in One Walgreens.

Role and Responsibilities:

Onsite Test lead.

Responsible for Estimations, Planning and execution.

Requirement gathering and analysis of the new functionalities/enhancements being implemented in OneWalgreens.

Responsible for offshore delivery, defect tracking & defect triage

Involve in daily client meetings to update on daily status, Issues and concerns.

Interact with the client Business Analysts towards requirement & queries.

Participating in daily scrum meetings and defect triage meeting with respective business, product team and stake holders.

Building high level scenarios.

Review Test cases.

Test execution and defect logging.

Status reporting and communication to stakeholders.

Perform Smoke, Functional and Regression testing during production installation and go live from QA side.

QA LEAD COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS JUN 2013 – JUN 2015

Project: Walgreens Ecom Flex Mobile

Client: Walgreens Co., Chicago, IL, USA

Technology: Java/J2EE, HTML & Oracle

Project Abstract: Walgreens flex mobile objective is to implement new key features (to name few) like Rx Chat, Collage prints, Digital offers, on their mobile native app for smart phones and tablet users where users can do pharmacy chat, print collage photos and clip coupons to their balance rewards card on the go which believed to attract more customers and yield good business revenue.

Role and Responsibilities:

Onsite Test Lead

Interact with the client business team and analysts towards requirement analysis.

Estimation, test project planning and tracking.

Test Case review and walkthrough.

Also used Device Anywhere mobile application testing tool to do Smoke, System, Integration, Functional and Regression testing.

SMS testing for Rx refills and reminders.

Performed iBeacon testing for iOS platform.

Performed instore mode testing by visiting various Walgreens stores.

Test Data preparation and customizing according to test scenarios.

Process management, implementing and recommending Cognizant best practices.

Capturing metrics and analysis.

Participating in daily scrum meetings and defect triage meetings with respective business, product team and stake holders.

Status reporting and communication to stakeholders

Conducted knowledge transitions session for the new resources on the application front & requirements. Perform Smoke, Functional and Regression testing during all production installations and go live from QA side.

QA LEAD COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS FEB 2013 – MAY 2013

Project: eBay Innovation

Client: eBay, Chennai, India

Technology: Java/J2EE, XML and Webservices.

Project Abstract: eBay decided to design a mobile app where its employees can search nearby Restaurants, Hotels, Shopping and Apartments integrated with Google map directions & discounts. It also has features like review comments given by other users, providing comments & ratings, click to call respective merchant, view website of merchant, save merchants to favorites and view History. Our objective is to do a functional testing for the above requirements.

Role and Responsibilities:

Offshore Test Lead

Responsible for Test Design specification, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, and Test Schedule.

Responsible for coordination with different interface cross-commits for test data setup and validation activities.

Perform Smoke, System, Integration, Functional, Regression, Geo-location, Interrupt, battery drain, Performance and UAT testing on various devices like iPhone, iPad, iPod & Android devices with native app and adaptive pages on Agile methodology against various carrier and wifi networks

Played key role in design/execution of System Integration and Regression test cases, defect retesting and change request testing.

QA LEAD COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS APR 2011 – DEC 2012

Project: Discover Card Mobile

Client: Discover Financials, Riverwoods, IL, USA

Technology: Java/J2EE and Oracle.

Project Abstract: Discover Financial Services, was a business unit of Morgan Stanley & Co., operating the Discover® Bank. The Discover mobile application is designed for the customer to access their account and allows them to accomplish following activities like Make a Payment, Send Money, Rewards Redemption, 5% Cash Back Bonus enrollment, Search Transactions, View Recent Activity on their mobile device anytime anywhere.

Role and Responsibilities:

Onsite Test Lead.

Analyze the functional requirements and preparing the Test plan.

Prepare the test scenarios and reviewing the test cases to validate the functionality.

Execute the test cases as per the scenarios to validate the functionality.

Perform Smoke, System, Integration, Functional, Regression, Geo-location, Interrupt, battery drain, Performance and UAT testing on various hand held devices like iPhone, iPad, iPod & Android devices with native app and adaptive pages on Agile methodology against various carrier and wifi networks.

Carried out a POC for Discover client to help choose a cloud based mobile application testing tool and recommended Perfecto Mobile after doing a analyzing of various tools and evaluating them against various parameters.

Performed Smoke, System, Integration, Functional, Regression and Interrupt testing using Perfecto Mobile.

Automated most of the Discover card test cases using Perfecto Mobile inbuilt automation which works on the basis of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) based text and image recognition mechanism.

Key liaison between clients and offshore team.

Coordinating with clients, stake holders and other vendors on a daily basis.

Conducted knowledge transitions session for the new resources on the application front & requirements.

Status updates and communication. Perform Smoke, Functional and Regression testing during all production installations and go live from QA side.

QA LEAD COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS FEB 2010 – APR 2011

Project: Discover Bank Portal

Client: Discover Financials, Riverwoods, IL, USA

Technology: JAVA

Project Abstract: Discover Financial Services, was a business unit of Morgan Stanley & Co., operating the Discover® Bank. The Discoverbank.com application is designed for the customer to open a Online Savings, Money Market, CD & IRA CD accounts with attractive interest rates. This is fully designed in web based technology. Customers can either open the accounts online or through customer service by phone. There is also a third party involved in account opening process which offers their members with offer codes to apply. Once the customer submits the required information, then an account will be created for the customer. The customer will then have access to their accounts online and make fund transfers with in internal & external accounts and can do bill payments.

Role and Responsibilities:

Onsite Test Lead.

Requirement Analysis.

Creation and Updation of manual test cases based on the requirement documents.

Execution of manual test cases.

Troubleshooting and escalating impediments/issue to Client

Conducting knowledge transfer sessions for the team on product functionality and process.

Preparing Project and Product Metrics and support the management team in analyzing the risks.

Actively involved in risk finding and mitigation for the project.

Perform Smoke, Functional and Regression testing during all production installations and go live from QA side.

Performed the following types of testing

I.Regression testing & Retesting

II.Installation testing

III.User Interface Testing

IV.Multiplatform Testing Browser Compatibility Testing

QA TEAM MEMBER COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY JUN 2007 – JAN 2010

Project: Discover Card Portal

Client: Discover Financial Services, Chennai, India

Technology: JAVA/J2EE, Oracle

Project Abstract: Discover Financial Services, was a business unit of Morgan Stanley & Co., operating the Discover® Card brands. The Discovercard.com application is designed for the customer to apply a Credit Card. This is fully designed in web based technology. The invitation number is send to the customer based on the credit score received from the third party. The customer enters the Invitation number received from DFS. Once the customer submits the required information, then the card will be issued by DFS to the customer. The validation of the Business rules is automated using Data Driven Test methodology with QTP 8.2.

Role and Responsibilities:

Offshore Team Member.

Requirement analysis and building high level scenarios.

Coding fresh automation scripts using QTP.

Perform Smoke, System, Integration, Functional, Regression and UAT testing.

Performed cross browser testing.

Maintenance of scripts.

Tracking the daily status and defects.

Participating in reviews and providing valuable inputs.

Perform Smoke, Functional and Regression testing during all production installations and go live from QA side. Involved in Issue Verification and Interact with development team to discuss the functionalities and resolve the issues.

QA TEAM MEMBER COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS APR 2007 – MAY 2007

Project: Exceed

Client: Pemco Insurance, Chennai, India

Technology: Core JAVA, JSP, SQL Server 2008.

Project Abstract: Exceed Claims Administration provides a fully integrated approach for each step of the Claims process, including notice of loss data capture, policy and coverage verification, financial processing, and workload management. This approach results in more accurate analysis, improved customer service, and reduced claims expense. Using real-time, online processing coupled with a relational database, provides the adjuster with the most up-to-date claims and policy information. Information is entered once and then is immediately available to professionals throughout your claims department. The availability of accurate and up-to-date claims information increases productivity, and speeds the Claims settlement process.

Role and Responsibilities:

Understanding the project requirements.

Creating test scripts.

Execution and defect reporting.

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