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Suresh Katthi

Test Architect E-mail: ac7wfw@r.postjobfree.com Contact: 332-***-****, https://www.linkedin.com/in/skatthi Career Synopsis

An astute and result oriented professional offering around 12 years of diversified and technical experience in SQA, Test automation and Test management. Worked on various domains mainly in Telecom BSS/OSS full stack, Embedded RFID, Enterprise and e-Procurement product development, integrations and customizations testing. Inclusive of executing release and regression testing with strategic test plans, driving change and taking system quality to improved efficiency and customer satisfaction level.

Well expertise in Manual and Automation Testing, Configuration and Release Management.

Strong experience in web Functional, Regression and component integration testing using Selenium WebDriver, TestNG and Maven with Java.

Design and develop test automation frameworks and solutions from the scratch across entire stack.

Proficient in Business Requirement Analysis, create test plans and define test strategies.

Worked on various automation tools Selenium, RestAsured, SOAPUI, LabVIEW, Fitness and Test/Defect management tools like Confluence, JIRA and Test Link.

Good experience in test Data handling with Apache POI APIs.

Good experience in API automation testing using Rest Assured with Test NG

Experience with RESTful web services and the JSON, XML data formats.

Worked on various functional and unit testing frameworks TestNG, Protractor, Junit, NUnit and Robot with Java and Python.

Very Good at trouble shooting and root cause analysis

Involved in Develop test automation scripts, execution and publish customized results with Extent Reports

Managing test code base repository, handle PR review, approvals and merges.

Experience working in continuous integration CI/CD and DevOps environment with Jenkins and Git

Expertise in conducting several types of testing such as Unit, Functional, System Integration, Regression, Usability, End to End, Mobile testing, and User Acceptance Testing.

Good experience in Database testing, good at JDBC connectors and SQL queries.

Experienced in handling customer specific Integrations and customizations.

Experienced in Telecom BSS product testing, embedded and enterprise wide applications testing.

Involved in Complete Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) from Business Analysis to Development, Software Test Lifecycle (STLC), Testing, Deployment and Documentation.

Experienced in test harness set-up for various projects and product portfolio.

Involves in implementing continues integration test execution with Jenkins on nightly/scheduled builds.

Experience in leading and coordinating project and testing activities across QA and multiple business areas.

Very good experience in working with Agile methods (Scrum, Kanban) in Agile and traditional environment.

Experienced in creating and maintaining JIRA Kanban dash boards and publish issue metrics.

worked as a Scrum Master, Participates in Sprint planning, effort estimations, task assignments and tracking

Very good experience in Defect Management and Bug triages

Good Knowledge in documenting the process related artefacts like Traceability Matrix, Defect Route Cause Analysis and Risk Analysis.

Maintain the QA team’s capacity planning, utilization and assignment allocations, etc.

Conduct data reviews and release signing-off. Retrospection after each release.

Excellent documentation skills using MS Office, Open office and Google docs.

Extensive experience in running onsite/offshore model and establish strong relationship management. Certified

Competency Matrix

Technical Skills

Operating Systems : Windows, Linux

Test Automation Tools/FW : Selenium, RestAsured, SOAP UI, JUnit, NUnit, TestNG, Protractor, LabVIEW Test Management Tool : Confluence (JIRA), Test Link, Pivotal Tracker Bug Tracking Tool : JIRA, Bugzilla, Pivotal Tracker and Mantis. Programming Languages : Core Java, C#, HTML

Scripting : Python, Shell Scripting

Utilities and IDEs : Pycharm, IntelliJ, Visual Studio2008, NetBeans, Eclipse, Putty Build Tools : Jenkins, Hudson, Build bot

Database : My SQL, Cassandra

Code Repositories (SCM) : GIT stash, SVN, Mercurial (Hg) and Rational Clear case Application servers : Jetty, Apache, JBoss

Documentation : Microsoft Office 2013, Open Office, Google docs. International work exposure

Worked in different geographical locations in INDIA, NORTH AMERICA, FINLAND, SWEDEN and GEORGIA. Work History

Working as Test architect -Consultant at GEP, Clark, NJ, NA Since Feb2018 to till date Worked as Test Manager -Automation specialist in Qvantel Software Solutions Ltd, Hyderabad, India Since Nov’2006 to Jan 2018

Major Attainments

At Qvantel

Holds the merit of winning:

- 10 years’ service Award in 2017.

- Accredited with Customer Satisfaction Award in 2014.

- Accredited with Customer Satisfaction Award for major releases to Thing Magic (Trimble.USA) In 2011.

- Best Employee of the Year 2010.

Educational Qualifications

MBA from Kakatiya University, 2003.

B.Sc. (Maths) from Kakatiya University, 2001.

Technical Certifications

ISEB (Information Systems Examination Board) certification in Software Testing

Certified ISO9001:2000 Internal Auditor

VISA STATUS

H1B

Validity- December 2020

Please refer to the annexure for the project details Certified

ANNEXURE

Title: SmartByGEP

Organization: GEP, Clark

Environment: C#, Java, RESTful API, AngularJS, JavaScript, Microsoft Azure, blob, JSON

(JavaScript Object Notation), Git stash, my SQL, TFS Testing Tools Selenium web driver, TestNG, Maven, Rest assured, JIRA, Test Link, Jenkins Role: Test Architect

Team Size: 18

Description: SMART by GEP is the world’s first cloud-native, source-to-pay software that delivers comprehensive spend, sourcing and procurement functionality in a single, unified platform. From sourcing to payments, spend analysis to savings tracking, SMART by GEP gives you the power to drive procurement for the entire enterprise with a user experience that is second-to-none.

Contributions: Responsible for

Create test plans and define test strategies for manual and automation testing.

Requirement clarifications, system study & analysis

Identify automation frameworks for the given applications

Design and developing automation test frameworks using Selenium Web driver, Rest assured, TestNG, Maven, Log4j, Extent Reports.

Creating test harness set-up for CI/CD process

Participates in developing test automation scripts, executing and code reviews.

Involves in implementing continues integration test execution on nightly builds.

Mentoring teams in test automation testing and understanding the requirements, developing, executing and reviewing test scripts.

Sprint planning, test effort estimations, task assignments and tracking

Responsible for Functional, Performance, GUI, compatibility, Database test, regression and E2E System level testing.

Responsible for Bug triage, identify the priorities and sends the status reports to Product Owner.

Conduct data reviews, Retrospection after each release.

Maintains the RTM for test coverage and handing SQA activities for entire ODC.

Retrospection after each release.

Weekly sync-up meeting with onshore product manager, daily stand ups with ODC team

Title: DBSS0.6

Customer: VEON, Georgia

Environment: Django Python, Scala, Java, JS, JSON (JavaScript Object Notation), Git stash, Cassandra, Docker

Testing Tools Selenium web driver, TestNG, JIRA

Role: Test Manager-Automation

Team Size: 15

Description: The proposed DBSS 0.6 solution is built on Ericsson and Qvantel components complemented with a few 3pp modules to cover all Business Requirements to be able to replace the current stack, DBSS 0.6 core layer mostly submitted with Qvantel components, only Stock management, Voucher Management and Payment GW submitted with other solution. DBSS 0.6 Channels and Support layer also submitted from Qvantel, except Case Management and Cash Management from other 3pp.

The DBSS0.6 based on Qvantel Classic Stack. Classic stack consists of three layers: Front-End Modules or Channels, Back-End modules or core part and API layer.

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Contributions: Responsible for

Mainly handle E2E Integrations with all other 3PPs and test automation

Requirement analysis and clarifications, reviews and approvals

Responsible for E2E, Functional, Integrating, compatibility, Database, and regression and E2E System level testing.

Develop test automation frame work with Selenium

Participates in developing test automation scripts, executing and code reviews, merges and push for test deployments

Continues integration testing with Jenkins

feature kick-offs and collaboration between Bas and SAs

Responsible for Bug triage, identify the priorities and sends the status reports to Product Owner.

Sprint planning, development effort estimations, task assignments and tracking

Responsible for UAT readiness and Production deployment

Mentoring teams in understanding the requirements, developing, executing and reviewing.

Responsible for Bug triage, identify the priorities and sends the status reports to Program Owner.

Conduct data reviews and release signing-off.

Retrospection after each release.

Daily stand-ups with team, Weekly sync-up meeting with onshore teams. Title: RUBIK- CSR Tool Box (Product portfolio)

Environment: Scala, Java, AngularJS, Play framework, JSON (JavaScript Object Notation), Git stash, Cassandra, Docker

Testing Tools Selenium web driver, Protractor, TestNG, JIRA, Test Link Role: Test Architect

Team Size: 25

Description: Qvantel CSR Toolbox consists of a suite of applications which are integrated to both Qvantel services/APIs and external systems to provide a 360-degree view of the customer. The toolbox allows users to view and update customer information, customer's products/services along with history, billing details (including history of payments, adjustments, and collection), credit history, order details, case management, sales management, and such.

Contributions: Responsible for

Create test plans and define test strategies for manual and automation testing.

Interacting with clients for requirement gathering, clarifications, system study & analysis

Developing automation test frameworks using Protractor

API Testing

Creating test harness set-up.

Participates in developing test automation scripts, executing and code reviews.

Involves in implementing continues integration test execution on nightly builds.

Mentoring teams in test automation testing and understanding the requirements, developing, executing and reviewing test scripts.

Sprint planning, test effort estimations, task assignments and tracking

Responsible for Functional, Performance, GUI, compatibility, Database test, regression and E2E System level testing.

Responsible for Bug triage, identify the priorities and sends the status reports to Product Owner.

Conduct data reviews and release signing-off.

Retrospection after each release.

Maintains the RTM for test coverage and handing SQA activities for entire ODC.

Retrospection after each release.

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Weekly sync-up meeting with onshore product manager, daily stand ups with ODC team

Title: Crew Sight

Organization: Thing Magic Incorporation (A Division of Trimble). Cambridge, USA Environment / Platform: Java Script, Python, Django, JSON (JavaScript Object Notation), HTML, Object C, Java, C#, Windows, Linux.

Testing Tools Selenium, Pivotal Tracker, Test Link, Bugzilla and Google docs Role: Test automation Lead

Team Size: 10

Description: Crew Sight is a cloud-based software system that allows construction companies the ability to monitor and control the location of workers and assets on small or large job sites. When used in conjunction with Trimble VIS sensing devices, tags and accessories it automatically captures and manages data for project management, site security, safety, cost control and government compliance in a single, secure and easy to use web portal.

Contributions: Responsible for

Test planning of Crew Sight multiple releases.

Interacting with clients for requirement gathering, system study & analysis

Sprint planning, test effort estimations, task assignments and tracking.

Involved and Monitored Functional, Performance, GUI, compatibility, Database test, regression and System level testing.

Team management.

Successfully build test harness at ODC to test the cloud based applications.

Test automation, mentoring the team in understanding the requirements, developing, executing and reviewing test scripts.

Analyzing the test reports and present test summary report for each Release Candidates (RC) and Final RC builds.

Bug triage, identify the priorities and sends the status reports to Product Owner.

Conduct data reviews and release signing-off.

Maintains the RTM for test coverage and handing SQA activities for entire ODC.

Retrospection after each release.

Weekly sync-up meeting with onshore product manager, daily scrums with ODC team.

Title: Mercury API

Customer: Thing magic Incorporation (A Division of Trimble). Cambridge, USA Environment / Platform: C, C#, Java, RQL, LLRP Windows, Linux, Mac, Buidbot, Visual Studio2008, NetBeans,

Testing Tools Nunit, Cunit, Junit, Touchstone, Fitness, Arber, putty, Pivotal Tracker, Bugzilla and Google docs

Role: Test Lead

Team Size: 9

Description: ThingMagic is a leading developer of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, with broad experience in applying RFID in a wide range of industrial and consumer applications. The MercuryAPI is intended to allow cross-product development. The same application can be used to connect, configure and control any ThingMagic RFID product. The MercuryAPI is conceptually divided into four layers i.e. Level1, Level2, Level3 and Level4.

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As part of the ODC QA team, the main objective is to provide the common application programming interface and RFID based solution testing support to various products of ThingMagic in 3 languages C, C# and Java. Contributions: Successful-

As a Test lead responsible for Test planning for multiple API releases, track and update the status according to the High-level project release schedules.

Involved and Monitored Unit, Functional, Regression, Performance (Read rate), Utility, Longevity and System level test execution on all ThingMagic RFID serial and fixed reader variants.

Sprint planning, test effort estimations and task assignments and tracking, retrospection after each release.

Successfully set up test harness at ODC to test the APIs on all Thingmagic RFID readers.

Implemented and practiced continues integration test execution on nightly builds.

Mentoring the team in understanding the requirements, developing and executing test scripts.

Developed and executed unit test scripts, participates test case reviews.

Analyzing the test reports and present test summary report for each Release Candidates (RC) and Final RC builds.

Review the bugs in Bugzilla and sending the status reports to Product Owner on daily basis.

Responsible for signing off entry criteria and exit criteria for QA release testing and delivery.

Maintains the RTM for test coverage and handing SQA activities for entire ODC.

Weekly sync-up meeting with onshore product manager, daily scrums with ODC team.

Till now successfully delivered around 9 major releases and couple of engineering releases.

Title: Transistor – Mission Bay

Customer: Thing magic Incorporation (A Division of Trimble). Cambridge, USA Environment / Platform: C, Java, Python, Django, MySQL6.0+, WinXp, Win7, Linux, SVN, Buidbot, NetBeans, putty, Bugzilla and Google Docs.

Testing Tools Siege, Touchstone, Pivotal Tracker

Role: Test Lead

Team Size: 6

Description: Transistor-Mission Bay will be built and maintained for DPR Construction. DPR is a top-50 construction company in the U.S. and markets itself as a “technical builder.” DPR will be using building information modeling (BIM) on the upcoming construction of a hospital in San Francisco, California. Also, they want to formalize access control to the job site. Certain areas may only be accessed by individuals who have undergone an ‘n’ number of hour orientation / safety training. DPR wants to restrict access to the jobsite only to those who are allowed and qualified. In the more specific context of Transistor-DPR, they need daily and customized reports like “How many electricians were working on Floor 2, Section 12 over the past few weeks” in order to determine if a particular subcontractor is providing the expected amount of labor. ThingMagic offshore and onsite team collaboratively develops, test and deploy the solution to DPR.

http://rfid.thingmagic.com/rfid-blog/bid/92004/RFID-Cloud-BIM-for-Managing- Personnel-in-Vertical-Construction

Contributions: Significantly involved in –

As a Test lead developed Test plans for different modules, track and update the status according to the High-level project release schedules.

Mentoring the team in understanding the requirements, developing and executing test cases.

Participated in identifying test scenarios, test case reviews and approvals.

Maintains the RTM for test coverage according to HLD and MRD. Certified

Involved and Monitoring Functional, Integration, Regression and End to End System test execution and results.

Involved in Performance testing on Amazon cloud server instances using Siege bombardment.

Responsible for signing off entry criteria and exit criteria for QA release testing and delivery.

Review bugs in Bugzilla and sending the status reports to Product Owner on daily basis.

Analyzing the test reports and present test summary report for each Release Candidates (RC) and Final RC builds.

Weekly sync-up meeting with onshore product/validation manager, daily scrums with ODC and Onshore team.

Title: HALTI(BSS)

Customer: Basware, Finland

Environment / Platform: J2EE, JBoss EAP MySQL, lighttpd, Win XP, Linux, SVN, Hudson Testing Tools Selenium, Test link, JIRA, Confluence Role: Test Lead

Description: Basware currently uses manual process for generating the invoice line items which

Would then be fed into SAP system to generate the actual invoices for end customers. Qvantel has been commissioned to automate the business process through the deployment of the new solution to enhance revenue assurance, flexibility in pricing & discounting and early error detect in the process flow. The solution comprises of the Customer Management, Rating and Billing, Mediation and Product Catalogue components.

Contributions: Significantly involved in:

Requirement gathering and clarification sessions with client.

Test plan development and updates for each Sprint according to the requirement changes and Sprint goals.

Involved in defining scenarios, developing, reviewing and maintaining test scripts

Involved in Functional, GUI, Database, System integration, Regression Testing and UAT.

Involved in test automation using selenium and test script reviews.

Accountable for status reporting & maintaining the RTM

Test reports Analysis and presenting test summary reports.

Responsible for build deployments on staging at client place.

Responsible for intermittent and final RC builds for UAT

Handled SQA activities for the project.

Title: Epooq (Social Networking)

Customer: OPPIFI, Espoo, Finland

Environment / Platform: Ajax, struts, HTML, Java Script, JSP, apache xml-beans, Tomcat 6.0, MySQL5.0+ Role: Sr.Test Engineer

Description: The business concept is to develop solutions to life experiences recorders and sharing. People are connecting the inter-generational chain is built on the different life stories. These stories accompanied by a first-hand experience of life and being a person of ideas and doctrines. The experience of life creates human life meaning. Client aim is to enable both individuals and the life experiences and their life stories to record and distribution.

Contributions: Involved in:

User requirements analysis and preparation of test cases

Involved in Functional, GUI Testing, Database and Regression Testing

Defect tracking and Bug Reporting using JIRA.

Report Analysis and Preparing the test summary reports for each Sprint

Co-ordination between off-shore and onsite teams by participating daily scrums and weekly status meetings.

Handled SQA activities for the project.

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