MANIGANDAN KANAGASABAI

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Dynamic, competent and result oriented professional with 13+ years of experience in –Leadership - Manual Software Testing - Agile Methodology - Project Management - People Management.

Currently working as Quality Analyst lead at Media Ocean, NY from August 2013.

Expertise in Software Testing life cycle, encompassing a broad range of areas – Interaction with Business team - Requirement Analyzing - Estimation – Task Allocation - Test strategy (Test Planning, Test Case Design and Test case Execution) - Defect Analyzing and reporting.

Project management activities - Involved in task allocation - Training associates - Prepared Resource progress sheet and WSR – Conduct periodic meeting with team members to ensure things are on track and with client for status update - Sign off document for each release – Review Team work- Achieved CMMI level 4 for project – Ensure process follow - Immediate notification/ escalation of problems to senior management/ client.

Client interface in terms of requirement gathering, planning & project execution inline with client product roadmap, client reporting, CSAT survey, Handling of Client Escalations.

Strong Experience in Web, API, UNIX, Database and GUI (.net, Java & Flex) testing.

Test case management (Design & Execution) using HP Quality Center and JIRA.

Quick learner, excellent team facilitator, ability to meet the tight deadlines and Worked in an effective and efficient manner to meet the quicker deadlines.

Capable to research and expand the new leading Technologies, Take-up challenging tasks.

Experience in Media, Securities and Telecom Domain.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION:

Masters in Computer Science Engineering at Annamalai University, India

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Test Management tools

HP Quality Center(9.2 &10), JIRA

Defect Management

JIRA, IBM Clear quest 7.0 and Wipro Internal tools

Requirement Management

Caliber 10, Confluence

Databases

MS SQL, Oracle 9i, 10G and Sybase 11

Operating System

Windows 98/XP,UNIX (HP, Solaris, IBM)

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATES:

Certified Scrum Master from scrum alliance.

ISTQB (International Software Testing Qualification Board) certified on July 2010.

HP QC V9.2 Certified on August 2010.

Recognized as “Star performer” for IMS, State street project and certificate was awarded by client.

“Brand Value Awards” for taking Initiatives in environment managing and build deploy at MEDIAOCEAN.

Project Lead & Project Management Foundation certificate from Wipro Technologies.

PROJECT PROFILE:

PRISMA

Role

Quality Analyst Lead

Duration

Aug ’13 to Current

Environment

QA and Staging(UAT)

Team Size

50

Project Description:

Prisma Campaign Management is Media Ocean’s global, web-based software that enables you to manage your digital campaigns, from planning to billing, within a single platform. Designed to enable digital media buying process, from submitting an RFP to creating your media plan to placing an order, sending to adserver, analyzing each placement's performance, reconciling with your financial system and Invoice management.

Responsibilities:

Scrum Master – Estimation, Planning, Task Allocation, Follow up and Agile board management.

Ensure all development tasks meet quality criteria through test planning, test execution, quality metrics and issue tracking.

Review of backlog defects.

Ensure the team is focusing on automation (regression) along with manual testing.

Assign tasks to offshore team members and help them understand requirement, test process, application knowledge transfer and metrics.

Track all the way in the project, resolving conflicts across team, review the schedules and plans, mitigation of the risks, checking quality in phases, update management, build a challenging and motivation environment.

JMETER test for API test cases.

Run and Analyze Selenium Automation tests.

Using Jira Tool create test suite, test case execution, defect management and dashboard management.

Manage environments for data refresh, tag deploys and analyze issues using QUICK BUILD.

Broker Dealer Clearing (BDC)

Client

Bank of New York Mellon, New York

Role

Onsite Co-coordinator and Test lead

Duration

Aug ‘10 to Jul ‘13

Environment

QA

Team Size

25

Project Description:

BNY Mellon Broker-Dealer Services delivers securities clearance and collateral management to financial institutions and corporations worldwide. BNYM currently has a legacy clearing and settlement engine known as the Government Securities Clearing Exchange (GSCX). The Broker-Dealer Clearing (BDC) project is basically a Fed mandate to migrate the GSCX, into Java Flex based technologies to improve the maintainability.

Responsibilities:

Attend Daily scrum and report my status.

Interacting with Clients, TA and BA to understand business requirements.

Create and execute test case based on use case in Quality Center.

Install and activate new QA releases to QA environment in UNIX Box.

Interact with offshore team assign tasks, help them for understanding business needs and

Application. Update offshore team status with client weekly.

Managing End to End Regression testing team and assist with Automation team efforts.

Review of offshore team work with respect to test case execution and defects.

Based on each release in agile methodology map the test case for each regression build.

Using Clear Quest to report and track defects, and providing updates on resolved defects.

Effectively prioritizing work and multi-tasking to support the group.

Managing time efficiently and effectively to comply with deadlines.

State Street

Projects

IMS, European IT Security Application, Venus Securities - Paris Phase 4

Role

Senior Test Engineer.

Duration

Sep ‘07 to July ‘10

Environment

QA

Team Size

10

Responsibilities:

Detailed study of FSD, identified scenarios for testing, Prepared Test plan and Test cases.

Involved in reviewing test cases.

Performed Functionality testing and Regression testing for the core modules.

Interacted with Onsite Coordinators, Clients, BA’s and developers for Defect reproduction and clarification of FSD/Application.

Defect Reporting and Tracking through Shared Point.

Handled 6 team members assigned task, Review team work, prepared WSR, monthly metrics and arranged periodic meetings.

Prepared Release notes and sign off document for each release.

Trained 2 new team members on testing, application and domain knowledge.

Prepared weekly and monthly status to interact with management team and client.

Evolving Systems

Projects

Numeri track & Local Number Portability

Role

Senior Test Engineer.

Duration

Jan ’05 to Aug ‘07

Environment

QA

Testing Tools

Win runner, Test Director, QC

Team Size

7

Project Description:

The Numeri Track application provides a fully-mechanized system for number inventory, administration, and assignment.

Local Number Portability (LNP) used for validating and porting number from one service provider to other.

Responsibilities:

Perform Full Application GUI testing which was converted from applet to JSP pages.(5.1)

Preparation and execution of Test Plans.

Product Testing: Installed and upgraded the application in UNIX environment.

Involved in weekly and monthly meetings to provide detailed status report to the client.

Test API queries and House Keeper Events in UNIX environment.(2.3)

Test Assembly and Assigning DN’s using Regular Expressions (i3.1)

Test Simulators and Adapters which send information’s to Downstream.(6.0)

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