Engineer Quality

SHANKAR SHUNMUGAVEL

Email: .sh@ c

shanky gmail. om

Mob: 832-***-****

Work Authorization: H1 B valid until September 2016

SUMMARY

* ***** ** **** ********** in requirements gathering, analysis, testing and maintenance of

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web baManaged mnd rperfo.rmed User Acnd clice t /Tester basystem lTesting, Integration

sed, e co a me ce, NET based a ceptanen serving, S ed app ications.

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Testing, Performance Testing and Regression

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Testing.

Well vedsed bleWhNe Box, Blasck BoStress, Load and Itntstrnopmretbioity Tgies. g.

Knowl er gea in in it egative te ting, x and Functional e ei g e a h l dolo estin

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Good knowledge and expertise in the usage of latest Test Automation tools in the

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market lGood at k Tebserro, es lteniung, using unnP tond QAweln ner .SOAP UI. Familiar working with

ike Quic W est P vic Se esti m WinR QT er a ol as Ru l as

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WSDLs.

Working knowledge of Selenium – Open Source Testing tool against web based

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applications across various platforms like windows, mac, linux etc.

Hands on expertise in the usage of performance testing tools like LoadRunner and in depth

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knowledge in analysing the stress behaviour of the system using LoadRunner results.

Strong Oracle development experience mainly creating Stored Procedures, packages,

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functionSt rong rknowlcurso r s for batcheloadi ngnof data ne inappL/SQL. development and mobile

s, trigge s and edge and exp rtise i ipho us g P lication

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testing.

CERTIFIOATcONCertified Associate

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OCA ra le in PL/SQL Application Development which is a

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widely recognized Oracle 9i certification that showcases the expertise in SQL query building

and advanced PL/SQL concepts used to write stored procedures and functions.

COMPUTER PROFICIENCY

TOOLS:

QUICK TEST PROFESSIONAL 11.0, QUALITY CENTER 10.00,TESTARCHITECT, WINRUNNER,

LOADRUNNER, QARUNNER, SOAP UI, SELENIUM, TOAD, Oracle SQL Developer, SQL*Plus, MS and

Agile methodologies

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES:

SQL, PL/SQL, VBscript, Core Java and Objective C.

DATABASES:

Oracle 9i, Oracle 10g, MS Access

PR OFESS IONA L E ER IE NCE

XP

WISDO IN O ECH

M FT . Sep ‘10 – till date

Halliburton – Landmark Graphics, Houston, tx Feb ‘13 – till date

Automation/Load Test Engineer

Decision Space Desktop – Performance / Load Testing

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Play the role of an Onsite Load/Automation Engineer for a team of 5 in Offshore based

out of Vietnam.

Design and execute test automation scripts using Test Architect tool to run against

daily builds of the application so as to ensure stability.

Built a state of art Performance testing lab with as many as 15 machines both on

Windows and Linux platforms to create and execute performance test cases.

Use CA Wily Introscope – a diagnostic tool in tandem with Test Architect to gather and

analyze the performance metrics.

Work closely with my Vietnam counterparts in analyzing potential performance

issues/bottlenecks and come up with proposals for recovery.

Stress test the DSD application by coding TA scripts to run workflows against the

application for 50 cycles at a stretch to see where it fails and analyze the reason for failure.

Load test the DSD application using LoadRunner to create backend simulated

network/database traffic.

Recruited Automation engineers to our team by holding telephonic as well as face to face

interviews.

ASSURANT SOLUTIONS, MIAMI, FL APR ‘12 – Feb ‘13

Test Automation Engineer

ELITA Regression Test Suite Automation

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Playing the role of an Onsite Co ordinator for a team of 5 in Offshore based out of

Pune, India.

Our m’s sole responsibility is to strive and achieve end to end automation of the

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ting of uLI m App e cted t . QTy r nd Quality Ce ter to of QT being u co hbi d i

the efficiency of Key Word Driven approach and the flexibility of the Data Driven

Mo dhave QT P.p an approach by which I schedule the regression test bed after office

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hours by using a vbscript using the Windows Scheduler. This script establishes

connection to the QC database and in turn invokes QTP as a background process that runs the test

bed and collects the test results back into QC’s user defined columns using QTA.

Conversant with Open Test Architecture (OTA) model of Quality Center which handles data

retAevalt in anescriptive Pr ogramming approascr ipting.P whereby dynamic objects in the

ri d out of QC database using vb ch of QT

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certification in Oracle Pl/Sql comes handy in accomplishing this task with ease.

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Helped the Client is setting up and maintaining the QA processes in our team. I have involved in

QA audits and implementation of QA best practices across various domains and projects within

Assurant.

WELLS FARGO, SAN FRANCISCO, CA SEP ’10 – Mar ‘12

QA Lead

Wachovia to Wells Fargo Conversion – Bill Pay Db

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Played the role of a Test Automation Lead for a team of four members.

Our team’s sole responsibility is to automate of the testing of the Bill Pay Front End

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licati va from the Wac s est ng effor ls Fa putti er pe tti tee QT a of nteg u ing QTP

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with Quality Center – a test management tool.

Created test summary and defect reports out of Quality Center in order to provide a snapshot of

testing to the clients. This helped in identifying the scenarios that needed immediate attention.

Played the role of a performance tester creating and executing load tests against the application

using the Load Runner tool. Used the tool in emulating multiple virtual users and analyzed the

stress behavior of the application using Virtual User Generator and Controller components of Load

Runner.

TECHGENE SOLUTIONS LLC Jan 09 – Sep ‘10

VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS, GRAPEVINE, TX

QTP Engineer

Converged Front End Engine CoFEE

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Played the role of a Test Automation Lead for a test automation team of five

members.

Our team was started with the objective to aid the manual system integration testing team by

automating most of their regression test scenarios.

Our sole responsibility was to strive and achieve end to end automation of order creation till

submission with zero manual intervention in between. We made use of QTP tool for

automation.

Tested webservice calls using QTP.

Involved in performance testing of the Cofee Application created and executed load tests

against the application using the Load Runner tool and analyzed the stress behavior of the

application.

Played the role of a Scrum Master in an agile environment with sprints spanning 4 weeks in

length.

Created many usable tools using vb scripting to aid the team in their testing efforts. Have

scheduled many such vbscripts using windows scheduler to be run beyond office hours.

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES, LTD. Sep 04 – Dec 08

CITI Csite CAL, Inator G, TX Sep 07 – Dec 08

QA OnAPIToordiRVIN

CitiNait CBG – Infolease

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Played the role of a QA Lead for a UAT team of five members.

Requirements gathering and formulation of test strategy by direct interaction with clients was

onForfmulated tresponsing work low for the initiatives using Microsoft Visio.

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Used my expertise in Unified Modeling Language UML in building the artifacts for the testing

initiacicessfhat I unnagtook. testing efforts for three initiatives using the Quality Center.

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Performed Quality Center administration as well, setting up users and user groups with the

required access privileges.

Created requirements and test plans within QC to aid the team.

Review test cases and test scripts written by the team both in Quality Center and

QTPr ganizud a sseminaof improvement. of Quality Center for the benefit of our UAT

and se gge t ways r on the usage

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group.

Call handling, offshore status updates, hosting meetings and discussions with clients were some

of my day to day activities that I performed with ease.

BRITISH TELECOM,WATFORD,UK Jan 06 – Aug 07

Test Automation Lead

Order Management and Billing of Materials

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

As a Test Automation Lead, I managed a team of 7 members in testing the Expedio

OrPerfManed emfent ibid ty eaBilling of Mae aiatls ap aicatmati n tool to be used. I chose

der orm ag a easan li th nalysis on th terp testpl uto ion. o

QTP as it seemed very efficient with the application in hand.

Creatrtd automation t of QTes using QTP.

e testsuitP using TestDirector tool.

Repo ed defects ou

Organized Centre level Knowledge Transitions and Demos on the usage of QTP

tool.

BRITISH TELECOM,WATFORD,UK Jul 05 – Dec 05

Test Analyst

FMS – Fault Management System

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Started my role as a Test Analyst, performing manual testing of a ticketing system

Automated the testing process out of my own interest using the QaRunner tool.

This gave me good recognition among the clients. On evaluating this cost effective and

efficient approach of using a tool, the clients funded the creation of a Test Automation team within

British Telecom and I was made a part of the team.

WinRunnutotool wn t estscrior ausing WinRunner. S.

er as used f pts utomation of the FM

Created a matio

Mastery in the Mercury Interactive’s Test Script Language – TSL which WinRunner generates.

HaReporltoredescripts ut iof WinL based usinhe apprlosofit E xceeds

ve tai ed d fects o us ng TS Runner on t g Mic icat on n el.

BRITISH TELECOM,WATFORD,UK Jan 05 – Jun 05

Performance Tester

POS – Point of Sale

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Role of a QA tester in carrying out Performance Testing of the POS

application.

Created and executed load tests against the application by using the Load

Runner.

Uned Lis dRusnress bel iavior of inhe applice tion usinsg rs. rtual User Generator and

s oa ner too h n emulat t g multipl a virtual u e Vi

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Controller components of Load Runner.

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counterparts.

RITISH TELECOM,W

B ATFORD,UK Sep 04 – Dec 04

Software Test Analyst

PPSR – Product Portfolio and Services Registry Management

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Performed the role of a QA tester, testing the PPSR application

manually.

Performed GUIn System, intse ration tinS PLkSQesting. es in SQL Navigator.

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Pe ormed testi g of databa by wri g / L queri

Written robust test cases that helped in tracking down critical errors with respect to business

functionality that would have otherwise proved detrimental during implementation.

Creation of RTM – Requirement Traceability Matrices that help in tracking the coverage

of Defuiretrackin and analysis using Microsoft Excel.

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EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor of Technology in Electronics Engineering from Madras Institute of Technology, Anna

University, Chennai, India.

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