VIMOJ SUKUMARAN ( : Mobile - 214-***-****

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acdvfb@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE

Looking for a long-term association with an organization having

dynamic work environment, where my skills could be enhanced and grow

in the hierarchy of the company

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

A Strongly motivated Software Professional with 9.10 years in Manual

Testing/SQL

o Onsite Professional Exposure

o Currently working in Texas-USA, client location (JPMorgan Chase & Co)

as Onsite coordinator/Test Lead/ Senior Test Engineer (QA and UAT

Team) from July 2011 to till date.

o Worked at Hartford-USA, client location (TRAVELERS) as Onsite

coordinator/Test coordinator.

o Worked at Philadelphia-USA, client location (PEARSON VUE) as Onsite

coordinator cum Senior Test engineer.

o Hands on experience in working & managing onsite-offshore model.

o Proficient in different types of Manual Testing methodologies.

o Has Good knowledge of SDLC (Agile/Waterfall), STLC and Bug Life Cycle.

o Has Good understanding of testing processes and methodologies.

o Executed Functional, Data driven and Regression testing using

automated testing tool QTP.

o Strong desktop skills - Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint,

Outlook, Visio and SharePoint skills

o Ability to understand Functional Requirements Specification and

Technical Design Specification documents.

o Proficient in Test Case Design, RTM, Test execution and Defect

Management

o Experience in conducting Black Box Testing (Functional Testing,

Database Testing, Integration testing, System Testing, Sanity Testing,

Regression Testing)

o Experience in conducting Security Testing in web applications (Cross

Site Scripting, Buffer Overflow, SQL Injection, URL Tampering, etc)

o Good exposure to Banking & Financial Services, Insurance Domain, Web

application, Licensing for E-Governance, Quality management tool and

Human Resource Management Sectors Domain

o Hands on experience in working with the Business and the Technical

SMEs and converting business requirements into testable requirements

and converting the same as Test Cases / Test Scripts

o Extensively worked on back-end / database testing (Oracle - SQL

Developer, TOAD 10.6) and validating the application against the

database.

o Prepared and executed SQL queries in SQL Developer/TOAD for Database

verifications

o Create Daily Status Report, Weekly Status Report and Monthly Project

Report

o Strong project management skills, with ability to ensure delivery of

quality results in a deadline-driven environment

o Evaluate the team members and provide the feedback to the Higher

management regularly

o Demonstrate the functional knowledge to the new joinees and train more

new joinees as necessary

o Hands on experience in Task allocation, Resource Management

o Involved in Test Strategy/Test Plan/Test Scenario

Preparation/Walkthrough session.

o Coordinated with multiple portfolios across PI and act as a single

point of contact (Test coordinator) for the PM in all the project

related activities.

o Tested the applications in various environments IST/QA (QA Team), UAT

and Production (UAT Team).

o Involved in Defect Triage meeting with developers to resolve

application defects.

o Proficient in Metrics to facilitate accurate and timely reporting.

o Hands on experience in Test management tool - Quality Center.

o Working with Cognos Impromptu tool for test data identification.

o Involved in Process - template standardization focus group which

involves creating the template for Test Strategy, Test Plan, Combined

Test Strategy/Test Execution plan for whole PI

o Involved in Carrier Compass focus group - POC for PI

o Hands on experience in testing web based and non-web based

applications

o Very well organized, with demonstrated ability to work under pressure,

prioritize work and meet tight deadlines.

o Ability to work effectively in a global team environment

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Company : Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corporation

Designation : Senior Associate (Team Lead/Sr Test Engineer)

Duration : November 2009 to December 2010 - Offshore

December 2010 to Till Date - Onsite

Company : Lionbridge Technologies, Chennai

Designation : Senior Test Engineer

Duration : October 2007 to November 2009

Company : Blue Shift India Pvt. Ltd., Chennai

Designation : Test Engineer

Duration : March 2007 to Oct 2007

Company : Scavilabs, Chennai

Designation : Application Tester

Duration : June 2004 to March 2007

VISA DETAILS

Visa Type : B1 - Multiple Entries

Valid Up to : 27 Mar 2018

Country : USA

Visa Type : H1B

Valid Up to : Jan 2017

Country : USA

SKILL SET

Software Testing : Manual Testing, SDLC, STLC

SD Methodologies : Agile, Waterfall

Bug Tracking Tool : JIRA, Clear Quest, HP Quality

Center 10.0, ALM

Testing Tool : Exposure in QTP 9.0

Configuration Management : Visual Source Safe, Share Point

Documentation Tools : MS-Office 2000/XP

Database : SQL Developer, ORACLE-8i, MS-SQL

Server, TOAD,

Basic Knowledge in Data Warehousing

Operating Systems : Windows NT 4.0, 9x, XP, 2000.

Languages : SQL, C, Java

GUI Application : Visual Basic 6.0

EDUCATION

o M.Sc (Information Technology) from Alagappa University with 63%.

o B.Sc (Computer Science) from Bharathiar University with 70%.

o H.S.C from Matriculation board, with 80%.

o S.S.L.C from Matriculation board, with 73%.

CERTIFICATION

o International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB)

Certification

o Completed Cognizant Internal certification in Insurance Domain

(Personal Insurance, Life Insurance, General Insurance)

o Completed Brain Bench Certification in SQL, RDBMS Concepts, and

Programming Concepts.

PROJECT DETAILS

Project #1 : Doc Data Management

Organization : Cognizant Technology solutions US Corporation

Clients : JPMorgan Chase & Co, Texas (IST/UAT)

Environment : JAVA, JavaScript, XML, Windows XP/2k

Duration : Jul '11 to Till Date

Team Size : IST/QA - 12, UAT - 28

Description : JPMorgan Chase & Co. is one of the oldest financial

services firms in the world. It has operations in 60 countries. It has more

than 5,100 bank branches in a couple dozen states (and counting) and is

also among the nation's top mortgage lenders and credit card issuers. It is

a leader in financial services with assets of $2 trillion, and the largest

market capitalization and third largest deposit base U.S. banking.

As part of DOC Management project, CHASE sends different letters for

the loan plans and matching criteria's as per the government rules. Letters

include Approval letters, solicitation letters, welcome letters, Denial

letters, missing letter, Plan break letter, Opt out letter etc. These

letters are triggered from different applications such as Agent Desktop,

MSP, Optimizer, DWS, Info Source etc. These letters are been generated by

an outside vendor based on the information sent by the CHASE application.

These letters are finally sent to the borrowers to intimate the latest

changes in the loans which belong to them. DOCDATA functions as a middle-

tier integration interface between Application / decisioning systems and

Lender Live (LLN).

Roles & Responsibilities:

As a Team Lead/Onsite coordinator/Sr. Tester, I am involved in the

following activities.

o Coordinating with Onsite Manager and Business Analyst for Requirements

gathering

o Coordinating between the customers and offshore team members.

o Resolving the issues from offshore with the Business Analyst and the

Development team

o Serve as escalation point for team members who have identified issues

and partner with internal parties to resolve them

o Attending review meetings to better understand the requirement

documents and the application

o Working with the BA's and the Technical SMEs and converting business

requirements into testable requirements and converting the same as

Test Cases / Test Scripts

o Preparing Test Strategy/Plan document and conduct a walkthrough

session with the project team.

o Involved in Test condition walkthrough with Project team.

o Ensure content and structure of all Testing documents / artifacts is

documented and maintained.

o Document, implement, monitor, and enforce all processes for testing as

per standards defined by the organization

o Understand the testing effort by analyzing the requirements of

project.

o Assign task to all Testing Team members and ensure that all of them

have sufficient work in the project.

o Tested the applications in various environments - QA and Production

o Involved in Functional Testing, Database testing, Integration testing,

System Testing, Regression Testing, Usability testing and

compatibility testing.

o Extensively worked on back-end / database testing (Oracle, SQL

Developer) and validating the application against the database.

o Closely works with ETL-Data warehouse team and Developers.

o Prepared and executed SQL queries in SQL Developer for Database

verifications

o Executed Functional, Data driven and Regression testing using

automated testing tool QTP

o Involved in Defect Triage meeting with developers to resolve

application defects.

o Attend the regular client call and discuss the weekly status with the

client.

o Act as the single point of contact between Development and Testers.

o Ensure the timely delivery of different testing milestones.

o Prepares / updates the metrics dashboard at the end of a phase or at

the completion of project.

o Attend daily or weekly meeting of projects and provide inputs from the

Testers' perspective.

o Immediate notification/escalation of problems to the Sr. Test Manager

/ Senior Management.

o Analyzing Test results, Updating and Maintenance of Test cases and

Defects in Quality Center.

o Reviewing Test case, Test Results, Regression Scenarios.

Project #2 : TRAVELERS PITCOE (Personal Insurance Testing Center

of excellence)

Organization : Cognizant Technology solutions US Corporation

Clients : TRAVELERS, Hartford

Environment : JAVA, JavaScript, XML, Windows XP/2k

Duration : Nov '09 to Jun'11

Team Size : 8

Description : In Business for over 150 years, Travelers offers a wide

variety of PROPERTY and CASUALTY insurance. Personal Insurance offers a

broad array of property and casualty insurance products for individuals.

Products include automobile, homeowners, umbrella, condominium, tenant,

flood, identity theft, valuable items, boat and yacht and wedding

coverage's. Travelers PITCOE (Travelers Personal Insurance Testing Center

of excellence) is a centralized, shared testing function with structured

policies and procedures that enable highly effective testing coupled with

efficiency. Property portfolio is designed to operate on all Homeowner and

Homesaver policies which includes Quoting, Rating, Issuing, Transaction

Processing, Billing Maintenance & Policy Document Maintenance

Roles & Responsibilities:

As a Team Lead/Onsite coordinator/Test coordinator/Sr. Tester, I am

involved in the following activities.

o Coordinating with Onsite Manager and Business Analyst for Requirements

gathering

o Coordinating between the customers and offshore team members.

o Resolving the issues from offshore with the Business Analyst and the

Development team

o Attending review meetings to better understand the requirement

documents and the application

o Working with the BA's and the Technical SMEs and converting business

requirements into testable requirements and converting the same as

Test Cases / Test Scripts

o Preparing Test Strategy/Plan document and conduct a walkthrough

session with the project team.

o Involved in Test condition walkthrough with Project team.

o Coordinated with multiple portfolios across PI and act as a single

point of contact (Test coordinator) for the PM in all the project

related activities.

o Tested the applications in various environments - System, UAT, Model

Office and Production.

o Involved in Functional Testing, Integration testing, System Testing,

Regression Testing, Security Testing, Usability testing and

compatibility testing.

o Tested the application for browser compatibility using Internet

Explorer (IE 6.0, 7.0 & 8.0)

o Working with Cognos Impromptu tool for test data identification.

o Involved in Process - template standardization focus group which

involves creating the template for Test Strategy, Test Plan, Combined

Test Strategy/Test Execution plan for whole PI

o Involved in Carrier Compass focus group - POC for PI

o Involved in Defect Triage meeting with developers to resolve

application defects.

o Involved in Defect Leakage Analysis, Requirement Mapping

o Involved in Creating Project Metrics and Metrics Data collections

o Preparing DSR, WSR, PMR

o Analyzing Test results, Updating and Maintenance of Test cases and

Defects in Quality Center.

o Reviewing Test case, Test Results, Regression Scenarios.

Project #3 : Promissor Uniform Licensing Solution for E-

Government (PULSE)

Organization : Lionbridge Technologies, Chennai

Clients : PEARSON VUE, USA (M

Environment : JAVA, JavaScript, XML, Oracle 9i; Windows XP/2k

Duration : Jan '08 to Nov '09

Team Size : 9

Description : PULSE is a web-based Java application, which is connected

to an Oracle Database. PULSE is a multi board licensing and certification

management system that helps agencies streamlines their processes, maximize

efficiencies, and minimize cost. PULSE provides complete beginning-to-end

processing that streamlines the individual's and agency's examination,

application, licensing, renewal, enforcement, and compliance operations.

PULSE tracks and manages license application information for individuals

and businesses. It offers an Internet portal so that licensees can initiate

most licensing transactions online allowing processing requests faster and

improving customer service

It consists of 5 modules - (1. Licensing Administration 2. Education

Administration 3. Complaints

4. Revenue Tracking 5. System Administration)

Roles & Responsibilities:

As a Senior Test Engineer & Onsite Coordinator, I am involved in the

following activities.

o Coordinating with Onsite Manager and Business Analyst for Requirements

gathering

o Coordinating between the customers and offshore team members in

Chennai, India

o Resolving the issues from offshore with the Business Analyst and the

Development team

o Preparing DSR, WSR, PMR

o Attending review meetings to better understand the requirement

documents and the application

o Working with the BA's and the Technical SMEs and converting business

requirements into testable requirements and converting the same as

Test Cases / Test Scripts

o Involved in Functional Testing, Integration testing, System Testing,

Regression Testing, Security Testing, Usability testing and

compatibility testing

o Tested the application for browser compatibility using Internet

Explorer (IE 6.0 & 7.0), Netscape Navigator, Opera, FireFox and across

various operation systems.

o Used Query Analyzer by executing queries for Test Case Execution

o Interacted with developers to resolve application defects.

o Involved in Defect Leakage Analysis, Requirement Mapping

o Involved in Creating Project Metrics and Metrics Data collections

o Analyzing Test results, Updating and Maintenance of Test cases and

Defects in Quality Center and JIRA

o Reviewing Test case, Test Results, Regression Scenarios.

Project #4 : AOL - America Online

Organization : Lionbridge Technologies, Chennai

Clients : AOL- Switzerland ( www.aol.ch ), AOL- Belgium

(www.aol.be )

Environment : JavaScript, XML, SQL Server 2000; Windows XP

Duration : Oct '07 to Jan'08

Team Size : 20

Description : AOL portal is an Ultra-Light portals and it is capable of

monetization by display and sponsored link advertising, and promotion-based

partnerships. The Ultra-Light portal is a standardized templated portal

product, offering the minimum product suite capable of sustaining a large,

engaged user base: Mail, IM, Search, in combination with strategically

important products: Video, Search, and Toolbar.

Ultra-Light portals will be deployed in emerging markets with growth

potential in Internet users and/or online advertising by small markets. AOL

has tie up with information providers in different countries and they are

called as Feed Providers. The Feed providers will send the data to be

published via feed. POPS will be pushing the data coming through feed to

the web site. For publishing manually an article, the details have to be

provided in POPS and POPS will push the data to the web site.

Roles & Responsibilities:

As a Software Test Engineer, I am involved in the following activities.

o Attending review meetings to better understand the requirement

documents and the application

o Design the Test cases for Functionality Testing

o Testing done in Functional and Publishing

o Involved in Functional Testing, Integration testing, System Testing,

Regression Testing, Security Testing, Usability testing and

compatibility testing

o Tested the application for browser compatibility using Internet

Explorer (IE 6.0 & 7.0), Netscape Navigator, Opera, FireFox and across

various operation systems.

o Performed the compatibility testing using VMWare.

o Interacted with developers to resolve application defects.

o Involved in Defect Leakage Analysis, Requirement Mapping

o Involved in Creating Project Metrics and Metrics Data collections

o Analyzing Test results, Updating and Maintenance of Defects in TCM and

BLT

o Reviewing Test case, UAT case and Integration Scenarios wise cases

Project #5 : SENATE RMS - Recruitment Management System

Organization : Blueshift India Pvt Limited, Chennai

Clients : Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), QUeST, CapGemini,

SASKEN, AtosOrigin,

Fidelity, Mphasis.

Environment : ASP. NET, C#, JavaScript, XML; IIS 6.0; SQL Server 2000;

Windows XP

Duration : March '07 to October'07

Team Size : 6

Description : RMS provides a complete solution for Hire Management

Service. All the activities of recruitment process of the company are

automated by this application. The system is functionally divided into two

parts as Intranet and Extranet. Candidate's resume can be obtained from

various sources like Campus, Vendor, Career page and Employee Referral.

The internal RMS user can manage Master Data, Manage Requirements, IJP,

Applicant Tracking, Manage Resumes and Reports according to their roles.

The system provides a facility to take up Online Test. Vendors can work

with this portal for recruitment process. This application provides a

secured, reliable and inexpensive solution for Resource Management.

Roles & Responsibilities:

As a Software Test Engineer, I am involved in the following activities.

o Attending review meetings to better understand the requirement

documents and the application

o Performed different types of testing like Positive, Negative,

Regression, Integration, System Testing

o Performed Security Testing, Data Integration and Migration Testing

o Involved in giving UAT Support to Client's and involved in preparing

UAT Test Case.

o Defining test strategy for emergency changes

o Involved in Creating Project Metrics and User Manual

o Analyzing test results, Updating and maintenance of Defects in

DevTrack

o Reviewing Test case, UAT case and Integration Scenarios wise cases

Project #6 : SENATE OAMS - Online Application Management System

Organisation : Blueshift India Pvt Limited, Chennai

Client(s) : IIITM - Bangalore, IIT - Kanpur, Symbiosys Institutions -

Pune,

Shiv Shivani - Hyderabad, Jawaharlar Nehru University,

Vellore Institute of Technology

Environment : ASP. NET, C#, JavaScript, XML; IIS 6.0; SQL Server 2000;

Windows XP

Duration : March '07 to October'07

Team Size : 4

Description : Online Application Management System is hosted application

service model, helps to apply for the course in the educational

institutions through online. Student can take up online examination.

Facility to get hall tickets and score card in online. Data is captured in

well-secured manner.

Admin module: In fact OAMS application is the outcome of the Admin module,

in which the entire application is configurable. It is integrated with

question bank in which question paper can be generated. The various

reports are available for the management of educational institutions.

Roles & Responsibilities:

As a Software Test Engineer, I am involved in the following activities.

o Understanding the Business requirement and preparation of Functional

Test specification..

o Well acquainted with software development life cycle.

o Performed different types of testing like Positive, Negative,

Regression, Integration, System Testing

o Involved in Creating Project Metrics

o Strong background in Manual Testing.

o Attending Defect review meetings

o Involved in design and execution of Test Cases

Project #7 : SENATE Online 360 Degree Feedback System.

Organization : Blueshift India Pvt Limited, Chennai

Clients : Performance Consulting International, Bangalore

Environment : ASP. NET, C#, JavaScript, XML; IIS 6.0; SQL Server 2000;

Windows XP

Duration : March '07 to October'07

Team Size : 5

Description : This system provides a complete Online 360 Degree Feedback

System. The system is functionally divided into three modules 1. Admin. 2.

Respondent 3. Expert. The "Admin" module allows the System Administrator to

manage survey, employees, circles and view reports in the system . Admin

can creates new employee(s), building circles for subject(s), view status

of subjects / respondents, triggers feedback, views reports, generate email

to respondents, generate reminder email to respondents, settings: for

releasing reports for subjects; clubbing reports; response settings;

average calculation. The "Respondent" module allows the respondent to Build

a circle, Respond to subjects and View reports. Then at last Expert can

views reports and gives comments for subject(s)

Roles & Responsibilities:

As a Software Test Engineer, I am involved in the following activities.

o Review of Functional Specification and Business Requirements.

o Executing Black Box Methodologies.

o Strong background in Manual Testing.

o Manual testing, comprising the activities Test Cases creation and

Traceability Matrix maintenance

o Involved in Creating Project Metrics

o Executing test cases and filing defects in the defect BCC

o Performing Functional Testing, System Testing and Regression Testing

o Logging and Tracking of defects, Preparing Test Report.

Project #8 : Business Management System Section

Organisation : Scavilabs, Chennai

Client : Harunstocks, Chennai

Environment : Java Swing, Oracle8.0, and Windows-NT

Duration : Apr '05 to March '07

Team Size : 5

Description: Business Management System HRIS provides a web based Human

Resource Solution for small/medium/large enterprise with full range of HR

activities related to Employee Details and Departments. The System is

functionally divided into 4 modules such as 1. External Interface 2. Error

3. Masters 4. Approvals.

In External interface the new Joinee, Employee changes, Terminations, Dept

Masters data's are uploaded to the BMS HRIS System from HR systems. While

uploading if there are any error records it will be captured in the Error

menu. The Masters tab consists of BMS Department, BMS Employees, Employee

Type, HR Department, and Import Records tab. While creating the records in

Master (Manually or automatic) the record will first go to the approval

view, Once the approval is done then only it will go to the main view.

Followed by there is a provision called FTP, by that we can schedule an FTP

process daily, weekly, monthly so that the records in the BMS view will

migrate to the other application.

Role & Responsibilities:

As a Software Test Engineer, I am involved in the following activities.

o Participated in SRS Review Meetings.

o Involved in preparing Test documentation which includes test plans

(all phases), test cases, test matrices, test schedules, test

conditions, test status reports.

o Involved in Test Execution that includes Functional Testing,

Integration Testing, Regression Testing and Acceptance Testing

o Reporting and prioritizing software bugs.

o Involved in Defect Tracking.

Project #9 : QA Monitor

Organisation : Scavilabs, Chennai

Environment : Java Swing, Oracle8.0, and Windows-NT

Duration : June '04 to March '05

Team Size : 5

Description : QA Monitor is a web-based, central management tool that

manages requirements, testing, reviews and quality audits. This broadly

covers the finest details of quality control, issues management as well as

quality assurance activities. This provides a single channel that

integrates the business analysis team, development team, testing team and

the audit teams.

QA Monitor has robust role-based Privilege configuration mechanism that

ensures information hiding/sharing across the software teams. The set of

reports that are provided by this tool can give insight to the maturity

levels of products along the product life cycle.

Role & Responsibilities:

As a Software Test Engineer, I was involved in the following activities.

o Participated in SRS Review Meetings.

o Collection of Test data from various business teams

o Preparation of test scenarios/scripts

o Test Execution in different environments

o Defect tracking, and monitoring.

PERSONAL DETAILS

NAME : S VIMOJ

Alternate Mail_id : acdvfb@r.postjobfree.com

Mobile Number : 214-***-****

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