SOLOMON PRAKASH

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Five years of experience in software testing with the focus on Functional Testing, Regression Testing and System

Integration Testing

• CSTP Certified tester. [2008].

• Extensive experience in Functional, Integration, Regression, User Acceptance, Web Services, Database, Load

Testing and End to End Testing.

• Experienced in mobile application testing.

• Proficient in analyzing the Business, Functional Requirements, Specification (FRS) to formulate test cases and

test scripts.

• Experienced in documenting and tracking bugs/issues using tools like HP ALM, QC10.0,Jira,Bugzilla

• Experienced in executing test cases and assisting with resolution based on functional and technical specifications.

• Effective defect tracking and reporting.

• Meeting deadlines without compromising quality norms.

• Understanding & coordinating client’s needs / enhancements, software related issues

• Achieving and attaining client satisfaction by ensuring software QA best practices.

• Strong communication, analytical, team building, problem solving and interpersonal skills.

• Database query skills for data analysis

• Experienced in interacting with BA to understand technical and functional specifications.

• Experienced in monitoring project progress and reporting to Project Manager for completion of allocated tasks.

• Experienced in providing post implementation, application maintenance and enhancement support to the client

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Computer Science Engineering from Anna University Chennai, India in 2007

College: Francis Xavier Engineering College, Tirunelveli

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools : ALM, HP Quality Center 10.0, Test Director, Bugzilla, Jira

Databases : Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008, Oracle 10g/9i

Operating Systems : Windows 7/XP/2000/NT 4.0, UNIX

Web Technologies : HTML, XML

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Client: Polaris Financial Technologies, Minneapolis, MN Apr 2013 to Till Date

Role: Test Engineer

R12 Widgetization of UBS, a Teller Platform designed for the modern tellers to improve their operational

efficiency. The core banking teller front office functions have been widgetized using the canvas technology. About 28

tellers functions have been widgetized which require an end to end functionality testing.

Since this was done on a new technology it demanded a comprehensive set of test cases which covered positive as well

as negative scenarios. The business scenarios included the execution of EOD's too.

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Business Requirements of R12 application

• Designed High level Test scenarios and Test cases

• Peer Review of Test scenarios and Test cases

• Lead the team and executed the functionality of R12 application

• Logged defects, analyzed and tracked the same till closure

• Prepared daily status reports for the stake holders

Client: AIG Insurance, New York, NY Sep 2012 – Nov 2012

Role: Test Engineer

AIG insurance is one of the world’s largest insurance groups having its presence across 130 countries. This

project is all about migration to Workday HCM from their existing traditional ERP. Workday is a next generation ERP from

the developers of PeopleSoft which works in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) with SaaS (Software as a Service)

model. Modern design, good usability, strong analytics and mobile applications are some of the other advantage.

Team Size: 45

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of Test cases and Test Deliverables

• Gathering all requirements pertaining to release R1.2

• Execution of test cases and Daily status reporting

• Organize call with clients whenever required.

• Preparation of effective Bug reporting with QC 10.0

• Complete End to End testing responsibilities of assigned modules.

Client: Debtx, Boston, MA. Apr 2011 Mar 2012

Role: QA Engineer

Project 1: Debtx – The Debt Exchange – DXOpen

DebtX marketplace was only accessible to sellers who outsourced the sale process to DebtX's Loan Sale

Advisory group, the primary source of product in the “DebtX” marketplace. DebtX's online platform to enable selling

members to fully direct and manage the loan sale process from start to finish. I was involved in testing the online platform

built on ASP.Net.

Project 2: Debtx – The Debt Exchange – DXSYNDICATE

The basic functionality of Syndicate portal is to get the customers by inviting them to syndicate themselves and

share the loan amount which they are giving to their customers. This portal is installed in the client’s environment and

DebtX traders have no role. The bank uses the system to run their own sale. Syndicate portals are having different

functionality depends on the client requirements.

Responsibilities

• Analyzing Functional Requirement Specifications

• Involved in writing and reviewing functional test cases

• Carried out sanity testing for every release.

• Redesigning of regression test cases as per new functionalities.

• Execution of test cases, and tracking defects using Bug Tracker – Bugzilla

• Tracking of defects throughout Defect Life Cycle

• Involved in weekly client calls

• Preparing and circulating the Daily Status Report (DSR) on daily basis

• Carried out Ad hoc testing in situations deemed necessary

Client: Telstra, Melbourne, Australia Jul 2010 – Mar 2011

Role: Associate Test Engineer

Telstra is an Australian telecommunications and media company. Telstra is the largest provider of both local and

long distance telephone services, mobile services, dialup, wireless, DSL and cable internet access in Australia. Accenture

is handling most of the testing work of Telstra billing system in their major delivery centers are in Chennai. Siebel is used

for frontend and Kenan is used as a backend for Telstra act as a database where the information of customer is stored. On

the basis of information bill generation is done by Kenan. CAT is a combination of System Integration Testing & User

Acceptance Testing.

There are different teams: Usage, Products, Invoice, Finance, Rifdi, and Online Billing.

Modules tested include O2A Order to activate, U2C Usage to Cash, F2R Fault to restoration, Manage Customer Data

and reporting.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in manual testing and writing test cases

• Involved in verification process on a regular basis using Test Scenarios.

• Performed End to End Testing Manually before Using the Tool.

• Performed Execution using Citrix Application

• Performed Integration, Positive and Negative testing of the application.

• Member of the User acceptance Testing Team worked with the perspective of the user.

• Effective defect tracking in Quality Center and reporting

• Used Citrix Applications (Toad & Winscp & Putty)

• Used QC 10.0 as the Bug tracking tool

Client: Aircell, Broomfield, CO Apr 2010 – Jun 2010

Role: Test Engineer

Go Go In flight Internet access is provided for the users in the US flights. This was introduced for the mobile portal using

iPods and iPhones and in Black Berry PDA’s. The mobile portal was developed in order to increase the pace of using

internet in the flight using mobile devices. This facility is provided only for the US regions. A simulated environment was

setup for this application to be tested.

Responsibilities:

• Getting functional requirements from the clients through calls.

• Generation of the test cases for testing the functional features, Generated the test defect and test reports, etc.

• Used QC 10.0, Jira as the Bug tracking tools.

Client : Comcast POC

Role : Test Engineer

Century Integration Framework is an Interface connecting all external systems, providing various services in the

telecom field. The entire century suites of products are connected using the century integration framework interface where

the backend processing of the enterprise can be controlled and monitored. It provides various functionalities in the

Telecom domain for customer in US market.

Responsibilities:

• Execution of test cases and defect tracking.

• Used QC 10.0, Jira as the Bug tracking tools.

Client: STC third Eye Technology Mar 2009 – Mar 2010

Role : Test Engineer

Project 1: NuViewHR

The NuViewHR application is developed to contribute to the efficient functioning of an organization. The

application automates HR best practices, HR tasks, Employee Self Service (ESS),

NuViewHR is a comprehensive, web native HR management solution that efficiently administers the company HR &

Benefit programs, streamlines it Recruiting process, helps it to train and develop it's workforce for promotion and growth,

streamlines it current HR practices, employee communications.

Manager Self Service (MSS), Candidate Self Service (CSS), workflows, and notifications. Introduction of ESS, MSS, and

CSS in the application reduces the paper based transactions and minimizes transaction time.

Project 2: Accounting Resources Payrolls

The Accounting Resource helps in interacting between a Client and multiple numbers of Users. To maintain the

details of Projects undergoing in an organization.

Project #3: Babies Away

It is a Web based Application and it has an Admin, Local Admin. The Products that are added in Admin at backend can be

viewed and managed by a Local Admin and in Web view Customer can order the materials and depending upon

customers’ requirements. The Approvals are given by Local admin and a confirmatory message will be send to the user

and the Payment Processing is done online

Responsibilities:

• Understanding Requirements,

• Creating Test Cases,

• Creating Test Data,

• Test case execution and reporting results

• Used SQL Server 2000 database.

• Used Bugzilla as the bug tracker tool.

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