Management Quality

RAMANI BALIJEPALLI

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Cupertino, CA 95014

510-***-**** *********@*****.***

PROFILE

Accomplished engineering professional with more than 8 years of progressive experience in Product Quality Engineering

Project management and people management.. Unique experience in testing complex systems, creating test plans and

execution in predictive catastrophic risk analysis and modeling products combining business acumen with strong technical

skills. Effective team leader, team-oriented and individual contributor, always seeking better solutions. Participated

extensively in all phases of the Quality Assurance Lifecycle including requirement gathering, risk analysis, project

planning, scheduling, testing, defect tracking, management and reporting. Adept in all test methodologies: gray box, black

box, functional, integration, load/performance and installation testing. Quick to learn new processes and technologies.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Strategic Vision: Aligned with the executive and senior management team, product leaders in multiple business units, and

customers in defining the product roadmap. Wrote product specification documents based on market research with respect

QE tooling, customer feedback and close collaboration with product management, sales and operations.

Technology Leadership: Extensive experience defining, developing and sustaining innovative solutions based on

windows technologies. Proven track record of delivering solutions for complex large scale systems, user interfaces,

scalability, database, supportability, globalization and virtualization technologies for both on-premise and in the cloud

product offerings.

Product Life Cycle Management: Extensive experience with Big Data and predictive analytics products in insurance

domain. Designed, developed, released and sustained multiple product versions and services in this market. Managed

cross functional project teams to deliver quality products on time.

Risk Management: Identified and mitigated risks to meet the project deadlines. Effectively communicated project risks

and dependencies to key stakeholders. Produced project plans, progress metrics and quality metrics to the program team.

People Management: Effectively lead and motivated the quality engineering team to deliver quality products on time,

which resulted in improved the customer satisfaction. Managed distributed teams located in different geographic regions.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Risk Management Solutions, Newark, CA. 2007 – Current

Senior Quality Engineer

Responsible for designing, and developing Test Suite for RMS’s next gen platform. Defined the quality engineering test

execution plan based on customer needs and working closely with product and business teams. Lead the offshore and on-

site quality engineering teams focused on developing test automation framework and manual test plans. Hands on

developer of automation scripts and executed manual test cases for both white-box and black-box testing.

• Developed Test Strategy, Test Plans, Test Cases and Prepared Test suites and Test Data sets.

• Managed lab setup logistics using VMware on premise virtual lab and cloud lab using AWS.

• Automated testing capabilities for ETL transformation

• Written SQL scripts to extract data from SQL server RDBMS to validate backend Data

• Maintained test framework for RMS’ Next Generation products with emphasis on web services, API and data

warehousing for large scale enterprise system.

• Performed Integration, System Testing for different modules.

• Monitored system usage at peak conditions by capturing performance instance counters on client/servers and

databases. Analyzed systems and application logs using Splunk.

• Performed end-to-end testing to check for unintended errors after the enhancement.

• Track Test Results & Defects using JIRA.

• Perform Regression testing on bug fixes.

• Performed stress testing and performance testing.

• Generated test reports and published quality metrics to the senior management team.

• Adapted agile methodologies and successfully delivered committed deliverables on-time .

EDUCATION

Masters in Computer Applications, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India.

TECHINICAL SKILLS

Programming languages: C#, C, C++, Python 3.0, Java, Visual Basic.

Web development: WCF, Restful Web Services, HTML, XML, IIS, WPF.

Database: SQL Server 2005/2008/2010/2012, Mongo, MySQL, Vertica, TOAD

Other Tools: Visual Studio ’08 ‘10‘12, .Net Framework 3.5/4.5, Jira, Enterprise Tester, TFS,

ADO.NET, DAAB, MS Visio, SourceSafe, MS Office, MS SharePoint, Splunk

Test Automation: Rational Testing tools, Load runner, Selenium Web driver.

Agile development: SCRUM, Atlassian JIRA, Confluence, Rally

Platforms: Windows 2012, Linux, VmWare, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and EC2.

References

References available upon request.

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