VENKATESWARA RAO CHAGANTI, M.Tech (CST)
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Manual &Automation &mobile and performance testing 12 years (Banking,
CARDS, Health care, PoS, E/M-Commerce)
Create Footprints as a Test lead through service delivery, analysis, &
keen in maintaining procedures by implementing application models and
test plans, initiatives to drive revenue and profit in emerging and
mature markets through equal blend of Vision, and Strategy
Decisive and tenacious Test coordinator- Manual & Automation with global
experience in leading the team in delivering projects based on offshore
and onsite Projects.
Experience Overview
Industry Experience:
< Banking & Credit Cards(Tsys)
< Health Care
< Ecommerce, mCommerce
< PoS (Point of Sale) & ERP, CRM, SCM
< Data ware housing (ETL)
< Pharmacy
Testing experience:
< Automation
o QTP & QC & Test link & Jenkins, JUNIT, Ant, JIRA administration
o Selenium
o Fair knowledge in Java- interfaces, class, Objects, Loops,
Arrays, Packages, strings, file handling, Collection API and
reflection API.
o Understand the Java architectures like Spring,hibernate,
tomcat server in Cloud architecture
o Idea about servlets, Tomcat server and deploy WAR in elastic
bean stalk amazon cloud and connecting to RDS.
o LoadRunner & Jmeter- J2EE and .Net frameworks -
o Used Jprofile for profiling the code
o Captured HPROF snapshots and analyzed the memory leaks.
o Conducted tests with various ramp-ups and downs with sudden
spikes in user load and Conduct GC to verify heap memory is
growing before next planned GC.
o SOAP UI Web services testing
o Exposure to Python, Perl, Javascript,PL/SQL, VB script,
XML,Html, C#, monkey Talk, Calabash, Robotium and Neoload,
SOASTA tool, Blazemeter, Dynatrace, Ignite, sitescope, Jconsole,
Jprofiler, wireshark, ALM, Sonar, ITKO LISA,Salesforce.com, HP
Performance center
< Manual
o Strategy & Planning & Execution
o SQL backend testing (sql queries, stored procedures)
o Reports and dashboard testing
o Cloud testing
o Mobile Apps testing (Andriod & IOS& Windows, BlueStacks
emulator)
o ERP, CRM testing
o SCM testing
< CMMMI implementation
< People management - Motivation, fulfilling aspirations of teams, leading
teams, mentoring and providing thought leader ship.
< Development of knowledge management, cross KTs, reusable test artifacts
and Test productivity improvement techniques
< Testing best practices like risk based testing and priority testing to
meet time to market
< Prepare quality management plans and tracking test schedules
< Test estimations based on complexity criteria and track the effort
deviations
< Establish test metrics to measure the test quality to act upon the
deviations
< Analysis of test requirements, RTM and analyzing product portfolio
management
< Implemented methodologies- (Agile, V-model, iterative,water fall)
< Extensive experience in coordinating testing effort, responsible for test
deliverables, status reporting to management, issue escalations.
< Professional experience in designing Test Cases and Test Scripts for
Windows, Oracle and UNIX environments.
< Release management & Version control using SVN
< Have working knowledge with CMM Level SDLC processes.
< Developing and Maintaining Test Scripts, analyzing bugs and interacting
with development team members in fixing the defects.
< Identified weaknesses with current Test Plan and Test Strategy Templates
and made recommendations on how those templates could be improved.
< Testing Availability, scalability, security, usability, reliability and
portability
< Managing peer reviews and lead reviews
< Created Project Plans for all phases of the Project Life Cycle for Test
Resources.
< Involved in budget estimations, cost management, resource allocations,
managing schedules, Risk management, identifying dependencies,
constraints, assumptions, knowledge management, quality management,
change management and managing automation frameworks.
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION
Master's of Technology in Computer Science and Technology-Andhra University-
India-1996
Bachelors of Civil Engineering- Andhra University-India-1994
TECHICAL SKILLS
Languages C, C++, Java, Html, Pro*c, Pro * COBOL, Shell Programming, Dos
Batch programming, SQL, PL/SQL, MS Office, Lotus Notes
Operating System UNIX (SCO VR 3.2), MS DOS 6.22, Windows 95, Windows NT
4.0, HP-UNIX, Windows 2K, Windows XP, MVS, Linux, UBUNTU,
CentOS, RDBMS ORACLE 9i, SQL Server
GUI's Developer 2000, VC++4.0, and VB 5.0
Testing Tools Seague Silk Test 5.0, Web load 4.5, LoadRunner 8.0, Win
Runner 7.5, Visual test 6.5, Mercury QTP 9.5, Rational
Robot, Selenium, Quality Center, JIRA, Jmeter, Soap UI
Test Methodology Agile, V- model, Iterative, PLM
CORE COMPETENCIES
< Project/ Test Life Cycle Management Analytical Problem Solve
and Planning
< Team Management Process improvement and
documentation
< Automation Testing Verification & Validation, Test
Execution & Test frameworks
< Performance Testing Identifying bottle-neck
scenarios, scripting, analyzing results
< Performance Center Integration testing, System
Testing, Regression Testing, ad-hoc
< Performance Engineering Designing Test Plan & Test
Cases, Defect Tracking and Managing
Defect lifecycle, RTM, Defect escape
metrics and defect engineering
< Security Testing Verifying vulnerabilities,
Threat analysis, False positive elimination
ACHIEVEMENTS
< Implemented Jmeter, Loadrunner for web based applications and
conducted
o Load/performance testing and came-up with benchmarking
parameters.
o Endurance/stress testing to find the stability/availability
o Memory leak tests to identify memory leaks
< Implemented Selenium TestNG framework for web based applications.
< Evaluated Testing tools i.e. Win Runner, Silk, Visual Test, and
Rational Robot for all products for a health care product
< Automated and maintained regression suites for the different versions
of health care product and achieved 60 % of effort savings.
< Conducted feasibility study, ROI analysis and prepared Automation
approach for 30 Applications within a short span by managing
coordination between different application risk owners.
Certifications
< Credit Card Certification-Infosys Technologies Ltd-2009
< Banking 101, 102-DNB Corporation-2007, 2008
< Project Management Professional-PMI.org/ Valid till 2015
Trainings
< Cloud technology, mobile testing, data migration, open source, SOA,
BI, PEGA, Guide ware by Capgemini - 2010,
< Proposal Writing-Infosys technologies Ltd- -2008, Presentation
Dynamics-Accenture Services Ltd, -2005
< PCMM- Accenture Services Ltd, -2005, Effective Communication for
Leadership, Accountability -SIS Pvt Ltd, -2003
WORK EXPERIENCE
(Oct 2014 - till date)
PROJECT Mail Order Pharmacy
ENVIRONMENT Java, Selenium, LoadRunner, Jmeter, Ignite, QTP, Perl,
SOAP UI, Mobile App testing
METHODOLOGY Agile
CLIENT Humana Inc., Louisville, KY
TEAM SIZEs 15
RESPONSIBILITIES
o Studying AS-IS structure of test framework and automation
o Creating logical test scenarios and physical test cases based
on coverage
o Tracking the schedules, Preparing metrics, attending defect
triage meetings
o Involved in road maps for Automation and performance
o Execution of stored procedures and ignite monitoring,
Performance testing UI scenarios, Web services and Stored
procedures, Benchmarking performance results
o Message queue and Jboss testing
o Automation
o Webservice API testing using SoapUI
. Add WSDL and Creating new requests
. Create new test suite and test cases
. Add assertions
. Data driven tests
. Groovy script validations
. Mockup scripting
(Mar 2014 - Sep 2014)
PROJECT Covered California for Agent
ENVIRONMENT QC, Java, Selenium, Jmeter, Android, IOS mobile apps
testing, Calabash, Cucumber, SoapUI
CLIENT Calstate Relo, CA
TEAM SIZEs 11
DESCRIPTION Project "Covered California for Agents" (CCFA) mission is
to provide SHOP (Small Business Health Options Program) Agents or
marketplace to process the online application process simplified thru
www.acasignmeup.com. This unique portal allows all the applicants to
process their application fast and efficiently and then the SHOP agents
upload the set of applications thru a batch process to Covered for CA
portal. This process involves many modules to facilitate easy process for
all the states and for all the SHOP Agents.
RESPONSIBILITIES
o Identifying the application functional specifications by
coordinating with business users
o Derived logical test scenarios and physical test cases based
on coverage
o Tracked the schedules, Prepared metrics, Attended defect
triage meetings
o Web services API testing using SOAPUI
(Sep 2012 - Feb 2014)
CLIENT: Nichepro Technologies, USA Ltd
Product: Nichesuite Product Methodology: Agile
Environment: Linux Server, Ubuntu (client), Cent OS, Windows, Java,
PhP, Loadrunner, HP performance center,Jmeter, Selenium, QTP,
SoapUI
< Automation testing: ( Selenium, QTP)
o Prepared automation strategy
o Regression, Automation and performance road Maps
o Conducted tool evaluations and Automation feasibility study
o ROI analysis, CBA and ROM
o Framework identification and dry runs schedule
o Automation test suite maintenance for various release
< Continuous integration tool - SVN Jenkins
o Aware of Trunk, Branching and merging code
o Aware of tagging
o Create WAR and deploy into QA
o Auto build scheduling
o Integrating Selenium scripts with Jenkins
< Performance testing ( Jmeter, Loadrunner)
o Nonfunctional requirements gathering
o Performance test plans
o Identified bottle-neck scenarios and design work load
patterns
o Analyzing test results for finding bottle necks
o Adding monitors for further Analysis
o Load/performance testing and came-up with benchmarking
parameters.
o Endurance/stress testing to find the stability/availability
o Memory leak tests for various load patterns to identify
memory leaks
o Worked on profiling tools like JProfiler and attaching to
Apache tomcat and JVM GC to further narrow down the bottle
neck in the code
o Bringing performance results the defect triage meetings
o Log performance defects and tracking.
o Execution scenarios and show case the problem to developers
and architects and participate in analyzing webserver logs to
find the bottle necks.
< Security testing for HRIS - Payroll system( ASP .net framework)
application-
o Verifying vulnerabilities -- (CSS, sql injections, DB server
error messages, logins sent over unencypted connections,
local file inclusion/reading, Unencrypted Login Form,
Directory Listing, Internal IP Disclosure Server Error
Response, Public access to Login Interface, Administrative, E-
Commerce and Financial Directories, Possible Server Path
Disclosure, Info Flash Object Detected, Info WSDL File
Discovered, Hidden Form Value)
o Threat analysis, False positive elimination, Role based
testing
o Webcrawl testing (Linkchecker)
o Sql injections (HP Scrawler),
o Port Scan report
o Web vulnerability (Data vulnerability)
< Ecommerce product testing (shopping cart, price rules, promotion
codes, order requesting & fulfillment, SCM etc.)
< Handling MOBILE apps TESTING
o IOS, Android, Browser SDK, html5 and Tablets
o Testing on BlueStacks emulator
o Web service API testing using SoapUI
. Create new test suite and test cases
. Add assertions
. Data driven tests
. Groovy script validations
o Involved in device Compatibility, network compatibility and
accessibility testing
o Testing the interruptions (SMS/Mails/Alarms/Voice calls
etc..)
o Tool evaluations for automation using monkey talk,
Calabash, Cucumber, Robotium, Selenium with C# on mobile
simulators
o Usability
o Risk based testing & Quality control using test metrics
o Installation testing
o Firmware testing
o Performance
< POS BASED ERP product testing
< POS Store frontend testing
o Add & Close register & Tills,Clock-in & Clock out,Tills
Open,Suspend, Reconcile, Incomes, Expenses
o Payments processing,
o Search an Item,Add item to cart,Combos & Packs,Discounts -
Add, clear, Transactions - Create, Suspend, Retrieve, Clear,
Customer - Search, registration,Sales orders
o Pick & layaway, Home delivery, Tendering ( Cash, Card,
partial & Full payments)
o Devices testing ( Scanner, printer, cash drawer, Pole
display, weight scale etc)
o Reports, Training mode, Review receipts, Item Return
o Offer management - Gift Coupons, Promotions
< Admin site backend SQL testing:
o Reports and Dashboards
o Multi-tenant cloud based testing, On premise
o Order creation & Order fulfillment, SCM
o Offer management, Customer management, Vendor management
o Barcode management, Packs & combo management
o Catalog management, Department, Substitutes, Cross sell &
Upsell
o Tax, Inventory, Store configurations
< ETL(DW) testing for Item management, inventory management, prices,
shopping cart, customer account management etc
< Loadrunner & Jmeter for web based POS (Spring and hibernate
framework) ecommerce( Php and .net framework) applications and
conducted
o Identified bottle-neck scenarios, Design scenarios and
execute for various work loads
o Analyzing test results for finding bottle necks, Adding
monitors for further Analysis
o Load/performance testing and came-up with benchmarking
parameters.
o Endurance/stress testing to find the stability/availability
o Memory leak tests for various load patterns to identify
memory leaks
< Implemented Selenium TestNG framework for web based applications.
o Creating object repository, Data sheets,
o Keyword library, Html Reports
o Release wise regression automation an Sanity suite
automation
< Involved in Cloud based(SAAS based) product testing
o Installation testing (Tenant DB, add data, deploy WAR)
o Multi-tenancy, Themes, UI customizations
o work flow(Unit level, integration, System Integration,
Regression, Usability)
o Load/Scalability/Availability/endurance/Memory
leaks/stress/Volume, Security(role based)
< Involved in white box testing of framework level program codes -
o Conducted Junit tests, API testing and coverage tests,Used
eclipse DDMS and MAT for heap analysis and memory leaks
o Symmetric testing ( entity, structure, barcode, store
specific synch), Cache tests - Mem/distributed cache,
Application cache testing, Multitenancy ( theme resolver,customized workflows)
o Database sql testing - sql queries, stored procedures
o License manager testing, Rabbit MQ(Message Queues) testing
PROJECT BNPP Pacific Phase-out UAT testing & matrix CRM
testing (Onsite @Belgium)
DURATION Jan'2011-Jun 2012
ENVIRONMENT QC, Windows, QTP 9.0, Loadrunner, Java
CLIENT BNP Paribas, Belgium
TEAM SIZEs 10
DESCRIPTION Main aim of this project is equi functional technical
migration from mainframe to web sphere. Applications in scope are Client
safe and Day and night safe. Client safe is safe deposit box usually held
within a large safe room or bank vault. Day and night safe is the facility
extended outside the bank premises to customers for dropping envelopes
containing cash 24 hr a day even bank is closed. Matrix application handles
the CRM flows like - lead management, account management, project
management, contact management, Campaigns, opportunities, procurement and
reports & Dash boards etc
Onsite Responsibilities
o Identifying the application functional specifications by
coordinating with business users
o Drafted visio diagrams for functional decision areas and
arriving UAT requirements
o Derived logical test scenarios and physical test cases based
on coverage
o Used Tmap process and risk based techniques for UAT suit
prioritization.
o Attended defect triage meetings
o Offshore coordination
PROJECT COE (Center of excellence activities)
DURATION Apr'2010-Dec'2011
ENVIRONMENT QC, Windows, QTP, Java
CLIENT Capgemini Pvt Ltd
TEAM SIZEs 10
DESCRIPTION
o Studying and generating accelerators for the Solvency II
regulation in insurance domain.
o Exploring PRPC(PEGA tool) - AppExplorer, test case design,
TMF work flows - Scheduling test cases, qualify failure
report, defect creation, PMF.
o Mobile testing COE
o Worked on Guide ware Policy center COE
. Administration - users, user groups, organization,
roles, authority profiles
. Policies- New note, edit note, renewal, issue
. Quote submission, withdraw
. New account, Cancel policy
o Automation Using BPT component framework in QTP
PROJECT QS Applications testing & Automation
ENVIRONMENT QC, UNIX, Windows, Mainframe, QTP 9.0, Load Runner
DURATION Aug'2006-Dec'2008
CLIENT Capital One Financial Corporation, Virginia
TEAM SIZE 60
DESCRIPTION Capital one is headquartered in McLean, Virginia. Capital
One Financial Corporation (www.capitalone.com) is a financial holding
company and one of the largest providers of MasterCard and Visa credit
cards in the world. This project involves in System testing, Regression
testing and Quality Services to Capital One credit card and prepaid card
applications. It supports applications such as -Retain One, Secured Cards,
Marketing One, Midas/Ptrans, Discovery, Boris, COMM Server, Focus/ DSRU,
Print Services, RCE, IAA, OAS, SPP, WWW, Prepaid Cards,Tsys and Recap.
PROJECT DnB testing
ENVIRONEMENT Oracle, UNIX, DB2 and MS-Access, Toad, Win Scp, PUTTY,
Informatica
DURATION Apr'2007-Jul'2008
CLIENT Dun & Bradstreet Corporation, Parsippany
TEAM SIZE 15
DESCRIPTION Dun & Bradstreet Corporation is the world's leading source
of global business information, knowledge and insight. It is a data ware
housing project developed by D&B have more than 15 components which are
integrated via work flow manager and the entire system is integrated to
provide Cleansing / Matching of the data which was achieved by inbuilt
Hygiene / Match Rules agreed with D&B's client. Detail Trade is a Data
warehousing project consisting of more than 30 components with huge amount
of data flowing from source to the Staging and Warehouse.
PROJECT MTS (Money Transfer System) Automation
DURATION Jan'2006-Jul'2006
ENVIRONMENT Test Director 8.0, Winrunner 8.2
CLIENT Wachovia Corporation, USA
TEAM SIZE 11
DESCRIPTION MTS is an application which will take care of the all the
Money transfers as per requests from customers. MTS has so many interfaces
while doing this money transfer. This project scope is to create/Modify the
manual test cases and create/Modify Automation scripts as per the changes
of MTS 2.0 applications.
RESPONSIBILITIES
o Prepared Project plan, test plan, resource plan & Cost
estimation
o Provided Monthly budget estimation & management of project
cost, Ensured proper allocation and de-allocation of the
resources, Organized, & monitored delivery schedules for the
project
o Attended CMMI audits and verifying CMMI maturity for the
other projects in the account.
Accenture Services Ltd.
PROJECT Level 3, USA
DURATION Apr'2005-Jan'2006
ENVIRONMENT JSP, Oracle, Web sphere
TEAM SIZE 15
DESCRIPTION Level 3 (NASDAQ: LVLT) operates one of the largest
communications and Internet backbones in the world. Level 3 is one of the
largest providers of wholesale dial-up service to ISPs in North America and
is the primary provider of Internet connectivity for millions of broadband
subscribers through its cable and DSL partners. Services offered under the
"Level 3 Communications" brand include: Internet access services, managed
modem dial-up services, Broadband transport, IP-centric voice services,
private packet-switched services, DSL Aggregation, Collocation,
Metropolitan and intercity dark fiber.
RESPONSIBILITIES
o Prepared test plan
o Prepared RTM and test cases review
o Monitored test execution
o Attended status review
Surgical Information SYSTEMS, USA
TASKS INVOLVED
o Evaluated loadrunner for products, Evaluated Bug tracking
tool for the all products and whole organization
o Prepared automation strategy
AUTOMATION:
o Durational Testing, Memory Leak Testing,
o Data Audit testing: It is a stress testing on application
database by sending huge data to the database through
application.
o Functional/Regression automation, Sanity suite automation.
o Performance testing: Evaluated loadrunner on web version of
OR application.
DURATION May'2002-Mar'2005
PROJECT OR Software (Product)
ENVIRONMENT Centura Team Developer, Oracle 9I, Visual test 6.5, Win
Runner 7.5, LoadRunner 8.0
TEAM SIZE 30
DESCRIPTION This is the only perioperative system includes modules for
Scheduling, materials management, nursing documentation, Clinical pathways,
resource management, rules-based charging, and documentation, pre-
operative, intra-operative, anesthesia and PACU enabling healthcare
professionals to provide the highest quality care at the lowest possible
cost.
PROJECT Statcom (Product)
ENVIRONMENT Jsp, oracle 9i, Java2 SDK, Orion Web server, Windows 2000,
Mercury QTP 6.5
TEAM SIZE 6
DESCRIPTION Main modules in Statcom are -Statcom-SIM, Statcom-Server
Admin, and Message Router. Statcom-SIM advantage is for faster response to
patient needs for improved care and patient satisfaction. The main use of
SIM is to send instant messages to various personnel available in the
facility regarding workflow. Using Statcom-server Admin we can create
online users, preferences, scheduling Message Router, Statistics etc.,
PROJECT LT.com (Product)
ENVIRONMENT Centura developer, Sql server 2000, Win runner 7.5,
LoadRunner 8.0
TEAM SIZE 3
DESCRIPTION LocumTenens.com is a temporary placement firm catering to
the healthcare industry. They serve both medical professionals looking for
employment opportunities and healthcare organizations looking to solve
employment shortages. LT application provides the placement firm all the
information required in decision-making. The application transfers data
from Lt Application to accounting software for further Billing and
analysis.
PROJECT SIS Web (Product)
ENVIRONMENT ASP, IIS 5.1, Oracle 9i, Mercury QTP 6.5
TEAM SIZE 4
DESCRIPTION SIS Web, a tool that enables surgeons, clinicians and
staff members to access surgical schedules from their homes and offices via
an information portal available on the Internet or the hospital's Intranet.
With proper security permissions, users can access the Surgery schedule
from any PC. SIS Web communicates real-time information to users from any
location. If your surgeons have access to the Internet, they can check
their schedules, track the progress of their cases and request a booking.