SATHYANARAYANAN GANESAN

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Dynamic, seasoned QA leader with over 14 years of progressive software products / services experience

in delivering high quality software products. Global track record of mentoring, building strong team with

Technical leadership in software testing, process, program &people management. Extensive experience

in analyzing customer requirements, identifying solution, devising test strategy, customized automation

solution relentless in pursuit of continuous improvement for optimal solutions.

Test Strategy Requirement Analysis Black box Testing API Testing Test Automation

Technology Leadership Project Management Release Management

End User Advocacy Customer Centric

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Gathered significant experience in the roles played in the software quality engineering, testing, project

and delivery management working with world-class software makers: Symantec, Microsoft, Oracle.

Exhibited leadership in owning test functions that include preparing test estimation, test strategy, test

plan, design and implement test solutions.

Technology Leadership

Over 5 years of hands-on test automation experience leading automation initiatives (functional,

performance) that focus on effective automated solutions employing robust framework using Visual

Studio coded UI, Selenium web driver, QTP that has significantly reduced regression cycle and increased

speed to market by 50%. Has been instrumental in defining and executing performance, scalability,

reliability tests.

At Symantec,

Employed robust framework to automate 70% of regression tests comprise of critical business

features in Customer Portal

Automated cross-browser tests using Selenium web driver

Automated web service APIs using Coded UI Enhanced framework (CUITe)

Significantly reduced manual test efforts & increased speed to market by 50%

Experienced in performance testing, analysis, reporting using Apache JMeter

At Microsoft,

Gained extensive experience by automating business critical features especially API functions

using cutting-edge Microsoft technologies, Coded UI Enhanced framework (CUITe)

Instrumental in developing POCs for technical design, end-user experience, usability test

engineering

At Fidelity,

Led core automation team & automated regression test suite using Quick Test Professional

(QTP)

Worked extensively on direct customer engagement role while employed at Fidelity in United

States (Kentucky). The role includes preparation of Project Charter, Estimations, Proposals,

Costing, Project Execution, Project Management activities for Enterprise Services group.

Engineering Leadership

Over 8 years of hands-on Test experience leading test functions across multiple enterprise security

software products that includes Managed Security Services, Deepsight security Intelligence at Symantec;

Software release management products at Microsoft; oracle server technologies at Oracle.

Symantec Managed Security Services and DeepSight Security Intelligence provide enterprises around

the globe with 24 x 7 visibilities into global emerging threat data and local security incidents to identify

and prevent threats before they impact business. Symantec™ DeepSight™ Early Warning Services

provides actionable intelligence covering the complete threat lifecycle, from initial vulnerability to active

attack.

Defined Test Strategy, instrumental in architecting test solutions, quality & release management

Led customer facing test function that involve critical business support, solving customer

problem, providing customized test solution being a functional and domain expert

Microsoft, Release, Deliver and Store (RDS) are platforms inside Business Group Engineering that

provide release services to internal Microsoft product groups and customers. RDS protects the company

and customers by ensuring trustworthy product and enable the company’s core job: development and

release of products.

As a lead test engineer for core release tools & lab manager portal, actively participated in

design, development of POC, test, delivery of releases to internal, external customers

Played the role of technical project manager for the business-critical systems that involve

technical upgrades, enhancements that increase user experience

Earned customers’ trust by quickly and creatively responding to emergent project and

production issues, leading the Engineering team in finding the best solution for sometimes

technically or politically complex problems.

As a strong end user advocate, ensured the customer-facing interface or API modifications in the

release system enhance the user experience

Oracle Application Server 10g is an integrated, standards-based software platform provides all the

middleware services to deploy and manage applications and Web services, deliver personalized

applications through enterprise portals and mobile devices, provide real-time business intelligence,

integrate applications, and automate business processes.

As a test lead, owned complete test function of Application server group

Significantly reduced manual effort by automating auto-deployment of software (using Perl)

compatible with heterogeneous platforms (Unix, Windows).

Provided value-add in recommending critical feature updates to product user documents.

Delivery Leadership

Over 5 years of experience in managing delivery function at Symantec, Microsoft, and Fidelity in various

capacities. In the most recent role in this function, as SQA Engineering Manager, led team of about 40,

managed overall QA delivery function of cyber security group at Symantec. Delivered projects with high

quality by employing standardized QA process, automated solutions & deriving user stories / scenarios

from customer requirements. Ensured delivery excellence meet stakeholders’ expectation & beyond.

Enterprise Processing Services (EPS) is a division of Fidelity Investments Inc. that provides customer

correspondence solutions to its Business Partners by capturing an electronic image, creating workflow-

tracking items and then transferring the work item and the images to their business partners.

Transaction Automation is a new service model to the client based on dynamic Adobe forms. With a

dynamic PDF, options change based on the input provided by the participant, and business rules ensure

that all the fields are accurate and complete.

Delivered business-critical projects with significant contributions, thereby winning customer

trust.

Gained global customer experience while on long term work assignment at Fidelity, US (L1 visa)

Played the role of delivery manager, managed team of about 15 spread across Bangalore and

US.

First Four Years

Spent four years in the field of software development, testing beginning with Valtech (formerly Majoris

systems).After a period of 2.5 years at Valtech, joined as test engineer at Cranes Software, gained

experience of various test types, test automation tools, configuration management tools. Later, joined

Symphony services, worked on Siebel product testing for domains ERM, PRM and gained experience

with Siebel ebusiness suite. Learnt user experience testing, performed automated tests using QTP,

specialization with data migrations tests.

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

SYMANTEC SOFTWARE AND SERVICES PVT LTD

Jan 13 – Till Date SQA Engineering Manager Chennai

MICROSOFT SOFWARE PVT LTD

Jun 08 – Jan 13 Test Lead / Senior Test Lead Hyderabad

FIDELITY BUSINESS SERVICES INDIA PVT LTD

Feb 08 – Jun 08 Senior Test Lead Bangalore

Feb 07 – Feb 08 Test Architect / Test Lead Kentucky, US

Jun 05 – Feb 07 Senior Test Engineer Bangalore

ORACLE SOFTWARE

Mar 04 – Jun 05 Member Technical Staff Bangalore

SYMPHONY SOFTWARE AND SERVICES PVT LTD

Apr 03 – Mar 04 QA Engineer / Senior QA Engineer

CRANES SOFTWARE PVT LTD

Sep 02 – Apr 03 Test Engineer / Test Lead Bangalore

VALTECH / MAJORIS SYSTEMS

May 2000 –Sep 02 Associate Developer / Test Engineer Bangalore

SKILL SUMMARY

Operating System DOS, Windows, Unix, Linux

Programming / Scripting / Web Language C#, Java, Perl, Java Script, HTML, CSS

Test ware Tools Selenium, Visual Studio Coded UI, QTP, Soap UI

Performance Test tools MS Web Application Stress tool, Apache JMeter

RDBMS Oracle, Sql Server

Others MS Project, Visio, Connectix, SQLCC

CERTIFICATION / AWARD

Symantec - Applause Level 2 Award for Leadership

Microsoft - Awarded Most Valuable Player/Delivery IT awards

Fidelity - Awarded for Exceptional Performance & offered US Onsite assignment

PMP Certified (Project Management Professional)

EDUCATION

1997 Chennai

Madras University

Bachelor of Commerce

2000 Kancheepuram

Kancheepuram University

Master of Computer Applications

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