Vasanth Karthik Manoharan

E-Mail : acpf52@r.postjobfree.com

Mobile : +1-630-***-****

Summary

Technical Test Lead with full system development lifecycle experience,

including designing, developing and implementing test plans, test cases and

test processes fueling swift corrective actions, significant cost savings

and fault-free audits, overseeing quality-assurance testing and teams for

client software and systems development projects. Performed system, unit,

performance, load, regression, stress and data interface testing on retail,

grocery and pharmacy domain. Provided clients with bugs/flaws in the

requirement that can pose a problem later in the Development life cycle.

Provide the development teams with detailed reports on quality metrics,

identified bugs/flaws and recommended fixes on business and technical

issues. Exceptional record overseeing all facets of Software Development

Life Cycle and providing critical customer support in Mainframes.

Areas of Expertise

> 9 years and 9 months of experience in Mainframe Technologies/solutions,

ETL and Manual testing.

o Last 3 years 3 months as QA Test Lead with expertise in

designing test plans, test cases and executing test cases in

XML, Jmeter and Mainframe and Unix (DBMS MySQL, Teradata),.

o 6 years 6 months of ETL development experience with Mainframe

Technologies/solutions, UNIX on Teradata, DB2 database on the

retail domain.

> Excellent understanding and working knowledge in SOAP, REST services,

Putty, SVN for version control, ControlM and Event Co coordinator as a

job/event control applications.

> Good Understanding of test link software used for maintaining and

recording execution of test cases.

> Have worked on performance testing and help in designing optimized

queries.

> Client coordination and working closely with the project team (DEV, QA,

and PM)

> Experienced in leading and mentoring individuals to maximize levels of

productivity, while forming cohesive team environment

> Ability to handle multiple priorities and manage within deadlines,

Ability to analyze new functionality and identify potential areas of

impact

> Triaging test execution results and validating against product

requirements and with product teams. Filing bugs where appropriate

> Able to quickly adopt and well versed in new areas (Technologies,

Tools excellent analytical and debugging skills

> Maintain and enhance existing automation test scripts which are used

during development and QA cycles

> Passionately work towards enhancing project knowledge of self and the

team, able to perform as an amicable team player as well as individual

contributor

> Knowledge of Retail, Grocery and Pharmacy domain

Technical Skills

> Operation System - MVS/OS390, WINDOWS

> Languages - JCL, COBOL, CICS, VISION, UNIX, JSON

> Databases - DB2, TERADATA, MySQL, Oracle

> Software Tools - JMeter, REST Client, DB Visualizer, Teradata SQL

assistant, SQL Developer, Putty, Tortoise SVN, Visual Source Safe,

Microsoft Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access,Visio), Test Link,

Quality Center, JIRA, FileZilla, WinSCP

> Job/event control applications - ControlM, Event co coordinator

Professional Expirence

Current Employer: Infosys Technologies Ltd.

Date of Joining: 13.06.2005 - till date

Domain Expertise: Retail, Grocery, Pharmacy

Technology: Manual Testing and Development MAINFRAMES & UNIX

Shell scripting

Clients: Sears Holdings Corporation, Hannaford

brothers, CVS

Designation: Technical Test Lead

Project Highlights

CVS Data warehouse

Infosys Ltd.

Technical Test Lead

Client: CVS Pharmacy

Current Project

Client Overview

CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) is a pharmacy innovation company helping people on

their path to better health. Through our 7,800 retail pharmacies, more than

900 walk-in medical clinics, a leading phar,se testmacy benefits manager

with more than 65 million plan members, and expanding specialty pharmacy

services, we enable people, businesses and communities to manage health in

more affordable, effective ways. This unique integrated model increases

access to quality care, delivers better health outcomes, and lowers overall

health care costs.

Project Overview

CVS uses Teradata Data Warehouse solution to store, access critical vendor

and customer information, and this project deals with testing of the

various enhancements and new business needs. This project also involves

testing Production support issues which are assigned on the go when issues

are fixed.

My Involvement

V Leading the QA team consisting of 8 members, co coordinating with the

offshore members of the team, delegating tasks and act as a SPOC for

offshore team.

V Providing clients with status reports, discussing regarding deliverables

such as test plan, test cases etc...

V Creating internal RACI matrix, Testing Estimation, Designing Test Plan

V Maintain/Organize the Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)

V Reviewing the Test Cases Prepared by the Team Members

V Monitor the Test Execution

V Progress and Manage the Issues during Test Execution

V Defect Management (Tracking and Reporting), defects are maintained in

Quality Center.

V Owned and maintained all the testing documents/deliverables

V Bottom line responsibility of Coordination between different teams both

internal and external.

V Executing Test cases on Batch Jobs in Teradata, Oracle, Informatica in

case of urgent need

Technology&Tools

Teradata, Oracle, Informatica, shell scripts (UNIX), Quality center (Defect

Tracking), Teradata SQL assistant, SQL developer, ControlM, Putty,

FileZilla

Sears.com Backend Testing

Infosys Ltd.

Technical Test Lead

Client: Sears Holdings Corporation

Oct 2014 - Feb 2015

Client Overview

Sears Holdings Corporation is the fifth largest broad line retailer in the

US with over $50 billion in annual revenues and approximately 3,900 full-

line and specialty retail stores in the United States and Canada. Sears

Holdings Corporation is a merger of KMART Holdings Corporation and Sears,

Roebuck and Co.

Project Overview

The project involves backend testing of the mobile Sears.com site. Testing

was performed on all services of sears.com using JMeter and Rest client

services. The testing involved all features that were being developed for

the mobile site. Testing of Production fixes both on mobile and sears.com

issues.

My Involvement

V Leading a team of 8 members consisting of a mix of offshore and onsite

resources

V Co ordination between the mobile team and internal Sears teams like

Telluride, sears.com online team

V Prioritizing tasks and assigning to team members

V Preparing test plan and reviewing test cases prepared by offshore team

V Executing test cases for Production fixes

V Maintaining test cases in test link

V Raising Defect and tracking using JIRA

Technology&Tools

JSON, Jmeter, Test link for test tracking (test cases, test execution,

reports on test execution), JIRA (Defect Tracking), Rest tool for JSON

simulation, WinSCP, Putty

Telluride Project

Infosys Ltd.

Technical Test Lead

Client: Sears Holdings Corporation

Apr 2013 - Oct 2013 & Apr 2014 - Oct 2014

Project Overview

The project helps the client to award reward points to customer based on

purchase.

The batch part of the application involved handling of awarding points to

customers in the event of online system fail, perform activities like

customer level upgrades, reprocessing of existing purchases based on new

offers etc...

My Involvement

V Leading an offshore team of 5 members

V Developing System test plans, reviewing and executing test cases

V Coordination between external Data warehouse team and also the online

teams, testing the ETL jobs to feed to data warehouse

V Raising and tracking defects using JIRA

V Closely worked with the production support team for testing of production

fixes

Technology&Tools

MySQL, Teradata, SoapUI (Simulating in store scenarios), UNIX, JIRA (Defect

Tracking), Load Runner (Performance testing), Teradata SQL assistant, DB

Visualizer, Putty, WinSCP

LAGO Project

Infosys Ltd.

Technical Test Lead

Client: Sears Holdings Corporation

Oct 2013 - Apr 2014

Project Overview

Sears migrated their existing application of maintaining store promotions

into a software product LAGO designed by comosoft. Testing of all features

of the product and testing of the interaction between other existing

promotion systems.

My Involvement

V Leading an offshore team of 15 members

V Developing System test plans, reviewing test cases

V Monitoring test case execution and act as SPOC

V Coordination between the comosoft team and Sears team

V Training Sears business team on the LAGO software enabling them for UAT

V Validating XML created by Sears and sent to comosoft team, also

validating XML's sent from the comosoft team

V Performed production smoke test for deployments related to

LAGO(deployments were in iterative)

Technology

V Java(UI), LAGO tool, XML(for interaction between systems),XML Validator,

JIRA (Defect Tracking)

DB2 migration project

Infosys Ltd.

Technical Test Lead

Client: Foodlion LLC.

Mar 2012 - Apr 2013

Project Overview

The project helps the client to plan execute the promotions for all the

grocery products and ensure it follows down to the GL for accounting. This

project was to have a validation of the new processes developed before

business testing.

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My Involvement

V Developing System test plans, test cases and maintaining the same in

Quality center

V Testing Batch Jobs in Mainframe

V Developed mainframe batch tools for automation of data comparison between

mainframe files and also between files and DB2 tables

V Reporting issues and suggesting fixes to the development team

V Performing production support activities like monitoring jobs, running

ETL for one time fixes etc..

V Leading team of 5 members

Technology & Tools

Mainframe (COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2), Quality center tool

KCD reporting project

Infosys Ltd.

Technical Analyst

Client: Sears Holdings Corporation

May 2011 - Mar 2012

Project Overview

A client project in which the task was to perform development on COBOL -

TERADATA and generate reports for the purpose of reporting as required by

the client. This an ETL process in which data from the Data Warehouse was

extracted, transformed using COBOL and VISION on mainframes, then loaded

into essbase cubes for profit/loss reporting.

My Involvement

V Requirement Gathering,Developing High Level Designs and Technical

Designs

V Analysis of the required data, suggesting innovative ideas for client to

achieve their goals

V Coding and Testing Batch Jobs in COBOL and Teradata using mainframes

V Maintaining the test cases in Excel and Executing the same

V No team as it was a single person project at onsite

Technology&Tools

V Mainframe, COBOL, Teradata, JCL, Endeavor, TeraSQL Assistant.

Markdown Management (Development)

Infosys Ltd.

Technical Analyst/ Software Engineer

Client: Sears Holdings Corporation

Apr 2007 - May 2011

General Overview on Markdown system

This project will implement SAS Markdown Optimization Suite (SAS MOS) as

Sear's centralized markdown application. SAS needs a one-time feed of

historical data, which must be provided during the configuration phase, and

weekly data, for which permanent interfaces needs to be build. There is

also a need to regularly receive the markdown data from SAS and send to

price management system after processing the data. Markdown system has the

ability to process markdown price recommendations through exception

processes and send to stores

Project Description

This project basically deals with the development of new functionalities

(Like new exceptions) and enhancement of the existing functionalities

(Automating generation of reports) of the Markdown System of, both Sears

and Kmart. It also included the development to identify KMART No Home

candidates (Items to which no markdown could be sent via existing systems)

and create automatic markdown plans for those items. It will include

visibility to No Home candidates, back to home candidates, create automatic

markdown plans, create automatic delete plans etc. The front end was in JSP

and Java Script and the back end in COBOL - DB2 in mainframe.

My Involvement

V Preparing Technical Designs

V Review Batch Codes, Designs and Test Plans.

V Developing Mainframe Batch Jobs and Cobol - DB2 programs

V Developing Teradata Jobs

V There is only one onsite contact for this project. I interact directly

with the client (in some instances) to gather their requirements and

delegate work to my team members.

V Leading a module of 7 members

V Conduct configuration management activities. Maintaining CM plan,

maintaining integrity, confidentiality and availability of data in VSS

etc...

Technology&Tools

V Mainframes, COBOL, JCL, DB2, TERADATA, FILE-AID, Changeman & Endeavor,

TeraSQL assistant

Markdown Management (Support)

Infosys Ltd.

Technical Analyst

Client: Sears Holdings Corporation

May 2009 - May 2011

Project Description

This project basically deals with the support for all existing markdown

jobs on Mainframe, developing forecast reports for the clients to

accurately predict the Markdown amount for the next weeks.

My Involvement

V Provide reports to client the amount of markdown that going to stores

V The reports will need to be generated before and after the approval from

clients

V Created a new report as a part of the support activities which gives

history to client on the past 58 weeks of data containing price,

inventory etc at the end of each week

V Reviewing any changes in Batch Codes, Designs and Test Plans due to

maintenance.

V Developing Teradata Queries/Jobs for doing any adhoc request from client

V Leading a module of 4-6 members

V Conduct configuration management activities. Maintaining CM plan,

maintaining integrity, confidentiality and availability of data in VSS

etc...

Technology

V Mainframes, COBOL, JCL, DB2, TERADATA, FILE-AID, Changeman & Endeavor.

Dealer Commission

Infosys Ltd.

Software Engineer

Client: Sears Holdings Corporation

Apr 2007 - Oct 2006

Project Overview

The scope of the project is to replace the current system for calculating

and paying the commission to the Dealer Store Owners from Assembly Language

to COBOL - CICS.

My Involvement

V Performing Requirement Gathering and Analysis

V Developing High Level Designs and Technical Designs

V Coding Online Screens in CICS

V Coding Batch Jobs in COBOL and VISION

V First experience in leading team. Managed the team with help of project

manager and ensured timely delivery and good quality

Technology

V Mainframe, COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL, Endeavor.

Stock status inventory

Infosys Ltd.

Software Engineer

Client: Sears Holdings Corporation

Aug 2005 - Oct 2006

Project Overview

Summary tables are a technical requirement to maintain the current

reporting functionality which is a specific need owned by the business.

Summary tables are owned and created in order to summarize the detail once

per day or week instead of on the fly numerous times a day as each report

is processed.

Stock Status will need to develop initial upload, daily update, periodical

re-alignment, cross-over, Purge Zero-out and initial upload of converted

products for the three Summary Tables.

My Involvement

V Requirement Gathering from clients directly with help of project manager

V Developing High Level Designs and Technical Designs

V Developing Batch Jobs in COBOL for TERADATA

V Executing unit test cases

V Ensured timely delivery and good quality without reviews

Technology

V Mainframe, COBOL, TERADATA, JCL, Endeavor.

Education and Training

Degree Institute Percentage

B.E 2001-2005. Bannari Amman Institute of 81

Technology - Anna University

H.S.C 2000-2001. GD Matriculation Higher Secondary 91

School, Coimbatore

X std. 1998-1999. GD Matriculation Higher Secondary 83

School, Coimbatore

Awards and Applauds

1. Infosys level 'PRIMA AWARD' for project level excellence for the

year 2007-2008.

2. Have won On the Spot award for excellent performance levels

awards2 times for the year 2008 & 2010.

3. Nominated for "Most Valuable Player" Award - 2009

4. Consecutive CRR 1 candidate for last 2 years which is the rating

system in my current employer

Personal Details

Date of Birth 22nd September, 1983

Gender Male

Martial Status Single

Father's Name P. Manoharan

Mother's Name M. Sreelatha

Permanent address 3/1,Balaji Gardens,

Bharathiyar road.

Manickarampalyam,

Ganapathy,

Coimbatore - 641006

Present address 2419 Diamond Hill Rd,

Apt 15,

Woonsocket,

RI - 02895

Mobile No. +1-630-***-****

Email ID acpf52@r.postjobfree.com

Languages Known Tamil, English, Hindi

Nationality Indian

Passport Available

Visa H1B till Sep 29th 2015

Willing to Relocate Yes

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