Vasanth Karthik Manoharan
E-Mail : *******.*******@*****.***
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 *******.*******@*****.***
Languages Known Tamil, English, Hindi
Nationality Indian
Passport Available
Visa H1B till Sep 29th 2015
Willing to Relocate Yes