Sajiv Raghavan
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SUMMARY
Sajiv Raghavan has around 8+ years of results driven and diversified IT
industry Experience in Analyzing system functionality, Conceptualization,
Design and implementation of QA testing strategy for Retail, E-Learning,
Logistics, Web based and Client/Server applications using Manual testing
on Windows, Java platforms with World class Clients .
Excellent exposure to the entire Software development life cycle (SDLC),
Data Analysis, Software quality assurance and QA Methodology in a wide
variety of environments.
Leadership roles in creation and execution of QA and testing processes,
test strategies and plans, and bug documentation and regression.
Developed Test Plans, use cases, Test Scenarios, Test cases, and Test
reports for testing various applications to ensure proper business
compliance.
Accountable for the successful completion & Review of all QA Deliverables
associated with assigned projects and production roll off
Accomplished and integrity-driven professional offering extensive
experience with strong concentration and enormous success in QA project
management with client-focused delivery and maintaining a track record of
releasing high quality products within proposed schedule and budget.
SKILLS SUMMARY
> Operating Systems : Windows, Mac
> Programming Languages : C, C++
> Databases : SQL Server 2000
> Tools : HP Quality Centre, JIRA, Clear Quest,
Version One,
SharePoint.
EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS
Organization : UST GLOBAL,Kerala, India
Duration : May-2011 till date
Designation : Test Analyst
Project 1
Client : Walmart (POS)
Role : Test Analyst
Location : Bentonville,AR
Team Size : 40
Duration : Oct 2014 till date
Responsibilities:
> Responsible for overall execution of the projects allocated from kick
off till production roll out
> Works closely with the Project Managers, Business Analyst and
Technical Lead by representing POS QA team
> Participates and contribute as required in requirements reviews,
design review sessions and Team meetings
> Coordinates test planning and execution activities with offshore on a
daily basis
> Co-ordinates BRD and TDD review with offshore leads
> Contributes and reviews test plan\test cases prepared by offshore team
> Executes test cases Project & Regression (on a need basis)
> Collects defect metrics, trends
> Works with Project manager and other team members to get the sign off
on test plan and test cases
> Escalates issues and risk as needed to QA managers
> Ensures the quality of defects entered in defect tracking tool
> Monitors/Reports on defects found during the course of testing
> Co-ordinate offshore actives and provide solution for questions\issues
from offshore
> Work with test enablement team on media and hardware requirements
> Develop SME knowledge among the team
> Communicates with QA Manager daily on status of testing effort and
progress
> Ensures appropriate coverage of application functionality in the
various test plans and test cases.
> Provide static and dynamic test summary reports
Project 2
Client : HERTZ
Role : Test Analyst
Location : New Jersey
Team Size : 20
Duration : Dec 2011 till Aug 2014
Project Description:
The Hertz Corporation, a subsidiary of Hertz Global Holdings, Inc. is the
world's largest airport general use car rental brand, operating from
approximately 8,500 locations in 146 countries worldwide. Hertz also
operates one of the world's largest equipment rental businesses, Hertz
Equipment Rental Corporation, through approximately 320 branches in the
United States, Canada, France, Spain, China and Italy.
Responsibilities:
> Managing the offshore manual team
> Responsible for the testing activities of specific modules in the
client e-Commerce application, this includes offshore task allocation
and support based on client direction
> Analyzing and understanding the requirements.
> Reviewing the defects raised by the team in Jira
> Executing regression test cases.
> Logging and tracking defects in JIRA.
> POC for internal audits.
> Involved in Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke and Sanity
testing
> Performing Defect Leakage Analysis.
> Involved in collecting metrics data and creating project metrics.
> Preparing Daily Status Reports and Weekly Status Reports.
> Updating and maintaining the test cases.
> Actively participated in client calls
Project 3
Project Title : Annual Enrollment 2012
Client : Wal-Mart
Role : Sr. Test Engineer
Location : Trivandrum, Kerala, India
Team Size : 45
Duration : Jul-2011 to Nov 2011.
Project Description:
The Annual Enrolment 2012 project is to roll out the plan changes and
adjustments requested by the Benefits Department for the 2012 Annual
Enrollment period. The Annual enrollment process for Year 2012 should allow
all the clients associates to complete their benefits enrollment process
which is during the period of Oct 15th 2011 to Nov 4th 2011.This includes
changes to the rates and premium, application verbiage changes, Plan
changes and defaulting of removed plans, changes based on Tobacco- Non
tobacco associates, Spouse flat coverage changes etc. There are reports
which show the Percentage completion of Enrollment, Plan comparison tool
for last year and current year. The associates using the enrolment
application during the time period will be in the range of 1.8 -2.2 million
users.
Responsibilities:
> Analyzing and understanding the requirements.
> Executing regression test cases in Quality Centre.
> Involved in Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke and Sanity
testing
> Involved in defect regression.
> Performing Defect Leakage Analysis.
> Involved in collecting metrics data and creating project metrics.
> Preparing Daily Status Reports and Weekly Status Reports.
> Updating and maintaining the test cases.
> Actively participated in client calls.
Organization : LionBridge Technologies, India
Duration : Dec- 2007 to April- 2011
Designation : Sr. Test Engineer
Project 4
Project Title : CERTS
Client : Pearson VUE (USA)
Role : Sr.Test Engineer
Location : Chennai, India
Team Size : 25
Duration : Jan-2010 to July-2011.
Project Description:
CERTS are a standalone application which is used by many vendors who offer
a wide range of certifications to develop items and to create test. CERTS
can help organizations manage their program data from end to end, including
data for items, tests, results, candidates, communications, and much more.
Responsibilities:
> Leading and handling CERTS offshore team.
> Analyzing and understanding the requirements.
> Executing regression test cases in Quality Centre.
> Logging and tracking defects in Clear Quest.
> Involved in Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke and Sanity
testing.
> Involved in defect regression.
> Performing Defect Leakage Analysis.
> Involved in collecting metrics data and creating project metrics.
> Preparing Daily Status Reports and Weekly Status Reports.
> Updating and maintaining the test cases.
> Actively participated in client calls.
Project 5
Project Title : PearsonSuccessNet
Client : Pearson, U.S.A
Role : Sr.Test Engineer
Team Size : 08
Duration : Dec-2007 to Jan-2010
Project Description:
The project is a web-based software platform that supports multiple
products for educational domain like SF, PH.
It contain 4 main module Root Admin module, District /School Admin module,
Teacher module, Student & Parent module
Responsibilities:
> Worked on-site for 3 months during this project duration.
> Preparing and reviewing Test Cases.
> Executing regression test cases in Quality Centre.
> Logging and tracking defects in Clear Quest.
> Involved in Functional Testing, Regression Testing and Installation
Testing.
> Involved in defect regression
> Involved in collecting metrics data and creating project metrics.
> Preparing Daily Status Reports and Weekly Status Reports.
> Updating and maintaining the test cases.
> Actively participated in client calls.
Organization : ETP International, Mumbai, India
Duration : Sept- 2006 to Dec- 2007
Designation : Test Engineer
Project Title : ETP StoreV5
Project Type : Development and support
Client : ITC, Crossword, IKEA, Trikomsell,
Hotspot, Weekender, Titan
Role : Test Engineer
Organization : ETP International, Mumbai
Domain : Retail Domain
Duration : Sept-2006 to Dec-2009
Team Size : 17
Project Description:
Retail Store Front provides solution for multiple retail stores. It
provides better functionality than typical billing application. This
software will bill the customers at cash counters for the goods purchased
by them. Advance orders can also be booked through the software. RSF allows
accepting sales return on the counter. Apart from transaction it gives
details about the availability of items in another shop in the chain,
report on on-hand balance of items in various shops, daily counter
collection and sales reports and statistics.
Responsibilities:
> Created test cases and test Scenarios based on Functional requirement.
> Performed Functionality testing and Integration testing.
> Regression testing is also undertaken after every Bug is fixed.
> Interacted with developers to resolve application defects.
> Responsible for execution of test cases.
> Logging Defects in Bug tracking tool (Gemini 1.9b).
> Defects tracked, reviewed, and analyzed.
> Trained the new joiners about the application.
Software Used: Gemini 1.9b & RFT
Educational Summary:
> B.Sc Computer Science from Pune University.
Personal Details
Father's Name : K. Raghavan
Date of Birth : 22nd Feb, 1981.
Personal Status : Male/married
Nationality : Indian
Languages known : English, Hindi, Malayalam and Tamil
Visa : H1B