MATHAVAN RAM

HOFFMAN ESTATES, IL

224-***-****

SUMMARY:

? QA professional with over eight (8) years of experience in software testing and quality assurance for small and enterprise-wide organizations

? Performs end to end manual testing including defect and tracking. Proficient in functional, negative, regression and system testing

? Good knowledge and working experience in writing test cases, test case execution and test results analysis

? Written test cases for - system, functional and integration testing

? Effective defect tracking and reporting with HP Quality Center to improve communications and reduce delay

? Analyzed business rules for completeness and technical accuracy within all modules, made recommendations where necessary

? Excellent communication and presentation skills, self starter, quick learner, team player

? Worked in migration of portal updates

? Implemented Agile (Scrum) QA methodologies

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL

O/S: Unix Solaris 9.0, Linux, Windows NT, 95/98/2000/XP

Database: Oracle 10g, 9i, 8i, MS SQL Server

Tools: SQL* Plus, TOAD, Issue Manager, Quality Center, Excel, HTML, QTP

Software: Visual Basic, Power Builder

Browsers: IE 9.0/8.0/7.0, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Follett Higher Education Group, Westchester, IL Nov 2014 ? May 2015

QA Consultant

Follett Higher Education Group is higher education's leading campus retailer and largest wholesaler in the United States and Canada, providing custom solutions for both local and online campus store operations.

IncludED project: is an Integral part of Follett?s course material strategy to promote Rent-A-Text, CafeScribe digital textbooks and native digital products.

? Based on the Functional Requirements, developed and executed Test Cases to test the different web based applications and internal applications to ensure the orders were processed, fee charged and materials shipped accurately.

? Worked in Data Setup for Test Execution.

? Performed End to End Testing of web applications developed in .Net, involved in Functional, Systems, Integration and Regression Testing following Agile Methodology.

Environment: Windows 7, Windows 2000.

Abbott Laboratories/Abbvie, Waukegan, IL October 2012 ? March 2014; July 2014 ? September 2014

Validation Analyst

Pilot Site Manager

? Worked on testing Pilot Site Manager (PSM) that tracks and traces the workorders of the packaging operations. PSM allows to manage all PCE Pilot Line Managers from a single application. PSM acts as the interface between the PCE system and external resources like SAP- ERP systems. PSM is designed as a web based application that can be made accessible from PC, tablet PC and smartphone.

? Based on the Functional Requirement Specifications, developed and executed test cases and tracked defects in Quality Center.

? Tested that the system captured the changes in the Audit Trail at the time of commitment, generated reports based upon specific criteria and capable of detecting invalid records.

? Tested the system utilized the PCE web service to import workorders, imported all relevant work order data.

Omnic Spectroscopy Software, supplied by ThermoScientific

? Worked on testing Omnic Spectroscopy Software, supplied by ThermoScientific, a commercial off the shelf spectroscopy data system used to collect, store and evaluate spectroscopy data. The intended use of the system is for daily instrument check, electronic comparison of spectra and storage/recall of data in a 21 CFR Part 11 compliant manner.

? Based on the User Requirement Specifications, developed and executed test cases and tracked defects in Quality Center.

? Tested that the system controlled the access of users to menu items through Roles, defined system access and security levels for authorized users.

? Tested that the system allowed the user to retrieve, store, evaluate (ValPro check, electronic comparison) spectroscopy data and allowed user to store and or recall data in a 21 CFR Part 11 compliant manner.

? Also, tested that the system allowed the user to store and recall data in a 21 CFR Part 11 compliant manner, tested Audit Trail Information, Electronic records & electronic signatures in the system.

GPO BI ABC Continuous Process Verification

? Worked on testing GPO BI ABC Continuous Process Verification hierarchy that will be used by the Abbott Bioresearch Center. The ABC CPV Hierarchy is being deployed to provide various organizations including Manufacturing Science (MS) and Quality Assurance (QA) with a single interface strictly to ABC Continuous Process Verification and Assay Performance related data from:

? Integrated Warehouse (IWH)- containing data from the following sources:

? ThermoLIMS Operation Data warehouse (ODW), GPO dMDM (division Master Data Management) Test Data Domain.

? Based on the Functional Requirement Specifications, developed and executed test cases and tracked defects in Quality Center.

? Tested the user login behavior, created a New Common Component to verify the attributes of Thermo LIMS for dMDM test data domain.

? Tested the dMDM application behavior using Data Steward & Data Coordinator roles in Test Data Domain requirements.

? Tested the dMDM application & Discoverant Hierarchy Structure meets the ABC Business rules.

GPO BI Raw Material and Growth Promotion

? Prepared Hierarchy Data checklist and Calculated Data checklist.

? Tested the accuracy of the Source data and SAP data for the two checklists.

Environment: Windows 7, Windows 2000.

Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund, Oak Brook, IL October 2008 ? November 2011

Quality Assurance Analyst

IMRF has partnered with local units of government to provide death, disability and retirement benefits for working and retired public employees. IMRF has more than 176,000 active members working for nearly 3,000 different units of government, including school districts, counties, cities and villages, parks and libraries.

? From the Technical Requirement documents prepared test plans, developed and executed test cases and accurately tracked defects in Quality Center.

? Worked in System Testing and Regression Testing.

? Worked in extensive testing of 3 web applications (Member Access, Employer Access and Reciprocal Access) and two client server applications.

? Wrote VB scripts in QTP to compare data from driver file with data from Web for Active Members and Retirees. Analyzed the QTP Run Results and prepared reports.

? Worked in investment portal migrations

? Implemented Agile (Scrum) QA methodologies

Environment: Windows NT, Windows XP, Unix

AT&T, Hoffman Estates, IL October 2007 ? March 2008

Senior Software Tester

? Worked extensively in Developing Test Cases, Test Case execution, defect reporting and Emergency fixes testing for Lightspeed project.

? In addition, this role interfaced closely with other internal AT&T and AMDOCS development and testing sub-teams.

? As part of API oncall responsibility, have provided off hours support to perform Full Reboot of environments, Application Refresh, Reference Refresh, Telegence Refresh and Jolt Refresh.

? Debugged issues in a versatile manner and communicated the same with development teams for expedited issue resolutions.

? Acquired thorough knowledge of OMS, TELEGENCE & AMSS APIs, Unix, SQL scripts and Quality Center

Environnent: Windows NT, Unix, Toad

Object Xperts Inc., Monmouth Jn, NJ June 2005 ? September 2007

Resources Net, Parsippany, NJ

QA Tester

The Company has strategic alliance with hospitals, doctors and health care systems for group purchasing of supplies and services. The application is being used to efficiently provide product information, manage sales leads and to reduce the sales and service cycle time. Resources Net maintains the information about its members and deals in pricing of the medication, with the pharmaceutical companies on behalf of its members.

? Developed Test Cases for functional testing as per the scenarios

? Worked extensively in test case execution

? Tracked, Reported and Retested defects after they were fixed

? Worked in Regression Testing

? Effective interaction with Development team and Testing team

Environment: Windows NT, Power Builder, Oracle 10g

EDUCATION / CERTIFICATIONS / TRAININGS / MEMBERSHIPS:

? M.S.in Engineering, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN, USA

? B.S. in Engineering, Madurai Kamarajar University, India

? Certified Oracle 9i Database Administrator

? Sun Certified Unix System Administrator for Solaris 8.0

VISA STATUS:

US Green Card Holder

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