Padma Krishnamurthy
Mobile # 832-***-****
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Work Authorization: US Permanent Resident
Professional Summary:
8.5 years of experience in design/analysis, test execution, test reporting, Manual & Automation Testing.
Worked in financial (Paypal) and networking (BMC) domains.
Worked at client place (BMC Software, CA, USA) for testing and implementation.
Rich Experience on Database Testing, Functional Testing, GUI Testing, API Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, Load Testing and Black Box Testing.
Reporting and tracking bugs using various Defect Tracking Tool (Ecase, Chrysalis2.0, HPQC & Remedy)
Worked on Agile environment and executed projects in TTD (Test Driven Development) .
CSTE: (Certified Software Test Engineer): This is a certification program for Quality Control professional, awarded by QAI (Quality Assurance Institute, USA).
Good analytical, interpersonal and communication skills.
Excellent capability to rapidly master new technologies and outstanding team player working
in-group as well as independently in responsible manner.
Recognized as best team player of the account for the significant contribution in the project in Ready Test Go Pvt. Ltd.,
Rewarded the Paypal Appreciates Talent (PAT) award for exhibiting efficiency in the domain ‘Funding Core’ in Paypal.
Technical Skills:
Operating System
Windows 2000/2003, Linux-7.2, AS2.1, Solaris 8.0/10G,Suse 8/Suse 9 (Worked on almost all UNIX and windows flavors).
Databases
SQL Server, Oracle
Automation Testing Tool
Service Testing Framework (STF – Paypal In-house automation tool), Familiarity to QTP
Test Management tools
Ecase, HP-QC, TestDirector7.0, Chrysalis2.0, Rally, Rational Clearcase
Defect Tracking Tools
Bugzilla, Rational ClearQuest, Remedy
Configuration Management Tool
GIT
Directory Services
Active directory,Sunone,ADAM
PROJECTS WORKED:
Client : PayPal May 2015 – Till Date
Project : Hermes
Environment : UNIX, Linux, Java,C++,SQL,Oracle
The objective of this project is to provide a friction less signup experience across mobile and web that will get users through checkout quickly and right on the first time. The goal of Hermes is to introduce a new funding source called Float, to do split funding payments using the same and to test the forward and reverse money movement with this new funding source.
Sr. QA Engineer
Study and Analyze HLD/TDD.
Prepare QA Estimation.
Prepare Test Strategy/Test Plan/Test cases.
Involved in Automation for feature cases.
Involved in FQA & RQA executions.
Agile (TDD) mode of development and delivering the project.
Status Reporting.
Effective communication with clients/PM/Cross vertical Teams.
Client : PayPal January 2015 – April 2015
Project : Payment Intermediation
Environment : UNIX, Linux, Java,C++,SQL,Oracle
The goal of this project is to introduce new Paypal Ledger account between the merchant and the buyer in order to ensure a safe payment transaction and ensure that all money movement and refunds happened through this account.
Sr. QA Engineer
Study and Analyze HLD/TDD.
Prepare QA Estimation.
Prepare Test Strategy/Test Plan/Test cases.
Involved in Automation for feature cases.
Involved in FQA & RQA executions.
Agile (TDD) mode of development and delivering the project.
Status Reporting.
Client : PayPal Dec 2007 – July 2013
Project : Various Projects in Application Service Group
Environment : UNIX, Linux, Java,C++,SQL,Oracle
This team mainly focuses on projects dealing with refactoring and architectural changes of Paypal financial engine inorder to establish highly available and high-performance money-movement core for PayPal.
Over the period of 5.5 years in ASG Team, the following are the significant projects that I have worked for:
Most of all these projects have been executed in Agile environment The Sprints are generally of 4 weeks long which comprises of Sprint planning, Implementation of the user stories and execution of the same and Sprint review and closure.
Projects
Period
Role
Touchstone(POS)
Apr 2012-July 2013
Sr. QA Engineer
Funding Core
Mar 2010-Mar2012
Sr. QA Engineer
FFX Regression/RTB Support
Feb 2009-Jan 2010
QA Engineer
FFX Admin
Dec 2007-Oct 2008
QA Engineer
Sr. QA Engineer:
Study and Analyze HLD/TDD.
Prepare QA Estimation.
Prepare Test Strategy/Test Plan/Test cases.
Involved in Automation for feature cases.
Involved in FQA & RQA executions.
Agile (TDD) mode of development and delivering the project.
Status Reporting.
Effective communication with clients/PM/Cross vertical Teams.
Ramping up new resources to the projects.
100% adherence to the QA Process.
Stretch Roles:
Driven the VOC(Voice of customer) for team which was one of the prime goal of the organization during 2010.
Conducted sessions on PLC (Paypal lifecycle) for the entire team to educate on the Paypal product life cycle process.
Peer Review of Automation TestCases and Script review to ensure that they adhere to Automation Guidelines
Involved in getting the code coverage data for the domains owned by the Chennai Money team.
Client : BMC Software Inc May 2005 – Oct 2006
Project : Change and Configuration Management System (Skyline)
Environment : UNIX, Linux, Solaris, HPUNIX, AIX, Windows
Java, SQL, Oracle, AD, ADAM, Sun One
It is estimated that unmanaged changes to IT infrastructure is responsible for 80% of all systems failures. But even managed changes causes significant problems in today’s IT organizations because of lack of visibility to system dependencies. BMC Software bridges this gap with Change and Configuration Management (CCM) solutions. This solution set is intended to be a mix of enhanced existing products, new components, special pricing and packaging, as well as services components. Goal is to elevate the visibility of how change affects an enterprise and provide the management tools required to run change effectively.
Change and Configuration Management (CCM) is a software solution that helps IT organizations to:
Identify the IT environment related to critical business services
Respond to the ever-changing business and IT requirements
And controlling all the business-critical configurations in the IT environment
Test Analyst
Study the system architecture.
Involved in setting up the environment.
Creation of test cases, test design documents.
Involved in test plan preparation & build QA estimation.
Involved in Functional, Regression and Integration Testing.
Collection of Test metrics.
Client : BMC Software Inc May 2004 – May2005
Project : Software packaging and distribution
Environment : UNIX, Linux, Solaris, HPUNIX, AIX, Windows
Java, SQL, Oracle, AD, ADAM, Sun One
Marimba software distribution offers automated change and configuration management solutions to take dynamic control of IT resources. It accomplishes this task by automating how to distribute and manage applications, data files, and content on desktops, laptops and servers. Marimba's flexible architecture helps remotely deploy the operating infrastructure quickly from a centralized, remote location. The end users and their machines can be automatically provisioned and maintained via Marimba Policy Manager, an LDAP directory-powered policy engine. Marimba supports this functionality on most LDAP directory servers and on all major platforms.
Test Analyst
Study the system architecture.
Involved in setting up the environment.
Creation of test plan, test design documents.
Involved in writing scripts and running them.
Involved in build plan preparation.
Involved in Functional, Regression and Integration Testing.
Filing of defects in DTS (Chrysalis 2.0) and generating various metrics .
Simulation of real time environment.
Client : BMC Software Inc Dec 2003 – May2004
Project : Policy compliance
Environment : UNIX, Linux, Solaris, HPUNIX, AIX, Windows
Java, SQL, Oracle, AD, ADAM, Sun One
The Marimba Policy compliance is a feature that compares policies defined in Software distribution module (the packages that the target is supposed to have) against the data collected by the Inventory module from endpoints (the packages that the target actually has) and produces a report for the higher management .
Test Analyst
Study the system architecture.
Involved in setting up the environment.
Creation of test cases, test design documents.
Involved in writing scripts and running them.
Involved in Functional, Regression and Load Testing.
Professional Education:
Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication from St. Joseph’s College of Engineering, India.
References:
Provided on request.