Aarthy Thasma Ravindran
Contact Number : 310-***-****
Email : ******.*********@*****.***
Career Objective
Utilize the technical, analytical and interpersonal skills from previous experience and pursue my career aspirations in the IT industry from the technical front. Keen to learn and work on distributed/web technology and become a top niche web developer/tester within an organization with the long term objective of attaining a diverse work experience and help to achieve organization and personal goals.
Career Summary
o5+ years of experience in Web Automation/Testing and Mainframe development/Testing.
oExperience on Web Automation using Selenium Web Driver/C# and Browser Stack
oHave worked on Natural language, Adabas DB and JCL.
oWorked on Industrial automation and Finance domain.
oExperience working in Agile/Scrum
oInvolved in different phases of the project life cycle like implementation, testing and technical support.
oExperience in analysing Business specifications and develop Test Plans, Test Cases, environmental setup and performing execution.
oExperience in Functional, Integration, Regression and System Testing.
oExperience in using Microsoft Test Manager for authoring and executing Test cases
oExperience in using Team Foundation Server for Source code management
oGood ability to communicate the findings and testing activities in written and oral formats with excellent analytical skills.
oGood experience in interacting with other Developers, Product Analysts, Clients regarding Development, Testing and Implementation.
oGood ability to interpret and comprehend a problem and find solution.
oHands-on-experience in distributed system/web technology using HTML5, CSS, Javascript, Angular JS
Technical Skills
Operating System
IBM OS 390, Windows Family
Programming Languages
C#, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery and PHP, JCL, COBOL, Natural, REXX
Databases & Tools
Adabas, DB2, MySQL
Automation Tools
Selenium IDE, Selenium Web driver, Browser Stack
Framework
.Net Framework
Other Utilities
Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 & 2015, Postman, Fiddler, Rest API, Slack, IFTTT Maker channel, Sublime, TSO/ISPF, Endevor, File Aid, INTERTEST, Cognos, Microsoft office
Employment History
oWorking at Schneider Electric, Lake Forest California as a Software Intern from November 2015 to Current date
oWorked at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India as Assistant System Engineer from Sep 2005 to Aug 2010
Projects Summary
Project Title: Wonderware Online - InSight
Company
Schneider Electric, US
Role
Software Intern
Period
November 2015 – Current Date
Description
Wonderware Online InSight is a secure, managed solution (cloud) for collecting, storing, and visualizing industrial data for faster, smarter business decisions.
Responsibilities
Test Automation – Script development using Selenium Web driver and C#, execution and maintenance
Creating a workflow for Test Automation suites which includes setting up continuous execution, capturing test results and mail notification
Analysis of requirements/Problems and its impacts.
Manual testing – Test case scenario/design and execution
Perform Regression and end to end testing
Performance testing
Authoring test cases using Microsoft Test Manager
Support during Production deployment
Collaborating with other teams to perform integration testing
Participation in technical meetings
Document the Test Scenarios, Mind map for each functionality
Preparation of Regression test suites during each deployment
Develop tools for automation testing using C#
Integrate the test results with Social media like Slack, IFTTT Maker channel
Collaborate with offshore team
Technologies/Tools
Selenium Web Driver, C#, HTML5, JavaScript,
.Net Framework, Visual Studio 2013 & 2015, Browser Stack, Rest API, TFS, Postman, Fiddler, IFTTT, Slack
Project Title: FX Renovation and Decommission
Client
Morgan Stanley, US
Role
Module Lead
Period
October 2009 – August 2010
Description
FX Renovation and Decommission Project is targeted at elimination of the legacy database (ADABAS) and migrate it to renovated system (NODE – Sybase database).
As a part of this project, applications using the Legacy ADABAS were identified. The reports generated out of the Legacy Applications were decommissioned after coordinating with the end users.
The reports using the existing legacy database are replaced by the reports developed from renovated data source
Remediation of existing legacy downstream users to support the new data feed coming from Distributed side
Turnovers related to Decommissioning the Programs using the Legacy Database were done
Responsibilities
Analysis of requirements/Problems and its impacts.
Designing the remediation approach of existing legacy system
Developing the conversion strategy for legacy migration
Developments, enhancements coding and testing. This includes preparing the test cases for all the business cases of the program. Coding the program based on the program specifications.
Unit Testing the program as per the Unit Test Plan
UAT planning and involvement
Decommissioning the existing legacy system
Participation in technical meetings
Document the programs as per agreed procedures.
Languages, Database
JCL, Natural, Adabas, DB2
Special Software
JGU, Rochade, Morgan Stanley tolos
Project Title: Tax Reporting System (TRS)
Client
Merrill Lynch, US
Role
Team Member
Period
July 2008 – January 2009
Description
Merrill Lynch is a leading global financial management and advisory company with a presence in 37 countries across six continents. It serves the needs of both individual and institutional clients with a diverse range of financial services.
The objective of TRS is to generate the necessary Tax Forms, which are requirement of IRS (Internal Revenue Service) for its customers and subsidiaries as well.
Apart from the necessary forms this system is also capable of generating the Fiscal Statements which assist its clients to understand their financial positions by capturing and maintaining purchase and sale information and provide them with the capital gain/loss information.
Responsibilities
Handling various maintenance and Adhoc request initiated by the client.
Document the programs as per agreed procedures.
Performing enhancements to the existing programs based on the client requirement.
Preparing unit test plan and perform unit testing.
Performing testing on peer developments
Performing System testing, Regression and Integration testing
Languages, Database
JCL, COBOL, DB2, CICS
Special Software
ENDEVOR, FILE-AID, CA-INTERTEST, Cognos
Project Title: FIF Decommission
Client
Morgan Stanley, UK
Role
Team Member
Period
March 2007 – July 2008
Description
The project involves re-pointing of calls from legacy Financial Institutions ADABAS File with the call to FIF in the distributed DB2 table.
It also involves in identifying the optimum solution to re-point all the program calls to the Financial Institutions File in the mainframe ADABAS database with the call to FIF in the distributed DB2 table. This would enable decommission of the file in the legacy world and would be a step in renovating applications from the legacy to the distributed world.
This project is a pilot of identifying the optimum solution for re-pointing. The different approaches are
Natural to DB2 via Stored Procedure
Natural to DB2 using INCORE Technology
Natural to DB2 using MQT
Natural to DB2 using z/SOA Technology (only for online components)
Responsibilities
Research to identify the optimal solution to route the call to the distributed world
Developing the components for each different approach and for each different database calls
Performance Unit testing and Integration testing of all the components
Identify the consumers of the legacy FIF file.
Interaction with other teams
Languages, Database
JCL, Natural, ADABAS, DB2, Java, SQL
Special software
EntireX Natural IDL Generator, z/SOA architecture
Project Title: Automation of Decommission Tools (EDG-Decom)
Company
Morgan Stanley, UK
Role
Team Member & Offshore Tech Lead
Period
October 2006 – February 2007
Description
Decommission team has developed and have been maintaining a plethora of decommission analysis tools which are used for various decommission related analysis viz., Inventory Analyzer (I Azer), Decommission Inventory Process (DIP), File Analyzer (F Azer), Reference table Analysis Tool (@REF), Natural Library Analyzer. These tools involved the submission of sequence of mainframe batch jobs to get the required results.
This project totally automated the decommission analysis tools and drastically brought down user intervention in running these processes.
It also involved in the development of an online user-friendly application on mainframes to enable the accounts team to do maintenance on transaction options that are logged to get the usage details.
Responsibilities
Requirement collection from the Clients and research to find out the automation process
Development of tool
Preparing unit test cases and performing unit testing of the components
Performing Functional and Regression Testing
Preparing for Test Plans and environment for UAT and getting UAT signoff
Scheduling implementations
Maintenance
Training other Team Members
Performed end to end testing on complete tool
Off-shore Tech Lead
Languages, Database
JCL, Natural, ADABAS, REXX
Project Title: Decommission Core Team (Decomm)
Company
Morgan Stanley, UK
Role
Team Member
Period
November 2005 – September 2006
Description
The objective of Decomm is to identify redundant jobs, natural modules and Files existing in Production region and decommission them after procuring sign-offs from the respective APG owners. The redundant components are identified using a set of In-House tools developed by the team. This is done to enhance the performance and efficiency of the system. TCS is involved in the development, maintenance and support of the above applications.
Major responsibilities are
Identifying redundant components for decommission.
Performing the analysis on the complete application.
Doing enhancements to the impacted application.
Clean up the redundant components in production region after getting the requisite permissions
Responsibilities
Development of the modules
Preparing unit test cases and test plans
Unit testing and Functional testing of components
Performing peer reviews and integration testing
Preparing UAT test plans, environment and Getting UAT signoff
Scheduling implementations
Languages, Database
JCL, Natural, ADABAS, REXX
Innovation and Recognition
Developed a tool named @Ref to automate the manual running of batch of Mainframe jobs into a user friendly Mainframe application. The innovation idea was productized and awarded On the Spot Award by the TCS - Morgan Stanley.
Cleared the Pre-Test on Software Engineering held during Initial Learning Program (ILP) in Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, Trivandrum and received the incentives.
Awarded the TCS - Morgan Stanley Star of the Month award in May 2007 for the outstanding performance. The award was given particularly for the contribution on FIF Re-Pointing project.
Received Schneider Electric Step- Up recognition’s Amplify award for being Effective and Passionate on the assigned role
Professional Memberships / Certifications
Professional Society / Certification
Member Since / Date Certified
The Complete Web Developer Course – Udemy
(https://www.udemy.com/certificate/UC-VON1CGSW/)
September 2015
IBM DB2 V8.1 Family Application Development Certified (703)
November 2008
NCFM Financial Markets – A Beginners Module
August 2006
IBM DB2 V8.1 Family Fundamentals Certified (700)
November 2003
Training / Continuing Education Summary
Program or Course
Coverage
Dates
Advanced Natural Training from Software AG
Advanced Natural and Adabas Concepts
Sep 2007
Session on Natural V4
Natural
Dec 2006
Session on Natural Debugger
Debugging Process in Natural
Aug 2006
Basics of Financial Services
Financial and Banking Services Domain
Mar 2006
Mainframe Training
JCL, COBOL, DB2
Nov 2005
Initial Learning Program - Trivandrum
-Requirements Design Engineering
-Software Engineering
-Software Maintenance
-Testing
-Team Building & Life Skills
-Review, Walkthrough and Inspection
-DBMS
-Java, JSP, HTML, Oracle and MYSQL
Sep 2005
–
Oct 2005
Education Qualification
Degree and Date
Institute
Major and Specialization
Bachelor of Technology, May-2005
Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai
Information Technology
Professional References
Ravi Herunde
Principal Software Development Engineer
Operations Asset Management
Cell: 949-***-****
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