Karthikeyan Subramaniam

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

A creative and professional team player with 18+ years of experience in Information Technology with emphasis on Quality Assurance\Testing Tools Management, 13+ Years of Experience in Micro Focus Tools (ALM, UFT, Performance Center & Synchronizer) Administration worked with various clients. 6+ Years of Experience in Atlassian tools administration (Jira, Confluence, Crowd & Bitbucket) in Cloud\Data center.

Atlassian Tools Admin (Jira\Confluence)

●Extensive experience in Jira Data Center\Confluence installation and maintenance.

●Expertise in Jira\Confluence Cloud as Site administrator.

●Extensive experience in ALM to JIRA migration.

●Extensive experience in project creation, workflow management and Dashboard creation.

●Experience in DB configuration, Mail settings and other required settings as a Jira Administrator.

●Extensive experience in Integrating Jira with Confluence, Crowd, Zephyr, Crowd, Bit Bucket.

●Best practices and value add implementation.

●Performed all the Support Activities to the Atlassian tools (Jira software, Jira Core, Confluence, Crowd, Zephyr).

●Experience in creating customized reports.

●Expertise in creating new issue types, screens, schemas and customizing fields.

●Extensive experience in using Confluence with Macros.

●Expertise in Designing standard template and customizing workflow as per client requirement and rolling out to all projects.

Micro Focus Tools Architect\ALM\QC Admin

●Extensive Experience in Micro Focus \HP Tools (ALM, UFT, Performance center) Administration.

●Extensive Experience in Planning for Migration\Upgradation from older (from 9.2, /10/11/12/15/17) to newer versions (17.1) for HP\Micro Focus Tools (ALM, Performance center & UFT).

●Strong experience in administration of Micro focus suits and well experience in installation of QTP, Performance center (Load runner) and Quality center\ALM of different versions (9.2 to 17.1) on a standalone\clustering and load balancing environment.

●Extensive Experience in Install, Configure & Monitor the performance of the Windows Server environment used to host the HP\Micro Focus Tools (ALM, UFT & Performance center).

●Expertise in Designing standard template and customizing workflow as per client requirement and rolling out to all projects.

●Expertise in Implementing Quality Center\ALM Dashboard for across QC projects.

●Customizing ALM as per industrial standard across different business domains such as insurance, Banking, Automotive & Life science.

●Expertise in E-Approve\E-Signature solution in ALM for Life science projects.

●Developed Utilities using OTA.

●Creating User defined fields in QC/ QC Dashboard

●Expertise in integration of Jira with ALM.

●Expertise in migration from Jira to ALM.

●Developed various customized reporting tools using OTA API and VBA Macros to generate complex test execution, Defect reports.

●Expertise in creating different type of customization in workflow editor.

●Expertise in creating new project entities, project lists and user groups.

●Setup the e-Mail system with SMTP or IIS SMTP protocols in Site administration.

●Creating New Domains/Projects, Users and customizing User groups in QC

●Performed various third-party tools integration with QC (SAP, Jira, RequisitePro, TFS, etc)

●Best practices and value add implementation.

●Performed all the Support Activities to the HP(ALM, Performance center & UFT) Tools users.

●Provided support for almost 4000 + Quality center users.

SKILLS SUMMARY

Micro Focus Tools

Micro Focus\HP ALM(QC) Version 9.2 to 17.1, UFT & Performance Center.

Atlassian Tools

Jira(7.2,8.20), Jira Core, Confluence(7.2 & 6.1), Bit Bucket, Crowd

Operating System

Windows, Unix

Automation

Selenium (Java), HP UFT

Scripting Languages

VB, QC OTA API Scripting

Database

MS SQL & Oracle

WORK EXPERIENCE

●Senior Consultant (Jan 2022 – Dec 2023) – Hexaware Technologies.

●Manager (May 2012 – Jan 2022) – COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS PVT. LTD.

●Senior Project Engineer (August 2006 – April 2012) – Wipro Technologies.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION

●M.S (Software Systems) from BITS Pilani.

●B.E. (Electronics & Communication) from Sri Subramanya College of Engineering & Technology affiliated to Kamaraj University, Madurai.

WORK HISTORY

Client: EY Duration: Jan 2022 to Dec 2023

Testing Tools Architect (Jira\ALM)

Micro Focus ALM Admin:

• Micro-Focus 15.5.1 & 17.1 Maintenance & User Support.

• Micro Focus Upgradation from 15.5.1 to 17.1.

• Micro Focus 15.5.1 and Jira Integration through MF Connect.

• Regular Server Monitoring.

• User Support (Project creation, user creation, Template customization, Site admin management …etc.).

Atlassian Tools (Jira\Confluence) Admin:

• Jira 8.20 & Confluence 7.2 support.

• Regular Server monitoring.

• Crowd installed and integrated with Jira and confluence. Used common user directory.

• Jira integrated with Confluence.

• User Support (Project creation, user creation, Template customization, Site admin management …etc).

Client: Toyota Duration: Jan 2018 to Jan 2022

Testing Tools Architect (Jira\Confluence)

Responsibilities:

Atlassian Tools (Jira\Confluence) Admin:

• Jira 7.2\Confluence 6.1 support.

• Integrated Jira with Confluence, Bit Bucket, Zephyr.

• User Support (Project creation, user creation, Template customization, Screens and Schema creation)

• LDAP Integration.

• Supported in creating customized dashboards.

• Provided Jira user training to end users.

Automation Lead:

• Involved in Automation Infrastructure Development\Framework using Selenium.

• Enhanced the CITS framework for Reusable functions.

• Execution of Selenium Test cases and Reporting defects.

• Conducting Data driven testing, cross browser testing and parallel test execution.

• Enhancing the Test Scripts for Global Execution.

• Involvement in solving Environmental problems along with Technical Support People.

• Involved and coordinated the Regression Testing using Selenium

Client: BOOTS Duration: Sep 2017 to Jan 2018

HP Tools Architect

Responsibilities:

This Project is for upgrading the projects from QC 10\ALM 11 to ALM 12.01, UFT upgrade, Performance center upgrade and User Support. Provided end to end support (proposal- server requirement- Planning- Test environment – production server installation –user communication – Project Migration – STLC process implementation – testing – user sign off). ALM to Jira Synchronizer configured.

Client: ABBOTT Duration: Feb 2016 to Aug 2017

HP Tools Architect \Manager

Responsibilities:

This Project is for upgrading the projects from QC 10\ALM 11 to ALM 12.01. Provided end to end support (proposal- server requirement- Planning- Test environment – production server installation –user communication – Project Migration – STLC process implementation – testing – user sign off)

Client: Thermo Fisher Duration: Oct 2015 to Jan 2016

HP Tools Architect \Manager

Responsibilities:

This Project is for upgrading the projects from QC 10\ALM 11 to ALM 12.01, UFT upgrade, Performance center upgrade and converting the Database from Oracle to MS SQL 2012, provided solution and support for upgrading the projects and DB conversion. Provided end to end support (proposal- server requirement- Planning- Test environment – production server installation –user communication – Project Migration – STLC process implementation – testing – user sign off)

Client: eBay\PayPal Duration: Feb 2015 to Sep 2015

HP Tools Architect

Responsibilities:

This Project is for splitting two companies’ eBay and PayPal, providing solution and support for splitting the HP Tools (ALM, UFT and Performance center). Provided end to end support (proposal- server requirement- Planning- Test environment – production server installation –user communication – Project Migration – STLC process implementation – testing – user sign off)

Client: Harris Duration: May 2012 to Jan 2015

HP Tools Architect

Responsibilities:

This project is Migration and maintenance of HP ALM. HP QC is integrated with Microsoft TFS and SIEBEL through BizTalk Server. Tickets from SIEBEL to TFS will flow through QC and its bidirectional. Provided end to end support (proposal- server requirement- Planning- Test environment – production server installation –user communication – Project Migration – STLC process implementation – testing – user sign off).

Client: Standard Bank of South Africa Duration: June 2007 to April 2012

HP Tools Architect

Responsibilities:

This is Standard bank of South Africa project, we are managing the whole HP Tools (ALM, UFT and Load runner) environment, provided end to end support (proposal- server requirement- Planning- Test environment – production server installation –user communication – Project Migration – STLC process implementation – testing – user sign off).

Client: Automotive Infotainment System Duration: Jan 2007 to May 2007

QA Test Lead

Responsibilities:

This is General Motors Automotive infotainment testing, Test lead responsible for handling teams and assigning tasks. Responsible for requirement gathering and analysis. Responsible for Master test plan, test approach and test scope and identify risks. Scheduling WSR and sending reports to business stakeholders.

Client: Device Software Management Duration: August 2006 to Dec 2006

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

This is Wind River DSM testing, Tester responsible for identifying new test scenarios and creating test scripts. Responsible for Requirement analysis and performed Requirement traceability matrix. Responsible for test execution and Defect creation.

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