Karthick Kalimuthu

Email: ada947@r.postjobfree.com Mobile: 813-***-****

Objective:

To achieve a challenging position in Software Testing and Quality Assurance in a result-oriented company, where acquired skills, and education will be utilized towards continued growth and advancement.

Profile:

13 years of experience in Software Testing.

1. Experience in Manual Testing for Auditing and Telecom domain.

2. Experienced in leading the team, ability to work independently and in a Group.

3. Experienced in working on different environments during the application testing

4. Experienced in building and maintaining the various environments for testing

5. Ability to handle the complete project throughout the life cycle

6. Good interpersonal skills, flexible and commitment, taking initiatives and work towards to get provide the solution to the customer requirements/issues.

7. Open to learn new technologies and undertake challenging multiple tasks.

8. Experienced in working Agile and Water fall methodologies

Academic Qualification:

Bachelor of Engineering (Information Technology) From Raja College of Engineering & Technology affiliated with Anna University, Chennai, India.

Skill Set:

Test Management Tool : ALM 11 and QC 10

DevOps : DOC and VSTS

Operating System : Windows 10, Windows 8 and Windows 7

Soft Skills : Team lead, Team co-ordination, Good Analytics &

Communication, Flexible and open to challenge

Experience Details:

Project : Aura Application Aug 2016 –Till Date

Client : PricewaterhouseCoopers, Tampa, FL, USA.

Position : Test Lead and Environment Lead

Operating System : Win 10, Win 8 and Win 7

DevOps Tool : DOC and VSTS

Project Location : Tampa, FL

Description: Aura is the Firm’s globally released audit software and is used by ~ 17K XLOS practice staff and partners in the United States (US). Aura has evolved over time and now includes various online dashboard, reporting and search tools along with mobile capabilities in addition to the core client functionality.

Responsibilities:

Requirement analysis of the environments for the new feature/enhancement to be deployed and tested

Collaboratively work with Client Business Analysts to understand the exact requirements for the Aura current and future releases for the application and coordinating with the development team, environment team and testing team to get the work done to meet the complete product for the global users

Responsible to deploy the newly built components and make sure all the environments are available for QA team

Experienced in managing the Build Verification Testing team and solely responsible for complete features of BVT for the Aura application

Experienced in working with multiple territories testing team and helping them to understand the exact application functionality

Provide training to resources based on the new features planned for the specific release

Collaborating with product owners, product managers, designers, back end engineers, testers and researchers to refine user experience

Managing the team of 4 members for the BVT and leading the Aura specific environment team

Project : Aura Application Feb 2013 – Aug 2019

Client : PricewaterhouseCoopers, Tampa, FL, USA.

Position : Test Lead

Operating System : Win 10, Win 8 and Win 7

Project Location : Tampa, FL

Description: Aura is the Firm’s globally released audit software and is used by ~ 17K XLOS practice staff and partners in the United States (US). Aura has evolved over time and now includes various online dashboard, reporting and search tools along with mobile capabilities in addition to the core client functionality.

Responsibilities:

Requirement analysis of the application’s new feature/enhancement to be tested

Collaboratively work with Client Business Analysts to understand the exact requirements for the Aura current and future releases for the application and coordinating with the offshore team to get the work done to meet the complete testing of client requirements

Experienced in preparing the test deliverables like Master Test plan, Test cases, Test Evaluation Summary Report, Run Book and defect reports as per standards.

Experienced in working with UAT Team and helping them to understand the exact application functionality

Sending weekly status report to project manager

Provide training to offshore resources based on the discussions held with clients regarding the requirements and deliverables of the project

Collaborating with product managers, designers, back end engineers, testers and researchers to refine user experience

Managed the team of 23 members for the Aura application from various locations

Project : Comperio Content Tools v1.1.1 Sep 2010 –Feb 2013

Client : PricewaterhouseCoopers, Tampa, FL, USA.

Position : Test Lead

Operating System : Win 7 and Win 8

Project Location : Bangalore, India

Description: Comperio is PwC’s global accounting and auditing research tool. It contains electronic copies of global financial reporting, accounting standards, assurance literature and PwC guidance. This Comperio application is having US Portfolio and Global Portfolio. Comperio is used by internal PwC users and clients of PwC. The internal users use this Comperio application as a primary source of guidance to perform their audit. Comperio is also licensed to clients and other external users as a source of guidance to support their accounting, auditing and assurance activities.

Responsibilities:

Preparing, Implementing and documenting the Test cases

Involved in Functionality testing, Integration testing and Regression testing

Involved in system Testing and Black Box Testing

Involved in Browser compatibility testing with various browsers and on various operating Systems

Logging and re-testing the defects

Managed a team of 6 members

Project : ALU ESD Voice - OXE July 2009 – Aug 2010

Client : Alcatel - Lucent, Chennai, India

Position : Team Member

Operating System : Windows XP and UNIX

Project Location : Chennai, India

Description: The Alcatel -Lucent OmniPCX (OXE) Enterprise Communication Server is a highly scalable solution based on a pure software communication server platform that provides multimedia call processing for both Alcatel - Lucent and third-party clients/phones. The OmniPCX Enterprise Communication Server combines traditional telephone functions with support for Internet-based telephony and multimedia communication to create rich call-handling applications that deliver world-class business telephony features for medium, large, and very large sized companies.

Responsibilities:

Preparing, Documenting the Test Plan and Test Cases

Responsible for Functionality and Regression testing for telecom features like Call Forward, Voice Message, Do Not Disturb and Intruder

Involved in preparing the Master Test Plan for the application

Logging and re-testing the defects

Project : Alcatel - Lucent CA/Sierra VM Division Sep 2007 –Jun 2009

Client : Alcatel - Lucent, Naperville, Illinois

Position : Team Member (Production Support Engineer & Tester)

Environment : UNIX

Project Location : Bangalore, India

Description: CA/Sierra, a Voice Messaging Services (VMS) product, processes voice on a single platform and is used widely by medium to large telephony service providers, independent telephone companies and other VMS providers. CA/Sierra can support several thousand mailboxes per machine, is customizable and can be integrated from switch to end-station. CA/Sierra has major global market share. This being a decade-old platform, the product is still in demand due to continuous feature development, customization, enhancement and adaptation to new technologies.

Responsibilities:

Responsible of On Call Engineer for CA/Sierra

Resolved many of the high severity tickets from end as a support engineer

Carried out ample number of Maintenance Window activities successfully for the end users from US & other regions

Involved in writing a new scripts for Hammer tool

Responsible for Functionality and Regression testing

Logging and re-testing the defects

Personal Details:

Date of Birth : January 18, 1985

Sex : Male

Nationality : Indian

Marital Status : Married

Passport Details : R9998915

Issued at Atlanta on 11-SEP-17

Valid up to 10-SEP-27

Visa Details : H1-B Valid up to September 2022

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