Kathiravan Ramachandran

Morrisville, NC -*****

919-***-**** adjwuo@r.postjobfree.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathiravan-r/

Senior Software Quality Assurance (QA)/Automation Engineer

Accomplished QA leader with extensive and diversified experience in software testing, performance tester, QA analyst, Sr. Software QA Engineer, while contributing as an Automation Engineer for an organization.

Well experienced in manual and automation testing for entire application by end-to-end scenario and involved agile methodology in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and prepared detail test plan, test scenario, and test case documents.

Extensively used Selenium tool for JUNIT, RC, Test NG, Web Driver, Grid and Cucumber (BDD) and also hands-on experience with REST API & SOAP UI for web services.

Skilled with Jenkins server to add jobs for system prep. and run regression test suite, and analyze log file for build issues and regression test suite results.

Proficient with QA tools SmartWare, Selenium, Cucumber, QA Wizard, Win Runner, Load Runner and proven background in Black Box Testing, White Box Testing, UAT, Regression testing and Smoke test.

Extensively used bug tracking tool (Helix ALM) to create defect, generate test cases and test run. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Quality Assurance Automation Engineering SOAP-UI & REST API SQL Queries

SDLC Test Preparation & Execution Jenkins - CI/CD process Data Migration

SCRUM Analyzing log files Process Improvement Mobile testing

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES

Automation Tools : Jenkins Server, Selenium, SOAP UI, REST API, POSTMAN, Load Runner

Configurations : Selenium – IDE, RC, WebDriver, Grid, Cucumber

Databases : Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle8/9i/10g MS-Access, DB2, and Cloudscape

Mobile testing : Android, iOS, Vysor and ADB

Test Tracking Tools : Helix ALM, CMVC, Silk, Silk Performer5.03.

Languages : Java, C, C++, Linux/Unix, XML, XSL, VB, JSP, RMI, CORBA and SQL.

Server Technology : WebSphere Portal 5.x, 6.0, WebSphere 5.X/6.X, IIS 4.x/5.x

Web Technologies : J2EE, Servlets 2.2, JSPs 1.2, EJB 2.0

Web Servers : Sun Java System Web server 6.0, Domino, IBM HTTP Server, Apache2.0.x

LDAPs : ITDS 5.0/6.0, Domino, eNovell, MS Active Directory, Sun Java System Dir Server

Hardware : IBM Compatible PC’s, HP9000, Intel, Sun Solaris SPARC.

Platforms : UNIX (Solaris 8/9/10, AIX 5.2/5.3, Linux, HP-UX, Win95/98/2000/2003/XP/Win10

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sensus, Morrisville, NC 11/2009 to 10/2020

Senior Software QA & Automation Engineer (Client: Xylem Inc.)

Planned, managed, and developed Regional Network Interface (RNI) application and provided to utility companies to monitor, configure and interact with smart devices by using Sensusflexnet protocols.

Automation skill:

Reviewed Marketing and Engineering requirement document to understand the feature requirements

Prepared detailed test plan document, test scenarios and test cases for all functionalities.

Extensively used Selenium automation tool (Eclipse) to create test scripts and test suite for the FVT.

Gained hands-on experience with selenium tool to configure JUNIT, RC, WebDriver, and GRID.

Experienced in Selenium IDE tool to record and play back the scripts to test the UI objects

Experienced in setting up Data Driven framework, and TestNG framework using selenium tool

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Hands on experience with cucumber for Behavior driven framework and have knowledge in test driven development(TDD) and acceptance test driven development( ATDD)

Hands on experience to test web services using SOAP UI and REST API as well

Earned experience with Helix ALM (test tracking tool) to create test cases, test runs, and defect tracking.

Worked with Jenkins server to create multiple jobs in software development process with knowledge in Jenkins piping configuration to build sever and deployment server and ANT scripts.

Manual Skill:

Experienced in Functional verification testing, component verification testing, System verification testing, Regression testing, and Release to manufacturing testing, and User acceptance testing.

Experienced in collecting test data, replayed with latest build env. and executed SQL queries to validate

Have experience in system Integration testing using test data’s before releasing to the QA/nightly build.

Worked as a team lead to manage test planning, generate test run, monitor the test progress status on daily basis and reported. Also, handled off-shore team for data migration and managed testing activities

Have experience in mobile application testing on Android and iOS platforms and extensively used Vysor app to interact with mobile devices

Secured comprehensive knowledge in writing complex SQL queries and executed against databases.

Analyzed the log file for the build failure and test case failure and reported to the dev. team accordingly.

Gained knowledge in installing patches and tested the feature by end-to-end scenario.

Prioritized customer opened defects and verified in SQL & Oracle environment.

Gained experience in testing multiple releases concurrently at the same time.

Tivoli, Research Triangle Park, NC 01/2007 to 10/2009

QA Analyst (Client: IBM)

Provided complete end-to-end set of functions that permit the definition of different types of requests for services, a way to shop for those services and structured process to manage the method of service delivery.

Analyzed System Design Document and component level document of Service Catalog application.

Prepared detailed Test plan, Test Scenario and Test cases for the entire application

Manually tested the application for Functional verification testing, component verification testing, System verification testing, Regression testing, Release to manufacturing testing, and Fix pack release testing.

Gained experienced with TTT- Test Tracking Tool to create and maintain the test cases.

Experienced in CMVC - defect tracking tool to track the defect status.

Installed and configured the application for Migration Manager, Service Desk Report generation and installed dual operating systems (Windows and RHEL) to minimize the resources to use for the entire application.

ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Department of Justice 2006-2007

QA & Performance Tester

IBM, RTP (NC) 2005-2006

Software Tester, IBM Web Sphere/ Portal Server Administration

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Electronics and Communication 1989

Bharathiar University, India

Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics 1984

Madras University, India

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