Swaminathan Meenakshisundaram

Address: **** * *** **, #*** Tempe, AZ 85281

Contact Ph#: 510-***-****

Email id: adsifi@r.postjobfree.com

Objective:

Seeking positions in Quality Assurance to contribute in releasing high quality engineering products. As an American Citizen holds US passport and eligible for travelling. Currently living in Tempe, AZ.

Experience Summary:

• Over 28 years of delivering robust server software in complex scalable cluster environments. Efficient in evolving automated QA environments with customer focus.

• Solid understanding in QA methodologies like Blackbox, Functional, Load/Stress testing.

• Strong expertise in RDBMS, SAP ABAP, SAP JAVA, SQL, Tcl/Tk, Shell Scripts, LoadRunner, WinRunner, Silk Tests.

• Deep Functional knowledge in data loading and cluster products of Oracle/SUN, IBM and HP.

• Expertise in Sybase ASE database administration.

• Lead a team of 10 in automating, supporting and to ensure CI/CD in product developing.

Skill Summary:

• Trained in ABAP language, System Conversion to SAP S/4 HANA, SAP Leonardo IoT.

• Well versed in established software engineering concepts, principles and processes

(Waterfall, Iterative, Scrum, and Prototype).

• Used best practices in testing methodologies like Blackbox, Functional, Load/Stress testing.

• Established and maintained productive working relationships with management, team members, QA testers, and Engineering developers.

• Excellent team player with good communication skills and a self-starter with latest technologies.

• Experience in and contributing within a fast-paced, technologically aggressive, highly skilled and collegial development team.

DATABASES

Sybase Database Server (ASE) 11.x, 12.X, 12.5.X, 15.0.X, 15.X

(cluster).

HARDWARE

Intel/Linux, HP (HPUX, HPPA), SUN (Solaris, Sun Cluster, Veritas VCS), IBM (AIX, HACMP cluster), PC (Windows)

OPERATING

SYSTEM

Linux RedHat, SuSE, Windows Server 2003, HP UX, SOLARIS, and AIX LANGUAGES ABAP, SQL, Perl, Tcl, Shell Scripts, Ruby, python TOOLS

TCL/Tk, QuaSR (Sybase Test Harness), LoadRunner, WinRunner, Silk Test, Cucumber, Selenium, Git,

Work Experience:

Company: Sun Smart Systems Pvt Limited (2019-2022) Roles: Senior Software Developer in Test

Project: Next Generation Messaging

O/S: Linux

• Hired as a Team Leader in charge of writing and validating the test written in automation.

• Integrated with Continuous Integration tools Jenkins for running test on regular basis automatically.

• Experience in using Jenkins as a Continuous Integration server to configure with GitHub.

• Good knowledge on Object Oriented Programming (OOP) concept. Extensively used Ruby for test case automation.

• Analyzed the use cases provided by analysts and wrote test cases.

• Developed the features, scenarios, step definitions for BDD (Behaviour Driven Development) and TDD (Test Driven Development) using Cucumber and ruby.

• Involved in UI Automation testing using Selenium. Company: SAP Labs India Pvt Limited (2011-2018)

Roles: Principal Software Engineer, Software Quality Analyst Project: ABAP/Java System – Installation/Testing

O/S: Windows, Unix, Linux, HP, IBM(ODSC)

• Worked on a team in charge of validating strategically all kind of latest NetWeaver products/instances, HANA Software kits, SL Toolset (SWPM/SUM) on all supported OS/DB combinations before release to the market/customers.

• Validation of the new NetWeaver products / SL Toolsets before release to the market.

• Installed and tested all (7.0,7.x) SAP NetWeaver (ABAP/JAVA) systems over all the possible OS/DB combinations.

• SAP system Release/EHP/NetWeaver Upgrade/single component upgrade.

• Installation and Upgrades of HANA (1.0/2.0) systems including DBCC, SDS, SDI, scale out systems.

• Executed system, integration, end-to-end and user acceptance test cases web front end.

• System Rename/ System copies done using DB restore and SWPM export/import method.

• SBOP DS/IS system installation and upgrades.

• Used Maintenance planner tool (MOPZ) to update/upgrade all systems.

• Analysed results and interacted with developers to fix product bugs.

• Setup a Customer Like Landscape systems for Testing end-to-end scenarios which includes Sybase, Oracle, Hadoop and HANA.

• Executed functionality like verification checkpoints, synchronization checkpoints and parameterized data were used in the tests.

• Worked in setting up the System Landscape for HANA and ASE on Cloud environment.

Company: RMS LABS LLC, (2008-2010)

Roles: Consultant QA development and Testing

Project: BI System – Data Integration

O/S: Windows, Mercury (Quick Test Pro, Load Runner, Test Director, Quality Centre), SQL Server

• Created and reviewed test assertions based on the specifications and requirements gathered from development team.

• Developed, executed test scripts and automated test.

• Executed system, integration, end-to-end and user acceptance test (UAT) cases web front end.

• Performed regression and load test of the entire product.

• Analysed results and interacted with developers to fix product bugs.

• Used Mercury interactive tools like Quick Test Pro (QTP), LoadRunner for development, recoding and execution of tests. Utilized verification checkpoints, synchronization checkpoints and parameterized data were used in the tests. For load, stress tests used LoadRunner and Virtual Users.

• Manually verified the data using SQL queries

Company: Sybase Inc, (2007-2008)

Roles: Software Development engineer II

Project: Shared Disk Cluster Edition (ASE 15.1)

O/S: Solaris, Linux Red Hat, and SuSE

• Developed functional tests using Sybase automated test harness (QuasR) for bulk- copy data scenarios in Shared Disk Cluster database server.

• Enhanced Custom and packaged applications tests. Specifically, PeopleSoft Payroll, General Ledger and other SQL Queries were modified to include load/stress scenarios in shared disk cluster environment.

• Executed load/stress tests using Sybase automated tools, analysed the results and created bug reports.

• Product Installation testing on Solaris. Testing scenarios include install from CD/DVD, configuration, upgrade, side by side, compatibility with lower versions of the server.

Company: Sybase Inc, (2005-2007)

Roles: Release Architect

Project: Data Warehouse release (ASE 15.0)

Transaction Performance release (ASE 12.5.0.3)

O/S: Solaris, Linux, IBM (AIX5.1/5.2), HP-UX, HPPA

• Created release test plan for full product testing on all supported platforms. Worked with Product Development teams in triaging and prioritizing bugs.

• Worked on PeopleSoft Payroll Application testing using internal automated Tool Quasr.

• Reviewed, Developed test assertions, scenarios for Sybase Federated Data Access functionality for Sybase ASE and IBM DB2.

• Worked on manual and automated High Availability Cluster testing on IBM (HACMP), Solaris (VCS, SUN CLUSTER), and Veritas (VCS).

• Used Silk Test automated tool to test GUI functionality of management components

(Sybase Central) and Section 508 conformance.

• Awarded multiple Star Awards (Gold & Silver) for initiative, teamwork and releasing a high-quality product.

Company: Sybase Inc, (2000-2005)

Roles: Quality Assurance Engineer

Project: ASE 12.5.x and ASE 12.0.x and ASE 11.9.x

O/S: Solaris, Linux, IBM (AIX5.1/5.2), HP-UX, HPPA

• Developed scenario testing plans and executed manual and automated tests of High Availability Cluster components on IBM, Solaris for product regressions.

• Installation testing on Solaris, IBM and Windows.

• Performed DBA functions in addition to the QA responsibilities.

• Installed, configured and monitored ASE servers. Managed logins, users, permissions, ran daily scheduled backups, Database Consistency checks (DBCC), established disaster recovery procedures.

• Awarded two Star Awards (Gold) for team contributions. Company: Launchpad Software Inc (1998-2000)

Roles: QA Engineer (Consulting)

Project: ASE 11.9x, ASE 12.x

O/S: HPUX, Solaris, Windows, IBM, SGI IRIX

• Performed black box testing using tools like T-SQL, Perl and tested new features and functionalities using in-house test harness.

• Responsible for identifying production regressions on assigned platforms. Executed functional/installation/acceptance testing.

Company: HCL-HP Limited & Accell Automation Limited (1994-1997) Roles: Programmer Trainee, Programmer

• Member of project team-built data entry screen for Product Entry Systems using PowerBuilder and Oracle/Sybase/Microsoft database servers.

• Developed parts of the Product Data Management (PDM) and Financial applications using PowerBuilder.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce/Accountancy, University of Madras. Post Graduate Diploma in Advanced Computer Application, (NIIT), India. ABAP Training

Advance Programming in CGI, and JAVA, College of Alameda, California. Advanced Oracle DBA – University of California, Berkeley Extension. ASE Fast Track, Performance and Tuning, Sybase.

Sybase ASE Advanced DBA, Sybase.

Careers in Web, Academy-X, San Francisco, CA.

PMP at Synergy school of Business Skills India.

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