Engineer Project

Raghavendra Rao Narumanchi

**-**, ****** *****, ************, Hyderabad-500060

Mobile: +91-900**-***** – Email: h3er9y@r.postjobfree.com

Objective

To associate with a progressive organization that complements my knowledge and skills in-line with the latest trends and to become a part of a team that dynamically works towards the growth and enhancing the value of the organization and achieve satisfaction thereof.

Professional Profile

A highly energetic self-starter with excellent analytical, creative, organizational and result oriented IT professional with a strong Techno/Functional expertise having an in-depth understanding of business acumen and demonstrated capabilities through successful testing of large software products & services. A gift for solving complex problems in fast-paced environment, exceptional inter-personal skills and committed to excellence, with proven track record for quick learning.

• 8 years of experience in IT Industry in Testing large projects and services

• Participated in organization wide code coverage initiative and acted as Single-Point of Contact

• Thorough bred in managing vendor team also

• Actively participated in hiring external talent in Microsoft

• Participated in test resource management and performed test lead activities

• Authored and reviewed knowledge transfer documents for New Hire ramp-up

• Completed on-site assignment in Canada for 6 months and 3 months in Italy and have exposure to onsite-offshore model.

Technical & Functional Expertise

Test Management Expertise

• Author & Review Test Documents.

Vendor Management

• Review RFP

Test Automation

• Performance Management/ Leadership

• Vendor Management/Resource Planning

• Hiring & Workforce Retention

• Training/ Coaching/ Mentoring

Program Management

• Quality & Scope Management

• Defect Removal Efficiency Team Lead

• SOX Audit Team member.

Technology & Functional Expertise

Software Tools & Technologies

• SQL 2005, 2008

• VSTF, Product Studio

• VSTS 2010

• C#

• Sharepoint 2010

• Test Director

• Win runner /QTP

Functional Expertise

• Product Management

• Insurance

• Telecom

Work Experience

• Microsoft Corporation, Hyderabad as Sr. Test Engineer from October, 2006 to Till Date.

• Cognizant Technology Solutions, Hyderabad as Associate (Sr. Test Engineer) from Jan, 2006 to September, 2006 (8 months)

• Wipro Technologies, Hyderabad as Test Engineer from Sept, 2002 to Dec, 2005 (3 Years and 4 months)

Education

• Master in Science in Software Engineering from BITS – Pilani, 2007

Achievements & Accomplishments

• Appreciated by General Manager of the group for the cross-group collaboration effort during Product Release

• MCTS SQL Server 2005, 2008 Certified

• Awarded IT-Pro for Excellence & Execution in Projects

• Won many accolades and awards during my engagement with Wipro Technologies

Project Experience

Sr. Test Engineer, Microsoft Corporation, Hyderabad (October ’06 -- Till Date)

Project Name LMX

Client Microsoft IT

Period June, 2009 – Till Date

Project Description Aims to formalize and centralize product launch criteria as identified by the LMX initiative. The application’s capabilities include the orchestration of cross divisional planning and execution activities with numerous check points, decisions and processes that enable:

• Launch criteria alignment and governance resulting in the right decisions being made at the right time by the right people

• Identification of issues and the management of risks earlier in the launch process resulting in a lower likelihood of CPE escapes and reduced churn/rework and costs

• Stream-lined and more effective management of dependencies that reduce “surprises” that compromise Last Mile Excellence goals

• A repeatable and sustainable approach for all launches, resulting in reduced errors/costs/COGS and increased efficiencies

Position Test Lead

Contribution • Analyze requirements.

• Participate in JAD sessions

• Created a New Hire Rampup guide as part of mentoring.

• Created a set of questions for screening of candidates.

• Author & Review Test documents like Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Cases

• Create project plan for all the test deliverables

• Tracking the deliverables

• Active member of Defect Removal Efficiency Team

• Send Test Status Reports

• Mentoring New members of the team

• Involve in automation

• Ensured every team member attains Domain Knowledge apart from Technical Expertise

• Data Migration scripts. (Validate Data Consistency)

• Execute Code Coverage

Team Size 14 (6 Test resources)

Environment .Net 4.0, SQL 2008, SPPS 2010 & Silverlight.

Project Name Gladius

Client Microsoft IT

Period October, 2008 – June, 2009

Project Description The Gladius Project is focused on improving the capacity of the product data mastering systems by upgrading the technology architecture, UI, database and infrastructure.

• A new 3-tier UI application will be implemented for the application.

• Increase Capacity of Product Data Mastering Systems

• Improve transaction capacity for Product and Configuration Data

• Ability to handle increasing number of concurrent users

• Ability to handle an increasing number of concurrent transactions processed

• Ability to handle an increasing number of system records with minimal degradation of result times•

Position Senior Test Engineer

Contribution • Analyze requirements

• Participate in JAD sessions.

• Author & Review Test deliverables like Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Cases

• Create project plan for all the test deliverables

• Tracking the deliverables

• Send Test Status reports

• Mentoring New members of the team

• Vendor Management (Resource Planning, Assigning & Tracking deliverables)

• Code Coverage

• Data Migration scripts. (Validate Data Consistency)

Team Size 20 ( 8 Test Resources, 3 – FTE & 5 Vendor Resources)

Environment .Net 3.5, SQL 2008.

Project Name DataStore

Client Microsoft IT

Period October, 2006 – October, 2008

Project Description The primary purpose of the DataStore is to act as a single common share of data for business data objects. The DataStore is populated behind the scenes, without requiring the involvement of data consumers, using the most appropriate system(s) of record for each data item. Once the DataStore is populated for a given business data object, subscribers access this data by extracting it from the share. DataStore data is updated from the system(s) of record on a recurring basis. Benefits of the DataStore include providing common, accurate data across enterprise systems, reducing the number of system-to-system interfaces needed, reducing operational costs, and reducing subscriber exposure to modifications in other systems.

Position Senior Test Engineer

Contribution • Author & Review Test deliverables like Test Cases

• Create project plan for all the test deliverables

• Tracking the deliverables

• Send Test Status reports

• Show-cased confidence to the higher management and instrumental and shifting the work to India.

• Vendor Management (Resource Planning, Assigning & Tracking deliverables)

• Code Coverage

• Data Migration scripts. (Validate Data Consistency)

Team Size 9 ( 3 Test Resources)

Environment SQL 2005 & SQL 2008.

Project Name UHG -- Peradigm

Client UHG via CTS.

Period February, 2006 – October, 2006

Project Description The Government Program Technology (GPT) group currently comprised of Ovations IT and AmeriChoice. They vision to have a common QA organization that shares tools, processes and methodologies, and resources. Ovations IT uses Peradigm application from Perot system for health care administration while AmeriChoice uses Diamond for the same.. The Primary objective of the offshore team is to provide the services, by testing the UHG related products as a high quality product.

Position Associate

Contribution • Analyze requirements

• Authored and review Test Cases

• Send Test Status reports

• Data Migration scripts. (Validate Data Consistency)

• Mentor new team members

• Co-Ordinate with Onsite team.

Team Size 9

Environment SQL 2005, .Net 2.0.

Project Name Ericsson

Client Ericsson, Wipro Technologies.

Period February, 2005 – December, 2005

Project Description Ericsson is the largest Switch/Exchange Provider to many companies across the world. The switched named AXE (carrier) is one of them. The importance of this switch/exchange is that the same component can be used for both Wireless and Wireline (PSTN) purpose. It is difficult that the switch/exchange can be allocated to all of the designers and testers on it. So, they came up with a simulator called Simulator Environment Architecture (SEA) which is a .Net Application. I was involved in testing this .Net application.

Position Test Engineer

Contribution • Analyze requirements

• Authored and review Test Cases

• Send Test Status reports

• Authored Knowledge Base articles during shift of work from Onsite team.

• Mentor new team members

• Co-Ordinate with Offshore team.

Team Size 9

Environment Net 2.0 & Programming Language for Exchanges (PLEX, using C).

Project Name Nortel

Client Nortel, Wipro Technologies.

Period September, 2002 – February, 2005

Project Description Meridian is an Enterprise switch which is used all over USA and North America. We do the feature verification, troubleshooting and product testing of Nortel’s Web applications related to this Enterprise Switch. Nortel Switches come in small and big hardware structure. Meridian when accompanied by VOIP formulates a succession. They use web applications to make changes on the switch and .Net application as simulator. I was involved in testing all the products of Nortel.

Position Test Engineer

Contribution • Analyze requirements

• Authored and review Test Cases

• Send Test Status reports

• Authored Knowledge Base articles during shift of work from Onsite team.

• Mentor new team members

• Co-Ordinate with Offshore team.

Team Size 9

Environment Net 2.0 & Switching Language1 (SL1, using C).

Personal Profile

Date of Birth 30-Mar-1982

Languages Known English, Hindi, Telugu & Italian

Hobbies Listening Music & Watching Television

Marital Status Married

Passport & Visa Passport Valid till 2014 and US B1 Visa till 2018, US H4 Visa till Sep 2012

References

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