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Ravi Gopalakrishnan

Email: ******************@*****.***

US Citizen

OBJECTIVE: Looking for a Lead Software QA or Senior Software QA position.

SUMMARY: Fifteen years of extensive experience in testing and managing of test

implementations of both business and system's applications in multiple platforms and

environments in number of companies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools: Mercury Interactive ASTRA Load test and Quick Test and Compuware

TestPartner, LoadRunner, JMeter

Languages: C++, C, JAVA, XML, HTML and SQL,

DBMS: Oracle, Sybase, DB2 and Informix, MS SQL, bigtable and Megastore

Methodology: Agile / SCRUM and pair programming

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Test Engineering Lead

Google Inc, Mtn View CA June

2005 to Present

Senior Test Engineering Lead in Google's AdWords product; lead testing on the features

and product release.

• Managed 25 to 30 testers as part of the bi-weekly release cycle of this product

• Worked on test and release of Search ads, Ad scheduling, Video ads, Display

ads/Gadget Template Ads and Content ads

• Working on Google's Revenue and Reporting team, testing Google's CRM

products (GRM) which support the Ads customers.

• Using JMeter to test Load and Performance of CRM products.

• Spearheaded End to End testing for AdWords front end features

o Mentored testers on End to End testing by giving presentations and tracking

the test progress and reporting to the team and upper management

• Responsible for writing test plans and test cases, testing and communicating go/

no-go decisions.

• Participates in ‘release cycle meetings’ with dev, PM and release engineers.

Also, communicate go/no-go decisions from test engineering side for AdWords front

end releases.

• Use Agile methodology for product development and testing

Senior Software Test Engineer and Technical Systems Consultant

SAP Labs/SAP America, Palo Alto CA Aug

2001 to May 2005

Senior Software Test Engineer in Application Solution Management group for SAP's

Portal applications for Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) Portal and Supplier

Portal

• Responsible for writing test plans and test cases, testing and communicating go/

no-go decisions

• Worked on SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0 and SAP J2EE Engine 6.40 Application

server.

• Responsible for configuring and connecting to SAP SCM, FI/MM and SRM

applications from the front-end Portal that contains all the business packages.

• Worked on a B2B Auctioning and bidding tool named Dynamic Auction and

Bidding for Automotive enterprises.

• Responsible for Load and Performance testing for SAP Catalog project.

o This involved creating data, identifying different user scenarios, creating

test scripts for those scenarios and creating virtual users to iterate thru the

scenarios/test scripts.

o Used Load Runner to do testing.

SAP Technical Systems Consultant for SAP Netweaver products.

• Certified in SAP Netweaver products.

• Worked with number of SAP clients for SAP Enterprise Portal deployment and

customizations

• Set up user replications, user mapping and enabling Single Sign-On with backends.

• Worked on Enterprise Portal that contained business packages developed in Java.

Senior Software Test Lead

Yack.com, Emeryville, CA March

1999 to March 2001

• Load and Performance Test Lead for Yack’s web site search and dynamic web

content pages

o Used tools such as Mercury Interactive Astra Load test and Astra

Quicktest.

o Simulated user load and concurrent requests to mimic real world

• Responsible for functional and integration testing

• Responsible for software builds and releases

Senior Consultant 1994 to

2001

• Arcot systems, San Jose CA

• Relevance Technologies Division, Documentum Inc., San Francisco, CA

• Kanisa Inc., Cupertino, CA

• SPACE SYSTEM LORAL, Palo Alto, CA

• Informix Inc, Menlo Park, CA

• Unisys Inc., Orange County, California

• NOVELL Inc. India

• Infosys Technologies Inc. India -- Employee

• Indian Telephone Industries Limited, India—Intern in 1993

EDUCATION

• M.S in Computer Science and Applications; May 1994

National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India.

• B.S in Computer Science; March 1990

Bharathidasan Univeristy, Trichy, India.

Passed both programs with Honors and Distinction

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