SURESH VENKATA Mobile: 91-984**-*****

Hyderabad, India

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Summary

Total IT Experience- 9+ years

8.5 years of Experience in Software Testing of both manual and automated (4 years) testing.

Having a good working knowledge of Domains – Manufacturing, Scientific (online net-portal), Retail and Banking(Consumer, Home LOANS, Ecommerce-Net Banking, BI and Warehouse-ETL technologies), Auto-CAD

Having a good testing knowledge on JAVA/VB/Mainframe/AS400 Applications (Windows and Unix platforms) and OBIBE.

1 year of Experience as Programmer (C,C++ and Java )

Define and initiate projects, and assign Project Managers to manage cost, schedule, and performance of component projects, while working to ensure the ultimate success and acceptance of the program

Maintain continuous alignment of program scope with strategic business objectives, and make recommendations to modify the program to enhance effectiveness toward the business result or strategic intent

Gather the detailed requirements that clearly and completely define the project.

Coach, mentor and lead personnel within a technical team environment.

Having very good working knowledge on Client-Server/ Web based(web Services and XML) applications

Having a good working knowledge on BI and Data base Testing (Teradata, Oracle-SQL/PL-Sql)

Good working knowledge of OOPS Concepts and Load Runner Tool.

Have good knowledge on Shell/Python scripting

Expertise in Test planning, Design, Execution & Defect tracking and Test Summary and Validation Report, Metrics (QA responsibilities)

Well acquainted with the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) V-Model, Agile and Waterfall, TCoE models of applications.

Having a good working knowledge of using Win Runner, Test partner, QTP and Rational Robot - Frameworks.

Good hands on working experience of using Management & Defect tracking tools like Test Director, Quality Center9.2, Jira and SharePoint.

Having good working knowledge on developing reusable components of MS-Excel using VB/VB script.

Very Good working experience with US/UK clients (have been to US for 3 months).

Excellent analytical and presentation skills with strong communication skills.

Achievements:

Got best employee (Organizational level) ZEAL award.

Received Innovative process improvement (applied Six sigma-FMEA technique) award certification.

Completed Project Management certification at Organization level

Completed basic 6 Sigma training program

Education:

Degree University Year of Passing

B.Tech (Bachelor of Technology in Engineering) Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad. 2000

Professional Experience:

Working in Bank of America as Analyst, Hyderabad – since December 2007

Worked in Satyam Computers as Sr Quality Engineer, Hyderabad –March - December 2007

Worked in ADP Private Ltd as Test Engineer, Hyderabad – March 2006 – February 2007

Worked in Wipro Technologies as Project Engineer, Hyderabad –August 2005 - March 2006

Worked in Vantel technologies as Test engineer, Hyderabad –October 2002 - June 2006.

Apprenticeship Training Program:

Worked as Apprentice(Trainee Programmer) in SHAR Center, ISRO

Software Experience:

Testing Tools : Win Runner, Rational Robot with WilTest and QTP, Test Partner

Test Management Tool : Test Director, Jira, Quality Center and Citrix.

Languages : C, C++, and JAVA

Operating Systems : WINDOWS-98/XP,2000, Unix and MS-DOS

Data Base : Oracle , Ms-Access

GUI : Visual Basic

Web Designing Packages : Front Page, Dreamweaver and Inter Developer

Web Tools : Html, VB-Script/Java-script, and VBA

Project#1

Project Name iPortal

Organization/ Client Bank of America, USA

Technologies OS: Windows 2000/NT/XP,

Languages: Java, J2EE and .Net

Databases: AS400

Tools: Quality Center, MACRO Excel

Role Individual contributor

Duration Since July 2011

Team Size 6

Domain Banking – Financial

iPortal (Post Loan closing and Ecommerce-Net Banking):

Tested online reports projects, and e-commerce solutions that produce revenue in excess of 3 million per week, including B2B, Internet web sites, and Internet Ecommerce sites. Electronic commerce that takes place between businesses and consumers- B2C, it comprises of the following modules:

• Online transfers

• Bill payments

• Account overview

• Statements

iPortal is an imaging interface for viewing various loan documents. The iPortal interface ensures that

the needs of all the lines of business are accommodated within Enterprise Information Security Control Standards, Guidelines & Procedures. It has 6 services – Search, Retrieve, Burst, Update, Merge and Save.

Project Name Oracle Business Intelligence (Datawarehouse) /Hyperion

Organization/ Client Bank of America, USA

Technologies OS: Windows 2000/NT/XP,

Languages: Java, J2EE

Databases: Oracle with ToAD

Tools: Quality Center, MACRO Excel

Role Team Lead

Duration Since February 2009

Team Size 5

Domain Banking – Financial

OBIBE/Hyperion:

The Associate Data and Information Management system is a Bank-created system that provides consolidated, mission-critical data to specific Personnel professionals and line managers. ADIM provides this data because it is not available in consolidated format via any other source. Conversion of Acquired Company systems into Bank’s system is the goal in a typical Data Conversion process

As a part of this, reports, cubes and templates were developed by the ADIM team on one standard platform/technology which is Hyperion and currently it’s migrated to OBI. The OBI acts as front end GUI to customize the report output based on user requirements.

Started working as a Project Leader with the following duties and work: responsible for handling a team of testing team and supervising their work, responsible for completing duties assigned by the direct manager, motivated all the team members in achieving all the targets, arranged different training programs for the team, responsible for organizing meetings with the team members to discuss about projects

Roles and Responsibilities:

Understand the testing effort by analyzing the requirements of project.

Gather the detailed requirements that clearly and completely define the project.

Estimate and obtain management support for the time, resources and budget required to perform the testing.

Organize the testing kick-off meeting

Build a testing team of professionals with appropriate skills, attitudes and motivation.

Identify Training requirements and forward it to the Project Manager (Technical and Soft skills).

Develop the test plan for the tasks, dependencies and participants required to mitigate the risks to system quality and obtain stakeholder support for this plan.

Arrange the Hardware and software requirement for the Test Setup.

Assign task to all Testing Team members and ensure that all of them have sufficient work in the project.

Ensure content and structure of all Testing documents / artifacts is documented and maintained.

Document, implement, monitor, and enforce all processes for testing as per standards defined by the organization.

Check / Review the Test Cases documents.

Keep track of the new requirements / change in requirements of the Project.

Escalate the issues about project requirements (Software, Hardware, Resources) to Project Manager / Sr. Test Manager.

Organize the status meetings and send the Status Report (Daily, Weekly etc.) to the Client

Act as the single point of contact between Development and Testers.

Prepares / updates the metrics dashboard at the end of a phase and at the completion of project.

Creating and Running Automation Scripts on QTP and developing business functions.

Key accomplishments in OBI-Workforce Management:

Developing complex SQL queries and Testing Oracle database tables

Testing BI Reports –Work Force Management

Working closely with Development, BA and QA teams

Designing and Executing ETL tests

Working with onshore teams

Consolidating daily timesheets of team accurately with details of work accomplished

Driving the client calls on Daily basis and responsible for addressing the issues from both client as well as team’s end.

Publishing different kinds of Quality metrics

Project Name Merlin – ISSP

Organization/ Client Bank of America, USA

Technologies OS: Windows 2000/NT/XP,

Languages: Java, J2EE, Mainframes

Databases: DB2 – BOSS/FAST and ARU/ Teradata

Tools: Quality Center, WR, SharePoint and QTP

Devices: MICR, QST and Validator

Role Team Lead

Duration Since December 2007-Janury 2009

Team Size 5

Domain Banking – Financial

Description:

MerlinTeller is an on-line system that positively impacts client satisfaction. It enables the teller to provide faster service to our clients. This system offers immediate connectivity to FAST. MerlinTeller provides customers with a consistent, common experience across the country wherever they choose to make their deposits in states that use this system.

MerlinTeller uses short keystrokes for teller transactions. It is a PC based tool that will allow various customer transaction options. It can be used with or without a MICR check reader. This reader enables the reading of checks thus reduces counterfeit documents accepted. MerlinTeller returns messages to the teller to assist with check cashing, deposits and other teller related transactions.

MerlinTeller can operate in one of three modes: online – preferred, offline or subserver. Offline indicates the server is not communicating with the mainframe. Subserver mode indicates the individual computer teller station is not communicating with the local server.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Leading the offshore team of 5 members and working on multiple projects.

Consolidating daily timesheets of team accurately with details of work accomplished

Driving the client calls on Daily basis and responsible for addressing the issues from both client as well as team’s end.

Mentoring Team & Participating in knowledge transition sessions of BOSS/FAST,ADIM database and ARU

Involved in test case preparation, Bug tracking and report generation using Quality Center.

Creating all kinds of Metrics using Quality Center and publish.

Running Automation Scripts on QTP and developing business functions.

Involved in Data base testing – Migration of CFC to BAC

Coordination with Project leads and Managers on testing & quality issues

Developing reusable components in Excel (VBA) as MACRO for Data migration.

Publishing different kinds of Quality metrics

Attending triage calls and root cause analysis for defects

Monitor all testing activities in both SIT/UAT throughout the life of a project

Project#2

Project Name ISI Web of Knowledge

Organization/ Client Satyam computers/ Thomson, USA

Technologies OS: Windows 2000/NT/XP, Macintosh, Linux, Solaris

Languages: Java, CGI-Perl, XML

Databases: Oracle, MS Access

Web Server: Tomcat 4.2

Tools: Bugzilla, Jira and Test Partner 5.6

Role Module Lead

Duration March 2007- November 2007

Team Size 8

Domain Web Portal Testing

Description:

WoK is a Web based application and has 8 Products, each product is a database of scientific data such as articles, Journals, editorials, Patents published by Scientists and research scholars. This data will be in turn used by the research students, scientists and organizations. The Search functionality of the each product, verify whether the data retrieved is relevant to the Search term. User can also do some operations such as sorting the data, Output the data using different media’s, order the full text data related to the article or patent, and analyze the data on with particular to some constraints, search for data related to search data.

WoK comprises of the following products:

WoS, CCC, ZR, ZA, Medline, WC, DII, WCI and FSTA etc

Roles and Responsibilities:

Leading the offshore team of 3 members and responsible for addressing the issues from both client as well as team’s end.

Interacting with the client through weekly status calls.

Involved in Writing Test cases. Test Cases were written as a part of implementation of Satyam’s Quality Process into Thomson.

Involved in Bug tracking and report generation using Citrix.

Involved in Reviewing and executing the test cases.

Logging Defects in Jira and reporting to the client.

Preparing Automation Scripts using Test Partner.

Coordination with Project leads and Managers on testing & quality issues

Attending triage calls and root cause analysis for defects

Monitor all testing activities throughout the life of a project

Project# 3

Project Name TAROT

Organization/ Client ADP Pvt Ltd/ UK Stock Exchanges- Halifax, COL and ETRADE

Technologies OS: Windows 2000/NT/XP, Unix

Languages: VB, HTML/ J2EE, C, COBOL with UNIX.

Databases: Oracle,

Tools: Rational Robot with Wiltest, Quality Center

Role Team Member

Duration March 2006- March 2007

Team Size 6

Domain RETAIL

Description:

Tarot is a retail and private client stock broking, fund management and custody solution. Its fully integrated modules support a broad range of businesses, including broking, custody and asset management, providing STP for order management and settlement, through cash management, corporate actions, accounting, compliance, reconciliation and client reporting. The main objective of TAROT is “Mirror what goes on in the broker’s real world and “To automate broker’s day to day processes”.

Tarot user interface consists of the Tarot “Client” (or GUI) and the Tarot “Delivery Channels Architecture” DCA. Behind this client interface are a set of servers which support a particular function (e.g. Order Capture, Customer maintenance etc).

The Tarot DCA supports an interface to these servers via “Application Components” (Acs). Acs publish an XML based interface to external systems. Each AC is stateless (i.e. does not store the message data within the DCA itself) and acts as a controller of one or more underlying Tarot applications.

Tarot users can achieve a higher level of product tailoring and flexibility through the use of DCA and its Acs. User interfaces and applications can be developed from new or enhanced to meet the exact business requirements of the business by re-using the core business functions available in the Tarot product set.

TAROT comprises of the following 8 modules:

Order routing

Contract capture

Settlement

Cash management

Portfolio management

Custody management

Client Reporting

Corporate actions and Dividends

Roles and Responsibilities:

Involved in Test cases Preparation, Reviewing and execution of test cases

Involved in Bug tracking and report generation using Workbench

Involved in Regression Testing using Rational Robot/Winrunner and Script maintainace.

Involved in Data base testing

Project# 4

Project Name Vehicle Incentive Management System

Organization/ Client Wipro Technologies/ General Motors, USA

Technologies OS: Windows 2000/XP

Languages: J2EE, Jsp, Struts, Servlets, Java script, HTML

Databases: Oracle,

Tools: Win runner and Test Director

Role Team Member

Duration August 2005- March 2006

Team Size 14

Domain Manufacturing

Description:

General Motors has initiated the Vehicle Incentive Management System (VIMS) project to provide a single System of Record (SOR) by providing consistency, accuracy, timeliness, and accessibility of the vehicle incentives information.

In U.S., GM publishes approximately 1500 Retail and Fleet Non-Commercial incentive programs each year. Multiple GM and non-GM organizations rely on this information in their business processes. Incentive information is currently maintained separately for various functional areas within Vehicle Sales, Service and Marketing (VSSM). Other organizations such as Saturn, Saab, Isuzu, and GMAC also maintain separate systems to maintain incentive data. VIMS is proposed to be a single System of Record (SOR) by providing consistency, accuracy, timeliness, and accessibility of the vehicle incentives information.

The functionality of the VIMS application has been logically divided into 3 modules based on core activities performed within each logical module and the user base. The modules are as follows

Administration

Enter Program

Review and Retrieve

The core business functionality of VIMS has been divided into a set of core services that are modeled as JAX-RPC based Web Services in the system. These core services can also be used by other GM applications. The following are the various services defined in the system;

• Dealer Service

• Geography Service

• Vehicle Service

• Program Service

• Incentive Service

• Reporting Service

Roles and Responsibilities:

Involved in test cases preparation and execution of test cases

Involved in bug tracking and report generation using RADAR/Quality Center

Involved in Function Testing, Regression Testing.

Involved in Test data Preparation

Query the data using SQL*Plus

Project # 5

Project Name Computer Aided Designing Tools

Organization/ Client Vantel Technologies/ SRS

Technologies OS: Windows 2000/XP

Languages: Visual Basic, Auto-Cad, Lisp, and Asp &Script

Databases: Oracle and Ms-Access,

Tools: Win runner

Role Team Member

Duration December 2002 – May 2005

Team Size 7

Domain CAD

Description:

It is a very powerful &supportive tool, which is developed exclusively for CAD Engineers. It makes the process of working CAD Designing easy. This application provides tools in form of Tool bars to simplify Cad Designing. The Tools allots Files (either Images or Maps) to CAD engineers automatically. The details of Submission, Data base transaction, Time spent on each file, Vendors Id’s will store in Data base for Management purpose. There is a provision to send files either Complete or Incomplete Modes. CAD engineers can share the File Information & Communicate with others and fellow Engineers very effectively. Reports can be generated to analyze individual performance of CAD Engineers.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Involved in test cases preparation and execution of test cases

Involved in bug tracking and report generation.

Involved in Function Testing, Regression Testing using Win runner.

Actively attended meetings with fellow testers and other groups to evaluate the Progress and performance of the application

Projects Handled in SHAR:

1. Burn rate evaluation

Description: This application mainly developed for calculating mechanical and chemical properties and to prepare final reports of specific Rocket fuels. The main contents of this application-1) Finding Burn rate of propellant (which is done automatically) 2) Data entry, 3) File, 4) Chart display, 5) Return to DOS and 6) Exit. When a client gives an input of numerical data and code pertaining to a chemical, then it will gives all the mechanical and chemical properties. With the help of file menu client enables to save, delete and display details. Chart menu is being used to display graphical presentation.

Language : C, C++ Role: Developing Coding.

Chart & Grapher:

Description: The main functionality of this project is generates detail views of different Solid Propellant and Liquid Slurry Graphs (Like Pie, Bar, Line, Curve, and Spline etc). Initially user burns the propellant in airtight furnace, subsequently the burn evaluation can be seen on the monitor directly. There is a provision to generate detail reports of each propellant. It generates all detail report information. User can save, delete, and edit all graphical Information.

Role: Function Testing & Preparing Bug report

2. Vendor’s information reports:

Description: The main functionality of this project is creating a user friendly employee record, which can be accessed using visual basic. This gives very convenient way of observing each vendor’s performance. The data base created using Ms-Access. There is a provision to generate detail reports of individual person information. It generates all detail report information.

Front end : VB and DAO’s

ACADEMICS:

• Secured 290th Rank in Andhra Pradesh State at Common Entrance Examination to Polytechnic.

• Secured 34th Rank in Engineering Common Entrance Test.

PERSONAL INFORMATION:

DOB : December 29th

Hobbies : Reading books, Listening to music

Visa : US-B1 Valid till 2020

Positive Points : Able to work well independently as well as in a team environment and Capable of quickly learning and delivering solutions as an individual and as part of a team.

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