Curriculum Vitae

 

                                                                      Suresh Kamasamudram

Email ID – kksuresh76@gmail.com

Phone No – 9714098243

 

Experience Summary

Ä      Having 10 years of relevant experience in Software Testing

Ä      Having H1B visa extended till Dec 2014. Till 4.5 years left.

Ä     Onsite experience in UK for 6 months

Ä      Experience in Software Development and Testing Lifecycle process.

Ä      Experience in leading the offshore team.

Ä      Domain Experience in Retail, BFS, Specialty Insurance, Gaming, and Education domains.

Ä      Experience in different type of methodologies and also in Agile methodology

Ä      Experience in developing Test Strategy, Test estimates, Test plan, Test case design, Test execution, Defect Management and Traceability matrix

Ä      Expertise in Functional testing, Regression testing, Usability testing, System Integration testing of the applications

Ä      Experience in testing web based and client server applications

Ä      Experience in DOMS sterling application & web services testing using SOAP UI, API interface for retail applications

Ä     Knowledge in SAP Sales & Distribution

Ä      Experience in Data warehouse(ETL)  testing

Ä      Experience working with Oracle & SQL Server, MY SQL databases and testing back end applications using TOAD and SQL Developer for Oracle database.

Ä      Experience in testing mobile game application using simulators.

Ä      Experience in UNIX testing with some basic commands to verify logs

Ä      Experience in defect tracking tools like HP ALM, Bugzilla, Jira and Clarify.

Ä      Experience coordinating with Development, Architecture and QA teams and preparation of Daily & Weekly Status reports.

Ä      Experience in handling the team by assigning the task to each individual and making sure the task delivery & execution on time to customer without slippage.

Ä      Proficient in grasping new technical concepts and utilizing them in an effective manner.

Ä      Successfully executed various projects.

Education
Title of the Degree with Branch	College/University	Year of Passing
Mechanical Engineering	SSIT/Bangalore	2000
Technical Skills
Hardware / Platforms	Windows 95/98/NT/2K/XP/7, IBM 4690 OS, Unix
Technology	Manual Testing
Bug Tracking Tools	HP-ALM 11.0, JIRA, BUGZILLA, CLARIFY
Databases	Oracle 9I, My SQL, SQL Server
Scripting Languages	Excel Macros, Knowledge in VB
Version Control Systems	Ampkm(Intranet application), VSS, Winscp

 

 

Certifications

None

Contact Details

Mobile No.              9714098243             

 

Employment History
Name of the Company	Designation	From	To	Duration
CTS US Corporation	Senior Associate	Jun 1st	Till date	18 months
CTS	Associate	Oct ‘10	May 30	30 months
UST Global	System Analyst	Nov ‘09	Oct ‘10	11 months
NIIT Technologies Ltd	Test Consultant	May ’05	Nov ‘ 09	53 months
Kaashyap Radiant Systems Ltd	Software Engineer	Apr ‘00	Aug’ 01	16 months

 

 

AWARDS

 

-                      Received “Excellence Award” for the entire team from the client

-                      Awarded as a “High flyer of the month” for P32 POA Datamart Project in Quarterly BFS awards

-                      Awarded “Making a Difference” as a team for Feeds Validation(R5 Columbia project) in Quarterly BFS awards

-                      Awarded as a core team member in Bingo Project

 

Relevant Project Experience

 

Project #1

 

Title                                           :              Ecommerce – Order Management System

Client                                         :              Nike Inc.

Operating System              :              Windows 7/XP

Tools & Application              :           Jira, HP ALM, STERLING DOMS, OMS, PCAT, Fusion & SAP Sales &  

                                                       Distribution             

Team Size                             :              5

Role                                          :               Team member

Period                                          :              16 months

Onsite/Offshore              :               Onsite

Project Objective:

To ensure that the Ecommerce end to end flow is working without any impact after the order fulfilment system replacement (ATG Order Fulfilment to Sterling DOMS).

Project Description:

 

Nike is one of the world’s biggest and US’s largest foot wear and Apparel Company. Nike has got well established operations throughout the world countries such as USA, EMEA countries, China, and JAPAN.

DCIT (Digital Commerce IT) is an IT division within NIKE and caters its valuable services in developing and maintaining all E-commerce enabled applications of Nike such as Store (USA and EMEA), NikeID products for USA, EMEA, China and Japan, and some more internal applications such as CSR (Customer Sales Representative), and Order Management System (OMS), and Product Catalogue applications Viz., ID Edit and PCAT.

 

As part of Grand Slam program, the current ATG Order fulfilment system got replaced by Sterling’s Distributed Order Management System (DOMS) to service all geographies and affiliates using a middleware service bus as the integration fabric.

 

Order fulfilment and management will be capable through existing retail warehouses, wholesale warehouses, Retail B&M stores, and other drop-ship vendors. All common shared processes such as Tax Calculation, Address validation, Fraud, Payment, etc., will integrate via the service bus allowing us to share common functions between ATG ecommerce and the DOMS. Grand Slam is a multi-release program.

 

Responsibilities:

 

·         Requirement Understanding and Analysis

·         Preparation of Test plan based on the epics and story points.

·         Preparation of test scenarios based on the story points.

·         Test Case Design/Test Case Execution/Defect Reporting/Defect Tracking using HP ALM.

·         Co-ordination with SAP system for order fulfilment and also interacted different middle ware teams like PAC, Fusion/ICC, JCAPS team for order fulfilment.

·         Web services testing.

·         Verification of middleware logs using putty as the interface to connect to UNIX servers

·         Execution of batch jobs using Autosys jobs to load different types of snapshots files from production and also to process some intermediate jobs for order processing.

·         Supported downstream systems like SAP, fusion for new enhancements.

·         Testing failover scenarios for different types of  messages posted from PAC to Fusion system

·         Participation of Daily meetings and sending weekly and daily status reports to manager

·         Prepare QA Signoff document/Test Summary Report.

·         Trained the new joiners and peers

 

 

Project #2

 

Title                                           :              R5 Columbia Integration (Feeds Validation)

Client                                         :              Ameriprise Financials (USA, Minneapolis)

Operating System              :              Windows Xp

Tools                                          :           QC, Ampkm (Intranet Version control)                                         

Team Size                             :              9

Role                                          :               Team Lead

Period                                          :              8 months

Onsite/Offshore              :               Offshore

 

Project Objective              :

Ameriprise client is one of the companies that offer financial advice and financial products. It is the successor to American Express financial Advisor (AEFA), a former subsidiary of the American Express Company, Ameriprise product spectrum diversified into various financial Products

§         Investments and Brokerage

§         Investment Advisory

§         Annuities  and Banking

§         Life,Auto,HO,Health Protections

BOA business has taken over by Ameriprise Business. Hence all data which has stored in BOA has to be replaced in Ameriprise has to be customized according AMP format and should store in Golden Source Data warehouse.

Project Description:

 

Accounts, Positions, Tax lots and Valuations data will be coming from different source systems (GIM, PACE, INV1, PAM). And these inbound feeds data are processed and sent to different target systems.

This project integrates & migrates the trading data from different systems which includes BOA GIM and PACE and AFI Invest1, PAM and GIM etc. ETL transfers data from different source into Pipe delimited text files. Each source system has different kind of file formats like Text, Tab-Delimited, Fixed width files. The target files generated are transferred to different downstream applications. 

 

Responsibilities:

 

·         Handled a team of 8 members.

·         Co-ordination with onsite and client BA for requirements gathering, scope of the project

·         Maintained query tracker for clarifications.

·         Assigning task to the team and making sure the work delegation to onshore on time.

·         Knowledge shared to the newly joined on-board members

·         Preparation of Test strategy plans.

·         Review of Test cases written by team and also involved in authoring test cases.

·         Involved in test execution of different raw file conversion from different systems by applying transformation logics.

·         Written efficient SQL queries to test GIM source trading system data

·         Participation in Defect triage calls and co-ordination with onshore for work delegation

·         Delivered the work on time with good quality and without schedule slippage.

·         Preparation of DSR/WSR report to onsite

·         Preparation of Execution summary report and sending this report to onsite on daily basis.

 

Project # 3

Title                                           :              P32 POA Datamart Phase -1

Client                                         :              Ameriprise Financials (USA, Minneapolis)

Operating System              :              Windows Xp

Tools                                          :           QC, Ampkm (Intranet Version control)                                         

Team Size                             :              9

Role                                          :               Team Lead

Period                                          :              7 months

Onsite/Offshore              :               Offshore

Project Objective              :

Ameriprise client is one of the companies that offer financial advice and financial products. It is the successor to American Express financial Advisor (AEFA), a former subsidiary of the American Express Company, Ameriprise product spectrum diversified into various financial Products

§         Investments and Brokerage

§         Investment Advisory

§         Annuities  and Banking

§         Life,Auto,HO,Health Protections

BOA business has taken over by Ameriprise Business. Hence all data which has stored in BOA has to be replaced in Ameriprise has to be customized according AMP format and should store in Golden Source Data warehouse.

Project Description:

 

Golden Source Data Warehouse is a new database which is replacing the existing Vision database.

To achieve this, the data coming from different source systems are transformed into Standard Interface format and then this data will be loaded into Data warehouse. The data from DWH will be pulled by outbound feeds and then will distribute to different target systems. Reports are developed and customized as per the user requirements using SSRS tool. Compared the customized reports with production existing data.

 

Responsibilities:

 

·         Handled a team of 6 members.

·         Co-ordination with onsite and client BA for requirements gathering, scope of the project

·         Maintained query tracker for clarifications.

·         Assigning task to the team and making sure the work delegation to onshore on time.

·         Knowledge shared to the newly joined on-board members

·         Preparation of Test strategy plans.

·         Review of Test cases written by team and also involved in authoring test cases.

·         Involved in test execution of different raw file conversion from different systems by applying transformation logics.

·         Tested all the data transformations from standard files to Golden source data warehouse

·         Compared the customized reports with production existing data using excel tool.

·         Written efficient SQL queries to test GIM source trading system data

·         Participation in Defect triage calls and co-ordination with onshore for work delegation

·         Delivered the work on time with good quality and without schedule slippage.

·         Preparation of DSR/WSR report to onsite

·         Preparation of Execution summary report and sending this report to onsite on daily basis.

 

Project # 4

Title                                           :           Expanded Links

 

Client                                         :           Safeway (USA)

Operating System              :              IBM 4690 OS, TPX Big Screen

Tools                                          :           QC                                         

Team Size                             :              5

Role                                          :               Team member

Period                                          :              11 months

Onsite/Offshore              :               Offshore

Project Objective              :

Safeway coupon and promotion management applications are expanding 5-byte LINK number field to 12-byte link number

Project Description:

 

Safeway coupon and promotion management applications are currently limited by a 5-byte LINK number field, which is used to identify Promotions including a fixed digit prefix.  A recent increase in e-Coupons use requires expansion of the LINKS identifier to handle more than 10,000 entries. 

This project is intended to increase the LINKS field size to 12 bytes to provide the scale and flexibility required for future promotion programs envisaged by Safeway.

 

The modules are CMS, ISP, ORWEL, OPS, CT2020, ISP and POS.

 

Responsibilities:

 

·         Analysed the data flow from non-legacy systems to legacy systems

·         Prepared the Impacted Analysis document

·         Written and executed the system test cases for ISP/POS applications.

·         Executed the End to End test cases.

·         Analyzed the log files created by Shell and Perl scripts.

·         Participated in daily status meetings to report any bugs, issues and risks.

·         Logged queries in Ambiguity log spread sheet

 

Project # 5

Title                                           :           EPS Portal             

Client                                         :           Assurant Solutions (USA)

Operating System              :              Windows 2000

Tools                                          :           Bugtrax, VSS                                         

Team Size                             :              5

Role                                          :               Team member

Period                                          :              11 months

Onsite/Offshore              :               Offshore

Project Objective              :

To test the AIZ EPS system which has customized from GE SMC System

Project Description:

 

Assurant Solutions companies develop, underwrite and market specialty insurance, extended service contracts and other risk management solutions in collaborative relationships with leading financial institutions, retailers, automobile dealers, utilities and other entities. This project is to address the transition of the GE extended service contract business from the GE SMC system to the AIZ EPS System.

The GE SMC system currently supports functions not currently found within the AIZ. The modules which were developing are: Admin, Marketing program setup, pricing, sales and commissions.

 

Responsibilities:

 

·         Prepared a test strategy plan

·         Review the test strategy plan and logged the defects in QR028

·         Prepared business flow scenarios based on requirements documents and use cases.

·         Prepared and executed functional test cases for the pricing module

 

Project # 6

Title                                           :              BINGO

Client                                         :              Rank Interactive Development Ltd (Blue Square Ltd, UK)

Operating System              :              windows 2k, UNIX (Connected through Putty)

Tools                                          :           Bugzilla, QC, VSS                                         

Team Size                             :              3

Role                                          :               Team Lead

Period                                          :              17 months

Onsite/Offshore              :               Offshore

Project Objective              :

To Develop a new Multiplayer Bingo application in standalone environment using flash technology and Mobile Bingo application in Mobile technology using J2EE.

Project Description:

Blue Square Limited is one of the leading and the largest betting services in United Kingdom. Blue Square offers variety of betting services to around 800,000 registered customers. As part of these services, Blue Square is currently offering Multiplayer Bingo to its customers through Mecca Games using ASP Model. The client is seeking a powerful and extensible Bingo gaming platform to provide bingo games through several channels and in different formats:

·         Multiplayer Bingo

·         Mobile Bingo

·         Offline Bingo

Multiplayer Bingo

A 90 balls Bingo game, which will be played online Flash and Mobile time. Many users will be playing the game in online. User can select any scheduled game. User buys the ticket to play the game, numbers will be called if the user has numbers that’s called user dab the ticket for 1Line, 2line, and Full House and if the user wins the game user gets prize money. Game provides chat area to chat with chat moderator and other players.

Mobile Bingo

Mobile Bingo is similar to Mobile version of online bingo. It’s developed with some features.

Offline Bingo

The Blue Square Offline Bingo Application is conceptualized to automate the existing bingo game being played in the bingo halls. So the scope of the application is limited inside a bingo hall network.

A player goes to bingo hall and asks the cashier to participate in the game. Player will be given a RFID card in which either a voucher number or their existing BSQ\Mecca registration or both details are loaded. Player will also be given a hand held device using which he can experience the game. Player can move anywhere in the bingo hall with the device and there will be positions or additional devices provided in case if they want to dock the device and view the game in a bigger screen. There could be additional options available on the bigger screen which are not there in hand held device. The device has provision to swipe/insert the card. Player will swipe the card and enter the pin and they will be displayed a screen to choose the login i.e. either using voucher (cash) or using existing account (Open bet); in case of voucher number player will enter a pin and in case of account, a password. After a successful authentication player will be provided with a screen from which they can select any of the game they wish to play. The options could be Bingo game, Play Games such as Mini game and Cash Line bingo. There shall be other options also available such as players’ account details, help manual and information about the club.

 

Responsibilities:

 

·         Interacted with client for functional requirements

·         Handled a small team of 3 members

·         Prepared test cases from design and functional specification document

·         Involved in peer reviews

·         Involved in functional, regression, end to end and database testing using MYSQL for all 3 modules.

·         Tested failover scenarios using services written in shell scripting

·         Tested UAT Defects in MQC

·         Tracking and monitoring the project as per the plan

·         Defect logging, Defect verification and Reporting using Bugzilla

·         Reporting QA status to PM on daily basis.

 

Project # 7

Title                                           :              SABRE II

Client                                         :              DETICA, UK

Operating System              :              Windows XP

Tools                                          :           Perforce, Process Flow Manager, WinSCP3, Bugzilla                                         

Team Size                             :              4

Role                                          :               Team member

Period                                          :              11 months

Onsite/Offshore              :               Onsite/Offshore

 

Project Objective              :

Validation of T+1 Transaction data and Reports Validation

Project Description:

 

SABRE II system was being developed for the Financial Services Authority (FSA) by Detica. The FSA detects and investigates market abuse across UK securities using a system known as SABRE. SABRE collects sensitive post trade data from a wide variety of sources covering a multitude of debt and equity related financial instruments including contracts for difference, bonds, spread bets and equities. The current SABRE I system has reached its full life-cycle and is being replaced by the new and more advanced SABRE II system.

 

There will be a number of Approved Reporting Mechanisms (Arms) supplying T+1 transaction to SABRE II via the FSA Gateway. This data will be augmented by reference data supplied from a number of external sources, such as Reuters Data scope Select. SABRE II will extract a number of transaction reports and transmit these to the CESR Hub as T+2 transaction reports from where they will be collected by the Relevant Competent Authorities (CAs).

 

These Competent Authorities will also transmit similar T+2 transaction reports to the CESR Hub for consumption by SABRE II. There will also be additional reference data collated and distributed by CESR. Finally, SABRE II will produce monthly statistics for CESR.

 

Responsibilities:

 

·         Worked in Client place, UK for 5 months.

·         Independently completed all tasks.

·         Prepared Functional and System Test cases

·         Prepared test data to execute functional and System test cases.

·         Involved in executing functional, System and Database testing using Process Flow Manager, WinSCP3 and SQL Developer

·         Tested T+1 and T+2 transaction data with reference data supplied from Reuters

·         Involved in testing of reports using SAS Web Report Studio and portal.

·         Reported bugs using Bugzilla.

·         Reviewed the test cases written by peers.

·         Involved in reviewing of Use cases with functional specifications and given inputs to the team

·         Prepared monthly timesheets and updated monthly status to offshore manager.

·         Maintain good working relationships with all departments in order to ensure successful releases by working cooperatively in addressing all issues correctly and quickly

 

Project # 8

Title                                           :              Education Edge

Client                                         :              Black baud, USA

Operating System              :              Windows 95/98/2k/xp

Tools                                          :           Clarify, VSS                                         

Team Size                             :              6

Role                                          :               Team member

Period                                          :              13 months

Onsite/Offshore              :               Offshore

 

Project Objective              :

To Develop new web application of FAWEB and Net Classroom and testing of existing application with various school databases.

Project Description:

 

The Education Edge is an integrated Applicant and Student information solution. Admissions Office software can be used to track the applicant from initial inquiry to enrolment. This can be used to capture information necessary to make enrolment decisions. Registrar’s Office is a comprehensive student information system that can be used to store detailed information on students, faculty. This software can be used for student scheduling, attendance tracking and reporting, grades tracking and calculation. The software can be used for printing report cards and transcripts in various formats, and facility for printing variety of reports related to student, faculty, attendance, grades, scheduling, etc. It includes the online modules like Net Classroom and FAWeb.

 

Net Classroom allows school to easily share student information between teachers and parents and also student can request courses through online. Parents can see child’s grades, attendance, conduct and schedule as well as print report cards through online.

 

FAWeb is used to upgrade grades, attendance, conduct and view student information directly through web browser. They can also view important announcements, view detailed progress and missing assignments.

 

 

Responsibilities:

 

·         Preparation of functional test cases

·         Prepared testing hand-off document for Test readiness.

·         Involved in Functional testing, Regression, UI Testing

·         Bug tracking and reporting through Clarify

·         Prepared Daily/Weekly Status Reports.

·         Execution of Test cases and Test Scenarios.

·         Extracting the daily builds which comes from onsite and send it to all team members.

·         Interacted Client for any query clarifications.

·         Participated in daily team reviews.

 

Project # 9

Title                                           :              OSP Replacement EDIS Phase-I

Client                                         :              Cable & Wireless, UK

Operating System              :              Windows 2k, UNIX

Tools                                          :           Toad, VSS, Bugzilla                                         

Team Size                             :              6

Role                                          :               Team member

Period                                          :              4 months

Onsite/Offshore              :               Offshore

 

Project Objective              :

The objective of the overall OSP Replacement project is to refresh the emergency services applications platform by delivering replacements for COSAR (Cable Operator Service Activation Request), CDTRANS (Cable Daily Transmission), OSN (Operator Services Number) and FRNT

Project Description:

 

C&W has built a major business in supplying telephony Operator Services to its own retail subscribers and to wholesale customers’ subscribers. The objective of the overall OSP Replacement project is to refresh the emergency services applications platform by delivering replacements for COSAR (Cable Operator Service Activation Request), CDTRANS (Cable Daily Transmission), OSN (Operator Services Number) and FRNT. In Phase-1 COSAR and CDTRANS replaced.

COSAR currently provides a facility to receive and validate Service Activation Request (SARs) from Cable Operators. The SARs are requests to activate a subscriber/telephone number, so COSAR then distributes them to OSN/FRNT for emergency services activation and SSBS for billing activation. The CDTRANS are used to get SAR Response files for collection by the Cable operators and then in addition their electronic call details i.e. Data bills files and monthly CPS/WLR charge details.

 

 

Responsibilities:

 

·         Written Functional test cases and executed functional and System test cases

·         Tested file interface data using Unix VI commands in Unix

·         Involved in Database, Functionality and Regression Testing.

·         Reviewed the test cases written by team members

 

Project # 10

Title                                           :              TIDCO

Client                                         :              Tamilnadu State Government, INDIA

Operating System              :              Windows 2000

Tools                                          :           None                                         

Team Size                             :              8

Role                                          :               Team member

Period                                          :              12 months

Onsite/Offshore              :               Offshore

Project Objective              :

To test the web application of TIDCO

Project Description:

This is an encyclopaedia of Tamilnadu Industrial Infrastructure. It delivers information on opportunities available for various industries and policy of the Tamilnadu government. The viewer can get information about the whole Tamilnadu policies and various other policies of the India. The whole infrastructure of Tamilnadu is provided in the site and also the details of the Industrial Parks. The site gives the user a complete plan for the making of an industry.

 

Responsibilities:

 

·         Active role in Test case Designing

·         Active role in Executing Test cases.

 

 

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