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karthikeyan
Mob: 9535871810
Email: karthipc_v@yahoo.in

No- 27,venketasamy building,

first main, 3rd cross
kudular road, Bangalore-68

Summary:

Around 8+ years of experience in Software Testing with a wide variety of projects and
environment, functionality, and related test methodologies.

Performed Black Box, White Box, Component, Functional, Integration, Regression, Manual,
Sanity, Performance, Volume, Load, Stress, System and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Strong Domain and Functional expertise in Mortgages (Securitisation), Department of

Constitutional affairs (UK Law), Investment banking, Retail banking and Insurance.

Experience in implementing and testing Web-based and Client-Server applications on

Windows.

Expertise in Test planning, documentation, framing test condition, writing test cases, test
scripts and execution of the test sets. Performed testing used Risk Based Testing approach.

Managed a team of Test Analysts and coordinating them to ensure effective completion of
testing activities.

Proven expertise in using Mercury Testing Tools (Test Director/Quality Center)

Good knowledge of Testing and Defect Metrics and have reported the same to Senior
Management.

Coordinated with different stakeholders (Business, Development, Infrastructure, External

vendors) to ensure smooth execution of test activities.

Experience in Accessibility testing(W3C,DDA)

Experience in Java, XML, XSTL, HTML, Java script, Xpath, SQL and Oracle.

Good knowledge in Financial and Insurance applications.

Sound work experience and knowledge in all stages of SDLC and different software testing
methodologies Waterfall, V Model and AGILE.

Proficient in preparation of SQL and has worked on different RDBMS (Oracle, SQL
Server) and possess strong troubleshooting skills

An excellent team player with an ability to perform individually, with good interpersonal
relations, strong communication skills and high level of motivation.

Ability to meet deadlines and handle pressure coordinating multiple tasks in the project
environment.

KEY SKILLS
Skill
System, Regression and Acceptance testing
Analytical and problem solving skills
People skills i.e. motivation, influence etc
Test Tooling and Techniques - Functional
Test Planning, Estimation and Scheduling
Test Progress Monitoring and control
Test Management Documentation

Skill Level
Proficient
Proficient
Proficient
Proficient
Experienced
Experienced
Experienced

Experienced

Test Reviews & Process Improvement

Systems Validation and Verification Testing

Experienced
Experienced

V-Model testing
Technical Skill Set

Testing Tools: Win Runner, Load Runner, QTP

Testing Tools &
Defect Tracking Tool: Quality Centre 9.0/ Test Director
Utilities
Database Tool: Toad, SQL.
Configuration Management :Rational Clear Case
Languages

C, C++, Java, J2EE, .Net, JavaScript, XML, HTML, UML and XSLT.

Databases

Oracle 8i, MS Access and SQL.

GUI

VB 6.0 and Applets in Java.

Education:

Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Science from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore.

Achievements:
Need to include a few achievements in test delivery/cost savings through strategies/defect detection
using new techniques etc. Refer my CV for details
Projects:

Senior Test Analyst

Infoplus (U.K)

Project: FP

Oct 09 - feb 11
Domain: Retail

Foundation program(FP) project has been introduced as part of migration from the
legacy system to SAP. All the legacy business applications need to be support for the SAP business
functionality. I have tested the new component which support for business transaction like the
application Range Planner(RP), Contract Management System(CMS). Infoplus Technologies UK
Limited is a global IT services company focusing on Enterprise solutions and integration services
consulting (SAP/Oracle), software development, product solutions for education segment and IT
consulting services offering outsourcing solutions to enterprises worldwide.
Responsibilities:

Managed a team of 5 Test Analysts and coordinated their activities to complete the
Component, Integration, System and UAT stages.

Prepared Test Plan for the test stages.

Assisting the Business Analysts with requirement gathering and developers with triage,
research and validation of system errors and enhancements.

Identifying the testing boundary and include the testing of the new application with Core
system.

Defining tasks, allocating resources, establishing milestones, prioritizing work and product
defects and communicating status.

Managing Requirement and Change Requests, viewing the history of the requirement and
associating them with test cases.

Planning Test cases, writing details and design steps. Adding attachments and linking the
prepared test cases to the requirements. Saving tests as templates with parameters.
Including call statements in test to call the commonly used test templates.

Designing the test execution by creating test sets and adding tests to them. Sequencing the
tests and setting the test set properties. Executing the test sets and analyzing the results.
Extracting reports and graphs.

Designing the Test Data requirements and provide the test environment requirements.

Raising defects in the Defect section for the test sets that have failed, entering detailed
information for the defect such as priority of defect, severity, assigned to, Environment
raised in, status of the defect, description, subject, version of application raised in and
attachments.

Re-testing of defects that is fixed, testing change request implemented in the new handoff.
Raising new defects and logging them in the Test Defect tracking system.

Performed Regression testing.

Preparation of Test and Defects metrics based on the executed test sets.

Represent the Testing team in Incident Management meetings.

Provide Status Reports to Senior Management on a periodic basis.

Environment: Windows XP, Quality centre 9.0, Java, VB VSS, SQL, Oracle 10g, MS Project, MS
Office, Mercury Quality Center.

Senior Test Analyst

Project: Billing system

Network Rail (U.K)

Oct 08

- Sep 09

Domain: Transport

Network Rail charges the Train and Freight Operators for the
track usage in order to recover the costs spent towards setting up and maintenance of rail network
across the country. Network Rail is regulated by Office of Rail Regulatory (ORR) board. The ORR has
come up with a list of requirements that Network Rails Billing team need to comply from 1 st April
2009. The current billing system runs on legacy system. A strategic approach has been taken to
develop a new application TABS ( Track Access Billing System) to be used by the Billing team. This
System would replace the current Passenger and Freight Billing System and be enhanced to meet
the ORR requirements
Responsibilities:

Managed Test Planning (Project Test Plan), Test Specification (Test Scripts, Test Cases and
Test Conditions), Test Execution, Test Checking and Recording (Incidents and Test Logs) and
Checking for Test Completion (Exit criteria and Summary Reports)

Proposed and successfully implemented a test strategy that combines System and
Acceptance testing

Represented the team in Test control and Incident Management meetings

Developed Requirement specifications and process diagrams including context, dataflow and
decomposition diagrams

Analyzed the business changes and provided with testing estimates (Change Management)

Mapped the functional Specifications to the business requirements using the Traceability
matrix

Coordinated the project communication & quality of deliverables from Offshore team

Promoted and implemented a number of functional test techniques including equivalence

partitioning, boundary value analysis and requirements based testing

Ensured that functionality changes to the Production system (Maintenance testing) are
tested within timescale and with approved quality standards

Performed end-to-end (regression) testing to ensure that systems operate as a whole and
existing functionality has not been compromised.

Ensured test scripts for major changes and new functionality comply with business
standards

Published test metrics like Test coverage, Test case effectiveness, Test planning
performance, etc.

Monitored testing progress, providing daily status updates to the senior management.

Liaised effectively with all the stakeholders, thereby ensuring a successful implementation

Environment: Windows XP, UNIX, Java, CVS, SQL, Oracle 10g, MS Project, MS Office and Mercury
Quality Center

Senior Test Analyst

Lloyds TSB - (U.K)

Project: Strategic KFI

Jun 07

- Sep 08

Domain: Mortgages

Description:
The Project Strategic KFI is done for Lloyds TSB (U.K) Cheltenham & Gloucester. This project is to provide housing loans and Securitisation of
mortgages. The Securitisation team at Lloyds TSB has selected the Basel II Solution to meet the
capital adequacy requirements as prescribed in the Basel II Accord. The solution's implementation
will bring policies and methodologies into accordance with the standards outlined by the Financial
Services Authority (FSA).Third party will provide credit report of the customer. Loan will be provided
on the basis of customer details, land cost, credits, policies and liabilities. This project contains
systems like Mortgage Sales (POS), CODAR, UFSS and CASEFLOW.
Responsibilities:

Working with 3rd party suppliers.

Prepared Test Strategy and Test Plan for the test stages.

Assisting the Business Analysts with requirement gathering and developers with triage,
research and validation of system errors and enhancements.

Identifying the testing boundary and include the testing of the new application with Core
Banking, MI, Mortgage and Securitisation applications.

Defining tasks, allocating resources, establishing milestones, prioritizing work and product
defects and communicating status.

Entering Requirement and Change Requests, viewing the history of the requirement and
associating them with test cases.

Planning Test cases, writing details and design steps. Adding attachments and linking the
prepared test cases to the requirements. Saving tests as templates with parameters.
Including call statements in test to call the commonly used test templates.

Designing the test execution by creating test sets and adding tests to them. Sequencing the
tests and setting the test set properties. Executing the test sets and analyzing the results.
Extracting reports and graphs.

Designing the Test Data requirements and provide the test environment requirements.

Raising defects in the Defect section for the test sets that have failed, entering detailed
information for the defect such as priority of defect, severity, assigned to, Environment
raised in, status of the defect, description, subject, version of application raised in and
attachments.

Re-testing of defects that is fixed, testing change request implemented in the new handoff.
Raising new defects and logging them in the Test Defect tracking system.

Performed Regression testing using QTP.

Preparation of Test and Defects metrics based on the executed test sets.

Represent the Testing team in Incident Management meetings.

Provide Status Reports to Senior Management on a periodic basis.

Environment: Test Director 8.0/Quality centre 9.0, Windows NT, Web Logic, Oracle 8.0, DB2, Java
2.0,.Net, Microsoft Soap, XML, XML SPY.
Senior Test Analyst

EDS (U.K)

Mar 2006 May 2007

Project: Family Man

Domain: LAW

Project Description:
EDS (U.K) is one of the largest diversified IT organizations in the world. The Project Family Man was
developed for the client called Department of constitutional affairs. The project Family man, as the
name indicates it deals only with family oriented cases, which took places in all type of courts in the
entire UNITED KINGDOM. This is the web based application project. The Family Man project Falls
under the SUPS Program (Service Upgrade Program Study) which comes under the authority of the
Home Office. The Family Man system has two components, first is Universal Case System known as
TUCS which contains the common Software and the second are a number of case models [currently
there are three: Divorce, Children Act and Adoption] The project was started to Upgrade the
departments current architectures to the one that enjoys current vendor support arrangements.
Responsibilities:

Discussing with Business Analyst and attending meeting and reviews.

Preparation of Test Plan and Review of test deliverables from the team.

Handling test director administration activities such as creation of domain, project and
users. Customizing user access privileges, maintaining user groups, module access, user ids
and passwords

Writing test condition from Use Cases based on functionality under test. Mapping test
conditions to test cases and writing test scripts for the test cases.

Create GUI Map File so that Win Runner can recognize the GUI objects in the application
being tested

Create test scripts by recording or scripting or a combination of both. Inserting checkpoints

to check the response of the application being tested.

Adding new requirements and child requirements from the requirement specifications.
Entering the priority, description and type for the requirements. Converting requirements to
test.

Writing detailed test scripts from the test cases testing within scheduled deadlines. Adding
new and changed requirements to coverage.

Designing test sets in the Test lab and execution of System Integration test cases.

Test Data Preparation and Test Environment setup before execution of test scenarios.

Logging Defects in Test Director, linking defects to the test sets, which in turn are linked to
the requirements, re-testing defects and closing them.

Executing test cases for Restricted Data Sets, which involves testing data across integrated
systems.

Environment: Windows 2000, Oracle 9i, HTML, XML, .NET, XSLT, Java Script, Test Director 8.0,
Win runner, Rational clear case and SQL
Test Analyst

Citibank

Jun 2004 Feb 2006

Project: Citibank Internet Banking (Citibank Online)

Domain: Banking

Project Description:
This is one of the largest diversified financial organizations in India. Its major businesses include
Regional Community Banking, Corporate Banking, Private Banking, Mortgage
Banking, Secured Lending, Asset Management and Mutual Fund Servicing. CITI Bank
Treasury Management division offers a comprehensive portfolio of electronic and
paper based receivables, payables and information and investment solutions, as well
as global product offerings.
Responsibilities:

Writing Performance Test Cases and execution of Performance Test cases

Creating the automated test scripts.

Test Data Preparation.

Set Up of Load Testing Environment and Sequencing.

Executing test scripts and obtaining graphs based on performance parameters.

Analysis of graphs and Reporting the Results of Performance tests

Interpreting the Response and Performance Graphs

Executing test case and test scripts designed in the test lab of Test Director.

On failure of the test sets, reporting or raising defects and linking the raised to the test set
that has failed.
Assigning defects to the Test Manager who passes it on to the concerned developer, taking

screen shots of the defect and attaching the same to the defect, describing detailed steps to
simulate the defect. Allocating the status of the defect as new when it is raised and
changing the status to closed or re-open when the defect is retested.

Additionally deciding on the critically of the defect and assigning the priority and severity to
the defect.

Re-executing the test scripts when the defect has fixed.

Extracting reports, graphs, interpreting the same and sending the analyzed results to the
Test manager for review.

Environment: ASP, MS SQL Server, Web Methods, Toad, Test Director.

Test Engineer

Merrill Lynch (U.K)

Project: Equity Products

Feb 04 May 04
Domain: Investment Banking

Project Description:

Risk Analysis and Management is an n-tier architecture project on

Credit derivatives, Foreign Exchange and Money Markets platforms. The over all application
functionality includes, Creating & Modifying instruments using Transaction Editor / Instrument Editor
(TE/IE), calculating Prices for derivative instruments using the same financial models that are used
by RAM system (thru RAM Excel Add-In). Using Deal App for entering deals & transactions into the
global equity derivatives production database, calculating the P&L by PL App and checking the risk
by ROX.
Responsibilities:

Executing test case and test scripts designed in the test lab of Test Director.

On failure of the test sets, reporting or raising defects and linking the raised to the test set
that has failed.

Assigning defects to the Test Manager who passes it on to the concerned developer, taking
screen shots of the defect and attaching the same to the defect, describing detailed steps to
simulate the defect. Allocating the status of the defect as new when it is raised and
changing the status to closed or re-open when the defect is retested.

Additionally deciding on the critically of the defect and assigning the priority and severity to
the defect.

Re-executing the test scripts when the defect has fixed.

Extracting reports, graphs, interpreting the same and sending the analyzed results to the
Test manager for review.

Environment: Oracle, SQL, ASP, Win 2000, Test Director (Defect Tracking)
Test Engineer
United Health Group, USA
Project- OASIS Health care Insurance

Sep 02 - Jan 03
Domain: Insurance

Description:
This is a Health care Insurance project and mainly deals with integration
of HealthCare and Insurance domains. Main modules included in this project are Home, Host,
Members, Providers, Vendors, Services, Claims, Benefits, Pricing. The main functionality of this
project is when members register in Health care Insurance then the members get the reimbursed
amount from the Insurance Company through Health care Insurance.
Responsibilities:

Involved in review of requirements

Creation of test plan and test cases

Testing the system for integration test and system test

Review of Test cases

Executed Test cases as per the Test Plan

Defect Logging & Tracking

Involved in UAT

Environment: Java, Power Builder, Oracle 8.0, MS Excel, Windows 2000.