PRAVEEN MARAMREDDY

 +91 9241 480 481

 mpraveen.acc@gmail.com

CAREER SUMMARY

 Around 5 years 5 months of total testing experience in which 4 years of automation

experience.
 Sound skills in requirements analysis, test design, test planning, test execution,
reporting and coordination.
 Experience in developing test documents like Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Scenario,
Test conditions, Test cases and preparation of test data.
 Expertise in automation testing using QTP tool, i.e building various automation
frameworks to perform end to end testing, identifying and designing reusable
functions, creating, executing & maintaining QTP scripts.
 Primary point-of-contact for QTP related issues for different projects in COMMS
domain.
 Expertise in developing PERL scripts to automate UNIX based applications.
 Experience in performance testing using Load runner tool.
 Sound skills in UNIX, PERL, VBScript, SQL and PL/SQL.
 Well acquainted with the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Testing
Life Cycle (TLC).
 Having experience in test management tools (Test Director & Quality Center),
configuration management tool (Harvest), database interaction tools (Rapid SQL &
TOAD), UNIX server interaction tools (Secure shell & Putty).
 Effectively managed knowledge by sharing best testing practices across the
organization.
 Planned, scheduled and tracked the overall testing activities within the team.
 Involved in test estimation, resource identification, work assignment and monitoring
work progress.
 Ensure team members are charging the time accurately as per work assignment.
 Experience on different types of tests like functional, regression, smoke and database
testing.
 Extensive experience in testing client server & web applications.

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 Helping team members & counselees in clarifying their technical issues and to meet
their career development goals.
 Involved in internal and external audits.
 Having 6 months of onsite experience (Birmingham, USA).
 Published a white paper on “System testing in Cloud computing” topic.
 As an empanelled interviewer involved in Accenture recruiting process.

 Involved in performance appraisal process to represent team members.

CERTIFICATIONS

 ISEB (Information Systems Examination Board) Certified (Certificate No:

1521395).
 CSTE (Certified Software Tester) Certified (Certificate No: 11986).
 QTP 8.2 Certified (CPS) from Mercury (Certificate ID: 0727-14DF0).
 AIS - HP Quality Center v9
• HP QTP 9.2 Certified Professional.
• HP Quality Center 9.2 Software Certified.
 AIS - HP Performance Center v9
• HP LoadRunner Software (Exam code: HP0M18).
• LoadRunner VUGen (Exam code: HP0M19).
 Application Test Designer Certification from Accenture and MIT.
 ACTD (Accenture Certified Test Designer) Certified.
 COMMS P1 certified from Accenture.

EDUCATION

 B.Tech (Electrical & Electronics Engineering) with 71.68% from JNTU,

Hyderabad.
 Intermediate with 89.6% from Board of Intermediate Education.
 S.S.C with 80.00% from Board of Secondary Education, AP.

WORK EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

 Currently working for Accenture Services Pvt Ltd., Bangalore as Team Lead
since May 2005 to till date.

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TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems Windows XP, Vista, 7 and UNIX.

Test Automation Tools Win Runner, QTP 8.2/9.2/9.5/10.0 and Load Runner.
Test Management Tool Test Director & Quality Center 9.2/10.0.
Programming C, Core JAVA, SQL and PL/SQL, Excel Macros.
Languages
Scripting Languages VB Script, PERL and RUBY.
Database Sybase, MySQL and Oracle.
Other Tools Rapid SQL, TOAD, Harvest, Secure Shell, Putty, Rumba.

PROJECT EXPERIENCE

Project#1
Title : ESD Middleware.

Client : AT&T.

Duration : March 2007 to till date.

Environment : Windows XP, Java, JSP, EJB, Oracle 10g, Harvest and TOAD.

Testing Performed : Manual Testing, QTP 9.2/9.5/10.0.

Description:

Enterprise Services and Data (ESD) is the store for Common Business Services. A CBS
service is a reusable, SOA component that provides a business solution. Middleware is
part of a three-tier architecture strategy. The first tier is either GUI or web based front-
end software. The middle tier contains the general service functions including Order,
Product and Customer account. The third tier is typically the legacy database software
and structures.
CBS is not directly accessed by end users; it is instead a service exposes an API to other
applications that may be accessed by end-user groups. Clients can use different
transports like CORBA, WMQ, Web Service or ESB to reach a CBS service. CBS services
designed around EJB architecture. Interface implemented as thin layer above EJB’s to
allow addition of new interfaces to existing services.

In addition to client application facing services, there are several other components
available as specified below on the CBS platform that acts as “building blocks” for
services:

Agents – allows services to access databases.

Caches - provide locally-hosted file-based cached responses for services.

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 Loaders – load data from external sources into data bases (typically via file feeds)

EDF’s – dump data from databases to send to external sources.

Archivers – archives old data from data bases based on specified condition.

Interfaces – an exposed entry point for client application to send or receive

response messages.

Roles & Responsibilities:

 Understand and enhance telecom domain knowledge.

 Involved in solution approach, requirements analysis and risk assessment analysis.

 Involved in test estimation, resource identification, work allocation and status

tracking.

 Involved in preparation of test plan, test cases, and test execution.

 Active interaction with team members, developers, business analyst, delivery

manager and Project manager for issues, clarifications and escalations.

 Developing and executing test scripts using QTP as a part of GUI testing,
regression testing and database testing.

 Developed automation proof-of-concept (POC) to migrate WinRunner scripts to

QTP.

 Deeply involved in migration of WinRunner scripts to QTP.

 Developed QTP scripts to perform browser compatibility testing.

 Identification of automation framework for QTP, creation of common functions like

database related functions, excel functions for results capturing and error handling
functions.

 Helped development & performance teams by creating a QTP script for data setup
which reduced 60%of estimation for both the teams.

 Involved in QTP code review, peer review, requirement review.

 Automating and maintaining UNIX based services using PERL scripting language.

 Prepared test coverage matrix, test closure memo.

 Raising and tracking defects in Harvest and HP-QC tools.

 Involved in database testing using TOAD, created SQL queries.

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  Responsible for test data creation for different clients in UAT environment.

 Mentoring new team members.

 Preparation of KT plan, creating backup resources.

 Conducting regular team meetings, review meetings and also involved in

Accenture level training programs.

 Involved in performance testing using Load runner.

 Responsible to update the UAT readiness checklist, production checklist.

Project#2
Title : Automation.

Client : AT&T.

Duration : Sep 2006 to Feb 2007

Environment : Windows XP, Siebel, Oracle 8i.

Testing Performed : Manual Testing, QTP 9.0.

Description:

Automation team is built for automating all feasible AT&T applications. The applications
automated by the team are: Siebel RTM, XML Initiator, REAP, CCTool, FHT etc.

Roles & Responsibilities:

 Identified and created reusable actions for Modular Framework.

 Prepared Hand-off documents (Estimation Guidelines, Application Job Aid, QTP

Coding standards, Review check list, Test Script structure, Review Guidelines) for
application team.

 Provide day-to-day status to TL and AM.

 Created different VBScripts to use in QTP automation.

 Run Automated / Manual test cases as per the Release project Plan.

 Participated in code and deliverable Peer Reviews

 Tracking Defects and Posting Defects

 Mentor and coach new team members

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  Created PERL script to retrieve valid data from database, which is using by whole
team.

 Prepared resource plan as per Estimates given by Test Architect.

 Coordinating with onshore team and providing timely status reports.

Project#3
Title : COBI (Core services Ordering & Billing Infrastructure)

Client : BellSouth

Duration : May 2005 to Sep 2006

Environment : JAVA, J2EE, Sybase, Win 2K, MQC, Rapid SQL

Testing Tools : QTP8.2 & Test Director

Description:

The COBI Product Testing includes testing of different applications (REAP, CCTOOL and
FHT).

REAP (Registration Evolution Advancement Project): This is a web-based application.

Through this customer can able to register a DIAL up service online from BellSouth and
also it provides whole bunch of promos, bill plans and also multiple mailboxes (additional)
for customers.

CCTool (Customer Care Tool): It enables Bellsouth people to search for customer and
trace out customer’s information including Account Information, Billing Information, Email
information, Password Maintenance, Update Customer Info, verify BTN, Manage Call
tickets, Add a Call ticket, Changes in BillPlans, Modifying IPOC contact and etc.

Roles & Responsibilities:

 Deriving test scenarios from functional specifications.

 Design of test cases for functionality and database testing.

 Understand the system for Application Product Testing (APrT)

 Participate in peer, internal and external reviews.

 Involved in preparation of test approach, test strategy and test scenarios,

requirement traceability matrix, common test data.

 Execute the test cases and log & track the defects in TestDirector.

 Actively Participated in Pre UAT, UAT and implementation with the client team.

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  Executed the existing QTP scripts & recorded few QTP scripts.

PERSONAL DETAILS:

Name : Praveen Maramreddy

Languages Known : English, Hindi, Kannada and Telugu.

Date of Birth : 22/03/1982

Passport No. : F3663906 (Expiry Date : 08/06/2015)