Swaminathan Kothandaraman
Sydney,NSW
Summary
Highly skilled QA professional with extensive experience in creating test plans, test cases, and test scripts for data-focused projects and applications. Proven track record in data migration and integration projects within the financial services sector. Strong communicator with hands-on UAT testing experience, available to start immediately.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Test Analyst
GRAVITY CONSULTANCY
Sydney
11.2015 - Current
- Overall program planning and status tracking to ensure completion of projects on time
- Working closely with business analyst to understand the requirement and design technical solutions
- Prepare development & testing documentations to the team for the products and handle user acceptance testing and product acceptance testing
- Executed manual tests, identified defects and tracked them in defect tracking systems.
- Participated in peer reviews of test artifacts such as test plans, cases, scripts.
- Analyzed performance metrics for applications under test such as response times or memory usage.
- Ensured compliance with industry standards throughout the development cycle.
- Developed test plans, strategies, and standards for software testing.
- Provided input into risk-based decisions on when a product is ready for release.
Senior QA (Data Migration & Testing)
KLOUDDATA INC.
Fremont, California, US
11.2014 - 09.2015
- Extracting data from databases using ETL Data Services Tool for reporting
- Responsible for assuring overall quality of releases of the functional release of projects and end to end testing
- Working closely with business analyst to understand the requirement and create Functional and Regression test cases
- Performed Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Ad-hoc Testing, Regression testing defect logging & resolution
- Prepared Performance test plan, test approach implemented Performance test scripts
- System testing by validating the program after deployment and supporting the program in warranty by working issue tickets
- Define priorities for the bugs by working closely with the development team
- Collaborated with project managers in setting up timelines for projects from conception through delivery.
- Provided leadership to a team of testers by assigning tasks, monitoring progress and providing guidance when needed.
Analyst Programmer
ACCENTURE
Chennai, India
07.2010 - 05.2012
- Actively involved in understanding the requirements from management teams to develop application
- Resources Management – task allocation, follow-up and overall Testing of applications
- Developed process flow document for various projects for migration
- Cross functional team communication –Project Managers, QA team, Development team
- Weekly regression test management – build installation, QA assignment, Regression Test Execution and Defect Analysis
- Member of the Project Management and Operations (PMO) team managing the Manpower Master & Dashboard of all the 12 portfolios of the team onshore & offshore resources
- Senior Member in the TFS team Involved in managing all the 240+ projects of the CIO (Central Information Office) of Accenture.
Software Engineer
JAYPAR SOFTWARE
Bangalore, India
05.2007 - 04.2010
- Developing web applications by coding using .net technologies
- Providing implementation support to clients
- Weekly status report creation on Development & Testing tasks
- Creation of Test Plans, Test Cases, estimation and testing
- Actively involved in understanding the requirements from management teams to develop application
- QA Test Plan, Test Cases creation, execution and testing regression for feature enhancements
- Mentored and evaluated associates in the year-end appraisal process.
MIS Executive
ACER India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore, India
04.2006 - 04.2007
- Deputed as MIS Executive for enhancement & maintenance of all Acer applications in .NET technologies
- Providing implementation support to clients
- Case study creation based on issues and resolutions
- Mentored and evaluated associates in the year-end appraisal process
- Change Management and analysis.
Software Engineer
DHITHI Info Serve Pvt Ltd
Bangalore, India
07.2004 - 04.2007
- Developing web application, by coding using .NET technologies
- Providing implementation support to clients
- Developed common application library to be used over similar kind of applications
- Trained junior members of the team on project technology stack
- Offering customer satisfaction by providing support for applications in maintenance phase and by responding immediately to production issues.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
Pondicherry University
Diploma - Electronics & Communication
SASTRA University
Skills
- Software development life cycle
- Test Data Preparation
- Test case design
- Database Testing
- Expert Test Planning
- Test Execution
- Test strategy development
- Bug Reporting Tools
- Agile Methodology
- Test Reporting
- Test Management Tools
- Requirements Analysis
- Defect tracking
- User Acceptance Testing
- Data Migration Testing
- Database configuration
- Error Handling
- SQL Optimization
- Stored Procedures
- Javascript
Awards
- Best performance Team award for Migration of TFS 2008 to TFS 2010 in October 2011 in Accenture
- Best Event Manager Award for arranging and managing company events and outings in Accenture
Affiliations
- Member of local cricket team in the Blacktown council
Languages
English
Professional
Tamil
Professional
Hindi
Professional
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Senior Test Analyst
GRAVITY CONSULTANCY
11.2015 - Current
Senior QA (Data Migration & Testing)
KLOUDDATA INC.
11.2014 - 09.2015
Analyst Programmer
ACCENTURE
07.2010 - 05.2012
Software Engineer
JAYPAR SOFTWARE
05.2007 - 04.2010
MIS Executive
ACER India Pvt Ltd
04.2006 - 04.2007
Software Engineer
DHITHI Info Serve Pvt Ltd
07.2004 - 04.2007
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
Pondicherry University
Diploma - Electronics & Communication
SASTRA University
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