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Karthikeyan Sivagnanam, Senior Associate, Sapient, Bangalore
Email ID: karthikguna@gmail.com mob: (0)9902013460
Summary
8+ yrs of experience in QA/ testing, currently working as Senior Associate (Global markets) in Sapient from Oct 2013. I
have involved in manual and automation testing on key modules like Deal management, EOD workflows, FX and Reports of
ETRM product, endur. Endur is an Openlink ETRM product being utilized majorly in energy market.
Sapient is a marketing and consulting company that provides business, marketing, and technology services to clients. The
company operates three divisions, SapientNitro, Sapient Global Markets and Sapient Government Services.
Sapient Global Markets provides business and technology services and solutions to firms in the Capital Markets and
Commodity industries. It provides clients with services to help respond to new and changing regulations, achieve
operational efficiencies, improve the user experience, and manage enterprise risk. Its practice areas include buy-side
investment processes, commodities trading and risk management, derivatives platforms, clearing and collateral, data
management, operational risk, pipeline and shipping, portfolio accounting, trade documentation, regulatory reporting, and
valuation and risk analytics
My Prior company is Eka software solutions pvt ltd. It's a product based company where I lastly designated as Senior QA
lead ,and was managing team for a prospective client who are into smelting & trading business. I have sound domain
knowledge on Commodity trading life cycle(CTRM) especially on Agro and Metals products. Other noted key responsible
areas I have accomplished were Client interaction(UAT/Peer/functionality development), Analyzing/Reviewing functional
specification docs, Part of Brainstorming session to baseline the requirements & features and also played a role of liaison
between development and QA team to have effective & quality delivery.
Work Experience
Openlink endur upgrade project - Eni (Sep 2014 to March 2015)
Responsibility includes reconciliation testing of EOD workflows between version 9.0 and 12.0 of Endur.Following are the
WBS carried out during the tenure. They project was success and they have gone live with version v12.
•EOD workflow configuration in conformity with business requirements
•EOD workflows execution and recon testing between v9 and v12 over prod and intended test deals.
•Business and Sim results related reports comparison between v9 and v12
•Workflow execution failure/delta causes analysis and reporting by tracking as TFS items.
•Validating new test deals and ensure the data scoped in EOD scenarios say Option exercise/expiry, cascading, YTD and
close out
•Status reporting on each EOD over LLP and follow up/interact with peers’ onsite to have the defects analyzed and
prioritized for fix.
Openlink endur, regression testing – EON (Nov 2013 to August 2014)

2. sapientglobalmarkets.com
Karthikeyan Sivagnanam, Senior Associate, Sapient, Bangalore
Email ID: karthikguna@gmail.com mob: (0)9902013460
During my tenure , have worked on
•Recon testing on long term migration (Gas product) contracts. The workflow involves manual test case/recon query
preparation and execution.
• Test case preparation & restructuring for modules like Confirmations and Invoicing.
• Regression testing: Involved in QTP automation tool execution/debugging against modules like Deal management, FX
and Reports and recognized by the client upon success of the build.
•Gained good exposure on various modules of endur like Deal management, FX, Confirmations, Invoicing, Interfaces and
reports during regression testing.
Eka Software Solutions Pvt Ltd, December 2005 To August, 2013
Senior QA lead - Metals CTRM product for Boliden
This enterprise product is meant for client involved in Smelting and trading business of various metals product including
Base metals and Concentrates. It comprise key modules like trade management, accounting, risk management tolling and
derivatives.
• Management of QA team effectively targeting milestone delivery
• Serving as Liaison between QA and other department
• Minimized invalid bugs by doing Bug scrubbing before assigning to Dev lead
• Well maintained Traceability matrix on features against test cases and execution status.
• Mentored new resources on domain and build peers across modules to avoid risk
• Highlighting and projecting risk items and status as on daily/weekly basis.
• Coordinating and follow up with Automation team on scripting manual test cases prioritized.
• Involved in UAT scenarios preparation/execution.
• Managing team committed for Production support(Patch management)
• Involving in gap analysis on functional coverage and defects scrubbing periodically.
• Involving in Interface testing (web service), part of sprint delivery, using MQ client (Queues configured) and SOAP UI, for
applicable/integration features. Interacting closely with Client side resource to meet up to expectation mainly on XSDs and
response data format.
• Involved in phases of testing like Regression, E2E Business scenarios testing and Reconciliation.
Skill/Domain: QA, Test Lead, Execution, Planning , Defect Management
QA lead - Metals CTRM product for Traxys
The client is into Commodity trading business , mainly on Base metals and Concentrates products. The eka product comprise
key modules like Trade management, Logistics, Accounting , M2M and Derivatives required for their business flow.
• Management of QA team effectively targeting milestone delivery
• Serving as Liaison between QA and other department
• Minimized invalid bugs by doing Bug scrubbing before assigning to Dev lead
• Well maintained Traceability matrix on features against test cases and execution status.

3. sapientglobalmarkets.com
Karthikeyan Sivagnanam, Senior Associate, Sapient, Bangalore
Email ID: karthikguna@gmail.com mob: (0)9902013460
• Mentored new resources on domain and build peers across modules to avoid risk
• Highlighting and projecting risk items and status as on daily/weekly basis.
• Coordinating and follow up with Automation team on scripting manual test cases prioritized.
• Involved in test plan preparation and E2E Business scenarios preparation/execution
• Involving in gap analysis on functional coverage and defects scrubbing periodically.
Skill/Domain: QA, Test Lead, Execution, Planning , Defect Management
Senior QA Engineer - Hedging and Derivatives - Multi commodity trading product
Internal release of Multi commodity trading product delivered for first hand testing. The product is aimed at developing
features serve as part of component, may or may not be needed for the client.
Our role as automation engineer was to prepare scripts and execute using Hybrid framework approach. Hedge allocation
and other derivative functionalities were automated for regression testing. Status on health of the AUT has been reported
periodically.
Skill/Domain: QA Automation, Sahi
Senior QA Engineer – CTRM product for Noble Cotton trading organisation
The product is delivered to one of corporates of Noble group, who are into cotton trading. The product comprise major
trading related modules like Trade management, Risk management, Accounting, Inventory management, Reports(Pnl &
position) and Derivatives.
• Test design, execution and bug tracking for Logistics and Cost &Invoicing modules as peer resource for client: Noble
Cotton, onsite QA team.
• Involved in conducting Smoke testing and preparing final smoke test report in Noble SIT environment.
• Preparation & Peer review of test case specification.
• Coordinating with development team to reproduce and validate bugs and verify closures.
• Review functional specification and worked with consulting team to identify the gap in FS while writing test cases.
• Preparation of defect summary and execution report
Skill/Domain: Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Defect log(Bugzilla)
QA Lead - CTRM product for Noble Metals trading organisation
Noble trading organization who are into multiproduct trading has corporate for metals business. The intent of product
delivery is to meet their business goals in metals trading business.
I played a role of QA lead ,managing team's productivity, mentoring on key functionalities to the team, and served as liaison
between development and QA team. Involved in test estimates, resource allocation and defect scrubbing.
Skill/Domain: Team Lead, QA
QA Engineer - CTRM product for Noble Coffee trading organization
Noble group has corporates across the globe. The project is delivered to support their business operation on coffee product.
As enterprise product ,includes aforementioned modules like Trade management, Logistics management, Derivatives,
Accounting and Reports(Pnl/Position).
• Involved in preparation and execution of test cases for Logistics,M2M and Cost

4. sapientglobalmarkets.com
Karthikeyan Sivagnanam, Senior Associate, Sapient, Bangalore
Email ID: karthikguna@gmail.com mob: (0)9902013460
• Involved in preparation and execution of unrealized p&l and realized p&L reports of both physicals and derivatives
• Bug verification and logging.
• Involved in UAT onsite -phase 1 and supported users to sign off the delivery
Skill/Domain: Functional Testing
QA Engineer - CTRM product for Agssoft clients
CTRM product i.e. supports coffee trading and blending/processing business.
My initial responsibility started with Functional testing of two Agro client (Tristao) who is into Coffee trading. Served as sole
and individual contributor, involved in functional test case preparation and execution of Physical trading, Logistics and
Futures features, build management, client environment testing, Patch sign off and status reporting.
Skill/Domain: Functional Testing, Build management
Skills
Database Languages Oracle 9i,PL-SQL,SQL
Automation Tool Exposure to QTP, Selenium
Manual Testing Expert in Manual Testing
Business Knowledge Commodity trading market, ETRM, Money market instruments
Business Skills Good understanding of the Trading Lifecycle(commodities, derivatives)
Education
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science: Annamalai University, 2003
Additional Details
Certification/Trainings
NSE Financial market-Beginner's module, 2011
Awards
Eka team excellence award from Eka software solutions pvt ltd, 2012
Spot on Awardee from Eka software solutions pvt ltd, 2010
Significant Contributions
Involved in preparing testing framework to create end to end Business scenarios. Proposed and implemented revised
approach of agile testing, adaptable to Eka software solutions pvt ltd.
Prefer to have calls after 6 pm.

5. sapientglobalmarkets.com
Karthikeyan Sivagnanam, Senior Associate, Sapient, Bangalore
Email ID: karthikguna@gmail.com mob: (0)9902013460

6. sapientglobalmarkets.com
Karthikeyan Sivagnanam, Senior Associate, Sapient, Bangalore
Email ID: karthikguna@gmail.com mob: (0)9902013460