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Ravindra. A. N Contact No: + 1 512 696 6962
GrayMoss. Email: (1) Ravindra.narayanappa@wipro.com
12445, Alameda Trace Circle,
214, Austin Texas. Mobile : 01 512 696 6962
78727
Executive Summary:
• Above 14+ years of experience in Test Mangmment, Test Automation, Quality Assurance, Software
testing, test planning, System testing, regression testing, UAT, End to End testing, CICD
implementation and process improvement.
• Expertise in implimenting new and improved process throughout the project and software test life
cycle including test requirements, defect management, reporting and automation.
• Have worked with global investment banks in Securities & capital markets domain
• Primary skills are Test Automation, Test management, Software Testing, Test Tools Consultation,
CICD implementation with JIRA suite of Tools and Quality process.
• Expertise in Testing tools like Tosca Test Suite, Selenium, UFT, TestStack White, Performance
centre, JIRA, Verifix, FIX protocol, Parasoft SOATest, CICD tools like bamboo, bitbucket, Zephyr
and JIRA
• Currently working with Wipro Technoligies as Automation Consultant / CICD Implementation for a
leading Brokerage Firm
• Visa Type : H1B
Academic Profile:
Bachelor of Engineering in ComputerScience from Bangalore University, 1995
Technical Knowledge:
Operating Systems : Unix, Windows ( All Flavours), MS-DOS
Database Programming : SQL,
Programming Languages : C#, Java, Phyton
Protocols : FIX 4.2, 4.4.
Testing Tools : Tosca Testscite, Selenium, UFT, Performance centre, Verifix,
Parasoft SOATest, Parasoft EM, Virtulize.
CICD tools : Bamboo, Zephyr, BitBucket, Git and JIRA Tools
Others : Testing and Troubleshooting of PCBs.
Experience Summary:
1) Test Manager/Technical Consultant, April 2001 - Present
Wipro Technologies
Bangalore, India
2) Quality Assurance Engineer, April 2000 – March 2001
RELQ Software Pvt Ltd.
Bangalore, India
3) Graduate Apprentice, May 1997 – May 1998
Bharat Electronic Ltd
Bangalore, India.
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4) AutoCAD Designer and System Analyst , Aug 1995 – Aug 1997
M/s Saolapurkar and Associates
Bangalore, India.
Project Profile:
SOA QA – Web services Testing – Test Manager - Feb 12 – till date.
Wipro Technologies
Client : Charles Schwab.
Manage "Web services QA" for various Stake holders & consumers web services in QA environment and
certify for UAT. Following RUP/Agile process model to test and certify the web services to consumers, which
includes Inception sizing, Test preparations, Reviews, Test execution, test summary along with sign off for
various projects. Also along with Web Service QA, Managing Risk and Compliance QA viz., products like
Open pages, Actimize..
Role/Responsibilites:
• Kick off new QA projects
• Issues handling at project level
• Capacity planning and management
• Training plan / knowledge sharing sessions
• Project execution, tracking and delivery
• Review of all key Deliverables
• Progress reviews & status updates to Schwab Management
• Support test audits and rectify any observations thereof
• Risk management (Project Level)
• Create, maintain and analyze project and domain-level metrics
• Implement process changes and track improvements
• Interfacing with the Schwab Manager, Schwab leads, business partners and other stakeholders
• Plan and manage Test activities for all the Web services.
• Regular interaction with stakeholders
• Update Dashboards and status updates to stakeholders.
• Offshore-onsite team management, Resourse allocation planning along with capacity.
• Ensure users and stakeholders are satisfied with deliverables and have regular reviews.
• Implement new ideas/Solutions within SOA.
• Provide consultation on test approach, Automation ideas, CICD implementation
Risk Finance & ESS(RFE) IT QA - International Build Out Program – Test Manager - Aug 09 – Jan 12.
Wipro Technologies
Client : Barclays Capital Services Limited.
To provide support on Test Execution, Test Management, Batch Monitoring, routine test execution steps
across Finance control, Product Control, Market Risk, Credit Risk, Compliance Function. There are 13
applications and 15 team members to support SIT, F2B and UAT and other minor works.
Role/Responsibilites:
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• Kick off new QA projects
• Issues handling at project level
• Capacity planning and management
• Training plan / knowledge sharing sessions
• Project execution, tracking and delivery
• Review of all key Deliverables
• Progress reviews & status updates to Barclays Management
• Support test audits and rectify any observations thereof
• Create, maintain and analyze project and domain-level metrics
• Implement process changes and track improvements
• Interfacing with the Barclays Manager, Barclays leads, business partners and other stakeholders
• Plan and manage Test activities for all the international build outs and support SIT, F2B & UAT.
• Regular interaction with stakeholders
• Update Dashboards and status updates to stakeholders across the Globe
• Offshore team management
• Co-ordinate with all onshore Appliciaton stakeholders
• Ensure users and stakeholders are satisfied with deliverables and have regular reviews.
FIDESSA TOP – Trading Platform – Test/Automation Lead ( 1 year 2 Months )
Wipro Technologies
Client : Lehman Brothers., London, UK / Nomura International UK Plc
Fidessa trading platform from Royalblue. Fidessa provides an extensive suite of products to support the front
office trading activities. The fidessa product set includes components responsible for trading, position
keeping, order management and execution as well as internal and external communications interfaces.
Components of the System used by client are TMAR (Trade Management and Reporting), OMAR (Order
Management & Routing), PMAC(Position Management and Consolidation), EMMA(European Multi Market
Access) and CTAC(Client Trades Allocation and Confirmation)
System Environment : TSL, Fidessa properatory toolkit
Role/Responsibilites:
• Plan and manage Test activities for all the build outs.
• Support regression for major and minor release testing
• Test Automation
• Fidessa End to End Testing
SUPER CEL – High Volume DMA Connectity. – Test Lead ( 4 Months )
Wipro Technologies
Client : Lehman Brothers.,NY, USA
SuperCel is an Exchange connectivity application having low touch execution platform with latency on sub
milli seceonds, Provides High Volume Direct Market Access(HVDMA) and Direct Market Access (DMA) flow
to clients via FIX engine. This application supports LSE, CHIX, EURONEXT, XETRA
System Environment : Java, FIX protocal
Role/Responsibilites:
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• Manage the Test Team & Test activities for all the build outs.
• 95% automation using Verifix
• Support all the Exchange updates and Release testing.
FIRST US - RAPTOR Connectivity - Test Automation (1 year 9 Months)
Wipro Technologies
Client : Lehman Brothers.,NY, USA
Raptor(Rapid Agency and Principal Trading and Order Routing) will cater to Direct Market Access orders in
the US. DMA(Direct Market Acess) orders are primarily no touch orders that originate either from external
clients or internal desks. These orders are mostly computer gernetated using mathematical models. The
goal is to reach the liquidity venue with the lowest possible latency without human intervention. DMA orders
in the US, Based on routing rules will be sent to NYSE(DOT), AMEX and LAVA for execution.
System Environment : Java, client server.
Role/Responsibilites:
• Test Automation Consultant.
Cash Trading (CTI) - Test Automation – Offshore (2 years 7 Months).
Wipro Technologies
Client : Lehman Brothers.,NY, USA
CTI was commissioned to service Firm’s Institutional trading floor and also to modernized the business flow
for the trading floor, that relied heavily on telephone and verbal confirmation. CTI Provides an electronically
connected platform for lehman traders and execution facilities. CTI was basically designed to support the US
equity trading and in due course of time its scope is also expanding to support Options trading equity.
System Environment : Java, client server.
Role/Responsibilites:
• Module Lead
• QA and Test Automation consultant.
ALSCOM - Test Automation – Onsite ( 4 Months )
Wipro Technologies
Client : Fedility Information Services., Atlanta (GA), USA
ALSCOM is a Loan Origination System developed With Visual Basic and used in citrix platform. This
Application provides an automation of Loan Origination system and provides indepth details of the customer
for applying laon for various products.
System Environment : ASP, VB, Windows NT 4
Role/Responsibilites:
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• Enhancement of Automation for existing/new Test Cases.
• Involved in release validation.
• Automation of Testcases using Winrunner 7.5,
CountryWide Portal Testing. – Onsite ( 1 month 2 weeks )
Wipro Technologies
Client : Countrywide Finance Corporation., CA, USA
www.countrywide.com had 6-7 individual web sites individualy maintained by different groups. This project
dealt with putting all together to one portal with back end as seibel.
System Environment : ASP, VB, Windows NT 4
Role/Responsibilites:
• Involved in Data verfication and validation.
• Verification of live customer data(in Custmart a database interface to lagecy system AS400)in front
end portal and validate the same.
• Manualy executed the functionality of all the site interface to the portal. - Used some of the software
engineering tools like linkchecker for identifing broken links. Astra site manager to indentfy the site
map interfaces.
ALSCOM - Test Automation – Onsite ( 4 Months )
Wipro Technologies
Client : Fedility Information Services., Atlanta (GA), USA
ALSCOM is a Loan Origination System developed With Visual Basic and used in citrix platform. This
Application provides an automation of Loan Origination system and provides indepth details of the customer
for applying laon for various products.
System Environment : ASP, VB, Windows NT 4
Role/Responsibilites:
• Enhancement of Automation for existing/new Test Cases.
• Involved in release validation.
• Automation of Testcases using Winrunner 7.5,
Tools Consultant: Offshore (1 year 3 months ).
Tools Group.
Six sigma projects :
Online tools monitoring system for non rational tools.
• Was a team member for a six sigma project. Where attained cycle time reduction in allocation of
tools to project and ROI on the same.
Unit testing using Jtest tool.
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• Was a team member. Six sigma was achieved on effective usage of Jtest tool attaining product
quality and productivity
Role/Responsibilites:
• Providing support on Technical Query related to Tools on GUI Functional Testing like Winrunner,
Unit testing tools for Java like Jtest,
• Ensure the usage of Software engineering Tools in project for improvement of product quality and
productivity.
• Custamised VelocQ Java Coding Standards into Jtest.
• Tools Usage Index , Project plan Review, providing suggestion to Use best tools fitting to the
projects.
• Provided Support for Toshiba project for executing and developing Test Scripts using winrunner for
Printer driver Window standalone application developed using VC++.
Marsh wrapup - Offshore ( 2 Months )
Wipro Technologies
Client : Marsh Malennen, New york, USA
Role/Responsibilites:
• Involved in framework creation related to combination of testcases into a single test script for
Automation using win runner.
• Developed test scripts using winrunner for JSPs intracting with MS SQL sever through Weblogic.
CountryWide Portal Testing. – Onsite ( 1 month 2 weeks )
Wipro Technologies
Client : Countrywide Finance Corporation., CA, USA
www.countrywide.com had 6-7 individual web sites individualy maintained by different groups. This project
dealt with putting all together to one portal with back end as seibel.
System Environment : ASP, VB, Windows NT 4
Role/Responsibilites:
• Involved in Data verfication and validation.
• Verification of live customer data(in Custmart a database interface to lagecy system AS400)in front
end portal and validate the same.
• Manualy executed the functionality of all the site interface to the portal. - Used some of the software
engineering tools like linkchecker for identifing broken links. Astra site manager to indentfy the site
map interfaces.
iPAT Project – Offshore ( 9 Months )
Wipro Technologies
Clients : Wipro
iPAT stands for integrated Process Automation Tool. It automates the data collection mechanism
through out the project lifecycle of a software project starting from Project Planning to Project Closure
activities. It gives Project Managers the ability to track the various project parameters, providing a good
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view into the health of the project at any given point in time. The tool also allows Client to
Commendations, Complaints and Satisfaction ratings. It provides the top management with the visibility
to arrive at current state of the projects.
System Environment : ASP, VB, Windows NT 4, MS SQL.
Role/Responsibilites: Quality Co-Ordinator
• Review of Workitems related to ASP’s, Components written VB, SQL queries.
• Developed System testcases for data transation between HTML pages and Data Base (MS SQL
server) through VB components.
• Functional Test Cases were excuted for Functionality between HTML pages, ASP pages intracting to
Data Base ( MS SQL )
• Automation scripts were developed using winrunner for the test cases related to HTML pages, ASPs
and MS SQL intracting with IIS server and also for VB Scripts/Java Scripts validations.
• Involved in Manual Test Audits related to funcationality of ASPs requests and responses.
CitiDirect - Internet Banking, May 2000 – March 2001
I-flex Solutions Ltd, Mumbai
End Client: CDC, LA (Citidirect Development Corporation, Los Angeles)
CitiDirect is a PC Internet banking solution from CDC-LA, which is based on the NTDS architecture
developed by CDC. In the NTDS paradigm, applications for a specific country are configured by tuning
the global application (Global Direct Access or GDA) and by developing market-specific functions. It is a
Three tire Architecture product using COM Technology. It has been developed for more than 25
countries.
System Environment: Visual Basic 6, JavaScript, NTDS, IIS 4, Windows NT 4
Role/Responsibilities:
• Developed Test cases for functionality between HTML pages and NTDS server.(IIS)
• Executed Test cases related to data transfer between HTML pages and MS SQL server through
VB Components in IIS.
• Developed Test Scripts using Winrunner for the functionally of Business logic between HTML
pages and VB components.
• Developed Test Scripts using Winrunner for VB Scripts/Java Scripts Validations and server side
Error Handling.
Baxter Health Care System – April 2000 – May 2000
Shoba Renonsence Information Technology
Bangalore
Baxter Health Care System is a Product for Documenting and Reporting the Hazards occurred, estimating
the Levels of Hazards, Prevention measures for it, and Effects of Hazards on Human who are working
for Industries
System Environment : Visual Basic 5.0, Windows NT 4
Role/Responsibilites:
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• Developed test cases related Funcationality of Standalone application intracting to MS SQL sever
Data base.
• Ececution of Test Cases for application developed using VB..
FLYCATCHER AND TCV – July 1997 – July 1998
Bharat Electronic Ltd, Bangalore
End Clients : Indian Army.
Flycatcher is and Antiaircraft Radar, which detects the antiaircraft, entered into the territory and tracks it. And
TCV is a Trishool Combat Vehicle which involves both Tracking and Destroying the spy aircraft.
System Environment : Automatic Testing Equipment (ATE Like John Fluke, Sclumberger S790 )
Role/Responsibilites: Testing and Troubleshooting Analog and digital PCBs. As per specifications
Involved in many House Planing and Interior Designing – Aug 1995 – Aug 1997
Employer : M/s Saolapurkar and Associates
System Environment : Window 95.
Role/Responsibilites: Designing and drafting of plans, estimating the costs etc..
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