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NISHANTHI SHANMUGASUNDARAM
Email:nishanthi.shanmugasundaram@gmail.com Phone:+1 720-280-3150
OBJECTIVE:
To gain employmentwithacompanyorinstitution thatoffersme aconsistentlypositive atmosphere to
learnnewtechnologiesandimplementthemforthe bettermentof the business.
EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:
➢ 5+ years of extensive experience on Quality Assurance and Automation Testing in an ERP and Travel
applications.
➢ Experience in Retail and Travel Domain.
➢Well versedinendtoendcustomerchainmanagementinPulporderplacingsystemsuchasplacingan
order, pricing it, approval and maintain shipments, generating invoices.
➢ Experience in analyzing the Business Requirements Document/Use Cases.
➢ Strong experience in manual Software testing/quality assurance (black box) as well as UI (User
Interface) testing, white box testing and V&V (Validation and Verification) testing.
➢ Creative inwritingandexecutingcomprehensive testplans,testsuites,testscripts,testscenarios,test
cases,end-to-endtestsandTestStrategiesinstructuredand AgiledevelopmentenvironmentsExperience
in Software DevelopmentLife Cycle (SDLC) as well as Software TestingLife Cycle (STLC) and knowledge
of Quality Assurance and Agile testing practices.
➢ ExperienceinimplementingQA Methodologies,TestPlans,TestCases,TestScenariosandDeliverables.
➢ Experience in prioritizing and managing individual and group tasks and deadlines.
➢ Experienced in Automation tools like Selenium wed driver and SOAP UI
➢ Experienced in SOAP and REST Web services Testing using SOAP UI and POSTMASTER
➢ Experienced in SOA Testing
➢ Experienced in Requirement Analysis. Analyze the requirements right from the inception and with a
Requirement Traceability Matrix(RTM) and QA metrics like test execution status, Defect report and
Daily/weekly status Reports.
➢ Experience inTestCase Design,TestPlan,TestStrategy,TestCase Execution,Testclosure reportsand
Defect Tracking.
➢ Experience in all levels of testing such as Positive testing, Negative testing, Integration testing,
Functional testing, Regression testing, UAT testing and Black box testing.
➢ Highly skilled in Writing test cases and Executing Test cases based on Business requirements and
specifications.
➢ Proficient with configuring and maintaining Defect Tracking System and worked withDefect Tracking
Tools like HP Quality Center,HP Application Lifecycle Management(ALM 11.0), JIRA and Bugzilla

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➢ Actively participated in communication Business Requirements with Developers while testing.
➢ Developed Complex database objects like Stored Procedures, Functions, Packages and Triggers
using SQL and PL/SQL
➢ Experience DB Tools Toad, DB Visualizer 9.2.15 and SQL Developer
➢ Experience in XML spy for XSD validation
➢ Attention to detail, documentation skills and motivation towards quality.
➢ Highlyorganized,versatile andresults-orientedteamplayerwithan energeticandarticulate approach
to testing.
WORK EXPERIENCE:
June 2016 – Till Date, QA AutomationTester, Universal API,Travelport, USA
Project Description:TravelportUniversal APIoffersmulti-source contentviaasingle API:air,hotel,car
rental,andrail.Ancillariesmayalsobe offered,dependingonthe type of contentthat isrequested.
Responsibilities :
• Reviewed andanalyzedthe BusinessRequirementDocumentsandTechnical requirementdocuments.
• Collaboratedtosupportagile planning,estimation,andexecutionProcesses.
• ParticipatedinwritingHighlevelTestplans,TestScenarios,Test casesandAnalysisandPresentation
of Results.
• DevelopeddetailedTestingMethodologies,TestMatricesandTestProcedures
• Participatedin Automation TestPlan,Involvedinreviewingthe scriptswrittenbypeers
• UsedFirebugto identifyObjects'ids,Name,XPaths,etc.,linksinthe application
• Involvedin Hybrid(Keyword& data) drivenframeworkdesignusing Selenium
• ExecutedSOAPbasedwebservices forAPItestingusingSoapUI
• Involvedindesignandimplementationof SeleniumWebdriverautomationframework forsmoke and
regressiontestsuites(JUnit).
• UsedSeleniumWebDriverandJUnitto run the parallel testing.
• Ensure that testcasesare update in HP ApplicationLifecycle Managementalongwiththe Master test
plan.
• Coordinatesall activitiesandall testersduring eachtestingphase of aproject
• UsingAgile methodologytoensure new featuresforwebbased applications.
• Review,analyze andcompareddefectsusing HPApplicationLifecycle Managementtoappropriately
track defects.
• InvolvedinManual testingusingHPApplicationLifecycle Management todeveloptestcases,test
scripts,executingthe scriptsandloggingthe defects.
• Executedandreviewedtestcasesasrequired toensure broadertest coverage.
Environment: SeleniumWebDriver,Eclipse,JUnit,Java,Jenkins,SQL, SOAPUI,HPALM, SVN,Todd.

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Feb2013 – Nov 2015, QA Tester, Domtar Pulp System(DPS),Domtar, USA
Project Description : Pulp System is a centralized order processing and invoicing system for pulp
orders.Ordersare entered intoPulpSystematzone officesandare pricedandallocatedusingthe systems
pricing and planning functions. When an order is accepted in the system, orders will go to mills for
production. Shipped orders are then invoiced to the customer using DPS's domestic invoicing or export
documentation facilities - and a record of the invoice is forwarded to the corporate A/R system for
collections.The system also pays ocean freight and truck and rail freight by forwarding a transmittal to
the corporate A/P system.
Responsibilities :
• Analyzed requirement updates and mapped them with the respective manual Test Cases using HP
Application Lifecycle Management.
• Preparation of test cases for Functional, Regression, Integration and System testing.
• Prepared Requirements Traceability Metrics (RTM), positive and negative test scenarios, detailed
oriented Test Scripts, Test Kickoff documents, Test Scorecard for test progress status, Test Results,
Release Check list, Lessons Learned documents and Regression Test Suite for future use.
• Extensively worked on Selenium Webdriver in analyzing the business processes and created UI
Automation scripts.
• Automation Test tools development, Test framework development.
• Created the Automation Test Plan and extensively used Selenium Webdriver for creating scripts for
functional and regression testing of various features of the application.
• Providedsystemanalysis,design,developmentanddeploymentof BusinessIntelligence Applications.
• Identify the primary key (logical / physical) and put update or insert logic
• Deleting the target data before processing based on logical or physical primary key.
• Assisted in the integration efforts for merging BusinessIntelligence platforms withenterprise Systems
and Applications.
• Design and execute the test cases on the application as per company standards
• Written several complex SQL queries for data verification and data quality checks.
• Worked with an offshore team also to improve process in the QA environment
• Created test scripts using Automation tool Selenium Webdriver and checked the functionality of the
application for every release.
• Identified the bugs and interacted with the team lead and developers to resolve them.
• Used HP Application Lifecycle Management for the reporting and tracking of defects.
• Conduct backend testing by querying databases to synchronize testing databases and check for data
integrity and proper routing based on specifications.
• Tested SOAP Web services using SOAP UI
Environment: SeleniumWeb Driver,Eclipse,JUnit,Java,Jenkins,SQL, SOAPUI,HPALM, SVN,Todd.

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Sep 2010 – Jan 2011, QA Tester, Domtar PulpSystem Upgrade,Domtar, USA
Project Description : Upgrade the software toolstothe latestversionsviz.PowerBuilder 12.0, Oracle
11g and Visual C++2010. The software used to develop the current DPS application (Oracle 9i,
PowerBuilder 7.0 and Visual C++6.0) are no longer supported by the vendors. This toolset upgrade will
put them into the vendor’s standard support maintenance for the next 2-3years.
Responsibilities :
• Analyzed requirement updates and mapped them with the respective manual Test Cases using HP
Quality Center.
• Preparation of test cases for Functional, Regression, Integration and System testing.
• Prepared Requirements Traceability Metrics (RTM), positive and negative test scenarios, detailed
oriented Test Scripts, Test Kickoff documents, Test Scorecard for test progress status, Test Results,
Release Check list, Lessons Learned documents and Regression Test Suite for future use.
• Provided systemanalysis,design,developmentanddeploymentof BusinessIntelligence Applications.
• Identify the primary key (logical / physical) and put update or insert logic
• Deleting the target data before processing based on logical or physical primary key.
• Assisted in the integration efforts for merging BusinessIntelligence platforms withenterprise Systems
and Applications.
• Design and execute the test cases on the application as per company standards
• Written several complex SQL queries for data verification and data quality checks.
• Worked with an offshore team also to improve process in the QA environment
• Identified the bugs and interacted with the team lead and developers to resolve them.
• Extensively used Rational Clear Quest to track defects and managed them.
• Conducteduseracceptance testing(UAT) tovalidate thatthe developedapplicationmeetsthe business
requirements and executed/monitored AutoSys jobs
• Used HP Quality Center for the reporting and tracking of defects.
• Conduct backend testing by querying databases to synchronize testing databases and check for data
integrity and proper routing based on specifications.
Environment: Java,Junit,SQL, SOAPUI, HP ALM, SVN,Todd.
Sep 2010 – Jan 2011, Test Engineer, Exel Logistics,Domtar, USA
Project Description : ASMprojectinvolvessupportingaround29home grownapplications developed
using legacy Fujitsu COBOL, ASP, Oracle D2K Forms, PL/SQL, Java, MS Access, Unix Shell scripts,VB and
VBA. The majority of the work handled at onsite and few of the monitoring jobs are done at offshore
under the supervision of onsite application support in-charge.
Responsibilities :
• AuthoredandexecutedtestcasesforUser Storyrequirementsin HPQuality center
• PreparedSQLscriptsfor testdata creationandvalidatingwithdatabase

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• InvolvedinDefectloggingandtrackinginQualityCentre
• InvolvedinCertificationtestexecutioninDevelopmentEnvironmentandloggedcritical defects
• InvolvedinCertificationtestingcompletiondocumentformodulestested
• InvolvedinWitnesstestingandreporteddefectsintimelymanner
Environment: HP Quality Center,MicrosoftExcel.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Browsers: Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, Safari
Databases: SQL Server, Oracle 8i/9i, MS Access 7.0, PL/SQL
Testing Tools: HP Quality Center, HP ALM(11.0), Soap UI, JIRA, Bugzilla, Postmaster, Selenium, Junit
Language: Java
IDE Tools: Eclipse, Todd, SQL Developer, XML Spy
Others: Firebug, XML, XSD, XPath, SOAP and REST Web Service
Operating System: Windows 2007/XP / Vista / 7, UNIX, Linux
EDUCATION:
Bachelorof Technologydegree inInformationTechnology
Certification Details:
Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 Platform 1.4