My Profile Update

1. S H I V A K U M A R
M o b i l e # 5 1 0 7 2 5 4 8 7 0
E m a i l I d : s a t h y a s h i v a s @ g m a i l . c o m
EDUCATION
• Master’s degree in Computer Applications, Bharathidasan University, Trichy, India.
• Executive Master’s degree in Business Administration in Systems, Kanpur Vidyapeeth
University, Uttar Pradesh, India.
CERTIFICATIONS
• Certified Product Specialist, WinRunner7.6, Mercury Interactive
• Trained in Quality Center using Test Director, Mercury Interactive, and Rational Robot from
Rational University.
• Certified in SQL and PL/SQL from Oracle Work Force Development a premier partner of Oracle
Corporation.
• Certification DSRC an Oracle Partner for Participation in the training of Oracle Financials AR, AP,
GL and Fixed Assets
SUMMARY
• Possess over 14 years of rich & qualitative experience in Software Testing & Quality
Assurance with success in delivering multiple engagements in the role of QA Tester,
Project Test Lead across diversified domains & regions.
• 7+years of experience in manual testing and 7+ Years as a Test Automation Engineer and
Architect.
• Resourceful in creation and execution of test cases, test scenarios, bug documentation and
bug tracking, creation of project documents like test plans, schedules, release notes and
defect tracking reports.
• Expertise in end-to-end execution of Software Testing Projects.
• Expertise in Efforts sizing for the Testing project according to the time lines of Master Project
Plan(MPP)
• Quality experience in project management and coordination activities including planning,
resource administration, efforts sizing, set up of processes and quality assurance.
• Expertise in Functional Testing of Client/Server Applications, Web-based Applications in .Net
Ruby and JAVA Environments, ERP Applications, Manufacturing Applications, Health Care
Applications, Life Sciences Applications, Med Station Applications, Semi Conductor Applications,
Oracle Financial Applications, Retail and Investment Banking Applications,
• Mutual Fund Applications, Tele Communication Applications, Auto Insurance and Life Insurance
Applications, Credit Card Applications, Mobile Applications, Multi Media Applications, Oracle E-
CRM Applications, Oracle E-Business Suite Applications and Auto Insurance Revenue Billing
Applications, SAAS Analytics and Statistical Applications.
• Expert in XML, XQuery HTML, XSD and adept in validating XML and XSD using XML Spy.
• Holds the merit of working extensively in USA for about 6+ years and other onsite locations
like UK and Singapore.
• Proficient in leading & motivating individuals to maximise levels of productivity.
• An effective communicator with exceptional analytical and technical skills with the ability to
relate to people at any level of business and management.

2. TECHNICAL SKILLS
Operating System: Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0, UNIX 5, Windows XP, Linux (Mint Flavor)
Languages: Visual Basics, Power Builder, VC++, C, C#3.0, Java 1.7, Java Script,Groovy, Python
2.7 and 3.2.2.3, Active Python, Perl, Active Perl, VBScript, 4Test Language.
GUI: Visual Basic 6.0, Visual C++, Developer 2000, Oracle Designer 2000
Tools: QTP 9.2, QTP 10.0, 11.0, Unified Function Testing for QTP 11.0, QualityCenter9.2, 11.0
(ALM), Loadrunner 8.0, 9.0.9.2, 10.0, 11.0, 11.52, TestDirector 8.0, Winrunner 7.6, SilkTest
5.0,6.0,7.5, VSTS, Rational Robot 7.X, Rational Administrator, Rational ClearQuest, VSTS, Visual
Studio, Rational Functional Tester, Rational ReqPro, Rational Test Manager, Selenium 2.48 Web
Driver, Selenium Grid, Selenium RC, Selenium IDE Ant, Maven, Soap UI, Soap UI Pro, Site Scope,
JMeter, Cucumber, Ruby, Gherkins TestNg, Junit, SVN, Ruby, Visio, UML, Loadrunner 11.0, MS
Project, XML Spy, Komodo Edit, MS Project., Eclipse IDE, Net Beans IDE, Micro Strategy, DTS,
SSIS, Informatica, TOAD, Visio, Jenkins, Oracle Developer, , SOAP UI, SOAP UI PRO, JIRA, Rally,
Team Track, Bugzilla, Ruby Mine
Middleware: Java 1.7, .Net, SOA
Statistical and Analytics Tools: SAAS and Analytics Tools.
Database: Oracle7.3/8.x,9.0,10G, SQL Server, Informatica, Ms Access
ETL: DTS, SSIS, Informatica
BI Tool: Micro Strategy 9.x
Web: HTML, XML, SOAP Web Services, RESTFUL Web Services,XQuery,XSD
Products: Facets Ver 4.3.1
Big Data: Hadoop
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
American Express Nov 2015 –May 2016
ROLE: Sr Automation Test Architect
Phoenix, Arizona.
Role: Sr. Automation Engineer.
Brief: The project is called Global Apply for Credit, which basically automate the various
Card Application Approval process for all corporate clients, to all regions in the Globe
which are USA, Canada, Japan, Asia, Middle East and European countries.
• Established Hybrid Framework, Keyword Driven Framework and Data Driven Framework in
Selenium and Cucumber in core Java for automation testing.
• All the Test cases and Test Case Design is done after analyzing Visio with UML representations of
Use Cases.
• Cucumber was used for the entire regression testing and functional testing with Selenium as
primary tool to automate the Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test conditions identified.
• Identify Test Conditions
• Cross Browser testing
• Perform System, Integration and Regression Testing

3. • Defect Tracking and Story Management through Rally
• Build Management through Maven and Jenkins.
• Mobile Testing in Android and IOS platforms.
• Jmeter was used for testing nonfunctional and performance testing requirements in the Dev-Ops
Model.
Environment: Windows 7.0,JAVA1.7,SQL Server, Soap UI, MS Azure, Restful Web services, SOAP
Web Services, Java Script, SOAP UI,SOAP UI PRO, Python, Selenium 2.0(Web Driver),Cucumber,
Ruby, Gherkins JIRA,SVN,XML, XML Spy, .Net, ,TOAD, JUnit, Maven, Ant, XML, XML Spy, HTML,
SOAP Web Services, RESTFUL Web Services, MS Project, Eclipse, Visio, Jenkins, Android and IOS,
JMeter, Java Script
Kaiser Permanente
Pleasanton, California, USA.
Appointment Management System Feb 2015 to Oct 2015
Role: Sr Automation Architect
• Build Automation Scripts for Regression Testing using SOAPUI Pro and developed Regression
Test Scripts through Groovy, Python, Core Java and PHP for Selenium Web Driver scripting,
Cucumber Gherkin with Ruby test automation framework was established for Business processes
to enable smooth flow of end to end testing.
• Established Hybrid Framework, Keyword Driven Framework and Data Driven Framework in
Selenium WebDriver and Cucumber in Ruby for automation testing. Ruby Mine was the IDE used
for ruby scripting.
• All the Test cases and Test Case Design is done after analyzing Visio with UML representations of
Use Cases.
• Cucumber was used for the entire regression testing and functional testing with Selenium as
primary tool to the Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test conditions identified.
• Identify Test Conditions
• Cross Browser testing
• Perform System, Integration and Regression Testing
• Jmeter was used for load testing, capacity testing and volume testing.

4. Environment: Windows 7.0,JAVA1.7,SQL Server, Soap UI, MS Azure, Restful Web services, SOAP
Web Services,Java Script, SOAP UI,SOAP UI PRO, Python, Selenium 2.0(Web Driver),Cucumber,
Ruby, Gherkins JIRA,SVN,XML, XML Spy, .Net, ,JMeter,TOAD, JUnit, Maven, Ant, XML, XML Spy,
HTML, SOAP Web Services, RESTFUL Web Services, MS Project, Eclipse, Net Beans, Komodo Edit,
Visio, Jenkins, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Visual Studio, Ruby, Ruby Mine,XML,XSD,XQuery
US Airways, Tempe, AZ, USA. August 2014 –Jan 2015
ROLE: Sr. Automation Test Architect
Electronic Trade Board and Preferential Bidding System Application:
These Applications are catering to the needs of Flight Attendants and Air Line Crew Management
System. Electronic Trade Board Application specializes in the area of Flight Attendants relating to
Airline Crew Management doing their Trade with other Flight Attendants for the Trips they have.
Preferential Bidding System Application is in to the bidding of Trips between Flight Attendants. This
is mainly related to Airlines Crew Management.
Responsibilities:
• Build Automation Scripts for Regression Testing and developed Regression Test Scripts through
Selenium and Cucumber with Ruby and Core Java for Selenium Web Driver.
• Ruby Mine was used as the IDE for Ruby scripting.
• XML is validated through XQuery and XSD
• Identify Test Conditions
• All the Test cases and Test Case Design is done after analyzing Visio with UML representations of
Use Cases.
• Cucumber was used for the entire regression testing and functional testing with Selenium as
primary tool to the Test Scenarios, Test Cases and Test conditions identified.
• Established Hybrid Framework, Keyword Driven Framework and Data Driven Framework in
Selenium and Cucumber with ruby for automation testing.
• Identify Test Conditions
• Cross Browser testing
• Perform System, Integration and Regression Testing
• Defect Tracking and Management through Microsoft Test Manager(MTM), a TFS tool
• Jenkins was used as continuous integration tool. Maven was used for building new builds to post
to maven apache server.
• Worked with JMeter for nonfunctional testing and performance testing
Environment: Windows 7.0,JAVA1.7,SQL Server, Soap UI, MS Azure, Restful Web services, SOAP
Web Services, SOAP UI,SOAP UI PRO, Python, Selenium 2.0(Web Driver),Cucumber, Ruby,
Gherkins JIRA,SVN,XML, XML Spy, .Net, ,TOAD, JUnit, Maven, Ant, XML, XML Spy, HTML, SOAP Web
Services, RESTFUL Web Services, MS Project, Eclipse, Net Beans, Komodo Edit, Visio, Jenkins, Team
Foundation Server (TFS), Visual Studio, DB-II, MTM, VMWare,TFS., Groovy, JMeter, XML, XQuery,
Ruby, Ruby Mine
Client: Affiliated Computer Services Inc, Atlanta, GA,USA Sep 2010 – May 2014
Role: Sr,Automation Architect
Brief: Served as Lead Co-coordinating Offshore for a Health Care Project specializing in Pharmacy
Benefit Management. The core objective of the Pharmacy Benefit Manager that was (Affiliated
Computer Services, Inc.) to ensure good services to the members of Client which was the State
in USA being the (Medicaid and CMS-Centre for Medicaid and Medicare Services) for the Health
Care Claims Adjudication.

5. RESPONSIBITIES:
• Prepare Project Plan and Estimate based on Function Points
• Identify Test Conditions
• Test Design analysis with Use Cases, Functional Requirements and Business Requirements.
• Test Case review and sign off
• Established Hybrid Framework in Selenium Web Driver with Java and Cucumber with Ruby for
automation testing.
• Data conditioning for both manual and automated scripts
• Hadoop was used to manage a high volume of data and the Hadoop data base was tested and
validated
• Cross Browser testing
• UFT was used to automate regression and system test cases.
• A hybrid framework was used to automate the regression and systems test cases.
• Team Management.
• Defect Tracking and Management through Quality Center. .
• Status Reporting
Environment: Windows 7.0, JAVA1.7,SQL Server, Soap UI, MS Azure, Selenium 2.0(Web
Driver),Cucumber, JIRA,SVN,XML, XML Spy, Net, TOAD, JUnit, Maven, Ant, Eclipse, Net Beans,
Visio, Jenkins, Team Foundation Server (TFS), VB Script, Visual Studio, DB-II, UFT, Hadoop
Client: United Behavioral Health - Minneapolis, MN, USA. Nov 2006 – Oct 2010
Role: Test Lead
UBH implemented a Health care Product called Facets. The Project is about testing the Facets
Product. My role in this project is to lead the Team as well as testing Claim Processing Module of the
Facets Product. The test execution is done once at the UBH site, then UAT is done with End Users
and SME’s, eventually to get all the test cases passed or failed with the concurrence of the SME’s
and End Users.
Responsibilities:
• Automation framework for web service testing and web application testing.
• Facets was used for Claims Adjudication
• Co-ordinate with UAT Team.
• Automation of UI and backend of application.
• Web service testing using SOAP UI tool.
• Established Hybrid Framework in QTP for automation testing.
• Established Framework for QTP for the regression testing to be carried out for the product.
• Established Hybrid Framework in QTP for automation testing.
• Defect Tracking
Environment: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Med station Based Application, VB Script, VC++,
SilkTest7.5, LoadRunner 8.0, C#3.0, Oracle10G, Unix, Java1.4, Visio, UML, QTP 9.2, QC 9.2
Client: PEMCO financial Services - Seattle, WA, USA. Apr 2004 – Dec 2005
Role: Onsite Test Lead.
Responsibilities
• Prepare Test Plan
• Participate in Functional Specification reviews
• Task Assignment and tracking
• All the Test cases and Test Case Design is done after analyzing Visio with UML representations of
Use Cases. All the Requirements are validated against Use Cases to ensure for their
completeness and Test Cases and Test Design is drafted.
• Identify Test Scenarios and build test cases
• Perform System and Regression Testing
• Database validation
• Update/Build Automated Regression Test scripts using WinRunner

6. • Configuration of Groups and Monitors are carried out using Site Scope additionally.
• Defect Tracking
Environment: Windows NT, Accord XML Application, XML, DB2, Winrunner7.6, QTP 8.0, Java1.4,
J2EE, Visio, UML, Loadrunner8.0
Client: Arvin Meritor - Detroit, MI, USA. Oct 2002 – Mar 2004
Role: QA Lead
Oracle Applications
The project is aimed at testing of all functional modules of Oracle E-BUSINESS Applications. A
complete end to end testing was done with the detailed mapping from Requirements to test cases.
Further, complete automation is done to the entire Test Scripts.
Responsibilities:
• Prepare Test Plan
• Participate in Functional Specification reviews
• Task Assignment and tracking
• All the Test cases and Test Case Design is done after analyzing Visio with UML representations of
Use Cases. All the Requirements are validated against Use Cases to ensure for their
completeness and Test Cases and Test Design is drafted.
• Test Scenarios were identified from Use Cases and Test Cases were derived from Test Scenarios.
build test cases.
• All Test Cases are mapped to its respective requirements thus forming a Traceability Matrix.
• Perform System and Regression Testing
• Perform Database validation
• Update/Build Automated Regression Test scripts using WinRunner
• Defect Tracking
Environment: Windows NT, Oracle E-Business Suite10.0,Java Script, XML, Oracle 8i,
WinRunner7.6, QTP8.0, Visio, UML, Loadrunner8.0
Cybernet Software Systems Pvt Ltd – India Jan 2002 – Oct 2002
Role: QA Lead
Intelliview Design –is a Dash Board/Reporting tool with 3 tier architecture.
Responsibilities:
• Prepare Test Plan
• Participate in Functional Specification reviews
• Task Assignment and tracking
• All the Test cases and Test Case Design is done after analyzing Visio with UML representations of
Use Cases. All the Requirements are validated against Use Cases to ensure for their
completeness and Test Cases and Test Design is drafted.
• Identify Test Scenarios and build test cases
• Perform System and Regression Testing
• Database validation
• Update/Build Automated Regression Test scripts using WinRunner.
• Defect Tracking
Environment: Windows NT, Java, XML, .Net, Delphi5.0, MS Access, WinRunner, QTP 8.0, Oracle
8i.
Efunds International Pvt ltd - India Jan 2001 – Jan 2002
Role: QA Lead Architect
Responsibilities:
• Review Functional Specification document
• Build manual test cases
• Perform System, Integration and Regression Testing
Environment: Windows NT, Informix 4 GL, Informix 10.0, Rational Robot7.x, Rational Clear Quest,

7. Rational Administrator. Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Test Manager, Oracle 8i
Compaq Computer Asia Pacific – Singapore Aug 2000 – Jan 2001
Role: QA Lead Architect
Equipment Integration Management is an embedded system where semi-conductor machine
operations are simulated in an environment in a electronic terminal which is a replica of the real
machine itself. Finally it is thoroughly checked with the actual semiconductor machine simulator
and then the software is launched with the real semi conductor machine itself.
Responsibilities:
• Review Functional Specification document
• Build manual test cases
• Perform System, Integration and Regression Testing
Environment: Windows NT, VC++, Oracle 7.3, Embeded Software, Windows XP
Citibank Ltd - India Feb 2000 - Aug 2000
Role: QA Lead
Testing the Prospective Database Management System (PDMS) developed by Polaris and Citi Bank
Overseas Development.
Responsibilities:
• Prepare Test Plan
• Participate in Functional Specification reviews
• Task Assignment and tracking
• Identify Test Scenarios and build test cases
• Perform System and Regression Testing
• Database validation
• Update/Build Automated Regression Test scripts using Silk test.
• Defect Tracking
Environment: Windows NT, VB6.0, Oracle 7.3, WinRunner7.6
HCL Infosystem Limited – India Dec 1998 – Feb 2000
Role: QA Analyst
The project is testing the Application developed for TAS for Telecommunication Authority of
Singapore – an Application which is developed to store the data's for communication equipment
registered under the Telecommunication Authority of Singapore
Responsibilities:
• Prepare Test Plan
• Participate in Functional Specification reviews
• Perform System and Regression Testing
• Update/Build Automated Regression Test scripts using Rational Robot.
• Defect Tracking
Environment: Windows NT, Power Builder6.0, Oracle7.x, Rational Robot, Rational Administrator,
Rational Test Manager, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Requisite Pro
TECHNICAL SUMMARY

8. Talents
Years
of Experience
Proficiency
(Training,
Light, Moderate,
Heavy)
Last
Used
QA Analysis/Testing, Planning, Efforts
Sizing, Requirements Analysis, Test
Case Design, Test Case Creation,
Testing Metrics Creation and Test
Results Reporting, Defect Management,
Defect Reporting-Trend Analysis, Defect
Aging Analysis, Root Cause Analysis.
14+Years Heavy
Current
Software Methodology-
Agile Methodology
6+Years Heavy
Current
Load/Performance Testing – Load Runner 7+Years Heavy
Current
Site Scope 7+Years Heavy
Current
Functional Test Automation 9+Years Heavy Current
Non Functional Test Automation and
Performance - Planning & Design
7+Years Heavy
Current
Core Java 1.7 Programming 10+Years Moderate Current
Cucumber and BDD 3+ Years Heavy Current
Selenium Web Driver, Grid, RC, IDE 7+Years Heavy Current
Perl, Python, Groovy 5+Years Heavy Current
QTP 11.0,VB Scripting and QC ALM 7+Years Heavy Current
Load Testing/Performance Testing - JMeter 3+Years Heavy Current
Load Testing/Performance Testing
Loadrunner 11.52
7+Years Heavy
Current
Silk Test, 4Test Language Scripting 5+Years Moderate Current
VSTS 3+Years Moderate Past
Rational Clear Quest, Team Track, Bugzilla. 6+Years Heavy
Past
Rational Test Manager, Rational Requisite
Pro.
4+Years Heavy
Past
SOA and SOAP,SOAP UI,SOAP UI PRO 4+Years Moderate Current
SOAP, RESTFUL Web Services 4+Years Moderate Current
Visio and UML, Use Cases Design 7+Years Heavy Current
XML,HTML,XML Spy 5+ Years Heavy Current
Eclipse IDE, Net Beans IDE 9+Years Heavy Current
SQL - SQL Server and Oracle 10 Years Heavy Current
Oracle Designer 2000 Diagrams, Data Flow
Diagrams (DFD), Process Models.
3+Years Moderate
Past
Database Entity Relationship Diagrams,
ETL – Multi Dimension Modeling, Star
Schema, Snow Flake Schema, Data
Mining.
6+Years Heavy
Current
ETL - Informatica, DTS,SSIS 6+ Years Heavy Current
Micro Strategy 2+ years Moderate Current
SAAS and Analytics- SAS Tool 2+ Years Moderate Current
MS Project 7+ Years Heavy Current