1. VenuGopala Reddy Chilukala
E-mail: chilukala@gmail.com
46, Seminole ave, Mobile: 6477038449
Toronto, ON, M1J1N1
Professional Summary:
 Over 13 years of IT QA experience majorly on to Automation and Performance
testing along with strong technical, analytical, leading and resource management
skills
 Over 10 years of experience in automation and Performance testing on Banking
applications (Retail, Wealth management, Payments and Investements) using QTP /
UFT, Test Partner, HPQC, VuGen (LoadRunner), Performance Center, Load
Generators and Load Controllers
 6+ years of experience in Performance testing and good in analyzing performance
testing results & reporting
 3+ years of experience in agile automation projects
 5+ years of experience in HP BPT (business process testing), with hands on
experience in designing business components, flow and business process tests
 Good experience in ETL (Data warehouse, data models) Database testing and Batch
report validations
 Good understanding of Swift messaging types and system work flow
 Experience in mobile automation using (perfecto) UFT
 Experience in working with Risk Data Aggregation program, implementing BCBS 236
government regulation on Data aggregation, successfully implemented IDQ
(Informatica data quality center), IGC (Infosphere governance Catalog) with all
levels of testing
 Expertise in preparing automation strategy for projects to help QA groups in
analyzing the cost effectiveness and maximize ROI (Returns on Investment)
 Expertise in preparing test automation Estimations, schedule planning, Daily, Weekly
and Monthly reports
 Hands on experience in designing enterprise level test automation frameworks (Data
Driven, Keyword Driven & Hybrid) and defining coding standards for better
maintainability and quality deliverables
 Key contributor in RBC Automation Center of excellence (CoE) for more than 5 years
 Expert in VB scripting and VBA. Hands on in design, debug, execution of scripts
 Broad experience in automation testing on all kind of applications like Web, Client
Server, IBM Mainframe, SAP, Siebel, CRM, Web services, data base, Java, WBS,
Mobile applications
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2.  Involved in Tools evaluation process and preparing PoC’s for OrgSoft-Test Drive,
Tricentis next generation tool, TOSCA, Qualitia, Work soft Certify, TurnKey to help
manual QA teams with script less automation tools to minimize the manual efforts
and maximize the benefits of automation.
 6+ year of experience as Automation lead, leading up to 18 team members
 Good experience in leading the teams located in different geographical locations
(Canada, US, UK & India)
 Involved in hiring, mentoring, and performance appraisal for offshore and onshore
resources
Areas of Expertise:
 Automation Testing Tools: QTP/UFT 11.53, 11, 10, 9.5, HP BPT, Test Partner 5.6,
WinRunner7.0, and Performance center, VuGen (Load runner), Load Controller, Load
Generator, Perfecto, Cyara and Excel Macro.
 Defect Management : HP Quality centerALM, Change point
 Test Management Tool : HPQC (ALM) 10 & 11, Performance Center
 DataBase : SQL server 2010, DB2, Oracle
 Languages : VBA, VB scripting
 Operating systems : Windows 7 & XP
 Web Browsers : IE10.0, IE 8.0, IE 7.0, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari
Professional Experience / Employment History:
 Working at CIBC as Automation and Performance specialist from June-2015 to Till
dated
 Worked as Project Lead in iGATE Global Solutions Ltd (currently Capgemini), from
May 2006 to June 2015
 Worked as Software Engineer in Access IT consulting B’lore, From May 2004 to May
2006
Projects/Assignments:
Client: CIBC, Toronto
• Project Name : RDA - Risk Data Aggregation (BCBS 239 Government regulation
implementation)
• Duration: June 2015 to till date
• Role: Automation and Performance Lead
• Environments: Performance Center 11.52, VuGen (Load Runner), Load Controller,
Load Generator, QTP UFT, HPQC, IGC (IBM Info sphere Governance Catalog), IDQ
(Informatica Data Quality), Squirrel SQl Client
Description:
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3. Risk Data Aggregation program is to comply the BCBS 239 principle from government regulation, as
part of this implementation CIBC identified various tools to measure the data quality, accuracy,
timeliness, and data lineage.
IDQ is one of the tool implemented to measure and data quality and IGC is the tool is used to
measure the Data Lineage. IGC is also used to manage the technical and business meta data.
Responsibilities:
 Contribute to the RDA Test Strategy
 Preparing SIT, UAT and PAT test plans
 Working closely with PM on QA schedules and estimations
 Creation of scenarios for performance testing
 Creating the VuGen scripts and uploading them on the Performance center
 Setting up the Performance lab with appropriate runtime setting and Scheduling load
generators for the executions
 Performance test execution and analyzing the results
 Identifying automation suite for upcoming releases
 Manual Test case design and execution
 Requirement traceability, Test plan and Test lab setup in HPALM
 Validating the IDQ profiles, Rules and scorecards
 Validating the Technical, Business metadata and Data Lineage using mapping sheets
 Co-ordination with development, TSA, BA and database teams to get the application
users for performance testing and measure the appropriate response time
 Participated in triaging the root cause for the performance issues???
 Preparing SIT, UAT and PAT exit reports
Client: Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), Toronto
• Duration: May 2006 to till date
• Role: Automation Lead
• Environments: .NET, Web, SAP, Web Services, IBM PComm (Terminal Emulator)
• Tools : QTP, UFT, Performance center, Virtual user genetor (Vugen), Test Partner,
Excel Macro, HPQC & BPT
• Applications :
Web applications: Sales Platform migration - Web, OLB Redesign, Origenate,
HomeBase, IRIS, EWCMS, Online Banking previous versions, xWeb, FlexPak, Web
CSR, Direct Investment, Dominion securities, Client Source DI & DS
Client Server applications: (windows based) : Service Platform, Sales Platform
previous version, PD Teller, RBIS, CWB, ALP, GRADS, ETM / ATM (simulation)
SAP & Siebel applications: RCT (Linx), Synergy, Employee HRM
Mobile applications: Mobile Banking, Wallet, Digital Image Capture
Telecommunications: UCC, Cyara
Mainframe applications: TSYS
Web Services: OPDA, OBDA, Save Matic, Instant Funding
Others assignments: CCDC, Data Generation scripts, PDF validation, Batch results
validations, XML file validation, ETL & Database testing
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4. Description:
Retail and Wealth management portfolio is core banking IT division. Technical Testing services (TTS)
team is automation CoE (Center of Excellency) team and works with all the QA projects in this group.
TTS team is established in 2006 and working with all QA teamprojects for these Automation team is
to prioritize the applications based on feasibility study, regression testing penetration and funds
availability. Team is Responsible for schedule planning, delivery, execution support, maintenance and
tracking the ROI for all automation initiatives. TTS team is key contributor in achieving 4 million
automation savings per year.
Responsibilities: as Project Lead
 High level automation feasibility analysis, requirement review, preparing estimations,
ROI projections
 Designed the test automation strategies, Project planning, QTP automation
framework, coding standards
 Demonstration of implemented solutions (PoC) to QA group for better results
 Prepare schedule plan, resource allocation and knowledge sharing
 Facilitating the environment, machines and tools to offshore team
 Communicate the issues to appropriate teams and follow up for resolution
 Daily, Weekly status reporting to management
 Mentor team in Resolving automation issues with effective alternative solutions
 Conducting weekly status meetings with all the stakeholders including with manual
QA teams
 Code review and rework, assisting team members in writing flexible, robust functions
and scripts
 Work closely with QA Manager and manual QA Leads on each project to identify
testing asset baseline to port over to new projects
 Enforce all tool standards and policies on all projects
 Track the actual financials for the project approved budget.
 Conduct Daily status meetings, to discuss and follow up on the issues and changes
 Preparing automation closure document
 Tracking and reporting the ROI numbers on monthly basis
 Preparing master test plan & Regression test planning
 Conducting triage meetings
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5. Responsibilities: as Sr. QA analyst & as Automation specialist
 Scan the External Design Document and get the clarifications on the unclear
information to avoid issues at the execution period
 Analyzing test cases, scenarios, FBD’s and writing test cases
 Execution of test cases for functional, regression, re testing. Reporting defects &
conducting triage meetings
 Co-ordination with different QA teams, vendor teams, IT and business teams
 Extracting data from various sources, Transform the data in to desired format and
load the data in to new database, validation of data using end to end scenarios
 Involve and provide valuable inputs in Gap analysis, Test plans, Test strategies and
on all other management meeting
 Focused on end to end coverage, negative testing
 Test data Preparation
 Identifying the suitable test scenario for automation
 Adding objects to Object repository, merging object repositories
 Writing generic framework functions and project specific functions
 Breaking down the steps in to reusable actions and designing test scripts
 Integrating scripts and running from HPQC
 Resolving automatability issues with effective alternative solutions
 Resolving tool and license issues
 Debugging and batch execution of scripts, support project specific executions, failure
analysis, results reporting. Effective utilization of tools and scripting for file
validations and to generate the large data
 Maintaining scripts with respective to latest functionality changes
 Attending & Conducting Weekly Defect meetings with Business Analysts,
Development teams
Education:
 Bachelors in Technology from J.N.T. University, Hyderabad, India
Trainings Attended:
 Perfecto Mobile automation - TASSQ
 PM101 (Project Management) basic
 People Management – A Leadership approach – by Dr. Jayadeep Lal
 Requirement Engineering
 Security Testing - TASSQ
Trainings Conducted:
 HPQC BPT
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6.  QTP
 RBC-iGATE Automation Framework
 Perfecto mobile automation framework
Awards & Re-Wards:
 Received couple of RBC Arbie awards
 Got the Rating as EE (Exceeding Expectations) for conjugative 4 years
 Got the On-The-Spot award for the month of August-08
(Venugopala Reddy Chilukala)
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7.  QTP
 RBC-iGATE Automation Framework
 Perfecto mobile automation framework
Awards & Re-Wards:
 Received couple of RBC Arbie awards
 Got the Rating as EE (Exceeding Expectations) for conjugative 4 years
 Got the On-The-Spot award for the month of August-08
(Venugopala Reddy Chilukala)
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