1. CURRICULAM VITAE
RAJASEKAR R
Mobile: +1-5028199644
Email : rajasekar.bio@gmail.com
Professional Summary:
Over 8.5 years of experience in Information Technology in the field of Software
Quality Assurance Testing, Development and support in Client Server, Web
Applications and Mainframe based applications.
Proficient in Manual Testing & the use of leading edge Automation tools like
Selenium IDE, Selenium WebDriver, Selenium RC, QTP, LoadRunner,
Test Director/QC, RQM, JIRA, RPT, File Manager, REXX & RTC.
Solid experience in developing test strategy, comprising Test Plan, Test
Scenarios, Test Scripts, Testing Methodology and Test Reports.
Expert in Automation Process and Creating Automation Framework.
Summary:
8.5 years of progressive experience in Information Technology with emphasis on
leading Automation and Manual testing teams, Quality Assurance, Manual
Testing, Automated Testing, System Testing on Web and Client/Server based
applications.
Experience with SDLC, Agile process, QA Methodology and QA Validations to
ensure the Quality Assurance Control.
Experience in designing Test Plans, defining Test Cases, generating and
maintaining Test Scripts, and analyzing tests.
Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple projects and meet
deadlines.
Expert in testing Client/Server, and Internet/Intranet based business
applications including development and implementation of test plans, test cases
and test scripts.
Extensive experience in using Testing tools such as QTP, LoadRunner,
TestDirector/Quality Center, Apache JMeter, Rational Quality Manager, Rational
Team Concert, ClearQuest, JIRA Issue Tracking Tool, REXX
Well versed with Black Box and White Box testing.
Experience in manual and automated testing using HP tools and different types
of open source tools.

2. Experience in performing functional, integration, system, regression, and user
acceptance tests.
Expertise in problem solving and Bug Reports using Bug Tracking Tools.
Expert in testing Mainframe, VB.Net, ASP.Net, Java, J2EE, VB, ASP, PeopleSoft,
SQL Server, VMWARE and Oracle applications.
Extensively executed SQL queries on SQL Server and Oracle database in order
to validate the data.
Experience in testing Crystal Reports ,Active Dynamic and BO reports
Experience in interacting with client in all aspects of testing cycle.
Provided training for other team members.
Developed testing documentation for advanced testing procedures for the User
Acceptance Testing group and Production Services team.
Expert in testing GUI, Desktop and Mainframe based software applications.
Expertise in setting up test automation environment.
Expert in creating Automation Framework using Selenium, Java and Mainframe
code.
Expert in creating Architectural process for Automation framework
Experience in managing onsite and offshore QA teams.
Strong understanding of cost, schedule, quality constraints in complex IT
projects.
Extensive global client interaction skills.
Experience in using Microsoft office suite applications and Proficient with Visio
and MS-Project.
Strong at Team Management, Project Management, Presentation, Writing.
Technical Skills:
QA Tools: Quick Test Pro , Load Runner , Performance Center , TestDirector
,Quality Center, JIRA, HP ALM Tools, TDM, REXX, File Manager, Jmeter, SoapUI,
Languages: Mainframe(JCL, COBOL, REXX), Java, Selenium
Application Servers: WebLogic, WebSphere, IIS
Databases: SQL Server, MS Access, Oracle, DB2.
Web Technology: Visual Basic , ASP, VB.net, ASP.net, Silverlight HTML, Crystal
Reports, Active Dynamic reports, Business objects, Java Script.
Operating Systems: zOS, Unix, Windows.

3. Professional Experience:
Role : Sr Test Lead for Testing Center of Excellence(TCoE)
First Data Corporation is an American payment processing company headquartered in
Atlanta, Georgia. First Data is a provider of electronic commerce and payment solutions.
The company's portfolio includes merchant transaction processing services; credit, debit,
private-label, gift, payroll and other prepaid card offerings; fraud protection and
authentication solutions; electronic check acceptance services through TeleCheck; as well as
Internet commerce and mobile payment solutions.
Some Projects.  Responsible for the bi-yearly mandates from various networks like Pulse,
Maestro, NYCE, Interlink – Changes to these networks usually includes
updates to the durbin logic, billing code changes for the downstream
systems, new data files, new record types for processing etc.
 Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX) was created by a group of the
nation's leading merchants with a singular purpose: Offering consumers a
customer-focused, versatile and seamlessly integrated mobile-commerce
platform. Development of the mobile application is underway, with an
initial focus on a flexible solution that will offer merchants a customizable
platform with the features and functionality needed to best meet
consumers' needs. The application will be available through virtually any
smartphone. Backed by leading merchants, MCX’s owner-members
include leaders in the big-box, convenience, drug, fuel, grocery, quick-
and full-service dining, specialty-retail, and travel categories. MCX for the
Pin debit application would include identify and processing the transaction
on the merchant and network data.
 Pass through Billing Fix (In-progress) : Major rewrite of the PIN debit
application. Today, the Pin debit works as a Recon system between what
is coming and what the merchant is paid. Going forward, the PIN debit
application would use the smart routing data source instead of the
network data feeds and would reconcile before paying the merchant.
Responsibilities:
 Analyzed the Business Requirements Document and system specifications and identified
the test requirements.
I) Client Background : First Data Corporation

4.  Creating Test Requirements Specification documents, Test plan and Test Result
documentation.
 Involved in SDLC, Agile Process, Business Process Design and Implementation.
 Wrote and executed the test cases manually and automated.
 Performed Backend testing using DB2, SQL Plus, PL/SQL and Toad.
 Performed Functional, Integration, regression, positive, negative and UAT testing.
 Performing Regression test using automated testing tool QTP and Selenium.
 Automating End to End Testing using automation Tools.
 Created the Automation framework for all the applications.
 Installed the Automation tools and managing the complete process.
 Managing the onsite and offshore Automation teams.
 Created automation scripts using VBscripting.
 Performing Stress test ,Load test, Performance and Bandwidth test on application server
using LoadRunner tool
 Performing Load test, Stress test and bandwidth test on Oracle FMW applications.
 Monitoring and measuring Memory utilization and Bandwidth.
 Logged the errors, reported defects, determined repair priorities and tracked the defects
until resolution using CQ, QC and RTC.
 Monitoring test progress throughout the project release cycle, providing test results and
detailed status reports.
 Extensively worked on testing Crystal Reports, Active Dynamic reports and Business Object
Reports.
 RQM and RTC are used for creating coverage between requirements and test cases
 Provided training for other team members.
 Coordinating offshore and onsite teams.
 Working as an admin for QC and all Automation tools.
 Creating and maintaining all Test automation environments.
 Attending and involving day–day scrum meetings.
 Conducting project reviews to improve project implementations.
 Working with QA Director to achieve organizational goals and objectives.
Environment: Mercury/HP Tools (Quick Test Pro(QTP), Test Director, Quality Center,
LoadRunner and Performance Center), ASP.NET, ADO.NET, JMeter, Oracle APPS, XML,
Selenium, Web Services, Java, HTML,UML, Toad, SQL Plus, Oracle, Business Objects,
Microsoft Project, Visio, Active reports, Crystal Reports, IIS, SQL, XML, UNIX, Windows XP,
MS Excel, MS Word, Mainframe(JCL, COBOL, DB2, REXX & CICS)

5. The Citigroup based in Sioux falls,United States is the pre-eminent financial services company in
the world. With the most diverse array of products and the greatest distribution capacity of
any financial firm in the world, Citigroup has 350,000 employees and manage 200 million
customer accounts across six continents in more than 100 countries.
Citi Cards is the world's largest provider of credit cards with more than 150 million accounts
generating more than $144 billion in receivables. Citi Cards is the largest consumer
business within Citi.
Project Name Citi Cards – Accounts Receivable(AR) Duration May 2008 to Apr’12
Role Module leader/Business Analyst.
Technology IBM Mainframe OS/390, COBOL-JCL-VSAM, ChangeMan, Infoman and all
Tools used specifically for Citi Cards project.
Description Accounts Receivable is the prime most and revenue making application of any
Financial Service Group. It is a repository used by applications as a
processing platform. AR deals with all the monetary and non-monetary
transactions happening in day to day customer activities. It contains a set of
core functions that provide other applications the flexibility to store, count
extract and process transactions in an efficient and accurate manner.
Responsibilities:  Responsible for the documentation of requirement in BRD
 Interacting directly with Clients for suggesting various solutions for their
requirement
 Leading a team of 5 from Offshore for projects in Accounts Receivable.
 Impact Analysis, Coding and Testing of Fixes that needs to be
incorporated into production code.
 Trouble Resolution and immediate fix for the code in case of critical jobs.
 Responsible for timely delivery of Daily, Weekly and Monthly status
reports to the clients highlighting the issues and tasks done by offshore.
 Direct interaction with the client via bridge line for High severity issues
during critical production abend.
 Review of Low level Design, Codes and Unit Test Plan.
 Acknowledgement and Ownership in resolving the abend within the
stipulated time meeting the SLA.
 Responsible for timely delivery of code for effective Customer Satisfaction.
 Responsible for defect free monthly releases as part of on-going
production support.
II) Client Background : Citigroup, NA

6. Professional Certifications
BCS ISEB certifiedprofessional forBusinessAnalysis
Completed“Certificate PrograminPaymentCards”
Completed“NSE’sCertifiedProfessional forFinancial Markets”
Completed3levelsof technical certificationconductedbyTCSandAccenture.
CompletedSecuritiesoverview certificationandalsoSix SigmaCertifications.
EDUCATION:
MBA inProjectManagement
B.Techin Industrial BioTechnology