1. RAMYA VENKATESULU BANDLA
VENKATESULU.RAMYA@GMAIL.COM
Mobile: +27 613795769
India Number : +919986708969
SUMMARY
• 10 Years of diversified experience in Testing as Senior Technical Lead.
• Exceptional team-handling and decision-making skills, extremely well organized, with good
communication skills and committed to quality.
• Having Extensive IT experience in Test Planning, Test Strategies, System Analysis, Quality
Assurance, Resource Planning, Test estimation Reports, Daily status reports, and Test
completion reports.
• Having experience in working On-site and Offshore Projects. Coordinated the projects from
On-site and from Offshore.
• Good experience in SDLC & Team Management.
• Knowledge in Test Environment setup, providing functional support, ensuring delivery
milestones and compliance to Quality process
• Experience in Automation Testing Tools Unified Functional Testing (QTP) and Verifix.
• Rich experience in CIT / SIT / UAT Testing across Retail and Investment Banking.
• Performed extensive testing using Hybrid and Keyword Driven Frameworks using both QTP
and Verifix.
• Good experience in ETL Testing,SAP CRM, SAP BS, SAP BW, SAP HANA, NDS and WEB
UI.
• Generated QC Reports like Bug Reporting and Test execution reports using SQL Queries and
Excel VBAs.
• Good experience in Migration testing or ETL (Extract Transform and Load) testing.
• Extensive exposure to following tools: UNIX, Mercury Quality Center (manual testing), Alm and
Jira (defect tracking), Source forge (defect tracking), DB Visualizer, Oracle Raptor and SQL
Workbench.
EDUCATION
• B.Tech (Electronics and Communications) – JNTU University, 2003
EMPLOYMENT DETAILS
• Working with HCL Technologies from Dec 2006 to till Date

2. CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
• Outstanding performance in annual appraisal for 4 years continuously and received award from
CEO of the company.
• Received Spot award for 5 times for delivering work on time.
• Star performer award for the company for doing good work in ATM, SWIFT and FIRCOSOFT
testing.
• “Beyond Excellence” Award for attaining Service Excellence by Standard Bank South Africa
• “Innovation” Award for creating various value Add in HCL Tech
TECHNICAL SKILLS
• SAP CRM, SAP BW, SAP BS, Web Applications and Mainframes.
• Parameterizing SWFIT Payment Messages and posting using Message queues.
• Parameterizing ATM messages and posting using Message queues.
• Unix Environment
• Defect Tracking Tools used – ALM (Quality Center), JIRA.
• MS Sql Server, Oracle Database and SAP.
• Automation tools – Verifix and QTP.
FUNCTIONAL EXPERIENCE
• Experience in preparing Test Strategy, Test Plan, and Effort Estimation and Traceability matrix.
• Experience in Manual Testing in CIT, SIT and UAT test phases.
• Expertise in Automating Applications –Retail and Investment banking domain.
• Domain expertise in Retail and Investment banking.
• Good knowledge in SAP modules like CRM, BW, Banking Services.
• Hands on experience and clear understanding of Quality process and activities of Testing Phase
• Ability to mentor and manage team members
• Working as Senior Technical Lead at the client location Johannesburg, South Africa for 2.7 years.
• Worked as Test lead and On shore Coordinator in Misys Universal Banking Project for
Cooperative Bank of Kenya, Standard Bank of South Africa, Actinver Bank of Mexico based
client.
• Worked as Senior Software Test Engineer and Onshore Coordinator in Deutschebank EXOC
Project for UK and US Client.
• Worked as Test Engineer for Deutsche bank EXOC project for US client.
ONSITE EXPERIENCE

3. • Working as Senior Technical Lead for Standard Bank Of South Africa in Johannesburg, South
Africa from Jul-2013 to till date
PROJECTS WORKED
Apr 2015 – Till Date AML - Standard Bank Of South Africa
May 2013 - Mar 2015 MMS - Standard Bank Of South Africa
Jan 2010 – Mar 2013 Actinver, Cooperative Bank of Kenya, Standard Bank of South
Africa – Misys Universal Banking
Dec 2006 – Sep 2009 Deutsche Bank – UK/US
PROJECT DETAILS
Project # 1
Anti-Money Laundering Apr 2015 – Till date
Client – Standard Bank of South Africa
Domain – Retail Banking
Team Size – 5
Role – Team Lead
Description
The Standard Bank Of South Africa Limited is one of South Africa’s largest financial services groups. It operates in
30 countries around the world, including 17 in Africa. Standard Bank Group is listed on the JSE Limited, share code
SBK, and the Namibian Stock Exchange, Share code SNB. The group had total assets of over R1, 341 billion (about
US$202 billion) at 31 December 2010 and employed more than 53000 people worldwide.
Anti-Money Laundering and compliance was initiated to accommodate the changes in different banking application
systems as per South African Reserve Bank standards to address 77 findings after SARB routine Inspections.
Roles & Responsibilities
• Test Planning – Estimation, Planning, Monitoring, Tracking.
• Leading and coordinating activities of Migration Team of Size 5.
• Leading and coordinating activities of CIT and SIT testing.
• Leading and coordinating activities of Offshore Test Team of Size 2.
• Offshore /Onsite Coordination
• Conduct Daily Status meeting and allocate work to resources.
• Coordinate the defect logging and ensure smooth testscript execution.
• Planning the testdata preparation with Test data management team for the testscript execution to be started.
• Prepare and send the Daily Status Report on the Test script execution status.
• Prepare and send test completion report for each cycle.
• Prepare and send Monthly Execution report dashboard of all the automation testscript execution
• Daily Status Report meeting with client.
• Training the manual testers on ETL testing activities.

4. Project # 2
MMS May 2013 – Mar 2015
Client – Standard Bank of South Africa
Domain – Retail Banking
Team Size – 5
Role – Team Lead
Description
The Standard Bank Of South Africa Limited is one of South Africa’s largest financial services groups. It operates in
30 countries around the world, including 17 in Africa. Standard Bank Group is listed on the JSE Limited, share code
SBK, and the Namibian Stock Exchange, Share code SNB. The group had total assets of over R1, 341 billion (about
US$202 billion) at 31 December 2010 and employed more than 53000 people worldwide.
BR5 MMS was initiated to migrate the date from CRM5 old to CRM7 New for the customer data which includes all the
partner systems connected to CRM5 and other downstream applications such as SAP BW, SAP BS, SAP FICAX.
Roles & Responsibilities
• Test Planning – Estimation, Planning, Monitoring, Tracking.
• Leading and coordinating activities of Migration Team of Size 5.
• Leading and coordinating activities of CIT and SIT testing.
• Leading and coordinating activities of Offshore Test Team of Size 2.
• Offshore /Onsite Coordination
• Conduct Daily Status meeting and allocate work to resources.
• Coordinate the defect logging and ensure smooth test script execution.
• Planning the test data preparation with Test data management team for the test script execution to be started.
• Prepare and send the Daily Status Report on the Test script execution status.
• Prepare and send test completion report for each cycle.
• Prepare and send Monthly Execution report dashboard of all the automation test script execution
• Daily Status Report meeting with client.
• Training the manual testers on ETL testing activities.
Project # 3
Universal Banking Jan 2010 – Mar 2013
Domain – Retail Banking
Team Size – 6
Role – Team Lead
Project: Bank Fusion Universal Banking (Ver. 1.1) Client: Standard Bank of South Africa, Zimbabwe
Project: Bank Fusion Universal Banking (Ver. 1.4) Client: Co-operative Rural Development Bank, Tanzania
Project: Bank Fusion Universal Banking (Ver. 1.5) Client: Actinver Bank (Mexico)
Project: Bank Fusion Universal Banking (Ver. 1.6.3) Client: National Bank of Kenya, Bank of Ceylon (London)
Description

5. Bank Fusion Universal Banking (UB) is a core banking system providing retail business functionality for both front and
back office. It covers a wide range of retail banking instruments such as deposits, lending and enterprise banking
requirements including treasury and trade services.
Retail banking deposits and lending, treasury & money market, Forex and interfaces- ATM, Internet Banking, Opics and
SWIFT.
Roles & Responsibilities
• Interacting with client for requirement gathering, risk assessment, finalization of functional specifications.
• Mapping business requirements and translating these requirements into functional specifications and test plans.
• Understanding the technical & functional specifications
• Designing test plans, testing, troubleshooting and debugging of the applications.
• Identifying scenarios to be tested. Preparing / writing, maintaining and updating Test Documentation for
various stages of testing.
• Developing and executing test cases as per specification; writing test cases for functional testing, integration
testing and GUI testing.
• Instrumental in defining the functionalities for change requests raised by the Banks which were tested.
• Received accolade from Bank during the demo of internet banking module to actinver bank which was
developed largely based on my inputs and was tested by me.
• Involved in testing of the Internet Banking, Swift, ATM and Opics interface which has a zero customer
reported defect record.
• Involved in testing Teller module and tested all the teller transactions.
• Involved in testing tax customization module which has a zero customer reported defect record.
• Reported defects critical, major and minor using ALM and Jira defect tracking tool.
Project # 4
EXOC (Electronic Execution and Open Centre) Dec 2006 – Sep 2009
Client – Deutsche Bank (United Kingdom)
Domain – Retail Banking
Team Size – 10
Role – Senior Test Engineer
Description
This project is completely based on fix protocol. The trading happens with the fix messages the fix messages consists of
head, body and trailer. . Head consists of which fix protocol version we are using and trailer consists of checksum. The
main trading data is in body. All the orders which clients are sending will reach to Arina system. All the orders reaches
fix engine and convert into fix messages. Then it will reach Arina, and the Arina sends the orders to Market (Supports
European Markets as well as non-EMMA brokers).
Roles & Responsibilities
• Interacting with client for requirement gathering, risk assessment, finalization of functional specifications.
• Mapping business requirements and translating these requirements into functional specifications and test plans.
• Understanding the technical & functional specifications
• Designing test plans, testing, troubleshooting and debugging of the applications.
• Identifying scenarios to be tested. Preparing / writing, maintaining and updating Test Documentation for
various stages of testing.

6. • Developing and executing test cases as per specification; writing test cases for functional testing, integration
testing and GUI testing.
• Performed Automation testing using VERIFIX and TTCERT tools for regression, performance and stress
testing.
• Involved preparation of test plans of various releases.
• Involved in testing functional and regression testing.
• Reporting defects in terms of major, minor & Critical using JIRA tool.
Personal Details
Marital status : Married
Nationality : Indian
Passport no : G1882693
Countries worked: India and South Africa.
Address for correspondence:
No 398/2, Krishna Reddy Layout,
Konappanagrahara,
Electronic City, Bangalore - 560100.
Mobile: +27 613795769

7. • Developing and executing test cases as per specification; writing test cases for functional testing, integration
testing and GUI testing.
• Performed Automation testing using VERIFIX and TTCERT tools for regression, performance and stress
testing.
• Involved preparation of test plans of various releases.
• Involved in testing functional and regression testing.
• Reporting defects in terms of major, minor & Critical using JIRA tool.
Personal Details
Marital status : Married
Nationality : Indian
Passport no : G1882693
Countries worked: India and South Africa.
Address for correspondence:
No 398/2, Krishna Reddy Layout,
Konappanagrahara,
Electronic City, Bangalore - 560100.
Mobile: +27 613795769