Jayanth Santhebennur is a senior QA test lead with over 9 years of experience in software quality assurance. He has extensive experience testing APIs, web services, databases, and reporting tools while working for various companies including Home Depot, Target, Aadhaar, ANZ Bank, Sony, and Electrolux. He is proficient in tools such as SoapUI, RESTful API, ALM, JIRA, Hadoop, Hive, Oracle, PL/SQL, Teradata, LISA, MicroStrategy, and Pentaho. He is seeking a challenging position to utilize his strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

1. Jayanth Santhebennur
Mob : +1 737 932 9549
jayanth.sb@gmail.com
CAREER OBJECTIVE:
To work in a highly professional organization, merit driven, result oriented with strong business
culture and social values in the realization of corporate and business objectives and at the same
time providing opportunities for accelerated career and personal development.
Professional Experience:
 Working as Senior Test Lead for Mindtree, USA from Aug 2010 to Till Date.
 Worked as System Engineer in IBM India, Bangalore from May 2009 to Aug 2010.
 Worked as Technical Implementation Consultant in Cortera Software Private Limited, Bangalore
from March 2006 to April 2009.
 Having H1B Visa valid till April 2018.
SKILL:
A detail oriented professional with 9 years plus of experience in software quality assurance, writing,
executing, and maintaining manual and automated testing in the areas of requirement gathering and
analysis, system test planning, test designing, system integration and production support. A team player
with Strong test management skills in running large, cross-enterprise testing initiatives in large team.
Seeking for a challenging position to utilize my extensive analytical and problem solving skills
in QA process improvement to contribute to the corporate goals.
Skills Summary
 API web service &
Methodologies
 Test Plans, Cases &
Processes
 Functional Requirements
 Scripting &
Documentation
 Regression & Negative Testing
 Expertise in Teradata,DB2 and
Oracle sql
 Data Interface & Migration
Testing
 Datawarehouse/ETL/Report
testing
 Experience in Big
data testing
 Defect / Bug
Tracking
 Test Strategies &
Coverages
 QA & QC Standards
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Customer : Homedepot Retail USA ( May 2013 – Present)

2. Place : Austin and Having H1B Visa valid till April 2018
Position: Senior QA Test lead
 Working in an agile environment with great knowledge of QA processes and SDLC (Software
Development LifeCycle), Windows based applications
 Leading the cart and checkout API web service testing team from both functional and automation.
 Develops proper documentation
 Extensive experience in testing API web services using POSTMAN, POSTER and LISA
automation.
 Strong experience in SQL.
 Rich experience in onshore/offshore module with currently handling 5 offshore team members.
 Designs, documents, and implements white box and black box test plans, test approaches and test
cases using information from product documents, knowledge of business processes and
discussions with developers.
 Design and develop manual function, regression test cases as a basis for creation of automated
tests.
 Extremely knowledgeable in software development lifecycles using Agile with Scrum
methodology.
 Create and maintain test cases as per the new/updated requirements.
 Test Execution as per the QA process
 Experience in Defect Management Process
 Reports software bugs and communicates software defect behavior to engineering teams using
bug tracking software such as TFS, Bugzilla, Trac, Jira etc
 Provide status reports and metrics on test case creation and execution and defects.
 Proactive and promote best practices, standards and processes for Manual and automation testing.
 Experience with Restful API, SoapUI, POSTMAN,LISA,ALM and JIRA for scrum board.
Customer: Target Corporation (Jan 2012 – Jan 2013)
Position: Test Lead
Tools and Technologies: Teradata Database, HP Quality Center, Micro Strategy Report Tool.
 Develop test strategy based on the project requirements and schedule
 Responsibilities: I involved in,
 Preparing Test Plan for the CMR Reporting.
 Creating Test Data for testing the Complex Views.
 Writing Test Cases for the Semantic Views.
 Writing complex queries to validate the report queries.

3.  Guiding the 4 member team in a effective manner to complete the report testing on schedule.
 Design, develop, and execute detail oriented test scripts, test cases and project specifications.
 Report defects found in testing diligently, promptly, and accurately, using standard defect
tracking tools.
 Report test progress against schedules (planning and execution).
 Provide a test summary report that reflects the quality attributes of the software under test.
Communicate with development, project management, and customer stakeholders where
necessary.
 Perform both new functionality and regression tests; identify, analyze and report issues for
follow-up. Ensure the integrity of test material.
Customer: AADHAAR (UID AUTHORITY OF INDIA) (Nov 2010 – Jan 2012)
Position: Senior test engineer
Tools and Technologies: Hadoop distributed file system ( HDFS) is used for storing AWH Data Hive is
used to retrive/Quey the AWH Pentaho is used for ETL, Reporting and Analysis Mysql is used for
creating DataMarts Unix script Framework is used to perform some of the ETL process and Test
Automation.
 Leading the BI - QA Team Interaction with Various Development Team and Release
management Teams.
 QA Data Base Administration Create HDFS files and Folders Structure and Hive Table creation.
Deploying RPMs in different QA environments. Test Case: Created an Automation framework
(Unix) for regression testing. written set of SQL for data masking ( production data to QA
environment ).
 ETL: Testing the ETL process for quality of data and its coverage in terms of available data
sources.
 Testing ETL Abort scenarios and reprocessing rejected records and Modularized ETL testing.
 Slowly Changing Dimension Testing. Test cases for Duplication Handling in Fact Table. Test
Cases for Incremental Load. Test Cases to verify the index handling at the time of ETL Load and
Lookup.
 Reporting: Testing the data warehouse against reporting needs. Testing the data warehouse
against SQL queries to be written.
Customer: ANZ Bank (Jun 2009 – Aug 2010)
Position: Senior PL/SQL developer
Tools/Technologies : Oracle SQL, PL/SQL, TOAD, UNIX, Control M, HP Quality Center.
 Migrating the code from various environments from System testing to System Integration testing
and finally to the Production environments.
 Analyzing the requirements given by BA for writing test cases.

4.  Writing complex queries using oracle 10G to validate the transformation mapping from staging
environments to the target environments for each fields.
 Coordinating with onsite developer and BA for clarification of requirement.
 Testing Unix scripts to check the extraction of the files from target environment.
 Writing Pl/SQL stored procedures and functions to transform the data from staging to target
tables.
 After manually running all the jobs, we will setup these jobs through Control M for running of
these jobs.
Customer: Sony, Electrolux, Chevron, Xerox Canada clients. (Mar 2006 – APR 2009)
Position: Design/developer
Tools/Technologies : Oracle SQL, PL/SQL, TOAD, UNIX, Control M, HP Quality Center.
 Release Management.
 Verifying Production releases before moving to production.
 Analyzed the Functional/Design specifications for the Business processes, Validations based on
the gathered requirements given in the BSD.
 Writing stored functions, procedures and triggers depending on the requirement.
EDUCATION:
B.E Computer Science from VTU University Belgaum with 67% in the year 2005
Special Achievements:
 Reward and Recognition: For the outstanding work for the ANZ Bank project in Apr 2010
 10/10 Award : For the outstanding work done on UID Project in Aug 2012
 Master Mind : For the outstanding work done on Homedepot Project in November 2015
TECHNOLOGY TOOLS:
SoapUI, RESTful API, HP Application LifeCycle Management (ALM), JIRA/Confluence,Haddop,Hive,Oracle
SQL,PL/SQL,Teradata,LISA for webservice automation,Microstrategy reporting tool,Pentaho reporting
tool,DB2,TOAD.