Ramesh Kuruba has over 10 years of experience in IT testing with a focus on manual and automated testing of distributed systems, Oracle databases, web applications, and desktop applications. He has extensive experience in investment banking, trade lifecycle, order management, and back office settlement applications. Currently he works as a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer at Fidelity Business Services India testing a variety of projects using methodologies like Agile and Waterfall. He has expertise in test planning, design, execution, and automation using tools like Selenium, UFT, and DBFit.

1. RAMESH KURUBA
Mobile NO:9741964075 | Email ID:rameshkbellary@gmail.com
Career Objective
Withthe mainobjective beingtowardssatisfaction,bothformyself andthe company,Istrive towork
towardsthe highstandardsof loyaltyanddedicationwhich hasbeenconsistentthroughout,thereby
makingworka pleasure.
Summary:
10+ yearsof experience inthe fieldof ITwithfocusof Manual and Automationtestingof distributed
systemof Oracle DBMS andweb Applications.Testing of windows,UNIX,service orientedapplications,
desktopapplicationsinthree tiredarchitecturemodelwiththe strongknowledge of Investment
banking,Trade life cycle,Trade Ordermanagement/Processing,andBackoffice settlement.
 Currentlyworkingat FidelityBusinessServicesIndiaPvtLtd, Bangalore asa SeniorQuality
Assurance Engineersince August2006 to till date
 Extensive knowledgeandexperience of Software DevelopmentLifeCycle (SDLC),Software
TestingLife Cycle (STLC) andQA methodologies
 Expertise inAnalyzing BusinessRequirements,FunctionalandTechnical Specification
 FormulatingTestStrategyandTestPlanbasedon the Designdocument,SoftwareRequirement
Specification,Business Requirements,Use case document
 Expertise inoverall testingactivities –Testcase design,Testcase review,Testexecution,Bug
reporting
 Have 2+ Years of experience inleadingthe teamandhandlingprojectsindividually
 Experience inworkinginanAgile (Scrum) Process
 Experience asaScrum Master
 Expertise inDatabase testing
 Experience in Database automationusingDBFit
 Experience intestingdataloadedusingInformaticaworkflows
 Experience testingScheduledjobs usingControl MandAutosystools
 Extensive Knowledge andexperienceinInvestmentBankingApplications,Trading Applications,
Trade life cycle,Trade OrderManagement,Backoffice settlement(Equities,Mutual fund
,optionsandFixedIncome)
 KnowledgeandExperience inTrade Ordercompliance systems
 Certifiedin AdvancedFinancial Services DomainfromFMRIndiaNalandaprogram
 Experience inUSHealthandWelfare Domain
 Knowledgeof AutomatedTestingToolslike QTP,Selenium

2. Technical Skills:
Methodologies : Agile,Waterfall
Processmanagement tool : QualityCenter/ApplicationLifecycle Management(ALM),Jira
TestingTools : UFT, Selenium, DBFit
ETL : Informatica
BI Tools : OBIEE
Scheduler : Control M, Autosys
OperatingSystems : Windows, UNIX
Database : Oracle PL SQL, SQL
Languages : Core Java
EDUCATION
Bachelorof EngineeringinMechanical EngineeringfromVijayanagaraEngineeringCollege,Bellary
Professional experience
FidelityInvestments
SeniorQualityAssurance Engineer –Aug 2006 till date
FMR LLC (FidelityManagementandResearch) orFidelityInvestmentsisanAmericanmultinational
financial servicescorporation.Itisthe secondlargestmutual fundandfinancial servicesgroupinthe
world. FidelityInvestmentsmanagesalarge familyof mutual funds,providesfunddistributionand
Investmentadvice services,aswell asproviding discountbrokerage services,retirementservices,wealth
management,securitiesexecutionandclearance,lifeinsuranceandanumberof otherservices.
PROJECT DETAILS
Project1 : EquityWorkspace
Company : FidelityInvestmentmanagement
Methodology : Agile
Automationtool : DBFit,Selenium
Team Size : 12
EWS is one stopshopfor portfoliomanagersandresearchanalysts.There are differentmodulesinEWS
whichhelpinportfoliomanagersincreatingordersbasedonindustryrelatedinformation,Fund
performance andriskevaluationof portfolios. There isalot of integrationinvolvedacrossvariousteams
to gatherinformationforportfoliomanagerstoaccessthisinformation.
Roles:HandledScrumMasterand QA coordinatorroles

3. Responsibilities:
 Scrum Master - Facilitate agile meetings,collaborate betweentechnical andBusinessstake
holders
 Businessandsystemrequirementanalysis
 AssistProductownerincreationof agile storiesbasedongrooming
 Testeffortestimation
 TestDesignand executionof functional andregressiontests,Reportbugs
 IdentifyRegressionscenariosanddevelopAutomatedtests
 Mentor QA team,Reviewendtoendtestingactivitieswhichincludes reviewingtestdesign,
Executionresults
 Ensure Functional and Regressionsuite inQCisupdated
 SendWeeklystatusreportstostake holders
 QA signoffsandpostproductionvalidation
Project2 : Paperportfoliotool
Company : PyramisGlobal Advisors/FidelityInvestments.
Methodology : Agile
Automation tool : DBFit
Team Size : 12
Description: Paperportfoliotool isthe Ordermanagementsystemusedtocreate ordersforPaper
portfoliosusedbyPortfoliomanagerstotryout variousinvestmentstrategieswithoutusingactual
money.
Orderscreatedfor paperfundsare sentto back office systemsasexecutedtrades.Accountingforthe
paperfundsisdone justlike fora live fundwhere in,dailyholdings,Assets,Cashbalancesare accounted
and performance of the fundsisgenerated.Portfoliosmanagerstrack the performance of the paper
fundsbefore comingupwithactual productfor the Investmentapproachfollowedusingpaperfunds.
Roles:HandledScrumMasterand QA coordinatorroles
Responsibilities:
 Scrum Master - Facilitate agile meetings,collaborate betweentechnical andBusinessstake
holders
 Businessandsystemrequirementanalysis
 AssistProductownerin creationof agile stories basedongrooming
 Testeffortestimation
 TestDesignand executionof functional andregressiontests,Reportbugs
 IdentifyRegressionscenariosanddevelopAutomatedtests
 Mentor QA team,Reviewendtoendtestingactivitieswhichincludes reviewingtestdesign,
Executionresults
 Ensure Functional and Regressionsuite inQCisupdated
 SendWeeklystatusreportsto stake holders
 QA signoffsandpostproductionvalidation

4. Project3 : Accountsmigrationfromlegacyto new tradingsystem
Company : PyramisGlobal Advisors/FidelityInvestments.
Methodology : Agile
Description:PyramisAdvisorsmigratedthere Order Managementsystemfromlatentzerotoinbuilt
systemcalledInsight.Itisrequiredtoensure thatthe new systemprovidesabilitytocreate ordersfor
Pyramislive andpaperfundsandverifyendtoendtrade flow includingOrdercreation,compliance
validation,gettingupdatesfromtradingsystem, Cashbalance systems,Custodianbanks,Backoffice
systems.
Testsare to verifyforall typesof funds(USD,NonUSD funds),forall typesinstruments(Common
stocks,Bonds,Derivativesetc.),all typesof orders(Buy,Sell,BuyCover,Shortsell),fordifferentorder
statuses(Open,Executed,Partial executed,Cancelled,Cancel/Rebooketc.)
Roles: Handled testingandQA coordinatorroles
Responsibilities:
 Businessandsystemrequirementanalysis
 AssistProductownerincreationof agile storiesbasedongrooming
 Testeffortestimation
 TestDesignand executionof functional andregressiontests,Reportbugs
 IdentifyRegressionscenariosanddevelopAutomatedtests
 Mentor QA team,Reviewendtoendtestingactivitieswhichincludes reviewingtestdesign,
Executionresults
 Ensure Functional and Regressionsuite inQCisupdated
 SendWeeklystatusreportstostake holders
Project4 : Finance andOperationsapplications
Company : PyramisGlobal Advisors/FidelityInvestments.
Methodology : Agile
Team size : 8
FINOPS(Finance andOperations) Deliveryteamsupportsthe Finance andOperationsproductline within
PGA (PyramisGlobal Advisors) Technologyandisresponsible fortactical developmentandmaintenance
of the Finance andOperationsapplicationportfolio.
Productgoal isto supportFinance andOperationsteamtoachieve clientsInvestmentandbusiness
objectives.
Variousapplicationslike AUM,PDM,PMA, GMAT, and CERA are usedto supportthe businessneedsof
FINOPSusers.The applicationsuse variousinternal andexternalfeedslikeAssets,Cashflows,and
Performance dataforprocessing,reconcilingandfinalizingforendusersconsumption.
OBI Dashboardsare builtforFINOPSsubjectareaslike Finance,CorpBilling,Performance and
Compliance.

5. Responsibilities:
 Businessandsystemrequirementanalysis
 Testdesign,Functional andregressionexecutionandreportbugs
 TestStatus reportingtostake holders
 Work closelywithdeveloperstoclose openissues
 QA signoff
 AssistUseracceptance testingbyprovidingthe requiredtestdata
Project5 : InvestmentDataReporting
Company : PyramisGlobal Advisors/FidelityInvestments.
Application/Tools : Xinnovation,Informatica
Methodology : Agile
Description:PyramisisassetmanagementCompanyprovidingInvestmentManagementservicesto
Institutionalclients.Investmentaccountsare createdthroughwhichthe investmentisdone ina
particularsubdiscipline like AggressiveEquity,Large cap,Mid cap .etc.
QuarterlyInvestmentReports(QIR) are generatedinPDFformatforeach investmentaccountandsent
to the clients.
Xinnovationisthe Reportingtool usedtogenerate the QuarterlyInvestmentReport.
Templatescontainingdifferentdatasectionsforeachassetclassare configuredwithinXinnovation.
Data requiredforreportingisloadedfromdifferentsourcesintodatamartsusingInformaticatool.
Xinnovationusesthe datarequiredforthe reportsfromDataMarts and generatesaPDFreportfor each
Investmentaccount.
Responsibilities:
 Participate inrequirementmeetings,analyze requirements,create testcases,Execute and
reportbugs forall the modules.
 Attenddailyscrummeetings.
 Validate dataat eachstage (Staging,masterandMart) of the InformaticabasedETL processin
loadingdatafrom source till mart.
 Testendto endreport generationprocess.
 Verifydata,layoutinthe endreports.
Project 6 : Annual EnrollmentforHealthandWelfare benefits
Company : Health& Welfare Benefitsdivision/Fidelity
Application : Oracle apps (CustomizedtoFidelityneeds).
Description: FidelitymanagesHealthandWelfare benefitsforcorporatescompanieslike IBM,GM,
Moody etc.where employeesof the companieschoose Healthplansfromvariouscarriers.Giving
enrollmentoptions,recordkeepingandmaintainingisdone byFidelity.
Annual enrollmenthappensonce inayear providingenrollmentopportunitytothe employeeswhere
theycan change plansor optionwithinthe optedplan,adddependentsandsoon.
Responsibilities:
 Participate indailyrequirementmeetings,Understandclienthealthplanchangesforthe year,
analyze andfindrequirementissues.

6.  Designtestsbasedonthe finalizedrequirements.
 Prepare testdata priorto testexecution.
 Execute testsinSITphase,raise defectsandtrack themto closure
 Execute testsinUAT environmentbeforeUATtestbegins.
 Provide testdatafor UAT testing.
Declaration
I herebydeclare thatall the above information’sare true tobestof myknowledge. If any information is
found to be incorrect I shall be liable for the rejection of my candidature.
Ramesh kuruba