Raghupathi Rao has over 10 years of experience in software testing. He currently works as a Senior QA Engineer at Invesco Hyderabad Private Limited, where he is responsible for test automation, test planning, and defect tracking. Prior to his current role, he worked as a Test Analyst at DE Shaw & Co and as a Test Engineer at Professional Access Software Development. He has expertise in manual and automated testing using tools like Selenium, JMeter, QC, and Jira. He also has skills in technologies like Java, SQL, Linux, and Agile methodologies.

1. DOB: 3rdSep 1985
Raghupathi Rao
Contact: +91- 8179257202
raghurao0309@gmail.com
ACADAMIC DETAILS
GRADUATION Completed Masters in Computer Applications-MCA from Kakatiya University(2009)
CAREER OBJECTIVE
To have intensive career in the field of Software Testing where I can explore my knowledge and utilize my
skills for the betterment of the organisation and work for organisational successfulgrowth
WORK EXPERIENCE
ORGANIZATIONS
Invesco Hyderabad Private Limited (Aug 2014- Present)
DE Shaw & Co CSSCORP PVT LTD(Feb 2011-Aug 2014)
Professional Access Software Development Pvt Ltd. (Aug 2010- Jan2011)
PROFILE
Senior QA Engineer (Aug2014-Present)
Test Analyst(Feb 2011-Aug 2014)
Test Engineer (Aug 2010- Jan2011)
SKILLS/EXPERTISE
Software Skills:- MS SQL, Core JAVA, Unix, Linux,Selenium2.0 Webdriver
Core Master’sKnowledge: -Software Engineering Concepts, Core Java ,End To End Functional Testing
Professional Skills:- Manual testing,SDLC, STLC, QC, Selenium IDE, Jira, Test Director, Rally, Agile
methodology, Scrum, Integration Testing, Soap-UI Testing,Selenium WebDriver 2.0
automation,TestNG,Log4j
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
Aug 2014-Present– Client Reporting/GCCP/Investor Services– Functional Testing-Financial
Services
Position : Senior QA Engineer
Client: EMEA PowerShares, Fund Portraits, Canada Fundamentals(Client Reporting)
Work Area: Financial Domain, Client Reporting, Accounting,Funding Modules, Quality Assurance
Activity, QC, Rally, Share point, Build Deployment, Release management, Agile Methodology ,Tableau
Reporting, Selenium Automation
Feb 2011 –Aug 2014 – DESCap– Functional Testing-Financial Services
Position : Test Analyst
Client: D.E.Shaw & Co(Fund Accounting systems)
Work Area: Financial Domain, Accounting,Funding Modules,Selenium and JMeter, Quality Assurance
Activity, QC, SharePoint, Hudson,Change management, Unix/Linux Build Deployment.
Aug 2010 – Jan 2011 – AT&T Retail- Functional Testing-Retail Domain
Position:Consultant Test Engineer
Client:-AT&T(E-Commerce)
Work Area: Retail Testing, QTP 9.2, and QC, Test planning, System Testing, Jira, Regression Testing, SQL
DB Handling, UNIX, Software Engineering, SDLC, STLC, Integration Testing and Quality System,
Handling Excel sheets and reporting.
Roles& ResponsibilitiesAs Senior QA Engineer:
 QA Instance deployments & Setup on Unix/Linux machines
 Planning, resource allocation and monitoring the tasks assigned to the team
 Exposed to Regression Testing,Sanity and smoke testing.
 Handling of DB permissions and Execution of DB Scripts.
 Understanding the components and assessing the impact of the changes to the systemas a whole.
 Test-case creation, execution, review, maintenance, and reporting.
 Analysing discrepancies in execution and logging defects when necessary.
 Active involvement in test-case automation.
 Understanding the tools for automated and manual testing.
 Handling Automation Test execution.
 Preparation of post-release report after every release

2.  Automate the test cases using the existing Automation framework.
 Creating scripts in Selenium-IDE, Web driver by using Java
 Prepared POC(Proof of Concept) on web applications using selenium web driver
 Creating, modifying and enhancing both manual Test Scripts and Test Scripts created in selenium
 Keep track of the new requirements / change in requirements of the Project/Transitions
 Analysing Functional Requirement Specifications
 Executing automation test scripts for different releases
 Involved in preparing Test planning for releases
 Involved in writing and reviewing functional test cases
 Carried out sanity testing for every release.
 Redesigning of regression test cases as per new functionalities.
 Execution of test cases,and tracking defects using Bug Tracker – JIRA
 Tracking of defects throughout Defect Life Cycle
 508 Compliance testing by manually
 Performed Ominture testing and executing test cases with using fiddler debuggertool.
 Experience in defect tracking tools like Jira, QC, Rally
 Experience in Software methodologies like Water-Fall, V-model, Agile(Scrum)
 Analysis & Design (Use Case, Sequence and Activity diagrams).
 Work with IT team to plan and deliver projects that meet business requirements.
 Liaise between customers and IT team throughout the project life cycle.
 Coordinate with customers to determine business requirements and needs.
 Interacting with client on daily basis to understand the requirements and prepare business
requirement documents.
 Involved in client meetings along with Leads and Managers to gather requirements and expectation
of the customers which can be implemented in next release.
 Actively participate in Agile meetings(Planning, Review, daily scrum, Retrospective)
 Plays active role as Scrum –Master in organising Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups Meetings,
Review Meeting, and Retrospective Meeting.
CERTIFICATIONS
 Certified ISTQB Functional Tester (2012).
 Certified in Financial Markets beginners Module(2015)
 Certified ISTQB Agile Tester(2016)
 Certified in ISTQB Advance Level-Test Analyst (2016)
POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY:
LEADERSHIP
 Appointed as the President of the Student Committee atChaitanya PG College Warangal for year 2006 –
2009.
 Appointed as Vice-Captain of Foot Ball team of Warangal Public School for year 2000-2001.
EVENT
MANAGEMENT
 Won 1st prize in one act play at Nirman - 2007, cultural festival organized at Chaitanya PG College.
 Worked as a Member of Event Organizing Committee in TechFest-09, a state level Tech Fest held at
Kakatiya University, Warangal.
PROJECTS AWARDS
ACHIEVEMENTS
 Won 2nd prize in Paper presentation on in “Easy Recharge Application”, a state level technical fest,
organized by Kakatiya University in 2006.
 Awarded as Best intern on mini Project ‘Bangalore online project’ (2007).
 Awarded as Best Team Performer (Galaxy Award) for the year 2011 & 2012 for BackOffice Fund
Accounting Projects.
 Awarded as Star Performer in the Team (2015)