Rajashekar has over 14 years of experience in software testing. He is currently a Test Manager at Target India, where he has worked for several years managing teams of 5-18 people testing various eCommerce and supply chain applications. Prior to this, he worked at companies such as MindTree and Software Paradigms in testing roles. Rajashekar has comprehensive experience in testing methodologies including Agile, waterfall, and iterative development. He is skilled in test planning, automation, and ensuring quality across multiple projects.

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Certified Scrum Master from ScrumAlliance Rajashekar. C
Phone: 98 44 44 46 62
e-mail:
rajashekarc21@gmail.com
Career Objective
CSM certified seasoned test delivery leader looking towards utilizing 12 plus years of my IT experience in multi
faceted role of testing, service delivery, client coordinating and to add value to Quality.
Summary
 14.9 years of total work experience
 12.9 years of extensive experience in Software Testing.
 2 years of teaching experience (Nov 2001 – Dec 2003).
Working Experience
 Currently working at Target India, Bangalore as a Test Manager/Lead Engineer since Sep 2015
 Worked at Target India, Bangalore as a Project Lead/Test Manager during Nov 2012 to Aug 2015
 Worked at Target Corporation, Minneapolis, USA as a Program Test Lead during Oct 2011 to Oct 2012
 Worked at Target India, Bangalore as a Test Lead during July 2008 to July 2011
 Worked at MindTree Limited, Bangalore as a Testing Specialist during Oct 2007 to July 2008
 Worked at Software Paradigms (I) Pvt. Ltd, Mysore as a Project Leader during Mar 2006 to Sep 2007
 Worked at Software Paradigms (I) Pvt. Ltd, Mysore as a Software Engineer during Jan 2004 to March 2006
 Worked as a Lecturer for AMC group of educational institutes during Nov 2001 to Dec 2003
 Worked for National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), Bangalore as a Graduate Trainee during Nov 2000 to Oct 2001.
Professional Competency
 Experienced in Project Management, Team Management, Coordinating with multiple teams
o Complete ownership of testing projects with teams spanned across multiple locations (onshore/offshore).
o Contributed with Test planning, strategy, reporting, and improving the overall quality efficiency
o Managed project activities in Agile-sprint, Waterfall, and Iterative model of development environment
o Extensively contributed on team mentoring, performance appraisals, resolving ambiguities.
o Scheduling daily stand-up to monitor testing status and providing guidance and coaching the team.
o Contributed extensively in Automation, Functional, SIT, E2E, Database, UAT and Webservice testing
o Maximizing team utilization through proper work allocation, providing training and development
 Defined and implemented Testing Strategy for all the testing activities
o Drove testing strategy, effort estimation, planning of resource and test execution of end-to-end
eCommerce [Sterling OMS], Supply Chain, Transp & Dist, PeopleSoft HCM 9.1.
o Handled testing of applications built on C, C++, JAVA, Groovy,.NET, Mainframe, Peoplesoft.
o Significant cost savings by migrating to open source tools like SOAP UI, JMeter, Selenium.
o Hands on experience with database testing using SQL, Oracle, DB2, Cassandra & PostgreSQL database.
 Automation experience with Groovy on Spoc framework + Selenium on TestNG framework
 Good team handling capabilities, handled multiple projects at a time with large number of team members at cross
locations (Target Bangalore, Chennai, Minneapolis) of team size of 18+.

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 Contributed extensively in team ramp-up, mentoring & training team in terms of building talented teams.
 A technical panelist for recruitment under testing competency.
Professional Qualifications
Master of Computer Applications ( MCA ) with first class from Bapuji Institute of Engineering and Technology,
Davangere in 2000-2001.
Overall Achievements
 Promoted as a Project Lead (Aug, 2011) and travelled to Minneapolis, USA on L1 visa to handle FlexPLM program
 Received Quarterly Award (June, 2010) for the excellent performance in eMerit project at Target India
 Received many appreciations and GTCs (Great Team Card) for the excellent work at target and also received a
GTC from the vice president
 Worked as a member for Software Quality Analyst (SQA) group at Software Paradigms, Mysore
 Worked as a member for Defect Prevention Plan (DPP) Group at Software Paradigms, Mysore
 Awarded as a ‘Best Performer’ in the Linux scripting training organized by Software Paradigms, Mysore
Projects Undertaken :
Target Corpration: Jul 2008 – Till
Date
Roles & Responsibilities:
1. Complete ownership of execution of testing life cycle across multiple projects and releases
2. Handled team size varying from 5 to 18 and also contributed individually during execution
3. Planning of testing activities for the stories/requirements planned for the sprint/release
4. Project management, resource management, end to end test management
5. Defining/Preparing program test strategy, master test plan, testing budget and effort estimation
6. Coordinating with technical, business and clients to get/provide testing solutions
7. Ensuring with the environment readiness, test data needs, and any other configuration setup
8. Complete ownership of the defect management, follow up with risks, issues and change requests identified
9. Identifying the automation and performance testing needs and getting it done
10. Facilitating and attending the daily meetings with the teams at cross
11. Prepare status report and collect Metric details at the project/program level and keep the stakeholders updated
with testing status
12. Mentoring the team and providing reviews on team’s overall performance.
13. Contnuously working towards identifying cost effective but quality solutions
Summary of all the projects handled at Target India 100 Months
Project # Project Name Domain/Technology Client Duration Role/
Designation
Project 12 Shipment Visibility Engine Target .Com -
eCommerce
Target, USA Apr 2015 – Till Date Test Mgr/
Lead Engr
Project 11 Sterling OMS
(NAE) New Allocation Engine
Target .Com -
eCommerce
Target, USA Apr 2015 – Mar 2016 Test Mgr
/Proj Lead
Project 10 Sterling OMS
ESP Migration - Experian
Target .Com -
eCommerce
Target, USA Sep 2014 – Mar 2015 Test Mgr
/Proj Lead
Project 9 a. MCIM R3– C.NA
b. CNA Stability 2014
Supply chain
/Merchandising
Target, USA Nov 2013 – Aug 2014
Feb 2014 – Aug 2014
Test Mgr
/Proj Lead

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c. VPF Stability 2014 Feb 2014 – Aug 2013
Project 8 a. DTM-Backhaul
b. West Jefferson
c. Freight Finance Sys
d. HWC :P2 – GMS Vendor
System
Transportation &
Distribution
Finance
Merchandizing
Target, USA Feb 2013 – Nov 2013
Feb 2013 – Nov 2013
Feb 2013 – Nov 2013
Nov 2012 – Feb 2013
Project Lead
Program 7 SSA – Social Savings
Application
Supply chain
/Merchandising
Target, USA July 2012 – Oct 2012 Program Test
Lead
Program 6 FlexPLM 9.2 / Cart Wheel Supply chain
/Merchandising
Target, USA Jun 2011 – July 2012 Program Test
Lead
Project 5 Peoplesoft Upgrade 9.1 Peoplesoft Target, USA Oct 2010 – May 2011 Test Lead
Project 4 Target Sourcing Services
(TSS)
Retail/PeopleSoft Target, USA Jun 2010 - Sep 2010 Test Lead
Project 3 Target Travel & Expense
System (TTS)
Retail/PeopleSoft Target, USA Mar 2010 - Jun 2010 Test Lead
Project 2 Lambda - Beta Retail/PeopleSoft Target, USA Feb 2009 - Jun 2009 Test Lead
Project 1 eMerit Retail/PeopleSoft Target, USA Sep 2010 - Dec 2010
May 2009 - Feb 2010
Jul 2008 - Feb 2009
Test Lead
Achievements at Target:
Received Great Team Card (GTC) for most of the projects worked-on, for the on-time completion with quality work.
Promoted as Project Lead and have been given a travel opportunity with L1 Visa to work on FlexPLM project at
Minneapolis, US
Received quarterly award for successfully completing the project on time with zero defects. Also received GTC’s for the
excellent work handled during the project.
Received a hardcopy of the GTC duly signed by the Vice President for the excellent work and handling multiple projects in
parallel.
Received appreciation certificate and a note from vice president for the excellent work taken up individually and
completing the job with high quality.
Mind Tree Limited: Oct 2007 – Jul 2008
Roles & Responsibility:
1. Involved in functional study of the existing application.
2. Review and Analysis of the requirements.
3. Preparing high level test scenario’s and review of the test cases.
4. Execution of test cases (Functional, Regression and E2E testing)
5. Resource handling, work allocation, preparing status report and metric details
Summary of all the projects handled at MindTree Limited 10 Months
Project # Project Name Domain/Technology Client Duration Role
Project 1 Global Exposure System
Replacement (GES Rep)
ASP.NET (Data
warehouse)
CIT, US Oct 2007 – Jul 2008 Test Specialist

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Software Paradigms India Pvt Ltd: Jan 2004 – Sep 2007
Roles & Responsibilities:
1. Preparing resource and effort estimation for the projects assigned
2. Involved in functional study of application/requirements/use cases
3. Escalating the issues logged by team to Onsite PM and doing a follow up until closure
4. Discussing with onsite PM/Client to get the resolution for the issues
5. Reviewing the test cases prepared by team
6. Preparing test cases through the use cases and test summary report for the daily and weekly updates.
Summary of all the projects handled at Software Paradigms (I) Pvt Ltd 45 Months
Project # Project Name Domain/Technology Client Duration Role
Project 6 Total Automotive
Management System
(TAMS)
Java, SQL GPC, USA Jun 2006 – Sep 2007 Project
Lead
Project 5 Belk International
Backyard System
Java, JSP, JavaScript,
COBOL
Belk
International
Systems.
USA
Apr 2006 - Jun 2006 Project
Lead
Project 4 Job Resources
Allocation Management
and Personnel System
JSP, HTML/JavaScript,
Java, EJB, Struts, SQL
Server 2000
SPI, USA Aug 2005 - Apr 2006 Project
Lead
Project 3 Spi Purchase Order
Processing System
(spiPOPS)
JSP, HTML/JavaScript,
Java, EJB, Struts, SQL
Server 2000
SPI, USA Jan 2005 - May 2005 Software
Engineer
Project 2 Spi Project VB, VBScript, Java
Script, Vb.Net, HTML
SPI, USA Sep 2004 - Dec 2005 Software
Engineer
Project 1 Conversion Project for
an online Learning on
Demand Portal
JSP,HTML/JavaScript,
Java, EJB, Struts, SQL
Server 2000
TEDS, USA Jan 2004 - Aug 2004 Software
Engineer
National Aerospace Laboratories: Nov 2000 – Oct 2001
Roles & Responsibility:
1. Developed the application, tested and installed in all the systems of different departments.
2. Prepared the Requirement Document and implementation guidelines.
Summary of all the projects handled at National aerospace laboratories 12 Months
Project # Project Name Domain/Technology Client Duration Role
Project 1 Intranet Messaging Systems
Using Socket Programming
Core Java, Swings NAL Nov 2000 – Oct 2001 Graduate
Trainee
Personal Dossier
DOB 21-06-1974

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Languages Known Kannada, Hindi, English and Tamil
Passport Details F9309284

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Languages Known Kannada, Hindi, English and Tamil
Passport Details F9309284