The document provides a summary of a QA professional's experience and qualifications. It outlines over 8 years of experience leading a team of 16 QA professionals and ensuring quality delivery for critical applications. Key responsibilities included project planning, execution, risk mitigation, and process improvements. The professional has extensive experience in Agile methodologies, test case development, automation testing, and issue tracking tools.

1. RAJESH CHERUKURI
Sr. Manager (SQA)
rcherukuri@spcapitlaiq.com
rajeshcherukuri83@gmail.com
Phone: +91-9963029067
Location: Hyderabad, India
SUMMARY
Accomplished QA professional with 8+ years of progressive experience and proven record of
significant, successful contribution in quality management, project management, process
improvement, business analysis/evaluation, product-development life cycle methodologies and
quality management systems, processes, standards and systems.
EDUCATION SUMMARY:
B.Tech from K.L.C.E affiliated to Nagarjuna University.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Working with S&P Capital IQ from 8.5 years.
EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:
 Responsible for the quality delivery for the critical applications of the company.
 Mentoring and leading a QA team of 16 from different locations and 6 different teams
whose focus is on execution of the projects and delivering them with at most Quality and
support the higher environments.
 Experience in successful delivery of over 40+ releases.
 Started the project planning with 1 sub team as I was successful in building the next layer in
each of my sub team’s, now I take care of the project planning, execution and management
of 6 different sub teams and makes sure that company’s yearly goals are met.
 Working with Managers and Leads from the Development and Business Analysts (capability
management team) to meet the promised deadlines, clear the bottlenecks and address the
scope changes.
 Successful stakeholder management is maintained by updating the progress on the
programs, and to jot down the risk mitigation plans.
 Working on agile process model, scrum development process with three week release
cycles/ two month release cycles.
 Member of the QA leadership team in Hyderabad that regularly brings Best practices to QA
process and drive innovation.
 Playing a role to stream line patch process across the technology division for smooth
deployments.

2.  Played a major role in setting up the QA process in new location as a part of the BCP, I took
charge of this by staying there at the new location for 1 year and set up the QA process.
 Responsible for conducting the performance review’s for my team members semi annually
 I am acting as compensation manager for my team members from last four years.
 Closely involves in company’s recruiting efforts
 Part of technology operations planning
 Built POC from my teams who are responsible for Automation testing both for regression or
the build validation testing.
 Actively participated and responsible to inculcate the change to the teams that happened to
the current organisation from 2006 to till now.
 Strong experience on SDLC and STLC.
 Strong experience in testing activities like preparing test cases development, test case
execution and defect reporting.
 Good T-SQL development skills and knowledge on SQL Server Replication
 Strong knowledge on defect life cycle and hands on experience with test cases management
tools (HP-QC, HP-ALM) and Bug tracker.
 Strong knowledge on project management tools like SERENA, Open Project and JIRA.
 Lead a team for validating the DR environment and analysing how good our DR is based on
statistics and strong knowledge on Log shipping used for Disaster Recovery environment
 Responsible for any validations during any major hardware roll outs like EMC, 3PAR storage,
NAS cut over, SQL server roll outs
 Worked on Release planning and execution, training and staging environment build
validations.
 Experience in Production support under strict timelines with good quality during first four
years of my career
 Involves in Infrastructure management, like new servers requirements analysis, storage
analysis, forecasting, server movements with in environments planning and execution
 ITIL Foundation certified.
PROJECTS SUMMARY:
Project: Auto Extraction
Project Duration: September 2012 to till date
Description: Financials data is collected by a team of 1500 members on heavy OLTP
environment. This project deals with automating data collection efforts using advanced
techniques. Each format of the input files (HTML, PDF, Text, RTF, XBRL etc) are separately
handled using graph algorithms and machine learning techniques.
Technologies used are .Net, SQL Server
Responsibilities:

3.  My team is responsible for delivering the auto extraction system with high quality which
works on all the sample of documents whose universe is huge, collection of the test data for
each data set (Financials, Estimates, Ownership, Supplemental data, Securities data etc.)
 Documented, tracked, and reported project performance scorecard goals and metrics to
senior-level management.
 Designed and implemented from the ground up structured QA-testing process, including
Unit, Integration, User Acceptance and Performance
 Participated in the two year road map from QA side and cross check at regular intervals to
ensure we are meeting the deadlines and being responsible for any deviations.
 Proved consistently by delivering the tasks as per the plan and put the idea of purchasing
the third party tools in place of this auto extraction system on the shelf.
 Consistently motivating the employees and to withstand the pressure of the deliverables by
recognising them with Bronze and Silver Ace awards and making sure their performance is
recognised in their Annual salary revision too.
 Strengthened business-unit relationships and ensured timely delivery of quality deliverables
 Successfully built the back up plan, and it became useful when the attrition was present.
 Encouraged the team who really interested to spend the time on innovation to make the
testing efficient, made a space for these ideas to be part of the release goals.
 Responsible for proving the Auto extraction system which we are delivering in phased
manner is yielding benefits by placing proper reports and pulling statistics and presenting
them to the data set directors.
Project: Financial Data Collection Application (FDCA)
Project Duration: September 2010 to till date
Responsibilities: This is a key application of S&P Capital IQ which is a source of data for major
revenues of the company. As a Manager, I’m responsible for the maintaining high quality of test
executions, delivery of the projects within the time lines and discussions with project teams
which include over 30 production managers stake holders, Business Analysts, Developers and
Quality analysts on the smooth development and deliveries planning. Also responsible for
smooth execution of the application which is used by over 1500 data collection users and
support or address the production issues.
Responsibilities:
 As a Manager, I’m responsible for the maintaining high quality of test executions, delivery of
the projects within the time lines and discussions with project teams which include over 30
production managers stake holders, Business Analysts, Developers and Quality analysts on
the smooth development and deliveries planning
 Participated in developing continuous project review board and processes, as well as
developing and institutionalizing common-process.
 Developed Quality and Test management system, including Project QA time estimation and
process-improvement identification and tracking.
 Participated in the project life cycle, from analysis to production implementation, with
emphasis on data analysis, systemtesting, and auditable documentation of results.

4.  Executed systems and data quality testing to ensure all development deliverables are
production ready
 Created the generic folder structure of the test cases in ALM, which are easy to understand
and grouped logically.
 Designed and implemented internal application support process to track, monitor, and
continually improve on TAT of the issues response rate.
Project: Earnings and Estimates Data Collection Application (EEDCA)
Project Duration: October 2014 to till date
Project Description: This is one of the key application of S&P Capital IQ. This has got user base
of 700+ and timeliness of the data is very much important in this data set, the soon the data on
the platform the high the value is. We have got many areas in the project viz. sourcing, issuing,
collection, logical checks, data delivery, standardizing the data and show it on the platform.
Responsibilities:
 This team has been allocated to me in the recent past, I found some people issues here and
did some bold moves by swapping the resources which turned out to be successful.
 Till now no one is accountable for the standardization testing in this data set, we formally
formed a team who is strong in SQL based testing and good in the domain
 Estimated testing effort for each project and prioritized tasks for concurrent projects for QA
team members.
 Worked with project managers and development team to resolve issues during the testing
cycle.
Project: Workflow Loader
Project Duration: December 2009 to 2010
Responsibilities:
 This is a key application that helps all the workflows of over 30 S&P Capital IQ data
collection applications. As Lead QA engineer, I was responsible for test execution of
Workflow Loader, to make sure functionality and performance of the loader is at critical
expected lines with proper documentations.
 Timeliness of the data considered being highly critical to the business and the workflow this
application manages should be within expected timelines. As part of this, I worked with
different teams to test the functionality of their data sets. Have the business knowledge of
whole workflow system.
 Involved in SQL testing to generate the mismatches and to test the functionality.
 Created Master Test Plans and Test cases for assigned projects, reviewed and approved
Test Plans created by cross-functional teams participated in release project
 Participated in walk thru to define testability for requirements, systems integration, release
acceptance test, functional testing, configuration and change control.

5. Project: Worked on Document sourcing, Mapping, Metadata validation, Conversion and
translation applications for 4 years with a team of 4 members.
Project Duration: October 2007 to September 2010
(Note: I worked parallel on Workflow Loader project from December 2009 to till date)
Project Description: These projects belong to a data set called Documents that involves
sourcing of documents and making them ready for the data collection for different teams like
Financials, Key Developments, Business relations, Offices and Directors, Take over defences,
Business Descriptions, Compensation, Non portfolio collection
Responsibilities:
 Created and conducted quality assurance reviews, developed and delivered weekly status
report to executive management
 Understanding the business, test execution, supporting the production environment,
responding to users on application stability, providing temporary solutions and working
with on and with development team on permanent fixes, coordinated with Developers and
DB team on bug fixing and deployment.
 Created weekly status report on QA progress, represented QA on daily Scrum meetings
Project: Worked on Auditors tool, Ownership collection application, Document Tracker and AA
File tracker.
Project Duration: October 2006 to September 2007
Responsibilities:
 Created Master Test Plans and Test cases for assigned projects, reviewed and approved
Test Plans created by cross-functional teams participated in release projects
 Performed functional, regression, acceptance, validation, and verification testing
 Co-ordinated user acceptance testing at regular intervals and made sure that we get sign off
for these projects with in the scheduled time lines.