Ganesan Saravanan has over 11 years of experience in mobile application testing. He has tested applications on Android, Windows, Linux, and other platforms. Some of his responsibilities include test planning, defect tracking, automation testing, and leading teams of up to 25 people. He has extensive experience testing a wide range of applications, including commercial apps, OS upgrades, and apps for telecom operators.

1. Ganesan Saravanan
Mobile: 09910011021
Email: saravanan.saro.kg@gmail.com
Achievements:
Around 11 years of total experience in 3G Mobile Application Testing. Has good
experience in investigating the Requirement Specification from Functional and System
perspective. Good experience of Creation and execution of functional and System test
cases. Good Experience in managing the team and handling the conflicts. Heading the
team towards proper direction. Mentoring the new members in getting them understand
the tools related to the project.
 Around 11 years of experience in software application testing.
 Extensively involved in testing the application manually.
 Good Exposure in SDLC Models like Iterative and V model.
 Good Exposure in Mobile Application Testing.
 Test Planning for Mobile applications, Web Applications and Utility Tools.
 Experience in designing and executing the Test plans and Test cases based on
business requirements and technical specifications.
 Defect log preparation / bug reporting and regression testing the application.
 Experience in on different types of tests like Black Box, Integration, System,
Regression and Compatibility testing.
 Operator Acceptance testing for leading Telecom operators like Vodafone, Hutch,
Orange, US AT&T, US Verizon and T-Mobile.
 Experience in SDK Testing. (Worked on Ubuntu 8.04,8.10,Ubuntu 9.04,9.10 and
Ubuntu 10.04)
 Experience in Exploratory testing, Menutree testing and UIT (BFT,Level testing,Editor
Matrix and Interruption Matrix) testing.
 Experience in NHTAT and ACT tool Automation testing.
 Experience in Android APK testing.
 Experience in Android, Windows, MMP, SGP, SNMP, SLP and LiMO platform.
 Experience in Aging Testing.
 Experience in IOT testing.
 Experience in FOTA Testing.
 Enhancements in Testing methodology and Process.
 Process Adherence (Test Plan, Test Reports and other Projects related Reports, Kick-
off report, SRR, Follow-up & Communications and Risk Analysis)
 Invalid Defects tracking.
 Experience in Security (Samsung KNOX Solution) Testing.
 Experience in B2B, B2C and Pre-test and Solution projects.
 Experience in UX (UI /GUI /AUI / Usability )verification testing
 Experience in Mobile Payment system(Samsung Pay)
 Experience in Memory Leak, Current Consumption, and Manual performance,
Benchmarking, Sluggishness and System Stress.
 Experience in Android Security Test: Encryption policy, KNOX, User data leakage,
credential leakage.
Automation Experience:
 Android Monkey tool for Stress testing of Applications
 SetAs menutree verification tool
 DST Automation tool.

2.  T-Set Memory leak tool verification
 GUI(UX) tool
 Linux and Tizen SDK Testing
 Dr.Cha code coverage tool
 APK analyser tool for method verification
 RAP : Record and Play tool
 Selenium and Appium.
Experience details:
Organization Designation Duration
SAMSUNG Electronics
Pvt.Ltd,India
Development Manager September’2008 to Till date
HCL Member technical staff March’2006 to Nov’2007
Onsite Exposure:
 Visited client place Sony Ericsson Mobile Corporation, Japan with work permit
terms for the period of March 2006 to Nov 2007. (Worked as Mobile Application
tester).
 Visited SAMSUNG Electronics Pvt.Ltd Korea for the period of May 2009 to Aug
2009. (Worked as Mobile Application tester for SLP Projects).
 Visited two times SAMSUNG Mobile Lab, USA-San jose (Worked as Mobile
Application tester for Android Projects and tested operator application in Live
network).
ISTQB Certification: Certified with ISTQB foundation level.
Honors & Awards:
 DMC Innovation Award: Got awarded 2 times for DMC Idea contest organized by
Samsung, Korea
 Star Award: For excellent bug findings and log analsysis given by samsung
telecommunications America-San jose
 Best Lead: For handled and delivered on time with quality first LIMO (Linux) project
given by Samsung, Korea
Technical Skills:
Testing Tool : BRAT, ACT, NHTAT,Robo,VNC Robot,SAT
Defect Tracking Tools : IBM-Rational Clear Quest, Bugzilla 2.18, Redmine and PLM.
Operating Systems : Windows 9x/NT/2000 Server/Professional
Project Build Tools : Flash Gordon, Platform Assistant,Downloader.
Mobile Platforms : Ericsson, SLP, MMP, SGP, SNMP,LiMO,Windows and Android.
Other Mobile Technologies: Digital Rights Management, Microsoft DRM, FOTA, DebugMux,

3. Projects details:
I. Android Commercials projects details:
No of Commercials Projects
worked
30 Projects worked.
Android Version Android 3.0,3.1 and 3.2(Honeycomb)
Android 4.0(ICS)
Android 4.1 & 4.2 JB
Android 5 & 6
Team Size 25
Tested main Models
Samsung S7,S6,S5,S4,S3,S2 and S1
Samsung Note 5 , Note 4 , Note 3 , Note 2
Tizen Z1 and Tizen Z3
Responsibilities:
1. Process Adherence (Test Plan, Test Reports and other Projects related Reports,
Kick-off report, SRR, Follow-up & Communications and Risk Analysis)
2. Invalid Defects tracking.
3. Follow-up Test plan and test coverage.
4. Training and Presentation.
5. Enhancements in Testing methodology and Process.
6. Automating all possible scenarios.
7. Making the Project stable as early as possible.
8. Focusing on project KPIs.
9. Review of documents, results and summary before delivery.
10. Lead and guide a team of five engineers for development of test cases and
execution of test cases.
11 Interaction with the customer for mutual understanding of activities and status
update
12. Documentation and review for deliverables.
13. Automation execution (Menu tree, Memory Leak , DST and Performance)
14. Root cause analysis
15. UX verification
II. Android OS Upgrade projects details:

4. No of OS Upgrade Projects
worked
400 Projects worked.
Android Version Android 4.0(ICS) and Android GB
Android 4.1 & 4.2 JB
Android 5 and 6
Team Size 25
Tested main Models
Samsung A7,A5 and A3
Samsung J7 and J5
Tab S , Tab S2
Responsibilities:
1. Process Adherence (Test Plan, Test Reports and other Projects related Reports,
Kick-off report, SRR, Follow-up & Communications and Risk Analysis)
2. Invalid Defects tracking.
3. Follow-up Test plan and test coverage.
4. Training and Presentation.
5. Enhancements in Testing methodology and Process.
6. Automating all possible scenarios.
7. Making the Project stable as early as possible.
8. Focusing on project KPIs.
9. Review of documents, results and summary before delivery.
10. Lead and guide a team of five engineers for development of test cases and
execution of test cases.
11 Interaction with the customer for mutual understanding of activities and status
update
12. Documentation and review for deliverables.
13. Automation execution (Menu tree, Memory Leak , DST and Performance)
14. Root cause analysis
15. UX verification
III.LiMO and SLP Platform project details:
Samsung (i780)
Samsung i780 can be considered the first communicator of the company with a full
QWERTY keyboard, as its predecessors such as i320 and i600 were built on Windows
Mobile 5 Smartphone platform and aren’t considered communicator phones. Samsung
SGH-i780, unlike the two previous models, also has a touch screen, which coupled with
its QWERTY keyboard gives the maximum possibilities for entering data.

5. Samsung i780 GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900 HSDPA 2100 115.9 x 61.3 x 12.9 mm Camera 2
MP, 1600x1200 pixels, video, secondary VGA video call camera Microsoft Windows Mobile
6.0 Professional.
Vodafone 360 Samsung H1
Vodafone's new 360 services is designed to make social networking a lot easier, and to
kick off that campaign it's launched the Samsung H1, the flagship phone of Vodafone
360.
The phone is actually a decent model with some nice hardware on the spec sheet.
Vodafone clearly wants to design 360 in its own image, and to that end it's developed its
own operating system, based on Linux Mobile (the basis for Google's Android).
Featured with a 3.5-inch touch screen display, Vodafone 360 Samsung H1 is also
equipped with a 5-megapixel camera with auto-focus function. It integrated with
Vodafone 360 service that will automatically synchronize all the contacts from the phone,
Face book, Windows Live Massager and Google Talk as well as automatically backup all
the phone content to the internet.
It boasts with 16GB internal memory, supports Wi-Fi, GPRS, Bluetooth and HSDPA
connectivity. Additionally, it comes with battery that provides up to 10 hours of talk time,
hand free headset, an MP3 player and java games.
Vodafone 360 Samsung H1 is the first Smartphone with the full Vodafone 360 experience
(a brand new set of internet services for the mobile and PC which gathers all of a
customer’s friends, social networks and online communities, entertainment and personal
favorites (like music, games, photos and video) in one place.)
Vodafone 360 Samsung M1
Client : SAMSUNG, Korea.
Environment : SAMSUNG i6410, Downloader
Role : Lead Engineer
Team : 10
OS : LiMo OS
The second handset to offer the Vodafone 360 experience and the H1’s little brother the
Samsung M1.
Vodafone 360 is a new set of internet services for the mobile and PC which gathers all
contacts from your phone and social networks in one place.
The M1 boasts a 3.2-inch touch screen display, 3.2-megapixel camera; built-in GPS push
email, audio and video playback, up to 10 hours talk time, 1GB memory expandable with
microSD card and Bluetooth 2.0.
Responsibilities:
1. Test Plan for new components.
2. Modification of existing test plan and write new Test Specification.
3. Review of documents, results and summary before delivery.
4. Lead and guide a team of five engineers for development of test cases and
execution of test cases.
5. Interaction with the customer for mutual understanding of activities and status
update
6. Documentation and review for deliverables.

6. 7. Understanding the requirements and creating test cases in Quality centre.
8. Execution of test cases through Quality Centre.
9. Bug reporting and issue tracking using Defect Management System (DMS.)
10. Area wise focus testing.
11. Other activities include Variant check, Icon check, Performance testing, FOTA
testing, Accessory testing and Content check.
12. Execution of test cases Like Basic(Key Shortcuts/Activity Menu/Battery
Charging/Phone Info),Internet(Verification of different web pages, Manage
bookmarks, settings),Entertainment(Record Sound/Video DJ/Photo DJ/Video
Browser/Music Browser),Camera(Picture & Video: Take and
View),Messaging(SMS/MMS),Media player(Music Player),File manager(Verify
Phone/MS contents, Transfer of files from PC to phone),Phone book(vCard:
Creation/Sending/Copying from SIM),Calls(Voice/ VT MO/MT Call, Flight Mode
verification),Organizer(Appointment/task/Alarm/Stop watch),Settings(Master
Reset/BT Generic Pairing/New Events/Setup Wizard)
13. Regression testing by using automated scripts in BRAT
14. Operator specific testing during the OA (Operator Acceptance) & CR testing
specific to different operators.
IV.Windows platform project details:
No of Projects worked in
Windows platform
5 projects worked on windows platform
Windows projects Name Magellan,Marco_US_AT&T,Marco_US_Verizon,Odyssey_
US T-Mobile and Mendel_US_AT&T
Windows Version Windows 7 and Windows 8
Responsibilities:
1. Process Adherence (Test Plan, Test Reports and other Projects related Reports,
Kick-off report, SRR, Follow-up & Communications and Risk Analysis)
2. Invalid Defects tracking.
3. Follow-up Test plan and test coverage.
4. Training and Presentation.
5. Enhancements in Testing methodology and Process.
6. Automating all possible scenarios.
7. Making the Project stable as early as possible.
8. Focusing on project KPIs.
9. Review of documents, results and summary before delivery.
10. Lead and guide a team of five engineers for development of test cases and
execution of test cases.
11 Interaction with the customer for mutual understanding of activities and status
update
12. Documentation and review for deliverables.
V.Future Phone (SGP, MMP and SNMP platform) project details:

7. No of Projects worked in
Future phone platform
More than 20 projects worked on Future phone
platform
Responsibilities:
1. Process Adherence (Test Plan, Test Reports and other Projects related Reports,
Kick-off report, SRR, Follow-up & Communications and Risk Analysis)
2. Invalid Defects tracking.
3. Follow-up Test plan and test coverage.
4. Training and Presentation.
5. Enhancements in Testing methodology and Process.
6. Automating all possible scenarios.
7. Making the Project stable as early as possible.
8. Focusing on project KPIs.
9. Review of documents, results and summary before delivery.
10. Lead and guide a team of five engineers for development of test cases and
execution of test cases.
11 Interaction with the customer for mutual understanding of activities and status
update
12. Documentation and review for deliverables.
VI. Sony Ericsson projects details:
Thelma (K610i):
This project mainly concerns the product Thelma which is a daughter product for HB-106
Heartbeat. During this project I have tested the Mobile TV, Messaging, Camera,
Bluetooth, PCSW modules along with OA (Operator Acceptance) testing for leading
Telecom operators like Vodafone, Hutch, and T-mobile.
Miwa (K618i):
Miwa is mainly the product on MR branch that’s customized especially for Vodafone
operator. All the basic modules like Messaging, File manager, Call handling, Internet
Connectivity were covered in the full system testing of the product along with FOTA
testing.
Miyu (Z610i):
Miyu is a clam shell phone with a maintenance release sw based on Thelma. Internet
connectivity, PC-SW, BT, Second display functionalities, Entertainment etc modules were
being covered during the project life cycle later followed by CR testing for operator like
TIM Italy and Hutch.
Shinobu (W910i):
Shinobu is a lead product in HB-107 HEART BEAT and a walkman based phone during
this project. I have done the release test, system test, performance test on basic

8. modules like camera, file manager, BT along with new upcoming 3G standards like
HSDPA and Mobile TV. Apart from this I have done the OA testing for Orange/Vodafone
and performance testing of Walkman.
Ai (W880i):
Ai is mainly the product on MR branch that’s customized especially for Walkman phone.
All the basic modules like Messaging, File manager, Call handling, Internet Connectivity
were covered in the full system testing of the product along with FOTA testing.
Client : Sony Ericsson, Japan.
Environment : Sony Ericsson W910i, Flash Gordon, Platform Assistant
Role : Test Engineer
Team : 7
Responsibilities:
1. Understanding the requirements and creating test cases in Quality centre.
2. Execution of test cases through Quality Centre.
3. Bug reporting and issue tracking using Defect Management System (DMS.)
4. Area wise focus testing.
5. Other activities include Variant check, Icon check,
Performance testing, FOTA testing, Accessory testing and Content check.
6. Execution of test cases Like Basic(Key Shortcuts/Activity Menu/Battery
Charging/Phone Info),Internet(Verification of different web pages, Manage
bookmarks, Settings),Entertainment(Record Sound/Video DJ/Photo DJ/Video
Browser/Music Browser),Camera(Picture & Video: Take and
View),Messaging(SMS/MMS),Media player(Music Player),File manager(Verify
phone/MS contents, Transfer of files from PC to phone),Phone book(vCard:
Creation/Sending/Copying from SIM), Calls (Voice/ VT MO/MT Call, Flight Mode
verification), Organizer (Appointment/task/Alarm/Stop watch), Settings (
Master Reset/BT Generic Pairing/New Events/Setup Wizard).
7. Regression testing by using automated scripts in BRAT
8. Operator specific testing during the OA (Operator Acceptance) & CR testing
specific to different operators.
Education:
Degree University
M.C.A Bharathidasan University,
Trichy
B.Sc Bharathidasan University,
Trichy
Personal details:
Language Known : English,Tamil.
Sex : Male.
Marital Status : Married.
Nationality : Indian.