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Venkata Ramana Sanku

Edison,NJ

Summary

17 years experience in Quality Assurance with Solid experience in Functional testing, ETL testing, Security testing, End-to-end test automation, Performance testing.

Experienced in SDLC process and STLC processes and best practices Proficient in gathering and analyzing the Business Requirements, documenting System Requirement specification, Functional Requirement Specifications, Requirements Traceability Matrix.

Strong knowledge of wealth management, assets under management, Credit cards in financial services domain.

Thorough quality assurance professional highly skilled in manual and automated application testing. Partners successfully with project management and development team members to put out high-quality software for customers. Decisive in identifying problems at any stage of production.

Responsible for building and motivating QA teams for better quality product in a fast paced Agile software development environment

Implemented logical and physical data modeling with STAR schema using Erwin in Data Marts Ensured that the mappings are correct and Conducted data validation testing.

Always up to date with modern test frameworks and implement in project by adding value.

Expertise in defining test cases at the right level of detail and define test cases and ensure acceptance criteria matches real business value.

Drive a strong quality best practices and influence the QA team to focus on quality in each sprint.

Continuously focus on improving stability and resiliency of critical business processes and applications

Excellent time management and organization skills, a high degree of work quality, attention to detail, and strong interpersonal skills (written and oral).

Always willing to learn new technologies and implement in the project.

Well versed automation architect in building robust automation frameworks. Built automation testing framework using AWS lambda and selenium which saved 18hrs of manual effort per release.

Core expertise involved Functional (UI and Backend), Regression, ETL , Automation, Smoke, Integration, End to End and Performance testing.

Superior ability to collaborate with all stakeholders

Expertise in querying and testing RDBMS such as Oracle, MS SQL Sever using SQL, PL/SQL for data integrity.

Solid understanding of source to target data mapping

Strong identification and mitigation of existing data defects and errors. Understands data models and excels at transformations

Proficiency in automation tools like Selenium, UFT , Performance tools like loadrunner and ETL tools like ICEDQ.

Experience in monitoring and observability tools like Splunk, Dynatrace. Experience in creating dashboards using Splunk for automation test results.

Experience in DevOps by Implementing roadmap technologies and processes to improve automation and regression testing as well as automated CI/CD pipelines and release deployment capabilities based on the needs of the engineering teams.

Demonstrated experience in testing complex ETL logic, extensive mathematical calculations, processing of the data at multiple stages

Deep knowledge in SQL’s and Data Quality/ Validation testing.

Work side by side with other engineering leaders to ensure CI/CD pipeline key integration to drive product quality.

Well-honed Software Tester possesses and applies expertise on multiple complex work assignments.

Experienced handling numerous tasks, changing priorities and timely actions.

Plans major technology assignments and recommends changes to drive project growth and success. Always willing to take on any task. Adapts quickly to new needs and policies. Willing to take on any task to support team and help business succeed.

Reliable candidate ready to take on challenges using problem-solving and task prioritization skills to help team succeed.

Excellent verbal and written communicator with strong background cultivating positive relationships and exceeding goals. Always willing to work beyond timelines and support during weekends.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Lead QA Automation Engineer

ADP
Roseland, NJ
01.2017 - Current
  • Responsible for creating test plan, test strategy documents to make sure that all the kinds of testing like functional, automation,performance,database and security that are getting covered by understanding complete architecture of system.
  • Responsible for gathering and analyzing requirements,defining testing scope,design test cases,setting up test environment,execute test cases,creating defects and co-ordinate with devs and BA.
  • Responsible for improving productivity by up to 60% and 100% test coverage using ICEDQ etl automation.
  • Responsible for creating data reconciliation, validation, and profiling Rules for any data source using ICEDQ.
  • Responsible in creating ETL automation framework using ICEDQ and deployed in AWS
  • Built automation testing framework using AWS lambda and selenium to reduce manual hours of 3hrs per code drop.
  • Responsible for owning the outcome and making sure current sprint features are delivered with quality and on time
  • Responsible for creating web services using JAVA
  • Responsible for writing technical reports of located data errors with recommended solutions.
  • Responsible for co-ordinating both development and testing efforts for delivering better quality of application
  • Responsible for developing testing metrics UI using NodeJS
  • Responsible for identifying defects and errors in data prior to data processing.
  • Built automated dashboard in splunk which reports automation test execution results for every build
  • Responsible for performing Functional testing,automation testing using TMT tool built on Selenium and Java
  • Responsible for developing API's,microservices including versioning and doing API testing using UFT,Postman
  • Responsible for executing automation test scripts in CI/CD pipeline for every new build using Jenkins
  • Responsible for creating and executing queries in no sql database
  • Support releases during nights and over weekends
  • Responsible for writing smart checklist for each user story to make sure we have complete test coverage
  • Responsible for reviewing test cases with developers and BA
  • Responsible for doing system,integration testing,Regression,smoke,E2E,performance testing for every release
  • Responsible in scheduling meetings and co-ordinating with different teams for defects review identified during different kinds of testing
  • Responsible for prioritizing defects and bring it up to management if there are any damaging or catastrophic defects
  • Responsible for motivating and training QA resources to achieve better quality of application.
  • Responsible for understanding data models and train QA resources for better quality of test cases.
  • Responsible for identification and mitigation of existing data defects and errors
  • Excellent technical writing skills and makes solid recommendations
  • Responsible for collaborating with all stakeholders/BU leads.
  • Responsible for understanding of source to target data mapping and preparing SQL queries.
  • Responsible for load testing to make sure application handles specific amount of load/users.

Automation Architect

Technovators
Edison, NJ
01.2016 - 01.2017
  • Investigated and debugged test failures, updating tests or reporting bugs as necessary.
  • Responsible for driving a strong quality practices and influence the Squad to focus on quality in each sprint
  • Continuously focus on improving stability and resiliency of critical business processes and applications
  • Defined and implemented key metrics to manage and assess test execution and defect resolution
  • Automated processes to evaluate, test and assess security controls
  • Safeguarded company information assets by enhancing monitoring systems used to detect and report control failures and security violations
  • Unified data from multiple sources to complete data integration projects
  • Supported design and execution of automated test scripts
  • Managed version control and configuration of test objects and environments
  • Communicated best practices to team members, continuously helping to optimize standard operating procedures for responses to different concerns
  • Defined and documented standards for security controls management
  • Managed and executed software testing lifecycle
  • Maintained extensive library of test cases, updating for current needs.

Senior Software Engineer

Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2006 - 01.2016
  • Managed software throughout SDLC and collaborated with team members to address issues
  • Worked autonomously to effectively handle small- and large-scale projects
  • Adapted existing software to new purposes, improving performance and including new functionality
  • Built innovative, highly scalable products using latest technologies and approaches
  • Developed solutions based on data-driven approaches and good understanding of current and future software needs
  • Oversaw complete software development lifecycle for [Type] applications
  • Met short- and long-term release cycles by working effectively within complex development systems
  • Maintained pipelines for high-volume searches accessing large databases
  • Designed, coded, tested and deployed new features and functionality using CI/CD best practices
  • Answered queries concisely for non-technical audiences
  • Defined and continuously improved software development best practices
  • Managed documents and workflow, following established procedures for optimum productivity
  • Selected appropriate libraries and open source technologies for project integration
  • Maintained existing software through bug fixes and enhancements
  • Interpreted technical specifications and government regulations for maximum compliance
  • Drew valid conclusions from high volume of data from various sources
  • Built and tested automation tools for infrastructure provisioning
  • Created algorithms to handle special user requirements and system-wide needs
  • Identified system and software issues, evaluated troubleshooting options and developed solutions
  • Developed and approved designs in data management and database design
  • Collaborated in design and development of embedded processing systems
  • Implemented intuitive, easy-to-navigate and aesthetically pleasing user interfaces
  • Drafted software requirements and managed design and testing processes
  • Generated procedure manuals, progress reports and project correspondence
  • Executed functional and integration testing and software delivery support.

Education

Bachelor of technology - Information Technology

Acharya Nagarjuna University
05.2006

Skills

  • Test planning
  • Test Management
  • Test Design
  • Test Execution
  • Functional, ETL, Automation, Performance testing
  • AWS Lambda,ECR,S3
  • Problem documentation
  • Record keeping
  • Task prioritization
  • Social perceptiveness
  • Coordination with BU leads, stake holders
  • Coding Standards
  • Regression Testing
  • User Acceptance Testing
  • Requirements Analysis
  • Integration Testing
  • System Testing
  • Security Testing
  • Test Plans and Test Methodologies
  • Cross-Functional Team Collaboration
  • Defect Tracking and Reporting
  • Automated Testing Frameworks
  • Decision-Making
  • Strong Problem Solver
  • Results and Deadline-Driven
  • Problem-Solving Abilities
  • Software Compatibility Testing
  • Detail Oriented

Certification

  • AWS certified Solutions Architect Associate
  • AWS certified Cloud Practitioner

Languages

English

Affiliations

  • Photography
  • Hiking with dogs

Accomplishments

  • Reduced manual effort of up to 18hrs per release by implementing automation framework using Selenium and AWS lambda.
  • Achieved 100% test coverage and found critical issues between source and target before data load and migration.
  • Motivated peer QA resources and made them AWS certified which helps project for better quality.

Timeline

Lead QA Automation Engineer

ADP
01.2017 - Current

Automation Architect

Technovators
01.2016 - 01.2017

Senior Software Engineer

Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2006 - 01.2016

Bachelor of technology - Information Technology

Acharya Nagarjuna University
Venkata Ramana Sanku