Abhilash Thekkedath Choorakkat

· Lennox International since Feb 2019

Lead Test Architect (Automation)

Project: LennoxPros

· Randstad Nov 2018 to Feb 2019

Test Specialist (Automation)

Client: Lennox International

Project: LennoxPros

· EigenRisk Inc. March 2015 to May 2016

Manager (QA) (Took a break from work due to personal reasons)

Product: EigenRisk Prism

· CA Technologies (Computer Associates) August 2002 to Nov 2014

Sr. Software Engineer QA (Lead) Oct 2008 to Nov 2014

Product: CA User Activity Reporting Module

Sr. QA Engineer Aug 2008 to Oct 2008

Product: CA SiteMinder

Sr. Research Engineer (Lead) Sept 2007 to Aug 2008

Product: CA Enterprise Log Manager

Research Engineer Feb 2007 to Sept 2007

Product: CA ETrust Vulnerability Manager

Technology Consultant Aug 2002 to Feb 2007

Product: CA BrightStor Arcserve Backup

• Expertise in Test Automation Frameworks design and development (Hybrid & Data-Driven) for enterprises
• Expertise in working with Selenium WebDriver, Appium using Hybrid Framework (Page Object Model using Page Factory, Data-Driven, Modular, TestNG, Cucumber (BDD), and Maven).
• Expertise in Azure pipelines for End to End Testing, where test data is dynamically generated from SAP using Worksoft Automation and using this data on the fly for the test execution and finally validating the results back on the SAP.
• Experience in Performance testing with JMeter with JUnit and Silk Performer.
• Experience in developing Database testing scripts for data validation in Java
• Expertise with Excel (FILLO & POI API) automation for Data-driven testing.
• Expertise with Web Services automation testing using Rest Assured for testing REST API.
• Familiar with preparing Automation Testing Scripts in (QTP 10.0 using VB Script).

Team Size : 5

Platforms : AngularJS, SAP Hybris, SQL

Automation Tools : Selenium (WebDriver, TestNG), Appium, Robotium, Maven, Jenkins, Microsoft Azure, REST-Assured

Cloud Platform : Azure Cloud

Responsibilities:

· Formulating Automation Test Strategies

· Planning & Maintaining the Automation Matrix

· Mentoring the Team

· Automation Framework Design, Development & Maintenance

· Delegating the work and tracking the progress

· Handling the releases

· Code review

· Automation Sign Off

· Identifying the process requirements and training needs for the team

Project Description:

Lennoxpros is the eCommerce portal for the Lennox dealerships where they can place orders for the various products in the HVAC space. The UI for the portal is developed in AngularJS and Business Intelligence in C++ and SAP Hybris. I am leading the automation team and is responsible for the enhancement of the existing framework for regression\smoke test suites for Web and Mobile App for both IOS and Android. I manage, plan and publish the automation deliverables for the respective cycle. I mentor the team and delegate the work across multiple automation projects, mitigate any technical challenges and track the progress and report the same to the leadership team.

Achievements : Nominated for the Most Valuable Employee (Year 2020-21) for contributions towards making automation successful for Lennoxpros in applying the best practices to enhance the framework and reduction in the test execution time.

Team Size : 2

Platforms : AngularJS, SAP Hybris, SQL

Automation Tools : Selenium (WebDriver, TestNG), Maven, Jenkins,

Lennoxpros is the eCommerce portal for the Lennox dealerships where they can place orders for the various products in the HVAC space. The UI for the portal is developed in AngularJS and Business Intelligence in C++ and SAP Hybris. I am leading the automation team and is responsible for the enhancement of the existing framework for regression\smoke test suites for Web and Mobile App for both IOS and Android.

Team Size : 4

Platforms : AngularJS, NodeJS, PostgreSQL

Automation Tools : Selenium (WebDriver, TestNG), Maven, Jenkins, GitHub, JMeter

Cloud Platform : Amazon Cloud

Responsibilities:

· Project Management

· Planning (Team Deliverables and Effort Estimation)

· Mentoring the Team

· Formulating Test Strategies

· Creating Test Plans

· Automation Framework Design and Development from scratch

· Authoring\Peer review of Test Cases based on functional and design specifications

· Hiring Candidates

· QA Sign Off

· Identifying the process requirements and training needs for the team

Project Description:

EigenRisk Prism is a speed-of-thought risk analytic and modeling execution platform to the (re)insurance and risk management community. It’s a cloud-based solution that is intended for those who want a one-stop risk analytics platform without the headache of managing infrastructure. EigenRisk Prism is designed to be modular, with the ability to extend the capabilities to offer out of the box—whether it is adding new data representations, or new models.

I’ve led the QA Team for automation and manual testing. I’ve designed the Automation Framework from scratch in Selenium using Hybrid framework (TestNG and Maven) for the Regression Suites and for Smoke Testing.

I’ve designed and developed the Automation Suites for Performance Testing using JUnit and JMeter and have also developed scripts for Database Testing. I’ve also laid down the QA Guidelines and Build Acceptance criteria. We follow Agile Methodologies. We also test the Web Services and conduct Security Testing using IBM AppScan.

PRODUCT: CA User Activity Reporting Module

Team Size : 5

Platforms : RHEL Soft Appliance (CentOS), Windows, Solaris

Automation Tools : Selenium (WebDriver, TestNG, Maven), QTP 10, Silk Performer

Integrations : CA Access Control, CA SiteMinder,

CA Access Control Privileged User Password Management,

CA Identity Manager, CA Governance Minder (RCM)

Responsibilities:

· Release Management

· Planning (Team Deliverables and Effort Estimation on a Monthly & Weekly basis)

· Creating Test Plans and Formulating Test Strategies

· Automation

· QA Sign Off

· Hiring Candidates

· Preparing Training Plans

· Mentoring the Team

· Provide Product Training

Project Description:

User Activity and Reporting Module is an enterprise level product which will make the customer comfortable in reporting the activity of the organization infrastructure activity to their required counterparts. It is a security application which keeps track of the logs of different applications and makes the customer aware of the incidents by reducing the infrastructure deployment anomalies. UARM reduces the learning curve by providing the out of the box reports, alerts and correlation rules to customers.

I’ve laid out the guidelines to be followed for QA. I’ve automated the validations for Integration Mappings, Correlation Rules validation, Hierarchical Tagging of reports validation etc. using QTP\Visual Basic which was later migrated to Selenium (WebDriver, TestNG). This has helped us to bring down the release execution timelines. I’ve received an “Above and Beyond” award for the same. Apart from the functional testing we also perform Integration Testing, Performance Testing and Endurance Testing.

Apart from the Product QA we also have Monthly releases of Integration updates and Log Sensors which are hosted on the Akamai Server from where end users can download the latest updates via subscription. My responsibilities with this team is right from planning and distributing the work and to ensure that the Monthly releases go smoothly and is completed on or before time and ensure that the final subscription packages been hosted on the Akamai Server and are available to customers. I also collaborate with the documentation team to ensure the timely delivery of the Monthly Product Release Notes and to get it updated on the CA support site.

I was also involved in designing the correlation rules for Identity and Access. Apart from the aforesaid I am involved with the Product Management to make the product more robust and have given lot of inputs. Product management has accepted couple of features in the product that I have suggested and the same has been incorporated into the product. I’ve received an “Above and Beyond” award for the same.

I’ve worked on 7 product releases and around 60 monthly releases spanning over 5 years. I have lead the Team for one Product Release and over 40 Monthly Releases.

PRODUCT : CA SiteMinder

Team Size : 9

Platforms : Windows, Solaris, RHEL

Tools : Silk Performer, JSystem

Responsibilities:

· Creating Test Plans

· Formulating Test Strategies

· Performance Testing

· Endurance Testing

· Regression Testing

Project Description:

CA SiteMinder is a web access management system that enables user authentication and secure Internet SSO (single sign-on), policy-driven authorization, federation of identities, and complete auditing of all access to the web applications it protects. SiteMinder can provide secure Internet SSO to internal employees and applications as well as external service providers such as software as a service (SaaS) and business process outsourcing (BPO), so that partners and managed services can share in protected SSO. Aside from the pure security benefits achieved by decreasing the risks associated with SSO over the Internet

I was part of the forward QA Team, which only works on the new features of the product. My responsibilities include creating the Test Plan and test strategy for the new features that’s part of the new release.

Product : CA Enterprise Log Manager

Team Size : 4

Platforms : RHEL Soft Appliance (Cent OS)

Automation Tools : QTP 10, XML

Responsibilities:

· Delegating work

· Release Management

· Planning (Team Deliverables and Effort Estimation on a Monthly & Weekly basis)

· Automation

· Development SignOff

· Hiring Candidates

· Provide Product Training

Project Description:

CA Enterprise Log Manager is a high-performance log management solution that helps you simplify IT activity, compliance reporting and investigation. It collects, normalizes and archives IT activity logs from multiple sources and provides search, analysis and reporting capabilities that can significantly reduce the cost and complexity of proving compliance. CA ELM solves key log management market solutions for the following…

· IT activity reporting mapped to regulatory control frameworks

· High volume, distributed, log collection with centralized querying

· Policy violation alerting

· Long term data archiving

· Aggregate and analyze all IT events / logs

· Streamline your compliance audit task with a solution that you can deploy easily

· Manage centrally and update automatically

This Project involves the overall Log Management in an Enterprise with Information Security perspective. Scope of this project covers research and analyses of Logs being generated and then brings them into Intelligent Reporting to help senior management for Risk Management strategy.

Using the information available in Logs for the Compliance and Security Management reporting is one of the vital activities for which research and content development has been done. The Scope of job role includes research on PCI, FISMA, HIPAA, SOX, PII, CESG GPG13, DOD, COBIT, SSAE-16, EU – Directive for data protection and other compliances and regulations relating to IT security and develop the reports for the respective IT Controls.

Design the Reports and Correlation Rules for Identity & Access Management, IDS\IPS to facilitate the automatic generation of incidents upon the triggering of the respective event or set of events which will facilitates the senior management for Risk Management strategy.

Product : CA ETrust Vulnerability Manager
Team Size : 12
Platforms : Windows 2KSP4, NT, 2K3, XP, 2K3AS, Vista LH, Ultimate, EE
Automation Tools : QTP 9

Responsibilities

· Research on Vulnerabilities

· Create the Detection Profiles and Remediation Profiles

· Test the Remediation

· Automation

· R&D of different kind of vulnerabilities and attack patterns.

· Detection and Remediation of vulnerable systems via signature automation

Project Description:

This project involves detecting Operating System vulnerability and application vulnerability & the remediation of the conceded ones. Scope of project covers the analysis of vulnerabilities in various operating systems like Microsoft Windows, Red Hat, Sun Solaris etc.

I was instrumental in automating over 80% of the Test Cases using QTP. Right from validating the Detection Profiles, Remediation Profiles and the signature creation for the same and automatic installation of numerous patches which facilitated in bringing down the release time. This was a 12 member’s team and now this team comprises of only 2 people and my effort of introducing automation was highly appreciated and I have received “Above and Beyond” award for this.

Product : CA BrightStor Arcserve (Backup Software)

Team Size : 14

Platforms : Windows 2K, NT, 2K3, Linux, SAN, NAS, Tape Libraries

Responsibilities

· Guide the field engineers to setup/configure/troubleshoot backup, restore, disaster recovery and throughput issues with BrightStor Arcserve in all major operating systems using remote access tools

· Configuring Email Server (MS Exchange & Lotus Notes), Database Servers (MS SQL Server & ORACLE Server) databases using native agents

· Configure BrightStor Arcserve in SAN & NAS Environment

· Getting acquainted with disaster recovery methodologies of MS SQL Server, MS Exchange and Windows Domain Controllers

· Implementing online backup and restore activities in large Microsoft Enterprise Environment

· Involved in Testing the Product to check if there is any common bug in the product and report it to the development

· Conduct regular workshops in BrightStor Arcserve Beta Version Internally

· Handling high-end Technical Escalations