Rajesh Aravind K
Data Specialist
chennai,MH
Summary
Experienced IT professional with 20+ years of expertise in Software Testing, transitioning from Developer to specialize in Manufacturing, Banking, Financial Services, SAP Test Data Management, Bigdata, and Data warehousing projects. Skilled in diverse testing roles from Tester to Test Data Solution Architect, showcasing proficiency in Data and Data Management aspects across the testing lifecycle.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
4
4
Certifications
Work History
Test Manager
Expleo Solutions Limited
11.2021 - 08.2022
- Worked as Test Manager managing an Agile testing team of 6 resources
- SME in Test Data Management working closely with the SAP practice
- Worked in setting up the TDM practice by recruiting resources in the area of Test Data Management and training the resources to be deployed in TDM Projects
- Headed a team of developers to create an Internal TDM solution. Responsible for managing the development and testing life cycle of the solution developed.
- Worked on Proposals and Solution design for the SAP TDM projects. Worked closely with the Pre sales team on devising solutions and responding for RFI’s and RFP’s
- Worked with Tool Vendors on implementing the solutions for customers. Provided the demo and PoC for the customer on the Vendor Tools
Test Data Management SME
Capgemini Technology Services
10.2017 - 10.2021
- As Part of the Test Data Management Competency, was instrumental in creating 'TDM as a Service' that includes setting up of TCoE and providing End to End Integrated Test Data Management solution for customers
- Participated as a Testing and Test Data Management SME in large deal RFPs for SAP Applications and brought in business revenue worth of 1 million Euros
- Involved in building pro-active proposals on SAP Testing and Test Data Management by providing demos and PoC’s for customers that resulted in a pipeline of deals worth 2M Euros
- Implemented Qlik Gold Client in couple of customer accounts and working on an Implementation with a customer on SNP TDO
- Built the Test Centre of Excellence (TCoE) for Test Data Management and ETL/BI/DWH that catered the needs related to the TDM and BI/ETL area for the Capgemini Group.
- Successfully created Test Data Management solution for SAP applications (SAP ECC and S4HANA) and non-SAP applications to implement GDPR regulations that involves PII discovery, Data subsetting, Consent Management, Data life cycle services, Data Masking (Static and Dynamic) and Synthetic Test Data Generation
- Created a unique solution on Dynamic Data Masking for SAP ECC that revolves around data masking on the production environment with access based on user roles/privileges.
- Trained and implemented the suite of Test data management tools such as Qlik Gold Client, CA Data Maker, IRI Voracity, Datasunrise and Informatica TDM.
- Trained and Implemented Query Surge (Data validation tool). Attended training and webinars on integrating Query Surge with Genrocket
- Trained and attended technical workshops on Genrocket (Synthetic Test Data Generation Tool)
- Identified resource requirements in the existing accounts and catering the resource needs by providing trained resources on BI/ETL and Test Data Management
- Forecast growth on the accounts and plan for trained resource building.
- Perform capacity planning for the year and work on the KPI’s set for the Business Unit.
- Technical support in the area of BI/ETL and Test data management wherever required in the existing Accounts and providing consultancy on areas of improvement, automation and implementing best practices.
- Worked in Billable role whenever needed on projects related to SAP Testing and Test Data Management and ETL/BI and DW testing
Program Test Manager
Wipro Technologies Limited
10.2013 - 10.2016
- As a Program Test Manager, was responsible for the Overall Delivery of all the testing needs for the program
- Schedule testing activities for projects based on the environments as they are shared across projects running parallel
- Maintain Status on all the testing projects and respond to any schedule change proactively
- Report Testing Status of the projects to the Program manager on a weekly basis
- Manage and Allocate testing resources to different projects based on the needs
- Work closely with the IT Project Managers to get the testing schedule ahead and plan testing activities accordingly
- Prepare an overall Test Strategy for the program and approach towards testing
- Liasoning with all the stake holders of the projects to ensure smooth execution of testing in the projects
- Coordinate with the Test Managers of the projects and get regular updates on the testing activities
- Proactively decide on actions to be taken during any schedule changes due to environments and communicate it effectively to the relevant stakeholders
- Worked as a Delivery Manager for different projects and was responsible for overall delivery of the project.
- Managed the team during the Knowledge Transition phase and effectively moved on to Steady state without missing the deadlines.
- Key Member in the Transformation phase of the program to ensure that the transformation activities within the portfolio are adhered and followed as per standards
- Created the SMTD document for the portfolio which is meant to be a Ready Reckonor for new team members joining in the project
Test Coordinator
CSC India Pvt Limited
12.2010 - 03.2013
- Coordinated with the Enterprise Intelligence (DWBI) team as part of independent testing services team. Involved in creation of ETL testing methodology along with creation of testing accelerators for ETL testing.
- Appointed as a consultant on Test Data Management for various projects in CSC and involved in understanding the test data requirements and providing solutions for the test data management processes.
- Worked as a Test Coordinator for a Retail Customer in a project that involved coordination between the testing team and the development, DBA, Unix and Infrastructure team along with the client to ensure testing of upgrade of Oracle database from 8i to 11g
Technical Member
Syntel India Limited
11.2009 - 09.2010
- Technical Member of the Testing Services team that was involved in the preparation of Proposals for BI/ETL projects
- Formed a Team to work on a Service offering for a Data Movement testing tool that is used to automate the movement of data
- Supported the Data team in a project on a Test Data Management Tool which is a part of the Testing accelerator program that Syntel proposed for a client
Developer/Tester
VISA International
09.2008 - 10.2009
- Understanding the business requirements for the Payment Services domain and understand the data flow for the project that involved data movement between an old system to a newly developed system
- Performed the role of a developer/tester to develop graphs in Abinitio for testing the data movement between the source and target
- Developed graphs to eliminate manual comparison of data after the data movement
- Analyze business requirements and prepare test plans
- Preparation and Execution of test cases.
- Defect Logging and status Reporting
- Distribution of testing activities amongst the offshore vendor teams and provide support on the testing activities
- Got appreciation for the development of graphs to automate data movement testing.
Tester
Infosys Technologies ltd
06.2008 - 09.2008
- Preparation of test plans and schedule testing activities
- Monitor testing activities and status reporting
- Review test cases prepared by the testing team
- Creation of Metrics and reporting to the Management on Weekly basis.
Tester
Covansys India (P) Ltd
08.2005 - 04.2008
- Prepare test plan and review test cases prepared by the team members
- Coordination with the developers, DBA, system administrator to ensure the test environment setup and any further project related requirements
- Track and report testing activities
- Preparation of Testing Metrics and reporting to the project management
- Implement the process and procedures for testing amongst the team as per standards defined by organization
- Review the defects raised by the testing team members and arrange for attend the Defect triage meeting to discuss the defects with stakeholders of the Project
- Coordinating with the Client on a regular basis for all project related requirements
- Conduct weekly status meeting with the client to update the status of the project
- Involved in testing activities of the complicated modules and functionalities
- Extensively worked on SQL, Informatica Power Center and Unix for a Data warehouse project for a Banking Client that involved End to End Data Movement (Source to Datawarehouse and BI reporting)
- Assisted users in creating BI report using Business Objects.
- Lead the team on the first ETL testing project and went live without missing the deadline.
Tester
HCL Technologies Ltd
05.2003 - 07.2005
- Understanding the Business requirement and Functional specification documents.
- Preparation of High-level Test conditions, Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Scripts
- Preparation of Test Bed
- Execution of Test Scripts
- Identifying and logging defects, liasoning with the client and developer, monitoring defect status and tracking them to closure
- Worked on testing the Oracle Financials (ERP) – Inventory and GL module for a Retail Domain Client
- Key team member in the testing team for an aircraft testing program that involved migration from PL1 to Oracle/J2EE environment
Tester
ThinkSoft Global and Orbitech Solutions Ltd
06.2001 - 04.2003
- Joined new in the testing team and learned testing processes and methodologies
- One of the few in the testing team to climb up the ladder in a short span of time and get involved in projects
- Understanding the business requirements for a project involving a Banking Client
- First member of the Backend testing team that process data in the backend through batch processing for front end applications
- Extensively worked in coordination with the development team for testing the Day End Batch Run programs for one of the projects
- Prepared the Technical Test document for the Day End Batch Run programs
- Key member of the Backend testing team driving the backend testing activities and supporting the Front-end application Team
- Prepared High Level test conditions and scenarios for various programs in the Batch Run
- Created technical test cases for batch runs and executed the same
- Participated in the technical defect triage meetings that included developers, DBA, System admin and Project Managers from the Client side
Developer
Brakes India and SRF Ltd.
07.1999 - 05.2001
- Started as a developer with Brakes India Ltd and moved to SRF Limted.
- Understanding the data flow in the Manufacturing environment
- Involved in maintenance and development of existing core Business application systems in Sun OS/Ingres and developed applications in Visual Basic/Oracle Environment in Brakes India Limited
- Study of Existing Modules and incorporating changes/improvements.
- Design and Development of user requirements and User Training.
- Concentrated mainly on development activities involving Sun OS/Ingres/Esql C and focused mainly on user requirements and new developments.
- Worked in developing applications on Visual Development Tools mainly in Visual Basic
- Involved in Design, development, implementation and Maintenance of in-house projects in SRF
- Provided support for customisation and implementation of Oracle financials in SRF
- Customisation of Purchasing/Inventory modules in Oracle Financials in SRF
- Handled all Ingress-Based applications (HP Unix/ Ingres/ Esql C) in SRF
Education
Bachelor’s Degree - Mathematics
University of Madras
Skills
Software Testing
Test Data Management
SAP Test Data Management
Big Data Testing
ETL Testing (On Prem and Cloud)
BI and DW Testing
Automation Testing
API Testing
Test Project Management
Oracle Development
Unix Shell Scripting
GDPR and PSD2 (Open Banking)
Salesforce
Agile Methodology
Certification
Trained on Agile Methodology, Big Data, Hadoop, Hive, Teradata and Python Scripting
Core Competency
- Software Testing
- Test Data Management
- SAP Test Data Management
- Big Data Testing
- ETL Testing (On Prem and Cloud)
- BI and DW Testing
- Automation Testing
- API Testing
- Test Project Management
- Oracle Development
- Unix Shell Scripting
- GDPR and PSD2 (Open Banking)
- Salesforce
- Agile Methodology
Timeline
Test Manager
Expleo Solutions Limited
11.2021 - 08.2022
Test Data Management SME
Capgemini Technology Services
10.2017 - 10.2021
Program Test Manager
Wipro Technologies Limited
10.2013 - 10.2016
Test Coordinator
CSC India Pvt Limited
12.2010 - 03.2013
Technical Member
Syntel India Limited
11.2009 - 09.2010
Developer/Tester
VISA International
09.2008 - 10.2009
Tester
Infosys Technologies ltd
06.2008 - 09.2008
Tester
Covansys India (P) Ltd
08.2005 - 04.2008
Tester
HCL Technologies Ltd
05.2003 - 07.2005
Tester
ThinkSoft Global and Orbitech Solutions Ltd
06.2001 - 04.2003
Developer
Brakes India and SRF Ltd.
07.1999 - 05.2001
Bachelor’s Degree - Mathematics
University of Madras