SEKAR RAMAKRISHNAN

• Oversaw budget allocation for testing resources, ensuring optimal use of funds without compromising on quality assurance goals.
• Increased project success rates by identifying and addressing critical risks early in the software development life cycle.
• Reduced product defects by developing and enforcing rigorous testing standards throughout the development process.
• Improved team efficiency with well-defined test processes, resulting in faster release cycles and higher-quality products.
• Develop comprehensive test strategies and roadmaps for Test process, define the scope of testing, and Identify key milestones.
• Estimate time and resources required for testing activities.
• Collaborate with business analysts, developers, and stakeholders to understand data requirements and mappings.
• Manage the team and provide guidance and mentorship to the team, will conduct team meetings to discuss progress and address challenges.
• Implement and maintain ETL testing tools to improve efficiency.
• Track and report on test progress, metrics, and results to stakeholders. Identify potential risks in the project and implement mitigation strategies.
• Establish and enforce testing best practices, standard, and methodologies.
• Continuously improve QA processes to enhance testing efficiency and effectiveness.
• Ensure compliance with organizational and regulatory standards for data quality and security.
• Negotiated contracts with external testing service providers, securing cost-effective solutions without compromising on quality standards.
• Mentored junior test managers, sharing industry insights and best practices to foster a culture of continuous learning and professional growth.
• Developed comprehensive training programs for new hires, enhancing their technical skills and understanding of company procedures.

▪ Developer for RPA Centre of Excellence Team.

▪ Responsible for requirement Analysis, design, development, deployment, Handover, UAT change request management, support for Hyper Care/PROD.

▪ Expertise in Solution architecture designing and Flow model diagrams.

▪ Expertise in RPA tool UiPath in implementing automation based on web application, SAP

applications, Web API, Database, Excel and terminal applications.

▪ Involved in RPA Assessment phase discussions and automation feasibility analysis, FTE benefit calculation with BA’s and business team.

▪ Designed and developed multiple BOTS using UiPath RE framework and used orchestrator for scheduling and running the jobs in multiple environments.

▪ Consuming external services and forming structure of data to be invoked to BOT.

▪ Scheduling jobs in orchestrator and managing queues/assets.

▪ Implemented custom activities using dot net C# class library.

▪ Sound knowledge in accessing Orchestrator API’s OData, Orchestrator SQL operations on Assets, Queues etc.,

▪ Involved in BOT configuration, deployment, installing dlls in the target machines and scheduling in orchestrator.

▪ Expertise in RPA tools UiPath for implementing automation in API based automation, Image Based

Automation, Computer vision, web application, terminal applications and SAP applications.

▪ Developed RPA structure and team along with production support, designed and developed RPA

solutions to accelerate Business processes using industry standard UiPath REFramework.

▪ Responsible for preparing Development Specific Document (DSD)/ Solution Design Document (SDD) which contains the details of the bot’s technical information such as bot design, reusable components, exception handling, etc.,

▪ Ensuring that the change management process have been followed in all the change requests that have been released to QA/PROD.

• Designed and implemented the overall automation framework using Katalon.
• Established the Jenkins continuous integration environment, deployed the automation framework and automated scripts to Jenkins.
• Coordinated with systems partners to finalize the framework designs and confirm requirements.
• rovide continuePd maintenance and development of bug fixed and patch sets for the framework.
• Worked with other test team members to create automation tests.
• Coached Team member for Test Automation and troubleshooting.
• Designed Test Strategy and Test plan for functional, API and Database testing
• Designed Test cases for API and Database testing
• Performed API Testing using Postman.
• Test Environment set-up/management, monitoring and streamline release management to QA Environments.
• Performed tool evaluation and feasibility to help in selecting suitable Automation tool for RPA implementation.
• Participating in Estimation Meeting, Sprint show and tell( Sprint review meeting),Sprint Kick Off and Sprint Retrospective meetings with the client, A and scrum team

· Understanding the complex business requirements and functional specifications.

· Provide the Estimation for testing using various techniques ( BP, WBS)

· Developing test cases based on business requirements and functional specifications.

· Upon new releases I was required to review and understand the releases notes in order to develop effective test cases.

· The development of test plans for extensive changes such as a new version release or document changes required due to legislation.

· Presenting test plans and walkthroughs to the business and other Stakeholders

· Execution of test cases.

· Involved in Agile Testing

· Provided estimation to user stories and Task

· Attended SCRUM and Retrospective meeting

· Prioritize Issues and defects for each sprints

· To analyze and identify the business scenarios for testing and develop test artifacts,

· Running defect meetings on a daily basis and addressing stakeholder concerns.

· Assisting junior test analysts with any questions on the software or particular test cases.

· Developing relationships and working effectively with internal and external BA’s and other stakeholders.

• Preparing Test Summary reports to share with stakeholders.

· Production verification testing carried out during implementation.

• Managing the testing cycle through UAT, staging and implementation
• Knowledge transfer to the new resources.
• Prepared Resource Forecasting (RFS) and Billing requirement (BRQ) for the entire CFS team.

· Collect the Metrics data for the entire CFS team and circulated to DU head

· Maintained the Review log and Clarification log for the entire CFS project.

Worked in Onsite and created virtuous Rap over with Project and Business.

• Review of functional specifications, review test specifications, test cases and performing manual testing
• Developed Functional Test cases and Workflows based on requirement specification and business logic
• Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed and compared using defect tracker until the defect closing
• Execute the Test cases and update the status of the test cases in QC
• Verified the Payment transactions through the SWIFT network
• Defects (open) were tracked by daily basis and send the status to the stack holders before Daily status call
• Preparation of Global track monitoring (GTM) report on daily status in both SIT and UAT phases
• Performed regression testing to verify whether modification made in the application have not caused unintended adverse side effects
• Prepared Test Cases according to the software requirement specification and performed manual testing.

• Expertise in RPA UIPATH, Test Automation, ETL, Data warehouse (DBFIT), Database Testing, Neo4j and API
• Result focused and customer oriented Test Lead with professional expertise in designing and developing test strategy, test planning, estimation, leading testing effort for large/complex projects
• Expertise in defining Process Definition Document (PDD), Solution Design Document (SDD)
• Experience in Agile tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Scrumwise
• Experienced in RPA (UI Path) Development and Testing around 3+ Years of Experience in RPA Tool UiPath and 30+ BOT delivered
• Expertise in using Image comparison using Image recognition with OCR, ICR for designing in UiPath Studio
• Experience in Banking, Trade, Cash Management and Payments
• Expertise in Validation and non validation clinical system testing Demonstrated ability to work under tough deadlines/pressure
• Strong understanding of Testing Principles, QA& Testing Process, Use cases, and Software development Life Cycle
• Experience in working with Multiple Relational databases like ORACLE and SQL SERVER
• Expertise in Tools like DBFIT, SSRS, SSAS & SSIS for Data Warehouse & ETL Testing
• Expertise on Testing REST API using Robot Framework and Postman
• Experience in Wealth management domain (COIN Financial planning software-Australia)
• Having efficient communication ability and interacting with User's directly and resolving defects during Onsite/Offshore Co-coordinator - SINGAPORE and AUSTRALIA
• Interacting with Users during User Acceptance Testing and resolving their queries based on the priority
• Prepared RFP (Request for Proposal) document and Resource loading for the new Project.