Candidates About

Manonmani Sundaravaradan   

PROFILE

Ø  IT QA professional with 18+ years of total IT experience out of which 10+ years of experience  Testing in different domain - banking, insurance, trustee management and automobile industry.

Ø  Involved in multi roles such as QA Test Lead, Scrum Master, development and training.

Ø  Worked in full SDLC Lifecycle specialised in Testing Methodologies acquired through formal training (ISTQB Certified) and hands on experience.

Ø  Acquired additional skillsets such as Agile Framework experience being part of large complex programs which includes the role of Scrum Master, short-term technical business Analyst role.

Ø  Well versed in Coordinating UAT resources, track progress and UAT issue management (including leading the triaging of issues into defects, new requirements, data set-up etc)

Ø  Involved in Test Automation UFT(11.5); Selenium, Defect Management systems (ALM 12 and JIRA)

Ø  Highly developed analytical skills and excellence in providing problem resolution for user support and application issues.

Ø  Good communication skills and vast experience dealing with off shore teams, both internal and external customer and all levels of management.

Ø   Responsible for managing testing resources, building test plans, providing accurate and detailed metrics to all project stakeholders, and developing direct reports.

Product expertise includes:

QUALIFICATIONS & PROFESSIONAL BODY

Bachelor of Mathematics - Madras University India

Honours Diploma in Systems Management - National Institute of Information Technology

Member of Australian Computer Society Since 2008                                                                                

ISTQB Certified Tester                                                                                                                                            

Certified Scrum Master                                                                                                                                         

Certificate of Completion for SAFe 4.0 for Team Course

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Programming a SQL Server 2000 Database                                                                                                     

Crystal Report 8.0

Building XML based Web Applications

CAREER SNAPSHOT                                                            

Subaru of America, Cherry Hill, NJ                                                                           Sep 2016 – Apr 2017

Test Lead / Scrum Master

Projects worked on:

Starlink :  Subaru has launched its own in car connectivity system called Starlink. This integrated system allows drivers to access thousands of web-based radio stations and podcasts via streaming. Drivers can also access on-demand music services such as Slacker, Rhapsody, and others.
The STARLINK includes Automatic Collision Notification, SOS Emergency Assistance, Enhanced Roadside Assistance, Maintenance Notifications, Monthly Vehicle Health Report and Diagnostic Alerts etc.

The above projects used Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and following Key technologies were used: Linux , DataStage 11.5, OBIEE, UFT 11.5, ALM 11.2

Duties Performed:

• Leading a team of six team members from various locations
• Facilitating Agile ceremonies including Daily stand ups, Retrospective, Backlog Grooming
• Tracking the milestone deliverables of the project and planned, created and executed the testing along with the QA team.
• While facilitating story walkthrough helped testers to provide test estimation based on sprint level and not on the release level.

• Review Test Plan, Planned, coordinated and helped to perform different stages of testing with developers, business analysts, project managers, offshore QA team and business users.
• Motivated test team to create automated test suite for Regression packs.

Westpac Group, Sydney

Test Lead / Scrum Master – CSC Sydney

Client - Westpac Digital Platform                                                                               Nov 2015 – Aug 2016

Projects worked on:

Westpac Digital Platform : Westpac Digital Platform transforms bank to next generation digital wave. Platform being built on private cloud (Hpass) and enablers using Ipass to support Micro services architecture for API development.

The above projects used Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and following Key technologies were used: Docker, Consul, Nginx+, Spring, LISA, SOAP UI and POSTMAN

Duties Performed:

• Facilitating Agile ceremonies including Daily stand ups, Retrospective, Backlog Grooming and Iteration planning.
• Initiated in API Testing by creating a framework, which used Test harness tool POSTMAN and Newman for Continuous, build and Integration.
• Created Lisa Stub for various responses to be used inside Test harness tool POSTMAN.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney

Quality Assurance Lead – Colonial First State                                                        Mar 2014 – Oct 2015

Projects worked on:

Regulatory Reform: Amendments to the SIS Act | Superstream: Government Super Reform| FATCA / Annuity on Platform: Return of a lump-sum investment./KYC -AML

The above projects used Agile Methodology following sprints of 2 weeks testing the new front end application for employers and the internal Mainframe application FMS which is used to process the transactions. The project involved development and testing across the mainstay natural ADABAS applications and web based application such as FirstNet (web based application), Insight (workflow application) and checking correspondence letters.

Duties Performed:

• Agile – participated in and ran Scrum’s with daily stand-up’s planning for iterations       and interacted with business users.
• Leading and mentoring team of testers to perform system integration testing, E2E and regression testing using ALM.
• UAT Team Coordinator and executed UAT Scenarios.
• Conducted daily and weekly status reporting to the stakeholders and project team members.
• Maintained clarification tracker, issue register, downtime tracker and performed root cause analysis and implemented lessons learnt in next releases.
• Determine if a feature can be considered complete and ready for production deployment.
• Provide input to run sheet for implementation and release activities.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Sydney

Quality Assurance Lead – CommInsure                                                                      Jul 2010 – Feb 2014

Quality Assurance Senior Test Analyst – CommInsure                                      May 2008 – Jun 2010

Contract Quality Assurance Test Analyst – CommInsure                                   Apr 2007 – Apr 2008

Projects worked on:

Unlock Transformation: Retail and Wholesale Insurance Claims  /  EVO: SIS Regulation Compliance | APOLLO: Superannuation Payments |Straight Through Process: End to end platform for Advisors | FLEX: Life Risk Product

Worked for various projects and completed lifecycle within Comminsure team such as Adviser Platform web based, AS 400 policy maintenance system , correspondence generation application – dialogue interface, and workflow application (FINEOS).

Duties Performed:

·         Created Testing Plan,  Test Case Matrix for all test cases being executed in testing effort from the role of Business SME

·         Responsible for overall success of System Testing, Integration Testing  and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities

·         Creates user defined roles and responsibilities for testing participants within the workflow systems

·         Ensures testing team responsibilities are being met by Co-ordinating UAT activities of customer

·         Ensures testing specifications are properly linked to detailed business requirements and Traceability matrix

·         Communicate status and assignments to Project Manager and Project Team

·         Responsible for coordination, communication, training, execution and management of the project Testing Defect Resolution Process.

·         Ensure all testing defects are assigned, worked and resolved according to the project schedule

·         Communicate and escalate testing issues to Project Manager, Program sponsor timely

·         Responsible for

Absolute Testing Services, Sydney

Test Analyst – Client: Commonwealth Bank of Australia                                   Apr 2007 – Apr 2008

Test Analyst – Client: Stockland Property Group                                                  Jan 2007 – Mar 2007

• Provided feedback related to the phases of system testing, UAT and load/performance testing.
• Designed and developed test cases/procedures to an approved data migration from Geneva to Siebel.
• Investigated problems, analysed root cause, and clearly documented findings.
• Raised usability concerns and proposed solutions to problems after performing thorough investigation. Adapted to processes and procedures and maintain the high standard expected of Stockland staff.

iOmniscient Pty Ltd, Sydney

Quality Assurance & Support Specialist                                                                   Aug 2006 – Dec 2006

·         Hunted for bugs in the software, designed and executed test cases.

·         Raised usability concerns and proposed solutions to problems after performing thorough investigation, taking into account the needs of all clients.

·         Performed scenario-based testing from the perspectives of various client roles.

·         Validated crucial design decisions and trying to find flaws with them by giving proposed suggestions for enhancements to the software 

·         Supported clients all over the world to solve their technical issues while using iomniscient various products

International Learning Centre UK

IT Tutor                                                                                                                                   May 2005 – Jul 2006

·         Involved in developing new courses tailored to Clients needs and developing course materials and trainer notes for other trainers

·         Provided leadership to company that offers computer training, installation, and support services.

·         Trained the new trainers hired for various centres.

·         Real-Time systems dealing with in-house data, their production support and maintenance procedures.

·         Have handled corporate classes for Access, Oracle 8, Java, C, Visual Basic, Dream Weaver and script languages like Java Script and VB Script.

Chartwell Business School Pty Ltd, Singapore

Head of IT Department / System Analyst                                                                Sep 2001 – Sep 2004

SNC Systems Pty Ltd, Singapore

System Test Engineer                                                                                                     Mar 2001 – Aug 2001