kiran resume

Kiran Kothapalli ____________________ 91-9686111543

SUMMARY

Nearly 12- years of IT industry experience in software testing Hands on experience in leading the functional and performance testing teams Experienced in Manual, Automated, Performance, Mobile Apps PERF testing

of software applications under Telecom, Banking, Financial, Logistics, Automobile, Life Sciences, Health care (HIPPA Standards) domains

Hands on experience in Manual Functional Testing, Performance Testing (Load, Stress, Volume), Scalability testing, Mobile Apps Performance Testing, Capacity Planning in ERP’s (Oracle Apps EBS, R12, Oracle FUSION Apps, OBIEE, PeopleSoft, SAP R/3, SAP CRM) & Non-ERPs with LoadRunner 12.x, OATS, SAP TAO

Expertise in Performance Modeling, Benchmarking, Capacity Planning Responsible for Conducting PoC, End to End Performance Testing and

Engineering, Defining Performance Testing Approach, Project Management, Resource Management, and Part of Performance COE Activities

Expertise in Profiling tools Jprofiler, Dell Foglight, NMON, Perfmon, HP Sitescope, VMStat/DStat and experience in Windows and LINUX environments monitoring by drilling down the Server Logs, pull the AWR reports from Oracle Database. Ability to understand AWR report and Server side Metrics (Thread Dumps, JVM, Heap Dumps, Garbage Collectors

Daily tracking the system, review the test cases, test result verifications, find the gaps, and upload the defects in to the Quality Center/Test Manager (OATS)

Experience in Effort Estimations, working in technical pre-sales, defining benchmarks for performance testing & designing the frame works, responds to the RFP’s, writing the SOW, Install and configure the testing tools, writing the Case Studies

As part of Pre-Sales, handled starting from Initial customer engagement, Product demo, Presentations, Proof of Concepts (POC), doing the cold calls, Clarifications, RFP response, Scope Negotiation, preparation of SOW’s& Drafting and scope finalization

Adept in testing software products and handling projects efficiently for delivering the required application in a very systematic way.

Defining the quality polices, implement CMMI, Six Sigma standards, QA methodologies, internal reviews, audits, defining the SLA’s

Experience in leading & Managing mid-size teams Mentoring Loadrunner, OATS, Foglight tools to the freshers Explored on StromRunner Load 1.7 tool as an SaaS – for Agile process Expertise in Mobile Apps Performance testing in Salesforce application –

Samsung mobile – Lolipop 5 O/S.

PROFESSIONAL IT EXPERIENCE: -Dell International Services Pvt Ltd, BangaloreSince: May 2014 – Till date as Testing Engineering Advisor

Working as Performance Engineering Advisor

Project Name : Impress SAP-Performance TestingClient : Linde GAS - GermanyEnvironments : SAP GUI, SAP CRM, Mobile Apps (Salesforce app)Tools using : Loadrunner 12.02Monitoring Tools : AWR reports, HP Site ScopeDomain : Industrial

Project Name : Consumerism Solutions Performance Testing - PayersClient : Internal Health Care ProductEnvironments : Web ApplicationTools using : Manual Testing, Load testing Loadrunner 12.02,

StromRunner Load 1.7 with 15K usersMonitoring Tools : OEM, NMON, LoadRunner, Jprofiler, AWR reports

Server side Metrics (Thread Dumps, JVM, Heap dumps, Garbage Collectors)Dell Foglight monitoring tool to analyze the requests

Domain : Health Care/Insurance

Project Name : WEA (Obama Health Care/Insurance) - PayersClient : WEA Environments : Web ApplicationTools using : Loadrunner 12, OEM, NMON, FoglightDomain : Health Care/Insurance

Project Name : CCA 3.0 (Obama Health Care/Insurance) - PayersClient : MA Health Connector Environments : Web Services/App, Batch jobsTools using : Loadrunner 11, OEM, NMONDomain : Health Care/Insurance (HIPPA –Obama Health Care)(Transactions: - Open Enrollment XML’s, 834 Inbound/Outbound, 820 Outbound, Quoting & billing, Lockbox, Financial Mgmt System billing /CSR lite portals, Effectuation process, batch jobs)

Description: - The Health Connector is a state-based health insurance Marketplace that makes shopping for affordable health and dental coverage easier for Massachusetts individuals, families, and small businesses. Health Connector plans from the state's leading insurers that have been awarded the state's Seal of Approval, so all the members can be sure the plan you choose meets both state and national coverage standards.

Roles & Responsibilities:- Managing 3 project teams Creation of Test Plan/Road Map document (Agile methodology)

Identification of Scope Gathering the requirements from Business team Road map creation for testing team Preparation of Strategy, plan, business documents Document the business flows Create the User Accounts, grant the access permissions to the end users Escalate the performance issues Assign the tasks to team and Daily follow up Defining Performance Modeling, Benchmarking Monitoring/ Analysis :

- Database, Web/App tiers monitoring- Pull AWR, ADDM Reports from OEM, analyze AWR reports - JVM - Thread dumps, Heap dumps, Garbage collections

Capacity Planning for the future production loads

http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/1969/12/14/new-connector-website-passes-tests-with-flying-colors-official-says/KdWW7zxbr4I9CKwhYF5knL/story.html

Oracle India Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad, IndiaSince:- Oct 2011 – March 2014 as Principal Consultant

Migration Factory, Oracle

Worked as Project Lead

Project Name : Migration Factory (MFA) TestingClient : Oracle Internal ProductEnvironments : Web based, JavaTools using : Oracle tool - OATS 12.x, Test Manager

Description:-

The Oracle Migration Factory helps customers migrate off legacy systems by accelerating the transition to Oracle technologies. Using a proven factory approach and best-practice migration processes, the Oracle Migration Factory reduces traditional risks and costs associated with migration projects to deliver a faster time to market. Using the experience gained from conducting migrations for over 25 years, Oracle offers the relevant resources and expertise to work with your IT staff on migrating legacy hardware and software environments to the latest Oracle technologies.

Interacting with the Functional, Architecture, Business development team to gather the requirements

Accountability of product(s) performance for every release Publish the strategy/plan of owned product(s) for every release Analyze the logs from the tests and decide the test status and next course

of action (Gap Analysis) Creation of Test plans, Test strategy, Requirement documents



Help to set up the Test Bed, maintain the Test lab Automate the performance process, Test execution process Analysis of customers data and usage patterns for scenarios identification

(Workload Analysis to build the test scenarios) Defining SLA’s Estimate the Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) to avoid the future system

failures and identify the bottlenecks Organize the SaaS - Capacity planning/Testing Raising the issues in the defect tracking system, assigning the bugs to the

developers using OATS Test Manager Administration of OATS - Test Manager

Alcoa HCM Testing, Alcoa, US

Worked as Project Leader Domain – Human Capital Management

Project Name : Alcoa HCM TestingClient : Alcoa, USEnvironments : Oracle Fusion/ADF& R12Tools using : OATS 12.2.0.1.254, Test Manager (bug tracking tool)

Roles & Responsibilities

Identification of Scope Gathering the requirements from Business team Road map creation for testing team Preparation of Strategy, plan, business documents (PT10, PT30, PT 50) Document the business flows Administration of Test Manager Create the User Accounts, grant the access permissions to the end users Update the performance issues in the Test Manager Assign the tasks to team and Daily follow up Defining Performance Modeling, Benchmarking, Database monitoring,

execution of AWR Reports/Activity session history repot Capacity Planning for the future production loads Taking care of timely deliverables

NSTAR, NY, US

Worked as Program Lead Domain – Logistics

Project Name : Galaxy-Update Performance TestingClient : NSTAR, NY, USEnvironment : Oracle APPS (Database Migration to AIX 6.1 from Solaris 8)Tools using : LR &Performance Center& OATS 9.3, Test Manager

INTELLIGROUP Asia Pvt. Ltd. (NTT DATA), Hyderabad, IndiaSince: May 2007 – Oct 2011 as Sr Test Analyst

Varian Medical Systems, Palo Alto, CA, US (3rd Phase)

Worked as Onsite/Offshore Lead Domain – Life Sciences

Project Name : Reach/RoHS & EC Performance TestingClient : Varian Medical Systems, Palo Alto, CAEnvironment : SAP ECC 7.10, SAP NWBC Portal – SDRC/PLMTools using : Performance Center/Load Runner 11.0, Quality Center 10.0

Performance Test Lead for Reach/ROHS Automation Collect the requirements from Business team Identifying the most critical transactions from SME’s Preparation of Load Test plan Document the business flows, KT to the Offshore team Assign the tasks to offshore team and Daily follow up Help to set up the Infrastructure to the client Working with the Network/System Admins for Load Generator Connectivity

Issues, collect the test data from respective functional consultants Design & Execute the Test Scripts & Test Scenarios with respect to load Configure and monitor the load in LR Graphs Gather the reports from LR, SAP Basis team Analyze the things and give the recommendations

Intuitive Surgicals, CA, USA (Life Sciences Domain)

Da Vinci Si sytem Performance Testing on SAP CRM, SAP R/3

Project Name : da Vinci Si system Performance TestingClient : Intuitive Surgicals, CA, USAEnvironment : SAP CRM 7.0, SAP R/3(SD Module)Tools using : Performance Center/LoadRunner 9.51, Quality

Center 10.0, Site Scope

Onsite Lead Domain – Life Sciences


Performance Test Lead for da Vinci Si System Collect the requirements from Business team

Identifying the most critical transactions from Business Users Preparation of Load Test plan Document the business flows, KT to the Offshore team Assign the tasks to offshore team and Daily follow up Develop/Executed the LR Scripts, enhancements like identifying dynamic

values in CRM application and correlation Help to set up the Infrastructure to the client Working with the Network/System Admins for Load Generator Connectivity

Issues, collect the test data from respective functional consultants Design & Execute the Test Scenarios with respect to load Configure and monitor the load in LR Graphs Gather the reports from LR, Basis team Monitor the snaps using ST02, ST03, STAT T-codes Analyze the things and give the recommendations

Neopost, CT, USA

Project One Performance Testing on OracleApplications, Neoshop online store Portal,

Project Name : Project One Performance TestingClient : Neopost, CT, USAEnvironment : Oracle Applications 11.5.10, Neoshop PortalTools using : LoadRunner 9.10

Onsite Lead Domain – Logistics


Performance Test Lead for Project One Automation Collect the requirements from Business team Identifying the most critical transactions from SME’s Preparation of Load Test plan Document the business flows, KT to the Offshore team Assign the tasks to offshore team and Daily follow up Help to set up the Infrastructure to the client Working with the Network/System Admins for Load Generator Connectivity

Issues, collect the test data from respective functional consultants Design & Execute the Test Scenarios with respect to load Configure and monitor the load in LR Graphs Gather the reports from LR, Oracle DBA’s Analyze the things and give the recommendations

Varian Medical Systems, Palo Alto, CA, US (2 nd Phase)

Horizon Performance Testing on SAPApplication, Portal for HR Module

Project Name : Horizon HRMS Performance TestingClient : Varian Medical Systems, USAEnvironment : SAP ECC 6.0, SAP PortalTools using : QualityCenter 9.0, LoadRunner 9.0


Description: The Varian HRMS is the information management system for Varian Medical Systems that will simplify, standardize, and automate the Varian business processes across most Varian business groups and functions while implementing a new version of SAP HR (SAP ECC6.0). The objective of this Project is to automate the Manual Test Scripts and perform the load test for Varian’s VVP SAP ERP system using LR 9.0 tool. This Project is to create Automated Test Scripts for up to 25 end to end Automated Test Scenarios comprising up to110 SAP unique transactions based on the Manual Test Scripts and Manual Test Scenarios available and used in their ERP HR implementation testing.

Apple Computers, USA

Test Lead Domain – Financial

Project Name : Apple Automation testingClient : Apple Computers, USAEnvironment : SAP ECC 6.0, MAC OSTools using : QualityCenter 9.0, QTP 9.5, SAP TAO 1.0

Description:-

Apple has SAP version Upgrade planned to start in May 2009. Apple has decided to build Functional Test Automation and creation of manual test scripts towards building and sustaining quality and testing related best practices. These automation and manual assets are expected to be ready for Upgrade integration cycle testing.

Apple intends to introduce a Testing CoE framework as a part of its upcoming Upgrade from SAP R/3 to ECC 6.0. To optimize SAP Upgrade effort, Apple will implement end to end testing automation for its key processes using SAP TAO and functional testing tools.

Intelligroup will help Apple create manual test cases; establish testing automation framework, processes and governance for test assets.

Roles & Responsibilities:-

Understand the requirements from client Identification of T-Codes and scenarios Daily interacting with customer business analyst Setup the test bed, Leading the team, Assigning the task priorities,

prepare and execute the scenarios Effort Estimations, Daily scheduling, daily tracking Conduct the meetings on weekly basis, Escalations

IPG (Inter Public Group), UK

Quality Analyst Domain – Life Sciences

Project Name : IPG Automation testing – Life SciencesClient : Inter Public Group, UKEnvironment : SAP ECC 6.0Tools using : QualityCenter 9.0, QTP 9.5

Description:

Interpublic is one of the world’s largest advertising and marketing services Companies comprised of communication agencies around the world that deliver custom marketing solutions on behalf of our clients. These agencies cover the spectrum of marketing disciplines and specialties, from traditional services such as consumer advertising and direct marketing, to emerging Services such as mobile and search engine marketing. With hundreds of offices in over 100 countries and approximately 43,000 employees, our agencies develop marketing programs that build brands, influence consumer behavior and sell products.

Roles & Responsibilities:-

Quality Audit for automated scripts Execute the automated scripts from QualityCenter Collect the log files and review

NCH Corporation, Irving, TXNCH Oracle Applications 11i Performance Testing

Onsite Test Lead Domain – Financial

Project Name : NCH Oracle 11i Performance testingClient : NCH CorporationEnvironment : Oracle 11.5.10Testing Tools : Load Runner 9.0

Network simulation tool : SHUNRA VE (Virtual Enterprise)

Description:

This project mainly concentrated on Network Performance & Application performance of Oracle 11i in US region and Asia Pacific region.

This project is to test the performance of the Oracle 11i Pre-prod and Production instances by creating the scripts as per client requirement, find the bottle necks of the application.

Verifying the importance of assessing network impact on application performance and the value that is obtained by integrating WAN emulation into load testing using loadrunner&Shunra.


Gather the requirements from the client Identify the most critical Business Flows Working closely with the business analysts, APP&DB Admin’s, Network

Admins for requirements and Connectivity Issues Collect the test data from functional consultants Design & Execute the Test Scenarios with respect to load Configure and monitor the load in LR Graphs Involved in Network Capacity testing using SHUNRA Tool by providing the

Latency and Bandwidth Gather the reports from LR and SHUNRA Analyze the results and report the bottlenecks, KT to client resource

Hitachi Data Systems, Santa Clara, CA, USHDS R12 Upgrade Application Performance Testing

Onsite Lead Domain – Logistics

Project Name : HDS R12 Upgrade. Client : Hitachi Data Systems Inc.,Environment : Oracle R12Testing Tools : Load Runner 9.10, QualityCenter 9.0Network simulation tool : SHUNRA VE (Virtual Enterprise)

Description:

This project mainly deals with upgrading the Oracle 11i to Release Oracle R12.

This project is to test the performance of the Oracle R12 upgraded application by creating the scripts as per client requirement, find the bottle necks of the application.Verify the importance of assessing network impact on application performance and the value that is obtained by integrating WAN emulation into load testing using SHUNRA. Collated SHUNRA results with LR results and recommend the changes at the server side and network side to get more performance with the help of Oracle DBA’s and Network Admin’s.


Performance Test Lead, HDS Automation Collected the requirements from the client Identified the most critical Business Flows with Techno-Functional team Working with the Network Admin’s for Load Generator Connectivity

Issues Collect the test data from functional consultants Design & Execute the Test Scenarios with respect to load Configure and monitor the load in LR Graphs Involved in Network Capacity testing using SHUNRA Tool by providing the

Latency and Bandwidth Gather the reports from LR and SHUNRA Analyze the results and provide the recommendations

Varian Medical Systems – Life Sciences, Milpitas, CA, USVVP Performance Testing on SAP Application


Description: The Visible Varian Project (VVP) is the information management system for Varian Medical Systems that will simplify, standardize, and automate the Varian business processes across most Varian business groups and functions while implementing a new version of SAP (SAP ECC6.0). The objective of this Project is to automate the Manual Test Scripts and perform the load test for Varian’s VVP SAP ERP system using LR 9.0 tool. This Project is to create Automated Test Scripts for up to 45 end to end Automated Test Scenarios comprising up to110 SAP unique transactions based on the Manual Test Scripts and Manual Test Scenarios available and used in their ERP VVP implementation testing.


Performance Test Lead VVP Automation Collect the requirements from Business team (T-codes & Z-codes)

Identifying the most critical transaction with Deloitte team Preparation of Load Test plan Assign the tasks to offshore team and Daily follow up Working with the Network/System Admins for Load Generator Connectivity

Issues, collect the test data from respective functional consultants Design & Execute the Test Scenarios with respect to load Configure and monitor the load in LR Graphs Gather the reports from LR, SAP Basis team Monitor the snaps using ST02, ST03, STAT T-codes Analyze the things and give the recommendations

Nissan Motors, Akusto, Hon-Atsugi, JapanNissan Motors SAP Application Performance Testing using LoadRunner

Onsite Lead Domain – Automobile

Description: Nissan Motors has four areas: the environment, safety, dynamic performance, and life on board. Nissan will create original value in each of these four areas in order to provide their customers with "trusted driving pleasure".

Nissan is upgrading the application version from SAP 4.6c to ECC 6.0 version. Its Oracle database engine having Cluster environment and application having load balancers.


Basic configuration of system set ups, Installation and Protocol setups Working with Admin’s about the port/firewall issues Creating the scripts Setting the Parameters Customization & executing of scripts. Preparation and execution of test scenarios Generating the load from Load Generator machines using controller Monitoring the Load Closely working with SAP basis, functional experts and Database

administrators to monitor the system performance, backups & restores

Apple VacationsApple Vacations Application Performance Testing using LoadRunner

Test Analyst Domain – LogisticsDescription:Apple Vacation’s goal is to provide high quality, great value vacation packages to Mexico, the Caribbean, and other sun destinations. This means that the vacation packages and any independent air or hotel accommodations are sold exclusively through travel agents.

There are different types of packages like Specials, Charter Package, Air Only, Land Only, Car, SKED through which either the travel agent employees, the apple vacation employees or the end customer can book a flight package. Package includes not only the flight tickets but also the additional provides privileges like booking supplements, hotel info , avok insurance etc. and there are different modes to pay the money, the user is able to pay the money through Cheque or Card.


Basic configuration of system set ups, Installation and Protocol setups. Creating the scripts. Customization & executing of scripts. Preparation and execution of test scenarios Hitting the load from controller Monitoring the Load Preparation of Load Reports

Talent NetworkingDeloitte, DStreet Application Testing (Manual & Performance)

Test Analyst Domain – HCM

Description: As Inspired by the “six degrees of separation” theory and the hugely popular social networking systems, talent networking focuses on connecting individuals online within the organization to bring together their unique talents, interests and perspectives. Information shared is largely volunteered in their profiles. Also, individuals can see and connect to others’ networks, finding both diversity and affinity across large geographic distances.


Based on the client’s requirements have to test the flow of the functionality. Posting the defects in Excel About the performance testing, have to set up the performance test

environment. Creating the scripts. Customization & executing of scripts. Preparation and execution of test scenarios

CompuwareOracle Applications (12i) Performance Testing using QALoad 5.60

Test Analyst


Basic configuration of system set ups, Installation and Protocol setups.

Creating the scripts. Customization & executing of scripts. Preparation and execution of test scenarios Hitting the load from conductor Monitoring the Load Preparation of QA-Load Reports

GE Waters & Process TechnologyeQMI VERITAS Application Testing (Manual & Performance)

Test Analyst Domain – Financial

Description: eQMI is a commercial application typically used for business forecasting. The eQMI application is the ‘input’ tool where you can update your forecast, see how you are doing versus plan, create and track sales opportunities, track accounts at Risk, and ensure proper resource alignment. The data in this eQMI tool automatically rolls up to your manager and to the QMI Reporting Site.


Based on the client’s requirements have to test the flow of the functionality. Posting the defects in QualityCenter. About the performance testing, have to set up the performance test

environment. Creating the scripts. Customization & executing of scripts. Preparation and execution of test scenarios.

IBM India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore, IndiaSince: March 2004 – May 2007

BDO Performance Test

Performance Test Lead Domain – Financial

On Command Video Performance Test (OCV)

Performance Test Lead Domain – Financial

IRGBS (Ingersoll – Rand USA)

Test Engineer Domain – Financial

Southern Union

Performance Test Engineer Domain – Financial


I have to check the Performance of the client’s application servers using Load Generator with there respective IP Addresses using some business transactions provided by client.

To fix the Basic configuration System set ups, Protocols, setting the parameters, fix the data tables, creating the test plan, test cases, test scripts as per client requirement, generate the reports, find the bottlenecks of the application, analyze the things using the existing graphs in LR, and recommend the changes in the servers to get more performance.

AIRADA BELLSOUTH (AT &T Labs)

Test Lead Domain :- Telecom


Creating Test Plans, Test Cases, and Assigning the work to my team and working on Manual Testing & Load Runner.

SMSC Server

Software Engineer Domain - Telecom


Analysis, Coding.

Description: It is a server named as SMSC (Short Message Service/Switching Center), which is used at GSM Network. The main functionality of this server is, provides the ability to deliver SMs, Status reports, Queries, Alerts, and so on to the End-User.

EVENT SOLV (Short Message services)

Software Engineer Domain - Telecom


Analysis, Coding, Testing using QA-Run

Description: This is a product which will provide lot of services to end-user to his mobile phones. Event Solv is an event-processing, service integration platform. It provides a mechanism for integration of services and provides users with the ability to group these services according to their choice and have the applications delivered to them when they want it, through any wireless or wire line media. It offers interoperability and connectivity for variety of distributed resources.

CIMD Protocol

Programmer Trainee Domain - Telecom


Analysis, Coding, Manual Testing.

Description: It is a protocol named as CIMD (Computer Interface to Message Distribution), which is used at GSM Network, implemented for TATA Cellular through our organization. It is an interconnection between Short Message Entity (SME) and Short Message Service Center (SMSC). The main purpose of this interconnection is to send SMS from SME to Mobile Stations (MS).

EDUCATION

M.Sc(Computer Science) from Sri Venkateswara University, India

Trainings & Certifications

Undergone training for GSM, GPRS Networks at Birla AT&T, Pune, India Trained on UNIX Basics in IBM Trained on QMS (Quality Management System) in IBM Certified Six Sigma Professional (White Belt) in IBM Trained & Worked as Oracle Apps DBA (ad utilities, Patching) in IBM HP Mercury certifications in Quality Center &LoadRunner from

INTELLIGROUP Trained on SAP TAO (Test Acceleration and Optimization 1.1 v) tool Undergone training for Life Sciences concepts GxP – Overview, Good

Documentation Practices, Good Automated Manufacturing Practices (GAMP) – Over view, Computerized System Validation – Basic Concepts

Visual Studio 2010, Performance & Load Testing User Experience Research study at MICROSOFT CORPORATION

Certified Performance Testing Professional in DELL

Additional skills include:

Testing Tools : QA-Run, Win Runner, Performance Center

Load Runner 12.x, Quality Center 10/Test Manager, QA-Load 5.6, SAP TAO, Oracle ATS12.x, StromRunner Load 1.7

Operating Systems : Windows, UNIX, LinuxDatabases : Oracle 11g, SQL ServerWireless Networks : GSM, GPRS, CDMA Networks (2 & 2.5G) Project Planning Tools : Microsoft Project 2000Monitoring Tools : BMC Patrol, Dell-Foglight, NMON, DSTAT,

OEM (Oracle Enterprise Manager), Samurai, Site Scope

Network Simulator/Protocol Analyzer: SHUNRA VE (Virtual Enterprise), Wireshark

PERSONAL DETAILS

Passport No. B1903210Place of Issue Vizag, IndiaType of Visa( If Any) US B1PAN # AKLPK3307PIssue Date Jan 2008Valid Till Jan 2018E-Mail (Personal) [email protected] (Preferred) Mobile /Res Number +91-9686111543 (Preferred) Address #241, 13th street, Devasandra Extn, Vinayak nagar, KR

Puram, Bangalore- 560036Countries Visited Japan, US

mailto:[email protected]

kiran resume

Documents