Venkat Manoharan

Experience

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  Ministry of Social Development in Wellington, New Zealand

  Aug 2006 - Jul 2007

  Test Analyst

  Performing varied Testing tasks from Web applications, UI, Usability, Security.Lead Test engaments - Test planning, coordinating UAT, providing estimates and time line.Interaction with external vendors and creating technical support schedules for deployment.

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  EServGlobal

  Jul 2007 - Jul 2010

  Test Engineer

  1. Extensive Testing of Telecommunication products based on Intelligent Networks platform.2. In hand experience with TCP/IP, IN, SS7, Radius, Diameter and SNMP(MIB).3. Worked on CDMA (IS41) and GSM network service provider environment.4. Various project experience includes Billing solutions (Pre & Post paid billing engine), Messaging Solutions, VPN, Sigtran, Advanced Calling Services.5. Test Convergence of various off the shelf solutions and eSg products in customer specific environment.6. Performing Test Engineering role in both R & D labs and Sustaining (Support Engineering) Group.7. Testing software, maintain customer specific environment (Solaris OS and ORACLE DB ), Test analysis of various tools and implementing them.8. Provide test estimates for maintainance release and support patches.9. Creating test plans, test cases, test scripts and reports as a part of testing life cycle.10. Performing various types of testing - Install/Uninstall, Sanity, Functional, System, UI, Security, Soak & Leak, Load, Retesting, Regression and Verification.11. Automation of Regression suites of various eSg products.12. Participate and provide feedbacks on process improvement. Ensuring that the process are adhered to in the different phases of Testing Life Cycle.13. External customer interaction in support engineering. Show less

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  Oracle

  Aug 2010 - Sept 2011

  Member Of Technical Staff

  1. Extensive Testing of Telecommunication products based on Intelligent Networks platform.2. In hand experience with TCP/IP, IN, SS7, Radius, Diameter and SNMP(MIB).3. Worked on CDMA (IS41) and GSM network service provider environment.4. Various project experience includes Billing solutions (Pre & Post paid billing engine), Messaging Solutions, VPN, Sigtran, Advanced Calling Services.5. Test Convergence of various off the shelf solutions and eSg products in customer specific environment.6. Performing Test Engineering role in both R & D labs and Sustaining (Support Engineering) Group.7. Testing software, maintain customer specific environment (Solaris OS and ORACLE DB ), Test analysis of various tools and implementing them.8. Provide test estimates for maintainance release and support patches.9. Creating test plans, test cases, test scripts and reports as a part of testing life cycle.10. Performing various types of testing - Install/Uninstall, Sanity, Functional, System, UI, Security, Soak & Leak, Load, Retesting, Regression and Verification.11. Automation of Regression suites of various eSg products.12. Participate and provide feedbacks on process improvement. Ensuring that the process are adhered to in the different phases of Testing Life Cycle.13. External customer interaction in support engineering. Show less

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  IAG (AMI Insurance Company)

  Oct 2011 - Sept 2013

  Test Lead for Data Migration & Snr. Test Analyst for Performance Testing

  1. Leading Testing Engagements for Data Migration from legacy system to new system and handling Test Engineering commitments for Performance Testing2. Hands on with (System Testing , Integration and end-to-end Testing) as part of SOA Testing3.Enterprise Technologies - JBoss Platform, Microsoft SQL Server.,Biztalk as a interface layer, VM clusters, Load Balancer, AD and citrix.4. Data Migration Technologies - IBM Infosphere (ETL Tool), XML and XSD, SQL, Webservices.5. Performance Testing Technologies - JMeter, PerfMon tool, Test Harness, SOAP-UI for Web services, Live HTTP Header, Ubuntu Linux OS. Show less

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  Optimation

  Sept 2013 - Dec 2014

  1. Involved in Analysis, Design and Execution of Test Scenarios.2. Performed System, Functional and UI Testing.3. Gap Analysis - Involved in identification of Gap’s in the Requirements, Identifying Gap’s in the sprint deliverables for Testing.4. Defect Management and Reporting.5. Hand over and Mentoring Junior Test Analysts. 1. Involved in Testing Change Requests, Customizations (CEMLI’s), and enhancements to business solutions in ORACLE EAM and EBS module implementations.2. Performed Functional, Regression, End-to-End and Integration Testing. 3. Creating Test Estimates, Test Plans, review Test Deliverables.4. Defect management and Reporting.5. Mentoring junior Testers in testing business process and ERP system implementation.

  • Senior Software Test Analyst in STRAS Project for MOE

    Jul 2014 - Dec 2014

  • Senior Test Analyst at Housing New Zealand Corporation

    Sept 2013 - Jun 2014
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  Ministry of Education of New Zealand

  Mar 2015 - Jun 2019

  Test Practice Lead Consultant (Contract) - Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence.

  1.Test Analysis, Planning and Estimation.2. Testing B2B Integeration, system & end to end XML event message flows.3. Testing ETL's, data correctness, completeness, reconciliation, deserialisation & normalisation in Data-Vault Models.4. Internal and External Stakeholder Management of Testing Activities. 5. Gap Analysis, Defect Management & Reporting.6. Defining and Determining Test Environment.7. Verifying the Data Warehouse Architecture and Infrastructure - Source data and source systems, Business Data Store.8. Validating Central metadata repository, ETL work flows, Dimensional Models. 9. Data reconciliation, Data growth management and Reports Testing.10. Provide feedback's and conduct Defect Triage Meetings.11. Identifying gaps, missing and incorrect Requirements.12. Up skill and Train Test Analyst. Show less

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  Bank of New Zealand

  Jul 2019 - Dec 2022

  Test Practice Lead Consultant - Data Stream and Compliance (Contract) at Bank of New Zealand

  Leading the Testing Activities for Data and Analytics Platform Domain on Testing Multi Cloud Platform (Paas) and Cloud Data Warehouse.1. Setting up Cloud Infrastructure Test Practice, Data & Analytics Test Practice.2. Team Building, Training, cross skilling and upskilling Testers.3. Developing High level Test Strategies, Plans & Reports.4. Test Automation Fraework, Test Data Management, Sprint & Quarterly Planning, Agile Ceremonies & Release Planning.5. Gap Analysis, Requirement Analysis and Resource Mangement.6. Data Warehouse, Data Migration, Cloud Platform Testing and customer onboarding. Show less

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  Oranga Tamariki—Ministry for Children

  Jan 2023 - now

  Program Test Manager (EDAP)

  EDAP is a multi cloud platform which hosts all the OT Data & Data Warehouse, a place to ingest, publish and subscribe data. It has full metadata including data lineage and technical and business description to available data.1. Setting up Data Migration and Data Warehouse Test Practice.2. Test Strategy, Planning, Test Automation Framework, Test Execution, Team Building & Stakeholder Management.3. Agile Ceremonies, Sprint planning, Quarterly planning with Product Manager on deliverables.4. Helping Delivery Teams to overcome any impediments/ road blocks. Show less