Sivasankari RM

Experience

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  Tata Consultancy Services

  Jun 2003 - Jul 2007

  IT Analyst

  Worked on various projects from Banking and Insurance Sectors. The role has varied from Junior Business Analyst to Developer , Tester and Team Lead. Has been involved in the full life cycle of most projects.Responsibilities as Senior Quality Assurance Analyst with Experian UK - Preparing and Reviewing the test specification and testing methodologies - Preparation of Korn shell scripts for loading data from the back end database, moving data across databases and schemas for QA purpose - Enhancing existing PERL scripts used for automating the testing process to meet the current requirement. - Functional Testing and UAT - Preparing high level testing specification and estimationsResponsibilities as Team Leader with Visa Europe - Offshore-Onsite co-ordination - Track Quality control parameters and ensure Quality of the deliverable at all stages of SDLC - Mentoring team members and Interact with team members to ensure smooth progress of project work.Responsibilities as Developer with Visa Europe- Analyze and study the business requirements.- Understand the processes from the business/functional perspective and prepare Design Document.- Programming in COBOL, C using the Design Specifications.- Prepare Unit test specifications- Performing Unit testing - Develop REXX programs to aid analysis, programming and unit testingResponsibilities as Tester with Visa Europe - Prepare Test data and tracking sheets - Performing Functional Testing, Regression Testing and UAT - Develop REXX tools to help in testing and validation - Tracking of the testable requirements, test cases and test results using IBM rational toolsResponsibilities as Junior Business Analyst with USAA Insurance - Analysis of legacy codes in the form of as-is documents - Gathering detailed requirements from Functional and Business owners. - Preparing the Use cases, Rule sheets, class diagrams and object diagrams - Developing a prototype using C++ - Unit Testing of the prototype Show less

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  Micro Focus

  Feb 2008 - Aug 2011

  Build and Test Engineer

  Build and Release engineering is about how software gets from programmer to customer. Broadly this involves Source code management, Continuous Component Integration Build and Product Testing.Responsibilities - Prepare, monitor, release and confidence test every over-night continuous Integration build. - Integration testing, Defect raising and tracking - Maintaining all aspects of the Unix Build system that is solely based on IMAKE concepts. Creating new Makefiles and Imakefiles for new products, maintaining the existing Makefiles and Imakefiles for existing products- Performing Gate Keeper steps like Security test, installation test, Virus Scan and Escrow (back up) before final Release of the product. - Preparing final product image and releasing to marketing team.- Post-release confidence test and addressing any queries from support team.- Maintaining the the software code repository (CM server (SVN server)) and help developers in using SVN command and utilities Show less

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  Microfocus

  Jun 2012 - Mar 2013

  Senior Release Engineer

  Micro Focus provides innovative software that allows companies to develop, test, deploy, assess and modernize business-critical enterprise applications. Release Engineering team takes care of configuration management, product build and QA for all Micro Focus products across windows and Unix Operating System. Responsibilities:- Prepare and execute release plans; status reporting to management- Prepare Project proposals and prototype for brand new products in terms of Build and Test cycles- Work with Development Teams and Testing teams, coordinating the various releases of products- Setting up build environment and preparing build instructions- Preparing Test plan and Test scripts- Confidence Testing and Integration testing of the products.- Working with offshore team, monitoring User stories and Daily Scrum call as a Scrum Master Show less

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  The AA

  Apr 2013 - Feb 2017

  Systems Consultant for Release Management

  Plan, Organize and Manage Software Releases to Test, staging and PROD environments.Maintain various test environments and their integration with other internal/external test systems.Co-ordinate and Manage regression test issues between developers and Testers.Maintain SVN source treeConfigure and Maintain Release Management and defect tracking tools like JIRA and JTRAC.