Raghavendra Kulkarni

Co-Lead at Bank of America

Location Pleasanton, California (San Francisco Bay Area) Industry Information Technology and Services

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Raghavendra Kulkarni's Overview

Current

Test Lead/Manager at Infosys Technologies Limited Co-Lead at Bank of America Test Manager, Test Lead, Analyst, Test Coordinator at Infosys Past

Technical Test Lead at DTCC Test Analyst and Onsite Coordinator at CITI Bank Test Analyst at Infosys
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Education

Karnatak University SDM College of Engineering, Karnatak University Recommendations 1 person has recommended Raghavendra Connections

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Raghavendra Kulkarni's Summary

9+ Years of Quality Assurance experience. Performed roles of Test Engineer, Test Analyst, Test Lead, Test Coordinator and Test Manager. I have experience across domains - Embedded, Storage (SAN) and Banking & Capital Markets. I have performed Manual, Black-box, Localization, Functionality, System, Integration, Regression, Automation and Scripting. Below are some of tools, OS or technologies that I have exposure to: Linux (RHEL), Sun-Solaris, AIX, HP-UX Mac OS X, Windows EMC Symmetrix, EMC Clariion, EMC Navisphere and EMC Powerpath, Veritas Volume manager Oracle10g/9i, ASM, SQL Server, DB2 Oracle 9i/10g RAC, HP Service Guard Cluster Specialties Testing - Manual, Black-box, Localization, Functionality, System, Integration, Regression, Automation, Scripting, Middleware, Firmware, Database, Unix flavors, MAC OS, Windows and VxVM

Raghavendra Kulkarni's Experience

Test Lead/Manager
Infosys Technologies Limited Public Company; 10,001+ employees; INFY; Information Technology and Services industry July 2009 Present (2 years 10 months) for BankofAmerica dealing with Middleware testing portfolio for Request Processor, which is a single robust solution identified by the bank. RP is a message oriented middleware solution that uses IBM Websphere message broker v6.0 Validation of RP Engine architecture and functionality with every change in version. Tested versions 2.0, 2.1, 3.0 and Classic. Tested a complex remediation of another middleware solution WRB - which was running on non-supported IBM software and supported 26 services to RP and identified over 500 defects that enhanced the product quality. End to End testing of business critical transactions that flow through RP in domestic and International global regions by coordinating with the upstream clients and downstream systems via MQ and Http protocols using Appwatch, Pathwai and Soap UI. Performed analysis of requirements, mapping specs, Error matrices and message formats and

orchestrated E2E, Negative, Regression testing and Defect review meetings. Preparation of Test Strategy, Test Plan, defect trends, Test metrics, Execution statistics and Weekly/daily dashboards for Clients review. Extensively used Quality Center for defect tracking and reporting. Performed Automation Feasibility Analysis of all scripts for regression testing that saved 33% efforts on every RP release and environment retrofit testing activities. Schedule automation regression based on the release and initiative. Facilitated User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with the stakeholders and the business users, and the errors detected were opened in QC, tracked for fix and then verified via regression testing. Onsite-Offshore-Nearshore coordination and currently leading a team of 7-8 resources.

Co-Lead
Bank of America Public Company; 10,001+ employees; BAC; Banking industry 2009 Present (3 years) Assisting lead for various Middleware projects and responsible for all testing activities.

Test Manager, Test Lead, Analyst, Test Coordinator

Infosys Public Company; 10,001+ employees; INFY; Information Technology and Services industry December 2006 Present (5 years 5 months) I have been through all the roles at Infosys Technologies and currently playing all the roles again at the client location. Also handling client expectations and acting as SPOC for testing team.

Technical Test Lead

DTCC Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Financial Services industry October 2008 June 2009 (9 months) to test the functionality of the VaR computation Engine. FICC had built a Common Margin Model to support the MBSD division in its efforts to move to a guarantor role. Coordinated with multiple teams within DTC to understand and streamline the process of Input file generation, Internal and Customer reports generation and feeding of computed values to downstream during testing phase. Tracked project efforts and timelines using ITG and followed up on the artifacts review and

approval process using PDR. Provided estimates using complexity template and Score template that was accurate than the previously used standard of 40% of the Build by the clients. Liaised with business and functional owners during the testing phase and provided execution status and walk through for UAT testing. Prepared Test Approach, Test Plan, Test Scripts, Status reports, Defect reports and KT docs for Client and Change Management teams that were used to showcase the project health to upper management. Queried Sybase and Mainframe databases using AQT to validate the computed values.

Test Analyst and Onsite Coordinator

CITI Bank December 2007 September 2008 (10 months) test their data aggregation and client reporting solution P1 that provided comprehensive and consistent view of customer's wealth. The enhancements were tested for every quarterly release with no schedule slippages and with 99% testing efficiency. Created and identified Test data by using complex queries on Oracle using toad for offshore testing. Loaded feed files into the Test Database by using the scripts generated by Ab-Initio Constructed UAT packages that encompassed multiple SIT drops and assisted Business users during UAT testing. Deployed code (DB Scripts, Java and ISIS) into multiple test environments and performed sanity before offshore started their testing, thus identifying Installation issues and saving time. Identified CRs and VTs that would be part of scope for next release and provided testing estimates. Performed defect analysis out of Team Track and presented metrics to Client Management. Performed the role of Onsite coordinator and lead a team of 7-8 testers at offshore to ensure multiple modules are executed with no quality or schedule impacts.

Test Analyst
Infosys Public Company; 10,001+ employees; INFY; Information Technology and Services industry December 2006 December 2007 (1 year 1 month) I established and lead a team to test their Private Banking, Wealth Management and Reporting applications. Owned multiple modules in the One Source application viz. Visibility, IOS, CARE etc. and performed E2E testing. OS was a Private Banking application that eased client on boarding experience. Reviewed the offshore deliverables and coordinated with onshore. Performed Requirement elicitation, Estimation, scope identification and status tracking &

reporting. Acted as a SPOC for all offshore testing activities for One Source (CITI) and Customer Reporting Center (ML) and ensured that there are no slippages.

Software Eng
EMC Data Storage Systems 2004 2006 (2 years)

Senior Software Engineer

EMC Data Storage Systems November 2004 December 2006 (2 years 2 months) with EMC, I configured test environment that included installation of OS and third party software, configuration of Storage, creation of partitions and configuration of disks to replicate, mount and restore using EMCs Replication Manager. RM simplified and automated the deployment, management and use of disk-based replications to improve availability and rapid recovery of information in all platforms. Configured Clariion and Symmetrix storage systems for the test environment and other third party software on the host machines based on the support matrix. Installed Solaris, Linux, AIX, HP-UX operating system on the test machines. Created volume groups, logical volumes, worked on various file systems such as ext2, ext3, vfs, ufs Partitioned and initialized the disk to create volume groups, logical volumes using VERITAS volume manager. Configured Oracle RAC (Real Application Cluster) and HP Service Guard Cluster for high availability which was supported by RM. Performed replication, mount and recovery of Oracle 9i, 10g and ASM; UDB; SQL 2K and Exchange 2K/2K3 using the replication technologies- snapview, clone, BCV, SANcopy. Kicked off regression using the automation framework that was created in Perl, for every build. Prepared Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Quality reports, Status reports and closure reports for multiple versions Replication Manager - V2.0, 3.0 and 4.0 Reported defects using Rational Clear Quest tool.

System Engineer
Wipro Technologies Public Company; 10,001+ employees; WIT; Information Technology and Services industry 2002 2004 (2 years)

Software Test Engineer

Wipro Technologies Public Company; 10,001+ employees; WIT; Information Technology and Services industry September 2002 November 2004 (2 years 3 months) with Wipro, I performed functional & regression testing on the drivers and firmware developed for HP Multi Functional Peripherals (MFPs). Also, I executed the Windows Hardware Quality Lab (WHQL) suite on these peripherals and submitted the logs for Microsoft approval. Developed Test plans, test scenarios and test cases for every firmware or driver release Executed the scripts and identified critical defects that resulted in multiple code drops thus improving the quality. Performed integration, functional, localization and regression testing. Executed multiple iterations of WHQL scripts (HCT 11.2 and 12) which involved running a series of tests on third-party (non-Microsoft) software and then submitting the log files to Microsoft for review. Created the Test reports, Defect reports, Status reports and traceability matrices for over 8 projects that I was involved with, thus providing complete documentation Installed multiple local language OS using the Norton Ghost utility.