KATHIRAVAN T

Mail: kathirace025@gmail.com
Phone: +91-9500795384
OBJECTIVE:
Seeking a position to utilize my skills and abilities in the IT industries that offers professional growth
while being resourceful, innovative and flexible. Willing to work as a key player in challenging and creative
environment.
SUMMARY:
 9 years of experience in Pharma Computer System Validation.
 Experience as a Validation Tester, Business Analyst with Agile software development process.
 Currently associated with Tata Consultancy Services from Sep 2021 -Till date as Technical Lead -CSV.
AUTOMATION TESTING SKILLS:
 2 years of working Experience with Selenium WebDriver
 Developed Selenium Automation scripts in JAVA and Python
 Delivered the automated scripts on time and Resolved failure fixes.
 Ability in developing BDD script with Cucumber framework and writing step definition for behavior.
 Enhanced and optimized the existing framework.
 Run the test cases as batch provide the test result reports to the management
 Maintained the created Automation scripts.
SOFTWARE QA SKILLS:
 Experience in analyzing functional requirements and translate them to test cases.
 Well acquainted with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
 Performed Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing and
Compatibility Testing.
 Performed variety of roles such as Validation Analyst, Validation lead for a leading US & UK based pharma
clients.
 Acquired sound knowledge by way of exposure to the various phases of the Pharma life cycle namely R&D
(Preclinical & Clinical), Labware LIMS, Pharmacovigilance, CSV (Computer System Validation) 21 CFR Part 11,
has expertise Quality Assurance, GxP and Validation testing activities
 Work experience in handling Data Center Migration project
 Proficient in developing, maintaining and executing test cases for different Black Box Testing methodologies.
 Reviewed test cases for peers and given valuable comments about test case coverage and functionality.
 Prepared Traceability Matrix to ensure the test case coverage for all requirements.
 Working experience in using Test Management and defect tracking tool HP Quality Center, JIRA and RQM
 Experienced with functional web services tests
 Knowledge of SOAPUI testing

SQL EXPOSURE:
 Basic knowledge in validating data from the database using DML, DDL statements.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
 Tools: QC 10, JIRA, Jenkins, SoapUI, Agile PLM and QMS
 Automated Tools: Selenium Web Driver
 Operating Systems: Windows 10
 Programming languages: Core java and Python
 Version Control Systems: CVS, GitHub and Source Tree
 Databases: SQL developer

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 EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:
ORGANIZATION DESIGNATION DATE OF JOINING

Tata Consultancy Services Assistant Consultant Sep 2021 – Till date

Accenture Software Test Lead Jul 2021- Aug 2021

Sasken Technologies Lead Engineer May 2019- June 2021

Cognizant India Pvt. Ltd Associate Apr 2013-Apr 2019

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION:

EDUCATION DETAILS PERCENTAGE (%) PASS OUT YEAR

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & 78

2012
Instrumentation(B.E)
Higher secondary, State Board 85 2008
SSLC, State Board 87 2006

PROJECT #1
Title SmartSolve
Client Cepheid USA
Role Business Analyst
Duration Sep 2021 – Till Date
Environment AWS
Team Size 8

Responsibilities:
 Understanding business needs and designing a roadmap for further development and extending post
implementation support
 Informing the client about constraints, assumptions, risks, dependencies, issues and plan of actions,
associated to the projects
 Developing reports, building test cases and conducting unit & regression testing; optimizing the
performance of the reports
 Customizing processes in line with the guidelines specified by the client, ensuring smooth project
implementation and product go-live
 Coordinating with users for system study, requirements gathering, analysis & testing of applications
and managing smooth implementation of the same
 Organizing workshop for business users for User Acceptance Testing (UAT); designing go-live PPTs
and user training manuals
 Building relationship between business stakeholders, cross-functional, Change Advisory Board (CAB)
and other IT Teams (like ETL, DBA, QA) at onsite and offshore to translate plans into action
 Interacting with team members to ensure smooth progress of project work
 Participating in RFPs and RFIs for the new project opportunities

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 PROJECT #2
Title eRoutes, CAT Productivity
Client Caterpillar

Role Lead Engineer

Duration May 2019 – Jun 2021

Environment Azure Devops (Terra Platform)

Team Size 3

Responsibilities:
 Implementation approach and impact analysis discussion with Business Analyst team
 Test Planning, Estimation, Resource Management, Review, Co ordination, Metrics Collection
 Writing automated scripts using python for system testing
 Test planning for new features
 GUI based testing using selenium and Python
 Creation of extent report for the executed test cases
 Delivery and Maintenance of automation scripts
 Providing training to the Junior members

PROJECT #3
Title Boots – Pharmacy Columbus Application Automation:
Client Boots (UK)

Role Test Analyst

Duration Feb 2018 – May 2019

Environment Windows, Eclipse

Team Size 3

Responsibilities:
 Creation of New Gherkin files and Test scripts
 Analyzing the test cases in case of failure
 Sharing reports of the completed test scripts to the business
 Enhancing framework by creating common methods
 Maintaining the completed scripts

PROJECT #4
Title Close Brothers Premium Finance (Banking & Finances)
Client Close Brothers, UK
Role Automation Test Analyst
Duration Mar 2017– Jan 2018

Environment Java, Apache(web server), Oracle-10g,windows

Team Size 2

Responsibilities:
 Creation and maintenance of Automation Test Scripts and Test data.
 Execution and Analyzing the test scripts in case of failure.

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  Optimizing the test scripts in Regression Suite.
 Optimize the Framework based on the latest requirement.

PROJECT #5
Title Data Centre Migration
Client AstraZeneca, UK

Role Validation Analyst

Duration Apr 2016– Feb 2017

Tools SQL Developer, SharePoint, Jira, Quality Center, Confluence

Team Size 3

Role and Responsibilities

 Successful co-ordination with Project team who are spread across different geographical
locations such as UK, Boston, Wilmington and Sweden.
 Responsible for all the project management activities like Test Plan, estimations, process
implementation in the project.
 Preparation of Test scripts, Execution of Test Scripts & reporting the defects and test results.
 Updated status directly to the client/onsite counterparts on a timely basis.
 Performing Impact analysis, scope identification, estimation, scheduling for testing.
 Performed pre migration and post migration testing, before and after the applications migration
 Preparation & Review of the Test Logs and Defect logs.
 Preparation of Test Report

PROJECT #6
Title AstraZeneca Momentum
Client AstraZeneca, UK

Role Validation Analyst

Duration Jul 2013– Mar 2016

Tools SQL Developer, SharePoint

Team Size 5

Role and Responsibilities

 Preparation of Test Approach document, Test scripts, Execution of Test Scripts & reporting the de-
fects and test results.
 Understanding the requirements on Operation changes, Enhancement requests.
 Performing Impact analysis, scope identification, estimation, scheduling for testing.
 Created Smoke Test Script for 2 applications and Regression Test Script for one application in QTP
tool
 Preparation & Review of the Test Logs and Defect logs.
 Preparation of Test Report
 Support UAT testing & Co-coordinating with Support team on testing activities.

Trainings & Certification:

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  International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) Certification
Cognizant Certified Diploma courses such as,

 Automation Testing for Practitioners

 Life Sciences, Healthcare (Domain)
 Software Testing
 Mobile Testing for beginners

Declaration:

I hereby declare that the above mentioned particulars are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.

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