Ramesha Rao
- 1. 1 RAMESHA RAO (US Citizen) 6309 Fur Seal Court Waldorf Maryland 20603 240-435-0446 SUMMARY: Senior Quality Assurance Consultant and Project Manager with over 30 years experience in all phases of the software development life cycle. Experience includes managing both DoD and serving as QA Consultant with MBI clearance for Internal Revenue Service Project involving infrastructure management, engineering, configuration, integration, testing, and monitoring of software/hardware. Experience includes quality assurance, configuration management, systems integration, software testing, Independent Validation and Verification (IV&V) in both mainframe and client/server technology. Experience includes testing web-based and client/server applications, analysis, planning and executing development, functional, regression testing and user acceptance testing. Experience includes developing testing documents such as test plans, test procedures, and test cases. Skilled in SQA Suite, SQA Robot, SQA Manager, Clear Case, WinRunner, Test Director, Loadrunner, PVCS Tracker, Clear Quest, Rational Test Suite, Rational Toolset, Rational Rose. TECHNICAL SKILLS: HARDWARE: VAX 11/750 VAX 11/790, VAX 8650, VAX 9000, PDP 11/34, PDP 11/45. PDP 11/70, MicroVAX I, II, III and 3100, IBM RISC 6000, Macintosh, HP UX, Sparc 5, Sun Servers SOFTWARE/LANGUAGES: Visual Basic 6, JAVA, C++, C, Perl, COBOL, HTML, Oracle 8.0, Oracle 9.0, Oracle 10i or above, Informix, Visual Source Safe, StarTeam, ERWin, BPWINp, Fortran, Assembly, Cade Teamwork, Interleaf IEF, JavaScript, FoxPro, Iplanet, Web Server Java, E.piphany , TIBCO, Siebel 7.8, Oracle E Business 11i, Data Load Professional 4.3.9.0, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint and Excel), PeopleSoft AP,AR, and GL, PL/SQL, Fortran, Jovial, Ada, Pascal OPERATING SYSTEMS: Windows NT Server 4.0, UNIX System 5, Sun Solaris, VAX/VMS, AIX 3.2, OS 390, Window 98, Windows EP, MAC, Windows XP Home and Professional, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 Advance Server, Windows 2003 Server and Linux, Microsoft Server 2008 TOOLS: HP Mercury (Quality Center, QTP, Load Runner, and Diagnostic), IBM Rational Tool CCCHarvest, PVCS, CMS, DDTS, DOORS, Data Junction, ETL, Micro Focus (SilkPerfomer and Silk Test), Fortify and CAST DATABASE SYSTEMS: DB2, Oracle9, Oracle 10, MSSQL Server 2003 Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, MS Access, Paradox, Sybase, FileMaker, AppDynamics, TELECOMMUNICATION/PROTOCOL/STANDARDS: TCP/IP, FTP, SMTP, NIS, NFS, HTTP, DNS, PPP, TACACS, WWW SECURITYCLEARANCE: Minimum Background Investigation (MBI) Department of Justice Secret Clearance from DoD EDUCATION: MS Physics.,Old Dominion University May 1978 BA Physics; Minor in Mathematics, University of South Florida / Art and Science June 1974 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Senior Tester 03/2009 - Present Software ADE (PD AMIS Project) - Currently working on the performance testing for the Product Director Automated Movement and Identification Solutions using HP Load runner 12.01 version task includes developing test plan, test script and reports.Worked on Automated Test Scripts using HP Mercury Quick Test Pro 10.0 and Mercury Quality Center 10.0 for the Product Director Automated Movement and Identification Solutions (PM AMIS) project. The Task includes verifying the Requirements via the Automated Scripts, Installing HP Mercury Quick Test Pro 10.0 on different environment. Executing automated scripts for different release Product Director Automated Movement and Identification Solutions (PM AMIS) project and verifying the automated scripts identifies issues within the product. Also involved modifying the automated scripts based Problem Report return against the application by the end users.Currently application has been developed using PowerBuilder 11.5 and Java. The Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database is used as the backend.
- 2. 2 Currently working on the Performance Testing using the Micro Focus Silk Performer for the Product Transpiration Information (PD TIS) project. Currently working on the Web Application Performance Testing using Silk Perfumer Tool. Currently supporting the ITOPS in installation the PDTIS application son the production server and maintaining the applicatio ns Current working Automated Test Scripts using Rational Robot 7.0.1 Tool for the Product Director, Transportation Information Systems (PD TIS) Project. The Task includes verifying the Requirements via the Automated Scripts, Installing Rational Robot Tool on different environment. Executing automated scripts for different release Product Director, Transportation Information Systems (PD TIS) project and verifying the automated scripts identifies issues within the product.Also involved modifying the automated scripts based Problem Report return against the application by the end users. Computer Science Corporation/CSC 03/2008 - 03/2009 Senior Consultant DAI (Defense Agency Information) - Performance Testing for Oracle ERP application for DAI project. The Oracle E-Business solution application contains the following module Order to Fill, HRMS, Acquire to Retire, Cost Accounting ,and Procure to Pay, Time and Attendance. Support loading data into Oracle E Business solution for the DAI using Data Load Professional software. Developed Performance Test Plan and provided inputs to the User Acceptance Test Plan. Configured and setup Mercury Quality Center (Test Director) for the DAI project. Also developed training material to be used to train the customer in the use of Mercury Quality Center (Test Director). Also support in the synchronization Mercury Quality Center and IBM Rational tool for Report and Clear Quest for defect and tracking the requirements in the quality center which can be mapped for each the tes t cases.Develop test case format in the Excel spreadsheet to be used for the DAI project. Support during the CRP2 and BTA pilot testing as required by the Test Manager. Department of Justice/DOJ 08/2006 - 03/2008 Test Engineer Support the Test Automation Center of Excellence group in the area of Capacity Testing for different project. Also provide support in identify and documenting Best Testing Practice based on the project requirement. Currently DOJ Litigations Case Management System Project, duties include creating test plan and test case for the EOUSA. Support R11 Delphi project in setting up infrastructure, installing Load Runner and SQL Server. Support Installation and Configuration Oracle Client and Siebel. Support Functional Testing and writing scripts for the configured Siebel Application for DOJ. Support Stress testing of the configured Siebel Application. Support User Acceptance Testing of the Siebel Application. Keane Inc Project Manager 11/2005 - 08/2006 Carefirst Project -Worked as Lead Tester for the USS EPIPHANY project at Care first site in Owings Mills Maryland. Testing of a Java based application, with DB2 and Oracle database. Provide technical and management support for the offshore testing of the USS E.piphany project. Review and validate defects reported by the offshore team. Provide management oversight for Unit Testing and User Acceptance Testing. Capture and report defects found during Unit Testing and User Acceptance Testing,and report results to development team and project management. Developed Project Plan using Microsoft Project which includes Task Breakdown and Resource Planning. Provide support during the training of Customer Service Representative in the use of the USS EPIPHANY application. Managed twenty (20) off-shore (Delhi India) and four in-house testers during deployment of the application. Provided support to the Solution Architect Managerduring the implementation of the USS EPIPHANY by interacting with the customer and usercommunity to gather the requirements. Requirements were tracked using the Excel Spreadsheet. Acting deployment manager during Phase II, Phase III and Phase IV of the USS EPIPHANY application deployment. Worked with USS EPIPHNAY developers during the deployment of the application in the production environment to ensure there are no issues with application. Updated project plan provide Management task completion and any resource changes.Implemented the Mercury Tools (Win Runner and Load runner) in support of the testing effort of the USS EPIPHANY application. DynCorp Systems & Solutions, LLC (A CSC Company) 08/2003 – 10/2005 Senior Tester Internal Revenue Service Project - Provided consultative support services pertaining to infrastructure management, engineering, configuration, integration, testing,systemmodeling and monitoring of software and hardware on Tier 2 Corporate and Legacy Platforms. Provided management oversight for all phases ofthe project, including coordinating workers, material, and equipment,
- 3. 3 ensuring that specifications were followed, and tasks were accomplished on schedule and within budget.Managed the work of several subcontractors supporting various phases ofthe project. Responsible for monitoring the performance of all projects and ensure that all government specifications and regulations were being followed. As a Mercury Load runner expert, provided systemmonitoring and systemcapacity performance testing.Using Athene (OpNet tool), monitored various hardware and systems,to ensure performance met user expectations. Developed performance review studies based on data collected from the systemperformance tools.Using the Load Runner tool, developed and executed stress tests to identify bottlenecks and reduce testing cycles, optimize performance and accelerate deployment of systems. Closely monitored all applications for performance and capacity utilization, and provided input to hardware and systems upgrades based on current and expected capacity usage.Track and control project schedule and associated costs to achieve completion of project within time and monies allocated. ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE: CSC/USAID Project Manager/Senior Tester 05/2001-06/2002 Kutti Tech Inc Baltimore City Public School System Project Manager 04/1999-12/2000 Compaq/Senior System Tester 08/1998 – 04/1999 Project Lead Network Associates /Quality Assurance/Configuration Management 05/1998 – 08/1998 Project Lead PWC/ Quality Assurance/Configuration Management 01/1998 – 05/1998 Project Lead TRW/ Systems Engineer/Quality Assurance 10/1996 – 12/1997 Project Lead Kodak/ Systems Engineer 01/1996 – 10/1996 Project Manager Burton Services Inc/Quality Assurance/Configuration Management 08/1995 – 01/1996 Project Lead DCS Corporation/Systems Engineer 01/1992 - 03/1995 Project Lead Northrop Grumman (Westinghouse Electric Corporation)/Senior Engineer 09/1980 – 12/1991