BALAJI SHANMUGANATHAN

Mobile: +91 9566902215 / E-Mail: balajishanmuganathan15@gmail.com

Location: Bangalore

To obtain a responsible and challenging position with a progressive company where my work experience will have
Valuable application and utilization of my opportunity for advancement.

PROFILE SUMMARY
 6.9 years of experience with specializing in Software Quality Assurance Testing, proficient in testing
on Client/Server and Web based applications and good experience on JAVA.
 Good Knowledge in Object Oriented Programming OOPS.
 Experience in Automation and Manual Testing.
 Exposure in all stages of software testing life cycle and building efficient Testing Framework.
 Software Testing professional with excellence in:
~ Quality Assurance ~ Software Testing ~ Defect Management
~ Team Management ~ Liaison & Coordination
 Functional expertise in Passenger Service System PSS – Availability, Sell, PNR, Ticketing, EMD, Inventory, Flight Master
Record, Code Share operations, Irregular Operations.
 Experience in Web application testing using Selenium Web Driver with POM approach , Sikuli
 Experience in Web service testing and Micro service testing.
 Experience in Cucumber BDD , Junit and TestNG.
 Experience in automating Web Services Testing using RestAssured for REST and Java libraries for SOAP.
 Hands-on experience in working on Jenkins, GIT, Mainframe, JIRA, HP ALM,SOAP UI, POSTMAN.
 Experience in MainFrame Testing(Mercator Airline Reservation System)
 Spearheaded the design and test plan for all projects; perform code review and mentoring team members.
 Quick and incessant learner with continual knowledge sharing and ability to learn new methodology.

SKILL SET
Testing Tools : Selenium IDE/RC/WebDriver/GRID, Cucumber, Sikuli
Languages : JAVA, HTML, XML
IDE : Eclipse, Intellij
Test Framework : BDD Framework ,Junit and TestNG Framework, POM
Web Debugging Tool : Firepath, Firebug, Chrome Dev Tool
Build Tool : Maven, Gradle
Processes : Agile-Scrum, Waterfall
Bug Tracking Tools : JIRA, JIRA Agile, HP ALM
Integration Tools : Jenkins
Version Control : GIT, GitLab
Operating Systems : Windows (XP, Vista & 7, 8), Linux, Mac
Web service Testing Tools : SOAPUI and POSTMAN

FUNCTIONAL EXPERTISE
Finance domain, Investment Banking experience expertise.
Airline domain expertise,
 Availability, Sell, PNR, Ticketing, EMD, SSR, Inventory
 Flight Schedule management
 Disruption Handling System (DHS)
 Teletype and EDIFACT messages
 Special Service Request
 IROPS – Irregular Operations
 Seating Service
 Passenger Notification System
 Re accommodation of flight
 Chauffeur Services
 Codeshare partner
 Chauffer drive service

ORGANISATIONAL EXPERIENCE
Since Jan 19 with Publicis Sapient, Bengaluru as Senior Associate QA L1
Project : Digital Advise System
Client : Goldman Sachs
Responsibility to handle the offshore QA team and perform System Integration Testing and automating the test case in same
Sprint.
Tools:
Java 8, TestNG, Gradle, Jenkins, GitLab, POSTMAN, Jira Agile
Agile methodology.

Sep’14 to Jan’19 with Emirates Airlines (Consultant from IGT), Dubai as Software Engineer
Project : Reservation System - PSS
Client : Emirates Group
Automating regression test cases for flight booking and modification. Responsibility to handle report for the testing package
and defect management.

Responsibilities:
Writing Test cases on feature file for automation testing.
Automating function test cases with Cucumber framework, pushing to GIT repository and Jenkins Integration.
Performing Regression testing.
Defect management (Cucumber report from Jenkins).

Tools and Environment:

Java 8, Junit, Cucumber, Maven, Jenkins, GIT, SOAP UI, Selenium Web Driver, Sikuli,
ALCS Reservation and Departure control system
JIRA

Project : PSS Enhancement

Client : Emirates Group
Automating Functional test cases and performing System Integration Testing for PSS enhancement and support in area of
Reservation System. Below are projects

Projects Undertaken:
Paid Seating-Paid Seat for Economy saver and special fare brands (Including GDS)
Interactive seating
TTY rejects handling
XCI checks to disallow re-accommodation to invalidated RBDs
Notification for offloaded passenger upon upgrade
Manage offload after passenger checked- in
Schedule Manager Enhancement for Codeshare
Upgrade for Checked-in Passenger
GUI and functional Testing for SESS Chrome Migration
Enhancement with Disruption handling system (IROPS)
Notification for offloaded passenger upon upgrade
PNLADL process for SEAT and FQTV
Queue Management
Changes to Reseating Module
A380HD seat map Solution for IBE
Special handling for EK and QF Skywards
Enhancement RESQ to process
Flight database expansion to support 8000 flights
PNRGOV
SSR Restriction Table Improvement (KAND)
Skywards handler Enhancement
Chauffeur drive system management EK and QF
PNR name change after ET issuance
Rebooking of Misconnecting flights
Aircraft version capacity Check
Chauffer drive service with EK and QF via Web Service

Responsibilities:
Performing Requirements analysis, Estimation, Test Strategy and Test Plan for SIT.
Writing Test cases on feature file for automation testing.
Automating function test cases with Cucumber framework, pushing to GIT repository and Jenkins Integration.
Performing manual testing.
Defect management for manual and automation testing (Cucumber report from Jenkins).

Tools and Environment:

Java, Junit, Cucumber, Maven, Jenkins, GIT, SOAP UI
ALCS Reservation and Departure control system
JIRA and HP ALM

Awards and Recognition:

Appreciation from business team on project demonstration

Dec’12 to Sep’14 with Interglobe Technologies, Chennai as Associate Software Engineer

Project : ZTPF Migration for Apollo and Galileo

Client : Travel port
ZTPF Apollo and Galileo Migration involves functional testing the Apollo and Galileo system working on Z environment.
Issue will be reported by QA and accordingly Test plan and test cases will be created and executed. Defect will be opened as
RCs and assigned to the developer to fix it and to guide the developer to recreate the issue. Once the defect fixed the same
functionality will be retested and closed.

Responsibilities:
Test Plan and Test case creation
Uploading the Test case in HP ALM
Test execution
Raising Defects

Tools and Environment:

VM, TAP08C, TAPC, TRE08C, TREA,
HP ALM

EDUCATION

B. Tech(Information Technology) from Kalasalingam University, Virudhunagar, Tamilnadu in 2012

PERSONAL DETAILS
Date of Birth : 15 April 1990
Designation : Software Engineer
Passport No : M1312312
Current Residence : Dubai, UAE
Permanent Residence : Chennai, India

Place: Bangalore
Date: Balaji Shanmuganathan