Muthukrishna Sivaraman

Summary of Skills and Experience

Fifteen years of experience in the IT for manufacturing industry, across platforms and technologies, in application development & implementation, system analysis, customization/ migration, testing, resource planning, recruitment, feasibility studies, cost/benefit analysis, coordination and quality assurance process (CMMI/ISO). The position held includes General Manager, IT&SYSTMS at Kirloskar Oil Engineen at Pune.

Experienced as a Test Coordinator/Manager with test domain for a period of ten years (3 years in USA, 2.5 years in South Africa) system analysis, planning test strategy, test planning, test coordination and defect tracking for system, integration, regression, operational acceptance and user acceptance testing.

Very good experience of (3-4 years) in pro*c development for data migration and customized reports development for oracle Apps. Integration with oracle apps through AOL.

Currently working as a visiting/Guest faculty at a Training Institute (IT &Business School) at Pune and Bangalore, teaching, training and mentoring students for corporate placements.

Currently executing contract jobs working from home for various US clients through Elance for content preparation for online and corporate training, design and execution of test plan, test cases for specific domain, data conversion/migration tasks as per specific requirements.

Implemented multiple projects for Data warehouse and BI using Agile with SCRUM for a period of one year at Sears Holding India at Pune.

Completed training on Agile Ptoject Management, Agile Requirement gathering and Release Planing,Agile Estimation ,Scrum, Agile Testing for a period of 50 hours.

Experienced in conducting corporate training for clients such as Cognizant Academy for their new recruitment for software testing which included manual(ISTQB equivalent ), automation testing with QTP and QC.

Worked as a visiting faculty for SCIT (Symbiosis Centre for Information Technology) for MBA students for subjects such as software engineering (SDLC, Data Bases) and Software testing for a period of 3 years.

Worked as a mentor for students at SICT working on their academic projects as part of their internal practical evaluation.

Very good experience in training, implementing Oracle ERP applications for a manufacturing industry for a period of 5 years.

Very good experience in preparation of training and product manuals for Oracle ERP Modules and Oracle Technology.

Very good experience in working and training software engineers on different web technologies using Java, Java Script. LAMP,WAMP etc.

As a test manger in testing practice in Zensar Technology, conducted

Training and mentoring for campus recruited software test engineers for a period two yearsn

Training for conducting technical interview for freshers , experienced etc for various levels such test engineer, Sr.test engineers, test leads and manager.

Design and Preparation of examination papers for different domains for software testing.

Workshops for ISTQB certification , CSTE certification for experienced resources of testing practice

Workshops for introduction of software testing for business analysts

Workshop on white box and unit testing for software developers,

Training for testing for specific domains such as web application, web services ,security, DB,ETL,BI,ERP testing etc.

Preparation of test papers (objective & subjective) for the purpose of recruitment and selection

Content and training material preparation for various specific tests such as performance testing, security testing, web applications testing, ERP testing, DW/BI/ETL testing with tools and data bases .Conducted training on the above subjects for experienced test engineering team.