Sanish Chandran, Consultant

Sanish Chandran

Consultant

American Express

Location
United Arab Emirates
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering
Experience
13 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :13 years, 7 Months

Consultant at American Express
  • Egypt
  • My current job since January 2015

Log Validation Tool

Project at Lifeworks EAP
  • My current job since January 2015
Project at Lifeworks EAP
  • My current job since January 2015
Customer at American Express
  • Egypt
  • December 2013 to December 2013
Customer at American Express
  • Egypt
  • March 2013 to December 2013
Customer at American Express
  • Egypt
  • January 2012 to November 2012
Senior Tester
  • United Arab Emirates
  • May 2010 to July 2011
Customer at American Express
  • Egypt
  • May 2010 to July 2011
Customer at American Express
  • Egypt
  • August 2011 to February 2011
Senior Tester
  • March 2009 to April 2010
Senior Tester
  • United Arab Emirates
  • March 2009 to April 2010

A re-engineering program in which the client requires migration from the old system developed in VB 6.0 to the new application in J2EE and MS SQL Server 2000 by retaining its functionality.
Worked on the analysis of use cases, realizing the use cases as design models particularly class diagrams and sequence diagrams, and also in the development (code construction) pointedly in the user interface development.

Responsibilities taken in the project

Requirement Review & Discussion.
Test Documentation- Preparing test cases and task plan
Prepare and acquire test data.
Implement tests on all test levels, execute and log the tests, evaluate the results and document the deviations from expected results.
Review calls handled in daily status.
Test Co-ordination activities.
Troubles shoot calls with the development team.

Manager
  • United Arab Emirates
  • to

Involved in interaction with clients in collecting high-level user requirements, converting the user requirements into system requirements and analyzing the requirements.
Contributed in estimating the time and effort required and coordinating with stakeholders and Business groups to finalize and obtain sign-off for entire software development life cycle
Involved in providing the sizing for various projects.
Good Knowledge about Software Development Life Cycle & Software Testing Life Cycle Concepts.
Requirement and impact analysis of various projects.
Coordinate the RRA and test strategy and plan with project managers and others.
Plan the tests - considering the context and understanding the test objectives and risks - including selecting test approaches, estimating the time, acquiring resources, defining test levels and cycles.
Initiate the specification, preparation, implementation and execution of tests, monitor the test results and check the exit criteria.
Decide about the implementation of the test environment.
Prepare the test summary reports based on the information gathered during testing.
Involved in the Feasibility Analysis of implementing automation in various parts of the project.

Test Manager
  • to

Ceridian HCM, Inc. is a provider of human resources software and services with employees in the USA, Canada, Europe and Mauritius. Lifeworks, product of Ceridian, is an Employee Assistance Program portal which enables various customers to visit and guide them to live life in a better way by understanding the current issues and move ahead with a solution.


Responsibilities taken in the project

Collecting the high level requirements and analysis of the requirements.
Discussion with stakeholders
Coordinating with the individual application teams for the test data characteristics.
Preparation of Test data plan.
Assisting the teams for the data preparation.
Training resources to provide expertise on data preparation and coordination.
Attend weekly/daily status calls with clients and development team.
Creating weekly and monthly metrics for the data availability for the different projects.
Identify re-engineering opportunities and create saves by implementing the opportunities.
Get sign offs on data deliverables from various application teams.
Providing solutions to the testing teams for various data issues that they come across during the course of testing.

Test Manager at American Express
  • Egypt
  • to

Global Authorization Network (GAN), a strategic development effort, aligns with the overall Point of Arrival IT Strategy in support of Business Objectives. The intent of the project is to provide a complete global solution to re-engineer the distributed authorizations infrastructure that will provide scalability, reusability, manageability, and flexibility. The new infrastructure will help ensure that

Test Analyst at American Express
  • Egypt
  • to

Global Authorization Network (GAN), a strategic development effort, aligns with the overall Point of Arrival IT Strategy in support of Business Objectives. The intent of the project is to provide a complete global solution to re-engineer the distributed authorizations infrastructure that will provide scalability, reusability, manageability, and flexibility. The new infrastructure will help ensure that

Senior Tester at American Express
  • Egypt
  • to

Global Authorization Network (GAN), a strategic development effort, aligns with the overall Point of Arrival IT Strategy in support of Business Objectives. The intent of the project is to provide a complete global solution to re-engineer the distributed authorizations infrastructure that will provide scalability, reusability, manageability, and flexibility. The new infrastructure will help ensure that

Consultant
  • to

Ceridian HCM, Inc. is a provider of human resources software and services with employees in the USA, Canada, Europe and Mauritius. Lifeworks, product of Ceridian, is an Employee Assistance Program portal which enables various customers to visit and guide them to live life in a better way by understanding the current issues and move ahead with a solution.


Responsibilities taken in the project
Involved in Feasibility Analysis of implementing the framework in automating the portal.
Involved in End to End Framework design.
Reviewed the code developed by the team members.
Preparing Daily, Weekly and Monthly Status Reports.
Attending Daily Status Call.
Conducted the trainings on automation scripting and the application to the team members.
Ensure that all the test cases are written and updated in SharePoint.
Participate in all meetings planned for particular release and obtain necessary technical automation requirement. Such meetings include, design review, test execution timeline etc.

Project
  • to

GAN Automation - Log Validation Tool

Lead
  • to

GAN Log Validation Tool is the automated tool for comparing and validating the transaction details which have been sent, with the details logged in the UNIX application server. Summary report will be generated which in turn helps to identify which all transactions got passed/failed.

Responsibilities taken in the project
Involved in Feasibility Analysis for Log Validation Tool.
Involved in End to End Framework design for GAN Log Validation Tool.
Reviewed the code developed by the team members.
Preparing Daily, Weekly and Monthly Status Reports.
Attending Weekly Status Call.
Conducted the trainings on automation scripting and the application to the team members.
Ensure that all the test cases are written and updated in Quality Center.
Participate in all meetings planned for particular release and obtain necessary technical automation requirement. Such meetings include, design review, test execution timeline etc.

Test Automation Engineer
  • to

GAN Log Extraction Tool assists in fetching the transaction details from the UNIX application server. It in turn reduces the huge manual effort of extracting the logs one by one by manually logging into the application server.

Responsibilities taken in the project
Involved in the creation of the architecture of Automation framework for Log Validation Tool using Java.
Leading a team of 4 members for the development of Log Extraction Tool with role being monitoring execution status, handling daily defect calls, reporting, tracking daily status, preparing scripts.
Worked in the role of Functional Analyst and driving the maintenance releases following the delivery of the full releases
Ensure that all the test cases are written and updated in Quality Center.
Participate in all meetings planned for particular release and obtain necessary technical automation requirement. Such meetings include, design review, test execution timeline etc.

Manager
  • United Arab Emirates
  • to

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering
  • at MG University
  • January 2008

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Specialties & Skills

AUTOMATION
CERIDIAN
CONSULTING
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
HUMAN RESOURCES
MEETING FACILITATION
QUARK XPRESS
REQUIREMENTS
SHELL SCRIPTING
WRITING

Languages

English
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