USHA K.

USHA K.

Technical Test Lead

CHENNAI , India

Experience: 9 Years

USHA

CHENNAI , India

Technical Test Lead

37200 USD / Year

  • Start Date / Notice Period end date: 2020-04-01

9 Years

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About Me

Overall 9.6 years of IT professional experience in Software Testing under Banking&Financial Services domain within around 2 years of expertise in AWS cloud platform and Linux server management Having 8+ years of focused experience in testing IBM Main...

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Portfolio Projects

Description

  • Setup/Managing Linux servers on Amazon(EC2, EBS, ELB, Security Groups, RDS)
  • Setup/Managing Databases on Amazon RDS and monitoring servers through Amazon Cloud Watch and SNS services
  • Creating/Managing AMI, snapshots, Volumes and Upgrade/Downgrade AWS resources (CPU, memory, EBS)
  • Manage and Configure AWS services as per the business needs(ELB, SNS, EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, Cloud Watch, IAM and VPC)
  • Setting up Databases in AWS using RDS, Storage using S3 buckets and configuring instance backups to S3 bucket
  • Maintaining and managing DNS records
  • Handling backup and recovery of RDS instances
  • Troubleshooting and supported AWS Security related issues such as IAM and S3 policies for user access by providing best recommended solutions
  • Excelled on creating AMI(AWS Machine Images) that utilizes ELB(Elastic Load Balancer) and Auto Scaling
  • Using RDS, configured read replicas and multi AZ for disaster recovery
  • Configured Elastic File System on application level
  • Setup S3 buckets with versioning, replication and as endpoint for secure regular access data storage
  • Worked with Security division group to design and manage IAM roles for users and other third party vendors

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Description

  • Setup/Managing Linux servers on Amazon(EC2, EBS, ELB, Security Groups, RDS)
  • Setup/Managing Databases on Amazon RDS and monitoring servers through Amazon Cloud Watch and SNS services
  • Creating/Managing AMI, snapshots, Volumes and Upgrade/Downgrade AWS resources (CPU, memory, EBS)
  • Manage and Configure AWS services as per the business needs(ELB, SNS, EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, Cloud Watch, IAM and VPC)
  • Setting up Databases in AWS using RDS, Storage using S3 buckets and configuring instance backups to S3 bucket
  • Maintaining and managing DNS records
  • Handling backup and recovery of RDS instances
  • Troubleshooting and supported AWS Security related issues such as IAM and S3 policies for user access by providing best recommended solutions
  • Excelled on creating AMI(AWS Machine Images) that utilizes ELB(Elastic Load Balancer) and Auto Scaling
  • Using RDS, configured read replicas and multi AZ for disaster recovery
  • Configured Elastic File System on application level
  • Setup S3 buckets with versioning, replication and as endpoint for secure regular access data storage
  • Worked with Security division group to design and manage IAM roles for users and other third party vendors

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Description

  • Responsible for creation, deletion and assigning the permissions to users and groups
  • Creating AMI’s to the EC2 instances in case if the key pair is lost and creating new instance with the same data
  • Experience in Mounting and Un-Mounting Operations in file systems
  • Using Amazon Cloud Watch Logs to monitor, store, and access your log files from Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, AWS Cloud Trail, Route 53 and monitoring network communication, System Usage, Outages and Troubleshoot
  • Managing AWS EC2 instances. Launching, stopping, starting and terminating the multiple EC2 instances on scheduled basis
  • Creating/Managing AMI/Snapshots/Volumes, Upgrade/downgrade AWS resources (CPU, Memory, EBS)
  • Create and Manipulate shell scripts on Production server for backup on AWS
  • Use roles to delegate permissions and policy conditions for extra security, Enable MFA for privileged users in IAM
  • Exposure in configuring Continuous Integration tool (Jenkins), managing plug-ins and managing various jobs like freestyle, pipeline jobs in Jenkins
  • Increasing root volume size for EC2 instances without any downtime and creating new Stored Procedures
  • Installing Magento platform in EC2 server
  • Taking daily database backup by scheduling Cron job and saved in S3 by using shell script

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Description

  • Extensive expertise in handling deliverables for AmEx (American Express) client especially for handling the merchants at payables end
  • Worked for the Citi (Banking) client in handling the credit card holders at the billing and transactions gateway end
  • Excellent knowledge of SDLC life cycle process for both Waterfall and AGILE methodologies and having exposure in handling complex releases
  • Involved in leading a team with major challenges in meeting businesses deadlines and providing timely resolutions and quality based test results over various testing phases
  • Prominent in executing the batch job flow to generate the client reports by managing the load job schedulers in Mainframe batch and online environment
  • Well versed in developing Test plan and Strategy documents for business requirements, analyzing requirements thereby extracting scenarios and framing test cases in functional prospective and get it approved by client
  • Handled System testing, Integration, Acceptance and Regression testing execution phases and delivered the Test closure activities smoothly
  • Involved in identifying the key defects in possible testing phases and reported to Development and BA teams and get it fixed to ensure quality test results to client

Project Management and Support Exposure:

  • Worked extensively in IPM platform which is an integrated platform for programs & projects with rollup of project data and project billing
  • Exposure in collaboration with client visibility for maintaining quality, productivity & on time delivery, publishing metric reports, milestone reports, T&M projects, zero distance & accelerate activities
  • Performed a lead role in handling treasury operations, balance sheet management and transparent leadership management
  • Being a Team lead, handled the project deliverable activities and resource allocations and well versed with the project billing forecasting measures
  • Good interaction with the clients on daily basis over calls and development teams across various interfacing units
  • Providing the best possible issue resolutions on support calls thereby interacting with multiple interfacing teams
  • Effectively coordinating E2E activities for several modules by interacting with several interfacing teams even from outside organizations across global countries to provide the defect free deliverables to business partners
  • Involved in delivering utilities helpful for the team building & resource forecasting along with billing activities as per the client needs

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