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SHAJU DEHANNATH KOTTARATH
Mobile: 9886808667
Mail: shajubnambiar@gmail.com
CAREER OBJECTIVE:
• To seek manager / lead consultant / Senior Consultant position in IT/ITES industry by leveraging
my 11 years of end to end experience in delivering IT projects. In the long term, aspire to lead,
grow and manage high performing teams and contribute to the industry and the society.
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
• Testing / QA Management Professional having 11 years of overall experience in successfully delivering IT
systems and having gained technical competencies in business analysis, system implementation and
quality assurance
• More than 3 years of experience in test automation using Selenium webdriver, SOAPUI and JMeter
• 5 years of experience in handling teams up to 15 members in medium sized projects
• Extensive experience in requirements management principles including requirements analysis,
requirements refinement, systems analysis
• Expertise in designing and executing integrated test strategy, running defect triage and facilitating UAT
• Active participating in process improvement initiatives, problem solving, solution brainstorming and end
user training
• Proficient in planning and execution of test automation, security testing & performance testing projects
using multiple tools (Selenium web driver, SOAPUI, JMeter, ALM, Visual Studio Online, Testlink,
SpiraTest & Jira)
• Training and mentoring junior engineers on process, techniques & tools
• Very good in Object oriented programming concepts and experienced in modifying existing automation
framework and developing automation scripts using Selenium and Java
• Exposure to various business domains including Healthcare, Retail Banking, Payment Systems, E-
learning, Telecom, Pharmaceutical, Telematics & Retail
• Exposure to various technology domains including client-server, web-based, cloud based, mobile based
and web services (API testing)
• Exposure to Java and .Net technologies
• Hands on with Agile and Waterfall project methodologies
• Exposure to root cause analysis
• Strong exposure to writing SQL quieries
EXPERIENCE:
STAG Software Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore (Current designation QA Lead, From August-04 to 08-April-16)
Key responsibilities:
• Analyze business intent, functional requirements, product backlog, refine stories and acceptance criteria
• Conduct research, proof of concepts and demos, design and execute test strategy including systems
tests and UAT
• Perform project estimation, identify demand and capacity planning, task prioritization and allocation to
teams

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• Prepare and execute on-boarding and training plans for the benefit of team members
• Deploy and validate builds
• Provide consultation on rollout activities including reviewing readiness, designing validation plan, and
targeted communication activities.
• Identify and design product flow diagrams and use it as part of the KT and test design
• Design test cases, condition and execute test, maintain RTM, test automation, performance testing
(JMeter), security testing (SQL Injection, URL manipulation) and generate test completion report
• Performing Web application testing, Mobile application testing (Devices with Android & IOS versions),
Web services testing / API testing (SOAPUI), Test automation (Selenium web driver, TestNG & Java)
• Performing tests on Windows and Unix environments
• Collaborate with line of businesses, compliance function, in-house IT value streams and vendors, to
define, validate and customize system requirements
Residential Women’s Polytechnic College, Payyanur, Kerala (Lecturer from September-02 to April-04)
EDUCATIONAL DETAILS:
• MCA from Madurai Kamaraj University (Completed in 2001)
• BSc Mathematics from Calicut University (Completed in 1998)
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Business areas/Domain expertise Healthcare, Financial (Banking), GRC, Payment systems,
Retail, E-Learning, Telecom (BSS/OSS)
Methodologies Agile Scrum, Waterfall
OS Platform Windows 10/7/Vista/XP, IOS, Android, RHE Linux
Project Management Tool Visual studio online, Test Manager, ALM/Quality Center,
TestLink, SpiraTest
Defect Tracking Tool Bugzilla, JIRA, Clear Quest
Automation Tools Selenium Webdriver, TestNG, JMeter, SoapUI, QTP
Application servers JBoss, Apache
Virtualization Tool VMWare Workstation
Database Tool SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL
Markup languages XML, HTML
Languages Java
PROJECTS:
Client Domain Project Overview Role
iCarehealth, Australia Healthcare Enhancement & maintenance project on
Aged care and Medication management.
Scope is to perform End to end system
testing of the web based and the mobile
based applications, browser compatibility
and automating the test scripts with
Selenium web driver/Java.
Lead Consultant
Metricstream Infotech,
India
GRC Process fine tuning and implementation of
best practices for early defect detection, test
effort reduction and producing better
visibility of the test matrices and test reports
for one of the Governance, Risk and
Compliance application
Lead Consultant
Access Intelligence,
UK
Procurement Complete end-to-end validation of an e-
Procurement application. Scope includes
system, integration testing, browser
compatibility, and automating the test
scripts with Selenium web driver/Java.
Lead Consultant

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SoftwareAG Middleware Validating the integration of the SAP system
of a healthcare company with its trading
partners’ system using webmethods
platform. Scope includes the validation of
proper conversion of the IDOC files to EDI
and vice versa.
Tecnotree India Telecom (BSS/OSS) Complete QA process implementation and
validation of the System and System
Integration for a Telecom Customer
Registration and Billing system. Scope
includes system, system integration,
browser compatibility testing and test
automation using the in-house Selenium
test automation framework.
Lead Consultant
Tesco Bank, UK Retail Banking Validation of the Single Sign-on and Single
Customer View modules for the banking
portal. Scope includes system, integration,
API / webservices (SOAPUI), browser
compatibility testing.
Senior Consultant
Verifone, USA Payment System Complete end-to-end validation of web
console for managing the payment
terminals. Scope includes system,
integration & browser compatibility testing.
Lead Consultant
BPCL Telematics Third party validation (Functional &
Performance) and certification of the online
fleet tracking portal. Scope includes system,
system integration, browser compatibility,
field (live tracking) and performance testing
with JMeter tool.
Lead Consultant
MobiApps, India Telematics Complete validation of online vehicle
tracking application. Scope includes system,
system integration, browser compatibility,
field (live tracking) and performance testing
with JMeter tool.
Senior Consultant
Geltec Pharmaceutical Complete validation of the drug
development & inventory management
application based on FDA 21 CFR Part 11
compliance.
Senior Consultant
Tally, India Retail Functional validation of the Retail (POS)
application. Scope includes system,
integration, operating system compatibility
testing.
Consultant
PERSONAL DETAILS:
Marital Status : Married
Sex : Male
Nationality : Indian
Languages known : English, Malayalam, Hindi
Date of birth : 01-03-1978
Contact address : Flat #S2, ‘Pearl Casa’, 4th
Main Munekolala,
Opp. Lakshmi Narayana Temple, Marathahalli, Bangalore – 560037
PASSPORT DETAILS:
Passport No : H2044936.

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Issue Date : 19th January 2009.
Expiry Date : 18th January 2019.
Place of Issue : Kozhikode.