OBJECTIVE:

To excel with recognition as the Test Manager and adhere to an employer for a long term to learn, deliver, research and be a key part for employer’s growth

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• Over 8 years technical experience with IT industry in both insurance and Confidential domains and 7+ years of techno - functional experience in Confidential Product Testing in ClaimCenter, PolicyCenter, BillingCenter Implementation.
• At present, leading the Message Broker Testing team at onshore for a prestigious client in UK who is implementing Claimcenter and in the verge of binding for PolicyCenter Implementation.
• Proficient Knowledge, Experience and Expertise in Confidential Insurance Products has made me lead the testing team both at Offshore & Onsite for the past 4 years. Technically sound knowledge in Property & Liability - Policy and Claims, Personal Insurance and Commercial Insurance
• Good Experience in preparing the Test Plan & Test Strategy Document. Expericed Defect Manager and host the Defect management meetings on daily basis during SIT phase.
• Worked on Interface - ClaimCenter Integration Adapter for ClaimCenter, HP Quality Center v10, HP Application Lifecycle Management v11, Rally, Jira, IBM Rationale Clear Quest, IBM Rationale Requisite Pro, RQM, DB Visualizer, Toad, Soap UI, iTKO Lisa, Win SCP, IBM Rationale RQM, JIRA and Putty. Possess knowledge to work on SQL Server 2000, Oracle 9i, Visual Studio 2005/2008 and Sybase12
• ISTQB/BCS Certified Tester (Foundation level), HP Certified Professional in M46 Application Lifecycle Management 11.x Software, Oracle Certified Professional in Introduction to Oracle 9i: SQL, IBM Certified Professional in DB2 Fundamentals.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Product: Confidential PolicyCenter 8.0, Confidential ClaimCenter 8.0, FACETS

Programming Languages: PL/SQL, XML,SOA

RDBMS: Oracle 9i, DB2, Sybase 12

Configuration Management tools: CVS, IBM Clear Quest, IBM Rationale Requisite Pro,Tortoise SVN,Rally

Application Testing Tools: SOAP UI & iTKO LISA

Testing Management tools: HP Quality Center, HP ALM 11.x,IBM Rational Quality Manager, JIRA

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE:

Senior Test Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• The single member to handle rating throughout sprints and SIT including Ratabase validator validations
• Has been responsible for all the SIT (BPF) test cases delivered to onsite for all the stories across streams
• Implemented OATS tool and helped the team generate test cases for complex stories involving multiple policy types, payment instruments,states and LOBs
• Defect co-ordinator from offshore and responsible for any reject defects that falls in offshore bucket
• Has been a part of defect triage meeting on daily basis
• Proven success in Project Management activities with demonstrated abilities in Software testing (Functional, System, Regression, Integration, System Integration Testing).
• Acting as a single point of contact for the clients during the various testing phases.
• Ensure deliverables are on schedule while meeting quality goals.
• Good exposure in Quality Assurance: CMMI Gap analysis.
• Conduct s for the new joiners on Insurance and Confidential product
• Have logged about 10-15 defects that has come up as a CR in the later point of time which is well appreciated by the EY offshore management.

Test Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead a 4 member offshore team, co-ordinating with clients,onsite team and offshore team
• Prepared POC for the Data migration testing approach proposed by Offshore
• Validating the queries written by the offshore team and educating the team on efficient querying.
• Generating the metrics for the team for every Sprint
• Providing Estimates and negotiating with the client for the planned hours
• Holding ownership of the Data migration testing been done at offshore

Test Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Analysis and provide inputs to the team members on handling the integration points and finalise the estimates for the Sprints
• Organising Brainstorming sessions with both onshore and offshore resources in which the integrations are discussed in detail and narrow down to specific test scenarios
• The test scenarios are created in the client templates and two rounds of review done at the offshore itself to ensure quality delivarable from our side
• Involved in both peer review and lead review and the review logs are maintained in the client’s sharepath - the HUB
• On approval of Test scenarios from onsite, the test cases are prepared and uploaded to the RQM
• Test Data Mining from Mainframe Databases and creating mock up test data which facilitates 100% test coverage
• Defect Logging, Defect Tracking and Defect Closure in JIRA and also Co-ordinating with the onshore team on the Rally tasks,Clarifications on requirements and business scenarios
• Conducting cross-stream sessions with configuration team,integration development teams and data migration teams which is much needed for the Agile environment
• Involved in the audit processes and make sure that there are no NCs on the testing process related documents
• Webserive and BB testing of DuckCreek - The rating machine and other integration points include PMBT,ISC,MVPQ etc.which are trhe third policy vendors of ICBC and the internal services are also being tested like Policy search, Vehicle search etc

Product Specialist - Testing

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Analysis and providing Test Estimation for complete testing life cycle of the Integration with Confidential ClaimCenter for every iteration
• Preparation of Test Cases from raw documents like Use Case Documents and Data Mapping Requirements
• Uploading the Test Suites on Quality Center/ALM and mapping them with appropriate requirements from the Requisite Pro
• Test Data Design in ClaimCenter and Test Execution with all the necessary justifying documents both on the Claimcenter UI using CIA Page/Support Page and with the inbound & outbound files for the third part applicaitons
• Defect Logging, Defect Tracking,Defect Retesting after the fix and Defect Closure in the QC/ALM and co-ordinating with the Dev team and BA’s for the updates about the deployment builds
• Reporting Test Results to Client during Daily status meeting and Attending all module walk through meetings with Business Analysts, System Analysts, Developers and QA client counterpart
• Providing UAT support by taking ownership of the OATS implementation which gives optimised test combinations
• Involved in the automation of test execution using iTKo Lisa tool which starts with the uploading of test cases and test data into it, configuring the test environment in the tool and finally extrating the test reports

Programmer Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in design phase of EDICON tool and Unit Testing, Test case preparation and test logs for the application
• Involved in the requirement analysis, design, coding, deployment, unit testing and maintenance phases of the project
• Involved in preparing Estimation, Functional Design Document and Technical design document and Design of Extensions and Interfaces
• Involved in remediating Extensions using .NET framework 3.5 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 for Facets 471 Upgrade changes
• Development of interfaces using Oracle 9i PL/SQL statements with the Stored Procedures, Functions, Triggers, Materialized views, Dynamic SQL, XML and ODS Tables and also involved in the developing the Unit Test Cases and Unit Test Logs for the project
• Involved in Oracle Migration, migrating the Sybase stored procedures to Oracle as part of EAGLE-UBH