SUMMARY

• Testing professional who has strong passion for and belief in software testing and Test Innovation
• Guidewire Policy Center experience
• Working experience in Manual Testing, Automation Testing, Specialized Data Warehouse Testing (ETL/BI) and Manual Mainframes Testing
• Good knowledge and working experience in Insurance domain
• Working experience in Mainframes batch processing and CICS. Batch processing includes job setup in test region by editing of JCLs, PROCs, Control Cards etc. and debugging in case of failures
• Working experience wif relational databases such as Oracle 11g/10g and DB2
• Automation experience in LISA
• Working experience in validating various reports generated out of Business Objects
• Pleasant and flexible in nature wif strong Leadership skills
• Significant experience in developing strong and sustaining work relationships wif clients, Project management team, Development Team, Testing team, IT Operations and support team, Vendors and other stakeholders
• Good interpersonal skills, commitment, result oriented, smart working wif a quest and zeal to learn and constantly improve
• Strong problem solving & technical skills coupled wif confident decision making for enabling effective solutions
• Knowledge Management wifin teh projects and providing knowledge transfer to other team members. Created various trackers like knowledge matrix, Job Matrix and also many useful documents

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: JCL, HTML, Excel Macros using VB script, C and C++

Automation Tools: LISA

Other Tools/Applications: WinSQL, JIRA, SharePoint web,Spufi,Quality Center 10.0, Rational Clear Quest, Clear Case, CuteFTP, TestPartner, SoapUI, Bytescribe, DocShuttle Transcriptionist, Rally, IE8, IE11, MS Office, Dictaphone, Lisa, MTM, Guidewire PC, Integrated Claim System

Database: DB2, Oracle (SQL), Using File as DB in MS Acces

Web Technologies: JBOSS

Version Control Tools: Endevor, Changeman

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

QA Test Lead

Confidential, WI

Responsibilities:

• Core responsibility as a senior claims Test Lead
• End to End testing from Policy Center to claims system till DB validation for claims data
• Review of Business requirement documents and Test estimations
• Working closely wif BAs, SMEs and Dev team to ensure proper Testing scope, Timelines adherence and Quality deliverables
• Responsible for Test Deliverables like Test Estimates, Test Plan & Strategy, Test Cases, Traceability Matrix, Test Data, Test Execution, Defect Management and Test Reporting
• Analysis of teh impact on E2E system and come up wif an efficient Regression Plan and working wif Automation team on automation feasibility analysis and deriving teh automation scope
• Team Coordination, Work allocation and Review activities on a daily basis
• Test execution as and when needed which includes Smoke, Functional, Application Integration Testing, System Integration Testing wif other systems andRegression testing of teh application
• Working wif Development team in finding teh root cause of teh issue and helping them in recreating and troubleshooting teh issue and sometimes explaining them teh business context and system processing
• Preparing Reusable Queries
• Tracking and Reporting of project status, raising risks, Conducting meetings, providing sign - offs
• Establishing teh processes like Configuration Management and Knowledge management which is beyond teh client’s expectation
• Provide support to Business Users during UAT wif respect to their testing, data setup and defect triage
• Providing production support and helping in prioritization of existing production defects for fixing them in upcoming releases
• Developed New scripts in LISA work station
• Worked on LISA Reports configuring Staging Doc, Test SuiteGuidewire Policy Center Implementation
• Worked mainly in claims area
• Various policy transactions using Guidewire-Policy Center for various business rules defined in teh Product Model
• Created claims using claims system and validating various business scenarios for teh policies created in PC
• Validating different layers of DB for teh claims data created above and validating reports generated out of Business Analytics

Confidential

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Analysis for various releases and having group discussion wif entire team
• Going through Design Documents and understanding them for better clarity of teh code changes
• Team Coordination, Work allocation, Review activities
• Preparation and review of Test Strategy, Test Scenarios, Test plans andTest Cases
• Identification of Regression needs based on impacted areas of teh system
• Taking sign off from various stakeholders for various test deliverables
• Vital role in Job setup in Test region for batch processing which includes teh editing of teh JCLs, PROCs etc.
• Test execution which includes Smoke, Functional andRegression testing of teh application
• Guiding teh team and Reviewing their deliverables
• Tracking and reporting teh status of project and raising risks if any
• Defect management which includes discussing wif appropriate teams and tracking them to closure

Confidential

Test Lead, Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Analysis for various releases in SPARKS, Going through Design Documents and understanding them for better clarity of teh code changes
• Effort Estimation
• Preparation and review of Test plans, Test Scenarios andTest Cases
• Played vital role in Job setup in Test region for batch processing which includes teh editing of teh JCLs, PROCs etc.
• Test execution which includes Smoke, Functional andRegression testing of teh application
• Defect Management and tracking them to closure
• Giving support to teh UAT team in their execution
• Maintenance of different project level documents in Clear Case
• Inclusion of quality processes defined by teh client such as ConfigurationManagement, Defect Prevention and Knowledge Managementwifin teh project Major Achievements and Appreciations
• Received appreciation from Cognizant Automation team for my support in designing their automation scripts for FTM project
• Won several appreciations directly from Client and different stakeholders for teh tremendous effort
• Won teh INSTA Award for outstanding performance
• Received an appreciation for saving time and efforts in project by suggesting automation feasibility for testing teh 18 web apps login wif various users in AmFam
• Received an appreciation by business client for supporting them in security testing
• Got Relative rating 1+ for my exceptional performanceCertification Details
• QSIT Software Testing Certification
• IVS Technical Foundation Certification - Infosys internal
• IVS Technology 101 - Mainframe 101 - Infosys internal
• Fundamentals of Insurance - Infosys internal