PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• A dedicated result driven professional with 14 years of information technology consulting experience that has extensive Insurance background of Property & Casualty experience which includes Claims, Products and Pricing.
• Worked on a total of 5 Guidewire system implementations for Small, Mid, and Large tier Insurance carriers.
• Experience in defining Integration and SIT (System Integration Testing) strategy and approach by acting as a Program Test Lead for Guidewire Claims Center and Guidewire Policy Center implementations.
• Experience in Guidewire Claims center in creating claims, executing financial transactions across different LOBs like Auto, Property, and Umbrella across Personal and Commercial Lines.
• Experience in testing end to end business critical test flows using Guidewire Claim center JSON Edge API 5.0 by performing financial transactions and other downstream validations the Guidewire Claim center is integrated with.
• Worked on Guidewire Policy 8.3 by creating end to end test process flows with respect to policy creation, policy rewrites, policy renewals, policy cancellations for personal and commercial lines.
• Experience in leading and testing external integrations the Guidewire Claim Center application is interfaced with viz. Hertz, ISO, Mitchel, Safelite, Clue, Taxport etc. Test Planning the integrations and consensus building the test plan with the external vendors.
• Experience in analyzing test automation CI (Continuous Integration) issues in Ruby Cucumber for JSON Edge API calls and Guidewire Claim Center UI functionality using Page Object Model framework.
• Practical understanding and implementation of various automation frameworks like: Keyword, Data driven, Hybrid, Business Process Component (BPC) and Page Object Model
• Designing of Automation Scripts in QTP 10.0 / UFT/QC, SOAP UI 9.x, HP service Test, ITKO LISA, Ruby Cucumber, Watir, Capybara, Selenium Web driver with Ruby and Java as language bindings
• Experience in Business Analysis, Requirements Elicitation, Requirements Gathering and preparation of integrated product backlog requirements between GPA / SPA ( Agent facing ) and Guidewire Policy Center 8.3 for Workers Comp LOB.
• Thorough elaboration of change request story cards for both Guide Wire Policy Center 8.3 and Guide Wire Portal (GPA) on Commercial Auto and Workers Comp LOB's.
• Experience in participation and engagement of large implementations and documentation of project requirements.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Senior Guidewire Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Comparing the product model specification of Commercial Auto and Workers Comp LOB's with out of box sandbox Guide Wire Policy Center 8.3 and documenting the Gaps related to Business rules, Coverages, Conditions, Exclusions and Underwriting Issues / Activities.
• Participated in Guidewire Policy Center product model inception meetings with business and demonstrated Policy center and GPA/SPA workflows to refine and stabilize product model for Confidential business.
• Created requirement's process approach to demonstrate handling of integrated requirements gathering with GPA / SPA (Agent facing) and Guidewire Policy Center 8.3 (Underwriting).
• Executed End to End Strategy and regression testing approach for BAP / BOP Commercial Lines

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Guidewire Claim Center Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Validation and Testing of Guidewire Claims Center JSON Edge API producer web services related to Guidewire Claim Center functionality across different LOBs like Auto and Property.
• Defined System Integration and End to End test strategy and approach for various integrations the Guidewire Claim Center JSON Edge API 5.0 is interfaced with
• Thorough impact analysis of Guidewire Claim Center JSON Edge API 5.0 and its consumers by understanding the nature of each release in the light of entire claims transformation program to define system testing regression cycles to uncover defects propagating into production.
• Utilized Ruby Cucumber 2.4, Selenium Webdriver 3.0, Guidewire Claim Center's JSON Edge 5.0 API and SOAP UI 3.6.1 to validate various claim center Data Definition Objects like Claim DTO, exposure DTO, Payment DTO and Contact DTO

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Guidewire Claim Center Automation Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Developed QTP/ UFT 11.0 UI scripts using Keyword Driven Framework to validate Guidewire Claim Center 7.0 features like exposures, reserves, payments, internal and external integrations viz.: ISO, Clue, Taxport, Medicare, Xactimate and Collect One.
• Presented SIT (System Integrations Testing) / end to end strategy and approach to various stakeholders to in corporate and fit SIT into early sprints / iterations to uncover important integration defects instead of waiting till the end.
• Regular maintenance of test automation scripts by consistently running the scripts against each release and analysing the failures to find application level defects and logging them against test automation.

Confidential, Cleveland, OH

Guidewire Program Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Preparation and Review of Guidewire Claims Center SIT Test Cases for personal and commercial Lines of Business.
• Performed Test Assessment for the entire Guidewire Claims Center program transformation and its related projects by conducting interviews / meetings with various stakeholders to identify the gaps, level and depth of end to end testing conducted.
• Involved in the preparation of Program Level Guidewire Claims Center Integration plan by breaking the integrations into components and identifying what components are ready / not ready to get a clear timeline visibility for the entire program across all the impact projects
• Preparation of integrated Test cases related to Thunderhead, Bravo, NIMO, FileNet and Guidewire Claims center

Confidential, Madison, WI

Guidewire System Integration Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to layout SIT Test Strategy & Approach by focusing on Guidewire Policy center releases.
• Preparation of Guidewire Policy Creation, Renewals, Rewrite, Cancellation test process flows and converting them into SIT test cases.
• Participating in Release Planning to identify and prioritize the Test related PBIs (Product Backlog Items) / User Stories and providing high level estimates in story points.
• Interfacing with Business team / Dev leads / Business Analysts across the integration systems to fine tune the testing processes and removal of duplicate effort.
• Defined the approach and executed the Defect Management process for System Integration Testing.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Onshore QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Coordination of 5 - 10 Offshore and Onshore resources by providing them business requirements from Onshore.
• Conducted automation test planning and technical feasibility analysis across applications and deciding an automation tool and the test case scope for automation development.
• Decision making in deciding the best test automation framework for better Reusability and ROI.
• Involved in developing ETL (Extract Transform Load) testing strategy and implementing best practices to the client that will cut the regression cycle time by 30 %.

Confidential

Test Data Lead

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of Statement of Work (SOW), Test Plan and Test Strategy in fixed price procurement.
• Collected and Coordinated Synthetic test data for different banking and financial applications by ensuring the data does not contain the production clues.
• Review of synthetic test data generated using Data maker tool and inserting the data into various environments using QTP
• Modifying the QTP scripts to load the test data into environments in a speedy manner.
• Lead 8-10 member project team to design, develop, and implement QA automation framework and development of automation test scripts.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

SOA Test and Automation Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Effort Estimation and ROI Analysis for automation of SOA webservices.
• Preparation of Automation & SOA Test Strategy to cut the cycle time with better quality deliverables.
• Provided Technical Leadership and direction to test team for understanding SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) test automation business processes, web services testing by ensuring that an appropriate level of application quality was maintained at all times.
• Defined Test strategy and Test plan for integration layer (BIL).
• Evaluating various tools for automation and SOA webservices across various technology stacks
• Lead 10 - 15 testing team members and coordinated 5 development resources across onshore and offshore.

Confidential

Automation Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Conducted Business and Technical Feasibility Analysis across various applications for test automation selection with the help of 10 - 15 onshore / offshore teams.
• Calculated ROI Analysis to derive the Break even and Pay back options related to automation benefit to client for better decision making.
• Defining automation test strategies and Feasibility Analysis.
• Technical consultation with different practices in solving complex automation problems.
• Implemented procedures for making QA more productive:

Confidential

QA Test Lead (Manual / Automation)

Responsibilities:

• Laid out a three-year Road Map to improve test automation process by identifying gaps across various clients’ applications.
• Worked as a core automation test specialist in improving Automation Test Center of Excellence processes.
• Collaborating the project issues with the development team and test team and solving them.
• Preparation of testing effort estimation in size and cost for test development and test execution
• Identified Reusable Business Process Components with the help of manual test cases and converted the components into test automation tool and framework understandable language.
• Taken over projects in critical risk and turned around to Green in quick time.