SUMMARY:

• Responsible for QA lead testing activities on a Guidewire PolicyCenter implementation for Personal Lines of business for multiple state rollout project
• Worked as a Business Data Analyst for a New Implementation called UBI
• Conducted Root - Cause Analysis, Feasibility Study and GAP Analysis to check the compatibility of the legacy system with the new requirements.
• Illustrated BRD, Use Cases, User Stories, Sequence Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams.
• Involved in Project Planning, execution and monitoring, estimation, Project schedules, Test Plan Preparation, Metrics Collection, Status Reporting, resource plans, risks, issues, Change Management and Release Management Process, Co-coordinating and Decision Making.
• Ensure defects are being worked effectively and coordinating with all defect owners, reporter and BA to meet the SLA
• Identifying and implementing the process improvement for different areas in testing lifecycle.
• Offshore coordination which includes allocating task and following up on the same
• Using the tools such as Guidewire PolicyCenter & BillingCenter, HP Quality Centre 9.2, QTP8.2, SOAP UI, Hermes,Share point, Splunk, MS Office, Visio
• Highly dedicated and self-motivated professional with 10 years of IT Experience which includes 8.5 years of testing (Manual) and Automation(3 Years) on insurance (Life, Auto), and Telecom banking application.
• 3 years of Experience in Business and data analysis
• More than 6 years of experience in testing Auto Insurance using Guidewire policycenter
• 2 year of experience in testing Confidential &T applications on telecom domain
• 1 year of experience in central print testing and Exigen policy administration tool
• 2 years of experience in testing web application and Web services using SOAP UI.
• Experience as a Scrum Master in Agile projects
• Extensive experience Water fall model, Agile, STLC, Defect Life cycle and easily adaptable to any other customized methodologies.
• Experience in developing Business requirement document (BRD), Functional Requirement Specification (FRS), Software Requirement Specification (SRS) and Use Case Specification.
• Experience in writing queries in SQL to assist in Database related testing
• Experienced in preparing Excel Macro, Black Box testing, Testing metrics, Defect coordination, Risk Management, Problem Solving Skills, Escalation process, coordinating status meetings, Business meetings, Alert meetings, handling team, internal and external Audits
• Involved in identify the test case for automation, running/modifying the regression automation test scripts using DevTest and Selenium
• Consulting the pain areas in testing and proving solution and implementing the process improvement
• Facilitating scrum activities including Sprint Planning, retrospectives and daily standup

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools: Guidewire PolicyCenter & BillingCenter HP Quality Centre 9.2, QTP 8.2, SOAP UI, Test Link, Share point, Splunk, MS Office, Visio, Hermes

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Partnered with customers throughout the enterprise/department to analyze research and information needs to Implement UBI Functionality in Policy Center
• Designed and Developed algorithms, tables and rating logic for Personal Auto Premium writing and also performed testing within Guidewire for Rate validation.
• Developed the business requirements by translating the needs, expectations, constraints and interfaces into a format understandable to both clients and technical teams.
• Write User stories to develop the new Guidewire system using the business logic from the product model.
• Performed rules extraction from Expert system, Databases to create new Business rules in Guidewire policy center.
• Derived requirements that result from architectural/design decisions.
• Prepared and presented user story, Business Requirement Document (BRD), System Requirement Specification (SRS) and Functional Requirement Document (FRD) and involved in sign-off process.
• Work with GOSU developers/Web developers to implement the business rules and web services for integration in Guidewire.
• Maintained traceability from requirements through testing.
• Collaborated with testing lead to develop requirements-based testing considerations and strategies that will validate resolution of the business problem and realization of business requirements.

Confidential

Project Lead - Policy Center state Rollout

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing BRD, HLD, LLD, involving in estimation, define, allocate, and monitor task, creating/reviewing test plan, test strategy, test scenarios, test cases, Execution and defect tract, preparing/reviewing test summary report, evident of test.
• Coordination with other Test Leads towards the completion of Deliverables
• Creating Project Management Deliverables such as Project schedules, Project Status reports, resource plans, risks, issues, dependency.
• Send Daily/Weekly/Monthly Status Report to Clients Managers and Leads.
• Prioritize the task, implement Risk based testing in execution, resolving the issues
• Involved in Functional testing, regression testing, development integration testing, and Web service testing using Soap UI, Mobile testing, Hermes, Exploratory testing, integration testing and Gray box testing.
• Ensuring the team execution and delivery the committed sprint work

Confidential

Team Lead- Central print documents and Defect Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Functional Requirement from the User Story.
• Performing tests using Manual Testing Technique.
• Performed a role as defect coordinator and
• Leading a documents team of 15 member.
• Discuss the Test Acceptance Criteria with BAs to determine any additional requirements for testing.
• Run the Test Acceptance Criteria through Tech. leads to identify Development-Testing gaps and get sign-off.
• Create and Execute feature test cases/scripts in QC and perform Requirement traceability in QC Test Plan module.
• Document feature test results in QC Test Lab module.
• Worked as a regression automation tester.
• Involved in various Testing like Regression testing, System Testing, Role Based Testing and Automation Testing.
• Prepared DSR, WSR, Test Summary Report and Monthly dashboard for the team.
• ed Best Techie for the Quarter

Confidential

System Tester

Responsibilities:

• Prepared requirement traceability matrix and created test scenarios based on requirements
• Prepared test plan and strategy based on the requirement
• Design & execution of test cases
• Prepared test coverage and test schedule documents
• Preparation of daily and weekly status report
• Defect capture, reporting and follow up to ensure high quality applications
• Planned KT activities for new talents joining into the team
• Planned activities for team building and knowledge enhancement and management within the team

Confidential

System Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing BRD, HLD, LLD, involving in estimation(TCP), define, allocate, monitor task, creating/reviewing test plan, test strategy, test scenarios, test cases, Execution and defect tract, preparing/reviewing test summary report, evident of test, .
• Coordinate with onshore Lead through daily touch point calls in understanding release needs, test planning, and status update and to resolve any issues.
• Coordinate with offshore team to prioritize the task, implement Risk based testing in execution, resolving the issues
• Involved in Functional testing, regression testing, development integration testing, batch testing, Mobile testing, exploratory testing, integration testing and Gray box testing.
• Responsible for the quality and on-time delivery of one or more projects under supervision.
• Tracking the defects till closure with necessary coordination with development team.
• Providing value adds in process and application to reduce the manual effort.