Experience

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  Lender Price

  • United States
  • Software Development
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Scrum Master & Program Release Manager

    • May 2018 - Present

    Doing multiple roles as SM, RM and QA Manager

  • Quality Assurance Manager

    • May 2018 - Present

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  Cognizant Technology Solutions

  • Senior Test Analyst

    • Oct 2013 - May 2018

    Clients: Liberty Mutual Insurance (MUFG), One West Bank (now CIT), Union Bank (MUFG), PNC Bank and Freddie Mac across different locations in the USACSTE Certified Senior Test Analyst/Lead in Cognizant, involved in Web-Based testing and testing of Products such as TPP, PSS, Appian Products, BKFS’s Empower Loan Origination System and Guidewire ClaimCenter. Extensive knowledge in Insurance and Banking & Financial services domains and ready to take up opportunities across new domainsHave participated in preparing Project Proposal, Scoping and Estimation, Resource and Project Planning and tracking, Project Risks Management, Project Delivery. Has led a team of 20+ people including functional and automation teams across US and India. Have Extensive knowledge on Loan Origination System Empower by BKFS for 2.5 years. Handled Defect management/Triage calls and Requirement to Defect bidirectional traceability using HP ALM, Quality Center tools. Has immense experience in effective Metrics Management, Knowledge Management, and Configuration Management. Much efficiently handling business and multi-vendor communication. Acting as a Defect Triage manager for the multiple releases in projects worked Handled multiple regulatory projects concurrently within Consumer Portfolio in the role of Test Lead/Manager since 2013 to the business team. Control documents testing as a part of compliance related requirements and managing loan origination systems and interfaces. Proficient in requirements analysis, designing test scenarios & cases, test execution & status reporting, responsible for quality test deliverables & effective defect prevention and Reports.Has worked on projects with frequent requirement changes and deployments and worked on a mix of Agile and Waterfall model for the project modules based on the necessity. Minimal knowledge transfer from Business yet has successfully completed multiple releases and with onshore/offshore model experience for 11+ years

  • Test Analyst

    • Jan 2010 - Sep 2013

    Client: Liberty Mutual Insurance Group at both India and New HampshireHas worked as a scrum master for agile projects. Worked on Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tool set up and metadata definition. Has extensive knowledge on Requirement Analysis and thus walkthrough with the business for review and sign off. Involved in Preparation of Resource Plan (in excel) and Project Plan (in Microsoft Project Planner) along with Test Design and Execution Preparation, Review and Rework and taking till Sign Off. Worked on estimation for multiple releases with multiple vendors and providing metrics on requirement, design and execution phases of the project. Has good experience in working with UAT team on execution and data setup and coordination for defects and tracking till closure. Lead a team of 22+ including both onshore and offshore Automation: Have worked on providing Feasibility Analysis for the project and Automation Script Creation, framework changes, Script Modification and De-bugging using Quick Test Pro (QTP). Has fair knowledge on Test Script Execution, Automation script maintenance and Documenting the knowledge for maintaining the scripts. Involved in Report preparation and closure activities to the management and preparing reusable functions which could be used across other automation projectsHas immense knowledge on P&C, Auto and Life Insurance along with Products Testing and Loan Origination Processes

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  Infosys

  • Mysuru Area, India

  • Test Engineer

    • Aug 2006 - Dec 2009
    • Mysuru Area, India

    Client: ABN AMRO Bank Have good experience in CICS Mainframe and Web-based testing and Guidewire Claim Center product. Involved in preparation and review/rework of Requirement Traceability Matrix, Test Plan, Test Scenarios, and Test Scripts, Test execution and daily status reporting and Defect management using HP Quality Center. Analyzed and proactively identified the root cause of environmental issues faced during the course of test execution. Have proposed solution to Infrastructure vendor to help reduce resolution time thus improving overall health of the project. Prepared Test Closure report and Gap Analysis report providing suggestions for improvement. Documented knowledge/learning from the project for effective knowledge managementTrained & mentored team members for Knowledge Management, Defect Prevention, Configuration Management. Also Preparation of Master Test Plan and Detailed Test Plan along with Logical scenarios and physical test cases for the project modulesHave been handling and tracking the test data tampering and High Environmental downtime. Defect fixes were leading to many new defects and hence ensuring the product to be defect-free was a huge challenge. Multiple deployments and tracking and vast set of supporting applications used for test data set up and executionProvided continuous Zero BAT (Business Acceptance Test) and Production defects in past 4 releases. Making the Customer Delighted thus earning 4.2 score out of 5 topping 2nd in ABN AMRO. Automating “Defects Report with Dashboard” and “Execution Status Tracker” and they were being used across most of the teams in ABN AMRO.