Test_Engineer
- 1. Mahesh Chintala Email:chintalamahesh@hotmail.com Phone: +91-9600117585 Career Objective: To seek a challenging environment that encourages condition for learning and stimulates personal and professional growth and provides exposure to new ideas. To build and lead a team which will be an example for others and to exceed all benchmarks till date in Software testing and Quality Assurance. Professional Summary: Around 4.10 Years of Experience in Manual Testing/Functional Testing and in Automation Testing (Selenium), Guidewire Tool testing 4.9 years of experience in Insurance Domain Experience in testing web applications across different Browser combinations and windows based applications built on Java and Oracle Experience in using Quality Center (HP-ALM) for managing testing activities Excellent knowledge in Software Testing Levels, Bug Life Cycle, Testing Life Cycle Proficient in designing the testing artifacts like Test cases, Test Reports, Test Summary Reports and maintaining them in shared repository Expert in Reviewing and Execution of Test Cases/scenarios Good experience in conducting Black Box Testing - Smoke, User Interface, System, Integration and Regression Testing Good judgment and communication skills for Reporting and prioritizing software bugs Completed Cognizant internal certifications in ISTQB, Software Testing and Selenium Practitioner Self-starter and comfortable in high intensity and challenging work environment Good interpersonal skills, commitment, result oriented, hard working with a quest and zeal to learn new technologies and undertake challenging tasks Involved in tracking Enterprise IT and Best in Class metrics for my LOB Involved in all activities related to Process, Data quality issues, Audit for Project ensuring minimal non compliance or observation Hands on experience in running the QTP scripts Experience in automating Web based applications using Selenium WebDriver Having an experience in Webservice Testing using SoapUI Tool Good exposure to Guidewire tool Technical Skills: Operating System Windows 98/XP/2000 Testing Tools Quality Center (HP-ALM) Programming Languages C, Core Java, VB Scripting (basics) MS Office Tools Excel, PowerPoint, Word Database SQL using TOAD Automation Tool Selenium WebDriver Insurance Tool Guidewire Other Tools FTP pro, Winscp Webservice SoapUI
- 2. Project Experience Organization: Cognizant Technology Solutions Pvt Ltd. Project Details: 1 Title GB – Maintenance Client The Hartford, Connecticut, USA Location Chennai, India Domain Life Insurance Operating System Windows XP/2000 Tools Quality center (HP-ALM), QTP, Selenium WebDriver, Putty, FTP pro, Toad Team Size 20 Role Team Lead for Customer Activation Value Chain Period July 2010 – Mar 2015 Project Objective HLI-GBD-Maintenance project focuses on the Group Insurance for the Insurance Policies in the account. Project Description This project deals with the maintenance changes that happen in Group Benefits applications. Applications: Case Management: Case Management is an application designed to capture and manage complete information about Group Life and Disability policy related cases after they have been sold. This includes creation of new cases and also performing modifications to existing cases. In general the complete information about an insured is collectively referred to as a ‘Case’. The primary functionality of the Case Management system is to create and manage these cases. The major benefit of Case Management application is that it acts as a single consolidated repository of all case related information and provides single point access for the same. Booklets: Group Benefits Division (GBD) of Hartford Life presently sells Life, Disability and Stand Alone ADD policies. For the policies sold by the Hartford, the insured is issued a ‘Booklet’ detailing the Coverage provided, the classes to which it is applicable, the Provisions provided, the exclusions, general and other related information Pulse (Premier Underwriting Leading to Service Excellence): PULSE is a medical underwriting application which will help the Medical Underwriters to assess the degree of individual medical risks for the enrollees that require evidence of insurability. The underwriters enter application details manually into PULSE application. PULSE has lots of medical and eligibility rules running behind, which will create corresponding outcomes to help the underwriter to decide whether to Approve/Decline/Withdrawn/Order Requirements/Incomplete take any other action on the application. Letters also will be generated depending on the outcome and sent to customers/insurers. The user can also enter data online to PULSE, using third party application called BRIX through WEB Services.
- 3. Project Details: 2 Title ST Guidewire & ST Pricing Client Direct Line Group, Bromley, UK Location Chennai, India Domain P&C Insurance Tools Guidewire, Quality center (HP-ALM), Winscp Team Size 8 Role Team Lead Period Apr 2015 – till date Project Objective Direct Line Group project focuses on Property & Casualty Insurance and mostly for Motor Insurance. Project Description This project deals with the Motor Insurance which is working on the Guidewire tool. Guidewire is a third party tool built in for Policy Creation, Claim Creation and Billing Center. ST Guidewire project focuses on the System Testing of the Guidewire tool for Policy Creation. In Guidewire Policy Center, project scope is to test the system whether the tool is working as per the requirement or not. ST Pricing project focuses on the RADAR server where the data will flow from Guidewire to RADAR by touching many interfaces. The scope of the project is to test the request of response of enriched xmls which is generating by RADAR to make sure the functionality of RADAR is meeting the requirements. Role: Value Chain Lead & Application Lead Responsibilities: Acting as a Value Chain (Customer Activation) Lead among 4 Value Chains Test Lead for Case Management, Booklets & Pulse applications Involve in the End to End planning of each release starting with Test estimation till Test closure Understand the risk and issues involved with each release and communicate the same pro actively to all the internal & external stake holders on a timely basis Understand the application testing requirements and to prepare test plan & test strategy Create test specifications document detailing the high level scenarios as per approved requirements Finding the requirement defects in early phase during Requirement Analysis which might miss from BA or Client Prioritizing my testing work from high to low priority and plan to work accordingly. Analyzing all associated risks before prioritizing the work Analyzing during RA phase about the feasibility of automation Ensure complete customer focus in deliveries including managing requirements, reviews, obtaining acceptance plans and feedbacks Communicating project status to onsite senior management and all stakeholders on daily/weekly/monthly basis As a Value Chain Lead attending End to End Calls with Client on Bi-weekly to give the updates (ongoing and upcoming) of all application to highlight the risk (if any)
- 4. To ensure maximum test coverage for the application tested & to share best testing practices, experience with the team Verifying & analyzing the change request which is under quality control verification Understanding the client requirements by studying functional document Prepared Test scenario and Test case document as per the requirements and to provide walk through to the business team to ensure 100% test coverage Co-ordinate and participate in the peer review of test cases Recording & maintaining the Test results and defects in Quality Centre (HP-ALM) on a daily basis Log and track defects using QC (HP-ALM), and coordination with development teams till defect closure Team Co-ordination and Status Tracking & Reporting Prepare testing metrics report after each phase of testing Conducting KT sessions to team members on new application functionalities Document the best practices & lessons learnt, for continuous improvement at the end of each release Point of contact to prepare OLA document for every month Playing as a Team Member in Metrics team where EIT, MOR, MOM, RSI will be prepared for every month Major Initiatives Zurich Auto load: The Hartford acquired a big deal by taking over the statutory disability cases from Zurich. The first hurdle involved with this procurement was to load all the cases of Zurich into Hartford system, issuing of certificates to the policy holders. In order to make this process a smooth one the Zurich Auto load was introduced. Through this initiative the cases were auto loaded into Hartford’s Case Management system using backend procedures. This project was highly business critical considering the stringent timelines & huge number of cases close to 60,000 to be loaded. Acted as a single point of contact from offshore for testing during the Zurich Auto load. Involved in end to end planning of the initiative from Test estimation till Test Closure. Successfully tested the end to end flow of cases in all upstream & downstream applications. Booklets WAL: There were close to 368 items related to Compliance rules & regulations pertaining to state laws that had to be incorporated in The Hartford’s Booklet being issued to the employers. This had to be completed over a short span of 6 months. The 360+ items were brought to closure by adapting agile methodology. This project involved a team of 6 testers working closely with the Business analysts, developers. Acted as a Point of Contact for the team of 6 members. Involved in schedule planning, provided KT to the new members, Involved in peer review, Worked closely with the developers & BA to understand the requirements, Reported the issues/risks in a timely manner & successfully brought the 368 items to closure.
- 5. Appreciations: Received Certificate of Recognition for Best Performance in June 2011 Received Certificate of Appreciation for successful completion of “Booklets WAL” initiative. Received appreciations from client for on time delivery with high quality. Education: Completed B.Tech (CSE) from Sri Venkateswara University College of Engineering, Tirupathi (Andhra Pradesh) in 2010 with 65.06% Completed Diploma in Computer Science from Govt. Institute of Post Diploma Courses in Engineering & Technology Tirupathi (Andhra Pradesh) in 2006 with 73.79% 10th (SSC) from Government Municipal High School, Nellore (Andhra Pradesh) in 2003 with 80% Personal Details: FATHERS NAME : C.Panduranga Chetty DATE OF BIRTH : 24-08-1987 MARITAL STATUS : Single LANGUAGES KNOWN : English, Hindi, Telugu and Tamil Declaration: I declare that the information given above is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. PLACE: Chennai Mahesh Ch
- 6. Appreciations: Received Certificate of Recognition for Best Performance in June 2011 Received Certificate of Appreciation for successful completion of “Booklets WAL” initiative. Received appreciations from client for on time delivery with high quality. Education: Completed B.Tech (CSE) from Sri Venkateswara University College of Engineering, Tirupathi (Andhra Pradesh) in 2010 with 65.06% Completed Diploma in Computer Science from Govt. Institute of Post Diploma Courses in Engineering & Technology Tirupathi (Andhra Pradesh) in 2006 with 73.79% 10th (SSC) from Government Municipal High School, Nellore (Andhra Pradesh) in 2003 with 80% Personal Details: FATHERS NAME : C.Panduranga Chetty DATE OF BIRTH : 24-08-1987 MARITAL STATUS : Single LANGUAGES KNOWN : English, Hindi, Telugu and Tamil Declaration: I declare that the information given above is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. PLACE: Chennai Mahesh Ch