Yugandhar Venigalla

ablfdq@r.postjobfree.com

863-***-****

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SUMMARY:

. Over 10+ years of Professional experience in Software Quality

Assurance Methodologies and Testing with extensive experience in

performing Manual and Automation Testing.

. Experience in testing Healthcare, Insurance and Client-Server

applications on different environments.

. Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and QA

Methodologies.

. Expertise in Testing Mainframe Applications involving COBOL, DB2,

CICS, JCL, QMF, FILE-AID and MVS.

. Expertise in all HIPAA transactions (837I/P, 835, 270/271, 276/277,

834 and 278) and Code Sets experience. using Diamond tool.

. Having Experience in standards like ISO, CMM, RUP, EDI, HIPAA, HL7

standards.

. Expertise in testing of .NET and J2EE environments.

. Strong experience in developing Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test

cases using requirements and design documents while specifying Testing

Overview, Approach, Strategy, Scope, Roles and Responsibilities.

. Developed Test Cases and scripts for different HIPAA EDI ASC X12

Message Formats.

. Expertise in Health Care Epic Products like Cadence, Resolute, ADT,

RCSI, Epic Care and Prelude.

. Experienced in software analysis, Requirements Management, Quality

Assurance, Modeling, Configuration Management and Change Management.

. Extensive Experience in Installing and Configuring of Mercury Testing

Tools (Win Runner, Load Runner, QTP, Quality Center and Test Director)

and Rational Suite (Requisite Pro, Robot, Test Manager, Clear Quest

and Clear Case), Selenium and Diamond

. Involved in Rational Unified Process (RUP) to develop iterative and

detailed project management plans and schedules.

. Expertise in performing different types of Testing: White-Box Testing,

Black-box Testing, Load, Integration, System, Functional, Stress,

Volume, Performance, UAT and Regression Testing.

. Good understanding of RDBMS (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 and DB2/400) &

UNIX shell scripts.

. Experience in Writing SQL Stored Procedures and Triggers for Business

applications to validate data

. Wrote Documentation including an Installation and User guide,

customized training presentations, technical specifications

customizing testing tool which has been used in the projects, input

forms for business users and various ancillary maintenance documents.

. Capable of working as an individual and also as a part of team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems : MS-DOS, UNIX, MVS, OS/400, Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP

and Linux

Languages : C, C++, COBOL, JCL, PERL, JAVA, SQL, PL/SQL, T-SQL,

Shell Scripting and TSL.

RDBMS : Oracle 8/8i/9i, MS SQL Server, MS Access and IBM DB2 &

DB2/400.

Web Technologies : HTML, DHTML, V.B Script, Tibco, ASP, Java Script,

Java Servlets, JSP

Web Server : Java Web Server, BE A Web Logic, IBM Web sphere,

Microsoft IIS

Packages : EPIC Products, Facets.

GUI Tools : Oracle Developer 2000 and V.B 6.0, Seagull Software-

GUI/400

Testing Tools : Mercury suite (Win Runner, Test Director, Load Runner,

QTP), f Tracker, Rational Suite (Requisite Pro, Robot, Test

Manager, Clear Quest, Clear Case)

Version Control : Visual Source safe, PVCS and Clear Case.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Blue Shield of California, CA

Dec 09-Till date

Sr.QA tester

As a Software engineer/Senior QA tester, Involved in testing various

healthcare Mainframe applications and migration of plans from legacy system

to FACETS application. Involved in testing

Provider,Membership,Claims,Accumulators modules.

Responsibilities:

. Developed Test plans, Test cases and Test Scripts using Mercury Quality

Center.

. Extensive testing experience with Provider management, Claims

processing, Provider reimbursement and Claims adjudication.

. System Integration testing (SIT)was carried out and the SQL queries are

written for testing the retrieval of the data from the database and

tested the Procedures and Functions.

. Performed Backend Testing by writing SQL statements to review the

returned data to ensure that the correct data was retrieved.

. Interacted with programmers to identify and resolve technical issues.

. Participated in Walkthrough and defect report meetings periodically.

. Retested the fixed issue and done regression testing if necessary.

. Produced supporting documentations such as window/screen prints and

reports as requested to assist defect resolution.

Environment: Mercury Quality Center 8.2, Oracle 9i, Java, J2EE, JSP, MS-

Visio, MS-office, Facets, IBM Mainframes

Kaiser Permanente Health Insurance Denver CO /Emeryville, CA

July'07- Nov 2009

Sr. QA Tester

Description:

Kaiser Permanente is the largest nonprofit health plan in the United

States. KP- IT provides and coordinate the entire scope of care for KP-IT

members, including preventive care, well-baby and prenatal care,

immunizations, emergency care, screening diagnostics, hospital and medical

services, pharmacy services. As a Senior QA tester I had worked in a WIT

(Workflow Integration Testing) for the Inpatient, Outpatient, RCSI (Revenue

Capture Strategy Initiative), Resolute (Hospital Billing (HB), Professional

Billing), Claims, Pharmacy, Radiant, radiology orders, Lab orders modules

of EPIC Software Suite for Northern California region.

Responsibilities:

. Reviewed the requirements given by Application Coordinators (AC) for

the RCSI and Hospital Billing modules.

. Followed Rational Unified Process (RUP) throughout SDLC.

. Drafted the corresponding Test Case for the workflows given by

Business Application Coordinators.

. Modified the Test Cases as per Business and IT ACs and discuss the

changes and impacts on the application.

. Once the Test cases had signed off by ACs, we export them into Test

Director by adding the Description and Prerequisites.

. Tested Workflow integration between various EPIC Modules

. Developed Test Cases using Mercury Quality Center.

. Developed test cases based on requirements and visio flows.

. Worked with Unit Charge, Batch Charge, Payment Posting, Insurance

Payments and follow-up workflows.

. Involved in testing the various Interfaces in the application like

Inpatient for HB.

. Participated in validating various Tapestry services, Enrollment and

Member Records, ID Card Printing, Account Records, Referrals, Claims

. Execute manual testing of EPIC based applications running on AIX and

DB2.

. Design, development and execution of reusable and maintainable test

cases for regression test.

. Involved in HIPAA/EDI Medical Claims Analysis, Design, Implementation

and Documentation.

. Created test data for testing specific billing functionalities

. Tracked the defects using the Mercury Quality center.

. Worked closely with developers to resolve defects found in Hospital

Billing module

Environment: Mercury Quality center 9.0, Hyperspace, Hypertext, EPIC

product suite, HIPPA, HL-7, MS-Excel, Windows 2000 Pro, Oracle, MS-Visio,

Mainframes (COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS, VSAM, FILE-AID), and UNIX.

Great-West Health Care, CO

Aug '06 - June'07

Senior QA Tester

Description:

Involved in testing effort of healthcare applications and working on

Patient Liability Extension, Claims, OON Pricing,Claim query

Screen,Expected payment,MARS extract,Reports Modules.. Also involved in a

project to verify the conversion of data from legacy systems to Trizetto

Facets.

Responsibilities:

. Involved in reviewing Business Requirements and Use Cases to manage

requirements.

. Involved in writing Test Plans, Test cases and developing Test scripts in

Quality Center.

. Performed end-to end testing on applications manually Using Quality

Center.

. Created Test Scripts for Premium calculation of Patient Liability

Extension and executed using Quality Center.

. Created Test Scripts for OON Pricing and executed by using Quality

Center.

. Performed manual and automated testing and maintain documentation on

different types of Testing viz., GUI, Regression, Integration, System,

Performance and User Acceptance testing.

. Involve with testing the loading of the Claim processing information

Data.

. Test the adjudication of Claims and Migration process.

. Tested the Mainframe screens.

. Created and modified test data using File-Aid.

. Validated the data on Mainframes.

. Tested the EDI/Hippa Transactions (270, 271, 835, and 837).

. Communicated inconsistencies between system specifications and test

results to development and/or analyst team.

. Performed regression testing of application for every new build

released.

. Automated the functionality using Quick Test Pro (QTP)

. Tracked the defects in Merant Tracker.

. Validated the mapping and integrity of data populated in the database.

. Evaluated the progress and take initiatives to meet the QA testing

targets.

Environment: Windows 2000, Linux, UNIX, TriZetto Facets 4.31, Merant

Tracker, Mainframes (DB2, JCL, File-Aid), Mercury Tools (Mercury Quality

Center, QTP 8.2), J2EE, Java script, XML, PL/SQL, Web logic and Oracle 8.1

United Health Group, MN

Jun '05 - July'06

Senior QA Tester

Description:

As a Senior QA tester, Involved in testing various healthcare

Mainframe applications and migration of plans from legacy system to FACETS

application. Involved in testing Provider, Membership,Provider Pricing,

Benefits, Claims and Product based applications and customer service

functionality.

Responsibilities:

. Developed Test plans, Test cases and Test Scripts using Mercury

Quality Center.

. Extensive testing experience with Members enrollment, Member services,

Premium billing, Provider management, Claims processing, Provider

reimbursement and Claims adjudication.

. Transaction testing was carried out and the SQL queries are written

for testing the retrieval of the data from the database and tested the

Procedures and Functions.

. Performed all phases of end-to-end testing which includes Functional,

Regression, GUI, System and Smoke testing of the application and its

interfaces Client-Server Utilities Prepared detailed Test Plan and

Test Cases by understanding the business logic and user requirements.

. Performed Backend Testing by writing SQL statements to review the

returned data to ensure that the correct data was retrieved.

. Tested the Web-Based Java applications.

. Tested the online programs and batch programs.

. Tested the Mainframe CICS Screens.

. Worked with JCL extensively to schedule and execute the jobs.

. Tested the database integrity by writing SQL Queries using QMF.

. Tested various menus, options and utilities.

. Created and modified test data using File-Aid.

. Validating of all the incoming/Outgoing data from EDI 837/835

interfaces.

. Developed test scripts for data driven tests using Mercury Quick Test

Pro.

. Involved in testing the Provider Conversion/config, Pricing and

Capitation configuration.

. Responsible for testing online processing for the new interfaces of

financial claim systems.

. Created Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Specification Document for the

application under test (AUT).

. Tracked defects in Mercury Quality Center.

. Build test scenarios and test cases (negative / positive) to validate

expected outcome

Environment: Mercury Quality Center 8.2, Oracle 8i, Java, J2EE, JSP, MS-

Visio, MS-office, Facets, IBM Mainframes System 360, OS/360, MVS, TSO,

ISPF, QMF, DB2, File-Aid, CICS, JCL, Endeavor, Tibco, QA Hiperstation, IBM

AIX Unix, IBM Lotus Notes and Windows 2000/NT.

Kaiser Permanente Health Insurance & Hospitals, Portland, OR

Sep'04-May'05

Sr. QA System Tester

Description:

K P is one of the largest health care Insurance and Hospital

organizations. The system implemented was the integrated suite from Epic

Systems Corporation and included Prelude, Cadence, ADT, Ambulatory,

Resolute, Epic Care.

Responsibilities:

. Developed Test Plan and overall Test Strategy for the applications.

. Developed Test Cases and Test Scripts for System and UAT Testing.

. Tested all applications End-End Manually.

. Involved in testing work flow integration of Cadence, Resolute, ADT

and Out-Patient.

. Involved in writing test scripts on Hospital billing and professional

billing of Resolute.

. Participated in Business Analysis, Requirement Analysis and Data

Analysis.

. Used Test Director for requirements management and for defect tracking

. Tested the Interfaces and management reports.

. Validated the reports and files according to HIPPA X12 enforced

standards

. Validated HL7 messages in Bridges.

. Tested the ADT and Ambulatory modules.

. Tested Workflow integration between various EPIC modules.

. Tested the User interfaces for the Health care web application

. Validated the batch production of documents and transaction-driven

documents.

. Tested the processing of claims in Diamond.

. Developed and executed various scripts using Win runner for automated

testing of each individual functionality of the applications

. Performed volume testing by transmitting batch files and validating

them.

. Recommending continuous process improvement, maintain QA standards and

artifacts.

. Validated the data by using SQL extensively.

. Worked with UNIX shell scripts.

. Developed Test Summary Reports and participated in GO / NO-GO

meetings.

. Tracked defects using Test Director & Conducted Bug-Review meetings.

. Coordinated with Business, Providers, Project Managers and Developers

Environment: Mercury suite (Test Director 8.0, Win Runner, QTP), IBM MQ

Series, Diamond tool, EPIC Products (Cadence, Resolute and Epic Care ADT

and Prelude), IBM Web Sphere, Windows NT/XP, MS SQL server, WS_FTP Pro

server and Citrix Products.

West Group, St.Paul, MN

July'02- Aug'04

QA Tester

Description:

As a Senior QA Tester for Westlaw at West Group, which is West's

online legal research service, which provides fast and easy access to an

extensive collection of legal resources, news, business, and public records

information. Involved in developing and executing Test Plans for sub

projects Online Idex, UDM Checkboxes, UDM Date Restrictions which are parts

of Westlaw. The system is customized to each user's specific needs, while

providing a common set of features to all users.

Responsibilities:

. Manage requirements using Requisite Pro.

. Analyzed the business requirements and wrote a Test Strategy and Test

Plan.

. Involved in the complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) by

following Rational Unified process (RUP).

. Analyzed Functional specifications and requirement documents to

categorize the units in

. Created test Cases as per the business requirements and executed them.

. Developed Test Plans, Test Cases in Test Manager.

. Involved in writing and implementation of the various test cases and

test scripts.

. Conducted data pool tests with Robot.

. Generated automated scripts using Robot

. Performed database integrity check using SQL and Unix Shell Scripts.

. Interacted with developers, Business & Management Teams and End Users.

. Interacted with programmers to identify and resolve technical issues.

. Participated in Walkthrough and defect report meetings periodically.

. Developed SQL queries to extract data from the source tables.

. Version control and configuration management was done using Clear Case

. Extensively worked on Clear Quest for bug reporting/tracking.

. Involved in bug review meetings.

Environment: Java, J2EE, Oracle8.0, PL/SQL, TOAD, XML, Visual Source Safe,

Web logic, UNIX Shell Scripts, Windows 2000, Rational Suite 2003

(RequisitePro, Test Manager, Robot, Clear Quest, Clear Case), Selenium

Verizon Communications, VA

Sep'01 - Apr'02

QA Tester

Description:

As a QA Tester, Tested the Verizon Billing applications.

Responsibilities:

. Analyzed user requirements, setup test environment, prepared test

strategy and test cases.

. Participated in use case analysis and requirement analysis and

identify Gap between requirements and use cases.

. Managed requirements in Requirement Plan Manager of Test Director.

. Developed Test Plan, Test Case in Test Plan Manager of Test

Director.

. Conducted Requirements walkthrough with in the Testing team.

. Involved in Risk Analysis & Gap Analysis based on the requirements

. Tested the Web Services Interface with the Legacy Mainframes

System.

. Involved in integrations testing in implementing special features

like CMR, CSR, TTS and CTI.

. Validated data for billing of voice, data, and commerce services

using Amdocs enabler.

. Worked with function generator for quick and error free programs.

. Involved in functional testing of different Menu options.

. Involved in testing various billing applications developed in

AMDOCS.

. Developed Tractability between requirements and test cases.

. Extensively used SQL queries/Unix commands for data verification

and backend testing.

. Automated Test scripts using Win Runner for Regression Test.

. Worked with TSL functions and involved in synchronizing the Test

Scripts using WinRunner.

. Maintains the Test Environment means make sure all the Network &

Gateway provisioning processes / Shell scripts are up and running

. Attended weekly status meetings with Project management and team

members on testing update.

. Assign defects in defect manager of Test Director.

. Involved in End-to-End testing for Order Entry/Provisioning to

Invoice generation in BP.

. Executed all kind of scenarios for User Acceptance Testing.

. Maintained reports in Test Log Viewer.

Environment: Mainframes 3/390, JCL, IMS, DB2, TSO/ISPF, Windows NT,

Oracle8i, MS-Access, ASP, VB script, IIS, XML, Amdocs systems, HTML, Win

Runner 7.x, Test Director 7.x, Load Runner 7.x, PVCS Tracker.

MYM Trades& Channels LTD, Hyderabad, India

Jan'98 - Aug'01

Software engineer

Description:

This Application has been developed /tested for MYM Trades &Channels

ltd, manufacturers of Leaf Springs and Assemblies for Heavy / Light

Vehicles. It provides a complete Supply Chain Management System

encompassing the following Business Processes. Purchase, Stores, Work in

Progress and Dispatch. Application has been successfully completed and

client is implementing the same.

Responsibilities:

. Involved in every aspect of Project from the Beginning

. Entire coding part in Stores, Work in Progress was done by me

. Written all the Database Methods used in the entire Project

. Done Ground work for Reports

. Almost all client side validations in Java Script is done by me

. Developed test plans, which specify testing overview, approach,

strategy and roles.

. Designed and developed test cases, test procedure and test scenarios.

. Interacted with developers and DBAs regarding Y2K problem and defect

reports.

. Conducted performance testing, Integrity testing, and Functional

testing.

. Tested the application manually

. Performed testing to validate all the User Interface of the

application.

. Performed testing for tables and forms

Environment: Linux, Apache Server with Browser Clients, PERL, ASP, VB, CGI,

HTML, Java Script, Postgre SQL, Rational suite tools, Oracle 8i, CRYSTAL

Reports 5.0, UNIX (Sun OS 5.6), Windows 9x/NT, VB6.0, MS SQL Server.

Sujana Industries LTD, Hyderabad, India

Oct'95 -Dec'97

IT Assistant

Sujana Industries LTD(SIL) is one of the largest Bearing Industry in the

India. Involved in testing a store module to monitor fresh indent note

raised from various departments to Stores. Application updates central

department of stocks the same day material enters the factory. It also

tracks rejected material and updates central stocks. Testing of sub-module

to monitor stock level and generate receipt report after quality control on

coordination with indents, raised to update total holding stock as of date.

Responsibilities:

. Involved in writing backend procedures, using PL/SQL that would load

and retrieve data from the database.

. Involved in writing and implementation of the various test cases and

test scripts.

. Performed Manual Testing.

. Analyzing and documenting detailed program information working and

interacting with software developers and members of various other

dependent departments.

. Created Unix shell scripts to perform repeated Tests

. Analyzing User and Functional requirements to point out gaps between

them and the application

. Used Clear Quest for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with

development team to verify bug fixes, and update bug status

. Performed System, Security & User Acceptance testing.

. Documented bugs found out during the process of testing.

. Reported periodic project status and updates to the QA Lead and QA

Manager

. Wrote SQL & PL/SQL queries for data validation.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Engineering, Bangalore University(India).

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