Malini,Chiramadam Ramanathan Chenbaga

Email: aconei@r.postjobfree.com

Mobile: 484-***-****

E X P E R I E N C E D Q U A L I T Y A N A LY S T

KEY SKILLS

• 4.5 years of experience in IT industry as a Quality analyst with extensive experience in Quality

assurance and handling the testing team

• Roles performed in this tenure: Test analyst,, Team lead, Technical trainer, Process auditor

• Extensive experience in Client/Server and of Web based applications functional in Insurance (life

and annuity products) and Automobile domain.

• In-depth understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using Waterfall

• Performed Reviews and Audits for internal and external activities for the existing system and

prepare activity/process flow

• Creative and aggressive self-starter with integrative thinking skills, capable of forming and

maintaining positive and productive working relationships

• Highly experienced in leading and satisfying business needs with different groups within different

levels of management in the company.

• Extensive experience in the MS Visio, HP Quality Center

• Expertise in Writing, Executing Test Cases in every release and in all phases of SDLC

• Experienced in complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Bug Life Cycle ( BLC)

• Extensively used Test Tools such as HP Quality center and basic knowledge about QTP

• Testing the application Structures and Functionality for Black Box testing

• Familiar with concepts of SQL queries

• Experience in creation and execution of Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test Cases using both

Manual and Automated testing techniques

• Well Versed with System testing, Integration testing, Functional testing, Regression testing and

User Acceptance Testing

• Experience in Data Analysis, Data Validation, Data Verification

• Worked in WMA application

• Good communication, interpersonal skills, self-motivated, quick learner & team player

• As a Team Player contributed a cohesive atmosphere through teamwork and cooperation.

• ISTQB Certified

• LOMA 280 and LOMA 290 certified

TECHNOLOGY & TESTING PROFICIENCIES

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center & HP Quick Test Professional

Operation Windows NT/2000/XP, Mainframes (Z/OS)

Environment:

Language SQL

MS Office Suite 2010/2007/2003 (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook,

Tool

Project, Visio),

Microsoft Visual Studio, Mainframe applications, wmA vantage systems (Annuity

Other tools

and Life), Informatica, DB2 Quest central, TOAD,, Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop

CAREER PROFILE:

Organization Role Location Period

Cognizant Technology Test Analyst & Test Lead Chennai, India Feb 2010 to March 2013

Solutions

TATA Consultancy Services Test Analyst Pune, India Jan 2008 to June 2009

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION

Degree and Institute Score

Completion Date Percentage

qms - May 2007 Noorul Islam College of Engineering, India 87%

Higher Secondary- March Amala Convent Girls Higher Secondary 90%

School, India

2003

Secondary - April 2001 Amala Convent Girls Higher Secondary 92%

School, India

CERTIFICATION

ISTQB ( International Software testing Qualifications board )

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CSTE – Cognizant Certified Program

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LOMA 280 - Insurance domain external certifications

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LOMA 290 - Insurance domain external certifications

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L1 Software testing – Cognizant Certified Program

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Experience Details:

PROJECT #1

Project Statement Upgrade

Company Cognizant Technology Solutions & Thrivent Financial for Lutherans

&Customer

Domain Life Insurance

Period Feb 2010 to Feb 2012

Role Worked as Test Lead – manual testing team for Thrivent Financial for

Lutherans – Insurance domain

Description Investments Statements Upgrade project is a long term Program where

we involved in upgrading the customer’s quarterly and annual insurance

policy statement’s design, format and information. We ensured for its

correctness with respective to the source system and aligned Business

requirements. This project involved with different Line of business(life

insurance products, Health, Annuity/Retirement products, P&C insurance

and its various source systems like CIF, wmA, RPS, PPS, MASC

(mainframe applications). We used informatica to fetch the data from its

respective source systems and generated the statements through

Mainframe batch cycles. This project involves testing includes.

Solution Windows xp, Mainframe

Environment

Tools Used Document Direct, Mainframe,DB2 Quest central, CIF, HP Quality Center

tool, TOAD, Windows Vista/XP, Informatica 8.6.1, DB2 Quest central and

MS SQL, Mainframe applications(RPS,PPS, MASC), Document direct,

wmA system

Roles and Gathered Business Requirements, analyzed data/workflows,

Responsibilitie defined the scope, and performed GAP analysis.

s

Worked extensively with SMEs and performed Gap analysis to

arrive at the gaps between current and future systems and the

modules to be impacted.

Helped manage risk analysis and mitigation plans, status reports,

and client presentations; prepared business process models,

defined milestone deliverables, and established critical success

factors.

Take part in peer review of the test cases, defect review and QA

weekly status meetings.

Prepared Functional Documents for respective modules and lead

trainings and brain storming sessions as part of knowledge sharing

Functional Test case preparation and execution based on the

Functional specification.

Identified end-to-end test cases, regression suites and system test

cases and Documented test cases and performed peer reviews

Involved in Test data identification and gathering

Used QC – HP Quality center for project management

Created and used traceability matrix to ensure 100% test coverage

Involved in writing of Modification Reports for Errors Identified in

Testing and clearly communicate with development via defect

tracking database and Quality Center

Have performed Process audits within domain projects based on

cognizant process metrics using C2O process tool and Thrivent

TQMS process management

Conducted training sessions for top management on how to use the

reporting platform and documented various training manuals.

PROJECT #2

Project E-delivery

Company Cognizant Technology Solutions & Thrivent Financial for Lutherans

&Customer

Domain Life Insurance

Role Worked as test lead – manual testing team for Thrivent Financial for

Lutherans – Insurance domain

Period Feb 2012 to March 2013

Description E-delivery project is enhanced process which enables the customers to

access their insurance statements online. This is a web based testing

including Browsers Compatibility Testing and Role based testing – as

Customer, as Field representative and as a home office users.

Solution Windows xp, Mainframe

Environment

Tools Used Document Direct,Mainframe,Source system( RPS,PPS,TA2000 for

mutual fund,WMA) QC, Quest central, Doc direct,CIF (Customer

Identification File),SQL

Roles and Performed requirement analysis and identified test scenarios/test

Responsibilities objectives

Involved in Test data identification and gathering

Developed and executed the Test cases from the requirements /

use cases

Take part in peer review of the test cases, Bug review and QA

weekly status meetings.

Prepared Functional Documents for respective modules and lead

trainings and brain storming sessions as part of knowledge

sharing

Take part in peer review of the test cases, defect review and QA

weekly status meetings.

Prepared Functional Documents for respective modules and lead

trainings and brain storming sessions as part of knowledge

sharing

Functional Test case preparation and execution based on the

Functional specification.

Documented test cases and performed peer reviews

Development of SQL queries for database and backend testing.

Functional Test case preparation and execution based on the

Functional specification.

Performed browser compatibility testing on browsers IE and

Chrome

Used QC for defect management

Created and used traceability matrix to ensure 100% test

coverage

Involved in metrics and reporting for test execution and defect

status

Reporting defects for the failed test cases and tracking the status

on the daily basis.

Team lead for 3 member team

Worked in team and also worked as an Individual team member

Worked directly with clients

Involved in Client calls and also co-ordinate with On-site teams

when needed

Automation Experience:

For e-delivery project, used automation tool (QTP) to on-demand

thousands of contracts.

Learned basic programming knowledge about QTP tool.

Accomplishments This project had been selected as “Best project of the quarter “ in 2012

PROJECT #3

Project SSAT- (Self Service Annuity Transactions

Company Cognizant Technology Solutions & Thrivent Financial for Lutherans

&Customer

Domain Life Insurance

Period Oct 2012 to March 2013

Description SSAT- (Self Service Annuity Transactions) project helps customer to do

functionalities like surrender, partial surrender, transferring funds from

one subaccount to another. This project is a kind of end user testing.

Role Test Lead

Solution Windows XP

Environment

Tools Used CIF (Customer Identification File) and SSAT GUI application, source

system(WMA),QC

Roles and Performed requirement analysis and identified test scenarios/test

Responsibilities objectives

Involved in Test data identification and gathering

Developed and executed the Test cases from the requirements /

use cases

Take part in peer review of the test cases, defect review and QA

weekly status meetings.

Prepared Functional Documents for respective modules and lead

trainings and brain storming sessions as part of knowledge

sharing

Documented test cases and performed peer reviews

Functional Test case preparation and execution based on the

Functional specification.

Performed browser compatibility testing on browsers IE and

Chrome

Used QC for defect management

Created and used traceability matrix to ensure 100% test

coverage

Involved in metrics and reporting for test execution and defect

status

Reporting defects for the failed test cases and tracking the status

on the daily basis.

Tested critical bug fixes and coordinated with developers in

release of bug fixes meeting tight timeline.

Team lead for 3 member team

Worked directly with clients

Accomplishments Got client appreciation to this project for “zero UAT defects”.

PROJECT #4

Project AES-Scenario Creation

Company Tata Consultancy Services & Nissan

&Customer

Domain Automobile

Period Dec-2008 to Jun 2009

Description Scenario Creation project is to test all of the functionalities of the ECU’s

(Electronic Control Unit) used in the Nissan cars. This is to convert a set of

checklist related to car functionalities to a standard format. Then test

cases should be executed in the Automated system and test whether all

the test cases are working properly or not. The assignment also involved

analyzing the defects.

Role Quality Analyst

Solution Windows xp

Environment

Tools Used Nissan Internal Testing Tools

Roles and Converting a set of checklist related to car functionalities to a

Responsibilitie standard format

s

Executing system codes in series of testing tools

Analyzing the defects

Involved in metrics and reporting for test execution and defect

status

Involved in Client calls on weekly basis

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