Payal Gupta Location : Austin, TX
Phone : 512-***-****
Email : ********@*****.***
OBJECTIVE
Looking for challenging and exciting career opportunity as a software tester and quality assurance specialist.
PROFILE SUMMARY
Proficient Testing Professional having about 4 years of industry experience with one of the finest technology & consulting firm.
Hands on experience of writing and executing test cases, Creating Test strategy & Test Plans and Leading teams. Developed
strong knowledge in Insurance domain and applications.
SKILL SET
Test strategy and Planning.
Test case preparation and execution.
Test Automation (QTP).
Functional and
Very good understanding of Insurance domain (Claims, Underwriting, policy administration
Technical
etc)
Familiarity with Guide wire
Comfortable with relational database and SQL
Estimation, Planning and scheduling
Project and Team management
Management and
Mentoring and Knowledge Management
Leadership Skills
Well versed with processes and metrics
Keen and Fast Learner.
ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS
Masters in Business Administration
2002
Bachelors degree in Science
2000
CERTIFICATIONS
• Diploma in Software Testing
• QTP and QC certification from HP
• IST Quality Board – Foundation level Certification
• INS 21 (Property and casualty insurance) Certification.
TRAINING CONDUCTED AND ATTENDED
• Attended training on guide wire claim center and developed good knowledge on it.
• Conducted training session on auto and life insurance domain
• Conducted knowledge transfer session on various insurance applications that I worked on.
• Developed training material and supported training for rating tool and backdated endorsement.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Capgemini (2005 to 2009)
Client: AIG Duration: 6 months
Project – Footprints
AIG acquired 21st Century Insurance and wanted to merge its billing and policy administration applications with legacy 21C
applications. Capgemini team performed functional and regression testing for the new enhancements. It also automated the
regression test suites.
My Responsibilities
Subject Matter Expert for the automation team
Requirement Analysis and requirement walk through.
Query resolutions to teams and liaison to business group
Creation of Test Strategy and Test Plan for automation testing.
Defect Analysis
Client: 21st Century Insurance Duration: 10 months
Project: Legacy Re platforming
21st Century Insurance Group of USA, wanted to migrate its existing business applications from Legacy subsystem to the
APS subsystem for five states. It also wanted to migrate the Casualty and Motor cycle line of business in state of California.
Capgemini performed functional and regression testing for this migratory effort.
My Responsibilities
Team Lead
Requirements analysis for the EMTS (Enterprise middle tier services) application.
Test case creation and execution
Identifycation critical workflows and scenarios for regression suit
• Defect Management and Task allocation
Test case reviews
• Status tracking and reporting
Client: 21st Century Insurance Duration: 6 months
Project: Back dated endorsement
21st Century Insurance Group of USA, introduced new changes in its application to enable its customer representative
to do Back Dated Endorsement. It is a process by which “out of sequence” transactions could be defined as transaction
within the current policy term. Effective date of these transactions would be prior to the effective date of any already
accepted transaction on same policy. I was leading the Capgemini team that performed functional and regression testing for
this enhancement.
My Responsibilities
Lead Tester and Team Lead
Test Case writing and execution
Peer reviews
Status tracking and reporting
Knowledge management
• Mentoring new resources.
Establishing processes for the team.
Client: 21st Century Insurance Duration: 18 months
Project: APS New States Wave 2.1 and 2.2
21st Century Insurance Group of USA, wanted to roll out new version of it’s policy administration and billing application to
four more states(Missouri, Minnosetta, Wisconsin, Colorado) . I was part of the QA team that performed independent
functional and regression testing for the updated versions of this application.
My Responsibilities
• Test Case writing.
• Test Case execution.
• Preparation of PIR (Post Implementation Review)
• Defect Management
Task allocation and tracking
• Test case reviews (peer review)