ANNUSRE.K.S

Email: abod8h@r.postjobfree.com

Test Lead-Commonwealth Bank of Australia[HCL]

Mobile #: +61-047*******

Profile & Objective:

Experienced and innovative Test Lead with 5+ years of Experience in

Testing which includes 3 years of Experience in Test Management

activities.

Aspiring for challenging and highly technical projects.

Highly articulate, confident and persuasive team-builder, able to motivate

and communicate to achieve exceptional business performance.

Excellent communication and presentation skills, self starter and quick

learner.

Experience details:

Working Onsite in Commonwealth Bank of Australia as End to End Testing

Lead for Payments & Finance Module, CBA is one of the 4 pillar banks in

Australia.

Having extensive experience in Manual testing and SOA-Web Service Testing

in Web and Client & Server applications

Accountable proficiency in Core Domains like Banking [Payments & Finance],

Media Planning, Insurance - [Personal & Commercial].

Trained in QTP tool and experienced in SQL, VBA Macros, SOAP UI & Alto XML

SPY tool.

Experienced in Defect Management tools like Quality Center & ALM for 3

yrs and Bugzilla for 1 yr

Actively involved in building Pre-Sales Bidding proposals for various

international clients.

Well acquainted with Software Development Life Cycle, Software Testing

Methodologies and ability to work independently on diverse problems.

Worked in wide range of areas like Requirement Gathering, Test Estimation,

Test Planning, Test Analysis, Test Design, Test Execution and Defect

Management Activities.

Involved in Quality Process Activities, Quality Audits and Metrics

Collection.

Achievements:

HCL Technologies Limited: Dec 2010-Till Date

I Was given EA-Exceeded All expectation rating in the Performance

Appraisal till year 2012.

Presented Whitepaper in the Test Design tool Hexawise to optimize the

number of testcase

Received OND-2010 Innovation award for proposing solution for data

validation

Presented White paper in SOA-Service Level testing and shortlisted for the

final round

Represented the Testing team in Client Demos

Received appreciation for Demos and Requirement gathering

I was in the Interview Panel and Interviewed SOA skilled resource for

other projects.

Cognizant Technology Limited: June 2007 - Dec 2010

Received Bravo Cards from Client for dedication and work done on MA Auto

Project.

Received the Certificates of Appreciations from client for the work and

contribution for the Projects CCO and Home Tiering Wave 2B.

Nominated as the Member of Innovation team for the Hanover Account.

Implemented the Test Design tool-ADAPART in the account for the first

time. ADPART is the Cognizant inbuilt tool which will automatically

generate testcases once the flows and steps are defined.

Incorporated Process tool Cognizant C2.0 in the account for the first

time.

Worked in preparing Personal lines Project repository using ADPART tool in

Test Design 2.0-an account initiative for helping New joiners of the

Insurance domain.

Louisiana Home-One of the project which I Leaded in Offshore had won the

Best Project award. Business Issued more than 10,000 policies without a

single defect in the Real environment.

Worked in proposal and estimation activities for the Fixed Bid project.

Career Summary:

HCL Technologies Limited: Dec 2010-Till Date

Project Name

Role

Location

Client

Domain& Tech

Size

Duration

CBM-Payments & Finance

Onsite Test Lead

Australia

Commonwealth Bank of Australia

Banking

10

Feb 12 - Till Date

Havas

Offshore Coordinator

India

Havas

Media Planning - SOA

6

Dec 10 - Feb 12

Cognizant Technology Limited: June 2007 - Dec 2010

Project Name

Role

Location

Client

Domain& Tech

Size

Duration

Proprietary Symbol

Offshore Coordinator

India

Hanover

Insurance - SOA

6

June 10 - Dec 10

Louisiana Home

Offshore Coordinator

India

Hanover

Insurance

5

Feb 10 - May 10

Think Hanover - MSB

Offshore Coordinator

India

Hanover

Insurance - SOA

7

July 09 - Feb 10

Think Hanover - GEO

Offshore Coordinator

India

Hanover

Insurance - SOA

5

June 09 - July 09

No POP Tier

Offshore Coordinator

India

Hanover

Insurance

3

May 09 - June 09

STP

Module Lead

India

Hanover

Insurance

3

Apr-11

Home Tiering Wave 2B

Offshore Coordinator

India

Hanover

Insurance

6

Dec 08 - March 08

MA Auto

Team Member

India

Hanover

Insurance

3

Aug 08 - Nov 08

BOP

Team Member

India

Hanover

Insurance

3

May 08 - July 08

Current Carrier Online

Team Member

India

Hanover

Insurance - SOA

8

March 08 - May 08

ART 1.0

Team Member

India

Hanover

Insurance

6

Dec 07 - March 08

Detailed Descriptions:

1.Commonwealth Bank of Australia-CBM

Feb'12 - Till Date

The Commonwealth Bank is Australia's leading provider of integrated

Banking and financial services and It is the Second largest Australian

listed company on the Australian Securities Exchange as of January

2008.The Core Banking Modernisation Programme in CBA is to modernise the

40 year old legacy system to a customer centric platform.

I have experience on different Payments & Fianance transactions and

Channels like.

1. Cash Payments[Telling, ATM, POS & POB,Cards...etc]

2. Cheque Payments[EP, ISA, OSA, eVoucher...etc]

3. Payments Clearing System[CBA, Other Fianancial Instituation and

Non-Bank Financial Institution]

4. Financial Reconciliation

5. SAP-Banking Process

As Test Lead in CBA, I am responsible for

1. Reviewing Business requirements, IT Design documents and preparing Test

Plans for all assigned project releases.

2. Conducting External Walkthrough with the Solution center, Business

Analyst and Technical Team for base lining the Test scenarios for the

requirements.

3. Conducting status and triage calls with the client and delivering the

project status.

4. Managing the on-shore and off-shore test teams by delegating tasks to

the team and tracked the same

5. Reporting Risk and timely status to the Senior Management.

6. Defect Analysis and conducting defect triage calls.

2.HAVAS-MMS+ Dec' 10 - Jan' 12

The MMS+ is a strategic business transformation project introducing new

technology and capabilities to automate activities in Media buying across

TV, Radio, Press, Outdoor, and Digital Media Work streams. This project

deliver a world class Media Buying Solution that integrates the Havas

internal application with third parties like BARB, CARIA and Agresso. MMS+

is a solution to the existing complexities of media buying and embrace the

capabilities for future growth of the Media buying Industry with a

flexible agile business application.

Worked as Offshore coordinator. Please refer below for the overall Roles

and Responsibility performed.

3. Hanover Insurance - Proprietary Symbols

Jun' 10-Dec' -10

The project will make use of HLDI database instead of POLK/ISO database

for retrieving symbols depends upon the Vehicle characteristics which is

used for Rating algorithm and calculation. Service Oriented Architecture

was adapted for this Project to validate the request and response of the

newly replaced HLDI database.

Worked as Offshore coordinator. Please refer below for the overall Roles

and Responsibility performed.

4. Hanover Insurance Group- Louisiana Home Feb' 10

- May' 10

The project provides the capability to introduce the home connections in

Louisiana which includes the services like Home tiering, Loss handling,

Geo and MSB services.

Worked as Offshore coordinator. Please refer below for the overall Roles

and Responsibility performed.

5. Hanover Insurance Group- Think Hanover-MSB

July' 09 - Feb' 10

This project will utilize the third party vendor application [MSB] for the

calculation of the Replacement Cost. The integration of the MSB into Point

of Sale is tested along with services like SSO, Prefill Valuation, Get

Valuation and Assign Valuation. Service Oriented Architecture was adapted

for this Project. This project was engaged in Fixed Bid Mode.

Worked as Offshore coordinator. Please refer below section for overall

Roles and Responsibility performed.

6. Hanover Insurance Group- Think Hanover-GEO

June' 09 - July' 09

This project will utilize the third party vendor application in order to

find territory code, tax location and other information based on the

digitized maps of territories for Auto and Home LOB's. Service Oriented

Architecture was adapted for this Project. This project was engaged in

Fixed Bid Mode.

Worked as Offshore coordinator. Please refer below section for the overall

Roles and Responsibility performed.

7. Hanover Insurance Group- No POP Tier

May' 09-June' 09

The scope of this project is to validate the prior insurance of the policy

and to rate the policy with No Prior insurance wherever it is applicable

irrespective of the reason which was given for Prior Hanover/Citizen.

Worked as Offshore coordinator. Please refer below section for the overall

Roles and Responsibility performed.

8. Hanover Insurance Group- STP

Apr' 09 - Apr' 09

The objective of this project is to track the policies that are pushed to

PMS from Point of Sale [POS] without using the batch cycle. Thereby

avoiding the batch cycle, validation was performed on the policies in

force file to check the HIER error.

Worked as Module Lead. Please refer below section for the overall Roles

and Responsibility performed.

9. Hanover Insurance Group- Home Tiering Wave 2B

Dec' 08 - Mar' 09

The scope of this project is to implement the Tiering and Loss handling

concept for all the 13 connection states. Service Oriented Architecture

was adapted for this Project.

Worked as Offshore coordinator. Please refer below section for the overall

Roles and Responsibility performed.

10. Hanover Insurance Group- MA Auto

Aug'08 - Nov'08

This project is to improve Connections Auto Profitability by ensuring the

5th car indicator reverse translates correctly to POS for endorsement and

cancel/rewrite processing as well as being evaluated correctly upon

renewal.

Worked as Team Member. Please refer below section for the overall Roles

and Responsibility performed.

11. Hanover Insurance Group- BOP

May'08 - July'08

The purpose of this Commercial lines project is to add BOP umbrella as a

new coverage to BOP policies.

Worked as Team Member. Please refer below section for the overall Roles

and Responsibility performed.

12. Hanover Insurance Group- Current Carrier Online

Mar'08 - May'08

This project scope is to get quality data on Claims and to ensure that

risk is being properly evaluated and priced for profitability during

policy rating and Issuance. Service Oriented Architecture was adapted for

this Project. This project was engaged in Fixed Bid Mode.

Worked as Team Member. Please refer below section for the overall Roles

and Responsibility performed.

13. Hanover Insurance Group- ART1.0

Dec'07 - Mar'08

The ultimate goal, of ART 1.0 is to provide a single source or control

point for Personal Lines Auto's rates and factors while providing the

ability to effect change - with higher quality, faster and less costly.

Worked as Team Member. Please refer below section for the overall Roles

and Responsibility performed.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Preparation of Test Strategy, Test Plan and Test Execution plans

Helped in Preparing Macro scripts for the data validation

Facilitating Offshore - Onsite status calls along with client

Handling Quality Control Audits

Process maintenance through the HCL-PMSmart, Cognizant 2.0 and Prolite

Prepared Case Study on Fixed Bid Model

Preparation of KT Documents for all projects

Designed Newsletters and Fliers for the account

Propose / Implement Best Practices in the project

Managed the Change Control Process

Prepared Client Status Report, Weekly and Monthly Status Report

Facilitating Defect Triage Meetings across development and QA's

Prepare and Report QA metrics for the project

Reporting and managing Defects in Test Director/Quality Centre/Bugzilla

Performance testing on the web service using SOAP UI

Prepared XML using macros and help the team in Execution

Preparation of XML Automation Suite using SOAP UI

Databases are validated using SQL,DB2 and TOAD

Perform Test Execution using POS (web based ), PMS (mainframe) application

and web services using the Soap UI

Running the QTP Scripts for the policy creation

Writing/Reviewing Master test Requirements(scenarios), Test Cases from the

Test Conditions/feature metrics

Preparation of Feature Matrix - Plotting of requirements in a

multidimensional array format such that to cover all the possible

requirements

Preparing/reviewing Test Conditions based on the requirements

Raising Queries/Ambiguities for the requirements/functional specifications

that need more clarification

Understanding the Requirements using BRD, FSD or BAPO.

Educational Background:

Course

Institution

Year of study

BSc Physics[3 yrs]

Meenakshi college for Women Autonomous]-India

2007

DNIIT Certification

NIIT

2007

Other Courses/Certification:

S.No

Certification

Diploma or Certificate

Year of Completion

1

HP-QTP/QC

HP Certification

2011

2

AICPCU-Property and Liability Insurance Principles-INS 21

AICPCU Certification

2009

3

Certification in CSQA

Cognizant Certification

2009

4

Certification in QTP

Cognizant Certification

2008

5

Certification in Personal insurance

Cognizant Certification

2007

6

Certification in General insurance

Cognizant Certification

2007

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Annusre.K.S

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