Nikhil Pathak
Sr. TEST ENGINEER QUALITY ANALYST
ISTQB (ASTQB) Certified Tester
Valid USA H-1B Visa Holder
*-***** ****** ** ****** Results and Quality Testing Expert in Application Testing Test Engineer of Health Care Domain – Medicare Eligibility and Enrollment Systems Clinical Labs (LIMS) Drug Testing Labs Test Management Functional Testing Validation Testing Eligibility and Enrollment Member 360 systems testing UFT Automation Testing 834 EDI File Testing EB&C Commercial Medical Insurance
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Experience Summary
An ISTQB (ASTQB) certified Test Engineer with over 7 + years of diverse experience in QA Life cycle and Testing in Application and Automation Testing on Web based applications and Mainframe – Batch testing for Health Care Services (Payers and Providers) domain
Quality Experience of all phases of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and excellent understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) which includes expertise in Requirements Gathering, Analysis, Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Estimations, Defect management, Efforts Estimations, Test Summary, Formal and Informal Reviews and Validation Testing,
Proficient in UAT, System Integration Testing (SIT), Regression, End to End, and User Acceptance testing (UAT)
Expert in interacting with the Business and Stakeholders for Analyzing Business Requirements & Develop comprehensive Test plans, Test Strategy to ensure comprehensive Requirement Traceability
Proficient and hands on experience in using HP-ALM (Defect, Test Plan, Test Lab modules)
Extensive experience in manual Testing of applications on Mainframe (IBM, HP and Unisys) and JAVA Environment.
Working experience in executing Automation Test scripts for Regression Testing in HP UFT 12.0 (QTP)
Experience in executing Data Driven framework and Keyword Driven framework scripts
Knowledge in XML letter testing.
Highly experience in Eligibility and Enrollment Member 360 Medicare Support system testing (LIS, LEP, Election type logic, CMS – TRC and TRR file transactions)
Contributed mainly on Clinical Labs Testing, Drug Testing Labs, MEDICARE, MEDICAID and Commercial project
Have worked for Healthcare client like LabCorp, Highmark, BCBS MN, BCBS TN, Triple-S,MMO, UHC, Excellus, Cambia on many successful releases and implementations
Working experience in EDI 834 file testing
Effectively worked on Web services testing in Rest Client and Soup-UI
Highly experienced in Clinical Lab Testing (LIMS) and Drug Testing Labs systems
Experience in managing Big projects like ICD 9 to ICD 10 conversions projects and Migration projects
Extensive Experience in Healthcare Insurance Enrollment and Claims Application testing
Testing experience on CMS TRR file processing
Experienced in both Batch testing and online Testing (Web).
Experience in Reports testing in Jasper Report tool
Proven Experience in leading QA phase of multiple projects simultaneously as per data models like Agile Model, Iterative Model (RAD), V-Model and Waterfall Model, results multiple successive successful releases
Experienced in writing Complex SQL queries to extract and set up test data
Have worked closely with offshore, onsite and client side QA and Dev team and received many appreciations from client side for successful completion of all the major projects.
Tools and Technologies Usage
Skills
Number Of Months
Application Testing – Java based and Dot Net based Applications
86
Mainframe Testing – Batch Testing (TSO,ISPF, JCL Jobs)
86
Mainframe based Application testing – Mainframe CICS Applications (IBM, HP and Unisys)
86
Database Testing – DB2, SQL Server 2008, My-SQL, Oracle 10g and 11g, SQL Developer 4.1
86
HP-ALM and HP-QC
86
Bugzilla
86
Serena Business Manager (SBM)
60
Rest Client and SoupUI
48
HP UFT 12.0
48
Jasper Report
12
JIRA
12
Employment History
Employer
Duration
Wipro Technologies
11/30/2009 to 09/08/2017
Deloitte
09/11/2017 to Till date
Project Details – EB&C – Large Enrollment – PORs
Client is one of the largest health benefits companies in the United States, serving more than 38 million medical members. It’s a Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) licensee in 14 states where it operates under the BCBS monikers. Additionally, its subsidiaries like Unicare and Amerigroup give the organization the ability to sell health coverage in additional markets beyond its Blue Cross licensee states.
Project # 1 – EB&C – Large Groups Enrollment Systems – Monthly Change Request Releases
Project Name – Medicare Support (M360 Systems Implementations – Excellus, MMO, BCBS_MN and TSA)
Start Date
09/11/2017
End Date
Till date
Project Role
SQA and SIT Lead – Application Testing and Mainframe Batch Testing
Team Size
6
Location
Lake Mary, FL, USA
Skills
Duration (In Months)
Application Testing
Mainframe Batch Testing
Database Testing
Manual Testing
Web Testing
Functional and Integration Testing
Web-Services Testing
Automation Testing
24
Description
The Product is for enrolling the member into Commercial Medical Insurance Program Under Large groups or Employer groups and Plan. The Primary goal of this project is to redesign, modernization and implementation of the Enrollment systems to various health care Insurance large group plans and cases. The product also responsible for generating ID cards to members and send data to downstream systems like claims or Billings
Responsibilities
Coordinating with the Client on the new requirements and implementations
Analyzing the system for new enhancements and functionalities.
Designing and execution of the test scenarios
End to End testing of the Enrollment and Claims application being developed
Interface and Unit Testing
Integration and System Testing
Periodically report to the concerned team on the defects
Effective and efficient testing of the application such that the applications are defect free.
Co-ordinate the work between offshore and Onsite
Supporting testing activities on the project.
Validating EDI 834 format file.
Validating Web services testing on Rest Client and SoupUI
Complete Test Management for Implementation and Maintenance projects
Executing the Regression Test scripts based on Hybrid frameworks (Data driven + Keyword driven) on online Application via HP UFT 12.0
Project Details – Medicare Support
Infocrossing Inc., a subsidiary of Wipro, provides information technology outsourcing and transaction management solutions to the healthcare industry. It offers claims processing, business and clinical application hosting, health plan application, and information technology infrastructure services for the payer, provider, and Government markets. The company also provides Medicare, eligibility verification and Medicaid fiscal agent Services
Project # 1 – Medicare – EEM360 (Eligibility and Enrollment Member 360) Application Implementation
Project Name – Medicare Support (M360 Systems Implementations – Excellus, MMO, BCBS_MN and TSA)
Start Date
01/01/2015
End Date
09/08/2017
Project Role
SQA and Lead – Application Testing and Mainframe Batch Testing
Team Size
6
Location
Jefferson City, MO,USA
Skills
Duration (In Months)
Application Testing
Mainframe Batch Testing
Database Testing
Manual Testing
Web Testing
Functional and Integration Testing
Web-Services Testing
Automation Testing
24
Description
The Product “EEM360” is for enrolling the member into Federal Government Medicare Program. The Primary goal of this project is to redesign, modernization and implementation of Advantage 360 systems to various health care Insurance providers customers like Highmark, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Excellus, Cambia, MMO, Triple-S etc.). The Advantage M360 system is a Medicare claims and enrollment management system and fiscal repository that facilitates premium payment reconciliation with CMS (Center for Medicare and Medicaid services) and facilitates financial reporting to health insurance providers / companies.
Responsibilities
Coordinating with the Client on the new requirements and implementations
Analyzing the system for new enhancements and functionalities.
Designing and execution of the test scenarios
End to End testing of the Enrollment and Claims application being developed
Interface and Unit Testing
Integration and System Testing
Periodically report to the concerned team on the defects
Effective and efficient testing of the application such that the applications are defect free.
Co-ordinate the work between offshore and Onsite
Supporting testing activities on MEDICARE project.
Validating EDI 834 format file.
Validating Web services testing on Rest Client and SoupUI
Complete Test Management for Implementation and Maintenance projects
Executing the Regression Test scripts based on Hybrid frameworks (Data driven + Keyword driven) on online Application via HP UFT 12.0
Project # 2 – Medicare – EEM360 (Eligibility and Enrollment Member 360) Application CRs and Defect fixes
Project Name – Medicare Support (M360 Systems CRs and Defect fixes– Excellus, MMO, BCBS_MN, Cambia, Highmark, TSA)
Start Date
01/01/2015
End Date
Till date
Project Role
SQA and Lead – Application Testing and Mainframe Batch Testing
Team Size
6
Location
Jefferson City, MO,USA
Skills
Duration (In Months)
Application Testing
Mainframe Batch Testing
Manual Testing
Web Testing
Functional and Integration Testing
Web-Services Testing
24
Description
The Primary goal of this project is to redesign, modernization and maintenance of Advantage 360 systems to various health care Insurance providers customers like Highmark, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Excellus, Cambia, MMO, Triple-S etc.). The Advantage M360 system is a Medicare claims and enrollment management system and fiscal repository that facilitates premium payment reconciliation with CMS (Center for Medicare and Medicaid services) and facilitates financial reporting to health insurance providers / companies.
Responsibilities
Coordinating with the Client on the new requirements as CRs and defect fixes
Analyzing the system for new enhancements and defect fixes.
Designing and execution of the test scenarios
End to End testing of the Enrollment and Claims application being developed
Interface and Unit Testing
Integration and System Testing
Periodically report to the concerned team on the defects
Effective and efficient testing of the application such that the applications are defect free.
Co-ordinate the work between offshore and Onsite
Supporting testing activities on MEDICARE project.
Validating EDI 834 format file.
Validating Web services testing on Rest Client and SoupUI
Complete Test Management for Implementation and Maintenance projects
Executing the Regression Test scripts based on Hybrid frameworks (Data driven + Keyword driven) on online Application via HP UFT 12.0
Project Details – Laboratory Corporation of America (LabCorp)
LabCorp is embarking on a transformational journey in their QA organization and has selected Wipro as a partner of choice for providing testing services across all their functional areas. LabCorp Application Testing is as an extension to the current LabCorp QA team and will bring value to the overall QA activities; tool expertise, bring in productivity improvements, global delivery and leveraging COE’s namely, Automation, Performance and Data Centric testing.
LabCorp has applications in six functional areas namely - Clinical labs, Billing, Specialty, Analytics, Enterprise applications and Customer Connectivity/other web applications and multiple applications in these six functional areas with varying technologies ranging from Mainframe to Packaged applications to Web applications.
Project # 1 – LabCorp Toxicology Systems – Genesis ICD9 to ICD 10 upgrade project
Project Name – LabCorp - App Testing – LCTS Genesis (Upgrade Project)
Start Date
08-01-2013
End Date
12-31-2014
Project Role
SQA and Lead – Application Testing
Team Size
6
Location
Burlington, NC, USA
Skills
Duration (In Months)
Application Testing
Manual Testing
Web Testing
Functional and Integration Testing
16
Description
The Primary goal of this project was to implement a single process flow that provides state-of-the-art automation for Pain Management Drug Testing, Medical Professionals (MedPro) drug testing and Non-Chain-of-Custody Toxicology drug testing in terms of expansion of drugs and associated sub-drugs. The flow are modeled after the current workplace drug testing flow which also includes upgrading from ICD9 to ICD10 codes
Responsibilities
• Customer interfacing and Client handling
• Analysis and Review of SCRs and WOs with clients
• Attending Scrum meetings with client side project management team and discuss about the progress of the project
• Coordinating with Clients for SQA activities
• Coordinating with Offshore for Testing activities
• Complete Test Management in HP QC
• Requirement Gathering and Analysis
• Preparation of Requirement Traceability Matrices
• Test Plan Creation
• Test Cases Designing
• Test Cases Design Review
• Test Cases Executions
• Test Cases Executions Review
• Preparation and Review of various project related trackers and matrices
• Defect Management in Bugzilla, SBM and QC
• Defect logging and Tracking in Bugzilla, SBM and QC
• Verify weekly/ biweekly builds
• Test Summary Creation
• SQA Signoffs
• Providing WSRs and DSRs to clients and Management
• Managing Offshore team
• Onsite Coordination
• UAT Support to end users
• Production Support
Project # 2 – LabCorp Laboratory Systems and LabCorp Toxicology Systems – Enhancement and Maintenance
Project Name – - LabCorp - App Testing – LCTS and LCLS Enhancement and Maintenance
Start Date
06-01-2010
End Date
10-17-2014
Project Role
SQA and Lead – Application Testing
Team Size
4
Location
Burlington, NC, USA / Hyderabad, India
Skills
Duration (In Months)
Application Testing
Manual Testing
Web Testing
Functional and Integration Testing
52
Description
This project deals with testing of enhancement and bug fixes of Client side applications and database used in clinical laboratories and drug testing that makeup the workflow of the healthcare system. The application and database contains all of the information regarding specimens including receiving of specimens, Order entry, test performed, result entries and reporting. Components of this system include Order Entry of Specimen, Result entries, Reporting, etc.
Responsibilities
• Customer interfacing and Client handling
• Analysis and Review of SCRs and WOs with clients
• Coordinating with Clients for SQA activities
• Coordinating with Offshore for Testing activities
• Complete Test Management in HP QC
• Requirement Gathering and Analysis
• Preparation of Requirement Traceability Matrices
• Test Plan Creation
• Test Cases Designing
• Test Cases Design Review
• Test Cases Executions
• Test Cases Executions Review
• Preparation and Review of various project related trackers and matrices
• Defect Management in Bugzilla, SBM and QC
• Defect logging and Tracking in Bugzilla, SBM and QC
• Verify weekly/ biweekly builds
• Test Summary Creation
• SQA Signoffs
• Providing WSRs and DSRs to clients and Management
• Managing Offshore team
• Onsite Coordination
• UAT Support to end users
• Production Support
Project # 3 – LabCorp Toxicology System – Phoenix – Migration Project (HP3000 – HP9000)
Project Name – LabCorp App Testing – LCTS Phoenix (Migration Project)
Start Date
11-01-2010
End Date
05-31-2012
Project Role
SQA – Application Testing
Team Size
3
Location
Hyderabad, India
Skills
Duration (In Months)
Application Testing
Manual Testing
Web Testing
Functional and Integration Testing
19
Description
LCTS-OTS is a LabCorp acquired area which deals with the Drug Testing on human samples like blood, hair and urine with functionalities includes Receiving of the Sample, Data Entry, Screening Post, Creation of Batches, Initial and Final Posting, Reporting the sample, Reviewing the Reports and Sending the reports to clients.
LCTS-Phoenix project was the data migration project of the application from hardware HP3000 to HP9000 with migration of database from Image to Eloquence
Responsibilities
• Customer interfacing and Client handling
• Preparation of ARM documents
• Analysis and Review of SCRs and WOs with clients
• Coordinating with Clients for SQA activities
• Complete Test Management in HP QC
• Requirement Gathering and Analysis
• Test Plan Creation
• Test Cases Designing
• Test Cases Design Review
• Test Cases Executions
• Test Cases Executions Review
• Defect Management in Bugzilla, SBM and QC
• Defect logging and Tracking in Bugzilla, SBM and QC
• Verify weekly/ biweekly builds
• Test Summary Creation
• SQA Signoffs
• Providing WSRs and DSRs to clients and Management
• Onsite Coordination
• UAT Support to end users
• Production Support
Personal Details
Employee Name
Nikhil Pathak
Current Location
Lake Mary, FL, USA
Mail ID
****.******@*****.***
Contact Number
Education Details
B-Tech (Information Technology) -2008
Languages
English, Hindi
Marital Status
Married
References: On Request