EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

Seema Motwani is a QA / Testing specialist with over 11 years of experience in Information Technology and has worked on various platforms in Manual and Automation Testing. Seema has worked across all various phases of the Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) such as Requirements analysis; Test planning, Test Design, Environment Setup and Test Execution. Seema has worked at various levels from Team member to Test Lead and is currently working as a Senior Consultant. Seema’s core areas of skills are Functional Testing, System and Regression Testing & Test Management. Seema has worked on multiple defect management and automation tools for projects of small to large in size. Seema has also worked on nonfunctional testing.

Seema also has excellent knowledge of Object Oriented Programming concepts and has experience of integrating automation in Test Plans and Test Strategy using SOAPUI, and Selenium Webdriver. Seema also had a good exposure to Guidewire Policy Center and Mobile testing tools such as Perfecto Mobile. Apart from possessing, Seema has strong problem solving and analytical skills with ability to handle multiple projects concurrently.

Skills:

Tools Guidewire Policy Center, Selenium Webdriver Automation testing tool, SOAPUI, QC – Quality Center, Rational Clear Quest, TRAC, Testlink, VersionOne, Sharepoint, Sub Version (SVN), Gitlab, Visual Source Safe, Perfecto Mobile – Mobile Testing Tool, Java, Javascript, Excel macros

Job Functions SOW Response Preparation, Requirement Analysis, Test Plan Creation, Test Design, Traceability Matrix Creation, Test Execution, Defect Management, Documentation, Reviews, Estimation, Onsite-Offshore Coordination, Team Management and handling Project schedules.

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE:

Integrated Fire Homeowners Jan 2017 to till date

Test Consultant State Farm Insurance

Description: State Farm provides an internet Customer with Homeowner Quote; however, customer is unable to purchase coverage. Goal of this project is to provide internet customers ability to purchase Homeowner policy same as other online policies like Renters, Condominium and Auto. This will allow the customer to choose the point of sale that best fits their needs. The Integrated Fire Homeowner effort will simplify and integrate the customer experience while modernizing systems.

This project uses the Scaled Agile framework as the method for software delivery.

Responsibilities: Testing the applications and it’s enhancements across customer facing Homeowner products.

Responsible for maintaining Automation script and execution using Selenium Webdriver

Responsibility for the test Plans development. Test Schedule, Test strategy, Test specifications, test cases for functional testing (Black Box), system testing, integration testing and User Acceptance testing

Responsible for overall Quality – responsibilities include requirement analysis for testability, test strategy, overall test design, execution approach, gap analysis, status reporting, review and consolidation of offshore deliverables

Defect Management using Clear Quest/TRAC

Plan, organize, monitor and control test team for the completion of testing activities to meet project specifications

Identify and analyze issues and risks. Categorize/prioritize risks to develop a plan to stabilize the most common areas of concern.

Estimations of Test Cases Design, Test Execution

Onsite Offshore coordination

Review test data and test cases for Integration, System Testing

Prepare test summary reports, test logs and Summarize the implementation results for the project. Also responsible for Responsible for weekly and phase-wise status reporting

Creating Test Summary results and Evidence of test

Conducting Test case review and User acceptance sessions and getting acceptance approval for each milestone.

Responsible for mainframe database validations using RUMBA interface

Responsible for Creating KT documents for new team members

Homeowners Basic application Oct 2015 Till Dec 2016

Test Lead State Farm Insurance

Description: Homeowners Basic is a new product in State farm Portfolio for the consumers. This will provide more basic form of Homeowners Coverage. Homeowners Basic will be available to the Agent within Enterprise Apps only.

Responsibilities: Provide functional Expertise in the coordination of System Testing

Responsible for overall Quality – responsibilities include requirement analysis for testability, test strategy, overall test design, execution approach, gap analysis, status reporting, review and consolidation of offshore deliverables

Coordinates System test Case design, review and System test execution

Coordination with offshore team – query resolution, getting deliverables, status reporting

Responsible for Backend and Downstream testing execution and data needs of downstream area

Responsible for mainframe database validations using RUMBA interface

Responsible for managing deliverables of 10 Offshore resources

Internet Fire Rate quote redesign Aug 2010 Till Sept 2015

QA Lead State Farm Insurance

Description: The goal of this project is to deploy redesigned versions of the Homeowners, Renters and Condo Internet Fire Rate Quote applications and Homeowners, Renters, Condo, RDP, PDF and BIA EA applications on the company’s Target Architecture JRA2.0 infrastructure utilizing the internal Data Driven User Interface (DDUI) framework.

This project will add new functionalities to product such as Purchase redesign for Renters and Condo, Warm leads to agents and Quote summary email to Customers for Renters, Condo, HOW, and Consumption of a new version of SFX and J2EE components.

This project will add new functionalities to product such as Purchase redesign for Renters and Condo, Warm leads to agents and Quote summary email to Customers for Renters, Condo, HOW, and Consumption of a new version of SFX and J2EE components.

Regular releases also added various new functionalities to the Products, namely 360Value tool, Save and Retrieve, Approximate Value Tool, etc.

Responsibilities: Testing the redesigned applications and the enhancements across customer and agent facing FIRE products – Homeowners / Renters / Condo / RDP PDF / BIA.

Responsible for overall Quality – responsibilities include requirement analysis for testability, test strategy, overall test design, execution approach, gap analysis, status reporting, review and consolidation of offshore deliverables

Defect Management using Clear Quest/TRAC

Identify and analyze issues and risks. Categorize/prioritize risks to develop a plan to stabilize the most common areas of concern.

Estimations of Test Cases Design, Testing

Creating test data for downstream areas and automation team in XML format using TCDM tool, managing deliverables of Offshore resource

Review test data and test cases for Integration, System Testing

Prepare test summary reports, test logs and Summarize the implementation results for the project. Also responsible for Responsible for weekly and phase-wise status reporting

Responsible for Creating KT documents for new team members

Michigan Catastrophic Claims Association Membership Aug 2009 Till July 2010

QA Lead State Farm Insurance

Description: MCCA is implementing a new web based claim, membership and assessment system called the MCCA Membership System (MMS). The new system will replace the current paper driven processes with electronic data exchange via web service, file upload, and web form. We need the ability to report new claims, provide status reports, submit reimbursement requests, submit documentation, generate reports, and provide premium data online through a data exchange with MCCA

Responsibilities: Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for Testing efforts

Overview of the application under test (functionality, purpose etc.)

Analyzing the functionality of the application according to the requirements.

Identification of data required for system testing.

Task Test Case Design & execution and allocations

Test Result evaluation, documentation, and reporting

Helping development team to expedite defect fixing

Defect Management (including documentation and verifying resolution)

Test results reporting and Responsible for day to day deliveries

CIMS Rewrite July 2009 Till June 2008

Test Analyst State Farm Insurance

Description: The Catastrophe Information Management System (CIMS) is a suite of tools used to search, assign, track and deploy Catastrophe personnel and equipment as well as manage offices. The current CIMS Applications do not meet current business requirements nor are they used consistently. The purpose of the CIMS Rewrite effort is to reorganize, redesign and rebuild the CIMS Applications.

The goal of this project was to port the existing Visual Basic (VB) architecture to the Java/J2EE, correct known defects and implement a backlog of discretionary as well as newly requested enhancements.

Responsibilities: Analyzing new phase requirements. Building the application knowledge from existing application and Prototype

Batch job Testing

Doing System, Integration, Regression, Sandbox, Exploratory & IE7 Testing

Active participation in improvement of product

Solely responsible for complete testing of the application

Interacting with development team to deliver the task within given timeframe

Creating Test Coverage matrix

CMRB March 2007 Till May 2008

Test Analyst State Farm Insurance

Description: This client is a leading Insurance Company in US, engaged mainly in Auto, Fire and Life Insurance. This project is meant to implement improvements to the existing Service Management processes, cost effectiveness of IT Services within SM Process, define and implement new process, develop Tools to manage process. Service Management Process disciplines to provide IT services effectively to Users, Business Partners, Stakeholders typically in areas such as Service/Help Desk, Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management, Configuration Management, Release Management. SMP will be defining a roadmap for implementing the remaining Service Management processes.

The primary goal of the Change Management process is to categorize, prioritize, plan, validate, monitor, and assess all approved changes to the production environment, including the operational test environment. Change Management Reviews is a critical activity enabling the CMRB CC's (Change Coordinators) to make decisions regarding approval / non approval of Change Records..

Responsibilities: Performing CMRB and Process reviews of Change records using HP Service Desk

Performing peer-to-peer reviews for work product of offshore team

Generating and uploading the required data files for Start of Day activities.

Generation of CMRB individual noncompliance reports, consolidated reports and mailing these reports to various Change Coordinators

Resolution of queries raised by Change management Review Board.

Weekly Estimation of CMRB and Process review activity.

Automated the process of Start of day activity with creation of macro, which reduced the time required for the task nearly to half the manual time. It also assured 100% accuracy.

Provided suggestions from time to time, which were accepted for improvement of the process.

HIGHER EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Electronics from Nagpur University, India

Diploma in Software Testing from SEED Infotech, Pune, India

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Trainings Completed: Safe Agile, Software testing, Manual Testing, Insurance, Estimation

Certifications:- SAFe Agilist (SA) - Leading SAFe 4.0 with SA Certification, International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB), Tier 1: Basic Smart Bear partner certified API Testing

Contact Info:

Email: Seema.mots2gmail.com

Contact#: 309-***-****

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