Akila Nithiyanandam

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Professional Summary

Quality/Business Analyst having 4+ years of experience in Analysis, Testing and Implementation of SDLC.

More than 4 years of experience in software testing in Banking domain and US health and Welfare Domain.

Have a Solid experience manual testing. Involved in Functional, Regression and System integration testing. Participated in Test plan drafting in writing, reviewing test cases. Development of test design.

Bug reporting and Test reporting conducting of load testing.

Good knowledge of SDLC, Agile and testing process. Well versed with Testing and Quality processes.

Experience in working with different database using SQL queries.

Good knowledge of Automation Testing with Selenium Web driver.

Experience in all phases of life cycle, including requirements gathering, testing, defect tracking, management, and reporting.

Proven expertise on working with commercially available testing tools and issue tracking applications such as Application Life cycle Management / Quality Center (HP ALM/HP QC).

Proficiency in analyzing Business Requirements and writing Test Cases, Test Scenarios, and Developing Test Scripts.

Experience in Data Analysis, Data Validation, Data Verification and identifying data mismatch.

Proficient in functional, negative, regression, system (ST), system integration (SIT) and User acceptance (UAT) testing.

Familiar with Excel for developing Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) and Capturing and Updating Change Requests

Experienced in end-to-end testing including GUI application testing, Back End testing, Database testing, Front-end testing and mobile application testing.

Experienced in testing Mobile application using Experi Test SeeTest.

Created Business Requirement document (BRD) and Functional Requirement document.

Performed Test Automation Using HP QuickTest pro and HP QC/HP ALM.

Good knowledge in US Health & welfare domain and Human Resource domain.

Technical Skills

Skills: Functional Testing, Sanity, GUI, Regression and UAT Testing

Business system Analysis,Requirement Gathering &Analysis.

Tools: Application Lifecycle Management/ Quality Center (HP ALM/HP QC), JIRA, Work bench.

Mobile Application Testing Experi Test SeeTest, Selenium

Operating System: Windows 2000/XP,7.

Defect Tracking Tools HP Quality Center, Jira

Database: Oracle, SQL Server.

IDE: Eclipse, Junit, Selenium IDE

Microsoft Office Excel, Access, Outlook, Project and Power point.

Educational Qualification

Master of Computer Applications Anna University

Domain Knowledge

US Benefits (Health and Welfare)

Banking Domain

Mobile Application Testing

Professional Experience

Recently worked in Accenz - USA

Previously worked in Aon Hewitt- India

Client: Flagstar Bank October 2016 October 2017

Job title: QA Analyst

Project: Data Modernization

Project Description: Deliver a common, integrated, accurate, & timely interface to information relevant to loans serviced with Flagstar Bank. The objective is to upgrade the existing data warehouse to support the next generation of the data warehousing technologies and architecture strategies In simple to build a new data warehouse to replace the existing data warehouse.

Responsibilities:

Expertise in analyzing Software Requirement Specification and identifying the required Test Scenarios for Projects.

Conducted source-system data analysis to understand current state, quality and availability of existing data.

Designed & Created Test Cases based on the Business requirements. Executed Manual tests to ensure that software meets established quality standards.

Experience in Black Box Testing which includes Functional Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing, GUI Testing and Integration Testing.

Involved in extensive DATA validation using SQL queries and back-end testing

Validated that design meets requirements and function according to technical and functional specifications.

Used HP Quality Center to state requirements, business components, test cases, and test runs for every iterations, defects. Also link defects with requirements.

Performed all aspects of verification and validation.

Worked with other members of the QA and Development teams and offshore team in improving the processes, methods, effectiveness and efficiency

Performed front-end testing on OBIEE Executive Dashboard portal

Used TOAD & SQL Developer GUI tools for Querying Database.

Participated in walkthrough and defect report meetings periodically.

Documented and reported various bugs during Manual Testing.

Written SQL Queries, according to mapping document to validate the code written for the data movement into the database tables.

Retesting the resolved defects/issues after the developers fix the defects

Kicked off the datastage workflows and monitored them in workflow monitor.

Developed the strategies for analyzing the data loaded by data stage Workflows

Accomplished the assigned work and updated the status of the testing to the QA team.

Developed strategies for report migrations from different reporting suites to Congos

Involved in participation of regular weekly project status meetings to discuss the risks involved in ongoing projects with Teammates and Team Lead.

Expertise with Agile methodology working in weekly sprints and made sure every feature worked as expected.

Client: Key Bank September 2015 October 2016

Job title: QA Analyst

Project: Annual Enrollment and Customer Information System

Project Description: This Annual Enrollment is also known as open enrollment in a period of time, usually but not always occurring once per year, when employees of companies and organizations may make changes to their elected options, such as health Insurance. It manage the health care, life and disability insurance, and retirement savings products and Medicare. The term also applies to the annual period during which individuals may change their individual health insurance plans through the online. It consists both Active and Retiree population

Responsibilities:

Responsible in Analyzing the Requirements- Analyzing the needs and solution.

Responsible for documenting Test plan/Test cases/ Test scripts as per Business rules for each release.

Designed and executed Manual tests to ensure that software meets established quality standards

Designed test case to perform Mobile automation testing using Experi Test SeeTest.

Performed Test Automation using HP ALM.

Used Application Lifecycle Management to define and develop test plans and test cases and also prepared a test Status reports for each stage.

Performed Functional, regression and System Integration testing on application.

Client/Server application testing, GUI testing on the front end validating data.

Involved in E2E system integration testing, System Testing, Regression Testing.

Preparing and documenting the test conditions and test cases.

Involved in test data preparation for the functional changes.

Have done some backend testing through SQL Developer.

Responsible for thorough testing of browser and platform compatibility issues

Participate in weekly test planning, project status meetings and reviews.

Followed the Agile Development process and completed the testing within the scheduled release date.

Involved in testing application on different mobile Platform such as iOS and Android devices.

Client: Aetna Feb 2013 August 2015

Job title: QA Analyst

Project: Annual Enrollment - Health Insurance and Benefits

Project Description: Aetna is an insurance plan provider company which provides various insurance plans to employer and Individual/Family, through a full range of managed health care, life and disability insurance, and retirement savings products and Medicare. This system gives full information regarding benefits, plans offered by the company, educate people about diseases, prevention, users can enroll and can avail the benefits offered.

Responsibilities:

Reviewed the Business Requirement Documents and Use Cases to create test cases

Preparing and documenting the test conditions and test cases.

Involved in test data preparation for the functional changes.

Involved in various health and welfare and qualified retirement plans enrollment

Tested the complete annual health and welfare module

Managed monthly review, payment and reconciliation of pension vendor data/invoices

Verified calculation of monthly premium statements for all group policies and maintained statistical data relative to premiums, claims, and cost

Involved in Usability testing.

Skill Set

Interpersonal Communication.

Documentation and Specification.

Relationship-Building.

Self-Motivated and Positive Attitude.

A Thick Skin.

Ability to learn new methodologies and tools very quickly.

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