Sreenivasulu Vella

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Profile Summary:

Over 13 years of experience in the Information Technology & Quality Assurance with 9+ years of Onsite experience in leading, managing AD & Maintenance testing projects

Involved in test management activities such as Project Estimations, Resource planning, Client teams and offshore teams, status reporting, Risk Analysis, Mitigation Plan and provide appropriate orientation & training for the new resources joined the team. Actively participated in quality processes and internal quality audits

Expertise on Duck Creek, XM Policy Administration system and Guidewire Claim Center

Worked with Different Clients – QBE, Amgen, Charles Schwab, Chase, FedEx, RSA, T-Mobile, Microsoft and Sanmar

Expertise on Banking, Property & Casualty Insurance, e-commerce, Logistics, Retail, Security and Online Trading, Mobile, Pharma, Life Sciences and Healthcare domain applications

Good experience in Selenium, UFT, QTP Automation tools and SOAP Web service testing - SOAP UI, Rest API Testing

Well versed in Sanity Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, GUI Testing, Interface Testing, Database Testing, Risk based testing, Integration testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Web Service Testing, Mainframe Testing, Mobile Testing and End to End Testing

Expertise on managing Application development (AD), AM/AME – BAU projects, Production support, large infrastructure, integration, migration and upgrade projects

Defect management experience using HP ALM, JIRA, Quality Center, Test Director, Test tracker and Bugzilla tools

Experience in SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, Mainframe and ETL database testing

Experience in Microsoft Project Plan, TFS, MTM, Rally, SharePoint, Visual Source Safe, Confluence document management systems

Expertise on Testing Tools – Selenium Web driver with integration tools GitHub, Maven, TestNG, Jenkins, Junit, Ant, Appium, JMeter, Eclipse, DevOPS, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Development (CD), TDD, BDD, and proficient in XML, JSON, Java, Java Script, VB Script languages

Proficient in analyzing the Business (BRS), Functional requirements Specification (FRS) & Design documents to formulate Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Approach, Test scenario's, Test Cases, Preparation of test data, Defect Reports, Root Cause Analysis Reports and Test Summary Report/s

Experience in AGILE environment project and actively participated in User stories, Sprint, Release Planning discussions and Scrum, Retrospective meetings

Excellent knowledge of Software development life cycle (SDLC) – Agile, Waterfall, V model and Software test life cycle (STLC)

Expertise in Planning, deploying, problem solving skills, and managing the testing effort for any given engagement

Good interpersonal skills, committed, result oriented, hard working with a quest and zeal to learn new technologies

Professional Experience:

Client: SanMar

Project: Microsoft Dynamics365 Implementation

Role: Test Lead

Period: July 2018 to till date

Project Description:

Microsoft is implementing Dynamics365 project for SanMar customer.

SanMar is embarking on the project to implement a cloud based ERP solution to support the following objectives:

●Enable continued profitable growth and eliminate legacy application limitations

●Gain efficiencies and enable additional collaboration throughout the SanMar organization by leveraging standard Dynamics 365 processes.

●Enable rapid response and flexibility to business needs and trends.

●Modernize the current corporate ERP system to a cloud based solution that enables the SanMar technology teams the ability to rapidly respond to and support business needs with a focus on configuration and continued updates from the software vendor instead of custom code backlog.

Responsibilities:

●Being part of Requirements Walkthrough sessions and Understanding the Project Requirements

●Estimations, Resource Planning, Work assignment as part of the implementation

●Coordinate with product owners / Business Analyst for requirement clarifications

●Prepare Test strategy and Test Plan

●Preparing and reviewing Smoke, Functional, Regression, Interface, UAT and End to End Test cases

●Lead the testing team on identifying/executing software scenarios, regression testing, Smoke Testing, negative testing, error/bug retests and usability

●Conduct Daily Status meetings and Defect Triage meetings with all stakeholders

●Reporting testing progress and results to project team and Sr. management on daily basis

●Log the defects and updating the status throughout the defect life cycle

●Actively interacted with the development, Product, Integration teams in resolving Bugs identified from Testing

●To build, coordinating testing efforts with product, UAT and Development teams

●Back end testing using SQL queries and validating the data from source system to vendor systems

●To test webservice, REST API using SOAP UI, JSON, XML, etc.

●Development of Automation Scripts for web application using Selenium WebDriver automation tool

●Executed Sanity test scripts using Selenium WebDriver on different browsers/environments and provided Results

●Prepare test cases and execute test cases for every build

●Defect management in JIRA and follow-up with Development team

●Prepare the test summary report and share with all stakeholders

Client: T-Mobile

Project: Grand Central

Role: QA Lead

Period: Dec 2017 to June 2018

Project Description:

Grand Central is a Diagnostic platform that leverages several existing tools and services to give customer support a single tool to troubleshoot, apply remote fixes, update account information, and to file complaints or trouble tickets. Grand Central is split into two different versions, one for Care and typically PC based. The other is the Retail version, which is designed to be used on a tablet, phone or PC.

Grand Central a troubleshooting application that is currently used by internal customer care and retail reps for troubleshooting customer’s network issues. As other teams and applications begin to integrate with Grand Central, internal reps will have more visibility into the subscriber and areas of the network in order to better troubleshoot.

Responsibilities:

●Being part of Requirements Walkthrough sessions and Understanding the Project Requirements

●Estimations, Resource Planning, Work assignment as per the release work load

●Coordinate with product owner / Business Analyst for requirement clarifications

●Prepare Test strategy and Test Plan

●Preparing and reviewing Smoke, Functional, Regression, Interface, UAT and End to End Test cases

●Lead the testing team on identifying/executing software scenarios, regression testing, Smoke Testing, negative testing, error/bug retests and usability

●Prioritizes test execution in order to test high risk/high impact scenarios first

●Conduct Daily Status meetings and Defect Triage meetings with all stakeholders

●Reporting testing progress and results to project team and Sr. management on daily basis

●Log the defects and updating the status throughout the defect life cycle using JIRA

●Actively interacted with the development, Product, Integration teams in resolving Bugs identified from Testing

●Participate in Sprint planning, LOE, Scrum meetings and Retrospective meetings

●To test webservice, REST API using SOAP UI, JSON, XML, etc.

●Performing end to end activities for internal troubleshooting and ticketing system

●Presenting demos to Customer Care team around how the app helps troubleshoot mobile phone issues, etc.

●To build, coordinating testing efforts with product, UAT and Development teams

●Back end testing using SQL queries and validating the data from source system to vendor systems

●Prepare test cases and execute in JIRA

●Defect management in JIRA and follow-up with Development team

●Development of Automation Scripts for web application using Selenium WebDriver automation tool

●Executed Sanity test scripts using Selenium WebDriver on different browsers/environments and provided Results

●Validating the data for various system XML, JSON input/output files

●Prepare the test summary report and share with all stakeholders

●Provide QA Sign-off for all testing deliverables

Client: QBE Insurance Company, WI

Project: XM - Policy Administration System

Role: QA Lead

Period: Dec 2015 to Nov 2017

Project Description:

XM – Personal Lines is a Policy Administration System, maintained by Agents, Underwriters and Underwriter Assistants will create the insurance quotes for Home Owners, Auto, Renters, Builders, CA Condo, Dwelling Fire, Farmowners & Umbrella for the different clients in different states. Agent can create Quote, cancel and make changes on policy. Underwriter can make change, renew, cancel, accept or reject and work on policies. There are state specific rules related to the quotes and all the business specific rules will apply for different states and system will validate automatically based on the specific rules. If any rule violations, quotes will submit to Underwriter for approvals. Based on UW approvals Policy can be submitted by Underwriters. Referrals are notifications triggered by the agent to underwriter at satisfying specific criteria. Referrals are purely selection based. XM System will calculate the Premium amounts based on the driver violations for Auto.

Responsibilities:

●Being part of Requirements Walkthrough sessions and Understanding the Project Requirements

●Estimations, Resource Planning, Work assignment as per the release work load

●Coordinate with product owner / Business Analyst for requirement clarifications

●Prepare Test strategy and Test Plan

●Preparing and reviewing Smoke, Functional, Regression, Interface, UAT and End to End Test cases

●Lead the testing team on identifying/executing software scenarios, regression testing, Smoke Testing, negative testing, error/bug retests and usability

●Prioritizes test execution in order to test high risk/high impact scenarios first

●Conduct Daily Status meetings and Defect Triage meetings with all stakeholders

●Reporting testing progress and results to project team and Sr. management on daily basis

●Log the defects and updating the status throughout the defect life cycle using JIRA

●Actively interacted with the development, Product, Integration teams in resolving Bugs identified from Testing

●Involved in interface/integration testing from XM to Guidewire, CABS Billing history, Mobius Billing Documents, ImageRight documents, FOA and third party integrations

●Coordinate User Acceptance testing

● Creates and executes moderately complex SQL queries on SQL Server database and also verify the data in Rate Maintenance tables

●Development of Automation Scripts for web application using Selenium WebDriver automation tool

●Designed and developed Selenium test scripts using Hybrid Framework

●Executed Sanity test scripts using Selenium WebDriver on different browsers/environments and provided Results

●Involved in Web Services Functional Testing

●Using SOAP UI tool to test Real time Raters and Renters portal vendor webservices

●Validating the data for various system XML, JSON input/output files

●Writing, executing all the test cases in HP ALM test management tool

●Involved in Policy Life Cycle transactions, Quote management system and end to end interface testing for downstream applications

●Conducting defects root cause analysis meeting with all stakeholders and publish the report

●Getting the required approvals for all testing artifacts and uploading in SharePoint

●Performed End to End testing to make sure that all the functionalities are working fine as expected

Client: QBE Insurance Company, WI

Project: Guidewire ClaimCenter

Role: QA Lead

Period: Dec 2013 to Nov 2015

Project Description:

Guidewire ClaimCenter, the property and casualty industry’s most widely used web-based claims system, is available for all lines of business. Claim Center application is a claim process management system that manages claim information and processes claims from first notice of loss through execution of financial transactions, including payment and setting of reserve. Claim Center application integrates with the external systems legacy or other software application using Web services API/Enterprise Service Bus.

Responsibilities:

●Being a Lead, performed end to end testing on GWCC – Setting up of Claims, Adding Exposures, Updating of Financials – Adding Reserves, updating Claims and Subrogation. Checking for errors, validation of rules and coverages

●Attending the requirements gathering meeting between the Product Owners, Business Analysts, SME’s and Developers

●Understanding the Project Requirements

●Coordinate with product owner / Business Analyst for requirement clarifications

●Preparing the Estimates, Test plan and Test Strategy

●Reviewing Smoke, System, Interface, end to end and UAT test cases

●UAT support to business teams and performed UAT testing from QA team

●Assigning the System defects to project teams and third party vendors

●Conduct Defect Triage meetings

●Provided scope and approach on the overall testing for each Sprint in Rally

●Monitoring all the assigned tasks and updating on daily basis in Rally

●Daily Client interactions and Daily status calls with Offshore team

●Reporting testing progress and results to project team and management

●Actively interacted with the development team in resolving Bugs identified from Testing

●Coordinate User Acceptance testing

●Performed Automation testing using Selenium Webdriver tool

●Involved on Automation framework for Selenium Automation

●Deliver the project deliverables to the stakeholders after every release

●Lead the testing team on identifying/executing software scenarios, regression testing, Smoke Testing, negative testing, error/bug retests and usability

●Validating fraud data, sending the investigation files to SIU team

●Involved in complete end to end testing

Client: QBE Insurance Company, WI

Project: Duck Creek – PAS in a Box

Role: QA Lead

Period: Feb 2012 to Nov 2013

Project Description:

Duck Creek configuration and deployment of the QBE Essentials filing across all 50 states Inclusive of rating, policy issuance and forms. Implemented for below Commercial LOBs.

1.Commercial Auto

2.Commercial Property

3.General Liability

4. Inland Marine

5. Umbrella

6. Workers Compensation

7. Commercial Crime

8. Commercial Massachusetts Auto

9. Commercial Package Policy

Performed New Business and different additional transactions - Cancel, Endorse, Renew, Reinstate, Reissue, Rewrite etc. for all the products. Agents for Quoting, Bind, Issuance, Reinsurance, Underwriting processes.

The objective for the implementation of Accenture’s Duck Creek policy administration platform is provide a new platform to rate, quote, bind, and issue program business for all commercial Lines LOBs.

Responsibilities:

●Attending the requirements gathering meeting between the Product Owners, Business Analysts, SME’s and Developers

●Complete Implementation of all 9 LOBS for 50 states and responsible for all testing activities

●Understanding the Project Requirements

●Coordinate with product owner / Business Analyst for requirement clarifications

●Involved in Estimates, SLAs and preparing the Test plan and Test Strategy based on the estimations

●Reviewing Smoke, System, Interface, end to end and UAT test cases

●Assigning the System defects to project teams and third-party vendors

●Conduct Defect Triage meetings

●Provided scope and approach on the overall testing for each Sprint in Microsoft Test Manager (MTM)

●Monitoring all the assigned tasks and updating on daily basis in MTM

●Daily Client interactions and Daily status calls with Offshore team

●Reporting testing progress and results to project team and management

●Actively interacted with the development team in resolving Bugs identified from Testing

●Performed Automation testing using Selenium Webdriver tool

●Involved on Automation framework for Selenium Automation

●Coordinate User Acceptance testing

●Worked with multiple stakeholders and vendors to resolve the application issues

●Deliver the project deliverables to the stakeholders after every release

●Lead the testing team on identifying/executing software scenarios, regression testing, Smoke Testing, negative testing, error/bug retests and usability

●Involved in complete end to end testing

Client: Amgen

Project Name: B2B - Infrastructure

Role: Onsite Test Coordinator

Period: Dec 2010 to Jan 2012

Project Description:

B2B is a Business to Business program and it consist of many infrastructure projects (PAMS and IAM). The IAM system is being developed to facilitate the automation of timely and accurate identity and access management for external business partners’ (EBPs) account lifecycle. The system will efficiently provision extranet accounts for external users. It will also provision appropriate system access and entitlements based on enterprise roles for both internal and external users. The IAM system and functionality is being developed through a series of releases. The multifactor authentication release will provide the ability to efficiently create extranet accounts with more than one factor of authentication.

Responsibilities:

●Understanding the Project Requirements

●Preparing the test plan

●Involved in High level, Functional, and Regression Testing

●Preparing, Executing Test Cases and Analyzing the Test Results using Quality Center 11 (ALM)

●Reviewing and Modifying the test cases

●Preparing the Test Summary reports

●Verifying the data accuracy using Oracle database

●Involved in UAT Testing support

●Daily Client interactions

●Involved in complete end to end testing

Client: Amgen

Project Name: Amgen - Insight

Role: Onsite Test Coordinator

Period: July 2009 to Nov 2010

Project Description:

This application mainly handles the Building, publishing and regulatory submission of drug products document to FDA or other Country Drug approval bodies for approvals.

The system has two modules: InSight Manager for Registrations (IMR) and InSight Publisher (IP). IMR servers the regulatory tracking function whereas IP serves the Publishing function.

The InSight Suite system enables the tracking and publishing business functions within Amgen regulatory affairs. Amgen Company is going to publish new medical drugs to FDA with this InSight Publisher application. This is a regulatory project and submitting all new drug details to FDA for publishing drugs. In this application the process is first prepare to publish, once it is successfully completed, then going to publish request to different countries. a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) is a third-party administrator (TPA) of prescription drug programs for commercial health plans, self-insured employer plans, Medicare Part D plans, the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, and state government employee plans

Responsibilities:

●Understanding the Project Requirements

●Preparing Microsoft Project Plan

●Involved in High level, Functional, Dry Run and Formal Testing

●Preparing, Executing Test Cases and Analyzing the Test Results using Quality Center

●Reviewing and Modifying the test cases

●Preparing Test reports using Quality Center

●Updating Weekly status in the Share Point

●Involving in the team meetings with Offshore and Onsite

●Daily Client interactions

●Preparing MOM

Client: FedEx

Project: FedEx – INET& Dotcom

Role: Test Lead

Period: Nov 2008 to Jun 2009

Project Description:

FedEx is a global provider of transportation, logistics, e-commerce and supply chain management services company. In this project, we are having web based applications like Online Supplies, INET online application, Pickup and Drop off services and Invoice adjustments, Shipping labels which are very useful for FedEx customers. FedEx customers are also having facility of using online shipment, pickup and drop services and FedEx express, FedEx Ground services for all the countries.

Responsibilities:

●Understanding the Project Requirements

●Involved in getting the testing entry approvals from Marketing team, Dev team and Test Manager

●Assigning the work to team members

●Involved in High level, Smoke and Functional Testing

●Involving in the team meetings with Offshore and Onsite

●Executing the Test Cases and Analyzing the Test Results

●Bug tracking and reporting through Quality Center

●Conducting Post mortem meetings and defect meetings

●Updating Daily Status, MPP, VSS on daily basis

●Involved in Regression using QTP and BPT tools

●Involved in database testing using FSS and GSE

Client: Charles Schwab

Role: Sr. QA Analyst

Projects: Schwab – Bond Source, SRI & HPS Testing

Period: Dec 2007 to Oct 2008

Projects Description:

Bond source is an Electronic trading system that links bond inventories from outside broker-dealers with the client’s proprietary inventory of bonds. This trading system is used by client’s bonds specialists. Traders have increased product choices, it reduces the time to purchase a fixed income security and successfully makes the bond investing experience more efficient .This application is used by client to do trading on the behalf of customer.

SRI is the main application which processes all the transactions which Schwab RPS receives from client facing applications (PSL, VRU, and Schwab Plan.com).

Business use: Transactions, Trade Processing, Reporting, All Aspects of Recordkeeping and Loan Processing, Maintenance, Inquiry, Reporting and Utility functions for internal users

Processing of Customer-initiated transactions

HPS Testing Project is a Migration Project which is having existing application with different old technologies. Now the purpose of this Project is Converting old technologies to new technologies i.e. front end to C#.Net, Middleware to Java Web Services and backend to Mainframe DB2 using a Automation conversion tool and manually. In this project there is Contact Info application which is having Employee, Schwab Org, Contra details etc. in the screens.

Responsibilities:

●Understanding the Project Requirements

●Writing the Test cases

●Reviewing the team members test cases

●Involved in High level, Functional and Regression Testing

●Executing the Test Cases and Analyzing the Test Results

●Checking the database using Oracle Toad

●Bug tracking and reporting through Mantis

●Preparing and Sending MOM and Daily Status Reports

●Bond automation scripts runs using Silk Test

Client: Chase

Project: Chase Online (COL)

Period: Jan 2006 to Nov 2007

Role: Tester

Project Description:

Chase online Project is an online project for the joint venture between two famous banks of the US JP Morgan Chase and Bank One. The COL application consists of different modules like My Accounts, Credit Card Payments and Transfers, Deposits, Account Management, Products and Services and Customer Center. See Statements link is available for paperless statements for different months giving to customer.

Responsibilities:

●Preparing the Test cases

●Reviewing the Test cases

●Executing Test Cases and Analyzing the Test Results.

●Involved in Functional and Adhoc Testing.

●Bug Tracking and reporting through Mercury Quality Center.

●Creates and executes moderately complex SQL queries on Oracle and DB2

●Involved in Regression testing

Client: RSA

Project: RSA – Account Service

Role: Tester

Period: Sep 2005 to Dec 2005

Project Description:

RSA Consumer Authentication Service (RCAS) is a critical addition to RSA’s existing business. It will allow organizations and their end users to respond to this high risk by providing more reliable authentication mechanism. To mitigate such kind of risks RSA would provide their customers with authenticators / tokens which users will use to add a second factor authentication apart from their regular User ID and Pass word to log into an account. In this Project there are different modules like Accounts, Sites, Seed Data, and Reports etc.

Responsibilities:

●Understanding the client requirements and project functionalities

●Designed Functional Test Cases

●Involved in Reviews, Meetings and Discussions

●Implemented Review Comments

●Data Base testing using Toad

●System Testing has been done effectively

●Prepared Functional Test Reports after Execution

●Uploaded and Updated FTC and FTR in VSS and Share Point.

●Submit the defects using Bugzilla.

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