Q.A Life Insurance

Piyush Shukla

(P): 319-***-****, 319-***-****

Summary;

> Over 10 years of experience with 8+ years as a Quality Analyst and

Tester role in System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

> Highly experienced in US Life Insurance and Annuities domain.

> Extensive experience in implementing Software Development Life Cycle

(SDLC) principles and methodologies.

> Prepared/Reviewed Test Plans: Analyzed business requirements,

development and documentation of test strategies, plans and test case

design for software products. Analyzed systems design specifications

and developed Test Cases to cover overall quality assurance testing.

> Experience in writing Test Scenarios, Test Plans, defining Test Cases,

developing and maintaining Test data, analyzing the Test Results,

interaction with team members in fixing the errors.

> Established traceability matrix to trace completeness of requirements.

> Proficient in defects management and tracking using Defect Management

Tools like Quality Center and Clear Quest.

> Created detailed documentation on the procedure of writing test cases

using Excel Spreadsheets.

> Experience in performing end to end testing, regression testing,

system and integration testing.

> Highly experience in testing the application manually (Black box

testing) during the development phase and automation testing using

QTP.

> Creating test evidences /results for verification points to assigned

issue.

> Skilled in coordinating and communicating between Developers, QA

Teams, Management, QA and project leads and stakeholders to keep them

informed at all the times about the development and the open issues.

> Exceptional communication skills, Result oriented professional who

combines formal education/certifications with experience gained from

research and hands-on opportunities.

> Analytical and methodical approach to problem solving, identifying

root causes and corrective actions to meet short and long-term

business, financial and system requirements.

> Experience and expertise in different Requirement Gathering, Test

Planning, Defect Tracking Tools and Mainframes and Java based systems

for New Business as well as Policy Admin system.

> Proficient with Microsoft Office tools (includes MS Project, MS Visio,

MS Access, MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint), MS Visio.

Education: Masters of Business Administration, Masters of Commerce

Certification:

C, C++ and Data Structures

Licentiate (Life Insurance)

Skillset:

Rational Unified Process, MS Visio, MS OFFICE (Word, Excel, PowerPoint,

Project, Outlook, Access), Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Quest,

Quality Center, Rational Quality Manager, Scarab, New Business Accelerator

(nbA) and Vantage-One.

Business and Quality Analyst(BA/QA) (Life Insurance and Annuities), Detail

Design Review, Functional and Unit Test Case Creation, Test Planning, Test

Case Execution, Manual and Automation Testing using QTP.

Projects Summary:

Transamerica (AEGON), Cedar Rapids, IA

7/2012-Present

Sr. Test Analyst -Vantage One

VANTAGE-ONE is a comprehensive solution that provides flexibility in

administering life insurance and annuity products for the qualified and non-

qualified markets. It is Mainframes based Policy admin system. Life

including product development, policy owner service, customer service,

financial, actuarial, and tax functions. Whole life, endowment, term

insurance (level term, increasing/decreasing) and joint 1st-to-die/joint

2nd-to-die support are provided. Annuity including product development,

policy owner service, customer service, financial, actuarial, and tax

functions. Fixed/variable annuities, single/installment premiums,

deferred/immediate annuities, 403(b)/401(k) and premium waiver support are

provided.

It accommodates flexible product design and implementation to provide an

insurance company the ability to rapidly introduce products into the market

place. In today's competitive environment, VANTAGE-ONE gives the speed and

agility that is needed to respond quickly to market changes while

maintaining quality service.

Responsibilities:

> Conducted walkthroughs, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), worked along

with developers and Quality Assurance team.

> Involved in writing Test Scenarios, Test Plans, Test Cases, developing

and maintaining Test Data, analyzing the results, interaction with

team members in fixing the errors.

> Review Test Scenarios, Test cases and Traceability matrix.

> Test execution and documenting the results, Defect management and

Defect testing and Metrics.

> Involved in performing integration, Functional, Regression, UAT and

End-to-End testing.

> Involved in checking the bugs in the codes or confirmation with the

team of QA. Generated, reported and tracked the defects with the team.

> Tracking and re-validating defects that helped developers to track the

problem and resolve the technical issues.

> Performed extensive manual testing on critical functionalities of the

application.

> Analyzing Production defects, identifying and documenting the root

cause of the problem, providing a possible solution to the business

department and then implementing the same in the system with the help

of technical team.

> Working with SME's and other stakeholder teams.

> Requirement analysis of the new Business requirements and Regular

Interaction with the end user related to the various requirements on

Vantage one System.

> Act as an interface between user and technical team to ensure correct

understanding of business requirement by the development team.

> Delivery of projects and implementation in onsite and ensuring quality

deliverables.

> Monitoring the Project schedule, review deliverables, signoff

projects.

> Analyzed systems design specifications and developed Test Cases to

cover overall quality assurance testing.

> Worked closely with the Application Development and Design and testing

team throughout the project's lifecycle.

> Participate in Status meetings and active participation in all the

phases of SDLC.

> Conducted Weekly Onsite-Offshore Status Meetings

Environment: MS Office Suite, Quality Centre, MS Outlook, Requisite Pro,

Rational Quality Manager, Clear Quest

Axa Equitable, Charlotte, NC

07/2007 - 6/2012

Sr. Quality Analyst -nbA (New Business Accelarator)

nbA - new business Accelerator provides an environment for Integrated

Business Process Management for New Business applications in US Life

Insurance. It implements the business application process starting from

application submission and ends with Policy issuance and delivery to the

customer, passing through stages of Auto Underwriting, Contract Evaluation,

Contract Validation, Requirement Determination and Evaluation, Underwriting

the Requirement results. Designed on ACORD standards, nbA is capable of

supporting multiple products, distribution channels and administration

systems; it provides the technology and business processes needed to

seamlessly integrate new business. By eliminating processing steps,

reducing handoffs and automating tasks, New Business Accelerator brings

unparalleled speed to the new business process, while maintaining the

integrity of risk assessment.

Working in customization of nbA product for its fortune 500 clients for

their life and annuities products. Worked in area of requirements review,

detail design reviews, test plan preparation and test execution.

.

Responsibilities:

> Conducted UAT, and file defects in the QC and coordinate with the

vendors to get them fixed for the new system.

> Analyzing the Enhancement Specifications, the impact of the new

functionality over the existing functionality.

> Performed extensive manual testing on critical functionalities of the

application and automation testing in QTP.

> Involved in Functional testing, Regression testing, UAT, Smoke

testing, Integration testing.

> Coordination with programmers for qualitatively complete and timely

delivery of the project phases and in whole.

> Smoke testing of the environments and Problem recreation, Test

scenario preparation, Test data preparation, testing the software to

check whether it meets the requirements.

> Bug Reporting using Scarab / Quality center assigns it to programmer

and retest after fix and Generated, reported and tracked the defects

with the team.

> Established traceability matrix to trace completeness of requirements

in different SDLC stages, and managed changes requests; controlled,

tracked and monitored change requests using Rational Clear Quest to

enable successful interactive development.

> Involved in writing Test Scenarios, Test Plans, defining Test Cases,

developing and maintaining test data, analyzing the results of,

interaction with team members in fixing the errors.

> Worked with stakeholders to obtain deliverable sign-offs. Provided

functional direction to other systems analysts and used the meta-data

definition and workflow needs and how these functions map to business

processes.

> Assisted and executed Test cases per Functional Specifications of the

application. Documented test/cases, test results, test procedure and

reported to client.

Environment: MS Office Suite, Quality Centre, MS Outlook, Requisite Pro,

QTP

ING Vysya Life Insurance, Banglore

01/2003- 6/2007

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

> Acted as liaison between the SME's and the technical teams, handled

all scheduling, resource planning and allocation matters, ran all

status meetings and compiled reports.

> Involved in Functional testing, Regression testing, UAT, Smoke

testing, Integration testing.

> Involved in creation and implementation of Test Procedures, Test

Plans. Experience in writing Test Plans, defining Test Cases,

developing and maintaining test scripts, analyzing the results of

scripts, interaction with team members in fixing the errors.

> Regression Testing

> Writing documentation

> Production support

Environment: MS Office, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Clear Case

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