8 years of experience ad a functional test lead in Insurance domain..

SARALA DEVI DARSHANAM E-Communication E-mail: *.******@*****.*** Mobile: +1-713-***-**** Personal Information Marital Status: Married Nationality: Indian Career Objective Passionate to delivering real value and committed to work that contributes expected benefits to the organization and its customers. Professional Information Total number of years of experience: 7.9 years Organization: GENPACT, India (From May 2006 to Feb 2014) Proficiency Academic Master of Computer Applications (MCA) from Aurora's PG College Osmania University, 2001-04 with an aggregate of 72%. Bachelor of Science (B. Sc.) With an aggregate of 61% from Osmania University, 1998-2001. Technical Languages : JCL, VSAM, COBOL RDBMS : Ms-Access, DB2 Platforms : Ms-Dos, Windows 95/NT, OS/390, Z/Os, OS400 Script Programming : HTML, DHTML Testing Tools : QTP, HP ALM Domain : Insurance -Policy Generation. Certifications : HP ALM Certified in Dec-2012. Success Track Bronze Award for the Month of Oct,2013 Identified several Lean Ideas into a process improvement and practicing with an BI of $30k per yr. Project Details Project# 4: Project: Genworth Life Fulfillment Domain: Insurance Role: Functional Test Lead Technology: .NET Duration: December, 2008 to Till Date Application Name: Life-E-app Client: GENWORTH Team Size: Ten Description: Genworth Financial is a leading financial security company serving the lifestyle protection, retirement income, investment and mortgage insurance needs of more than 15 million customers across 25 countries. The project focuses on 3 different tools Life E-app, LQR, and ILQR. Life E-app is a new online tool from Genworth that lets to complete Term life insurance Applications electronically. Reactive questions make the application process easier for Agents. Life Quick Request is an alternative to the traditional life insurance Application process that can streamline the application process for you and your clients. It produces complete application package.ILQR Provide users of I pipeline's Quote Engine (Life Pipe) a visual cue of their ability to use Genworth's Life Quick Request Application on IGO platform . Roles and Responsibilities: Leading off-shore team Delegation of work to team members. Reviewing the work status of team members Extensive functional Knowledge on the Application. Ensuring on time Delivery To perform End-to-End life-e-app product functional testing on need basis. Identifying process improvements and creating and implementing new processes for the same. Setting up the Test environment and preparing Test data to perform the Testing Activities. Handling Defect Management using Quality Center. Responsibility for regression testing and its analysis. Regular usage of test management tool - Quality Center Involving in conference calls with on-site management team. Executing test cases and preparing the test reports. Updating the test cases for the changes in the existing features. Preparing Test cases for specified features. Conducting meetings on defect analysis/knowledge sharing, creating SOPs. Effort estimation, Reviewing/Designing/Executing test cases. Developed and documented Standard Testing Procedures for Manual Testing Post Mortem Exercise after every release depicting what went well and what dint go well and also coming up with learning's Project# 3: Project: Siebel Regression Domain: Healthcare Role: Quality Analyst Technology: Siebel CRM Duration: Jun 2008 to Dec 2008 Application Name: Client: GE Team Size: Six Description: GE Healthcare has two main applications within Siebel technology, SWB and Siebel Sales CMS. These are independent instances, which has real time users operated by Sales representatives and managers of GE HC. The business functionality is more involved with modules like Accounts, CPQ, OM, Leads, Deals, Price Editor Tool, Opportunities, Territory management etc. All these are strategically set to have a complete knowledge of the real time sales flows and setups which are required for different sales structures of GEHC, and are spread across America's pole and few other countries and regions Roles and Responsibilities: Analyzed Business Requirements Designing manual test cases as per user's requirements Executed the test cases manually for different modules to ensure the quality of the software Identifyng the bugs and to retest for the same after the fix Developed and documented Standard Testing Procedures for Manual Testing Post Mortem Exercise after every release depicting what went well and what dint go well and also coming up with learning's Project#: 2 Project: SABIC MAINFRAME ELIMINATION Domain: Mainframes Role: Quality Analyst Technology: COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM Duration: Dec 2007 to Jun 2008 Application Name: Client: SABIC Team Size: Fifteen Tools: Endeavour, Panvalet, File Aid, ABEND Aid. Description: Sabic Mainframe Elimination involves in analyzing, designing, testing, coding, implementation of the whole functionality of the system and implementing each phase of the SDLC in order to convert Db2 Database to Oracle. Roles and Responsilities: Analyzing the process flow and its functionality. Preparing the test cases based on the analysis done. Performing Online testing of the jobs triggered online using Map definitions, and dialogs. Running Sql Queries to match against the original data. Involving in changing the Production code using tools like Panvalet, Endeavor. Worked with tools like Panvalet, Endeavor, File-aid, Abend-ai . Project#: 1 Project: GIS-PRODUCTION CONTROLLING Domain: Mainframes Role: Quality Analyst Technology: COBOL, JCL, CA-7, CA-11 Duration: May 2006 to December 2007 Application Name: Client: GE Team Size: Fifteen Description: GIS (Global Infrastructure services) is serving multiple GE Businesses with data center Infrastructure Services, delivering Information Technology Services, Expertise and Productivity to enable GE Business growth globally. It is spread across various geographies. Support mainframes, servers and network infrastructure for 15 GE businesses like NBC, GE Plastics, GE Aircraft Engines, and GE Insurance, etc. Currently offshore does the maintenance of problems, enhancement work and also provide 24 x 7 and 24 x 5 production support, Production Monitoring of the systems being maintained by GENPACT, IT Services Roles and Responsibilities: Monitoring the Mainframe jobs using the CA7 Tool. Solving the job abends based on the severity of the job Ensure the Adherence of the process to the SIX SIGMA Quality standards. Handling Shift, as a Shift Coordinator, along with the Bridge Calls and Daily Status calls. Also we provide the production monitoring of the 15 Different LPARS, which includes recycling Online Regions and weekly Data Base procedures. Monitoring the Unix Server Applications by using CA-Autosys. Initiating IPL (Initial Program Load) that happens on a weekly