Priya Krishnasamy ***–***–****

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SENIOR QA LEAD

Major strengths reside in Functional testing including web service testing, AS400, Smoke testing, system and integration testing, Regression testing. 9+ years of work experience in Software Quality Assurance and Testing with excellent knowledge and experience in both Software testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Agile methodologies. Hands–on management style with passion for mentoring teams to achieve both company and individual goals in quality/product–driven environments. Continually deliver top–quality IT projects from inception through deployment within aggressive deadlines. Analytical, results–driven and expert in applying technologies solutions. Extensive experience in Insurance domain covering Personal, Commercial and Annuity

SIGNATURE STRENGTH

ISTQB Certified AAPA 273 Certified LOMA Certified

Functional Testing Requirement Analysis Test strategy Test planning Test Design

Test Execution Defect Management Status Reporting UAT and Implementation Support Resource Estimation New Proposals QA Metrics Root Cause Analysis Risk Management Test Management

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS 9 Years of experience 2007- Present

PROJECT EXPEREINCE

DUN & Bradstreet – Senior QA Lead, Chennai 2015-2016

Held full accountability for managing testing projects, ensuring maximum product quality, reliability and client satisfaction.

Involved in QA Project Plan creation

Creating list of milestones and checkpoints and set measureable criteria’s to check the quality on timely basis.

Understanding and defining areas to calculate the overall risk to the project.

Creating strategies to mitigate those risks and take necessary measures to control the risks

Reviewing the test deliverables for all project before onsite/customer review

Work closely with all the stake holders of the team such as Project Managers, Business Analyst, Data Architects, Developers and production support team

Determine the testing scope & prepared/reviewed the test strategy document

Provided test estimation and Coordinated the upstream and downstream system during Integration Testing

Reviewed the test results of System testing, Functional testing, Regression testing and (UAT) User Acceptance testing

Estimate and review QA efforts as part of the overall development effort

Forecast / Estimate the Project future resource requirements.

Arrange the Hardware and software requirement for the Test Setup.

Assign task to other QA Team members and ensure that all of them have sufficient work in the project.

Attend the regular client call and discuss the weekly status with the project leadership team

Track and report upon testing activities, including testing results, test case coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status, performance baselines, etc.

Document, implement, monitor, and enforce all processes and procedures for testing is established as per standards defined by the organization.

Identify Training requirements and forward it to the Project Manager/ QA Lead

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Royal & Sun Alliances (Middle East) – QA Lead, Dubai 2012 – 2014

Project Abstract

EPlatform application used to administer the small business solution such as business comprehensive product and personal line of business such as home and travel.

The insurance intermediaries/brokers have access to sell SBS line of business through the B2B application and Home/Travel line of business through B2C application.

Responsible for

Comprehensive understanding of STLC and involved in various phases like Requirements Analysis/Design, Test Execution and Reporting.

Played as business analyst role to identify the requirement gaps.

Coordination and interaction with multiple groups (Dev, Testing, UAT / Business) within the project portfolio

Effective communication skill for coordination between globally located teams.

Provided support for other downstream applications for their enhancements.

Implemented the defect management process by introducing bugzilla tool for tracking purpose across application.

Understanding the small business solution and its supported application through KA sessions

Prepared supporting documents such as System Appreciation document and providing Reverse knowledge transition to clients / SME.

Coordination with offshore team to discuss on tasks and requirement clarifications.

Interaction with various client stakeholders on Test estimates, test planning and various testing initiatives.

Application knowledge transition to non-functional testing team such as performance and security testing.

Risk identification and analysis; providing baseline acceptance criteria and deliverable.

Resource forecasting based on the project demand.

Preparation of Test strategy and Test plan

Review of Test scenarios and Test cases created by the team.

Test scenario walkthrough to business.

Performed browser compatibility testing using various browsers.

Mobile testing for personal line application such as B2C Home and B2C Travel.

Responsible for tracking the defects till closure phase by coordinating with business and development team.

Participation in defect triage meetings and relevant status update in bugzilla.

Metrics/status reporting for test design and test execution on a daily/weekly basis.

Preparation of retrospection document at the end of each release.

ACE AOG UK Services – QA Test Analyst, Chennai 2009 - 2012

Product Abstract

GENIUS is an I Series based Insurance Product, designed by Xchanging. GENIUS is product driven, easy to configure and it’s a complete system for Policy life-cycle management. GENIUS has been in operation for eighteen years now.

Responsible for

Understanding the GENIUS and its supported products through knowledge transition sessions; preparing supporting documents and providing Reverse KT to clients / SME.

Involved in Functional, Regression and Sanity testing.

Understanding the business requirements and analysis of the application.

Preparation of test plan, test scenarios as per functional requirement specification, reporting of test results – updating of bug details in Quality center.

Responsible for reviewing the defects and route it to the appropriate development team for fix.

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Peer review of test artifacts and assisted the team for test case preparation.

Participated weekly defect review meeting to discuss about the open defects.

Mentoring and Training the fresh resources.

Hartford Life Insurance – QA Tester, Chennai 2007 - 2008

Product Abstract:

INGENIUM offers financial organizations the ability to define and administer a broad range of wealth protection, accumulation and preservation products in addition to more traditional individual insurance products.

INGENIUM's business functionality fully supports new business, underwriting, customer service and administrative processing throughout the entire life cycle of a contract – from acquisition of new business through to final settlement or claim.

Responsible for

Requirements gathering.

Writing Test Scenarios and Test Cases according BRDs and FRDs provided

Manual Execution of Test Cases to validate the functionality of the system.

Managing the deliverables of the team.

Defect Management (Defect documentation, Defect logging and tracking to Closure).

Ensure progress tracking and schedule adherence through monitoring and arranging recurring meeting within team.

Imparting the domain and application knowledge to the new team members

DOMAIN TOOLS & TECHNOLOGIES

HP Quality Center V 9.2, Bugzilla, JIRA, SOAP UI, REST, SQL, JAVA, AS400, Batch Processing

MS Office, Commercial Insurance, Property Insurance Casualty Insurance, Annuity, GENIUS, INGENIUM

EDUCATION

Bharathidasan UNIVERSITY, Trichy, India

Bachelor Degree in Computer Science

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