Davamani Rajendran

Summary:

Mani has **+ years of experience in Information Security and Software Quality Assurance in Health care, retail, marketing, consumer and finance business domains.

Been part of major large global scale projects.

Knowledge of PCI, and other regulations and security frameworks.

Extensive knowledge of data security, access control systems, encryption and system Hardening.

Strong incident handling and forensics experience including knowledge of common probing and attack methods, network/service discovery, system auditing.

Education:

MS, Economics, University of Chennai, India

Other Courses Attended

Computer programming, Camden county college, Camden, NJ

SAS certification

Trainings Attended

Personally Identifiable information (PII)

Project Management Skills for non-Project Managers

Technical Skills:

PM Tools: TFS (Microsoft Team Foundation Server) & JIRA TFS HP PPM (Project & Portfolio Management)

Operating Systems : Windows, Unix

Database : Oracle10g, MS SQL, Access DB

Other Tools : Toad, Oracle SQL Developer, Microsoft Office, SAS Base 9.1

Professional Experience:

CVS Health PBM, FL Oct 2016 – FEB 2017

Quality Assurance Analyst

CVS PBM operations, support CVS Pharmacy Benefit Management line of business, enrolling new Medicare Rx Part D members and member and provider IT platform QA support.

Participated in the full Information Technology project life cycle with particular emphasis on Quality Assurance activities in the proper implementation of the Information Technology projects.

Reviewed Functional and Technical Requirements and identified critical test cases and end-end scenarios. Worked with application, business groups and technical developers to develop Test Plan and overall test strategy.

Supported the development of comprehensive test strategies, plans, reports and environments for multiple IT projects in a release cycle.

Execution of test cases and the validation of results, meeting deadlines and providing first tier of triage for project defects found during test execution.

Managed defects found during testing by tracking in Quality Center, facilitating Defect Review Meetings.

Performed extensive back end testing on ORACLE and MS-SQL Server Databases using PL/SQL AND MS-SQL SERVER queries.

Used Quality Center and ALM for preparing the Test scripts.

Contribute and adhere to Requirements Tractability Matrix ensuring quality delivery.

Performed End-to-End Testing of Pharmacy (Rx) claims.

Performed extensive 5010 837 (Institutional, Professional, Dental) End-to-End testing.

Worked extensively with Quality Center for requirements, Preparing Test cases, Executing, Defect openings and closings.

Involved in writing Test plans, Test cases and responsible for executing the Test Scripts.

Performed Smoke, Integration, Functional, Regression, and System testing.

Generate X-12’s, NCPDP flat flies for different states and Validation of X-12, NCPDP flat files with HIPPA Compliance and companion guides.

Created Test data, Input files to ensure it complies with specifications and presents sound recommendations through thorough analysis

Developed Test Scenarios from Functional Specifications Document (FSD) and Business Requirement Document (BRD).

Worked closely with offshore and onshore development teams, Business Analysts on attaining testing goals, defect logging process and UAT support.

Use of tools including Autosys Scheduler and Work Load control center to perform job execution, ALM and Quality center for development and execution of test cases.

Using Informatica 9.1.0 and Informatica 8.6.1 to monitor, track and report various states of the code including success rate, failure reports and performance issues.

Participated in defect triage meetings to discuss issues arising out of testing.

Assisted QA Supervisor in estimating the testing effort of assigned projects based on the requirements.

Prepared collaterals for UAT and provide support for User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Catalina Marketing, St Petersburg, FL Jan 2015 – Mar 2016

Information security/Software Quality Analyst (Consultant)

QA analyst, responsible for testing application changes for Target, Walgreens retailers.

Test changes related to UPC (Universal Product Code) product categorization and IRI UPC external data feed.

Managed End-to-end testing of Target PCI Compliance project, OTEP (One-Time-Encryption Program) end to end testing cycle, converted existing Customer Loyalty Card accounts to newly tokenized accounts.

Testing involved integrated regression testing involving Campaign management system, Store systems and POS data in Data warehouse (2.5 Peta Byte).

Collaborate with development and other SQA teams to determine appropriate test data Identifying / documenting defects in JIRA project.

Coordinating the data validation as it moves through the integrated systems.

Performance testing for store systems and the Proxy / Token Service Solutions.

Testing involved integrated regression testing involving Campaign management system, Store systems and POS data in Data warehouse(2.5 Peta Byte)

Documenting test scenarios – all test scenarios and test cases documented in ALM

Collaborate with development and other SQA teams to determine appropriate test data Identifying / documenting defects in JIRA project

Sharing testing results with business and tech partners

Coordinating the data validation as it moves through the integrated systems

Performance testing for store systems and the Proxy / Token Service Solutions.

Project Admin, Financial Reporting Operations Citigroup - 2013-05 - 2014-02

Work with various FRO operations portfolio teams - Finance Backbone modules, Common Data Acquisition (CDA) General Ledger (SubGL), Financial Adjustment and Entry Module (FAEM), JADE and RRAI, collect and collate weekly status and report to seniors • Follow-up and ensure closure on priority and month end closing issues • Contribute to Business process management documentation by developing process document from legacy documents

ISA Operations Citigroup, Tampa, FL Mar 2007 – May 2013

Information security/Controls Analyst

Provided information security support for 500+ databases and data servers via Oracle SQL Plus, Sybase Central, Essbase and MS SQL Server, UNIX and Linux operating system.

Provided entitlement process application support for global user base of several financial applications.

Provided application and database information security, user access & entitlement for corporate Finance(General ledgers- SMART II, Financial reporting - FRS, Regulatory reporting CFC, AML, Allocation & Intercompany settlement & Finance control systems - APSS), Firewall Retail banking and credit card systems

Ensured and maintained audit reporting requirements and documentation when securing entitlement access

Maintained documentation on account issuance procedures and guidelines.

Provided both analysis and near real-time auditing, investigating, ad-hoc reporting, and remediation, coordinating and tracking of security-related activities for customers.

Supported information security projects, compliance efforts, processing security-related services, change control, security research, risk analysis, vulnerability testing, etc. Requirements Experience in information security.

Knowledge of PCI, and other regulations and security frameworks.

Extensive knowledge of data security, access control systems, encryption and system Hardening.

Strong incident handling and forensics experience including knowledge of common probing and attack methods, network/service discovery, system auditing.

Interfaced with business managers, end-users, and technical staff for provisioning access and exercises independent judgment in analyzing, configuring, and fulfilling required security solutions including permissions and entitlements

Bank Teller, SouthTrust bank, Greenville, SC May 2002 – Aug 2002

Performed variety of payment and receipt functions at the bank customer front desk.

Focused on providing better customer satisfaction, retaining present clients, developing new customer base, cross-selling financial additional products and services.

Volunteer, Greenville Memorial Hospital, Greenville, SC Mar 1999 – Feb 2002

Provided support and guidance to the hospital outpatients by responding to customer calls and guiding them to the specialty locations.

Provided administrative assistance to the hospital doctors and the nurses and helped to complete the patient paperwork.

Accounting officer, R.K. Textiles, Karur, India Jun 1993 – Oct 1996

Leading Home Textile exporter, R.K. textiles, has revenue over $10 Million/year and exporting home textile items like Towels, Curtains and napkins to many countries including US, Europe, Japan.

Prepared and maintained company accounts and Ledgers Reconciled Bank transactions with internal accounting system.

Managed Weekly and monthly payrolls Contributed to the development and maintenance of financial systems and processes.

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