PROFILE

With experience of **+ years in the industry, worked on Functional, Integration, Regression and continuous phases of testing like SIT, UAT and E2E. Have deep knowledge on healthcare and Retail domain and Delivered solutions for clients in US Healthcare industry through my core ability to communicate effectively and perform detailed analysis of process and business practices. I add value to the organization and drive its growth through my exposure to client’s business processes and experience of managing different teams across clients.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Jan 2021 – present Cognizant Technology Solutions, Functional SME

Project name: TMG CORE Facets Claims testing

•Maintain and monitor project timelines and ensure accuracy in reporting of project status

•Involved in test estimation, test plan preparation, test strategy preparation, test summary report preparations

•Unblocking the tests to the End to End and UAT test team, based on the blockers, and getting them resolved with the corresponding components. Lead cross-functional teams with business, technological, and financial components. Meet business objectives by strategizing effective solutions.

•Use cutting-edge technical knowledge to come up with innovative solutions.

•Deliver great quality while staying within budget

•Excellent collaborative skills and the ability to manage complexity and change in a dynamic environment

•Results/task orientated with excellent attention to detail.Tracking defects across the functional areas, to highlight the major component, that lags the quality of the product and ensure the fixes on time.

•Identified problem areas and instituted large-scale project campaigns to address them. Hand-picked project teams and motivated and inspired them toward goal completion. Developed team resources to ensure quality.

Jun 2016 – March 2018 Cognizant Technology Solutions, Senior Test Analyst

Project name: I-Heal 3.0

•As a Test lead involved in requirements analysis and design phase towards identifying scope of SIT testing and systems with technical teams and business partners.

•Involved in test estimation, test plan preparation, test strategy preparation, test summary report preparations

•Conducted walk through sessions presentations to various leads from Development, business and Technical Support teams.

•Also organized and led daily Triage Meetings for the defects, managed the updates of CQ to keep IT on top of their assignments, managed re-testing, and updated business as to the status.

•Involved in all the activities like Resource allocation within the module, tracking daily tasks to closure, resolving queries to ensure quality deliverables as committed.

Oct 2013 – May 2016 Cognizant Technology Solutions, Senior Claims SME

Project Name: WGS – UAT

•As a Test lead involved in requirements analysis and design phase towards identifying scope of testing and systems with technical teams and business partners.

•Involved in test estimation, test plan preparation, test strategy preparation, test summary report preparations

•Enabling the team to run End to End, Regression and UAT and collaborating with different teams to resolve blockers and the corresponding components.

•Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills always ensured to cultivate the teamwork within the team and maintained good relationship with onshore as well as business team members within different projects

•Involved to identify the risk and mitigations for the project. As a lead involved in all the activities like Resource allocation within the module, tracking daily tasks to closure, resolving queries to ensure quality deliverables as committed.

•Involved in all the activities like Resource allocation within the module, tracking daily tasks to closure, resolving queries to ensure quality deliverables as committed.

Dec 2012 – Sep 2013 Cognizant Technology Solutions, Test Analyst -US health care -Enrollment & Claims SME

Name: Wellpoint Claims testing

•Collaborating with Clients to different teams from business to ensure their testing expectations

•Conducted defect triage meetings across Vendors and BA teams, managed the updates of CQ to keep IT on top of their assignments, managed re-testing, and updated business as to the status.

•As a Test lead involved in requirements analysis and design phase towards identifying scope of testing and systems with business partners.

•Involved in business meeting with customer with different teams and strategizing effective solutions.

•Involved in all the activities like Resource allocation within the module, tracking daily tasks to closure, resolving queries to ensure quality deliverables as committed.

June 2008 – Nov 2012 Cognizant Technology Solutions, Test Analyst

Project Name: WLP Business Partner Augmentation

•As an SME assisted and mentored junior level staff to ensure they are meeting project deliverables and timelines.

•Carried out Regression testing & UAT to ensure to meet customer expectations

•Involved in analyzing the impact analysis for the new requirements which are coming in as part of the current and next releases.

•Also involved in transferring and presenting the Health Care domain knowledge to the respective team members as well as to the business analysts.

•Involved in project management activities like estimation, daily and Weekly status preparation, evaluating the daily deliverables and process activities like Test plan and Test strategy preparation.

Sep 2006 – June 2008 Cognizant Technology Solutions, Programmer Analyst

Project Name: Best Linkage to World base

•Being an effective Team member involved in System Testing and User Acceptance Testing.

•Involved in Test Case preparation, test Environment setup and Test Data Preparation, Responsible for submitting the job and validating the results in Spool, Identifying Defects while Execution and responsible to raise the defects in Mercury Quality Center.

•Responsible for collecting Test Evidences and Defect Evidences.

EDUCATION

Tirunelveli Engineering College, Bachelor of Engineering

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Methodology

•Agile Waterfall

Testing Tools :

•Mysql

•RFT

•Test Director

Defect Management

•HP-ALM

•QC

•JIRA

•CQ

VALUE ADDS

Brought new tools to the spot light which brought both hard and soft savings to the client

Successfully demoed the features and functionalities of the developed Claims generation tool to clients across every sprint.

AWARDS

Star of month awards – 2021,2012,2008 Cognizant

Performer of the quarter awards for Q4 2018 for Cost savings, Cognizant

PERSONAL DETAILS

Date of Birth

: 07 May 19865

Father's name

: M.S.Venkataraman

Marital status

: Married

Nationality

: INDIA

Sex

: Female

Languages Known

: English, Tamil

Passport number

: G1672418

Countries worked

: India, US

Declaration I do hereby declare that the particular of information and facts stated herein above are true, correct and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief. Based on reference professional references can be provided.

Contact this candidate