Project Test

add494@r.postjobfree.com Suryaprakash Ganesan Phone 513-***-****

Skills

Agile Practice, Project and Defect management, Release Schedule, Integration,UAT, Team Leading, Mentoring, Project Coordination, Jira, Slack, Test Plan/Case Development, SQL, Databases, Selenium,TestNG,Jenkins, REST clients, Postman API Testing, Mobile App-IOS & AOS,HP ALM, JIRA & TFS

Clients worked with:

UCare, Blue cross & BlueShield, Kansas, Best Buy,CVS Caremark, Emblem Health,Dunkin Donut’s, John Hancock Insurance & First Data

TESTING & Test Lead SKILLS

•Having 13 years of experience in Software Testing

•Comprehensive Knowledge and experience in Agile Methodology(Rally) and Waterfall model

•Experience in Selenium Automation-TestNG & Jenkins for CI-CD for Smoke and Regression

•Exposure in RPA using UI Path tool

•Strong Experience on Integration, Regression, User Acceptance, System, Comparison and Functional Testing

•Experience on Health care, Retail, Banking & Insurance domain

•Domain Expert & Business Knowledge on Providers,Medicare,Benefits, PBM & EDI

•Extensive experience on Mobile app testing which includes both IOS & AOS.

•Experience in Test and Defect management tools like HP ALM 11.5; JIRA & TFS

•Review and analysis of Business Requirements, Functional Specifications and Detailed Design of the application

•8 Years’ experience on Creation of Test Plan, Test Strategy and Test Case Estimation.

•Conducted Team Meeting, Project Meetings and Management Meetings with Business, Vendor and Project stakeholder

•Good Knowledge and experience on Client deliverable Metrics & Release Management

•9 years’ experience in delivery QA Delivery lead both offshore and onsite

•Project delivery under stringent timelines and high pressure.

•Successfully Delivered complex projects with global implementation, and rapidly evolving requirements

•Define Business Process; identify the risk, doing risk analysis and providing baseline acceptance criteria and deliverables.

•Excellent verbal and written skills, especially with regards to presenting findings to both technical and non-technical audiences

•Managing reports, analysis and decision-making for a change request.

•Project Management, Project Schedule, Project Tracking and Team Management

•Having degree on Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics

•Green Card holder and fully Authorized to work in US

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Client: UCare

May 2019 to Present

QA Delivery Lead

Project: Core Transformation Program

Location- Minneapolis, Minnesota

Wipro

Sep 2018 to May 2019

Test Lead

Project: Best Buy

Location- Richfield, Minnesota

Test Lead – Leading different LOB’s and Performing Mobile Testing for Best buy across all QA Projects. Ownership for Release management and make Decision for GO/NO GO for BBYD /Enterprise Accounts. Working with Customer and multiple stakeholders on Project, Test Deliverable Estimations and QA Metrics. Both Leading the teams (Offshore and Onshore) of 3 QA Associates (onshore) and up to 40 Testers(offshore)

Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corporation

June 2007 to June 2018(11 years)

Senior QA lead -Projects

Cognizant Business Unit/Domain: Testing Services, Healthcare

I worked as a Senior Test Lead/Tester for Healthcare Testing Services. I have 11 years of experience in Software testing and over 9 years of experience in leading and managing, Healthcare and Insurance Testing Projects. I have performed Tester\Test Lead for Healthcare clients like CVS Caremark and Emblem health. I have successfully managed and worked as the Testlead/Tester of complex Healthcare project such as CRS Migration and played a big role in the Engagement transformation exercises. I have successfully performed the role of the Tester /Test lead for the biggest Open Enrollment System re-platform attempted worldwide, migrating over.

•Test Lead - Single Point ownership for all Testing Project Delivery across all QA Projects for the clients that I have worked for

•Managing Innovation - Drive client specific Innovations leveraging the Cognizant Innovation Framework and adopting developed Innovations available in the Framework for efficient testing

Project Details:

Client: UCare

May 2019 to Present

QA Delivery Lead

Project: Core Transformation Program

Location- Minneapolis, Minnesota

•QA Delivery lead- Started up the QA team from scratch, recruiting other QA analysts and automation engineers as needed

•Involving Jenkins-CI-CD and executing Selenium automation Test cases for Smoke and Regression using TestNG frame work

•Close integration with Product Owners, Business Analysts, User Experience team members, and Developers.

•Strong Business Knowledge on Health Rules Manager and UCare(IFP & Medicare Plans)

•Delivery lead for Providers, Benefit & Auth’s Stream and make decisions for Go & NOGO from QA Perspective

•Working with Cross walk streams in Member, Claims & EDI Deliverables as SME.

•Worked closely with Health Edge team to deliver end-to-end testing for various Medicare/IFP Products

•Worked directly with QA director managing the overall affairs of the Minneapolis office’s QA team in terms of resourcing, task management, and project estimating.

•Managed 17 offsite team members for both the streams, sharing test plans/cases and verifying execution and Release deliverables daily.

•Expert in Handling the Tasks in TFS & tracking Defect Management system

•Close integration with Client Delivery, Project Managers, Business Analysts, UX, Authoring, and Lead Techs/Developers.

•Cross-team collaboration to avoid conflicting code merges and duplicate defects; kept teams informed of common issues, environment changes, and impacts to new feature releases and regression suites.

•Daily standups (SCRUM) breaking down stories and defects by monthly Release into owned tasks (UX, Development, QA, Analytics), estimating hourly workloads against current and projected bandwidth, updating progress, and reflecting and sharing this process via the Agile management tool Atlassian Jira

Wipro USA

Sep 2018 to May2019

Client:Best buy

Role: Test Lead

Roles and Responsibilities:

•Working in Agile Program for Sprint based releases

•Performing and leading the Integration, Regression and System Testing

•Validating the Mobile app for multiple Integrated modules for BB App’s

•Having experience on backend validation on Comergent framework

•Using SQL Queries for Best buy backend validation

•Prepare Estimation for Test design and Test Execution

•Responsible for conducting test of software components by coordinating with product Team

•Gather and Discuss requirements/user stories with development and Business team

•Prepare Test Strategy and Test Plans for each Projects and give walkthrough with Business and Analyzed the Business requirements during the requirement phase of the Project

•Created test scenarios and test cases for the user stories.

•Identified Testable Functional requirements.

•Identified and reporting the Defects to the project team

•As a Test lead handling 40 of Team members and deliver the products

•Followed up with the Development Team effectively till the closing of those defects.

•Leads and coordinates the Defect management efforts with Application Lifecycle Management, meeting the project timelines and quality standards.

Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Limited,-USA

Jan 2018 to June 2018

QA Test lead

Client: Dunkin Donut’s

Types of Testing Performed: Integration, Mobile App Testing, Security Testing, Functional Testing, POS Validation

Tools Used: TFS, HP ALM

Integrated Applications: Splunk, Payeez, Epsilon

Database: MS SQL, MDBS DB

Roles and Responsibilities:

•Working in Agile Program for Sprint based releases

•Running Test scripts through Selenium Automation for BPT Process

•Validating the Mobile app for multiple Integrated modules for Dunkin app’s

•Having experience on backend validation on Payees & Epsilon

•Using SQL Queries for Dunkin’s backend validation

•Prepare Estimation for Test design and Test Execution

•Responsible for conducting test of software components by coordinating with product Team

•Gather and Discuss requirements/user stories with development and Business team

•Prepare Test Strategy and Test Plans for each Projects and give walkthrough with Business and Analyzed the Business requirements during the requirement phase of the Project

•Created test scenarios and test cases for the user stories.

•Identified Testable Functional requirements.

•Identified and reporting the Defects to the project team

•As a Test lead handling 4 of Team members and deliver the products

•Followed up with the Development Team effectively till the closing of those defects.

Leads and coordinates the Defect management efforts with Application Lifecycle Management, meeting the project timelines and quality standards.

Project Details:

Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Limited,-USA

March 2017 to Dec 2017

QA Test lead

Client: CVS Caremark

Roles and Responsibilities:

•Running Test scripts through Selenium Automation for BPT Process

•Validating the Mobile app for multiple Integrated modules for CVS Caremark

•Using SQL Queries for Novologix backend validation

•Prepare Estimation for Test design and Test Execution

•Responsible for conducting test of software components by coordinating with product Team

•Gather and Discuss requirements/user stories with development and Business team

•Prepare Test Strategy and Test Plans for each Projects and give walkthrough with Business and Analyzed the Business requirements during the requirement phase of the Project

•Created test scenarios and test cases for the user stories.

•Identified Testable Functional requirements.

•Having experience on RX claims & PBM(Specialty drugs)

•Identified and reporting the Defects to the project team

•As a Test lead handling 4 of Team members and deliver the products

•Followed up with the Development Team effectively till the closing of those defects.

•Leads and coordinates the Defect management efforts with Application Lifecycle Management, meeting the project timelines and quality standards.

Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Limited,-USA

March 2015 to March 2017

Test lead

Client: Emblem Health

Project Description:

The Networx Pricer program will deliver significant business value by transforming Emblem Health organization, processes and technology. This will be accomplished through business simplification and conformance to industry standard packages. The Packages/Solutions consist of : TriZetto Facets, SAP and Vision Web. In addition, custom software development will support application integration and/or customer facing differentiation

Roles and Responsibilities:

•Prepared Estimation for Test design and Test Execution

•Validated the Mobile app for multiple Integrated modules for Emblem health

•Performed Data ware testing for Production validation, Data Transform & Data Completeness Testing

•Gather and Discuss requirements/user stories with development and Business team

•Prepare Test Strategy and Test Plans for each Projects and give walkthrough with Business and Analyzed the Business requirements during the requirement phase of the Project

•Created test scenarios and test cases for the user stories.

•Identified Testable Functional requirements.

•Identified and reporting the Defects to the project team

•Followed up with the Development Team effectively till the closing of those defects.

•Leads and coordinates the Defect management efforts with Application Lifecycle Management, meeting the project timelines and quality standards.

Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Limited, Chennai, India

April 2012 to Feb 2015

Tester\Test lead

Client: John Hancock Insurance

Prepare Statement of work for the reviewed cost estimate of the project. Review test items in scope and prepare amendments if required to the existing Statement of work. Recommend and decide Enterprise level QA Methodology for the client. Formulate Quality Assurance process for Requirements, Test Planning and Test Execution. Review and amend templates as necessary for artifacts used in various QA Phases of the project. Approve Test Plan and Test Strategy for the project. Review the Project schedule and approve the resources assigned for the project. Recruit resources as per project plan, and add additional resources to mitigate risks. Track risks and periodically review and monitor the risk countering measures in the project. Monitor the productivity of the team and tweak the processes as desired to maintain maximum productivity. Conduct Midyear and End year appraisal for the team members and assign them end of year targets each year. Approve Goals and Learning plan for each associate in the project and enable them to be certified in domain related certifications. Prepare and Review Executive Monthly/Quarterly deck for the overall status of the projects.

Cognizant Technology Solutions

June 2009 to March 2012

Tester\Test Lead

Client: BlueCross & BlueShield, Kansas

Recommend the best fit Testing methodology for the Project based on the project size, goals and schedule to the client. Prepare Test Mission document highlighting the pros and cons of each Testing methodology discussed. Review prepared estimates for the cost of project. Review Test Strategy and Test plan prepared by the testing team. Work extensively with the Business Team and Project Management office (PMO) to finalize the process to extract the business requirements. Oversee the business requirement documentation in Quality Center. Facilitate reviews with the project stakeholders on reviewed test artifacts from the testing team. Review project plan from the PMO and make recommendations on the schedule based on the availability of the Offshore QA Team and the environment constraints. Work with the offshore team and review the Testing plan with offshore and onsite test leads. Update Test Plan with the latest schedule and review the readiness of the testing team to complete the project in time. Identify risks with the overall schedule, planning and execution. Track each risk to closure. Recommend changes to deployment plans due to blocker defects and issues. Review the Production implementation plan. Prepare the Beta test plan in Production environment and oversee the QA participation in the implementation call. Sign off on the test completion document and facilitate approval from Business stakeholders from client.

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Sep 2008 to June 2009

Tester\Test Lead

JohnHancock Insurance

Prepare Test Strategy and Test Plans for each Annuities and life Insurance request received from John Hancock Annuities Service. Understand the Business Requirements and identify the scope of the testing and the integration tests involved with different applications. Prepare the scope of Regression testing cases. Work with the business team to obtain sign off on the overall Test Strategy and Test Plan. Work with the Project Manager to find a suitable Test Execution window based on the offshore team’s availability. Review Test scripts, Traceability Matrix and Test Data plans from offshore. Review Daily Status and Weekly Status reports. Recommend Test Sign off on enhancements/Maintenance requests based on offshore test results and Smoke test results held at onsite location. Prepare Risk list and Project Health Check deck for all the Stake holders of the applications.

Cognizant Technology Solutions

June 2007 to September 2008

Tester

Client:First Data

As part of User Acceptance Test team I was assigned to Test/validate the banking modules like Deposit modules, POS validatiDelivery Channel Module, CASA module, Remittance module and Conversion of old data to CBS etc apart from participating in other area of UAT for Flexcube Core Banking Application. My assignment includes test case preparation, documentation of testing, and analysis of results, recommending changes in the parameter setup for error free implementation

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