Life Insurance Engineer
Resume:
Veerakumar Mani
Email – **********.****@*****.***
Phone – 602-***-****
Location – Phoenix, Arizona
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
I have more than 16 years of experience in the IT industry with excellent project management skills in end-to-end project execution. I have strong leadership, business, and analytical knowledge of the IT industry with excellent communication skills that exude confidence among my teams. I provide a unique blend of technical expertise and management skills.
MANAGEMENT SKILLS
Experience working in Banking, Insurance, Salesforce, eMedia and Telecommunication domains.
CSM (Certified Scrum Mater) from Scrum Alliance.
Facilitated and involved in all the scrum ceremonies - Sprint planning, backlog refinement, scrum calls, Demo and retrospectives.
Experience working on both Water fall and Agile methodology projects.
Managed Automation, Mobility and Functional testing team
Automation Skills: Selenium, Java, BDD (Cucumber) framework, GIT, MAVEN, Jenkins.
Mobile Functional Testing: iOS & Android devices: Browser apps functional testing
REST API Automation experience, BDD framework. Cucumber, JSON, POSTMAN.
Set up automation tests for both the front end – React JS application and backend – Spring Boot Microservices API.
Created jobs and executed automation smoke test and regression test scripts using CI/CD Tools Jenkins.
Project/Test management Tools: JIRA, ALM, Confluence
Managed team size of 20+ team member
A Techno-Functional Manager, experienced in Automation, Functional, API & Mobile Testing
Ability to Manage Multiple Functional & Automation Projects on Multiple Automation Tools
Manage the complete Testing phases from Initiating, Planning, Executing, Controlling, and Reporting.
Good experience in onshore-offshore & stakeholders coordination
Good working experience in various domains like BFS, Retail, Telecom, Insurance, Consumer
Goods and Information & Media Entertainment (Salesforce).
Created Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Cases & Defect Reports.
Handled all managerial activities for the team which includes renewal of SOW, onboarding new resources, Team management, Task assignment, mentoring and monitoring progress of team etc.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Programming Languages
Java (1.8), UNIX, C, C++ and C-Sharp
Testing Tools
Selenium, QTP - Quick Test Pro, Oracle, MS SQL Server, SQL, Confluence, Splunk, Soap UI, Postman, Perfecto mobile testing tool, Site core – Application design tool, SharePoint Server, Test Director, V.S.S, IBM Rational Clear Case and Clear Quest, Splunk
Test Management Tools
JIRA, Rally, Quality Center, HP ALM 12.2, RTC Version: 4.0.6 – (Rational Team Concert)
Version Control and Build Tools
GitHub, Maven, Jenkins and Vulcan
PROFESSIONAL DETAILED EXPERIENCE
Wells Fargo, Chandler, Arizona Jan 2020– June 2020
Scrum Master/ SDET
Role and Responsibilities:
Manage Hogan Microservice Enablement team QA and Development resource for both Chandler and North Carolina locations.
Manage test deliverables for Athena- Customer Accommodations projects.
End-to-end test management (initiation to closure) for system integration, and UI and Microservice automation testing.
Facilitated and involved in all the scrum ceremonies - backlog refinement, Sprint planning, team estimates, daily standup, sprint review & demo and retrospectives.
Responsible for project test management, including test planning, estimations, budgeting, and defining test strategies and risk management. Manage and develop client relationship to establish consulting engagements, manage project delivery, timelines, and business growth, as well as remediate escalations
Maintaining user stories and Defect Tracing are done in Test Management tool Jira.
Set up automation tests for both the front end – Angular JS application and backend – Spring Boot Microservices API
Designed, develop selenium automation scripts using Selenium - JAVA, BDD, Cucumber framework.
Executed front end automation on Agular JS application using Selenium Web Driver (Maven) and maintained the test result.
REST API Automation experience, BDD framework. Cucumber, POSTMAN.
Integrated selenium with Extent Report to generate reports for passed and failed test cases in both HP ALM and in Vulcan/Jenkins.
Excellent experience with source version control tools GitHub and Jenkins.
Guided multiple teams throughout the testing phases to achieve quality delivery within tight timelines
Business impact analysis, effort estimation, and test strategy preparation and maintaining the test artifacts in Confluence site.
Involved in executing SQL queries for backend testing.
Worked closely with staffing vendors to identify, interview, and bring strong technical talent to teams
Manage resource invoicing and budgeting in the lending space
Autodesk, Inc, Phoenix, Arizona Aug 2019– Jan 2020
QA Lead
Role and Responsibilities:
Manage both Manual and Automation resources across USA and India.
Manage and develop client relationship to establish consulting engagements, manage project delivery, timelines, and business growth, as well as remediate escalations
Manage test deliverables for Residential and Consumer Lending projects
End-to-end test management (initiation to closure) for system integration, as well as user acceptance testing
Involved in all the scrum ceremonies - backlog refinement, Sprint planning, team estimates, daily standup, sprint review &demo and retrospectives.
Designed, develop selenium automation scripts using Selenium - JAVA, BDD, Cucumber, executed and maintained Selenium Web Driver (Maven) UI automated test scripts.
Analyze the story requirements and preparing test scenarios in Wiki, facilitate test scenario review with PO/ development lead to get the feedback and seek approval.
Responsible for project test management, including test planning, estimations, budgeting, defining test strategies and risk management.
Data storage managed in AWS cloud system.
Guided multiple teams throughout the testing phases to achieve quality delivery within tight timelines
Creating and reviewing high level test scenarios (SIT and UAT), Involved in EBSO demo, QA and UAT signoff.
Perform testing in SIT, UAT and Production environments.
Defect management and preparation of weekly test reports.
Responsible to co-ordinate with automation resource to automate the stories for regression and to run automation script in Jenkins.
User Stories assignments and execution of test cases are done in Jira.
Responsible to make sure that the overall project quality meets the standards set by the client and make sure to complete the project deliverables within the SLA.
Worked closely with staffing vendors to identify, interview, and bring strong technical talent to teams
Manage resource invoicing and budgeting in the lending space.
MUFG Union Bank, Tempe, Arizona July 2016 – July2019
Test Lead
Role and Responsibilities:
Creation and oversight of test deliverables
Responsible to lead both Functional and Mobile testing team.
End-to-end test management (initiation to closure) for system integration, as well as user acceptance testing.
Responsible for understanding functional specifications, creation of test cases and maintenance of test cases using HP ALM.
Involved in client interactions to confirm business requirements during functional testing
Responsible to manage multiple applications test activities (mBanker, Financial center- Self Service Kiosk and Public Web) which runs parallel to meet the deadline.
Coordinated with automation team for Smoke test and regression testing execution.
Developed automation test script and executed using Selenium- Java, Hybrid Test Framework.
Identifying automation scope test cases for regression testing.
Performed mobile testing for various web-based application, mobile and tablet.
Experience in testing the Porting of the application on different iOS and Android Devices.
Very good exposure of testing applications on wide range of Mobile handset of different vendors which includes iPhone, Android, tablet and iPad.
Performed mobile testing with perfecto Tool.
Responsible to arrange demo’s on various application for business team based on their needs.
Preparation of test strategy, test plan, estimation and Test Reports documents.
Co-ordinate the System Integration Testing and Regression testing on Desktops, Kiosk and on Mobile devices (iOS and Android).
Developed and performed Smoke test and regression testing through automation.
Creating and reviewing high level test scenarios (SIT and UAT)
UAT test co-ordination.
Worked closely with staffing vendors to identify, interview, and bring strong technical talent to teams.
Manage invoicing and forecasting for overall cognizant resources working across all the projects.
Responsible to consolidate and share the weekly report for all the Union bank testing projects.
Responsible to forecast monthly billable hours for overall Pure point project resources including external vendors.
CSAA Insurance Exchange, Glendale, Arizona Sep 2012 – June 2016
Scrum Lead DevOps Management UAT – Co-ordination
Role and Responsibilities:
Responsible for the test management of projects throughout a project’s life cycle.
Managed multiple projects at the client place, has conducted and co-ordinated various meetings with client, business testing teams and offshore Leads for various testing activities.
Managed both Scrum team and Production support resources across USA and India.
Involved in all the scrum ceremonies - backlog refinement, Sprint planning, team estimates, daily standup, sprint review &demo and retrospectives.
Responsible to co-ordinate with business team for UAT test activities throughout the end of UAT Signoff.
Managing PAS factory environments and VDM’s, planning and allocating the environments to different streams of testing, business team, UBI, Payment central, external Integration testing team based on their requirements and needs on time.
Preparation of test strategy, test plan, estimation and Test Reports documents.
Preparing daily reports and weekly dashboards.
Co-ordinate with Automation team to provide the automation test cases to perform the automation for Smoke testing and regression testing using Selenium, Java.
Reviewing and writing test outline documents and test cases
Experience in Web Services testing using SOAP UI, XM and providing required input data to request XML & get the required data from response XML.
Defect logging, tracking and prioritization
Performed smoke and quick testing, functional testing, regression testing, and ad-hoc testing
Initiating conference calls with client and counter parts
Reporting daily and weekly testing status.
Hands on experience in tools like HP ALM, RTC and RRC.
MassMutual Life Insurance, Spring Field, MA Aug 2011 – Mar 2012
Test Manager
Role and Responsibilities:
Responsible to manage the end to end testing activities.
Preparation/review of test strategy/ Test approach document, Test Scenario, Test cases and seek approval from the stakeholders.
Interacting with onsite managers and business analysts
Coordinating the work with offshore team in prioritizing the User stories scope, following up on defects, tracking execution progress.
Preparing daily reports and weekly dashboards
Reviewing and writing test outline documents and test cases
Executing test cases
Defect logging, tracking and prioritization
Following up on any outstanding open test risks/issues with the respective team till closure.
Performed smoke and quick testing, functional testing, regression testing, and ad-hoc testing
Initiating conference calls with client and counter parts
Reporting daily and weekly testing status.
MassMutual Life Insurance, Chennai, India Feb 2011 – Aug 2011
Test Manager
Role and Responsibilities:
Managed both Manual and Automation testing team, facilitated both offshore and onshore POC’s for various project related activities.
Involved in Requirement Analysis, Test Design, Functional Testing, System Testing and Defect Management.
Preparation/review of test strategy/ Test approach document, Test Scenario, Test cases and seek approval from the stakeholders.
Managed Advisor portal application migration testing from .NET to Java.
Gathered knowledge on Advisor portal application, data, and infrastructure architecture.
Involved in the rollout of existing Edge website with the new portal infrastructure.
Successfully facilitated, coordinated and implementing Advisory portal data center migrations.
Work with application support team and Developers on their coding issues to fix them.
Automate server operations required by the project writes Java to automate these requirements.
Performed Browser compatibility testing and mobile testing POC’s.
Preparing weekly status reports and sharing the same to offshore, onshore Leads and managers.
Reviewing and approving the entire project Metrics Plan, Estimations and actual in Cog .2.0 metrics portal.
Preparing and reviewing the MassMutual Monthly Dashboard (This contains all projects monthly status report).
Conducting weekly leads meet to understand and resolve the project leads, team member’s issues.
Preparing daily reports and weekly dashboards
Defect logging, tracking and prioritization
Performed smoke and quick testing, functional testing, regression testing, and ad-hoc testing
Initiating conference calls with client and counter parts
Reporting daily and weekly testing status to the client management.
Hartford Life Insurance, Chennai, India March 2010 – Feb 2011
Project Test Lead
Role and Responsibilities:
Responsible to lead multiple projects in Retire LOB,
Facilitating with offshore and onshore POC’s for various project related activities.
Reviewing both ITC and MTC projects weekly status reports and sending the same to offshore, onshore manager and Leads.
Interacting with onsite managers and business analysts
Preparing test plans/test strategies and test summary report.
Preparing daily reports and weekly dashboards
Review test scenarios and test cases prepare by team member and providing feedback
Validating and approving the entire project Metrics Plan, estimations and actual in Cog .2.0 metrics portal Defect logging, tracking and prioritization.
Performed smoke and quick testing, functional testing, regression testing, and ad-hoc testing
Initiating conference calls with client and counter parts
Reporting daily and weekly testing status
Preparation of Monthly Newsletter report, conducting weekly leads meet to understand and resolve the project leads, team member’s issues.
Sr. Software Engineer Accenture Service Private Limited [India] - Telstra Dec 2006 – Feb 2010
Software Engineer IBM India Private Limited [India] - Reuters Mar 2006 – Dec 2006
Sr. Software Engineer Birla soft Limited [India] - GE –COM Fin Mar 2005 – Feb 2006
Asst. Systems Engineer Tata Consultancy Services [India] - AT&T Wireless Service Jan 2003 – Mar 2005
VISA DETAILS
Valid H1-B Visa – Petition Approved till 03/2022 [i-140 approved]
EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS
Bachelor of commerce Madras University, India
Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Scrum Alliance
Ongoing Training and Certifications:
AWS Solutions Architect and DevOps Engineer.
Selenium Python Automation Testing from Scratch + Frameworks – Learning this course in Udemy.
Scrum Product Owner & Scrum Product Owner Certification – Doing this certification course in Udemy
SAFe5 Agilest training and Certification in pipeline.
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