PRAVEENKUMAR VIDYANANDHAVEL PMP®

Project Manager - QA PMP® Insurance P&C QA Solutions Delivery Lead - E2E Testing USA Visa: H1-B Expired on Sep-2019 & I-140 approved for H1B Non-CAP adn5xv@r.postjobfree.com +91-805******* https://www.linkedin.com/in/praveenkumarvidyanandhavel/ 15 years of Industry experience in Software Testing of Insurance applications across Property and Causality for Personal, Commercial, and Specialty & Reinsurance. Strong experience in implementing simplified testing solutions and methodologies for Digital Transformation Programs for better Delivery, Process and Engineering transformations resulting towards Continuous Service Improvements. TESTING EXPERTISE:

Clear & Complete knowledge of Insurance Business in alignment with its application landscape across the policy lifecycle with good testing experience on Guidewire & Duck Creek suite applications (Policy Center)

Demonstrated Technical leadership with innovative Testing thoughts for successful Product migration in an agile environment

Expert in Test Strategizing, Planning, Executing and Delivering them on quality & agility with great stakeholder management skills

Active participant in agile POD’s and worked closely with Architects, Business Analysts, Development and supporting teams to ensure Quality Early and Right at First time to minimize project time and cost

Solid Test Management experience in driving large projects/teams across geos

Extensive work experience in Test Scheduling, Test Estimation, Risk Based Testing (RBT), Test Documentation, E2E Testing, Test Metrics identification and reporting, Test Execution Techniques, Test Reviews and Feedbacks, Incident Management, Defect Analysis and Management, Mobile Testing, Test Data Management & Test Process Improvements

Played multiple roles as Test Manager, Test Lead, Test Consultant, E2E testing manager and Test Analyst for leading US clients

EXPERIENCE

JUL 2019 – TO TILL DATE

PROJECT MANAGER, COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

Offshore Delivery Management involving activities like Estimation, Planning, Execution, Monitoring and closing

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Worked in Managed Services Model proposal and have sound knowledge in RFPs, SOW, Financials preparation like Cost of Quality

Analyze test requirements and provide estimation using the organization mandated TCP (Test Case point) estimation model

Performed Automation Feasibility of various Desktop and Web Application using respective tools, estimate and present to customers

Review and approval of Test Strategy/plan/scripts from Subject Matter Experts

Lead the efforts Supporting and Co-coordinating with other teams for integration and testing of components in their systems

Performed RCA(Root Cause Analysis) for the production defect leakage and given a QA solution for defect prevention in future

Mentored the team in all aspects and helped them to handle the projects on their own

Shared daily, weekly and monthly Status Reports with all required metrics to client stakeholders

Adopted best practices from other accounts and implemented the same in the key projects

NOV 2013 – TO JUN 2019

SENIOR ASSOCIATE, COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

Working as End-to-End Test manager to prepare a project plan, coordinate with Upstream, downstream and business stakeholders to make sure to test the End to End testing before UAT/production live

Involved in Proposals for Automation Testing POC(proof of concept) based on Regression Test Suite and necessary

Managing onsite QA team of 5+ members and offshore QA team of 10+ members. Review and guiding the team

Organizing Test Strategy, Walkthrough of Test scenarios, flow diagrams in mind map

Preparing of Executive testing dashboard and keep updating the Testing status to higher management

Conducting Daily Scrum meetings, Weekly meetings to ensure testing status

Involved in training Business Team to understand the E2E testing process

Helping Testing by providing Environment setup

Hosting Defect triage and Retrospection meetings JULY 2010 – TO OCT 2013

ASSOCIATE, COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

As an onsite coordinator, involved in multiple activities like Testing Support, Offshore coordination, Test Reporting, Defect triage

Involved in various below activities ate client site at USA, o Requirement gathering with business and SMEs

o Constructing complex SQL queries to setup test data for Production based Testing

o UAT Testing support

o Production Emergency Checkout

o SME role for various Insurance Applications for Client o Database testing

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o Regression Test cases in QTP/UFT

o Daily, weekly and Monthly dashboard for all testing projects AUG 2006 – TO JUNE 2010

PROGRAMER ANALYST, COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

Requirement Analysis of COBOL and JCL programs for Policy Contract Number Changes

Construction and Testing of batch jobs:

o Cross LOBs cleanup of PCNs

o Cross datacenter cleanup of PCNs

o Load job to load allocated PCNs within the range o Monthly cleanup job for UPLOAD XML table

Impact analysis of various fields in FARA, FPRA reporting

Preparation of Test data for Report Ordering, Rewrite and Reissue across all releases for Households across different states

Involved in the contraction of email generation while the PCN exceeds the particular limit using EazyTrive programs

Worked in OS/490, CICS screens and batch job monitoring in CA-7/Job scheduler EDUCATION:

MAY 2006

BACHELOR OF ENGINNERING IN ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICTION ENGINERRING, COIMBATORE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

CGPA: 7.6

MAY 2003

DIPLOMA IN ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICTION ENGINERRING, NACHIMUTHU POLYTEHNIC.

Marks: 96%

MAY 2000

10TH STD, NG.NG. HR. SEC. SCHOOL.

Marks: 89%

SKILLS

HP ALM

JIRA

Mainframes

Selenium

JCL

DB2/SQL

Jobtrac/CA7

Waterfall, Agile & Hybrid Model

UFT

Postman APIs

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CERTIFICATIONS:

PMP

ISTQB

Insurance INS21 & INS23 Internal Certificate

Guidewire Policy Center Internal Certificate

CSQA

IBM DB2 700

PMI-PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL (PMP):

PMP Number: 3127350

PMP Expiration: Aug-2024

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