Vidhya Perumalsamy

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Hardworking Functional Tester with 7 years of experience and expertise to take on dynamic and complex software systems. Proven skills in completing black and white box tests.

Professional Summary

Worked for Cognizant Technology Solutions in Healthcare clients such as Aetna and Cigna.

Expert in various types of testing methodologies such as Agile, TDD and Waterfall Model.

Strong experience in various types of testing such as Agile, Smoke, System, Integration, Regression, End to End, Database, Web application (UI), UAT, IVR, Web services, Compatibility and Automation testing.

Good Experience in developing queries for Backend testing using SQL.

Proven experience in all phases of testing life cycle which includes Requirements gathering, Test Plan creation and Review, Test data, Test cases creation and Review, Test Execution, Test Evidence Documentation.

Handled daily status calls, defect triage, standup calls, and Weekly status calls.

Prepared Test Summary report and Status reports.

Ability to coordinate and organize offshore and onsite QA efforts.

Hands on Experience in Test management tools such as HP ALM, HP QC, Jira, IBM ClearQuest.

Followed up and tracking of defects till closure in defect tracking tools.

Completed System, Integration and Regression tests under tight deadlines to meet customer demands and project timelines with high quality standards.

Identified and tracked defects with testing tools and supported developers in resolving problems by completing additional tests.

As a scrum team member in Agile testing, ensured testing tasks and efforts are created during release and Sprint planning.

Experienced in activities such as dividing user stories into sprints. Created test cases from user stories and executed in the test tracking tools to ensure acceptance criteria are met.

Hands on experience in Webservices testing using SOAP UI and POSTMAN.

Self-Motivated, dedicated and easily adaptable to the newer environments.

Possess Good communication skills and problem-solving skills, and flexible to work, often at short notice.

Hardworking and Team Leadership Skills.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics

Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Tamil Nadu, India.

Skills

Test Management Tools – Quality Center, ALM, Version One and Jira.

Trainings: Hands on in Facets Enrollment and Claim Submission

Web Service Testing: POSTMAN, SOAP UI

Defect Tracking tool: Jira, HP ALM and Quality center

Operating System: Windows 7/XP/10

Project Methodologies: Agile Scrum and Waterfall

Languages: SQL

Software Packages: MS Office- Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint

Exposure to Automation: Selenium Webdriver, TestNG, Cucumber, GIT

Professional Experience

Company worked:

Cognizant Technology Solutions, India

Projects Handled:

Lexis Nexis October 2016- May 2017

Role: Senior Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

Analyzed Requirement documents and submitted the Test Estimation for the releases.

Facilitated the Knowledge transfer sessions for testing team with the Subject Matter Experts (SME).

Responsible for project deliverables such as Test Plan, Test cases and achieving the timelines.

Ensured Roles and responsibilities are assigned to the team members during test execution phase.

Actively handled the daily status calls and shared the daily status report to onsite/client.

Responsible for sending mails to team members to start test cycle with the deliverable ids and environments details.

Generated daily defect reports and followed up to retest to closure.

Handled the emergency releases in short notice and delivered quality testing with the team members.

Co-ordinated the testing during the production deployment in weekends.

Involved in creating Automation Test Scripts for the Lexis Advance Regression Test Cases using Selenium Web driver and Cucumber.

Testing Tools/Environment: Selenium Webdriver, Visual Studio, Eclipse, Cucumber, ALM

Horizon January 2015- September 2016

Role: Senior Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

As a scrum team member, ensured testing tasks and efforts are created during release and Sprint planning.

Collaborated with the developers and Product Owners in clarifying testing requirements.

Worked with different functional team members on Test Strategy, Test Planning, Test data, Test Execution and Reporting results. Contributed the testing experience joining with other team members.

Identified risks, milestones and communicating if any deviation occurs.

Participated in activities such as dividing user stories into sprints and Sprint refinement meetings.

Created test cases from user stories and executed in the test tracking tools to ensure acceptance criteria are met.

Reported the test status in daily standup meetings using test management tools.

Ensured the team logged the defects in the defect management tool.

Followed up the defects in the current Sprint till closure or moved to subsequent sprints

Done regression testing both manual and automated at the end of each sprint.

Tested the web services using WADL. Created Test suites and test cases in SOAP UI.

Validated the request and response XMLs for test cases in web service testing using SOAP UI.

Testing Tools/Environment: Jira, SOAP UI, UI Testing, Agile Scrum methodology.

Cigna Pharmacy November 2013 – December 2014

Role: Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

Involved in requirement analysis, estimation and prepared Test strategy document in interaction with onsite and business.

Played a role of point of contact for the project handled.

Handled the defect calls and daily status calls with the business and onsite counterpart.

Prepared test scenario sheet for both system and integration testing.

Tested the Mail order pharmacy application includes enrollment, claims submission and shipment scenarios.

Provided KT to the team on the project workflows.

Reviewed test cases prepared by team and executed the same in the ALM.

Defects are logged in ALM and tracked to move to closure.

Proper test evidence document is prepared and shared to business

Supported for BAT testing and provided test data.

Ensured on time flawless delivery (deliverables include Test plan, Test summary report, test execution logs)

Validation of data during ETL load and Database using SQL Queries.

Testing Tools/Environment: IVR Testing, QC, ETL, SQL

AETNA Pharmacy July 2010 - October 2013

Role: Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

Participated in Business requirement document, technical requirement document analysis.

Prepared clarification tracker and shared the documents to the developers and Business Analysts.

Identified testable requirements and prepared test scenarios document.

Ensured all scenarios are tested by preparing requirement traceability document.

Involved in test cases preparation and uploading it in the QC.

Tested the Enrollment, Claims processing, Billing for the members.

Executed the test cases and logged the defects in QC.

Handled defect triage calls and ensured the logged defects are retested and closed.

Performed automated regression testing using QTP and ALM.

Preparation of Weekly Status Report and Monthly Status Report

Expert in leading and completing the test data creation (SIT and UAT) using ETL loads in Mainframe applications.

Testing Tools/Environment: Quick Test Professional, Quality Center, ALM, ETL, UI validation.

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