LAKSHMI ANUSHA VEGESNA **** E ASTER PL, CHANDLER, AZ 85286

Business Analyst and Quality Assurance Analyst ady58y@r.postjobfree.com +1-480-***-****©

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

10+ years of professional experience in IT industry with proven record of success in Quality Engineering Management, Delivery Management, Test Management of all levels of testing including functional & non-functional, integration, system, and user acceptance. My experience is spread across Banking, Life Sciences, Consumer, and Insurance domain industries. Involvement in these could be summarized as designing, evaluating, redefining, implementing, managing quality assurance procedures for SAP implementation, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), .Net, Client-Server, Web Portals & Web-based applications, products. Instrumental in helping clients to innovate and improvise their application delivery and operations by employing paradigms like CI/CD. Recognized revenue enabler through business development.

SKILLS SUMMARY

Expertise in project management methodologies such as Agile, V-Model and Waterfall model.

Knowledge of Facets and Lean Management Systems.

Working experience in leading Agile QA and Automation Teams to design and roll-out testing procedures, effective quality gates, build and deployment pipelines, change control process and testing tools integration strategies.

Experience in test coordination with various stakeholders of large end-to-end project (multi-system integration) with test planning, test setup, test execution, test reporting, production support and test exits with signoffs.

Manage customer relationship and engage customer’s vendor management office for new contracts, contracts renewals, change request and invoicing.

Capacity & resource planning as per budget in fixed bid projects.

Experience in leading testing project team size from 5 to 25 and in individual assignments; goal setting and performance review of direct reportees.

Experience in representing quality assurance in monthly governance review meetings with Clients.

Experience in leading test automation team in functional, performance automation for solution, PoC and delivery.

Working experience in using HP ALM (Quality Center), SQL Server, JIRA, and LISA Tools.

Experience in Functional, Integration, System, Regression/Release, Pre-production testing, User Acceptance Testing, and database testing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS SUMMARY

Languages:

RDBMS, HTML, SQL, Java, .Net

Testing Tools:

Quality Center, ALM, JIRA, QTP

Database:

DB2, SQL

Domain Knowledge:

Banking, Life Sciences, Consumer, and Insurance domains

PROJECT PROFILE (Reverse Chronological Order)

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EFD Lift & Shift program(Moving to AWS), Bank of The West( BMO Integration), Tempe, AZ

Role: Business Analyst & UAT Tester (Independent Contractor) Duration: Nov 2022 – Current

Project Description:

Bank of the west is being merged with BMO Harris Bank. As part of this Migration, Bank of West’s Equipment Finance Division is expected to undergo major changes on its transition to Cloud (AWS). As part of this Lift & Shift program, EFD’s 9 major applications are moving to AWS. EFD major applications include EQUIP(Loan origination Application),INFOLEASE( Equip Backend),Ganymede(Reporting tool), Partner Portal ( 3rd. party UI app).

Key Contributions:

●Coordination between the Business, QA & UAT teams.

●Key player in setting up program Milestones with client leadership for all testing phases and as well planning test script preparation within short duration and Test execution before the Legal Day 1 ( Official Merger completion).

●Facilitated Scrum planning meetings to coordinate with Business, product owners and other teams.

●Key resource in providing knowledge transfer from the Bank of West to the BMO counter parts on all the major applications which are part of EFD Lift & Shift Program.

●Operate in multi-vendor mode and ensure vendors are following proper escalation procedures and chain of command.

6

Business Process Redesign Program, Takeda Pharmaceuticals (Takeda/Shire Integration), Chicago, IL

Role: Business Analyst (Independent Contractor) Duration: Dec 2020 – Oct 2022

Project Description:

Takeda Pharmaceuticals (“TAKEDA”) has made the decision to embark upon a Business Transformation initiative that will deliver enhanced performance management reporting capability to empower accountability at the right level, provide a more comprehensive core ERP backbone that includes the rationalization of the broader ERP ecosystem

and reduce the cost to serve of ERP through the rationalization of the ERP ecosystem and its corresponding support services.

Key Contributions:

●Develop testing processes, procedures, test strategy for the program in coordination with Client’s Test Lead.

●Lead and coordinate Testing Cycles such as CUT, FUT, PIT, SIT & UAT.

●Coordinate with teams such as Cutover, Validation, SOX for entry and exit criteria of test cycles.

●Setup MF ALM for releases, test cycles, requirement, test scripts, test lab and defect management processes.

●Develop status reports, testing metrics and daily, weekly, and monthly reporting.

5

SAP S4 Implementation, Bunge Ltd, St Louis, MO

Role: Business Data Analyst (Independent Contractor) Duration: Jul 2018 – Nov 2020

Project Description:

Bunge Global Transformation journey was focused to bring global process harmonization across APAC, EMEA and Americas regions by leveraging a single ERP system (SAP S4).

Key Contributions:

●Served as a liaison between the Business, Development and Testing teams.

●Gathered User Requirements, refined, submitted for Stakeholder approval, and handed them over to solution delivery team.

●Performed Data Analysis and Data Profiling of Source Systems using MS Access, MS SQL and created detailed mapping documents including the transformation rules and provided data exception reports showing critical violations of data/business rules.

●Facilitated Scrum planning meetings to coordinate between Clients, Product Owner, Developers and QA teams.

●Prepared Test Scenarios by teaming up with Business Process owners, key stakeholders and handed them to testing team for Test Scripts preparation, followed by Test Execution.

4

AmFam Financials, American Family Insurance, Madison, WI

Role: Sr Test Lead and SME (Infosys) Duration: Nov 2016 – Jun 2018

Project Description:

AmFam Financials engagement was focused on testing the Organization’s Guidewire Billing center, Policy center and claims applications.

Key Contributions:

●Single point of contact for overall AmFam Financials QA Engagement.

●Release planning along with PMO ahead of the ongoing releases, including change requests.

●Requirement reviews with Business Analysts and sign-off on functional requirement documents.

●Test effort estimation and capacity/resource planning as per budget.

●Operate in multi-vendor mode and ensure vendors are following proper escalation procedures and chain of command.

●Ensure all stakeholders including Senior Management, Project Owners, App Dev Managers, Developers, and Architects stay informed as to the health of the project.

●Lead Defect tracking on daily basis during test execution cycle with Business Analysts, Developers and User Acceptance team.

3

Automated Plan Converter (APC), Aetna Inc, Hartford, CT

Role: Test Lead (Infosys) Duration: Mar 2015 – Nov 2016

Project Description:

Project focused on testing the Aetna’s APC bridge application between Policy Entry & Reporting System, and Automated Claim Adjudication System. APC application facilitates the conversion of Policy Numbers between PERS and ACAS Systems.

Key Contributions:

●SPOC for testing activities to Development, PMO and other functional teams on the engagement.

●Functional & non-functional requirement gathering and analysis with end user along with system architect; derive testing requirements.

●Participated in defining agile (scrum) methodology for project; defined various levels of testing i.e., Unit, Integration, System and User Acceptance; sprint planning.

●Executed Test Plan for different releases, provided test execution status and lead the defect tracking review meetings with Test & Development Lead using Quality Center.

●Review of issue logs, traceability matrix, test artifacts/matrices.

●Provided guidelines for developing Web Based Tutorial (WBT) of application using Web Server and review before customer delivery.

2

Claim Reporting System (CRS), Aetna Inc, Hartford, CT

Role: Senior Test Analyst (Infosys) Duration: Nov 2013 – Mar 2015

Project Description:

Project focused on testing Aetna’s robust CRS application, which is integrated with various claim management systems through 30+ Inbound, 40+ Outbound Interfaces.

Key Contributions:

●Analyzed functionalities/enhancements from SRS and designed the Test Cases.

●System Testing (Functional) followed by Regression Testing before each release.

●Test and Defect management; Test Results Documentation.

●Lead defect triage meetings and conducted project team meetings.

●SPOC with responsibility to interact with all key stakeholders to secure overall signoff for System Integration Testing.

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Commercial Banking – Credit Admin, Capital One, McLean, VA

Role: Test Analyst (Infosys) Duration: Mar 2012 – Oct 2013

Project Description:

Capital One’s Credit Admin program was to rigorously test their Commercial Loan Origination App, that’s meant for booking commercial loans.

Key Contributions:

●Designing manual Test Cases from requirement specifications.

●System Testing (Functional), System Integration Testing followed by Regression Testing.

●Defect logging and Test Results Documentation.

●Quality center integration for test execution in distributed environment.

●SPOC in Maintaining Quality documents for each release for process compliance.

●Conducting defect triage meetings, project team meetings.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Technology: Computer Science and Information Technology

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University – Hyderabad, India.

CERTIFICATIONS

Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 (Microsoft Certification).

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