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JASHIM UDDIN

Lansdale,PA

Summary

*Thorough Quality Assurance Specialist with 10+ year background in Insurance and Financial Industry.

*Dynamic Quality Assurance Analyst successfully executes testing methodologies to identify gaps and make recommendations for process improvements. Leverages excellent analytical and programming skills to document and troubleshoot errors. Advanced knowledge of test case management and defect tracking tools to support test processes.

*Determined QA|UAT Specialist with dedication to quality and accuracy. Familiar with handling multiple projects in highly competitive environments. Solid interpersonal and collaboration skills.

*Experienced UAT/QA Engineer and Guidewire Analyst with a decade of hands-on expertise in quality assurance and testing within the insurance domain. Proficient in utilizing a diverse range of testing tools to ensure the successful delivery of high-quality software solutions. Proven track record of collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive testing processes, enhance system performance, and optimize user acceptance testing (UAT) procedures.

*Led UAT efforts and assisted QA auto and property teams for complex Guidewire projects, overseeing testing activities for policy administration, claims management, and billing systems.

*Analyzed business requirements (BRD) and Functional Requirement Documents (FRD), created the test strategy document that define the test environment, phases of testing, entrance and exit criteria into different phases of testing and resources required to conduct the effort.

*Extensive experience in Functional testing, Unit testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, Black box testing, White box testing, GUI testing, back-end testing and browser compatibility testing, in different stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

*Experience in Test Planning, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Issue Resolution and Report Generation to ensure that all aspects of a project follow the Business Requirements.

*Experience specifically in the areas of Personal Property and Casualty (P&C), Reinsurance for Commercial Property and Casualty, and Commercial Automobile with regional and national insurance carrier.

*Experience in testing and validating Personal Line (Auto/Property) business insurance policy processes in a SOA setting. Some of the major business processes in Policy Decisions is creating a quote, issuing a policy, endorsements, cancellations, Reinstatements and renewals. These processes were tested and evaluated under various business situations that might initiate an action in other modules/products like PC (Policy Center), BC (Billing Center and CC (Claim Center).

*Worked closely with Product owners and development teams to understand the impact of the changes, and produced release notes for QA/User Acceptance testing team meetings to present Test Plans and Test Cases to the development team and Business SME's.

*In depth Knowledge of Guidewire Insurance Suite for Personal and Commercial Autos, Workers Compensation, General Liability, Inland Marine, and Personal Liability. Agency Producer management system (Vue), Vue System implemented for MetLife Producer Management system.

*Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Lead UAT | Guidewire QA Specialist

Horace Mann
11.2021 - 09.2023
  • Involved in implementing Guidewire for client and was involved in testing Policy Center, Billing Center and Claims Center and Portals on Personal Lines and Commercial Line. Besides, created web-based policy issuing application for Personal Auto, Property and Umbrella Lines of business.
  • Collaborate with business unit to create requirements documents for all billing system enhancement projects. Moreover, gathered specifications and requirements from development personnel prior to testing.
  • As a Lead UAT Analyst and tester I was involved in testing and validating Personal Line (Auto/Home) business insurance policy processes in a SOA (Service -Oriented Architecture) setting. Some of major business processes in Policy Decisions is creating a quote, issuing a policy, endorsements, cancellations, Reinstatements and renewals. These processes were tested and evaluated under various business situations that might initiate an action in other modules/products like PC (Policy Center), BC and CC (Claim center). Coordinated activities for testing and assist in monitoring project schedules. Did integration testing for PC to BC, PC to CC and Ratings.
  • Designed and executed Test plans and Test cases according to product backlog and user stories Identified and organized overall plan for test data, strategy and Scope of testing within context of each Sprint.
  • Educated and Trained employees on specific QA|UAT standards and confirmed maintenance of standards and communicated common goal and direction to team. Besides, acted as an extended arm for QA testing team by also executing QA test cases.
  • Tested various major functionalities like Policy Submissions, Changes, Cancellation, Reinstate, Rewrites and Renewals in Guidewire Policy center. Moreover, Prepared Test Strategy, Test Plans, and Test Cases based on client's user stories on Guidewire Application for Policy Center and Billing Center and Claim Center.
  • Designed UAT use-case scenarios for new functionalities, developed and delivered throughout several phases of past and currently on-going efforts within Firm.
  • Worked closely with Product owners and SME to understand the impact of changes and produce release notes for User Acceptance Testing Team.
  • Conducted GUI testing to ensure the graphical user interface meets its specifications and integration testing to check combined parts of the system function together correctly.
  • Coordinated with offshore teams in support of functional, integration and UAT testing and to document and report to the management on a regular basis.

Senior QA|UAT (Guidewire / VUE) Analyst

MetLife
03.2019 - 04.2021
  • Involved in implementing Guidewire and VUE for client and Analyzed business requirements document, functional specifications document to prepare Test plan and Test cases for both application.
  • Gathered and Analyzed current reporting standards, test data, and system performance statistics and prepared FRD for VUE integration and automation.
  • Involved in UAT activities of Automated onboarding, compliance of VUE Producer Portal for Agents and agencies Access.
  • Developed and executed Control Reports on periodic basis in process of auditing to ensure that data being checked-in is on par with legacy system.
  • Created agent profiles, arrangements with great knowledge on VUE automated and Manual on boarding and compliance tool.
  • Actively participated in Agile Scrum development including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Backlog Refinement Meeting and Retrospective meeting for Agile Scrum Development Process.
  • Prepare Test Strategy, Test Plans, and Test Cases based on client's user stories on VUE & Guidewire Application. Moreover, Participated in Smoke, Integration, Security, Database, End-to-End testing, User Acceptance Testing, Functional Testing,System Testing,Regression Testing and Performance Testing.
  • Tested various major functionalities like Policy Submissions, Changes, Cancels, Reinstate, Rewrites and Renewals in Guidewire Policy center. Prepared Test Strategy, Test Plans, and Test Cases based on client's user stories on Guidewire application for Policy Center and Billing Center
  • Involved in testing and validating Personal & Commercial Line (Auto and Property) business insurance policy processes in SOA setting. Some of the major business processes in Policy Decisions is creating quote, issuing a policy, endorsements, cancellations and renewals. These processes were tested and evaluated under various business situations that might initiate action in other modules/products like PC(Policy Center) and CC(Claim center).
  • In-depth knowledge of Reinsurance principles, processes, and industry standards. Moreover, Understanding of various Reinsurance products and their complexities, such as treaty and facultative reinsurance.
  • Familiarity with risk assessment, underwriting, claims processing, and financial reporting in the reinsurance context.

Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Mercury Insurance
10.2014 - 11.2018
  • Involved creating web-based policy issuing application for Personal Line, Reinsurance and migration from existing documents into web environment.
  • Prepared Test Strategy, Test Plans, and Test Cases based on client's user stories. Moreover, Enhanced Auto Policy Administration system for Personal and commercial Lines Of Businesses (LOB).
  • Interacted with Mainframe Policy Administration System to identify test cases based on business requirements.
  • Collaborated with developers and project managers to assess program capabilities, features and testing demands. Besides, Interacted with developers for defect fixes and documented bug reports and categorized them based on severity.
  • Test Billing Center UI (Screen), including Rules and Authority Limits and Report defects and incidents identified during testing to ensure adherence to business rules & technical requirements.
  • Conducted GUI testing to ensure graphical user interface meets its specifications and integration testing to check combined parts of system function together correctly and Identified several bugs, logged and tracked defects using Quality Center and triaged with developers to resolve defects.
  • Performed back-end testing of database by using SQL for inserting, retrieving and updating data queries and ensuring that database reflects the updates/change, to verify database Integrity.

Quality Assurance Analyst

Charter One Bank
04.2012 - 08.2014
  • Developed and manually executed functional test cases to validate transaction delivery and information receiving and system stability.
  • Involved in Manual, Automation testing and Execution on Client/Server, Integrated Intranet, UNIX, Linux, Mainframes and Internet applications.
  • Gathered and analyzed business and technical requirements for manual and performance testing.
  • Mentored and coached team members on QA topics and strategies.
  • Supported company in maintaining work environment focused on quality, communication, collaboration, integration, and teamwork.
  • Fixed identified issues to increase productivity and boost workflows.
  • Monitored resolution of bugs, tested fixes and helped developers tackle ongoing problems by providing QA perspective.

Education

National University
Bangladesh

Feni Government Commercial Institute| Bangladesh

Skills

  • Waterfall
  • Agile, Scrum
  • V-Model
  • SDLC, STLC
  • Jira (Zephyr)
  • Lean kit
  • Rally
  • QTP
  • Load Runner
  • HP ALM/Quality Centre
  • Selenium
  • Soap UI
  • Postman
  • Swagger
  • Bugzilla
  • Test Rail
  • Test Planning
  • Documentation and Reporting
  • Finished Product Inspection
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Team Leadership
  • Test Cases
  • Quality Assurance
  • Problem-Solving Skills
  • Data Analysis
  • Performance Monitoring
  • Issue Resolution
  • Team Collaboration
  • Agile Methodology
  • Detail Oriented
  • Performance Testing
  • Testing Processes

Timeline

Lead UAT | Guidewire QA Specialist

Horace Mann
11.2021 - 09.2023

Senior QA|UAT (Guidewire / VUE) Analyst

MetLife
03.2019 - 04.2021

Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Mercury Insurance
10.2014 - 11.2018

Quality Assurance Analyst

Charter One Bank
04.2012 - 08.2014

National University

Feni Government Commercial Institute| Bangladesh
JASHIM UDDIN