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KALAISELVI NATARJAN

Malvern,USA

Summary

Solid understanding of various software testing methodologies including Agile and Waterfall. Experience in Establishing QA Procedures to meet QA Standards, proficient in writing Test Plans, Documenting the Testing Procedures and writing in-depth Test Cases to meet the Testing Cycle, In-depth knowledge in the analysis of applications higher-risk aspects, and determining scope and limitations of tests. Ability to interact with developers and System Analysts regarding Testing Status and Defect & Change Tracking using HP ALM. Participate and contribute to discussions and decisions on solution analysis and design. Good Problem solving, analytical and technical troubleshooting skills. Good Knowledge in Telecom Domain and experience in Healthcare Domain. Excellent experience with SQL server database. Good communication, analytical, interpersonal and presentation skills. Excellent team leadership, Analytical and relationship building capabilities, client interfacing and communication skills. Onsite / Offshore co-ordination, Trusted QA Lead and a Good team player.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Test Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions
07.2015 - Current
  • Company Overview: Comcast Cable is the largest cable entertainment and broadcast service provider in the US and best known for the pioneering the bundle of television, internet, and telephone services together, offering consumers the ability to consolidate their services with one provider
  • Good experience in leading the team and worked with team size of 8 members
  • Associated with the development team to understand technical design and architecture for test planning
  • Analysed the Business Requirements Document, prepared Test Plan and detailed Test Cases for new functionality
  • Very good experience in Test Strategy, writing Test cases, Test plans, executing Test scripts, reporting defects and preparing Test Result reports
  • Analyzing requirements and preparing story points will be taken to complete Automation code development, maintenance, and test execution
  • Performed Data-driven testing using Selenium Web Driver
  • Created and enhanced numerous test scripts to handle changes in the objects, in the tested application's GUI and in the testing, environment using Selenium WebDriver
  • Involved in Defects logging, tracking, and managing Defect Life Cycles using Octane
  • Good Experience in working with onsite offshore collaboration
  • Good Exposure in Service now application
  • Comcast Cable is the largest cable entertainment and broadcast service provider in the US and best known for the pioneering the bundle of television, internet, and telephone services together, offering consumers the ability to consolidate their services with one provider

Testing Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions
03.2014 - 07.2015
  • Company Overview: Affiliated Computer Services is a Xerox company and is the world’s leading enterprise for business process and document management, offering global services from claims reimbursement and automated toll transaction to customer care centers and HR benefits management
  • Acted as Team lead for Rate-setting module
  • Reviewing the Test Artifacts created by the testing team
  • Analyzing the requirements and helping the testing team with the test design
  • Status reporting for different stages of testing
  • Coordinating with the development team in analyzing and getting the defects fixed
  • Creating the capacity burnout estimates and other testing estimates for the project
  • Interact with Client to understand the functionality at closure level for writing the functional and non-functional test cases
  • Use practical healthcare and technical knowledge of the application to help the team in delivering an efficient and quality product to the Client
  • Representing sprint planning session from testing team and assigning the committed stories to the team
  • Attending TDD and grooming sessions and interact with Client to understand the functionality and guide the team
  • Demo the completed user stories to clients at the last day of sprint
  • Requirement analysis, Test design preparation and testing of the application software for enhanced functionality and productivity depending on specific technical specifications and requirements
  • Functionality testing, smoke testing and application testing
  • Coordinating with the development team in analyzing and getting the defects fixed
  • Executing the Functional Test cases for the application software for enhanced functionality and productivity depending with specific technical specifications
  • Triaging the defects with Development/Business/Clients across all functional modules
  • Preparation of Test Evaluation Summary Report and Gap Analysis
  • Affiliated Computer Services is a Xerox company and is the world’s leading enterprise for business process and document management, offering global services from claims reimbursement and automated toll transaction to customer care centers and HR benefits management

Test Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions
05.2010 - 03.2014
  • Company Overview: WellPoint, Inc
  • Is the largest health benefits company in terms of commercial membership in the United States, delivering a number of leading health benefit solutions through a broad portfolio of integrated health care plans and related services
  • Act as SME/Reviewer for the team to review business requirement documents such as BPD and coding grid provided by Customer
  • Perform certain deliverable activities to hold the billing positions
  • Responsible for the delivery of the work allocated to the team
  • Perform reviewer’s role (Issue reviews, Clarifications, BPD/Grid review for nonstandard benefits as required)
  • Schedule, attend and Follow ups for Issue resolution calls with WellPoint SME/BAC/Coder
  • AM Dashboard consolidation for Comprehensive Re-test packages and follow ups
  • Identify and request for automation
  • Responsible for the quality and delivery of the work allocated to the testing team
  • Feasibility studies done for enhancements in the existing automation tool for better automation coverage
  • Testing support for the issue fixes and enhancements validation to the automation team before the changes/enhancements moved into production
  • Requirement analysis done to generate the expected results through automation
  • Preparation of Job-aid for cognizant benefits testing automation tool
  • Updates to the master test grid which is a test data repository for both manual and automation testing based on the customer request
  • Provide root cause analysis and corrective/preventive actions for Invalid and audit defects
  • Provide value adds and process improvements in benefits testing
  • Process test cases or claims in NASCO through Model office
  • Defects reporting in WellPoint’s in-house defect tracking tool such as RTS and PDM
  • Involvement in defect tracking which comprises of defect identification, defect logging, defect retesting and defect closure
  • Review of the defects which are logging by testing team
  • Supporting test team for benefits related queries and clarification
  • Updating Test closure document (Tester Sign off form) and shared the deliverables with Customer
  • Daily and weekly status reporting
  • WellPoint, Inc
  • Is the largest health benefits company in terms of commercial membership in the United States, delivering a number of leading health benefit solutions through a broad portfolio of integrated health care plans and related services

Test Engineer

Wipro Technologies
09.2007 - 04.2010
  • Company Overview: Motorola Japan Limited is the leading Network Service provider in JAPAN
  • We are responsible to providing the service for development of auditing tools for network elements, maintaining them and enhancing the tool according to their requirement
  • Involved in Manual Testing
  • Participated in RGS and attended Requirement calls
  • Participated in Test Plan preparation and review meeting
  • Preparing and reviewing the test cases based on business and functional requirements
  • Test Data Preparation and Reviewing
  • Execution of Test Cases
  • Participated in preparation of RTM
  • Involved in Smoke, Functional, Regression Continues Integration and E2E Testing
  • Attending conference call with onsite team and preparing daily status report
  • Used SQL to validate the data in oracle database
  • Motorola Japan Limited is the leading Network Service provider in JAPAN
  • We are responsible to providing the service for development of auditing tools for network elements, maintaining them and enhancing the tool according to their requirement

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Coimbatore Institute of Technology
06.2007

Skills

  • Windows
  • Unix
  • Linux
  • Integration
  • Functional
  • System
  • End to End
  • Regression
  • Acceptance
  • Automation
  • User Acceptance
  • Agile Testing Methodology
  • HP ALM
  • JIRA
  • Octane
  • C
  • Core Java
  • Python
  • Oracle 10g
  • SQL Server 2012
  • MY SQL
  • MS Office 2000/2003/2010
  • MS SharePoint
  • Project Metrics
  • Estimation
  • Requirement Gathering and Analysis
  • Effort Estimation
  • Scenario review meeting
  • Acceptance Meeting
  • Selenium Webdriver
  • Selenium
  • Defect tracking
  • Problem-solving abilities
  • Functional Testing
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Test scripts
  • Develop test cases
  • Bug reporting
  • Database querying
  • Regression Testing
  • Test script execution
  • Test case development

Languages

English
Professional Working

Timeline

Senior Test Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions
07.2015 - Current

Testing Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions
03.2014 - 07.2015

Test Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions
05.2010 - 03.2014

Test Engineer

Wipro Technologies
09.2007 - 04.2010

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Coimbatore Institute of Technology

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