Kamalakkannan Chakrapani

Seasoned in Quality and Test Management with over 17 years of experience of Quality Engineering, managing products, applications with focus on project delivery. Experienced in delivering large and complex systems with quality in domains including Healthcare, Banking, Financial, Life, P&C and Telecom. Highly motivated self-starter, thought leadership, Fostering on-time delivery within budget, Project Planning, monitoring, and execution. Advocate on Business Value Enablement, Customer focus and provide direction to achieve business objectives. Experience in various SDLC models includes waterfall, Iterative methodology, DevOps, and Agile methodology (SCRUM).

Tableau, Power BI, Clarity, MS Word, Excel, Power point, MPP, MS Visio, QC, (ALM V15.0), Qtest, Gherkin, Rational Test Manager, Test Link, QTP, Selenium (Java), RFT, Silk Test, Sauce Lab, CA Rally, Jira, Jenkins, GitHub, JAWS, NVDA, ZoomText, Voiceover, Color Contrast, WAVE, SQL, Oracle, Todd, DB Visualizer, Postman, Swagger, REST, SOAP, API, Java 2.0, AS400, HTML, XML, DB2, VB.Net, J2EE, VB Script, Java script, Mainframe, SQL

$5 Million mid-size projects

• Health Insurance Exchange (HIX)
• Eligibility determination and Enrolment functions for multiple programs like Food Stamps, Child Support (CS), Accessibility, Integrated Eligibility (IE), and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), SNAP

Title: PMP

1, OPTUM/UHG, 02/01/2019, Current Date, Project Lead/Manager, WV PATH integrated system will decide eligibility and delivery of social service programs such as Medicaid, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), Child Welfare, Low-Income Energy Assistance Program (LIEAP), child welfare, childcare, and Child Support. Section 508 compliance to meet WCAG 2.0 AA standards., Managed to implement Accessibility standards to WV PATH project and act as liaison for Optum and geographically distributed team., Involved to prepare and maintain SoW document for third party vendor for project delivery., Involved in product backlog refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection, and other Scrum techniques implemented, Responsible for weekly executive status reporting on overall projects, coordinating and leading daily project status meetings, tracking project performance to baseline schedule, time reporting and invoices., Managed Defect triage meeting with Dev, BA, and QA team to ensure the defects are properly triaged, prioritized and traction to closure where 40 - 50 track leads will participate., Managed implementation of business requirements, user acceptance testing sessions, and organization of cross-functional stakeholder-engagement teams, Prepare various Test metrics report preparation for release based monthly and yearly report for leadership team., Generate Requirements Traceability Matrix to ensure SIT test cases are aligned with requirements and traceable., Performed Effort Estimation, Test planning, test cases preparation, Test Reports and Traceability matrix, Responsible for project delivery on time within budget, Identify industry best practices and implemented successfully for Accessibility project, Contribution for Test Metrics deck preparation for WV PATH project includes Functional and Accessibility projects for leadership team., Track all the deliverables, milestones, resources allocation, Monitoring the project budget and invoices, Developing various project artifacts using tools such as Microsoft Project Plan (MPP), MS-Office (Excel, Word, and Power Point), and MS-Visio., .Net, Salesforce, HP ALM 12.21, Operating System: Windows 10, DB-SQL, Cross browsers, JAWS/NVDA, WCAG2.0 2, OPTUM/UHG, 11/16/2015, 11/15/2019, Project Lead/Manager, MA HIX implementation and focuses on Enrollment work stream, one of the many interfaces for the exchange. Enrollment work stream will be developing the interface between hCentive application, Eligibility and Enrollment part of MA HIX project, with Dell's FMS system, Billing and Carrier Interface part of the MA HIX project. hCentive application transmits enrollment information to FMS system via Enrollment XML. Enrollment XML supplies FMS system necessary information to generate invoices for the enrollment, perform billing functions. Section 508 compliance and meet WCAG 2.0 AA standards., Conduct project walkthroughs and meetings involving various leads from Development, QA, and Technical Support teams., Managed Defect triage meeting with multiple vendors to ensure the defects are properly triaged, prioritized and manage to closure., Managed Accessibility project and function as a liaison for Optum and vendor Interactive Accessibility team, HP ALM Governance and support on catering diverse needs of access, adding new fields and values for Testing modules., Training on ALM for Technology Development Programmer's and project team to bring them up to the speed for project needs., Work with external partners and entities in a cross organizational environment including interaction with technical and executive leadership stakeholders., Generating ALM reports for leadership team and CEO reports., Preparing various kind of metrics for test effectiveness, Working on defect management and coordination with multiple vendors, Generate Requirements Traceability Matrix to ensure SIT test scripts are aligned with requirements and traceable., Responsible for daily status, weekly status reports delivered to stakeholders., Performed Effort Estimation, Test Reports and Traceability matrix., Accountable for project delivery for Accessibility testing, Status tracking & reporting to different stakeholders., Responsible for day-to-day project delivery, Weekly management call to discuss about the project status and pipeline projects., Attending JAD session and aiding technical aspects to team, Managed multiple projects successfully LTSS, Enrollment, UI/UX and usability projects., HP ALM 12.21, DB-SQL, Cross browsers, JAWS/NVDA, WCAG2.0, Mobile- iOS, Android, JIRA, Service Now 3, ZURICH Financial Services (CSC / DXC), 06/01/2015, 10/30/2015, Senior Consultant, SCS is the integrated product, policy, and claims administration system that supports the F&I business. Upgrading the SCS system is needed to mitigate technology risk and position Zurich for future enhancements critical to achieving F&I's aggressive growth plans. Adopting the vendor's "out of the box" solution will enable new capabilities including individual use virtual payment integration, GAP claims administration, and mobile applications. SCS to provide a centralized form repository using data base electronics forms, rates, and retails limits, Providing consultation and/or coordinating project change activities with QA team, Analyzed business specifications, Test Estimation, Test planning., Review Test documents, Manage Test Design and Test Execution, Actively participated in BRD walkthroughs and acquired good business acumen of SCS and Base applications., Participated in Defect Triage Meetings to discuss various issues, impediments, and barriers during the testing process., SAP testing of SCS Base product, Performed Effort Estimation, Test Reports and Traceability matrix., Responsible for daily status, weekly status delivered to stakeholders., CRM, People Soft, ALM 4, AIG North America (CSC / DXC), 09/01/2014, 05/30/2015, Test Lead, As part of the One Life Conversion project, traditional Cyber life products are converted to AGNIS Admin, health claims, and other downstream reporting systems. Once Cyber life policies are converted, plan provisions, processing rules, reporting, will need to be supported in AGNIS system. The Cyber life conversion is a critical aspect of supporting the One Life strategy, reducing the systems complexity, and increasing cost effectiveness. For R3 release eight products in Life and Health are converted into AGNIS and rate book, plan code, company code and riders and benefits are validated in AGNIS system., Analyzed business specifications, Test Estimation, Test planning., Review Test documents, Manage Test Design and Test Execution, Guide the team in preparation of test scripts, test data and test scripts execution., Prepared Knowledge repository for AGNIS applications and induction manual, Actively participated in BRD walkthroughs for R3 and R4 releases and acquired good business acumen of AGNIS application., Supported TDM activities to manage the test data and provided support for tool development., Primary contact to develop regression suite for R3 release., Assign and monitor tasks to offshore team, Performed Effort Estimation, Test Reports and Traceability matrix., Experienced with collaborate on creation and maintenance of UAT detailed test plan, test cases, scripts, scenarios for project., Involved in creation of user acceptance test (UAT) cases/business scenarios creation., Performed Requirements Traceability Matrix to ensure UAT test scripts are aligned with requirements., Responsible for daily status, weekly status delivered to stakeholders., AS400, HTML, XML, DB2, VB.Net 5, UNUM (CSC / DXC), 01/02/2008, 08/30/2014, Project Leader 6, Computer Sciences Corporation, 09/02/2007, 01/30/2008, Team Leader 7, eSurance (Cognizant), 08/02/2006, 08/30/2007 8, Covad USA (Cognizant), 12/02/2003, 07/30/2006