Mendis Taraka D
Falling Waters
Summary
Skilled IT professional with 9+ years in Quality Assurance and Software Testing experience of both Web Based and Client Server applications. Worked extensively in Healthcare Insurance domain including knowledge of Health Insurance Exchange for State, HIPAA, EDI, Benefit Administration, Medicare & Medicaid, Qualified Health Plan. Extensive testing knowledge on Medicaid and QHP Notices, validation on key messages, Text/Fragments, Templates, XML, JSON and End to End Testing with Print Vendors. Thorough understanding of software quality activities throughout Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Defect Management Life Cycle (DMLC). Detail understanding of QA Methodologies (Agile, Waterfall) to ensure quality control. Well versed with Agile Methodology – stand-ups, user stories, estimations, and metrics. Proficiency in different phases of testing such as, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, GUI testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, Database Testing, End to End Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Unit Testing, Backend Testing, Black Box Testing and Compatibility Testing. Strong experience in writing Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test Cases by analyzing Business Requirements and Product Requirements to meet product’s business requirements. Good experience in writing and utilizing SQL queries for data verification in Oracle and other RDBMS. Experience in performing Back End Testing by writing and executing SQL queries. Experience in analyzing Functional and Technical Requirements and Mapping. Strong skills in Manual Testing, BUG Tracking System and all QA Processes. Involved in designing and maintaining Requirements Traceability Matrix. Experience testing in SOAP and RESTFUL Web services using SOAP UI tool. Highly dedicated to produce professional work with highest quality and creativity. Excellent team player with very good communication skills, written skills, interpersonal skills and leadership qualities. Ability to build and maintain strong working relationship with all levels of management. Excellent coordination and communication with development, operation, and business users for preparing different environments for different cycles of testing and bug free releases. Experience in analyzing bugs and interacting with developers and team members in fixing bugs. Ability to work effectively as independent or in a team environment. Possess strong problem-solving skills with the ability to adapt to a new environment and meet deadlines.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Quality Engineer
Optum Services, Inc. (United Health Group)
01.2015 - Current
- The state of Massachusetts passed a health care reform law in 2006 with the aim of providing health insurance to nearly all its residents
- The law mandated that nearly every resident of Massachusetts obtain a minimum level of insurance coverage, provided free health care insurance for residents earning less than 150% of the federal poverty level (FPL) and mandated employers with more than 10 'full-time' employees to provide healthcare insurance
- The law was amended significantly in 2008 and twice in 2010 to make it consistent with the federal Affordable Care Act
- Among its many effects, the law established an independent public authority, the Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority, also known as the Massachusetts Health Connector
- The Connector acts as an insurance broker to offer free, highly subsidized and full-price private insurance plans to residents, including through its web site
- As such it is one of the models of the Affordable Care Act's health insurance exchanges
- The MA HIX Project or Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority is the centerpiece of Massachusetts’ ambitious health care reforms, which were implemented beginning in 2006
- The Connector is an independent quasi-governmental agency created by the Massachusetts legislature to facilitate the purchase of affordable, high-quality health insurance by small businesses and individuals without access to employer-sponsored coverage
- Responsibilities: Engaged in JAD sessions with client, business analysts, product teams, and other stakeholders in discussion on functional scope, requirements and issues that will impact the system behavior
- Analyze various documents such as, business requirement document (BRD), product requirement specification document (PRSD), notice technical specification document (TSD) and other functional related documents as part of testing scope
- Developed Test plans, High Level Test scenarios, Test Scripts and Test cases based on business and product requirements and user stories for different modules in HIX system
- Conduct business walkthroughs to stakeholders on vast range of functional test cases
- Work extensively on notices, both Medicaid and QHP notices, templates, XMLs and JSON validation and logged more than 200 defects
- Performed end to end testing on notices from creating applications to validation and working with print vendor to assure the hard copies, inserts and envelops are all going to members as per business highest standards
- Perform System Integration testing and tested major functionalities (Ex
- Open enrollment, special enrollment, Transitional Medical Assistance, renewals, FTR, Premium Assistance, PDM, Notices, MMIS, Enrollments etc.) in the application
- Report bugs and interact with development teams to discuss the status of the bugs (open or hold) and fixture timelines
- Perform validation and certifying builds in all testing environments (QA, QA1, DEV, DEV1, INT, INT1, TT3, TT4 etc.)
- Prepared test suite for Regression testing phase and thoroughly tested the application before release
- Performed backend database testing by writing SQL and PL/SQL scripts to verify data integrity
- Involved in supporting team during all major production releases (2-4 every year)
- Ensures that the product meets the organization and customer quality and product integrity requirements
- Actively participated in enhancement meetings, project review meetings, daily and weekly status meetings which were focus on deadlines and making the application working as expected.
Education
Skills
- Operating Systems: MS Windows (11/XP/NT/2000, MS-DOS, UNIX)
- RDBMS: SQL Server, Oracle, MS Access, Teradata
- Defect Tracking / Test Management: HP ALM, JIRA, Rally
- Web Technologies / Scripting Languages: HTML, JSON, Java Scripting, VB Scripting
- Packages: MS Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint
- Testing Tools / Reporting: SOAP UI, Postman, READY API, QTP, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), AWS
Certification
No Code AI and Machine Learning: Building Data Science Solutions By MIT
No Code AI and Machine Learning: Building Data Science Solutions - MIT
Drive innovation with AI & Machine Learning
Timeline
Senior Quality Engineer
Optum Services, Inc. (United Health Group)
01.2015 - Current
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