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SUNIL BARLI

Johnston

Summary

With over 15 years of experience across the IT landscape—specializing in the Insurance Domain— evolved from a Quality Assurance Lead into a strategic hybrid of a Senior Business Analyst and Scrum Master. My career is built on the philosophy that quality isn’t just a phase at the end of a project; it is a mindset that must be integrated into the initial requirements and maintained through every sprint.

Currently, at Iowa Workforce Development, I serve as the Operational Leader. I dual-hat as a BA and Scrum Master, ensuring that our product backlogs are not just "full," but prioritized for maximum stakeholder value, while simultaneously removing the roadblocks that prevent my developers from doing their best work.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Scrum Master/Sr Business Analyst

Iowa Workforce Development (State of Iowa)
03.2021 - Current
  • State of Iowa’s Unemployment Insurance Tax System mission is to migrate the existing Tax system following the latest industry standard frameworks and to rearchitect the system and make it future ready to run in cloud environment.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Working closely with Product Owner and Business tSME’s on UI/UX requirement analysis.
  • Conducting the Requirement gathering session for Elicitation of the requirements.
  • Coordinating with Business teams and preparing EPICs and User Stories in JIRA.
  • Coordinating with Business Owners and other stakeholders for preparing BRD Documents and getting approvals, following the organizational SDLC process.
  • Preparing Sprint Cadence, Facilitating Daily stand up calls, backlog grooming sessions to prioritize the User stories and plan for the sprint.
  • Facilitating Sprint Planning with capacity planning and Retrospective meetings.
  • Coordinating with the team in providing estimations and resource allocations for the planned stories.
  • Leading the triage meetings involving Development Team and SME’s.
  • Provide weekly status updates to the Sr Management and Bureau Chiefs.
  • Create and maintain Confluence pages with project documentation.
  • Prepared dashboards and generated reports from Jira (Team Velocity, burn down) and Confluence.
  • Coordinating with Implementation Analysts on the release activities.

Sr Business Analyst/QA

Sammons Financial Group
11.2017 - 02.2021
  • SFG’s Life IT supports the solution areas of Product, Admin, New Business, Sales & Marketing and Agency.
  • SFG’s TAX Program supports to fix issues related to 7702 (A) (TAMRA)/7702(TEFRA), 7PP, MEC issues and remediation of the policies.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Working closely with Product Owner and Business teams on requirement Analysis.
  • Conducting the Requirement gathering session for Elicitation of the requirements.
  • Coordinating with Business teams and preparing EPICs and User Stories in JIRA.
  • Coordinating with Business Owners and other stake holders for preparing BRD Documents and getting approvals, following organizational SDLC process.
  • Participating in backlog grooming sessions to prioritize the User stories and plan for the sprint.
  • Actively involved in Sprint Planning and Retrospective meetings.
  • Coordinated closely with product Owner and Scrum master on maintaining the backlog.
  • Involved in providing estimations and resource allocations for the planned testing activities.
  • Leading the triage meetings Development Team and Testing Teams.
  • Coordinating and assigning the task to team for test case creating and execution.
  • Perform End to End functionality testing. Planning and Coordinating UAT testing.
  • Sammons Financial Group (SFG) is a subsidiary of Sammons Enterprises, a group of financial companies.

Sr Quality Analyst

Church Mutual Insurance Company
01.2017 - 10.2017
  • Flexi PAS (Policy Admin System) Product Integration:
  • Flexi PAS is the new Policy Admin System Product developed to migrate from the existing Legacy Application. The Flexi PAS interacts with the existing Legacy application and the downstream application like Billing systems, Claims and Underwriting and upstream system like CRM for managing and creating the customers.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Coordinated with SME’s and Business Analysts for Requirement Gathering for the Flexi PAS Product.
  • Conducting the Requirement gathering session for Elicitation of the requirements.
  • Preparing Business Requirement Documents as per the Organization template.
  • Involved in providing estimations and resource allocations for the planned testing activities.
  • Responsible for daily Environment Testing on all platforms, and sending out Environment Testing Reports.
  • Leading the daily triage meetings involving BA team, Development Team and Testing Teams.
  • Generating reports on the defects counts from JIRA.
  • Participated in preparing the Functional Test Scripts in Selenium with Data driven frame work
  • Generating test reports using Test NG. Preparation of Metrics and Weekly Status Report.
  • Perform Regression testing on the entire application on every release.

Sr. BA/ QA Analyst

Liberty Mutual Personal Insurance
05.2016 - 01.2017
  • Products Systems Integration:
  • The objective of Property Products Integration team is to validate the NGPA and UW requirements of the Safeco Application (QBE) and integrate on the lines of Liberty Mutual application. Both Auto and Property LOB’s are part of this integration.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Coordinated with SME’s and Business Analysts for Requirement Gathering.
  • Worked with BSA on requirement Analysis and Preparing the Test Strategy and Test Plan.
  • Authored Test Scenarios and Test Cases based on Test Coverage plan.
  • Worked on execution of Test cases under Property Lines of Business.
  • Worked on Performing Manual Rater validations for validating the rates for the Perils for the LOB’s (Home Condo and Renters)
  • Perform Validation on various functional areas like – Coverage validation; Quote creation, Policy binding, Declaration verification.
  • Asset management is Sharepoint site. Preparation of Metrics and Weekly Status Report.
  • Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, a business unit of Boston-based Liberty Mutual Group is a national organization that consists of property and casualty, and specialty insurance carriers that distribute products and services primarily through independent agents and brokers.

Sr. BA/ QA Analyst

Liberty Mutual Personal Insurance
07.2015 - 05.2016
  • Underwriting:
  • The objective of this project will confirm that the new WPS service matches the existing rate service. Testing will also confirm that all fields for the various services are being passed to meet the current business requirements. Testing objective is also to see a measurable increase in performance after moving from SAS-G/Tuxedo to WPS.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Worked with BSA on requirement Analysis and Preparing the Test Strategy and Test Plan.
  • Authored Test Scenarios and Test Cases based on Test Coverage plan.
  • Execution of Test cases under Auto and Property Lines of Business.
  • Perform Regression testing on the entire application on every monthly release.
  • Perform Validation on various functional areas like – Coverage validation; Quote creation, Policy binding, Declaration verification.
  • Assigning tasks and Managing Offshore Team. Preparation of Metrics and Weekly Status Report

Sr. BA/QA Analyst

Liberty Mutual Global Specialty
02.2014 - 07.2015
  • Accidental and Health Insurance:
  • Responsibilities:
  • Understanding the Overall Project requirements and preparing the Test Strategy and Test Plan.
  • Analyzing the interface design documents and business requirements
  • Review the technical documents with corresponding Development Team.
  • Active participation in Project kickoff and functional requirement document walkthrough.
  • Preparing resource plan for Test design and manual & automation testing.
  • Preparing and executing test cases in Microsoft test Management Tool.
  • Analyzed the scope for using Selenium for functional and regression tests
  • Participated in preparing the Selenium scripts with Automation architect.
  • Publishing daily status report with testing and defect metrics and Weekly status report on the Testing progress and blockers if any.
  • Worked with project management to identify and manage risk, status and action items on mitigation plan.
  • Under A&H, LMAP is a transaction engine available to insurance companies, plan administrators and self-administered employer groups. A&H have products like Group Accidental Death (GADD) and Blanket Accident (BACC).

QA Analyst

Liberty Mutual Personal Insurance
01.2013 - 02.2014
  • Document Solutions:
  • Responsibilities:
  • Prepare and support to publish Test Strategy after analyzing project proposal documents.
  • Active participation in Project kickoff and functional requirement document walkthrough meetings and identifying the regression partners.
  • Test plan walkthrough with business and project stakeholders.
  • Preparing Estimation for Test design and manual testing execution phase.
  • Identified how to best test complex validation criteria and designing the test cases accordingly.
  • Preparing and publishing daily status report with testing and defect metrics.
  • Analyzed, documented, and submitted issues discovered during testing. Verified and closed issues resolved during the release cycle.
  • Ensuring daily testing progress on track, recording the deviations and reporting to the project team.
  • Publishing is responsible for the creation and maintenance of documents(forms), includes Proposal (Quote), Application, Policy Package, ID Cards and Billing that Liberty Mutual distributes to Personal Market customers. The line of business includes Auto, Property, Claims and PLP.

QA Analyst

Liberty Mutual Personal Insurance
05.2012 - 01.2013
  • CCT Application:
  • Responsibilities: Prepared Test Plan and Test Summary documents.
  • Publishing Test Design deliverables based on the Business requirements.
  • Provided UAT support. Published Status Reports and monthly dashboards.
  • Communicating and documenting test results and defect resolutions during all phases of testing.
  • Acted as key point of contact for all QA aspects of releases, providing QA services and coordinating QA resources internally and externally
  • Worked with project management to identify and manage risk, status and issues.
  • Customer Communication Transformation is the Publishing project for migration of the Forms from the legacy systems to the WPS server.

QA Analyst

Liberty Mutual Personal Insurance
10.2011 - 05.2012
  • E-Service Application:
  • EService is an application designed to allow customers to self-service for a variety of needs ranging from policy management to bill payment. The application is built on portal technology and each of the portals has hooks to the back-ends of other personal market systems and databases to return information to the customer and, in some cases, allows the customer to write to that back-end.

QA Analyst

Liberty Mutual Agency Market
10.2010 - 10.2011
  • Surety Online Application:
  • Surety Online is an application that enables users to create a Surety bond online, assuming that they meet certain criteria. Authorized Safeco agents are Insurance agents authorized by Safeco to sell Safeco bonds. CSRs are Customer Service Reps that are Safeco employees.

Education

Bachelor of Technology -

JNTU
Hyderabad, India

Skills

  • AI Tools: CoPilot, Gemini, Chat GPT
  • Test Management Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Azure DevOps (TFS, MTM) ALM
  • Automation: Selenium WebDriver, QTP/UFT, Postman, SOAP UI
  • Database: Oracle, MS SQL
  • Design: MS Visio, Drawio, Lucidchart (for Business Process Modeling)
  • Others: Defect Management, Testing Artifacts & Metrics Preparation, Mavenlink

Websites

Certification

  • Google AI Essentials
  • Certified ScrumMaster
  • ISTQB Certified Tester
  • ASTQB-Certified Mobile Tester
  • Certified Scaled Agilist

Timeline

Scrum Master/Sr Business Analyst

Iowa Workforce Development (State of Iowa)
03.2021 - Current

Sr Business Analyst/QA

Sammons Financial Group
11.2017 - 02.2021

Sr Quality Analyst

Church Mutual Insurance Company
01.2017 - 10.2017

Sr. BA/ QA Analyst

Liberty Mutual Personal Insurance
05.2016 - 01.2017

Sr. BA/ QA Analyst

Liberty Mutual Personal Insurance
07.2015 - 05.2016

Sr. BA/QA Analyst

Liberty Mutual Global Specialty
02.2014 - 07.2015

QA Analyst

Liberty Mutual Personal Insurance
01.2013 - 02.2014

QA Analyst

Liberty Mutual Personal Insurance
05.2012 - 01.2013

QA Analyst

Liberty Mutual Personal Insurance
10.2011 - 05.2012

QA Analyst

Liberty Mutual Agency Market
10.2010 - 10.2011

Bachelor of Technology -

JNTU
SUNIL BARLI