Elizabeth Samuel

Client: Allstate Benefits US

Project: Standard Case (Transformation Project)

• Currently working on a Transformation project on Group Insurance products – Accidental Coverage, Critical Illness and Health following Agile Methodology
• Accelerated in onboarding different Technology partners supporting different file formats like LDeX, Employee Navigator, Simplified File Formats & MTR
• Collaborated with stakeholders across departments to define requirements for new projects.
• Drafted functional specifications documents outlining project scope, objectives and deliverables.
• Created detailed process flows and user stories to document system requirements and design solutions.
• Identified gaps between current state and desired future state operations.

Client: Allstate Benefits US

Project: Certificate Policy & Enrollment

• Analyzed business requirements, functional specifications, user stories and use cases for developing test plans and strategies.
• Conducted system integration tests to ensure the applications are integrated properly with other systems.
• Created defect reports and tracked defects throughout their lifecycle using JIRA tool.
• Worked on Group Insurance Application project (Project in collaboration with EIS and Allstate Benefits) on Group Insurance products – Accidental Coverage, Critical Illness and Health following Agile Methodology
• Performed root cause analysis of failed test cases and implemented corrective actions as required.

Client: Allstate Benefits US

Project: Effortless Purchase Project

• Main responsibilities included completion of the test planning including test script/scenario preparation, execution of the test scenarios using Postman/SOAP UI, managing defects during testing phases, test coordination and reporting for key stakeholders
• Managed Execution logged and tracked defects and reported status daily to the client
• Carried out System Integration Test (SIT).
• Analyzed and documented business requirements to create test plans, cases, and scripts.
• Collaborated with development teams to ensure quality of product releases.
• Managed a team of testers in the execution of manual and automated tests.
• Monitored bug tracking systems for resolution of defects reported by users.
• Created detailed reports outlining results from testing activities and presented findings to stakeholders.

Project: BenPal UK

• Worked as a scrum master in Agile methodology using scrum-ban techniques.
• Involved in a weekly direct communication between offshore and on-site teams.
• Executed various types of tests such as positive and negative, boundary value analysis, and exploratory.
• Assisted in creating user acceptance test plans based on user stories from Agile methodology teams.
• Created detailed reports on testing results to be used by the development team.
• Conducted system, integration, regression, smoke, and functional testing.

Client: Capita Children Services

Project: Release Team

• CSS is an Education Management system which is designed to ensure that most children are offered a single secondary school place
• It has a centralised pupil admission and transfer system for each using XML Schemas.
• Defining test strategies and preparing test plans
• Executing test cases
• Business Analysis of defects