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KARTHIGA G

Chennai

Summary

An Endearing & Dynamic Application testing Professional with 8+ years of experience in Test interface management, Defect Management, Test Execution and Guidewire testing. Have good knowledge in insurance(Life and P&C) domains. Expertise in preparing the Test Plans, Test Cases, Traceability Matrices, Test Scripts, Test Procedures and Test Summary Reports based on the User Requirement Document, System Requirement Document and Functional requirement document.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Test Engineer

Client 2: Liberty Insurance Group
02.2017 - 08.2022

Domain - Corporate Life and Health Insurance

Roles:

  • Providing Risk and investment coverage for employees working in corporate forum and processing request by policy holder to insurance company for coverage or compensation for covered loss or policy event
  • In provision of corporate investments and insurance solutions for small and medium companies as well as large corporate and institutions
  • These solutions include pension, provident, investment and risk products, as well as liability and risk management, and consulting services
  • It involves Life, Death, Disaster, Disability, Retirement, Funeral, Divorce Insurances
  • Working on Agile Methodology and taking role of QA Analyst and individual contributor to feature team Excellent knowledge on below process,
  • Claim Process
  • In-Fund Preservation
  • New Business
  • Switches and Election
  • Payroll Process
  • Billing and collection
  • Reassurance

Senior Test Engineer

WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES
Chennai
06.2015 - 08.2022

Achievements/Tasks

  • Managing project functional and technical requirements gathering, following-up with clients throughout project lifecycle to ensure full understanding of needs and concerns
  • Interacting with Developers and Business Analysts to perform various types of Testing (ST, SIT, Regression and Adhoc) throughout Software Testing Life Cycle and Bug Life Cycle(BLC)
  • Being responsible in creating Project Test Estimation, Test cases, Defects, Status Reports and Test Closure Reports. Involving in preparing Audit Report for each Sprint with Test deliverables
  • Meeting with software/product designers to determine quality assurance parameters Leading QA team in designing QA test procedures Overseeing drafting of testing documents
  • Implementing testing procedures and overseeing QA process Troubleshooting quality issues and modifying test procedures Conducting analysis checks on product specifications
  • Reviewing Quality Assurance reports Ensuring successful deployment of products into market Responding to requests from design team and management.
  • Trained junior testers in company standards, testing protocols and testing software
  • Defined and tracked test results, defect counts and performance discrepancies

System Integration Specialist

NTT Data Information Processing Services
Chennai
09.2022 - Current

Roles/Achievement:

  • Developed and implemented integration strategies between multiple systems.
  • Maintained accurate documentation regarding all aspects of the integration process.
  • Analyzed user requirements, developed test cases, identified potential areas of risk and created mitigation plans.
  • Conducted functional, system, integration, regression, smoke and sanity tests to validate application performance.
  • Utilized bug tracking systems such as JIRA to document issues throughout the lifecycle of a project.

Client 1: Everlake Life Insurance Company - USA

Domain - Life and Health Insurance

Roles:

  • Working with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle
  • Performed exploratory testing and identified issues in the Guidewire system before release.
  • Verified correctness of business logic within web applications using API testing tools like Postman.
  • Tested, debugged, documented and maintained software programs developed on the mainframe platform.

Test Engineer

Client1 : Main Street America Insurance
09.2015 - 01.2017

Domain :- Domain :- Commercial Lines and Bonds

Roles:

  • Providing a wide range of commercial and personal insurance, its monthly change requirements and maintenance is supported by Wipro in testing: activities, which includes monthly Service pack regression testing and defect retesting based on SP code release
  • Responsible for Test Plan design, Testcase Creation, Test Execution and Defect Management using JIRA.
  • Involved in BOP and Auto and also worked on enhancement projects.

Education

M.Tech - Software Engineering

BITS,Pilani
Chennai
12-2019

Bachelor's in Computer Applications - Computer Applications

SASTRA University
Kumbakonam
05-2015

Skills

  • Functional Testing and Manual Testing
  • Insurance Domain
  • API Testing - Postman
  • Integration Testing
  • Guidewire Testing
  • Knowledge on SDLC and STLC Process

Technical Skills

  • DATABASE : SQL, MySQL, Oracle DB
  • Defect Management - JIRA , Azure DevOps Server, Rally
  • Test Management - ALM, Confluence,Zephyr
  • Application - ( LIFESYS - NTT Data)
  • Automation- Selenium

Certification

  • Lean Practitioner-Liberty
  • Agile and Scrum Master Certification
  • Insurance Foundation Certification

Languages

Tamil
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2

Timeline

System Integration Specialist

NTT Data Information Processing Services
09.2022 - Current

Senior Test Engineer

Client 2: Liberty Insurance Group
02.2017 - 08.2022

Test Engineer

Client1 : Main Street America Insurance
09.2015 - 01.2017

Senior Test Engineer

WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES
06.2015 - 08.2022

M.Tech - Software Engineering

BITS,Pilani

Bachelor's in Computer Applications - Computer Applications

SASTRA University
  • Lean Practitioner-Liberty
KARTHIGA G