Nagaraju Deshmi
Senior Quality Engineer
Summary
Professional Summery:
- 7+ years of experience in Insurance domain with Duck creek, Guidewire Product Testing & 1 year of experience into Pega Testing in software Industry.
- Strong Exposure to P&C Insurance and LOB's like IM, BOP, CP, Auto, Umbrella, GL, LL, WC,CPP.
- Have strong experience on Duck creek with very good understanding of Insurance concepts, Principles of Insurance, Concept of Risk and Types, Reinsurance, Co-Insurance Underwriting, Rating, coverages, Subscription, Policy Servicing, Premium, transactions, Forms, QMS gateway, Policy Management system, Batch Processing, XML,Policy life cycle, Claims, Billing.
- Having good knowledge on Deriving Rating requirement algorithms & Rating Testing.
- Good operational Knowledge on SDLC & STLC
- Proficient in designing the Testing artifacts like RTM, Test plan, Test cases,Test Summary Report & Test Execution.
- Thorough hands on experience with all levels of testing including Sanity, Usability, Functional, smoke,Integration, Regression, Re-testing and User Acceptance Testing.
- Involved in maintaining & Execute manual regression tests, ensuring the stability of production releases.
- Experience on Defect Management tools like QC,ALM,JIRA,Azure Devops,TFS.
- Good knowledge on SQL & Mobile Testing
- Expertise in Gathering Business Requirements,Gap Analysis & Documentation
- Attending scrum meetings & Defect Triage calls calls on Daily basis.
- Have Team handling Experience in offshore-onsite model work.
- Good in status reporting to Business & Involved in PPT Presentation to stakeholders.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
3
3
Certificates
Work History
Duck creek Test Engineer
Client: Core Specialty, USA
04.2023 - Current
- Analyzing the Property LOB Business requirements, Follow up with BA & Product owners for requirement gaps.
- Effort Estimations for the user story assigned.
- Prepared the Comprehensive Test plan, RTM, Test scenerios &Test cases.
- Involved in smoke testing, functionality testing, system testing, regression testing for the Duck Creek suite.
- Defect logging and defect follow-up in Azure Devops
- Preparing the Expected rater sheets for various transactions.
- Performing Root cause Analysis-RCA on the production bugs.
- Collaborate with developers for resolution of testing issues & sharing the risks to project Manager to achieve a quality product.
- Preparing Daily status report of the team and updating to Project Manager/business sponsors.
- Working on Gap analysis & identifying the regression areas to make the system stable.
- Participated in defect triage calls.
- Providing QA Signoff on the user stories.
- Handled the 5-member Team.
- Conducted & Trained New resources on the Duck Creek application.
Duck Creek QA
Client : Penn National Insurance, USA
05.2021 - 03.2023
- Analyzing the state specific requirements & derive the test cases
- Executed the test cases for different product implementation for commercial lines
- Validating the premiums for Respective coverages using the Rater for Auto, BOP, CP & IM LOB
- Preparing the Expected rater sheets for various transactions
- Referring ISO Manuals for Rate factor for different states
- Raising the defects if any Premium mismatches with rating worksheet
- Follow up with BA for any clarification & rater updates like formulae
- Performing Root cause Analysis-RCA on the production bugs
- Collaborate with developers for resolution of testing issues & sharing the risks to project Manager to achieve a quality product
- Work towards deadlines and prioritizing workload
Duck Creek PAS Tester
Client: Northbridge Insurance Corporation, Canada
06.2018 - 05.2021
- Analyzing the Acceptance criteria of User stories
- Preparing Effort estimations & Coverage Matrix for the User stories
- Involved in Peer review, Retrospective meetings, scrum calls
- Preparing the test plan, Authoring Test Cases, Test data for the application
- Performing Root cause Analysis-RCA on the bugs reported by UAT Users for Developer Consumption
- Executing Test Cases and Generating Test summary Reports
- Testing activities included smoke,Functional, Retesting, Regression, System and Acceptance Testing
- Participate in Defect triaging & provide data justification on the defects
- Preparing querylog,reviewlog,MOM,Traceability matrix
- Preparing Knowledge management Document for future use
- Providing the daily status reports to the Product owner
- Maintaining the all testing activities in TFS,Azure Devops
- Giving the walkthrough to business on Test Results
- Keep track of Backlog bugs to avoid duplicate bugs
- Providing QA Signoff if no Defects outstanding & conditional signoff if bugs deferred
Guidewire Test Analyst
Client : Wawanesa Insurance, Canada
04.2016 - 05.2018
- Reviewed and understood user stories/ functional Requirements and various business requirements documents
- Designed and executed Test plans and Test cases according to product backlog and user stories
- Identified and organized the overall plan for test data, strategy and the Scope of testing within the context of each Sprint
- Performed Sprint level testing, Functional Testing, Systems Integration Testing, UAT, and Regression Testing
- Understanding the screen flow and business functionality
- Participated in daily Scrum Meetings, Sprint Planning Sessions, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective Sessions
- Prepared and provided status summary reports on system status, system changes, problems and potential impacts
- Interacted with different integrations services like Rating, Motor Vehicle, Address validation and Document & Forms
- Tested various major functionalities like Policy Submissions, Changes, Cancels, Reinstate, Rewrites and Renewals
PEGA Tester
Client: Moody's Investors Inc, USA
11.2015 - 04.2016
- Understanding the Fee schedules and Fee Logics of the application.
- Creating Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test data for the application.
- Executing Test Cases and Generating Test summary Reports.
- Testing activities included Retesting, Regression, System and Acceptance Testing.
- Raising and Reproducing Bugs
- Test Results Walkthrough with Business
- Ensuring the timely delivery of different testing milestones.
- Preparing query log,review log,MOM.
- Maintained all Testing activities in JIRA.
Education
MBA - Information Technology
Suresh Gyan Vihar University
04.2001 -
BTECH
Vaagdevi Engineering College
04.2001 -
Intermediate -
Narayana IIT Academy
SSC -
My Masters High School
04.2001 -
Skills
Testing Tools : Duck creek QA, Guidewire QA, Pega testing, Functional Testing
Duckcreek suite : Policy, Claims, Billing, Ratings, forms ,QMS,PMS
Domain : P&C Insurance
Other Skills : Mobile Testing, API Testing, Database testing, SoapUI
Database : SQL Server
Operating Systems : Windows 7,8,10
Defect Tracking Tools : QC,ALM,Jira,TFS,Azure Devops
Methodology : Agile & Waterfall
Version Control Tool : SharePoint
Reports : Daily/Weekly status Report
Accomplishments
- Received 5 spot on Awards from mind tree organization for finding huge number of valid Rating defects for Property LOB Which has led to great customer satisfaction.
- Got appreciation note from Business on “Comprehensive Test coverage” for covering all Entities/Transactions & Boundary conditions, for which Business Impact is very high
- Achieved “Proud member Long service Award” from Ace of Capgemini.
Certification
Duck Creek Policy Certification #DCU
Timeline
Duck creek Test Engineer
Client: Core Specialty, USA
04.2023 - Current
Duck Creek QA
Client : Penn National Insurance, USA
05.2021 - 03.2023
Duck Creek PAS Tester
Client: Northbridge Insurance Corporation, Canada
06.2018 - 05.2021
Guidewire Test Analyst
Client : Wawanesa Insurance, Canada
04.2016 - 05.2018
PEGA Tester
Client: Moody's Investors Inc, USA
11.2015 - 04.2016
MBA - Information Technology
Suresh Gyan Vihar University
04.2001 -
BTECH
Vaagdevi Engineering College
04.2001 -
SSC -
My Masters High School
04.2001 -
Intermediate -
Narayana IIT Academy