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Ramyasree AP

Ramyasree AP

Coimbatore

Summary

Over 15 years of IT experience with strong expertise in manual testing and proven leadership as a Test Lead. Skilled across all phases of the software testing life cycle, delivering successful projects for clients including USAA, LFG, and MLJ. Proficient in Quality Center and JIRA for test management, with expertise in functional and mobile testing across Waterfall and Agile environments. Contributed to establishing automation frameworks that reduced manual effort and cycle time, improving efficiency and accelerating delivery.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Account Manager

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Coimbatore
06.2016 - Current

Client Description:

Manulife Japan is a leading financial services company that provides a range of products and services, including life insurance, wealth management, and asset management. Established in 1999, Manulife Japan aims to help individuals and businesses grow their wealth, improve their health, and build their future.

EPOS – electronic point of sales is one of the applications where an agent sells life insurance to the customer. The main benefit of this project is to reduce the need to repeat sections of paper application forms entered by policyholder manually.

  • Allocated and tracked tasks for team members to enhance project efficiency.
  • Created and reviewed high-level test scenarios and test cases for system validation.
  • Conducted system testing and managed defects to ensure quality outcomes.
  • Prepared test data to support comprehensive testing efforts.
  • Participated in daily stand-up calls, grooming sessions, retrospectives, and demos to facilitate collaboration.
  • Created subtasks for all user stories in each sprint while estimating effort accurately.
  • Supported automation team by providing regression suite and knowledge transfer.
  • Establishment of Automation to enable cycle time reduction

Test Lead

Lincoln Financial Group
Coimbatore
05.2014 - 08.2015

Smartdesk is a recordkeeping system for US Retirement and Pension Plans like 401k, 403b, 457 etc.

  • Executed regression automation scripts for monthly Smartdesk releases.
  • Identified script failure reasons and communicated details for resolution.
  • Re-executed failed scripts to ensure system integrity.
  • Managed data setup for accurate testing environments.
  • Oversaw defect management to track and resolve issues effectively.
  • Distributed daily status updates to onsite teams.
  • Updated test cases to reflect any functional changes in current releases.

Test Lead

USAA
Chennai
08.2010 - 01.2014
  • The project deals with ability of the borrower to repay a Home equity loan and also new guidelines for loan processing and approval which is a part of Dodd-Frank act, Title IXV. This is a compliance project. The rule will be effective from Jan 10, 2014.
  • Being a Test Lead for Release2 and Release3, RamyaSree was responsible for the seamless deliverables to be met from offshore to the Onsite
  • Understanding the Signed Off Requirements and track queries
  • Allocate and track tasks assigned to her and the team members
  • Create and Review of High level Test Scenarios / Test Cases
  • Integration testing, System testing and release testing
  • Defect management
  • Impact analysis of new CR’s by identifying the scenarios need to updated or designed and the duration for design, execution and defect management.
  • Test data preparation
  • QC activities like Requirements upload, Test case creation, Requirements mapping, Test execution and metrics report generation.
  • Updation of TBD (Task burn down) by providing the list of tasks, estimated date, Actual date and the deliverable count for a particular release.
  • Knowledge transition for new resources
  • USAA is founded in San Antonio, Texas, when 25 Army officers come together and decide to insure each other's automobiles. USAA is one of the only fully integrated financial services organizations in America which provides a full range of highly competitive financial products and services to the military community and their families. And our world-class employees are personally committed to delivering excellent service and great guidance.

Education

B.E. - Computer Science and Engineering

Saveetha Engineering College
Chennai
01.2009

Skills

Manual Testing

  • Test case design & execution
  • Regression, smoke, and sanity testing
  • Requirement analysis & traceability
  • Risk-based testing & prioritization
  • Agile/Scrum collaboration with developers and product owners
  • Test data management & SQL querying
  • Mobile testing across Android/iOS platforms
  • ISTG foundation external certification

Defect reporting & tracking

  • Quality Center 110
  • JIRA

Technical Skills

  • HTML
  • Programming Fundamentals: Basic knowledge of Java and VB script
  • Database: SQL Server

Web Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript basics

Testing Tools: JIRA, Postman, Selenium (intro level)

Domain Skills:

Life insurance

General Insurance-INS21 external certification

Certification

  • Testing, ISTQB External Certification, CSQA, Cognizant Certified Professional in Software Testing, Cognizant Certified Professional in Agile scrum for Practitioners, Cognizant certified Professional in Mobile Testing for Practitioners
  • Insurance, INS 21 External certification, Deep dive into life insurance, Cognizant Certified Professional in General Insurance
  • Banking, Cognizant certified professional in Mortgage banking level0
  • Tools, Cognizant certified Professional in Quality Center for Practitioners, Cognizant certified product consultant on HP QTP

Innovation

  • Resource management tool, A macro based tool used to allocate resources based on their technical experience.
  • Bank HUB, A macro tool which acts as a database to store project details, resource details, certification details, Visa details, billing details and KT documents.

Timeline

Account Manager

Cognizant Technology Solutions
06.2016 - Current

Test Lead

Lincoln Financial Group
05.2014 - 08.2015

Test Lead

USAA
08.2010 - 01.2014

B.E. - Computer Science and Engineering

Saveetha Engineering College
Ramyasree AP