Sushma Hegde
Lead Engineer BA/QA
Bengaluru
Summary
Lead BA/QA Engineer with 9+ years of experience in the field of Software Testing. Having worked on Products such as Guidewire - Agent Portals, Policy Center (UI, Rating & Forms), Banking – Cards domain & General Insurance - IDIT (P&C), intending on delivering high quality software solutions.
Overview
2025
2025
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Lead Engineer
HMIC - Hastings Mutual Insurance Company
6 2021 - Current
- Working on sprint releases for Agent Portal & Policy center of Guidewire Suite as a Lead QA and secondary BA.
- Participating in Planning meetings for Sprint.
- Experience in Guidewire Suite (Policy center, Agent portals)
- Having experience in writing documents like business requirement document, Functional requirement specification.
- In depth experience in the LOBs such as General Liability, Commercial Property , Inland marine and Commercial Packages for the Policy center.
- Very well versed with the LOBs such as Workers compensation and Personal Umbrella on the Agent portal side
- Working on Test design, execution of User stories for Agent portal
- Participating in the Review of Test scenarios & Test cases
- Interacting with Subject matter expertise to develop test scenarios
- Performing System Integration, Test Execution, Regression testing on application for Policy center - Guidewire.
- Mentoring and Training New resources with Guidewire Agent Portals and Policy center.
Senior Quality Analyst
HDI - An Insurance company
08.2018 - 05.2021
- Understanding requirement provided by stakeholders
- Creating overall test strategy and test plan along with estimations
- Involving in test design and execution
- Supported clients with UAT testing
- Preparing Test reports and Test closure documents
- Involving and presenting functionality Demo in bi-weekly sprint demo
- Participating in Defect prevention meeting
- Performing UI testing and Database testing.
Software Tester
ACE - Account and Card evolution
09.2015 - 07.2018
- Understanding requirement provided by stakeholders
- Involving in test design and execution
- Ran automated scripts using Fitnesse tool.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Science & Technology
Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering
Mysore, Karnataka06.2015
Skills
Strong Communication
Problem solving
Leadership
Documentation - BRD,FRS
Test planning and Strategy
Agile/SCRUM
Reporting
Certification
ISTQB Advanced Level - Test Manager
Accomplishments
Professional Accomplishments
- Received multiple awards like WOW, SPOT, Quarterly achievement Award and Team Awards for the work done to help the organization with their release goals.
- Participated in Internal Tech Utsav - By creating a mini project called LOAN EXCHANGE.
Personal Accomplishments
Diving across various seas in Asia, many more to come.
Timeline
Senior Quality Analyst
HDI - An Insurance company
08.2018 - 05.2021
Software Tester
ACE - Account and Card evolution
09.2015 - 07.2018
Lead Engineer
HMIC - Hastings Mutual Insurance Company
6 2021 - Current
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Science & Technology
Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering