Tejesh Banavaram
Senior Quality Assurance Lead
Chennai,TN
Summary
Senior Quality Assurance Lead with over 9.3 years of experience, proven record of Delivery Excellence handling team size of 25-30. expert in automation maturity evaluation, strategy preparation and implementation in projects/accounts. Submitted multiple Business Development proposals in both functional and automation solutions resulting in 25% increased revenue to the account.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Languages
Work History
Senior Associate
Cognizant Technology of Solutions
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
05.2012 - Current
- Worked as Quality Assurance Manager role for CHUBB Insurance Personal lines business of 25-30 QA team which consists of multiple projects - Committed Maintenance of Applications in production, Committed Development of compliance changes and Variable projects
- Experience in Test Strategy, Test Planning and schedule management for 20+ projects and maintained customer relations during budget approval process and project execution.
- Offered top-notch, personal service to customer to boost sales and customer satisfaction resulting in increased mind share with customers and Business Development by 35%
- Increased Automation Maturity of Personal lines project from 40% to 85% in span of one year through analyzing current automation status and implementing automations solutions prioritizing the critical business areas to automate and Return On Investment (ROI). Total soft dollar Savings per year around $75k. Automations levers implemented - Selenium, UFT, .Net customized API tools (3), Postman and Hybrid CRAFT Framework (Data driven and Key work driven)
- Received business appreciation for reducing premium related recoveries in the project by 80% through increased test coverage and regression with automation levers
- Contributed on proposals for End to End automation of Insurance process for few areas in the account and Regression automation for multiple critical applications resulting in around $150k business with ROI in around 6 months
- Addressed business concern on high downstream rejects (300-500 per day ) in an application before billing process through RCA predictor BOT (Natural Language Processing based) working with machine learning team and received customer appreciation. POC Cost $50k
- Experience in Statement of Work Preparation for all project types (30+ projects) - Fixed Bid, Time & Material & Staff Argumentation and Month end billing process
- Experience of working for QA Revenue Forecast and Cost Profit for the account of 100+ Team and FY forecasted Revenue of $5M and provide updates to Leadership team
- Identified automation scope of post renewal process, connected with automation architect team and won proposal to automate the post renewal process through RPA tool - UI Path. Proposal cost is $100k and ROI after 1 year.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Mechanical Engineering
05.2008 - 05.2012
Skills
Project Management
Automation Strategy planning
Selenium
UFT
Postman
UI Path
Machine Learning BOTS
Deep Learning - ANN, CNN, RNN
Github
Java
Python
Budgeting
Project planning
Work estimates
Schedule development
Financial Management
Accomplishments
- Received customer appreciation for the implementation of Rater tool (.Net tool) to validate 20 Million active policies for premium comparison in Rate engine Softrater (Oracle product) upgrade project in 2021
- Received Best Lead award in 2020 for handling Personal Line Portfolio & projects without any production issues and for the Automation Maturity progress
- Received appreciation from Leadership for achieving account level Cost Profit (CP) to 50%+ by proposing right org structure to team leads in the account and enabling cross training to move resourcing to right roles in 2020
- Received QE&A Maestro award from the Quality Assurance Business Unit head for the contribution in Delivery Excellence, Automation and Account level Revenue/operational activities in 2019
- Received appreciation from customer for the Test Lead role performed for CHUBB Rebranding project for delivering the project without slippage and zero UAT/Production defects. Around 60K forms were revised as part of this project in xPression. Received appreciation from QA leadership team for delivering flawless delivery for the project with 75% of trainee of total 30 member QA team with CP% greater than 70% in 2018
Hobbies
- Badminton
- Swimming
- Bike riding
Timeline
Senior Associate - Cognizant Technology of Solutions
05.2012 - Current
VIT University - Bachelor of Technology , Mechanical Engineering
05.2008 - 05.2012