Vignesh Muruganantham
Chennai
Summary
Guidewire associate certified QA Manager with extensive IT experience, specializing in high-quality testing for Guidewire InsuranceSuite. Demonstrated expertise in functional and end-to-end testing methodologies. Proficient in JIRA management, achieving significant improvements in the P&C insurance sector.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Manager
Cognizant Technology Services
Chennai
06.2025 - Current
- Leading end-to-end testing initiatives for Guidewire InsuranceSuite (PolicyCenter, BillingCenter), ensuring high-quality delivery across multiple releases and enterprise programs.
- Managing a cross-functional QA team of manual testers, automation engineers, and offshore resources, providing guidance, mentoring, workload planning, and performance feedback.
- Collaborated closely with business analysts, developers, architects, and product owners to translate business requirements into test scenarios, use cases, and acceptance criteria.
- Directed functional, integration, regression, UAT, SIT, E2E, and non-functional testing for Guidewire applications, including rating, underwriting, claims workflow, billing cycles, and policy transactions.
- Managed defect triage meetings, assessed risk, prioritized fixes, and ensured timely closure using JIRA.
- Prepared detailed test metrics, dashboards, status reports, and presented progress to leadership, project managers, and stakeholders.
QA Lead/Guidewire testing
CAPGEMINI TECNOLOGY
04.2019 - 06.2025
- Capacity planning
- QA Estimation
- Assigning the tasks to team members
- Create test design and perform test execution
- Maintaining the JIRA for test management and Scrum board update
- Providing sign off to UAT
- Carolina motor club insurance company is providing insurance for Carolina states which is currently merged with AAA-The Auto Club Group. The Project is to give application maintenance support for the Guide application(PC,BC,CC) and portals.
Team Lead/Automation Testing for Commercial Line Transformation
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICE
Columbus
08.2016 - 06.2019
- Automated 60% of functional validation
- Completed 2 releases for 3 LOBs, 4 states successfully
- Created automatic smoke test scheduler which will perform smoke test every day before starting execution.
- Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company & Affiliated Companies is a group of large US Insurance and Financial services companies based in Columbus, OH. This Project uses Guidewire policy center to create and issue policy.
- Environment: Guidewire Policy Center(DEV/Test)
Team Lead /Web Service Testing for Commercial Line transformation Application
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICE
07.2015 - 08.2016
- Involved in Test Strategy and Test estimation activities.
- Prepare daily Status, Weekly status, Automation and defect reports.
- Creating Virtual Services using CA Lisa tool and managing services.
- Environment: Guidewire Policy Center(DEV/Test)
Test Analyst/Functional Testing for Guidewire Application
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICE
11.2013 - 07.2015
- Created Test scenarios and Test metrics
- Attended daily scrum meeting.
- Executed all planned test cases successfully.
- The Client name is STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY. Project was POC(Proof of Concept) for legacy to Guidewire product.
- Environment: Guidewire Policy Center(OOTB)
Education
BE - Mechanical
Anna University
Perambalur, Tamilnadu, India01.2012
Skills
- Guidewire InsuranceSuite (PolicyCenter, BillingCenter, ClaimCenter)
- Guidewire digital portals
- Guidewire configurations & business rules validation
- Policy transactions (new business, renewal, endorsements, cancellations, reinstatements)
- Claims processing workflow
- Billing lifecycle scenarios
- Functional testing
- System integration testing (SIT)
- End-to-end testing (E2E)
- User acceptance testing (UAT) support
- Regression testing and smoke testing
- API testing (REST/SOAP)
- Interface and downstream system validation
- P&C insurance domain knowledge
- Underwriting rules and rating validation
- Claims lifecycle processes
- Billing methods, payment plans, invoicing, and collections
- JIRA / ALM for test management
- Selenium / TestNG
- Soap UI / Postman for API testing
- SQL Developer, Oracle, MySQL
- Confluence / Zephyr
Certification
• Guidewire Certified Associate -
InsuranceSuite Analyst - Mammoth
• AINS 101 Certified
• Selenium automation external training & certification
• API automation external training & Certification
InsuranceSuite Analyst - Mammoth
• AINS 101 Certified
• Selenium automation external training & certification
• API automation external training & Certification
Training
- Agile / Scrum Certification or Workshops
- People Management & Mentorship Training
Timeline
Manager
Cognizant Technology Services
06.2025 - Current
QA Lead/Guidewire testing
CAPGEMINI TECNOLOGY
04.2019 - 06.2025
Team Lead/Automation Testing for Commercial Line Transformation
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICE
08.2016 - 06.2019
Team Lead /Web Service Testing for Commercial Line transformation Application
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICE
07.2015 - 08.2016
Test Analyst/Functional Testing for Guidewire Application
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICE
11.2013 - 07.2015
BE - Mechanical
Anna University