Visarada Kadali

Mississauga, ON
(226) 606-2349
[email protected]

Summary
 10+ years of experience in performing Software Quality Assurance & Testing.
 Extensive experience in Manual and Automated testing for Client/Server and Web Based application.
 Preparation of traceability matrix.
 Experience in designing and executing test cases based on Business and Technical requirements.
 Extensive experience in Functionality testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, Smoke testing,
System testing and UAT.
 Experience in coordinating with different stake holders of the project and with different business
teams and end users.
 Good exposure in Accessibility testing.
 Experience providing QA estimates to project team.
 Having experience of creating/executing Automated Test Scripts Using QTP / UFT.
 Good exposure on Selenium and implemented parallel execution on multiple browsers using
Selenium WebDriver (Java)
 Proven effectiveness in working cross teams/discipline (interact with Developers)
 Involved in Creating Test Strategy and Test plans.
 Written test cases for Unit level, Functional and Integration testing.
 Defect tracking and reporting.
 Strong skills in backend testing, SQL Queries in Oracle & SQL Server.
 Configuration and maintenance of middleware applications.
 Conversant with Testing Methodologies and Software Development Life Cycles.

Education
 Master of Computer Applications (MCA) with 78%, Acharya Nagarjuna University, India

Key Skills
 HP QTP 11.0/9.0, HP ALM Quality Center 11.0/9.0, Selenium WebDriver (Java), SoapUI 4.5.1/4.0, JIRA,
Bugzilla, HL7 Standards, Microsoft Visual studio, Microsoft Test Manager, Confluence.
 Oracle 10g, Toad, Microsoft SQL 2014/2012/2008, SQL Server, MySQL
 XML, WSDL, Web Services, SOAP, REST, SharePoint
 Linux, Windows 95/NT/2000/XP/2007, Mainframes (TSO, DB2, IMS, SPF), PuTTY

Professional Experience

Travelers, Canada Nov 2022 – Till date

Specialist - Data Engineering (QA)

Project: Travelers Insurance – Compliance Financial Operational report testing

Working on Insurance Financial Operational data reports testing. It involves ETL by Abinitio and databases
Oracle and SQL server. Reports are developed in Infogix and Qlikview. This project has a 3-tier architecture
with three major components in upstream which are Policy center, Billing center and Claim center with
continuous inflow of data into respective Operational data sources in downstream which is done through
Message Queues.

Roles & Responsibilities:

 Working on Insurance Financial Operational data reports testing of various data sources.
  Feed files like Account Payable and General Ledger are generated through scheduled Autosys jobs
from these operational data sources, which are regularly validated against the database, Qlikview
reports and corresponding balance and reconciliation (B&R) reports from Infogix.
 Monthly Early Cut Off (ECO) and Closure Month End (CME) along with Daily GL verifications are the
other major validation check points for these reports.
 Working on high priority PRB defect fixes and providing QA signoffs.
 Creation of new templates & optimization of existing templates for data validations.
 Extensively used SQL queries to retrieve necessary test data based on transformation rules specified
as per requirements.
 Peer reviews and conducting test review walkthrough sessions with stakeholders.

Environment:
Rally, Guidewire Policy Center, Guidewire Claims Center, Guidewire Billing Center, Oracle, SQL, Abinitio,
Qlikview, Infogix, Autosys

Aviva Insurance, Canada Sep 2018 – Sep 2022

Senior QA\UAT Test Analyst (Manual/Automation)

Project: Aviva Insurance – BAU

Aviva Canada Inc. is a Canadian property and casualty insurance company and a wholly owned subsidiary
of the UK-based Aviva PLC. It provides home, personal, automobile, recreational vehicle, group and
business insurance. BAU checks for bugs in legacy production applications using testing environment to
ensure that business can run as usual, even when minor corrections or enhancements/upgrades are
being made to applications.
.

Roles & Responsibilities:

 Creating test plan and test estimates for various releases.
 Analyzing user stories and communicating with BA’s for ambiguities.
 Involved in Functional testing and User acceptance testing.
 Developing, reviewing and execution of full suite of test cases.
 Reporting and Tracking defects in JIRA and defect management.
 Involving in defect triages, follow up with Dev team for bug fixes.
 Coordination with the different business teams and end users to identify Business scenarios.
 Responsible for providing test signoffs and Defect closure reports.
 Responsible for sending Daily status, Weekly status, and Monthly status reports.
 Executed test scripts using Selenium WebDriver and analyzed the test results.
 Used Maven to configure the dependencies.
 Maintained and executed Maven build files for running automated tests.
 Identified all the possible test cases and automated the Project’s requirements.
 Worked in an agile environment, involved in all Scrum events.
 Actively participated in Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective
meetings.
 Prepared test data for testing the application in various test phases.
 Interacted with end users in preparing UAT plan and UAT test cases and assisted users to carry out
User Acceptance Testing
 In volved in preparing UAT exit report and provide Functional testing sign off and UAT sign off.

Environment:
JIRA, Guidewire Policy Center, Guidewire Claims Center, Web Sphere 11.0, Java, Java Script, SOAP UI, XML,
SQL, Mainframes, Selenium WebDriver, Maven, Jenkins.
GCNA, ON Jan 2016 – Oct 2017
Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Project: One shield underwriter admin Policy Center system & Guide wire claim center application.
One shield underwriter Policy center admin system is a web-based application underwriters and Brokers to
submit new applications for Home, Auto and Pleasure Craft Insurance. This project involves in developing an
interactive application with an ability to get quotes, handle broker information, payments, bind an account,
print new quote details and renew policies using the different interfaces/database technology. This
application is integrated with Guidewire Claims Center application.

Roles & Responsibilities:

 Responsible for gathering Business and Functional Requirements for Broker Quote Online and
Guidewire Portal projects.
 Identified gaps in documentation and reported them to project manager.
 Involved in the creation of test plans, detailed test scenarios for all line of businesses and execute
test cases based on the business requirements.
 Mapped the test cases back to the requirements to establish traceability for test coverage.
 Created Quotes/policies with various scenarios and performed functional validation on coverage
drop downs, Limits values, text lengths.
 Performing the end to end testing by starting with Quotes and validating the final Exstream PDF/PS
files.
 Involved in downstream data validations by using SQL to perform data mapping and backend testing
by using SQL Navigator and Toad. Also documented all the SQL queries for future testing purpose.
 Involved in deploying, start and stop services in WebSphere application.
 Verifying health check on daily basis in WebSphere application.
 Worked on Guide wire claims application to perform integration testing between GW application and
One shield application.
 Created technical test cases for Guidewire Claims Center (FNOL, Post FNOL, Activities, Exposures,
Notes, Documents, Reserves, Cheques, Recoveries, Activities, and Closing).
 Performed extensive testing on the Integration between One Shield Policy Centre and Guidewire
Claim Centre to make sure all the data is coming over from the Policy Centre to Claim Centre at the
time of policy search and retrieval
 Retrieved Claim Center Policy Search logs to see if all the information is being passed by ESB from the
Policy System to Claim Center
 Also responsible for summarizing test results for management, responsibilities will include tracking
testing results, categorizing issues and creating/distributing trouble reports, managing the defect lists
as well as analyzing data to ensure data integrity.
 Performed Functional, Integration, Regression, End-to-end, User Acceptance testing and created a
testing project, organized folders in share point to track all the testing activities and logged all the
defects to perform defect tracking and created Execution and Defect reports by using reporting
functionality in Rally.

DST Worldwide Services, India Apr 2013 – May 2015

Test Engineer (Manual & Automation)

Project: ARGUS
Argus Health Systems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of DST Systems, electronically processes managed
health care prescription, claims and provides information management services to insurance companies,
health maintenance organizations, preferred provider organizations, and other pharmacy benefit managers.

Roles & Responsibilities:

  Mainframes (Blue Zone: TE3270) - Argus is the leading independent provider of quality healthcare
information management services to PBM customers. The Claim Processing system is one of the
services provided by ARGUS.
 Re-Engineering Project - This Project is intended to be used within Re-Engineered applications as a
means to reduce and eliminate the need for coded logic within the core Claims Processing system.
 IPNS GUI (Integrated Pharmacy Network System Graphical User Interface) - This is windows based
graphical user interface used by most of the Argus Customers, which has a total of 40 modules. Each
module is called as GUI component which is used to manage the information specific to a plan.
 Automation - Argus Automation Project deals with Automation of Part D Claims which involves Claim
Submission, Adjustments, Reversal, Creation of Clients, TSO Records, Cost plans, Pharmacy plans,
Groups, Members etc.
 Responsibilities:
 Gathered and reviewed Business Requirements, Functional Requirements and Use Case Documents.
 Based on Business Requirement Documents, created detailed Test scenarios and Test cases by
incorporating both positive, negative and edge conditions and created Traceability Matrix
 Performed Functional, System, End to End, GUI, Cross Browser and Database testing
 Performed Regression Testing upon receiving new builds and updated the test cases according to the
new build.
 Track defects in Bugzilla and retested the defects based on the attached release notes during
regression.
 Identifying the reusable components and developing them.
 Preparation of test data for the assigned test cases
 Development and review of QTP scripts and Updated to QC
 Performed automation testing using HP QTP by running automation scripts during regression phase.
 Giving KT on the QTP scripts developed for onsite team
 Automated scripts transfer to client and make stable for execution at client.
 Maintaining the Test Scripts according to the Build Changes.
 Coordinate/communicate with team on daily and weekly status.
 Provide proactive daily status of issues and progress made during test execution and general
application testing.
 Onsite offshore co ordination
 Attending weekly status calls/meetings and preparing the MOMs.
 Preparation of weekly status reports and sending to higher management.

NTT Data Global Delivery Services, India Jan 2012 – Apr 2013
Software Engineer (Manual & Automation)

Project: New Ticketing Solution (NTS)

NTS (New Ticketing Solution) is a major Software integration delivery project driven by service-oriented
architecture (SOA) & business process modeling whilst abiding by the agile development principles.
The new smart card-based ticketing solution for Victoria — myki — is a fully integrated system based on zonal
ticketing rules offering fair fares and concessions options. The smartcard-based scheme will provide a
ticketing solution that supports a wide transport network (tram, train, bus) to meet the Government Policy
requirements for the state of Victoria. It is a multinational and multidisciplinary project involving highly
experienced people across teams located in Melbourne, Hyderabad, Switzerland, Germany, Taipei and South
Africa.
Scope of the project is to build, manage and operate the entire ticketing solution. A key component of the
NTS project will be the establishment of a world’s best practice operating company in a high quality, timely
and efficient manner.
myki almost similar to Oyster card system in tfl London UK.

Roles & Responsibilities:

 Analyze and understanding functional requirements from Provision model, which was designed as
end to end process
 Test case Design, Review, Execution and Test Data preparation.
 Analysis, verify and closing the defects using Mercury Quality Center.
 Tracking daily activities and preparing the Summary Reports on daily basis
 Analyzing the gaps in specification and preparing the Clarification log
 Client calls handling and Issue Resolution
 Managing of test execution and test deliverables.
 RTM, End-End Scenario coverage and Estimation preparation.
 Generation of Automation scripts for the existing applications
 Track and analyze results of the tests and work closely with the software developers for defect
discovery and resolution.
 Involved in Regression testing for every Maintenance Release Iteration (MRIT).