Resume for S Mekala Software Testing 6.5 Years

Mekala . S  Emp id : 184267 

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Goal

Having 6.5 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance & Software Testing. Aiming to lead many challenging projects with excellence. Highlights Currently leading the project of SIT Engagement in Member Domain with the team size of 20. Havin Having g good good exper experien ience ce on Cogn Cogniza izant nt2.0 2.0 activi activitie ties s and and resou resource rce poolin pooling g for the the proje projects cts allocated. Having good exposure in Agile Methodology – Scrum Activities. • Have worked in more than 10 sprints in Scrum for 9 months. • •

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Team lead the project of Mercury First with a peak team size of 8 in Mercury Insurance testing. Off shore system Lead for T/S Prior Authorization project in Horizon NASCO Account. Sound experience in Insurance, healthcare business and hospital management domain and was involved in various type of SDLC testing phases like Unit testing, system/Functionality testing, Integration testing, Stress/load testing and user acceptance testing. Well equipped in Pharmacy management system with the SCM life cycle and functional areas of both Retail and whole sale Pharmacies. Expert in Manual Testing in all phases of QA life cycle, which includes Test plan preparation, Test execution, debugging, bug tracking, volume/stress volume/stress testing, bug reporting, user acceptance testing and release. Also trained in IBM Mainframe and worked in testing CICS based application for 4 months Worked as a Senior Quality Analyst for more than 3 Years in Aosta Software Technologies Technologies Ltd.,

Technical Skills

Bug Reporting Software Q/A Databases

: Test Director 7.0, Bug Tracker, Project Tracker, Rational Clear Quest, Quality Centre, : Standards & Procedures Development, SDLC Testing, Test plan Design & Development, Planning Automated Testing Strategy. : SQL Server, Oracle and DB2

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Come up with testing strategies, estimation and Test plan preparation. Written test cases for - unit level, functional and integration testing. Assigned roles and responsibilities for the testers. Involved in review role for all the deliverables and managed to come up with no review comments found during review done by the client. Effective defect and issue tracking and reporting to improve communications and reduce delay. •

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Scholastic Chronicle  Accomplished Masters in Computer Science in April’ 2004. (Dr.NGP of Arts & Science

College, Bharathiyar University, Coimbatore)  Completed Bachelor Of Computer Applications in April’ 2002 (Dr.NGP of Arts & Science College, Bharathiyar University, Coimbatore)  Completed 3 months training in IBM Mainframes in Global Software ESM , TTK Road, Chennai during April’04-June’04  Completed 2 months training on Software Testing in Texas Techno Park, Coimbatore during November 2004 - December 2004.

Professional experience Current Account :Aetna Client : Aetna. Aetna is one of the nation's leaders in health care, dental, pharmacy, group life, disability, and long-term care insurance and employee benefits. Aetna provides benefits through employers in all 50 states, with products and services targeted specifically to small, mid-sized, and large multi site national employers, serving more Fortune 1000 companies than any of its competitors. The company also serves individuals and Medicare beneficiaries in certain markets. Aetna is a diversified health and wellbeing company that provides broad spectrum of products and services . Duration : July’10 – till Date Project: Aetna SIT Member The Primary functionality of the MEA Enrollment system is the Member Management. This system feeds the membership data to all other systems in need, like Capitation, Claims, billing and Sales & Marketing etc. MEA Enrollment System Stores Policy holder Enrollment Data called as Member Data. Member entry can be done in two ways. One is Using Online Interface System. The data can be entered and modified by the Member itself. Another one is thru batch Jobs data can be loaded from the flat files into the Database. The Flat Files will be prepared by us manually as per the request. There is different type of transactions available in MEA enrollment. Each transaction has a unique code. Based on the transaction code the system will process the data. Members can trigger these transactions through online or they can raise a request to customer service to do the same. The transactions triggered through online during the day will be processed by the daily night cycle jobs. These jobs will pick the transactions from the queue and validate the data. If there is any error, the transaction will be moved to pending database; otherwise the transactions will be updated into the active database My Role: • • • •

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Project lead Involved in process related activities for the project. Having a great utilization on Cognizant20 and metrics preparation. Involved in preparation of the estimation, test plan and execution status reports. Preparation and review of the test scenario, test cases and test data. Preparation of dashboard on daily execution basis. Defect management and Tracking. Responsible for resource pooling for various projects allocated to the team.

Previous Account: Mercury Insurance Testing Client : Mercury Insurance Group. Mercury General is the leading independent broker and agency writer of automobile insurance in California and has been one of the fastest growing automobile insurers in the US. It is ranked as the third largest private passenger automobile insurer in California, with total assets over $4 billion. Mercury also writes automobile insurance in Florida, Georgia, Texas, Illinois, Oklahoma, New York, Virginia, New Jersey, Arizona and Pennsylvania. In addition to automobile insurance, Mercury writes other lines of insurance in various states. The Company had a written premium of $3 Billion in the year 2007. The Company writes Personal Auto Insurance, Commercial Auto Insurance, Homeowners Insurance, Mechanical Breakdown Insurance, Commercial and Dwelling Fire Insurance and Commercial Property Insurance Duration : January’09 – June ‘10 Project: Mercury First

Mercury First project involves creation of personal auto policies for different states. This project involves executing the Smoke, Rating and Endorsement suite every time when code is being deployed. The mercury first project also deals with Agile methodology of work assessment. It provides support for 4 states in US in preparation of policies for personal auto Insurance. The project also undergoes Regression validation on various builds of the application covering the main aspects in the functionality

and scope of personal insurance among all the four states in various development and QA environments. The project also provides test data tool that used in preparation of sample data that emulates the real life data for both development of new scope and validating it. My Role: • •

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Project lead Involved in all the scrum related activities Individual team member of one sprint having direct client coordination Also involved in process related activities for the project. Having a great utilization on Cognizant20 and metrics preparation. Prepared the completed Scrum Management plan for the Scrum Activities of the project and have shared the same to Client. Involved in preparation of the test plan and execution status reports. Preparation and review of the test scenario, test cases and test data. Preparation of dashboard on daily execution basis. Defect management and Tracking.

Previous Account: Horizon Client: Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, headquartered in Newark, New Jersey, is the only licensed Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association plan in New Jersey, providing health insurance coverage to over 3.2 million people throughout all of North, Central, and South Jersey. It has been operating since 1932. The company offers managed care, Medicare, and traditional indemnity health plans for individuals, families, and groups. The Client location is Newark (New Jersey) and the offshore locations in India are Coimbatore and Hyderabad. As part of taking over the application testing and quality assurance activities, a distinct knowledge transfer phase was include in the project plan. Duration : April ’08 – December ‘08 Application Tested : Mainframe On line Screens 1. Line, Dollar, Unit Expansion and Strategy - LDUES Description: The BCBS Association has developed a 10-year plan in which all Inter-Plan processing is being evaluated to determine necessary application changes that would increase provider satisfaction, increase Blue System membership, and compete in the consumer-driven healthcare market.

BCBSA has defined that Blue Plan and ITS systems limitations contribute to provider dissatisfaction with claims accuracy and timeliness and often result in duplicate claim submissions. System limitations include the inability to process claims 1) With up to 999 service lines, 2) In excess of $999,999.99 and 3) In excess of 9999 units of service. My Role: •

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Coordinated with the onsite and played the role of off shore team lead Involved in preparation of the test plan and execution status reports. Preparation and review of the test scenario, test cases and test data. Preparation of dashboard on daily execution basis. Defect management and Tracking.

Thomas – Solomon Prior Authorization - NASCO Description: Prior Authorization is primarily for the claims process based on the procedure codes and to verify whether the authorization is bypassed or removed for the corresponding claim. On an unscheduled annual basis the operational list of services and supplies requiring prior authorization is pulled and modified for removal of authorization. The List is for managed

groups of PPO, POS and DA products are considered such as Fully insured, ASO, SHBP and Small groups. The services are listed based on each specialty and marked as a new incident in the project tracking data base and each service is mapped to ensure that they either bypass or removed from authorization. The authorization of the procedure code is determined by means of verification in the GENO tables meant for each logic. Moreover the providers that are used are to be updated in the ADMIN file so as to provide the actual results to be met. My Role:

Coordinated with the onsite and played the role of off shore team lead Involved in preparation of the master test plan and execution status reports. Review of the identified test scenario and test cases. Preparation and review of the test data. Defect management and Tracking.

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Previous Organizations Aosta Software Technologies India Limited, Coimbatore

Duration Job Profile

: January ’05 – April ‘08 : Senior Quality Analyst

Projects Handled:

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: Backbone - Healthcare and Hospital Maintenance

Clients : Ingenious Medical Inc. USA, KMCH Hospitals, Coimbatore, Environment : Asp.Net, SQL Server Testing tools : Manual, Load Runner and Project Tracker Description: Backbone is entirely concerned of healthcare management system and therefore comprises of  phases starting from patient registration routes to admission of patients , bed posting and management of patient information till discharge. This Integrated project has more than 20 vital modules to accommodate the hospital activities starting from front office registration, ward and bed management, material management and billing.  

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Front Office – Manipulates the patient registration and enquires Ward - Provides Graphical interface for bed details and order management to various Investigation Areas – Laboratory, Radiology, Cardiology, Wards, CSSD, Dietary, Bio-Medical, Surgical and Central stores and Operation theater booking. Scheduling – Process the appointments fixation of physicians and on call doctors on their absence. Billing – Overall cash transactions are maintained that couples mainly totally credit base system with IP billing endorsing Auto posting for room, nursing and dietary charges, Integration outstanding and employee salary, Concession and Free treatment facility with various reports

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Integrating the modules and executing plans and test cases for each scenario. Follow up of functionality of modules once change occurs at a single point. Involved in GUI Testing, Functional Testing and Integration Testing. Responsible to create a Software Utility, which is designed for the inflow and outflow of  the system. Identify various scenarios for functional and integration testing. : Pharmacy Management System

: Purani Hospital Suppliers, Coimbatore and KMCH Pharmacy

Environment : Asp.Net, SQL Server Testing tools : Manual and Bugtracker

Description : Pharmacy management system is a complete package for pharmacies. It is uniquely flexible with multiple options for running both independent pharmacies and those integrated in larger institutions. The package provides the ability to track, report, and replenish inventory, process drug dispense files to determine qualified transactions, accumulate and track qualified drug usage, automatically manage the reorder process to maximize savings, and provide a complete audit trail of  all transactions. It also generates reports that incorporate the employee performance, sales analysis and stock management. Patient safety is also addressed with its comprehensive database of drugs and gives information on interactions. The salient features also include Comprehensive Generic and Pharmacology details, Generates online IP Request and OP Prescriptions, VAT specific Purchase Order, Goods Receipt Note and Bills, Alerts on expiry and decreases in stock and allows a Reorder level for drugs, Direct printing of drug prescriptions from OP clinics, Reports to analyze daily revenue & overall profit analysis, Highlight Adverse Drug Reactions. My Role: • •

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Highly noted for the analysis of the project in and out. Also came up with a new approach for designing of multiple bills at a single shot that will reduce the time taken Tested for the inter linkage within multiple stores. Verified the stock control register for all transaction done on an item. Created and derived test cases. Designed and Implemented Test Cases. Prepare user manual for the project. Involved in functionality testing. Execution of the test cases using sample test data.

: Hospital Front Office

Client : KMCH Hospitals , Coimbatore Environment : Asp.Net, SQL Server Testing tools : Manual and Bugtracker Description: The hospital front office is the area a lot of enquiries arrives from the patients and visitors. Registration of patient is attained and also captures the complete information of patients. Registration is accomplished in fraction of minutes with the aid of Quick Registration. Added information of patient such as guarantor, insurance details if corporate patient are also captured. Reports that produce the overall turn out of patients for the date can be generated. My Role: • • • • •

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Tested for the time taken when the complete information for the patient is filled. Evaluated the reports based on the patients visits. Writing test cases for unit and functional testing. Execution of the test cases using sample test data. Execute bug reports.

: Physician Help Desk

Client : R. L Hospitals , Coimbatore Environment : Asp.Net, SQL Server Testing tools : Manual and Bugtracker Description: The package is designed to help physicians to make critical decisions with the benefit of having immediate access to lab results, patient histories, allergies, pharmacy information and clinical guidelines. Referral tracking keeps the physician from sending a patient once again to a colleague who

doesn't accept the patient's Insurance, and prompts him to check if the patient went for prescribed tests. Past histories of patients are maintained and displayed for the view of the physician when the patient visits again. Reduces the workload of a physician with the aid of predefined templates.

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Tested for the follow up visits for a patients and the summary for all visits. Prepared test scenario. Writing test cases for unit level testing and functional testing. Testing of the reports.

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: Laboratory Management System

Client : KMCH Laboratory Environment : Asp.Net, SQL Server Testing tools : Manual and Bugtracker Description: This package is operational in both highly regulated and non-regulated environments and meets all requirements by providing full sample tracking, user certification, instrument and calibration management, standards & reagents management, full auditing, report and sample scheduling and many other functions. This package provides an unparalleled range of standard functionality to all users and delivers comprehensive capability and compliance added with a vast range of predefined templates. Result entry for tests done is made specific based on the type of the test, which yields to compatibility of users. My Role: •

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Validated the user rights provided for employees and allocation of test for that employees based on their designation. Checking the working of the templates under various conditions. Validation and functionality Testing, Behavioral Testing, Usability Testing. Preparation of help report . and bug report.

Jupiter Trans World, Coimbatore.

Duration Job Profile

: July ‘04 – October ‘04 : Tester

Simulation of Clearing House

Client Environment Testing tools Duration

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Primavera Solutions IBM Mainframes – MVS, COBOL, JCL, VSAM and CICS Manual 4 months, July’04 – Oct’04

Description: The clearinghouse handles all the events involving the processing of a cheque as a single entity. The main job of the clearinghouse will be the elimination of the customer level operations - the customer deposits the cheque and the bank level operations - bank sends the information about the cheque to the clearing house through batch mode. The information will be a summary of records pertaining to the various cheques (paid to different banks) deposited by its customers for collection. The clearinghouse will sort the given data with respect to each bank and send the records to those banks for confirmation of payment. My Role: • • •

Writing test cases for unit and functional testing. Execution of the test cases using sample test data. Prepare user manual.

Personal Profile

Father’s Name

: Sennimalai M. V.

Date of Birth Nationality Marital status Permanent Address

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29-08-1981 Indian Married 48, Big Street, Saravanampatti Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.