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Priya Ashok Kumar

Whitby,Canada

Summary

• 14+ years of professional experience with Cognizant Technology Solutions as a Quality Engineering Assurance professional in the insurance domain.

• 12+ years of Guidewire Insurance Suite—PolicyCenter, BillingCenter, and ClaimCenter working experience.

• Expert knowledge in Document Content Management.

• A thorough understanding of analyzing Business Process Flows.

• Hands-on experience in integration testing, REST API validations using Postman.

• An effective communicator with strong analytical and logical skills, and the capability to relate to people at any level of business and management.

• Leading and attending all module walkthrough meetings with business analysts, system analysts, developers, SMEs, and Guidewire consultants.

• Worked at Onsite (England) for a year on a Guidewire product implementation.

• Certified Professional Associate in Foundation Level, ISTQB Certified Tester.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Product Specialist - Testing

CAA/Echelon Insurance (Cognizant Technology Solutions)
10.2020 - Current
  • Worked on document testing for PC, BC, and CC as a test lead from onshore.
  • Coordinating with the developers, discussing the technical problems, and supporting the team in rectifying issues, while performing usability, GUI, and functional testing.
  • Delivering and implementing the project as per scheduled deadlines, extending post-implementation, and maintenance support to the client.
  • Designing and executing test plans and gap analysis to ensure that business requirements and functional specifications are tested and fulfilled
  • • Testing document contents and integration for PC, BC and CC Forms
  • • Co-ordinating project status meeting with client stakeholders


Product Specialist

DLG Insurance (Cognizant)
10.2018 - 04.2020
  • Worked primarily on Claim Center Migration Project
  • Claim Center was upgraded from Version 5 to 8
  • Worked in preparing end to test case preparation
  • Involved in onshore-offshore discussions



Product Specialist

TD Bank(Cognizant)
01.2017 - 09.2018
  • Worked in Implementation of Guidewire Suite - PC, BC and CC
  • Designed and executed test plans, cases for Guidewire PolicyCenter modules, ensuring alignment with user stories and business requirements.
  • • Leading/Attending all module walk through meetings with Business Analysts, System Analysts, Developers, SME’s and Guidewire consultants

Product Specialist

DLG Insurance (Cognizant)
12.2015 - 12.2016


  • Worked in preparing end to test case preparation
  • Involved in onshore-offshore discussions
  • Involved in Document testing - Testing happened across all three centers (PC,BC AND CC)
  • Test lead for document content management


Product Specialist

DLG INSURANCE - UNITED KINGDOM (Cognizant)
11.2014 - 11.2015

• Worked at Onsite (England)for a year on a Guidewire product implementation i.e., PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter and BillingCenter as a Product Specialist-Testing for the version of Guidewire 8.0

• Expertise knowledge in Document Content Management

• Proficient Knowledge, Experience and Expertise in Guidewire PolicyCenter and ClaimCenter

• Leading/Attending all module walk through meetings with Business Analysts, System Analysts, Developers, SME’s and Guidewire consultants

• Exposure over products like HP Application Life Cycle management (ALM), Rally, HP Quick Test Professional, JIRA

Programmer Analyst

DLG INSURANCE (Cognizant)
01.2014 - 11.2014

Worked in ClaimCenter team at offshore

Automated ClaimCenter Version 5 test cases using QTP

Worked on various LOB's i.e. Home, Commercial Property, Personal and Commercial Vehicle

Worked on System , Integration, Regression and End-to-End testing phases

Strong working experiences in Thunderhead- Document management Tool

Programmer Analyst

GEICO, Government Employees Insurance (Cognizant)
01.2013 - 12.2013
  • Worked on Guidewire Claimcenter Application
  • Active member of System testing team
  • Involved in writing test cases
  • Performed test execution and track defects to its closure

Computer Programmer Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions
10.2011 - 12.2012
  • Involved in extensive Java Programming training
  • Worked as Java Developer for Cognizant Internal Projects
  • Involved in maintenance projects that used for defect management

Education

Master - Information Technology

D G Vaishnav College
Chennai, India
05-2011

Bachelor of Computer Applications -

Stella Maris College
Chennai, India
05-2009

Skills

  • Test Management: HP ALM, JIRA, TFS, Rally
  • DB : Oracle SQL Developer
  • Product : Guidewire suite (Policy center, Billing center, Claim center)
  • API Tools : Postman, SOAP UI
  • Document Content Management: Thunderhead, SmartCOMM
  • Document Storage Platform: Onbase
  • Logs: Splunk

Languages

English

Certification

ISTQB

Timeline

Senior Product Specialist - Testing

CAA/Echelon Insurance (Cognizant Technology Solutions)
10.2020 - Current

Product Specialist

DLG Insurance (Cognizant)
10.2018 - 04.2020

Product Specialist

TD Bank(Cognizant)
01.2017 - 09.2018

Product Specialist

DLG Insurance (Cognizant)
12.2015 - 12.2016

Product Specialist

DLG INSURANCE - UNITED KINGDOM (Cognizant)
11.2014 - 11.2015

Programmer Analyst

DLG INSURANCE (Cognizant)
01.2014 - 11.2014

Programmer Analyst

GEICO, Government Employees Insurance (Cognizant)
01.2013 - 12.2013

Computer Programmer Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions
10.2011 - 12.2012

Master - Information Technology

D G Vaishnav College

Bachelor of Computer Applications -

Stella Maris College
Priya Ashok Kumar