Apoorv Seshasai

Apoorv.m59@gmail.com
330-485-9845
Summary
8 years of IT experience in Software Quality Assurance and Testing of
Client/Server, Web-Based and Distributed applications in Healthcare,
Insurance, and Banking industries.
Extensive knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle such as Waterfall,
Agile and V model.
Experience with all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and
possess strong knowledge of Quality Assurance Methodologies and standards.
Over 2 years of experience as a QA Team Lead, have developed test
plans/strategies, test cases, estimated testing efforts, resource allocation,
escalated testing issues, generated test metrics and reports, attended project
meetings, coordinated testing environments, mentored QA team, participated
in test execution, logged defects, and document required processes.
Demonstrate excellent communications skills, both oral and written.
Experience with QA, system development, and test project life cycle
methodologies
Strong QA Team Lead experience in taking projects from requirements through
test case execution and implementation.
Good skills for problem solving and Bug Tracking using HP ALM, QC and
Rational clear Quest.
Experience in testing Client-Server and Web-Based Applications.
Experience in mapping business priorities and requirements into test plans and
strategies, tracking the development of project artifacts necessary for QA
throughout projects.
Experience in managing the daily responsibilities of testing team and working
very closely with business partners/users/analysts, project managers, and dev.
teams.
Analyzed Functional Requirement Specification (FRS), Business Requirement
Document (BRD) and System Design Specification (SDS), Functional Design
Document (FDD)
Extensively involved in developing and documenting Test Plans, Scenarios
based on Business Requirements document, Use Cases, Supplementary
Specification and Functional Requirements documents
Experienced in creating Test Matrix, Requirements Traceability Matrix and
performing Gap Analysis.
Proficient in different phases of testing i.e. Integration, Functional, Regression,
System, UAT (User Acceptance Testing), E2E, and Black Box testing.
Expertise in preparing test scenarios, test cases, test scripts, QA defect logs,
review logs, and test metric reports for manual testing.
Hands on experience in using Toad.
Managed QA delivery reviews to ensure deliverables met best practice
standards
Versatile team player with ability to perform under stress. Excellent analytical
and logical programming skills with a good understanding at the conceptual
level.
Technical Skills

Testing Tools

Languages
Databases
OS

Rational Clear Quest, HP ALM, Quality center, JIRA, Rational

Test Manager, Visual Studio, Share point, Open source tools,
QTP.
Java, C#, SQL, ASP.Net, VB, SQL
MS Access, DB2, Oracle ,Mainframes
UNIX, MS Windows

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Health Info Management Corp
Client: Ernst & Young
Project: GAMx (Global Audit Methodology)
Sr Quality Analyst

10/13 Till Date

The GAMX tool is built on the Share point platform. Ernst & Young is a global leader in
assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services across globe. The Global Audit
Methodology (commonly referred as GAMx) tool is intended to support the audit
process especially in large multi-location clients. The core functionality provided by
the tool is generation and management of audit program, document/evidence
management, diagnostic indicators and reports, reports for export and printing,
offline data availability, conflict resolution, review notes and sign-off. GAMx provides
advanced technological features like offline access, peer to peer communication,
messaging and secure communication. GAMx system was based on the Groove
Technology and provides some features available in Groove platform. Due to
unavailability of Groove platform on Win7, GAMx platform has been moved to
SharePoint Workspace 2010.
Internal Applications: Med v Replacement, RRR-FAAS tool, Smart Forms
Responsibilities
Analyzed the business requirements, use cases, TDD documents, and
translated them into test plans, and test cases
Created the test plan document that defines the test environment,
entrance and exit criteria. Planned resources required for a specific release.
Designed and developed system test cases for different test scenarios
covering all aspects of project functionality and prepared Traceability
Matrix.
Regularly participated in business, use case, and TDD review meetings of
different application activities in a business flow.
Involved in leading the test management activities, initiated technical
discussions with developers, organized script review meetings, defect
review meetings and followed up with development to get the defects
resolved. Participated in the Go-No-Go decision meetings.
Responsible for Training and leading the QA Team. Responsible for
coordinating the Functional and Automation Teams.
Responsible for managing the offshore testing team and co-ordinate with
the Client business and development team.
Prepared the Machine Set up for the Testing.

Worked on Microsoft patches provided for the SharePoint in different PR

releases.
Coordination between business team and MED-V and SharePoint Workspace
2010 vendor (i.e. Microsoft)
Performed gap analysis, created functional test cases, test conditions, test
data and performed integration, system, regression, positive, negative,
compatibility, connectivity, E2E, and UAT testing.
Reported and tracked all defects using HP ALM
Escalated testing issues, interacted with business users/analysts,
developers, external teams to resolve the defects/issues.
Worked with external vendor application development team.
Environment: ASP.Net, Microsoft Office Applications Share point
workspace 2010, Med-V, MS-office, Windows7, HP ALM, SQL Server,
IE11, Groove

IGATE India
Client: CHUBB, NJ
Project: Chubb Insurance
Sr QA Analyst

06/12 11/12

Chubb is a Premier Multi Insurance product which offers different kinds of insurance
for protection to its clients. Chubb was divided into two different projects Business
insurance and Personal insurance. The Business insurance will offer insurance for
professional and Management liability, property, causality, Accident and health,
Surety bonds etc. and personal insurance project deals with Automobile insurance,
Home insurance, Valuable insurance, water craft and other services. The project
deals with creation of different insurance policies, submission and claims.
.

Involved in testing web applications for GUI, Functionality, web services and
Database Testing with both Manual and Automated Testing Processes.
Developed the test scenarios and built the test scripts for Functional
Testing.
Manual Database testing to verify that the business rules are implemented
as needed by business.
Participated in functional knowledge transfer sessions
Analyzed requirements and Proactively identify Issues / Risks in the current
process / execution and take steps for mitigation and communication to all
stakeholders
Efforts estimation & plan the activities for the release.
Mercury Quality Center was used to login functional bugs and design
issues.
Communicate with development and Business stakeholders as needed and
resolve the defects.
Involved in co-ordination and managing offshore testing team.
Performed Web-services testing
Environment: Asp.Net
Applications Visio, SQL

HP

Quality

Center,

Microsoft

Office

CAPGEMINI, INDIA
Client: BNPP CREDO, Paris
Project: Credo Application
Sr QA Analyst

11/11 05/12

CREDO is a tool dedicated to CIB Business Lines and Coverage covering credit
decision process through CRI for Corporates. It will be able to aggregate all relevant
information for Credit Process purposes on both the various Corporate Counterparties
involved and the Facilities to be decided upon. Used to cover and follow up all Credit
Process phases from local request up to final decision by CCDG (as the case may be)
and notification of such decision, notwithstanding the process used either by
Committee or Circulation

Development of Functional Test scripts based on the business

requirements.
Analysis and validation of Business Requirements
Verify Business processes end-to-end.
Participated in functional knowledge transfer sessions
Analyzed requirements and Proactively identify Issues / Risks in the current
process / execution and take steps for mitigation and communication to all
stakeholders
Estimate efforts & plan the activities for the releases.
Design Test cases from the Use Cases in the QUALITY CENTRE
Involved in Integration and Regression Testing
Executed regression scripts in QTP
Co-ordinate with the counterparts in getting the clarifications answered
Build a testing team of professionals with required skills, attitudes and
motivation.
Document, implement, monitor, and enforce all processes for testing as per
organizational / customer standards.
Organize the status meetings and send the Status Report to Clients.
Environment: Pega, SQL Server,
Applications, Quality center, JIRA

CAPGEMINI, INDIA
Client: Assurant Inc., Miami
Project: Assurant Health-Payment Insurance
Lead QA Analyst

Windows

Vista,

MICROSOFT

06/06 10/11

Assurant is a Health Insurance project which has different channels to create Quote
for the customers .Assurant health is a web based application and client server
Application. They are EASE (Online Application accessed by agents), Offline (Desktop
application Accessed by Agents), and Consumer (Accessed by Customer). It lets the
consumers to complete the health application process. IST handles all the personal
details, health questions and payments and this helps the application process to be

very simple and fast. The application is then submitted to the Tele app System where
the application goes through underwriting process. The overall goal of Electronic
Agent Sales Experience (EASE) program is to increase sales and placement rates as
well as reduce operating costs.
Internal modules: IM Worksite, Legs, Payment Assurance, CA App changes,
TeleApp, Grass (Main Frame Application)
Responsibilities
Responsible for the analysis of the business requirements, use cases, TDD
documents, and translated them into test plans, and test cases.
Created the test plan document that defines the test environment,
entrance and exit criteria. Planned resources required for a specific release.
Developed system test cases for different test scenarios covering all
aspects of project functionality and prepared Traceability Matrix.
Participated in business, use case, and TDD review meetings of different
application activities in a business flow.
Responsible for leading the test management activities, initiated technical
discussions with developers, organized script review meetings, defect
review meetings and followed up with development to get the defects
resolved.
Trained and lead the QA Team. Co-ordinated the Functional and Automation
Teams.
Responsible in providing all the technical details related to a defect to the
development to get a quick turnaround of defect.
Performed gap analysis, created functional test cases, test conditions, test
data and performed integration, system, regression, positive, negative,
E2E, and UAT testing.
Conducted interface testing of application with multiple external systems.
Tested various functionalities like Membership & Eligibility, Customer
Registration and Payment, Provider Search and Benefits Packages.
Responsible for securing the environment for all the required testing
phases.
Involved in backend database testing, executed Mainframe commands to
check if data stored in IST and exported to external application tables is
according to the specifications.
Created the test Scenarios and Test cases in Rational Test manager.
Reported and tracked all defects using Rational Clear Quest.
Escalated testing issues, interacted with business users/analysts,
developers, external teams to resolve the defects/issues.
Responsible for generating the Testing Status reports.
Environment: Rational test manager, Rational Clear Quest, ASP.Net,
XML, Waterfall model, Mainframe, MS SQL Server, UNIX and
Windows XP.

CES PVT LTD

Client: Emirates, UAE
Project: Cargo System Partnership
QA Analyst

10/05 06/06

CSP is a flexible and modular enterprise wide cargo system that maximizes business
opportunity and profit. This system has been designed to meet current and future
business needs, with the security of both technical and business support.

Analyzed and validated the business requirements.

Documentation and verification of the Business processes.
Development of detailed User Acceptance Testing scripts.
Test data management
Participated in complete cycle of gathering business requirements,
designing the test cases, scripting, test execution, analysis and reporting.
Initiated, coordinated and implemented the QA Processes and
Methodologies.
Involved in all the phases of the Manual/Automated Testing.
Enhanced and modified test scripts according to the test case scenarios.
Involved in database testing using Toad
Used Heat (an internal Application) to invoke the scripts and initially
performed the baseline testing and organized all the scripts systematically
and generated reports
Regression testing for new releases.
Extensively used Heat, for test planning, defect tracking and reporting.
Environment: Coolgen, Windows NT, Mercury Quality Center, TOAD,
Microsoft Office products and Visio, Oracle.

Triumph Information Systems

Client: 3i InfoTech
Project: Tangible
QA Analyst

05/05 10/05

TANGIBLE is an End - to End web based Banking solution that provides Factoring and
invoice discounting business .The product so developed covers complete Business.
The system was designed so that it supports Multi-Currency and Multiple
Requirements
Analyzed the Business requirements and the site specifications.
Developed detailed Testing Strategy for the entire application and
developed various test cases.
Involved in the complete cycle of gathering performance requirements,
designing the load model, scripting, test execution, analysis and reporting.
Initiated, coordinated and implemented the QA Process and Methodologies.
Involved in all the phases of the Manual/Automated Testing.
Created Master Test scripts to perform recovery scenario and initial base
line setup on the application.
Used Test Director for planning tests and logging defects.
Used Test Director to invoke the scripts and initially performed the baseline
testing and organized all the scripts systematically and generated reports
Generated Test Scripts using Win Runner
Regression Tested new release versions.

Environment: Java, JavaScript, HTML, DHTML, VB Script, Toad,

Oracle, UML, UNIX, Windows NT, Win Runner, Test Director, SQL.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Technology (Mechanical)