Mekala .

S
Emp id : 184267
Mekala.S@cognizant.com

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.
• Having good experience on Cognizant2.0 activities and resource pooling for the projects
allocated.
• Having good exposure in Agile Methodology – Scrum Activities.
• Have worked in more than 10 sprints in Scrum for 9 months.
• 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 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
Ltd.,

Technical Skills

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

Software Testing Skills

• 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.

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 well-
being 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:
• 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:
• 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:
• 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.

2. 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.

Previous Organizations

Aosta Software Technologies India Limited, Coimbatore

Duration : January ’05 – April ‘08

Job Profile : Senior Quality Analyst

Projects Handled:

1. Title : 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.

 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

My Role:
• 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.

2. Title : Pharmacy Management System

Client : 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:
• 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.

3. Title : 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:
• 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.

4.Title : 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.

My Role:
• 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.

5. Title : 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:
• 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 : July ‘04 – October ‘04

Job Profile : Tester

Simulation of Clearing House

Client : Primavera Solutions

Environment : IBM Mainframes – MVS, COBOL, JCL, VSAM and CICS
Testing tools : Manual
Duration : 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 : 29-08-1981
Nationality : Indian
Marital status : Married
Permanent Address : 48, Big Street,
Saravanampatti
Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.