Kanaka Macha

217-481-5328
[email protected]

Professional Summary:

 Around 8 years of experience in Quality Assurance/Testing for several Web and client/server
applications in Financial, HealthCare and Insurance industries.
 Experience in both manual and automated testing.
 Strong in analyzing Business Requirements and Functional Specifications, identifying Test
Scenarios, developing and executing Test Cases.
 Possess excellent skills in Functional Testing, UAT Testing, System Testing, Regression
Testing and Cross Browser Testing.
 Experience in using HP Quality Center, ALM for developing and maintaining test cases, test
results, defects and tracking.
 Experience in using Azure DevOps to track and mange test cases.
 Performed backend testing by creating SQL queries in Oracle and SQL Server.
 Proficient in using automated tools like UFT and Selenium.
 Expertise in Test Case design, execution, defect management and tracking.
 Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), methodologies like
Waterfall, Agile, Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and the Role of QA.
 Experience in Integration testing co-ordinating several applications and end-end testing.
 Experience in BDD framework for functional validation using Cucumber.
 Good working knowledge with MS Office products like Word, Excel, Power Point and MS
Access.
 Proficient in development enhancement, maintenance and execution and result analysis for
Functional automation test scripts in TSL, VB Script for Win Runner, QTP and extensive usage
of Quality Center/Test Director/Clear Quest for test management and defect management.
 Possess Strong Trouble shooting, Conflict Resolution, Analytical skills, interpersonal, oral and
written communications skills and Self-starter, Quick learner, Adapt to new environment
and technologies.
 Establish and Maintain testing milestones to ensure on-time completion of assignments.
 Self-starter with strong work ethics and skills in time management, client relationship and
ability to adapt and learn new things quickly.
 Excellent verbal, written and analytical skills with ability to work in a team as well as
individually in fast paced, dynamic team environment.

Technical skills:

HP QTP,UFT, Selenium,Manual Testing, Cucumber, JUnit,JMeter,SOAP

Testing tools UI and REST API
Testing Methodologies Agile-SCRUM and Waterfall
Management Tools HP Quality Center, HP ALM,JIRA,GitHub,Azure DevOps,TFS,Remedy.
Java, Java Script,VB script
Programming Languages
Operating Systems Windows, UNIX,LINUX
RDBMS SQL Server, DB2 and MS Access
Web Technologies HTML, XML.
Web Browsers Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Chrome.
Education:
Bachelors in Computer Science Engineering, JNTU, India 2014
Masters in Computer Science Engineering, USA.2015

Professional Experience:

Lead IT Corporation, Springfield ,IL April 2019-Present

State Of Illinois
Automation Engineer

Description:
Integrated Eligibility System (IES) is part of Affordable Care Act and provides the intake and
processing of applications for health and human services program. This includes Nutrition Assistance
Program and temporary assistance for needy families. The 13 million state of Illinois are eligible to
use the Integrated Eligibility System. The IES information is being used by 200 other applications at
the State of Illinois. For example, the State’s formula for contributions to school districts relies on
date in the IES system. IES is a critical application for State of Illinois.

Responsibilities:
 Performed System Testing and UAT at the end of release cycle(High level design verification)
 Used selenium to test end-end functionality of webUI application and worked with source
code management system suchs as GIT.
 Creating Jobs to run for all automation scripts for all the environments in appliactions.
 Performed various Link, smoke and Regression testing using Selenium Webdriver by using
Java.
 Worked on performance testing applications.
 Performed Parallel testing using xUnit.
 Used Azure DevOps to manage test cases and test plans.
 Developed groovy scripts to implement data driven fame work in SOAP UI.
 Involved in sending all the status reports along with defetcts to the team.
 Performed Load Testing using JMeter.
 Provide documentation to Audit team.

Environment: Jmeter,JIRA, Selenium-webdriver,SOAP UI,Confluence,Business Objects,Jhenkins.

Horacemann Companies, Springfield, IL Nov 2016-March 2019

Quality Assurance Analyst/Tester

Description:
Horacemann is the insurance company founded by educators for the educators.There are number of
applications developed in Horacemann for Agents use. And also a few applications where clients can log into
system and then choose a product based on their profile. Horace Mann aslo provides Auto and property
Insurance. There are a number of life and Annuity products. Guide Wire claim center is used for Auto and
property claims. P & C Modernization is one of the biggest program Horace Mann has.

Responsibilities:
 Created Test Scenarios and test plans in ALM.
 Worked on ALM to maintain defects.
  Create application UAT test scripts based upon the business functionality defined in the
requirements from user stories within JIRA and SharePoint.Generated defect reports and
using ALM.
 Responisble for writing automation scripts using javascript
 Developed Test cases for the scenarios for different projects in ALM.
 Responsible for leading and managing the offshore team and
 Performed Integration Testing for different apps using automation scripts
 Written scripts for automation using VB script.
 Managed offshore QA team.
 Performed Database testing (Data Warehouse/ETL) on ETL applications validating the data in
Sources/Targets using Data Stage Client Tools.
 Compared different files from different sources for data consistency.
 Participated in Requirment gathering meetings.
 Responsible for taking training in many security courses and leadership courses.
 Partipated in lunch and learn gatherings.
 Responsible for tracking and managing changes at different levels using GitHub.
 Partcipated in deployment planning meetings.
 Performed automation using selenium IDE.
 Used Mainframes for data comparisions.
 Performed API Testing using SoapUI.
 Performed End to End testing.
 Tested Enterprise reports using SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). Validated data in
reports.
 Written test scripts for test execution using Java script.
 Attended daily scrum meetings.
 Used Microsoft excel for large file comparions.
 Responsible for writing queries in SQL server for comparing data in the SSRS reports with the
server.
 Set up Selenium tools from scratch and configured various other peripherals tools to
perform Selenium test.
 Performed Web service testing using SoapUI
 Performed cross browser testing using Selenium
 Responsible for doing Integrating testing with C360-WISE-Intermediate App-Firelight-
Resonant.
 Scheduling the test job to set up the flag to run automation script, everytime developer
makes a new build.
 Analysed possible risks and potential risks.
 Worked on distributed test automation execution on different environment as part of
Continuous Integration Process using Selenium Grid and Jenkins.
 Written test cases by assuming the possible defects, even without project requirements.
 Sometimes performed UAT testing with business.
 Performed Regression testing after every defect fix.

Project1: P & C Modernization- Guide Wire Claim center.

P & C modernization is one of the biggest programs Horace Mann has. Configuration and Integration are the
two main streams P& C supports. Where, issuing claim payments generating automated checks and
submitting a claim comes under Configuration. Credit card transactions, banking comes under Integration.
There is another stream conversion, where all the claims will be converted and will be supplied with a new
claim number after every data re-loading.

Project 2: Retirement Advantage Enrollment

This application is used by agents to help customers enrolling in the different Retirement plans available in
that school district. Usullay Agents conducts seminars in different places and they explain about the
products HM is providing so that a customer can choose and enroll depending upon their location and their
school district/Employer. It is mainly relied on a event code that every one getes on the day of seminar, one
should be able to enroll using the given event code.And the customer data is sent to Relius for prospectus
details.

Project 3: Concur Travel Expense system

This application is used by the employees at Horacemann. This application allows user to log in and keep
track of all the expenses a client spent on travelling. Where a person be given a PNC credit card and asked to
store all the receipts to upload them to the respective expense. They can also add cash expenses by
uploading receipts in the receipt and tie it to the expense. And the amount will be re-imbursed.

Project 4: WISE

Advice(WISE) is an app that is used by agents, where a customer/agent can enter all the information about
their current assets, income and expenses so that it will recommend a product at retirement. It integrates
several systems like Client 360, Firelight and Resonant.

Project 5: Eliminate SSN as group Identifier

A company’s responsibility is not only to deliver quality and efficient product but also to maintain
confidentiality in customers details. As Horace Mann is an Insurance company there would be a lot of cases
where customer/client has to provide SSN for purchasing any product with HM. So to protect security and
privacy of a customer, came up with this project where SSN(masked) will be replaced with a nine didgit
member number.

Project 6: Fee Disclosure for Connecticut

Fee Disclosure for plan403(b) in the state of Connecticut ia about sending emails to the newly established
contracts. Initally a new enrollee would only get a welcome email but the update is to send another email
with fee disclosure pdf and prospectus link to the new contracts. An enrollment report wil be generated
daily for the new contracts established on the previous day and enails will be sent manually to the list of
contracts in the generated.

Environment: windows 7 Pro, Microsoft Suite, Microsoft visual studio 2005,C#, SQL server 2014, .NET,Azure
DevOps,TFS.

LEE Enterprises, Davenport, IA April 2016 – Sep 2016

Quality Assurance
Description:
Lee Enterprises is the leading provider of local news in 22 states.There are two main applications
developed in LEE, Falcon and Phoenix, where Falcon(circulation) has customer information like
customer name, subscription period, mailing address, publication etc. Using Phoenix (Advertising)
a person would be able to make an order for any type of ads to get displayed in the newspaper.

Responsibilities:
 Responsible for analysing/writing manual test cases.
 Responsible for resolving defects by interacting with development team and Business
Analysts.
 Responsible for writing and executing SQL queries on SQL server 2014 to conduct Data
integrity Testing by checking the data tables on the server.
 Responisble for data validations and data consistency.
 worked in Agile-scrum methodology.
 worked on TFS and Jira for managing the product,development issues and Bug tracking.
 Used several test DBs for testing the application manually.
 Performed Regression testing
 Prepared user documentation with screenshots for UAT.
 Tested new features and their impact on existing functionality before release.
 Participated in Scrum Meetings

Environment: windows 7 Pro, Microsoft Suite, Microsoft visual studio 2005, SQL server 2014, .NET,JIRA, TFS.

Humana Insurance, Lewisville, TX Sep 2014 - March 2016

QA Tester

Description:
The Employee Benefit Plan and Administrator Portal assists clients to implement and administer a
complete employee benefit program. Various plans such as 401K, 403B are administered in this
system. An employee can choose investments, perform transfers, and withdrawals using various
interfaces available via the portal. Automated Compensation system allows to setup compensation
contracts for producers in automated fashion and calculates the commissionable basis amount by
contract on a scheduled basis.

Responsibilities:
 Responsible for Functional, Regression and system test deliverables (Design and execution
of test strategy, test plan, test cases).
 Responsible for analyzing/writing manual test cases.
 Responsible for executing UAT scripts, in order to ensure operational quality, system
integrity and verify system processes meet user needs.
 Responsible for performing data quality analysis by writing complex SQL Queries.
 Responsible for manual functional, integration, system and regression testing.
 Responsible for configuring Quality Center (QC) Test Plan and Test Lab and executing
automated scripts from QC.
 Performed System Testing before the system went into the production.
 Responsible for creating automated scripts for SOAP UI.
 Responsible for generating customized Test Results Report and sharing with customers.
 Responsible for developing automated VBScript utilities for Backend Validation.
 Responsible for broken link check and preparing broken link reports in user friendly format.
 Responsible for developing/enhancing automation Keyword driven Framework using QTP
and VBScript.
 Responsible for converting manual test cases into automated test scripts using QTP and
VBScript.
  Responsible for writing utilities using OTA/API(Backup Utility, File Comparison, Environment
Utility, Test Case Utility)
 Responsible for preparing Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
 Responsible for validating reports by comparing with backend data.
 Responsible for documenting status/test results and final reports for QA activities
 Responsible for attending release planning meetings.

Environment: ASP.NET, IBM WCM, SQL Server, Windows, UNIX, QTP10.0, QC 10.0, SoapUI.