Kalaivani Sivanandam

Chennai, India

Mobile: +91 9790039251

Email:  kalai39251@gmail.com

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kalaivani-s-934094180

Personal Particulars:

Date of Birth: 23rd November, 1990 | Nationality: Indian | Gender: Female

PROFILE SUMMARY

• A result-driven Senior IT Analyst with 11+ years of comprehensive experience in Quality Assurance, specializing in the American Healthcare sector.
• Effective in leading functional testing teams, with a profound expertise in healthcare membership, Medicare, and related domains.
• Skilled in manual, automation, ETL, web services, and database testing, underpinned by a strong foundation in software development methodologies, documentation, and reporting.
• Possesses capabilities in QA validations, bug tracking, defect management, and ensuring quality assurance control following Agile and Waterfall models.
• Seeking opportunities with a proven track record of coordinating project representations for security audits, showcasing excellent communication, interpersonal, and team leadership skills.

KEY SKILLS

Project Management ~ Software Development Methodologies ~ Documentation & Reporting ~ Manual Testing ~ Automation Testing ~ ETL Testing ~ Web Services Testing ~ Database Testing ~ Team Leadership ~ Quality Assurance ~ Bug tracking ~ Defect Management ~ API & Web serviceTester ~ Reports Tracking

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System Software • Windows • Office 2013 • Soap UI, Post Man • Oracle SQL Developer, Toad, Teradata • JIRA, HP ALM • Salesforce Workbench • Adobe Flash • VMware Workstation, Eclipse

WORK EXPERIENCE

Senior IT Analyst ~ Feb 2013 - Ongoing

Tata Consultancy Services | Chennai, India

• Test Lead/Project Lead: Accumulated over 11 years of QA experience specializing in the American Healthcare sector, with a strong focus on leading Functional Testing teams.
• Expert in Healthcare Membership, Medicare, Contracts, Benefits, Administration, Groups, and Sales, serving as a Subject Matter Expert (SME).
• Skilled in QA validations to ensure QA Control, with proficiency in Agile and Waterfall model testing using ALM, JIRA, and Rational tools for test case management, defect management, and status tracking & reporting.
• Demonstrated excellence in communication, interpersonal, and negotiation skills, with a knack for adapting to new environments and technologies.

• QA Analyst: Designed and executed test scenarios for System, ETL, Web services, Functional, Regression, Smoke, and Database testing across CA Gen 8, Web-based, and CICS-based applications.
• Maintained testing documentation, including Test Summary records, Test Logs, and Test Status reports.
• Conducted daily coordination meetings with the Project Leader, QA Manager, and QA Testers to monitor application progress and performance.
• Extensive expertise in Unit, Functional, Integration, Regression, User Acceptance, and System Level Testing.
• Proficient in Manual Testing for window applications and Web Browsers, Salesforce testing (UI, Extract files, DB testing, and workbench), Web Service testing using SOAP UI, and API testing with POSTMAN.
• Conducted ETL testing utilizing Oracle, Teradata, and Toad and Automation testing employing Selenium and the cucumber framework.

EDUCATION

BE - Engineering: Computer Science from Mailam Engineering College Villupuram | 2012

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified with Health Care Management (AHM) || Ascent Training for Leadership Qualities -TCS Internal || ISTQB certified Tester Foundation Level || ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level - Test Analyst