Prabha Venkataraman

Prabha Venkataraman Experience Summary: Professionally qualified Senior Associate with 11+ years of experience in information technology and worked for different client which includes D&B, UHG & WellPoint. Played a role of project lead for around one year and also involved in all phases – Analysis, Design, and Testing and Delivery activities of client based applications, through the knowledge of MF testing Methodologies. This includes significant exposure in C20, Quality Center, Rational tools, IBM Mainframe, and JCL languages. Has worked in the functional areas of Claims, Membership and Billing. Possesses good knowledge in membership and Claims area. Has exposure to SQL and DB2. Has a good exposure in Cognizant quality process and methodologies and good understanding of SDLC Process. Education and Certifications: Title of the Degree with Branch College/University Year of Passing Bachelor of Civil Engineering. Government college of Engineering, Tirunelveli. 2006. Technical Skills Hardware / Platforms Windows 98/XP/2000, IBM Mainframe OS-390. Technology Manual Testing/Mainframe Testing Programming Languages C,JCL,CICS,COBOL,SQL Tools & Databases DB2, QTP, VSAM, SYNCSORT. Version Control Systems CVS Certifications External certification: IBM certification in DB2 UDB 700 family Fundamentals, ISTQB Internal certification: Software Testing (Level-0) ,QTP COBOL ,DB2 UDB V 8.1                            Introduction to Managed Healthcare (AHM)  Credit Card (Level-1), Student loan, Life Insurance               Visa Details H1B Visa expired Feb 2016 Contact Details Mobile No- Vnet : NA Relevant Project Experience Organization: Cognizant Technology Solutions PROJECT PROFILE: 1 Project Title WGS UAT Duration October 2013 to Mar 2018 Location Chennai, India Hardware IBM Compatible Devices Operating Systems OS/390, Windows Programming Languages Cobol, JCL PROJECT DESCRIPTION: WellPoint Group System (WGS Mainframe) is the pivotal IT application which supports the large group business of Blue Cross of California. WGS Claims system handles claim processing for Local, National, Medical, Senior, and Unicare plans for WellPoint across the states of California, Colorado and Nevada. WGS Claims system needs constant development and enhancement due to change in business definition, need for additional or modified functionality, and issues with system performance during any of the various stages involved in claim processing CLIENT DESCRIPTION: WellPoint is United States of America’s leading health benefits company serving the needs of approximately 28 million medical members nationwide. WellPoint is included in the S&P 500 index. WellPoint is a Blue Cross or Blue Cross Blue Shield licensee in 13 states: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Virginia, excluding the immediate suburbs of Washington, D.C., and Wisconsin. ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE PROJECT: Has spent more than 14 months as senior test lead by leading a team size of 10+ members As a project lead involved in project management activities like daily and Weekly status preparation, evaluating the daily deliverables which includes test case review, data set up review and test results review Involved in process management activities like BIC data collection across all streams in CSSD, Review and provided support to incorporate the review comments across stream Involved in ADPART POC and implementation with in WGS stream Involved in C20 metrics submission and also have taken care of process audits As an UAT test lead and SME managed requirements analysis and design phase towards identifying scope of testing and systems with technical teams and business partners Involved in collecting release level metrics across all the streams with in CSSD and also conducted weekly meetings to come up with improvement areas. Involved in production defect analysis across all streams within CSSD and provided outcome to customer Involved in collecting SLA data, MOR data , Savings data within WGS and product modules Involved in Work intake activities and client timesheet entry for WGS/HIX/Product streams. Involved in Work order creation of WGS and product streams and also the balancing of WOTL vs WOC every month after CSSD implementation Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills always ensured to cultivate the team work within the team and maintained good relationship with onshore as well as business team members within different projects PROJECT PROFILE: 2 Project Title WGS UAT Duration May 2012 to September 2013 Location WellPoint Inc., Newbury Park, CA Hardware IBM Compatible Devices Operating Systems OS/390, Windows Programming Languages Cobol, JCL PROJECT DESCRIPTION: WellPoint Group System (WGS Mainframe) is the pivotal IT application which supports the large group business of Blue Cross of California. WGS Claims system handles claim processing for Local, National, Medical, Senior, and Unicare plans for WellPoint across the states of California, Colorado and Nevada. WGS Claims system needs constant development and enhancement due to change in business definition, need for additional or modified functionality, and issues with system performance during any of the various stages involved in claim processing. CLIENT DESCRIPTION: WellPoint is United States of America’s leading health benefits company serving the needs of approximately 28 million medical members nationwide. WellPoint is included in the S&P 500 index. WellPoint is a Blue Cross or Blue Cross Blue Shield licensee in 13 states: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Virginia, excluding the immediate suburbs of Washington, D.C., and Wisconsin. ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE PROJECT: As an UAT test lead managed requirements analysis and design phase towards identifying scope of testing and systems with technical teams and business partners. Conducted test plan (UAT /End to end) walk through sessions and Utility presentations to various leads from Development, business and Technical Support teams. Also organized and led daily Triage Meetings for the defects, managed the updates of CQ to keep IT on top of their assignments, managed re-testing, and updated business as to the status. Involved in all the activities like Resource allocation within the module, tracking daily tasks to closure, resolving queries to ensure quality deliverables as committed. Involved in project management activities like daily and Weekly status preparation, evaluating the daily deliverables which includes test case review, data set up review and test results review. Effective Team member in User acceptance Testing, Identifying Defects while Execution and responsible for rising Defects in Clear quest. Responsible for collecting Test Evidences, Defect Evidences and contributed to the test evaluation summary document for the successful closure of SIT phase. Apart from daily deliverables contributed to the understanding and test approach document PROJECT PROFILE: 3 Project Title Products POC Duration Dec 2012 to April 2012 Location WellPoint Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA Hardware IBM Compatible Devices Operating Systems OS/390, Windows Programming Languages Cobol, JCL PROJECT DESCRIPTION: WellPoint selected FJA’s Product Machine to address their current and future Product and Benefit needs. As a follow up, a Proof of Concept (POC) is being conducted with the vendor FJA to gain deeper insight into the vendor’s ability to meet WellPoint’s specific Product and Benefit needs. This includes the ability to integrate with WGS and other WellPoint systems and enable the definition and maintenance of Products across the multiple market segments and Line of Businesses (LOBs). PoC will determine whether or not FJA is the right tool to utilize as a strategic enterprise product and benefit tool. POC scope includes Product Development/Design, Uniform Coverage Summary (export into document format on Merrill),Benefit Configuration, Interface to CSR Applications – WAW and CCB, HIPAA 270/271 Record Production, WGS Claims Engine (Auto Bagging engine) CLIENT DESCRIPTION: WellPoint is United States of America’s leading health benefits company serving the needs of approximately 28 million medical members nationwide. WellPoint is included in the S&P 500 index. WellPoint is a Blue Cross or Blue Cross Blue Shield licensee in 13 states: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Virginia, excluding the immediate suburbs of Washington, D.C., and Wisconsin. ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: As a SIT test lead managed requirements analysis and design phase towards identifying scope of testing and systems with technical teams and business partners. Conducted test plan (System /End to end) walk through sessions and presentations to various leads from Development, business and Technical Support teams. Also organized and led daily Triage Meetings for the defects, managed the updates of CQ to keep IT on top of their assignments, managed re-testing, and updated business as to the status. Involved in all the activities like Resource allocation within the module, tracking daily tasks to closure, resolving queries to ensure quality deliverables as committed. Also contributed to project management activities daily and Weekly status preparation, evaluating the daily deliverables which includes test case review, data set up review and test results review. PROJECT PROFILE:4 Project Title WGS Claims SSCR Master Duration March 2010 to Nov 2012 Location Chennai, India Hardware IBM Compatible Devices Operating Systems OS/390, Windows Programming Languages Cobol, JCL PROJECT DESCRIPTION: WellPoint Group System (WGS Mainframe) is the pivotal IT application which supports the large group business of Blue Cross of California. WGS Claims system handles claim processing for Local, National, Medical, Senior, and Unicare plans for WellPoint across the states of California, Colorado and Nevada. WGS Claims system needs constant development and enhancement due to change in business definition, need for additional or modified functionality, and issues with system performance during any of the various stages involved in claim processing. The WGS Claims SSCR (Small System Change Requests) project addresses these enhancements and issues mentioned above. CLIENT DESCRIPTION: WellPoint is United States of America’s leading health benefits company serving the needs of approximately 28 million medical members nationwide. WellPoint is included in the S&P 500 index. WellPoint is a Blue Cross or Blue Cross Blue Shield licensee in 13 states: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Virginia, excluding the immediate suburbs of Washington, D.C., and Wisconsin. ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: As an SME assisted and mentored junior level staff to ensure they are meeting project deliverables and timelines. Involved in analyzing the impact analysis for the new requirements which are coming in as part of the current and next releases. Also involved in transferring and presenting the Health Care domain knowledge to the respective team members as well as to the business analysts. Involved in providing the knowledge transition of the WGS application to the newly joined team members in and also involved in taking care of quality audit of the application. And also involved in production validation for this application. Involved to identify the risk and mitigations for the project. As a lead involved in all the activities like Resource allocation within the module, tracking daily tasks to closure, resolving queries to ensure quality deliverables as committed. Involved in project management activities like estimation, daily and Weekly status preparation, evaluating the daily deliverables and process activities like Test plan and Test strategy preparation. PROJECT PROFILE: 5 Project Title WLP Business Partner Augmentation Duration June 2008 to Feb 2010 Location Chennai, India and Newbury Park Hardware IBM Compatible Devices Operating Systems OS/390, Windows Programming Languages Cobol, JCL PROJECT DESCRIPTION: WellPoint Group System (WGS Mainframe) is the pivotal IT application which supports the large group business of Blue Cross of California. WGS Claims system handles claim processing for Local, National, Medical, Senior, and Unicare plans for WellPoint across the states of California, Colorado and Nevada. WGS Claims system needs constant development and enhancement due to change in business definition, need for additional or modified functionality, and issues with system performance during any of the various stages involved in claim processing. CLIENT DESCRIPTION: WellPoint is United States of America’s leading health benefits company serving the needs of approximately 28 million medical members nationwide. WellPoint is included in the S&P 500 index. WellPoint is a Blue Cross or Blue Cross Blue Shield licensee in 13 states: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Virginia, excluding the immediate suburbs of Washington, D.C., and Wisconsin. ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: As a module lead for WCC project responsible for assigning the task to the team member’s, coordinating with onsite and offshore, reviewing and delivering the task in time. Acquired good knowledge in IBM mainframe and Gained good knowledge in WGS application. Given Knowledge transfer sessions to the team members. Done UAT testing and Involved in Requirement analysis, preparation of test cases and validation. Done review of Test cases and executed those. Provided Defect free delivery and have met the deadlines. Provided inputs to implement elearning for WGS testing project. Involved in SCM activities like taking up the quality audits and imparted the knowledge of CVS across the team members. Involved in estimation to provide test efforts of WCC module. PROJECT PROFILE: 6 Project Title COSMOS – IDEA Project Duration Nov 2007 – May 2008 Location Chennai, India Hardware IBM Compatible Devices Operating Systems OS/390, Windows Programming Languages Cobol, JCL PROJECT DESCRIPTION: COSMOS stands for Comprehensive On-Line Software for Management and Operational Support. COSMOS processes both manually entered and automatically submitted claims and pays the claim amount to the respective service providers. This application handles thousands of contracts and claims processing transactions each day and maintains both current & historical information about members, providers, contracts, claims and payments. The existing COSMOS application was developed in UNISYS Mainframe platform and due to the business demand the application will be migrated to IBM Mainframe platform. The migrated application will have the existing functionality since there is no requirement to add new functionality or to change the existing functionality. An end-to-end functional test verifies the results between an existing COSMOS application on UNISYS environment and the newly migrated COSMOS application on IBM environment for same test data. Cosmos Code conversion is done by third party IDEA Migration team from UNISYS mainframe to IBM Mainframe. CLIENT DESCRIPTION: United Health Group (UHG) is the leader in the US health and well-being industry and serves approximately 55 million Americans. Since 1995, United Health Group has ranked first or second in Fortune magazine's annual survey of the most admired health care companies in America. It is a diversified health and well-being enterprise that provides a full spectrum of resources and services to help people achieve improved health and well-being through all stages of life. United Health Group is organized into five businesses: United HealthCare, Uniprise, Ovations, Specialized Care Services and Ingenix. ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: As part OF QA involved to execution of the project and involved in interactions with onsite team for gathering requirements in for each and every iteration and also involved in preparing the mock up screens for the new requirements saying that this is how the future building system is going to. Involved in giving transition to newly joined team members about the application and also involved in transitioning the new requirements. Involved in gathering the requirements clarifications from the team members and sent to onsite coordinator or business analysts towards client side manager and gets clarified with the requirements clarification of various screens. Having good knowledge of Test Director Tool which is used for Tracking test cases and defects. Involved in test execution of various functionalities of various screens and also in integrating test activities. PROJECT PROFILE: 7 Project Title Best Linkage to World base Duration July ‘07 – Oct ‘07 Location Chennai, India Hardware IBM Compatible Devices Operating Systems OS/390, Windows Programming Languages Cobol, JCL PROJECT DESCRIPTION: BL2WB (Best Linkage to World base) project was created to modify the monthly World Base data update process to use GLR as the authoritative source providing linkage data for records to be processed for input into World Base. The Relational Database (RDB) was used in the previous process as an authoritative source for linkage data in World Base. It is a mainframe application that has been slated for retirement. However, the Global Linkage Repository (GLR) was created to be a more comprehensive and complete repository of linkage data at D&B thus by providing accurate data to worldbase. By incorporating more accurate and complete linkage information into the database, World Base will become a more valuable product to D&B customers CLIENT DESCRIPTION: DUN & BRADSTREET, USA D&B provides the information, tools and expertise to help customers Decide with Confidence. D&B enables customers’ quick access to objective, global information whenever and wherever they need it. Customers use D&B Risk Management Solutions to manage credit exposure, D&B Sales & Marketing Solutions to find profitable customers and D&B Supply Management Solutions to manage suppliers efficiently. Dun And Bradstreet is the leading provider of business-to-business credit, marketing, purchasing, and receivables management and decision-support services worldwide. Customers rely upon D&B to provide the insight they need to build profitable, quality business relationships with their customers, suppliers, business partners - the companies they interact with every day. ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE PROJECT: Being an effective Team member involved in System Testing and User Acceptance Testing. Involved in Test Case preparation, test Environment setup and Test Data Preparation, Responsible for submitting the job and validating the results in Spool, Identifying Defects while Execution and responsible to raise the defects in Mercury Quality Center. Responsible for collecting Test Evidences and Defect Evidences. Personal information: Name:Prabha Venkataraman Father’s name:M.S. Venkataraman Address:NO. 3 Abirami street, Ram nagar, Ambattur, Chennai-600053