Sujish Sundaran

Seasoned functional test lead and tester with 12+ years of experience in P&C Insurance Domain. Demonstrated focus, development, technical skills, and implementation successes with start-up and established corporations. Noted for hard work, diligence, and communication abilities.

Result-oriented, intelligent, analytical, and self - driven to succeed. Capable of quickly adapting to changing environments, flexible committed with troubleshooting skills. An avid desire to learn new things and a mindset to work hard with professionalism and perfection is my inbuilt goal.

Deloitte | Bengaluru, India

QA Lead

• Insurance Service Area: Technology, Offshore
• Client: One of US State Insurance Provider
• Project: The client is looking for migrating to Guidewire full suite implementationThis is for One LOB -WC, One state implementation

Key Responsibilities

• Planning and monitoring the deliverables for offshore
• Prepared the Test Strategy and Test Plan documents
• Estimate the test effort and prepare the Resource plan
• Drive offshore QA team by assigning the work allocation and reporting
• Sharing the knowledge on Insurance Domain with team members in the Project
• Attend/Drive triage calls for defects logged
• Weekly Status Report
• Assist in demo, attend pre-con, post con and provide inputs to the Dev/BA and QA teams
• Replanning and resource model updates
• Have prepared DSR, WSR Resource Model changes and estimations
• Guided the team with their queries and provided the support to handle any challenges on the project
• Highlighted risk/issue along with Mitigation plan to Managers
• Working closely to deliver the project deliverables with quality
• Industry: Insurance Service Area: Technology

11/2018 - 12/2019

Deloitte | Toronto, Canada

Senior Consultant QA Lead

• Onsite
• Client:Client is an insurance company in Canada
• Project: Building a Custom developed Portal and Configuring PolicyCenter for Personal Lines Implementation, technology-enabled platform to streamline the development and distribution of insurance products for Canada provinces

Key Responsibilities

• Leading the onshore eSIT delivery for Guidewire application
• Task allocation, risk management, maintaining coordination between onsite-offshore teams
• Review the User Story, ETE Planning, Retrospective information and provide recommendations
• SIT Planning and allocations to offshore
• Supported testing by identifying and Reviewing test scenarios and test cases
• Insurance Service Area: Technology

05/2018 - 11/2018

Deloitte | Bengaluru , India

Senior Consultant QA Lead

• Offshore
• Client:Client is an insurance company in USA
• Project:Building a Custom developed Portal and Configuring PolicyCenter for BOP Implementation, technology-enabled platform to streamline the development and distribution of insurance products for small commercial businesses in US markets

Key Responsibilities

• Leading the offshore delivery for ETE Guidewire application
• Task allocation, risk management, maintaining coordination between onsite-offshore teams
• Review the User Story, ETE Planning, Retrospective information and provide recommendations
• Industry: Insurance Service Area: Technology

08/2015 - 05/2018

Deloitte | Columbus , USA

QA Lead

• Client:Client is a big insurance company in USA
• Project:Client is a provider of P&C insurance with its independent agents.Over the next few years, client is focused on becoming a modern organization with improved outcomes and customer service

Key Responsibilities

• Prepared the Test Strategy and Test Plan documents
• Estimate the test effort and prepare the Resource plan
• Manage the offshore team by managing the work allocation, reporting
• Sharing the knowledge on Insurance Domain with team members in the Project
• Attend/Drive triage calls for defects logged
• Weekly Status Report
• Closely working with Testing team [Functional, Automation, Performance, ETL and Reporting]
• Understand the project scope and deliverables
• Have taken sessions for team on Project overview, scope, timelines, defect management etc
• Prepared Test Plan and Strategy docs for releases
• Involved in preparing the plans of test execution for all phases
• Have supported execution plan creation for performance and automation scripting and execution
• Closely worked with Performance team during execution when project required lead support
• Have hosted Daily stand-ups, Weekly connects with Scrum masters, touchpoints with offshore
• Guided the team with their queries and provided the support to handle any challenges on the project
• Industry: Insurance Service Area: Technology

08/2014 - 08/2015

Deloitte | Shanghai, China

Test QA

• Onsite
• Client:Client is a provider of Specialty insurance
• Project:Client focuses is specialty insurance and help power the businesses that drive the world economy.Approach the chosen markets with unmatched expertise, a spirit of innovation and sense of urgency in everything the client does

Key Responsibilities

• Went to Shanghai to validate the eBao product
• Involved in Test Designing and Execution
• Actively participate and contributed to planning and estimation for Testing work streams
• Task allocation & maintaining coordination between onsite-offshore teams
• Review the User Story, Sprint Planning, Retrospective information and provide recommendations
• Providing KT to the team members
• Industry: Insurance Service Area: Technology

07/2013 - 09/2014

Deloitte | Bengaluru, India

Software Tester

• Offshore
• Client:One of Canada's leading insurance company's which provides workers compensation policies to employers.This is a multi-year, large-scale initiative that will change the way employers' premium rates are calculated.The client plans to adopt a classification structure based on the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), which will replace the existing rate group classification units, combined with a new methodology for calculating premium rates based on individual employers claims experience
• Project:The project aims to migrate from static Rating Engine to Dynamic Guidewire Rating EngineThis will involve testing the integrations along with functional and regression testing

Key Responsibilities

• Involved in Test Designing and Execution
• Actively participate and contributed in planning and estimation for Testing work streams
• Task allocation & maintaining coordination between onsite-offshore teams
• Review the User Story, Sprint Planning, Retrospective information and provide recommendations
• Providing KT to the team members
• Also worked as a Performance Tester for short duration

07/2010 - 07/2013

Jamcracker | Bengaluru , India

Quality Assurance Analyst

Key Responsibilities

• Involved in Test Designing and Execution
• Actively participate and contributed in planning and estimation for Testing work streams
• Review the User Story, Sprint Planning, Retrospective information and provide recommendations
• Providing KT to the team members

Bachelors of Engineering- Computer Science