Sneka S

TOSCA-certified Test Automation Engineer with 5+ years of experience specializing in TOSCA automation frameworks across Insurance domain projects. Holds the Tricentis Tosca Product Consultant Certification along with multiple module-level certifications (AS1, AS2, TDS1, TDS2, AE1, AE2, Expert Series) with deep expertise in data-driven, keyword-driven, and API automation using TOSCA. Specialist in Guidewire PolicyCenter covering policy creation, transactions, and testing across PC and digital applications.

Additionally experienced in Selenium WebDriver, ACCelQ, and Playwright. Proven track record of reducing defect leakage by 30% and improving test efficiency by 40%.

Test Automation Engineer at Ernst & Young (EY) (2026-04 – Present)

• Specialized in Guidewire PolicyCenter testing. Validating end-to-end policy creation, endorsements, renewals, and cancellation transactions across both PC and digital application layers.
• Designed and executed automated test suites using ACCELQ ensuring comprehensive functional and regression coverage of PolicyCenter modules.
• Ensured data integrity and workflow accuracy between PolicyCenter backend and digital front-end channels through rigorous end-to-end testing.
• Collaborated with cross-functional Agile teams to maintain quality across sprint releases in a Big 4 enterprise environment.

Programmer Analyst at Cognizant Technology Solutions (2021-09 – 2026-03)

• Built and maintained TOSCA automation frameworks (data-driven and keyword-driven) for Insurance domain applications, improving test execution speed by 40% and enabling reusable, scalable test suites.
• Leveraged TOSCA AS1/AS2 for web automation and centralized test data management, ensuring consistent and reliable test data across environments.
• Applied TOSCA TDS1/TDS2 for structured test case design and stateful data management, significantly improving test organization and maintainability.
• Used TOSCA AE1/AE2 and API automation modules to build beyond-web test coverage, including backend API validation and extended application testing.
• Automated functional testing of Guidewire PolicyCenter bond insurance application (Surety Choice) using TOSCA covering policy workflows, transactions and business compliance scenarios.
• Built an innovative TOSCA-based automation solution to extract policy details from Guidewire PolicyCenter UI to Excel, eliminating manual effort and saving significant time and cost across multiple projects.
• Led end-to-end testing for a major system migration (Engine Upgrade), designed TOSCA regression and smoke test suites ensuring seamless upgrades across multiple applications with zero critical post-go-live defects.
• Conducted regression, smoke and API testing that reduced defect leakage by 30%, directly improving production quality and release confidence.
• Designed and maintained test cases, execution reports and defect logs ensuring full traceability and business compliance.
• Led KT sessions and mentored junior QA engineers on TOSCA best practices, framework design and Guidewire domain knowledge.
• Managed test plans, sprint cycles and defect tracking using Jira in an Agile delivery model, handling multiple applications simultaneously.

Master of Computer Applications in Computer Applications – University of Madras (2024)

B.Sc. in Computer Science – Justice Basheer Ahmed Sayeed College for Women (2021)