Anitha Ramaswamy

Results-driven Quality Assurance Engineer with 7+ years of overall IT experience, including 5+ years in Manual Testing and 2 years in Automation Testing across Property & Casualty Insurance (Guidewire PolicyCenter) and Healthcare Insurance (Enrollment Systems). Proficient in UI Functional Testing, Test Automation (Java, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Cucumber BDD, POM), REST API & Negative API Testing, and SQL Database Validation.

Guidewire Certified

Specialist experienced in leading QA teams, driving defect reduction, and ensuring high-quality software delivery in Agile/Scrum environments. Skilled at collaborating with Developers, Business Analysts, and Product Owners to deliver robust, production-ready applications.

IT Analyst | Guidewire QA Automation Engineer - Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) - USA

(2022-03 - 2023-12)

Client: State Farm Insurance Company

• Designed and executed UI automation test suites for Guidewire PolicyCenter portal workflows using Selenium WebDriver with Java, covering functional, regression, and end-to-end policy administration scenarios.
• Implemented the Page Object Model (POM) and Cucumber (BDD) design patterns in a Java/Selenium framework, maintaining reusable test components and integrating automated test execution with Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for automated reporting.
• Partnered with Product Owners, Business Analysts, and Developers for user story validation, test planning, and defect triage, reducing requirement-related defects by 30%.
• Designed and executed end-to-end testing (functional, system, integration, regression, and UAT) to validate policy business rules and system behavior, lowering production defect leakage by 25%+.
• Executed daily smoke testing and full regression cycles for every release build, reducing release rollbacks and late-cycle defects by 35%.
• Performed comprehensive REST API and negative API testing using Postman—validating request/response payloads, authentication tokens/headers, HTTP status codes, and error handling—alongside SQL queries for backend data integrity.

Associate | Quality Assurance Engineer / Team Lead - Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTS)

(2012-09 - 2019-02)

Client: Aetna

• Delivered 5+ years of comprehensive manual testing across high-volume web-based healthcare insurance enrollment modules and member transaction-processing systems.
• Led and coordinated a distributed 5-member QA engineering squad, driving testing best practices, work allocation, and mentoring junior engineers to ensure timely release delivery.
• Prepared test estimates, test schedules, test strategies, and detailed test cases from functional requirements, producing test logs and evidence reports for formal UAT sign-off.
• Spearheaded web services testing using SoapUI and backend database validation using SQL queries, verifying core healthcare business rules and member enrollment payloads.
• Identified, documented, and managed over 200 critical software defects using JIRA and HP ALM, partnering with cross-functional teams to maximize application stability prior to production releases.

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science and Engineering