This document contains a summary of Venkata L Gunda's work experience and qualifications. He has over 8 years of experience in IT testing, including testing web and product applications. He has expertise in test planning, execution, quality assurance, and documentation. He is proficient in testing tools like QlikView, QC/ALM, QTP, and others. He has experience leading testing teams and projects in various domains including insurance, finance, and rail transportation. He holds certifications in ITIL, ISTQB, QC, and others.

1. Venkata L Gunda
GVLN5241@GMAIL.COM
+91 – 994-942-8808
(Service Operations)
Work Experience
 Having 8 Years of experience in IT Testing
 Good understanding of the Testing concepts and Methodologies
 Good experience in testing the web based and the product based applications
 Sound knowledge in Test Approach Preparation, Test Case Preparation, Review & Test results Analysis,
Test Design documentation, Bug reporting and Test Report preparation.
 Versatile in Test planning, executing all the phases of software life cycle starting with requirement study,
analysis, testing, quality assurance, implementation and maintenances.
 Expertise in Bug-management tools like Quality Center / ALM.
 Good Knowledge in ITSM - Service Operations (Problem Management).
 Trained in QlikView and preparing the Dashboards with QlikView.
 Effective time management skills and consistent ability to meet client deadlines.
 Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.
 Flexibility in adaptation to a wide range of work environments.
 Involved in arranging and giving the KT sessions to the new project members.
 Experience in handling a team of size Ten members.
Professional Organizations
 Working as a Senior Consultant in Capgemini, Hyderabad from March 2008 - Till Date.
Certifications & Awards
• Completed ITIL Service Operations Intermediate level Certification in Feb – 2016.
• Completed ITIL V3 2011 Foundation level Certification in Jan – 2015.
• Received Bronze Award from L&C (for the trainings given for 2013 Jun FLP batch).
• Received Bravo Award in an Auto Insurance project for Q4 – 2013.
• Completed ISTQB Foundation level in the year of 2010.
• Certified in QTP 9.2 & QC 9.2 in the year 2008.
• Certification in Mainframe (COBOL, JCL, VSAM DB2, CICS) from Maples ESM technology Services Ltd.
Software Skills
Operating Systems: MS Windows95/98/2000/XP/NT
Languages: COBOL, JCL
Database: SQL, VSAM
Applications: VisionPlus, Cardpac and VBA Macro
Tools: QlikView, QC/ALM, QTP, Rational Test Manager, Rational Clear Quest, Selenium IDE & RC, IBM Rational
Test Virtualization Server (RTVS) & IBM Rational Integration Tester (RIT)
Education
• Bachelor of Technology – Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE),
VYCET (affiliated to JNTU) 2002-06 Aggregate: 67%
PERSONAL PROFILE:
Date of Birth : 20th
July, 1985
Marital Status : Married
Nationality : Indian
Passport : Yes
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2. Projects
PolicyPro (Auto Insurance)
Test Lead Client – Progressive
Project Description:
Progressive Corporation (PGR) is the third largest insurance provide in USA. Progressive Casualty
Insurance Company, through it subsidiaries, provides personal automobile insurance, and other specialty
property-casualty insurance and related services in the United States.
The purpose of the Policy Pro project is fundamentally to replace the legacy Proteus policy processing
system available on IBM mainframe. Proteus has been the backbone of the policy processing since 1980 and now
it represents a weakness for Progressive IT to continue to deliver "best in class" service to meet the demands of
progressive business.
Policy Pro, a new policy processing system based upon an architecture that ensures an adaptable, stable
and efficient system for the future. The system will leverage many of the Progressive IT software assets including
quoting, editing, rating and rules handling developed in the past few years to increase our rate of delivery by
maximizing reuse potential. Policy Pro system also integrates many of the producing and subscribing systems of
Progressive to create a painless flow of information to and from Policy Pro.
Roles & Responsibilities:
• Leading the Test team of Ten members
• Involved in Inspection & Walkthrough sessions at Analysis and Design Phase
• Involved in Test planning and execution and preparation of Test data
• Involved in writing and executing Test plan for System testing phase
• Involved in Peer reviews, and Defect review meetings
• Preparing and Publishing daily statuses to the Stake Holders
• Compiled and shared Weekly and Monthly status reports with client
• Reported defect information in the form of Defect Report to the Development Team after execution of
Test cases
• Involved in review meetings and attending workshops of Auto Insurance and preparing DOU’s
• Orientation Program about the functionality of application to the new team members for their effective
task execution
• Mentoring and giving sessions to New Resources for the functionality, applications & tools.
• Analyzing and understanding of the new CR’s raised to fix production issues
• Ensure knowledge repositories are maintained and update on-going basis.
Environment: Policy Pro Web based application, Mainframe, .Net web services, SQL, HP ALM.
ADA, OHCDM, BDE
Functional Test Analyst, SME Client – HSBC
Project Description:
CML (Consumer and Mortgage Lending) & CRS (Credit Retail Services) are two sites should be
complying with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Level AA as per new guidelines. In ADA
standards, font magnification and screen reading apart from the credit card functionalities. User will register for
online management and uses the credit card functionalities via web services.
“One HSBC Customer Data Management” is to use one centralized database all over the world
irrespective of domain, country and language. Currently, database is designed and old database need to migrate.
Need to verify, the newly designed database for accepting the multi language support and mapping verification
with existing database. Create, Update, Identify and Delete are four basic utilities need to be performed on
Mainframes database. While doing these operations need to verify the dependency tables and other validations.
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3. Business Development Environment (BDE) is IBM Web Portal Service. WPS is used for updating the
website regularly without the involvement of programming knowledge. To update the web pages through WPS
service, we need to run some pre-defined jobs (workflows) as per the design. Depend upon the target and source
locations we need to run the workflows. Each workflow is started by initiator and sends to approval. One person
from approval group approves the job will be promoted to next level. Knowledge Approver is a special kind of
approver, when we require adding new file types like .pdf or .abc “Knowledge Approver” comes into picture.
Responsibilities:
• Understanding the change requests given by the client
• Generating the SQL’s form excel macro
• Uploading the SQL’s to mainframes database and submitting the proper JCL’s
• Verification of Database fields, by keeping mapping documents as reference
• Finding the critical areas and execute them to avoid the high risk
• Preparing weekly test reports and dash boards
• Executing the scripts and logging defects in QC
Environment: QC, Client/Server Apps, JAWS, IE Developer, Firebug, Color Contrast Analyzer, Mainframes.
Assurant Health (Health Insurance) Dec 2009 – May 2010
Execution Analyst (Manual) Client: Assurant, USA
Project Description:
Assurant is a Health Insurance project which has different channels to create Quote for the customers.
They are EASE (Online Application accessed by agents), Offline (Desktop application Accessed by Agents),
Consumer (Accessed by Customer). The Application to Issue Status objective is to provide timely underwriting
status for agents and intermediaries selling Individual Medical, Small Group and Specialty Products.
Responsibilities:
• Analyzing Use cases, preparing the test cases and executing
• Uploading the Test Scripts in Rational Test Manager
• Performing the Sanity test on new builds
• Raise queries to seek more clarification during Execution
• Defect tracking in Rational Clear Quest
• Escalating the blocked defects
• Preparing test data for the Regression testing
• Update Work Allocation sheet with execution detail
Environment: Client/Server Applications, MS-Excel, Rational Test Manager, Rational Clear Quest, Mainframes.
CIT Goldspike Release 2.0 Build (Finance) Aug 2009 – Nov 2009
Execution Analyst (Manual) Client – CIT Rail, USA
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
CIT Rail provides financial solutions to the freight transportation marketplace. Emphasizing a customized
approach in designing solutions and structures to each customer’s individual needs. Whether it is term financing
for construction of a new production facility, or a synthetic lease on railcars, flexibility and ability to execute make
a lasting impression with CIT Rail customers.
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4. Offering full service leasing options on one of the youngest, most diversified railcar and locomotive fleets
in North America. This combination of asset ownership and financial capabilities means that CIT Rail brings an
unparalleled ability to develop solutions that can help fuel its customer’s business growth.
Responsibilities:
• Analyzing Use cases, preparing the test cases and executing.
• Defect tracking in QC.
• Build creation and deployment on local servers.
• BizTalk files verification and Database checking.
• Update Work Allocation sheet with execution detail.
Environment: Client/Server Applications, MS-Excel, Quality Center 9.2, BizTalk 2006, QTP, Microsoft SQL.
GE Money UK (Cards) Oct 2008 – Jul 2009
Execution Analyst, SME Client – Santander, UK
Project Description:
GE Money is the UK’s largest provider of branded retail finance; providing store cards, MasterCard credit
cards and sales finance products for more than 40 of the UK’s high street retailers. Involved in different releases
(E-Apps R1 09, R2 09) & different projects (PCIDSS, Debit Card Server Phase II) happened in quarterly basis. As
part of this project, analyzing the requirements, preparing the test cases, executing, defect tracking via QC &
preparing the weekly status reports, closer reports.
Responsibilities:
• Analyzing BRD, FS, Test Strategy, Preparation and execution of Test cases
• Raise queries to seek more clarification during Execution
• Defect tracking in QC
• Update Work Allocation sheet with execution detail
• Preparing weekly test reports, dash boards and preparing project completion reports.
Environment: Client/Server Applications, MS-Excel, Quality Center 9.2, Vision plus and Cardpac.
AIGDIRECT.COM (Insurance) May 2008 – Aug 2008
Test Executor (Automation) Client: AIGDIRECT
Project Description:
21C merged with AIG. The goal of the project is to convert the AIG policies into 21C policy applications.
The current project has planned to convert 1st set with 15 States, the project named as 15 Foot Print States.
Aigdirect.com is part of the AIG (American International Group) family of companies that offer auto insurance
countrywide. Repview is the policy management applications for 21C. Repview is the CSR application which
supports any changes that are to be made on the policy. The amendments include modifications to number of
Drivers, Vehicles and Coverage’s etc.
Responsibilities:
• Co-ordinates with test leads for issue resolutions.
• Executing the scripts in QTP.
• Analyzing the result files & Updating the metrics.
• Logging TDR’s in Query log.
Environment: Client/ Server Applications, MS-Excel, QTP, DDR
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