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ABUL KALAM AZAD Email: abul1abul1@gmail.com
PH: 9710215746
Objective:
A position which utilizes my skills to the best extent and gives me opportunity to learn and helps
me to grow along with the organization
Experience Summary:
I have 7.3 years of experience in Software Testing (Manual, Functional/Automation) on Mainframe,
Windows, Web applications, DB-SQL, VB script, UNIX basics, Selenium-Java basics and Cucumber.
Actively involved in all the stages of the typical software lifecycle such as business analysis,
designing, developing, testing, deployment and maintenance, Understanding of all phases of
Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC). Good skills on Manual testing methods, Test execution and
Defect tracking, good exposure in Automation testing in VB-Macro and Java.
Professional Experience:
Company Name Designation From Date To Date
Cognizant Technology Solutions Associate July – 2015 Till Date
Cognizant Technology Solutions Programmer Analyst Nov – 2011 Jun - 2015
Cognizant Technology Solutions Programmer Nov – 2010 Oct - 2011
Cognizant Technology Solutions Programmer Trainee Oct - 2009 Oct - 2010
Education:
Company Name Designation From Date
X Chintadripet Boys Higher Secondary School 2003 – 70%
XII Chintadripet Boys Higher Secondary School 2005 – 74%
BSC-Computer Science The New College /Madras University 2008 – 76%
MSC-Information Technology A.M Jain College /Madras University 2010 – 78%
Areas of Expertise:
Operating System Windows 98/00 professional, windows XP, windows Vista
Technical Skills Software Testing, VB Development and SQL
Packages & Technologies
Manual Testing (Mainframe / Automation VBA script, MS-SP 2010
Web/Windows Application, DB-SQL and Selenium/UNIX basics)
Programming languages C , C++, C# ,Java and VB
Certifications:
 Certified in software testing by cognizant through “Cognizant Certified Professional”.

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 Certified in HealthCare Basic by cognizant through “Cognizant Certified Professional”.
 Certified in ISTQB foundation level.
Summary:
Joined Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd. on October 12th, 2009 and completed 73
months of experience on various testing projects. Involved in different phases of software development
life cycle and gained expertise in various testing technologies. Have utilized the Client / Cognizant
proprietary tools and possess adequate proficiency in using the tools for project development and
management activities. In addition to sound technical knowledge I have acquired good business and
domain knowledge of HealthCare industry.
Project Profile #1:
Title WGS CLAIMS SSCR CIT Testing
Client Anthem
Tools/Technologies Mainframe Apps, Cobol, Jcl and VBA
Role Module Lead / Tester
Database IMS
Team Size 15
Duration Dec 2009 to May 2013
Project Description:
WGS Claims Processing system takes a claim through a series of stages, populating the claim with
data that results in adjudication. The record format of the claim is called the Claims Train. Claims can be
edited by examiners to correct errors, add missing information or make any necessary adjustments. The
WGS Claims Processing System is divided into 5 logical units of processing: Electronic Data Interchange
(EDI) or Direct Data Capture (DDC), System Adjudication, Pre-Adjudication Correction (PAC), Image
Processing, Accumulators. At the end of System Adjudication or Image Processing, depending upon the
route taken, the claim is processed by a nightly batch process which generates checks/EOB and archives
the claim and the same as tested in Web portal for CCB validation.
Client Description:
Anthem, Inc. was formed when Anthem Health Networks Inc. and Anthem, Inc. merged in 2004
to become the nation's leading health benefits company. Anthem, Inc. is one of the largest health benefits

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companies in the United States. Through its networks nationwide, the company delivers a number of
leading health benefit solutions through a broad portfolio of integrated health care plans and related
services, along with a wide range of specialty products such as life and disability insurance benefits,
dental, vision, behavioural health benefit services, as well as long term care insurance and flexible
spending accounts. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, Anthem, Inc. is an independent licensee of
the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association serving members in California, Colorado, Connecticut,
Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Virginia and
Wisconsin; and specialty plan members in other states through UniCare.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Acting as Module lead to allocate monitoring tasks. Involved in Requirements gathering and
analysis, framing the requirement traceability matrix to estimate the project. Preparing the test plan and
test strategy documents. Coordinating with onsite to work on deliverables and deliver the assignments
within the SLA period. Responsible for maintenance of shifts within the team and ensure smooth
transition of day to day activities during the changes. Derive the test scenario and the test condition
from finalized requirement. Projects or Testing metrics gathering, task allocations and tracking,
participating in the organizational delivery audits. Project status tracking and reporting, Defect tracking,
Participation in Triage meetings with stake holders. Strong Analytical skills, excellent communication
and organizational skills. As the defect prevention coordinator of the team, have engaged in tracking of
defects and identify the ways to minimize the defect leakage through discussions with leads and team
members. This results in excellent quality in the deliverables. Review of all deliverable corresponding to
all phases of testing life cycle.
As training coordinator of the team, involved in collecting the training needs of the team, liaising with
the academy people to arrange for the training sessions and collating post training completion metrics
for reporting purposes.
Project Profile #2:
Title WGS CORPAPPS ACR / BDS
Client Anthem
Tools/Technologies ACR Apps, VB and Unix

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Database Sybase
Team Size 9
Duration May 2013 to Jan 2014
Anthem Claims Recovery is an application that recovers money from providers which had
been overpaid by Anthem for the submitted claims. The corresponding claim and recover amount would
be identified by the recovery specialist. The ACR application is developed on VB source code with
SYBASE as DB and UNIX part for job scheduling to load the data’s from external system to ACR DB. Each
release we are received the requirement as SSCR, based on that we modified the existing VB code, UNIX
job and Store procedure. ACR application migrated from VB to ASP.NET and project deadline extended
for ACR migration which we confirm the legacy and landing application working as expected.
Business Distributor System is an application is developed to provide the information to
direct any contact with the company/our Customers (often times referred to as Groups or Accounts) and
Members to the system, location, business unit or individual who can address their needs.
BDS can be used by any system or individual to identify where to send a contact. The member
information provides a view of the member’s history with the company that cannot be obtained in any
one of the processing system. For any given point in that history, it provides the system, phone numbers,
and code assigned to an individual or area of the company. The defined routing is independent upon the
system sending updates, can be set up to be time sensitive, and provides history capabilities. Anthem
currently uses the BDS application for Routing Information at member level/customer level and
Maintenance of the routing/member/customer tables.
BDS application migrated from VB to ASP.NET which we confirm the legacy and landing application
working as expected.
Client Description:

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spending account.
Involved in Requirements gathering and analysis, framing the requirement traceability matrix to
estimate the project. Preparing the test plan and test strategy documents. Conduct the status meeting
with onsite and allocate the tasks to team. Derive the test scenario and the test condition from finalized
requirement. Review Test cases, RTM, Test Data setup and walkthrough to Business. Executing the
finalized test cases and log defect using CQ. Project status tracking and reporting, attending status calls
with business. Involved in the Test closure and sign off activities. Process activities such as Status
reporting and Metrics submission.
Project Profile #3:
Title WLP Subrogation Navigator
Client Anthem
Tools/Technologies SUBRO Apps, SSIS Package
Database SQL and Oracle
Team Size 11
Duration Feb 2014 to May 2015
Anthem currently employs 2 different systems to accomplish the Subrogation process.
MeridianSubro2K – Subro2K is the product of Meridian Inc. a Anthem subsidiary unit. This product
resides on VB platform and currently caters the Subrogation needs of WGS, STAR, CS90 and ACES
applications. In addition, Subro2K supports external customer’s health plans under a third party
agreement.
IAutomate – IAutomate is an upgraded web based solution of CaseMate product which was owned by
legacy Anthem for the Subrogation services. Considering the scalable aspects of Anthem, the existing
CaseMate application was enhanced by its vendor IAG. The IAutomate solution processes claims from
WGS, STAR, FACETS, NASCO, both IAutomate and Subro2K have their own inherent flaws and good
features and choosing one over the other as an enterprise level solution in their current form will not
solve the key issues being faced by Anthem business. Hence a new enterprise Subro solution is to be
created which will encompass the best in class features of both the systems and also subrogation

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systems as a whole.
Client Description:
spending accounts.
Involved in Requirements gathering and analysis, framing the requirement traceability matrix to
estimate the project. Preparing the test plan and test strategy documents. Conduct the status meeting
with onsite and allocate the tasks to team. Derive the test scenario and the test condition from finalized
requirement. Review Test cases, RTM, Test Data setup and walkthrough to Business. Executing the
finalized test cases and log defect using CQ. Project status tracking and reporting, attending status calls
with business. Involved in the Test closure and sign off activities. Process activities such as Status
reporting and Metrics submission.
Project Profile #4:
Title Oracle Revenue Management & Billing
Client Anthem
Tools/Technologies Oracle RMB, RQM, CQ, Unix
Database Oracle
Team Size 8
Duration May 2015 to Aug 2016
The purpose of this project is to replace the existing five legacy billing systems to one system to
perform the ASO related operations. Oracle’s RMB - Oracle Financial Services Revenue Management and
Billing is a modern billing application for banking, insurance, and health care verticals. The application is
built on a 100% Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). It supports client business rules through
configuration and customization, while still maintaining an upgrade path. RMB tool allows users to
maintain all employers’ related information under one roof called Parent Customer and multiple

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Accounts can be configured to issue the multiple versions of invoices and reports. Rates are configured
based on the multiple Pricing rules which allows user to modify the defined values. Various payment
gateways also available to pay back the billed amounts. Starting from Customer setup, testing involves in
all levels like Pricing and Billing, Invoicing, Reporting & Payments receivable. Validations include
Functional testing, Regression testing, Migration testing, parallel testing and Pilot testing. Customers are
classified as Renewal and Non-renewal and renewal customers will be migrated to RMB based on the
renewal period. Intermediate Data HUB concept also implemented to correctly route the customers to
RMB and legacy systems.
Client Description:
spending accounts.
Acting as Module lead to allocate monitoring tasks. Involved in Requirements gathering and
analysis, framing the requirement traceability matrix to estimate the project. Preparing the test plan and
test strategy documents. Derive the test scenario and the test condition from finalized requirement.
Projects or Testing metrics gathering, task allocations and tracking, participating in the organizational
delivery audits. Project status tracking and reporting, attending status calls with business. Review of all
deliverable corresponding to all phases of testing life cycle. As the lead, attended the Client Knowledge
Transferring sessions and documented the business functionalities and tool concepts in a detailed
manner. Trained the new joiners in an efficient manner to understand the end to end business flow.
Project Profile #5:
Title Common Payment Platform (CPP)
Client Discover Financial
Tools/Technologies Java, Cucumber, eclipse, Agile, Rally, HP ALM
Database Hadoop
Team Size 25
Duration July 2016 to Oct 2016

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The purpose of this project to Automate the CPP webservice testing process by using cucumber,
Java, Hadoop and Rest technology. CPP is one of the process to test landing system should behaviours
like legacy system. The CPP contains majorly divided to Security, Bus/Data services and Report. Security
will handle Encryption and decryption of secured data. Bus/Data services will handle the data transmit
from one nodes to another nodes till data base. Reports will handle generating the customize report.
Report should involve with Spark, Hbase and Hadoop.
Client Description:
Discover financial introduced the first cash rewards credit card in 1986, we committed ourselves
to meeting the needs of our card members with the best possible customer service - and we still stand by
that commitment today. We're building our company by listening to consumers and developing products
and programs that help them get the most for their money. Beyond credit cards, our banking and
payments businesses offer rewarding products backed by that same commitment to high-quality service
that we have had from the start.
Acting as Module lead to allocate monitoring tasks. Involved in Requirements gathering and analysis,
framing the requirement traceability matrix to estimate the project. Preparing the test plan and test
strategy documents. Derive the test scenario and the test condition from finalized requirement. Projects
or Testing metrics gathering, task allocations and tracking, participating in the organizational delivery
audits. Project status tracking and reporting, attending status calls with business. Review of all
deliverable corresponding to all phases of testing life cycle. As the lead, attended the Client Knowledge
Transferring sessions and documented the business functionalities and tool concepts in a detailed
manner. Trained the new joiners in an efficient manner to understand the end to end business flow.
Contribution:
As a Team Member, I was responsible for
 Liaise with subject matter experts to gain a thorough understanding of client’s requirement.
 Conduct knowledge transition sessions and transfer the application knowledge to the team.
 Clarify on any queries raised by the team with regard to the application under test.
 Collaborate with the team in the preparation of Test Strategies / plans and test cases.
 Review test strategy, test plan, test scenarios and test cases to ensure appropriate requirements

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coverage. Validation of the requirements traceability matrix.
 Carry out Component Integration testing for the application to eliminate issues in System testing.
 Participate in daily, weekly and monthly status calls and review meetings.
 Proactively contributed Automation work for avoiding Adhoc activities – using VBs with Extra
Attachmate – Emulator (Test Data Identification, Production Job Checkout, Regression and
Package/Component check list), automating the file transfer process in PUTTY emulator.
 Act as a module mentor for new resources.
Strength/Areas of Interest:
 Strong in test development phases - Analysis, Test Plan, Design, Test execution and Defect
Management process.
 Interest to learn more on Automation Tool.
 Strong skills in Manual execution Process.
 Strong problem solving skills and interpersonal skills.
 Co-ordination with team members to maintain consistency & improving overall quality of work.
Personal Information:
Father Name Moulana
Date of Birth 03/Nov/1987
Marital Status Married
Nationality Indian
Sex Male
Address New No 43, Old No 19/1, Labbai Street, Pudupet, Chennai-600002.
I, hereby agree that all information furnished above is true to the best of my knowledge.
Thanks and Regards
Abul Kalam Azad

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