Swarna Modi Talanki Email & Phone Number

Bloomfield , Ct

Application Development QA Manager in Corporate Finance supporting Financial transformation program involves implementation of Oracle financials applications E-Business Suite to cloud, Procure-To-Pay, Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets, General Ledger, OBIEE (Business Intelligence) Reporting, Account Reconciliation Manager.● For Implementation partner driven projects:○ Review RFP from vendors & share valuable insight from QA perspective.○ Review Statement of Work & assure that quality assurance services are covered to the satisfaction of the client.○ Initiate and maintain communication between business & IT community across Cigna and implementation partners.○ Assist to develop QA project plans and assure Cigna’s quality assurance guidelines are met and proper logistics are in place for a smooth testing cycle.○ Timelines are thought through to allocate teams to complete the prerequisites and dependencies are met before testing cycle timeline. ○ Approach the business teams to share business scenarios and relevant data are captured before CRP (Classroom pilot) testing and UAT (user acceptance testing).○ Develop and manage appropriate dashboards to report the testing progress.○ Manage onsite and offshore/vendor teams to drive the implementation and support all testing cycles.○ Overlook the test planning artifacts like test strategy, test plan, test calendar, testing team, testing scope & test provisioning activities.○ Develop strategy for defect management, triage calls and dashboards for execution reporting to project stakeholders.

My Contributions as a QA & Testing Manager / Asset Lead:Worked in Cigna & Vendor ‘Partner in Success’ Model (Onsite, Offshore & Near Shore team) for successful completion of multiple releases.-Responsible for Projects intakes, estimations, resource allocation for all projects under 'Advantage' Asset.-Accountable for all test deliverable's like Application Test Strategy (ATS), Project Test Plan, Cycle Plan, Scenarios, Test Scripts, Test Data, Execution Dashboard, Defect Reports, Evidence Walkthrough, Project Closure etc- Work with the Vendor onsite lead to ensure that all these are completely delivered successfully on time and on budget. -Facilitates testing with the external vendors in AccelRx & Choice Fund /H S A Projects.-Participate in monthly review of Governance Deck with Vendor lead going over resource distribution, Invalid defects review, Overall goals, Budget /Baseline Burnout chart, resource Utilization Trend, Defect Removal Efficiency, Defect Retest Turnaround time, Test Coverage, Productivity reports.

Bloomfield, Ct

Worked in Sales and Underwriting, provided quality assurance to various applications like Salesforce, Plan Design, Benefits Sculpting Tool, iQuote and Renewal projects.Performed as a QA lead for Plans Maintenance and Benefit Sculpting Tool projects.Actively participated in a QA Lead role in Choice Board - Agile project and developed an excel based work hours estimation tool to use in planning sessions. Mentored the new quality analysts and worked efficiently in the team.Tools Used : Quality Center, Rally, Wiki, SharePoint,QTP

Simsbury, Ct

Provided the Quality Assurance to Specialist insurance - Underwriter application on Enhancements and also on technology convention project, Rules engines.Supported Claims in Acceptance testing developed by out sourced company.Tools Used : Quality Center, QTP.

Provided IT services in various applications.

Mysuru Area, India

Responsible to provide the IT support to the research group , highly dependent on medical records in a hospital. Developed Patients Management System application to support data gathering , analysis and statistics reporting.

Master Of Computer Applications - Mca, Computer Engineering

Bachelor Of Business Management, Accounting And Business/Management