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•obile: 201-616-1865
82 Brittany Farms Rd, Apt # 329,
New Britain, CT-06053
Email: kumari.santoshi@gmail.com
Website: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/santoshi-venkata/8/44a/195

 

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’ About 7 years of IT experience in SDLC including various phases like {


Development and Quality assurance.
’ Experience in  

 

 
, documenting/developing functional
design/specifications and gathering & analyzing data with the help of technical knowledge
and business knowledge acquired.
’ Strong knowledge about  ˜ 


, •anaged care domain and worked in
Payor, Provider, Clinical IT, Pharmacy benefits, •ember and Claims related projects
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after a detailed research on the requirements, resolving
conflictsprioritizing creating master strategy documents, changes to existing
applications and meetings with technical teams during various phases of SDLC cycle.
’ Created business requirements documents very clearly and effectively for all types of
audiences like technical, non-technical etc.,
’ Have strong experience in leading the team/project management. I have worked as a
team lead for varying team sizes achieving all the goals set along with meeting
deadlines/SLA.
’ Projects are completed on time and within the budget and deadlines set by the client
’ Arranged and Lead Joint Application Design (JAD) Sessions and drive resolutions along with
mutual understanding between various key stakeholders
’ Strong knowledge of U•L (Unified •odeling language) for creating use case diagrams,
sequence diagrams, activity diagrams etc.,
’ Works closely with the development team, QA team, UAT team to ensure/track down the
requirements are translated correctly into the working business functionality and that the
customer purpose is solved.
’ Own all the critical project documents like Business requirements document, Use case
documents, Functional design specifications, Requirements traceability matrix, scenarios
documents etc.,
’ Work closely with Business partners for various Lines of business and building relationship
within and other teams
’ Ability to work independently as well as quick starter.
’ Ability to work with multiple vendors.
’ Experience in •icrosoft Office software (Word, Excel, Visio, Powerpoint, outlook) etc.,
’ Experience in •ainframe development using technologies ± COBOL, Assembler, JCL, DB2,
VSA•, CICS, I•S, TSO/ISPF, REXX, Batch scheduling, Expeditor, Endevor/Changeman,
Debug Facility.
’ Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
’ Experience in research and implementation of tools and techniques to increase the
efficiency of the product and to decrease the turnaround time for tedious tasks
’ Track record of increasing responsibilities within Cognizant within 3 years of time. I have
started my career as an ELT (Entry level Trainee) and have grown to a team lead size within
2 years.
’ Strong commitment, organizational, presentation and detail oriented skills.
’ Ability to present information, ideas, analysis etc., very clearly

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TeamTrack, E-Tracker, Prolite, Q-View
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± Rational Clear Quest, Rational Requisite Pro, JCL, QTP, File aid, SOAP
UI, Q•F, DB2 File aid, Easytrieve, Rexx, SAS, Xpeditor, Endevor, Abend-Aid, Altova
X•L Spy, FTP, ND•, •S-office(Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Visio, outlook, Access) & •Q
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business process outsourcing services. With more than 40 global delivery centers and
approximately 80,000 employees, Cognizant combines a unique Onsite-Offshore delivery model
infused by a distinct culture of customer satisfaction.


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•ichigan Operating System Project (•OSP) is a (

Project. To position BCBS• for the
future, Executive Leadership decided to move to a single operating platform by migrating Local
business to the •ichigan Operating System on the )˜#A platform. The benefits from this
initiative include greater flexibility and speed-to-market, reduced administrative cost etc., In order
to achieve the Single Operating Platform objective, all membership and billing content that is
currently interfaced to data sources within the LOCAL platform and other system interfaces
(external and internal) must be redirected and interface to comparable sources within the NASCO
platform.


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I have been involved in
’ Capturing Business requirements, transforming requirements into functional design
specifications.
’ Tracking the requirements through requirements traceability matrix
’ Arranging meetings for Business requirements walkthru, functional specification
walkthrough etc.,
’ •aintaining the documents and various versions using version control system software
± •icrosoft Sharepoint.
’ Requirements are tracked through Requirements Traceability •atrix (RT•) and
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’ Preparing detailed  
 explaining the test scope, testing environment, test
system hierarchy or file system, test naming conventions, testability issues, and test
system data, procedural steps describing test procedure and expected results.
’ Facilitate in involving users in test condition creation during User acceptance testing
’ Preparing test scenarios and   of high quality and avoiding leakage of defects
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’ Reviewed and provided feedback on Test scenarios, case/scripts, and data to offshore
resources as well as other team members.
’ Developed effective technical and user  
 

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’ Creating test data with Automation of Rational Robot and VB Script.
’ Worked on )˜--./&001 formats for •embership Enrollment as well as Agent
Commissions system (•embership & Billing area)
’ Worked in conjunction with )˜#A team for •embership and Billing, #  


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’ Worked on Various 
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’ Developing few tools using !55 to minimize the routine/redundant activities.
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REXX, Endevor, FTP, ND•, SAS, TSO/ISPF,Web services, •Q Series.




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Consolidated Eligibility System (CES) is an application enhancement and maintenance project.
The eligibility system houses a broad spectrum of information such as Customer level, •ember
Eligibility, •ember Demographics and Benefit Plan level information. The system undergoes a
cycle of enhancement and maintenance changes defined by the business needs of UnitedHealth
Group (Uniprise account). This eligibility system plays a critical a role in Client¶s business as the
information stored in the systems is considered as µsource of truth¶. The system also provides
feed to the other external systems. The availability of CES is crucial for Client¶s Business. The
system maintains all the member and plan level information for all the customers of Uniprise.




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I have been involved in:
’ Capturing Business requirements, transforming requirements into functional design
specifications.
’ Tracking the requirements through Requirements traceability matrix (RT•).
’ Participated in reviews of various functional documents like Use case design, functional
design specifications, test scenarios, test cases etc.,
’ Arranging meetings for Business requirements walkthru, functional specification
walkthrough etc.,
’ •aintaining the documents and various versions using version control system software
± •icrosoft Visual source safe.
’ Provided estimates for Development Projects, set detailed schedules and
expectations, delegated task among team members, monitored overall progress, and
provided  

 to upper management
’ I interact with Business and Testing teams for discussions on Business requirement,
Functional specification, Release meeting, Deployment meeting and walking through
Test artifacts.
’ Triaging the issues and providing an effective resolution
’ Understanding the business & technology of the client system for providing them with
quality deliverables.
’ Implementing standard methodologies like Peer Review Process, Test Readiness
Process and Test Case Standards
’ Peer reviews and group reviews.
’ Client  
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and other artifacts.
’ Reported defects in the application through Remote Bug Reporter using TestDirector.
’ Creating a
 
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with connectivity to external systems for data exchange.
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 to fetch data from database to validate the data
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’ Generating reports with ˜˜programming with •ainframe/UNIX.
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•icrosoft visual source safe, •icrosoft Visio, Test Director/Quality Center, COBOL, DB2, CICS
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Developed a J2•E based mobile application by getting involved in all different phases of software
development cycle. Lead a team of 6 other co-interns and coordinated with them for the
development of the product with assistance from the mentors. Also, used other technologies like
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Developed a Java application for managing Library systems. Worked as an active team player as
well as lead other team members from the initiation to the closure of the project. Received
accolades from project mentors and external guides.


 


’ Received several accolades from Clients
Ê Cognizant •anager - "Thank you Santoshi for taking time and coming up with
this tool so quickly"
Ê BCBS• Client - "Santoshi thanks for doing this excellent job!. I agree with the
recommendation" - for providing the possible solution when some decision point
comes in the project.
Ê UHG Client - "Congratulations once again on a job well done. You are an asset
to CES-DEV and am thankful for the owner ship shown in handling the work"

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Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Science 
Osmania University, India (87%) [Awarded Gold medal] (Jun 2002 -•ay 2005)

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