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Mohammed Abdul Kader Maricar Mohammed Eusoof

Mohammed Abdul Kader Maricar Mohammed Eusoof

Singapore

Summary

Experience and Expertise - 16+ years of experience in IT Quality Assurance within the Healthcare Domain.

Customer Interaction and Relationship Building - 12+ years of experience working for a leading US Healthcare Customer, CVS-Aetna. Worked at the customer locations and interacted with customers on daily basis.

Leadership and Team Management - Skilled in leading and managing cross-functional team of 20+ size. Efficient in developing and executing testing approaches to meet project needs.

Process Improvement and Compliance - Proficient in utilizing various QA tools. Drives process improvements and ensures compliance with industry standards.

Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement - Adept at fostering strong relationships with business teams and other stakeholders. Ready to leverage expertise for quality excellence in challenging IT projects.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Manager - Projects

Cognizant Technology Solutions
07.2022 - 09.2024
  • Performed onsite Subject Matter Expert for Member domain suite of applications.
  • Performed team lead role for MEMBER team of 20+ Offshore and 4 Onsite team members.
  • Enhanced team collaboration and process in place for smooth delivery of testing activities which involves Sprint/Regression/Hardening testing, E2E planning & Data coordination, Sprint/Release planning and production implementation support.
  • Handled membership data coordination for all the downstream applications testing need for North Carolina state health plan customer with 600k+ membership.
  • Coordinated with upstream applications from Plan and Network & Provider domain for setting up the CSA plan information for the membership enrollment.
  • Interacted with all the downstream applications from Claim (ACAS), Digital (Aetna Health Portal), Individual Preference (IPP) , Customer service portal (GSD), ID Card and Letters (AAS), APIs for other downstream applications (DM) etc. to understand their testing need and setup membership data in Member Enrollment Application.
  • Coordinated with Gateway and third party vendor application like Benefitfocus to setup member data in the E2E flow similar to production for the program level E2E testing in QA region.
  • Driven monthly forecasting review for Cognizant Q&A practice for Aetna CVS Portfolio with yearly revenue of around 80 million.

Senior Test Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions
10.2017 - 06.2022
  • Enhanced software quality by identifying and resolving critical defects early in testing phase by prioritizing test cases.
  • Collaborated with development teams and other project stakeholder for seamless integration of testing efforts, resulting in faster issue resolution.
  • Developed test strategy for critical programs which consist of testing approach, E2E plan, identifying dependencies and data needs to achieve smooth project execution.
  • Conducted test deliverables review and Test Results Demo to business team and other project stakeholders.
  • Participated in requirement grooming sessions to understand project scope and contributed from QA perspective to capture all testing requirements.
  • Revamped and updated release level regression test suits after every release to avoid leaking of any regression issues to production.
  • Tracked and communicated project updates which includes current status, testing progress, risk if any to business, project team and IT delivery management.
  • Collaborated with Offshore team on daily basis to track and deliver testing deliverables as per project timeline.

Associate - Projects

Cognizant Technology Solutions
05.2012 - 09.2017
  • Enhanced project efficiency by streamlining processes and implementing time-saving strategies.
  • Managed multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring timely completion to avoid any business impacts.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to execute complex E2E test cases for major programs.
  • Developed comprehensive project test plans covering all impacted functionalities to ensure quality deliverables meeting project timeline.

Associate - Projects

Cognizant Technology Solutions
11.2010 - 04.2012
  • Developed detailed project test scripts for at least 3+ projects and Work requests per quarter which helped to uncover critical defects or bugs early in test execution phase.
  • Created or secured required test data on time by working with data management team to meet project test data need.
  • Collaborated with Onsite project leads on daily basis to provide project status update and discussed on execution progress.
  • Performed project oversite and reviewed testing deliverables created by team members.

Programmer Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions
11.2007 - 08.2010
  • Performed System/Sprint test execution by following Waterfall and Agile Methodology.
  • Developed and executed Manual and Automated Release level Regression test cases consist of around 700+ regression scripts in RLR suite to ensure there is no regression impact before code deployment to production.
  • Documented test results and created KT document for any new process or enhancements after every quarterly major release for future reference .
  • Executed functional system test cases for projects assigned as per project timeline.
  • Collaborated with other team members during test design phase to understand application changes from other projects to identify any cross project impacts to incorporate it in functional system testing.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical

Sri Sai Ram Engineering College, Anna University
05.2007

XII (Plus Two) - Computer Science

Nehru Matriculation Higher Secondary School
03.2003

Skills

  • Operating System: Mainframe, Windows
  • Program Inception: Project Sizing, Resource planning, Scheduling planning, Execution Tracking, Deployment
  • Primary Programming Languages: COBOL, JCL, CICS, SQL
  • Financials: Vendor revenue forecast for Q&A, Actuals tracking, Margin optimization initiatives
  • Secondary Programming Languages: Python, Java
  • People management: Staffing, Year end appraisal discussion and rating
  • Automation: Selenium, TestNG
  • LOB : HCB Group & Individual commercial plans and Medicare
  • Database: IBM DB2, VSAM
  • IT contracting/staffing models: T&M, Fixed Bid and Committed capacity model
  • CICD Pipeline: Jenkins, GitHub IDE - PyCharm, Eclipse
  • Tools/Utilities: VBA Excel Macro, IBM RTC, IBM RRC, IBM RQM, IBM Clear Quest, HP Quality Center

Additional Information

  • Singapore PR Holder

Certification

  • AWS Cloud Practitioner, AWS - June 2022
  • SAFE4 Scrum Agilest, Scaled Agile - May 2018
  • Python, Jenkins, Maven, FitNesse UAT tool, Cognizant Academy - Feb 2018

Accomplishments

  • Presented with the Customer Focus Award from Cognizant Technology Solutions on August 2016 and May 2020 for going above and beyond to deliver Quality QA deliverables and UAT support which was much appreciated by the Business team.
  • Presented with the Mr Cool Award from the Client Manager (CVS-Aetna) on December 2023 for handling the testing of the complex programs and managing critical phases of the project smoothly without compromising the quality.

Project Highlights

Client Description: Aetna CVS is one of the leader in the US health care business who
provides Commercial group/individual and Medicare (Government Sponsored) Health
Insurance. The product includes Medical, Dental, Vision, Pharmacy, life, disability etc.
Aetna CVS provides health benefits to US populations through employers/individual
business/Medicare/Medicaid across 50 states, with products and services uniquely
designed for its small group, middle market, and National account employers. Aetna CVS
has more fortune 1000+ companies as customers than any of its competitors. Aetna CVS
is a diversified health and well-being company that provides broad spectrum of products
and services.
Project Description: Enhancements and Maintenance activities for Member
Enrollment Applications
in Mainframe platform
MEA is the main business engine that supports the Member Book of Record and the
Operational Data Store (ODS). The application supports the enrollment, maintenance, and
termination/rehire of the commercial members. It interacts with applications from other
domains like Plan, Network and Providers to maintain to store and maintains the
completes complete member health coverage information. MEA supports membership
across National Accounts, Middle Market, Small Group and Individual business. An
individual who is enrolled in one of the Aetna's products and/or services is referred as
Member. The Member Book of Record is the enrollment database, the single source of
enrollment information. Member Enrollment Application (MEA) deals with the member
enrollment into Aetna systems, subscribed to traditional products. At high level enrollments
are performed via Batch process or Real time/online enrollments. Both batch and online
processes shares the core functional services to perform the enrollments. During this
enrollment process, the core enterprise logics will interact with other domains like plan,
provider/network. This process also feeds data to downstream applications like Billing,
Fulfillment, ID-cards, RXSY, Data Migrator etc.
Individual master Index (IMI) is an Individual ID management system to store the member
information at the individual level. It generates and maintains Individual ID which helps in
recognizing members as ‘Individual' across different sources/customers. MEA and IMI are
closely related as IMI stores and create standardized data for individual. It uses
individualization concept to determine and assign Individual ID (IID) to uniquely identify
each member irrespective of source systems enrolled within Aetna CVS.


Methods of Enrollment and Member Maintenance
ELR: Electronic Reporting allows plan sponsors to submit their member information in
the 834 industrial standard file format to Aetna CVS. ELR transforms this information into
Aetna format by processing the 834 file through EDI GW, EEM and MEA applications. It
will complete the enrollment process by updating the member details into the Member
Book of Record.
Non-ELR Batch: Transactions from EzLink, EzEnroll (Other onboarding broker
applications) and KTD (Paper to electronic file) are loaded to the Member Book of Record
via batch process.
Online: Allows MEA users to manually key in and maintain membership details via
CICS mainframe screens
Bswift and Benefitfocus are Third party administrative applications shares member
data for near real-time enrollment/maintenance of member data for Individual and Small
group customers.
Globals: This process enables mass member transactions to apply for all the members
at plan level. Mainly supports the Renewal process where the members will be moved to
new structure.
Other Sources: Certain member details like individual contact and preferences can also
be added and maintained in MEA via other web applications like AetnaHealth, ASD etc.
The Primary functionality of the MEA enrollment system is the Member Management. This
system stores and provides the membership data to all the downstream applications like
fulfillment/letter processing, capitation, claims, billing, sales & marketing, vendor
applications, affiliates, Data warehouse/EDW apps etc.

Professional References

Company : Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corp
Designation : Engagement Delivery Lead
Name : Murugesan, Kondrai
Contact Number : +1 860 593-3866(Mobile)
Email : Kondrai.Murugesan@cognizant.com
Office : Harford CT 06105 (Client Office - CVS Aetna)


Company : Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corp
Designation : Senior Manager
Name : Ramachandran, Rajesh
Contact Number : +1 860 461-4913(Mobile)
Email : Rajesh.Ramachandran2@cognizant.com
Office : Harford CT 06105 (Client Office - CVS Aetna)


Company : Aetna/CVS Healthcare
Designation : Ld Director of Application Dev
Name : Jayasekharan, Sreelata
Email : sreejay12@hotmail.com  
Office : Thousand Oaks, California



Company : Aetna/CVS Healthcare
Designation : Director of Solutions Train Eng- CHS Digital
Name : Kirubakar, Abraham
Contact Number : +1 860 273-2429(Desk)
Email : AbrahamK@aetna.com
Office : Harford CT 06105


Company : Aetna/CVS Healthcare
Designation : Ld Director of Application Dev
Name : Bradley, Creveling
Contact Number : +1 484 944-4993(Mobile)
Email : CrevelingB@cvshealth.com
Office : Bluebell PA 19422

Timeline

Manager - Projects

Cognizant Technology Solutions
07.2022 - 09.2024

Senior Test Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions
10.2017 - 06.2022

Associate - Projects

Cognizant Technology Solutions
05.2012 - 09.2017

Associate - Projects

Cognizant Technology Solutions
11.2010 - 04.2012

Programmer Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions
11.2007 - 08.2010

Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical

Sri Sai Ram Engineering College, Anna University

XII (Plus Two) - Computer Science

Nehru Matriculation Higher Secondary School
Mohammed Abdul Kader Maricar Mohammed Eusoof