Anand Narasimhan

About Anand Narasimhan

18 years of experience in Information Technology specifically in Retirement and Group Annuity companies like VOYA financial, Mass Mutual and TIAA clients, with specializing in Business analyst and Quality Assurance Lead on Client/Server and Web based applications and good experience on Capturing FRD, BRD, grooming stories and UAT testing. Extensive working experience on all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), its methodologies such as Agile, SCRUM and Waterfall Model. ISTQB and SAFe Agile (Scalable Agile Framework) Certified Testing Professional. Expertise in Insurance, Retirement & Annuities and Wealth Management domain. Extensive experience in OMNI record keeping tool with all type of transactions inclusive of Payin, Payout, Transfers, Brokerage and Asset Transfer, Omniadminweb, Workflow, Omnipay, EXPAG, Imaging. Proficient in preparing UI WIRES and Business flow diagram. Sound knowledge on Junit, TestNG framework for web application automation, Maven and Gradle for Project building tool, Jenkins for Continuous Integration and GIT lab for source control. Well versed with various testing stages/levels/phases, testing types, testing techniques and quality work products. Experience in the development of Data driven, Keyword driven and Hybrid Automation frameworks in Selenium using Java. Expert in complex SQL queries and data base testing. Good working experience on SOAP UI for testing and validating various web services used in the application, POSTMAN and CRest for Restful webservices testing and API automation Extensive experience in reviewing and analyzing Business Requirements and creating Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Estimation & Requirement Traceability Matrix. Professional expertise in Smoke Testing, Backend Testing, Black-Box Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Functional Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, GUI Software Testing, Ad-hoc Testing, Cross Browser/ Cross Platform Testing, UI Validation, cross browser, cross platform and Webservices Sound knowledge on Object Oriented Programming (OOP) concept. Extensively used Java for test case automation. Experience in implementing TDD and BDD with Cucumber Framework using Gherkin. Expert in using test management tools JIRA, Confluence, Share point and Quality Center/Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Ability to adapt to new environment quickly, strong team player, good communication, good analytical and computation skills, enthusiastic learner, confident, Innovator, sincere and committed.

Experience

1. Professional Services Consultant Lead

   FIS

   Mar 2026 — Present · US

Education

• PSG College of Technology

  Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Production Engineering

  2006 — 2008

• Arunai Engineering College

  Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Mechanical Engineering

  2002 — 2006