SUMMARY:

• More than 7 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance and Project Development.
• Knowledge of full life cycle testing (Unit, Integration, Regression and Product Testing) using automated tools and manual procedures in the Software Engineering Life Cycle.
• Strong experience in developing test strategies, methodologies, test cases, and procedures based upon approved requirements and designs for both integration and verification/validation testing.
• Extensive experience in testing Web based and Service Oriented Applications.
• Experience in writing, updating and maintaining test scripts for Automated Regression testing.
• Hands - on experience validating data and code deployed in production environments.
• Experience in test case planning, development and execution using Agile methodologies.
• Experienced in software defect detection, reporting and communication with developers to getting defects fixed.
• Worked on analysis and testing data on SQL Server and Oracle RDBMS environments.
• Hands-on experience of MS Team Foundation Server, PVCS and Test Director, MS SharePoint, Footprints, VSS, Tortoise SVN, Version One, JIRA.
• Experienced in 508 Compliance testing.
• Experienced in documenting summary reports and communicating and presenting to the management.
• Sound knowledge, know-how and experience working on Federal procurement systems using PRISM.
• Sound knowledge, subject matter expertise and know-how of Health insurance (Eligibility, Claims Processing and reporting) systems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: ALM (HP Quality Center, Test Director), Quick Test Pro, Selenium, SILK.

Scripting Languages: VB Script, PERL, UNIX Shell Script

Programming Languages: Java, JavaScript, SQL, PL/SQL.

RDBMS: SQL Server, Oracle, SQL Developer.

Web Designing Tools: XML, HTML, DHTML

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX.

Other Tools: VSS 6.0, Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, JIRA, PVCS, MS SharePoint, Footprints, Tortoise SVN, Version One, GIT.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dulles, VA

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Key Testing member of sprint team in Design meetings with the SME's, Product Owners and with the developers (we were using Agile development process). Played the QA lead role in capturing Requirement Traceability Matrix in an Agile environment, during the beginning phases of Sprint.
• Key player in preparing test plans, writing test cases using SILK and providing LOE.
• Executed test cases on PRISM UI for required enhancements on different modules (ASP and .NET) of PRISM.
• Developed SQL scripts to validate database transactions during testing of System Change Requests (SCR) and enhancements.
• Communicated across teams for issue resolution in Requirements, Design and Development.
• Tested Web UI for 508 compliances.
• Performed system, unit, performance, regression, API and data interface testing.
• Managed software release builds and configurations in QA environment.
• Performed functional testing for multiple modules, web pages and fields.
• Identified and reported key logical software defects which would have caused performance impacts and incurred financial costs using the Footprints tool.
• Planned and performed Automated Regression testing using QTP for multiple project releases.
• Worked with client support team for User Acceptance and Compatibility testing in Customer's pre - production environments.
• Performed Functional Web UI and database testing for Document attachment module.

Environment: SQL Developer, Oracle, MSDN 4.5, C#, Tortoise SVN, VSS 6.0, Footprints, QTP 9.0, SILK.

Senior QA Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Be the primary point of contact for the QA process of MHS.
• Contributed to requirement gathering meetings, technical walkthrough s and provide LOE.
• Developed test plans, strategies and mapped test scenarios using RVTM.
• Responsible for validating test data across multiple databases using SQL scripts.
• Tested ETL Validation Edits and ETL compliance process for eligibility and claims module.
• Measured performance of the system by loading large and different scenario test data files.
• Developed & executed UAT test scenarios with the regions and downstream systems.
• Worked with Developers to support defect analysis, reproduction and resolution.
• Carried out testing of GUI and templates generated through HP Exstream software for all CDH products offered to consumers.
• Tested and executed back end logic for all CDH products using SQL scripts.
• Conducted Post Production QA every month before the statements are available to WellPoint consumers.
• Test MHS batch process which is generated through HP Exstream reporting engine in QA and Production environments.
• Tested products in short release cycles using agile methodology.
• Tested Eligibility and Claims Audit Report formats as per the requirements.
• Carried out functionality and regression testing on the Consumer Web sites.
• Developed and executed VB scripts in QTP to aid the automation.
• Performed sanity, functionality and regression testing of code in system Environment.

Environment: SQL server 2000 & 2005, Oracle, MS Team Foundation Server, PVCS, Windows XP, QTP 9.0, HP Exstream reporting engine

Senior Computer Science Faculty

Responsibilities:

• Computer Science Faculty: I was responsible for creating courseware for students for computer science.
• I taught computer programming, JAVA and Relational databases.
• I helped students in their projects during their courses.