SUMMARY:

• Over Twelve years of professional IT development and testing experience with involvement in all stages of product development life cycle and 8+ years of OBIEE, BIRT, Big Data, Actuate, Cognos and Web - based reports work experience.
• Proficiency in development and implementation of Test Strategies, Plans, Traceability Matrices, Procedures and Discrepancy Reports.
• Experienced in QA Agile testing with extensive knowledge of agile software testing and development lifecycle.
• Extensive experience in Data Validation, Software scenarios, Functionality Testing, Regression testing and Usability Testing.
• Experience with SortSite, HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT/QTP) & IBM Rational Performance Tester.
• Extensive experience Monitoring Bug resolution efforts and track successes.
• Experience with Quality control methods and tools including automated and manual testing.
• Proficient in backend testing using SQL & PL/SQL.
• Experience validating Business Intelligence Reporting Systems and Web based applications.
• Experience with HP Application Lifecycle Management ALM
• Self-Motivated Team player with very good Analytical skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Reporting Tools: OBIEE 12c/11g/10g, BIRT 2.3.2, Cognos 8.4, Actuate Reporting System 8.0/7.0/6.0

RDBMS: Oracle, SQL Server and MS Access.

Languages: BIRT, Actuate Basic, Visual Basic, C++, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, Java, J2EE, JavaScript

Testing/Version Tracker Tools: HP/Mercury (Win Runner, Load Runner, QTP/UFT, ALM), Rational (Clear Case, Clear Quest, Sub Version)

Operating Systems: Windows Vista/ 7.0/2000/2003/2008/2012, UNIX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, VA

QA/Customer Acceptance Test

Environment: Oracle 12c, Apache Cassandra2.2, HP Application Lifecycle Management ALM, Version One, HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT / QTP).

Responsibilities:

• Customer Acceptance Tester on the USPS / Informed Visibility (IV) Project
• Planning, executing and reporting on Customer Acceptance Test activities using a combination of agile and iterative methodologies
• Responsible for planning test schedules and test strategies in accordance with the project scope
• Developed and executed CAT software test plans
• Automated the functionality and interface testing of the application using HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT / QTP).
• Developed and executed SQL Queries for backend testing
• Tested Modules on the application by Manual Testing and Data Validation using SQL queries.
• Designing manual test scenarios and scripts based on release user stories
• Established process for evaluating and documenting defects
• Performing defect management and tracking for releases under test in ALM.
• Reviewing agile software documentation to ensure technical accuracy, compliance and testability
• Functioning as the Development team liaison managing code deployments to the Production-Beta environment
• Exposure to Cassandra database

Confidential, VA

QA Consultant

Environment: OBIEE 11.1.1.3/10.1.3, BI Publisher, Oracle 11g, SAS, IBM Rational Performance Tester, SortSite, Clear Quest, TOAD

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Performance Testing using IBM Rational Performance Tester
• Responsible for 508 Compliance Testing.
• Responsible for Analysing requirements to create and execute test cases
• Responsible for Back-end Data, Source - Target testing using Stored Procedures.
• Responsible for Data validation testing using SQL Queries
• Responsible for collecting Test Data for Validations.
• Responsible for validating the Daily report against Oracle
• Validate Dashboard Layout and BI Publisher reports as per specifications.
• Validate data using Answers.
• Responsible for Reports (UI) Validations
• Validate UI as per Requirements document.
• Validate various measures and derived fields.
• Responsible for generating OBIEE reports using Analysis
• Test data visibility functionality with various User accounts.
• Perform Integration, End-to-End, system testing
• Responsible for System testing, Integration testing and Functional testing.
• Responsible for creating Test Summary and Test Plan.
• Responsible for UAT and End User training
• Observed all test and identified defects in tracking systems.

QA Consultant

Environment: OBIEE 11.1.1.3/10.1.3, BI Publisher, Oracle 11g, SQL Loader, Clear Quest, TOAD

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Data validation and Reports (UI) validations.
• Validate UI as per Requirements document
• Responsible for Data validation after ETL.
• Validate Dashboard Layout and BI Publisher reports as per specifications.
• Validate data using Answers.
• Validate various measures and derived fields.
• Test data visibility functionality with various User accounts.
• Enter sample data in source systems to verify data.
• Responsible for UAT and End User training

Consultant

Environment: BIRT 2.3.2, Actuate 7.0/8.0, Cognos 8.4, Maximo Asset Management 7.5/6.2/5.2, Java, J2EE, Oracle 11g/9i, Toad, SQL Developer, Web Logic Server, Windows 2003/2008, Rational Tools (Clear Case, Clear Quest, Sub version), Load Runner

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing Quality Assurance and implementing Quality Standards.
• Participate in requirements gathering sessions with Users.
• Worked on validating BIRT, Actuate and Cognos reports.
• Test User Security and setup.
• Develop Test Plans and Write Test Scripts using Requirements document.
• Worked with Developers to report Bugs and validate fixes.
• Created Test Data to validate various scenarios.
• Write Data validation SQLs for data validation.
• Validate GUI layout as per Requirements document.
• Involved in Load Testing all the applications.
• Responsible for testing systems after Patches and Upgrades.
• Worked extensively on validating User’s data visibility setup.
• Responsible for Users Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Responsible for Version Control.
• Responsible for sending Data Dumps to users.
• Replicate User issues reported by Help Desk.
• Performed full life cycle testing before deployment.
• End User Training and Documentation