TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software Testing tools: TestDirector, Quality Center, QuickTest Pro, WinRunner, LoadRunner, Rational ClearQuest, Rational Manual Tester, Rational Requisite Pro Section 508 Compliance Web Accessibility Tool, CommonLook, AccVerify, PDF Creator, JAWS Scripting Languages VB script, VuGen

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/ NT/2000/XP, Window 7 Pro, Unix

Programming Languages: C, C++, VB, SQL Databases MS SQL Server, Oracle,DB2, Sybase Web Technologies and HTML/DHTML, XML

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Quality Assurance /QA Tester

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with development team, testing team, IT project managers, business system owners to ensure successful high quality release
• Involve in Quality Assurance (QA) reviews, identify gaps and provide recommendations to ensure that software/system comply with quality and standards.
• Facilitated and managed meeting sessions with business owners, business system owners, development team and testing team and processes control.
• Involve in testing customizations of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) Supervisory
• Information System (SIS) to the business need of the client.
• Apply strong organizational, time - management and planning skills to deliver the release on time despite intense pressure and aggressive timelines.
• Reporting of defects in Rational Manual Tester and representing defects in defect review meeting on daily basis.
• Involve in comprehensive Functional testing of systems.
• Analyze the Business Requirements of the Product/system. Worked with the development team to review project plans, requirements specification, design documents.
• Interact closely with the business leads of the requirements to avoid any overlap and duplication of efforts.
• Prioritize the testing of critical test cases over others based on feedback from the requirements gathering meetings.
• Involve in designing the Test Plan, Test Cases and manage them using Rational Manual Tester.
• Interact with developers and business analyst to analyze the business requirements and functional specifications.
• Perform functional decomposition of requirements for developing test cases.
• Perform System testing, Integration testing, and Regression testing.
• Analyze modules and designed test scenarios and test scripts in UNIX environment.
• Instrumental in reporting and Tracking defects/bugs to Development Team using Rational Manual Tester.
• Involve in backup and restore of the data by executing the Shell scripts.
• Write SQL queries to test data integration and performed Database testing for the Application.
• Generate test cases and traced them to the relevant use cases.
• Work with Users and Business Analysts to define and design test scenarios and test data.
• Use Rational Clear Quest for bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with the development team to verify bug fixes and update bug status.
• Attend periodic meetings, teleconferences and led discussions on problem resolution.
• Participate in the development of User Manuals for customers.

Environment: Windows XP Pro, Windows 7 Pro, SQL Server, JAVA, Rational Clear Quest, Rational ManualTester, Rational Requisite Pro and JAZZ suite

Quality Assurance Analyst

Confidential, McLean, VA

Responsibilities:

• Review and analyze documents for Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) Team for United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Including Project tailoring plan, Project Management Plans, Requirements, Requirement traceability matrix, Design, and Test Plans and report.
• Coordinate and Facilitate software life cycle milestone reviews for United States Citizenship and Immigration
• Services (USCIS).
• Involved in independent verification and validation (IV&V) support to USCIS for systems engineering.
• Facilitated and managed meeting sessions with business owners, development team, testing team, section
• 508 team, change management, release management and processes control branch.
• Provide guidance to project managers, business owners, development team and subject matter experts to resolve the outstanding issue and action items are taken in the review meeting.
• Worked closely with development team, testing team, 508 compliance team, IT project managers, business system owners to ensure successful high quality release.
• Prepared approval certification and summery report for every release based on meeting discussion.
• Upload, maintain and Update information technology documents to Information Technology Document Library
• (ITDL).
• Involved in section 508 testing, make sure Commercial of the self software (COTS) and GOTS products are meet with section 508 compliance.
• Involved in Section 508 Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) testing for USCIS.
• Participated in cross - functional design meetings with business units to ensure quality.
• Conduct requirements walkthrough with the Users, Development and Project Management and Testing
• Team.
• Participate in cross-functional design meetings with other business owners to ensure quality assurance standards are met in all phases of development lifecycle.
• Work closely with business owners, development team, testing team to perform redlines of documentation, accuracy of technical content and test verification of technical processes.
• Participate in various meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification requests.
• Use Rational RequisitePro to manage requirements and traceability matrix.
• Communicated with Application Developers, Project Managers and other Team Members on Application testing status on an on going basis when necessary.

Environment: HTML, XML, IE, MS office, Web Accessibility Tool, CommonLook, AccVerify, PDF Creator, JAWS