SUMMARY:

• 10+ years of experience as SQA Analyst and Senior Test Engineer
• Lead testing effort for Confidential with experience in creation of all Quality Assurance and Test artifacts including: test designs, test plans, test guidelines and standards, test cases/scripts, coverage reports, defect tracking and requirements tracking.
• Key participant in requirement elaboration sessions for analysis and documentation of business rules and use cases
• Experience in peer review of Use cases, testcases, user guides and other artifacts and in giving constructive feedbacks
• Experience in working with agile tools using agile methodologies
• Experience of PMAS and Propath processes and deliverables
• Expertise in Manual Testing, Automation Testing and Section 508 accessibility testing
• Extensive database testing skills with expertise in SQL
• Experience in implementing different phases of Testing like System Testing, Unit Testing, Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing
• Experienced interface to Management and both developers and business analysts.
• Experience with Rational suite and tools
• Experience with EDI 837 health care claims transactions (837,835).
• 5+ years of experience of development for Confidential sales application, modeling Confidential servers
• Experience with programming technologies like .net, C, C#, VB, HTML and SQL

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Microsoft Test Manager, Visual Studio 2010, WebSphere ILOG Decision Validation Services, Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Soap UI, Load Runner, HP ALM (Quality center), HP QTP, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Team Concert (RTC), Rational Quality Manager (RQM), Rational Requirements Composer (RRC), Rational Functional Tester (RFT)

508 Testing Tools: Dragon Naturally Speaking Version 11.5, Zoom Text Version 10, Accessibility Management Platform (AMP) system, Adobe Acrobat Pro Version 11.0, Window - Eyes 9.1, Job Access with Speech (JAWS) Version 16.0, Web Accessibility Toolbar (WAT)

Bug Tracking Tools: CMVC, Confidential Rational Clear Quest, Pega Project management framework (PMF)

Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server

Languages: Java, C++, SQL, MS Access, Perl, HTML, Configuration Modeling Language (CML) for Trilogy Sales BUILDER

Scripting Languages: VBScript, JavaScript, HTML, XML

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Senior Test Engineer

Confidential, Austin, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Work strictly in Scrum environment and following Agile Software Development Methodology
• Attend Daily Scrum meeting and updating the status to the LGY team
• Responsible for creating and executing test scripts using Confidential Rational Quality Manager
• Automate the manual test scripts using Rational Functional tester (RFT)
• Review System design documents (SDDs) and Use Cases for next Sprint and attend the requirement walkthrough
• Development and execution of SQL Developer, Unix Scripts, and XML test cases and scripts
• Test Java based web application and SOAPUI application

Senior Test Engineer

Confidential, Austin, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Develop and document internal processes for web design, development, and testing to ensure compliance with Section 508 requirements, specifically W3c and WCAG 2.0.
• Performed automated testing by creating projects, modules and reports and evaluating the result and creating bugs on basis of the generated violations using Accessibility Management Platform (AMP)
• Created AMP Functional use cases to test web accessibility using VA approved assistive technologies
• Performed functional testing using screen magnification and screen reading software
• Prepare reports concerning failures in Section 508 compliance and ways to remediate
• Review Section 508 compliance defects with developers and discuss possible resolutions
• Monitor resolution of Section 508 compliance violations
• Provide expert advice to other teams testing web pages and applications for Section 508 compliance
• Assist project teams with understanding how Section 508 and accessibility activities fit within the project life cycles
• Partner with project leads and requirements analysts to help them appropriately document and deliver against requirements for Section 508 compliance

Confidential

Agile-Scrum Environment

Responsibilities:

• Lead the initiation and establishment of the claim import testing by defining end to end testing process which involved testing of data integrity using complex SQL query. Involved verifying EDI data flow to claim adjudication engine - Plexis Claims Management system
• Documentation of Process User guide and process training which was used as landmark document for health care claim testing (835,837)
• Tested the payment processing for the Confidential system which involved validation of all business rules and payment process involved with finance and revenue. Includes verification of post adjudication rules, EOBs, unpaid claim batches, creation of payment request to financial management system (FMS)/Treasury.
• Worked with different databases such as Confidential, Plexis and FMS to test the explanation of benefits (EOB)
• Tested EDI 835 payment remittance transaction and transmit to providers

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead tester for Confidential project which is to provide benefits to Veterans and their family
• Coached and mentored other testers in the team
• Interacted with business users to identify system requirements
• Found critical gaps in business requirements which resulted later in change requests to update the changes to business requirements. Early phase identification led to smoother development and a robust system
• Created a user guide and flow chart which shows how claims are created, evaluated and goes through the rules engine to generate the award and finally generate the letter which goes to Veteran stating the benefits and amount they will receive.
• Actively involved in requirement gathering sessions and elaboration meetings
• Developed test plan, test case suite and linked all the test cases to the requirement traceability matrix.
• Updated the daily status report with the status and bugs report
• Created many complex claims for testing various Confidential related test cases which involve adding a Veteran’s BIRLS record and establishing the claim through Share application, creating a disability rating decision in RBA 2000, generating a C&P award and authorizing the award in VETSNET
• Creation of test claims to test process flow through multiple applications
• Used Oracle SQL developer to query and to check claim adjudication
• Used Confidential rational Clear Quest for logging defects, verifying and closing it when it get fixed

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Tested the SQL service reporting service to validate data which is coming from FMS and IFCAP database
• Query the FMS and IFCAP database and compare the data with SQL service reporting service to see if there is a mismatch
• Used Microsoft test manager and Visual studio 2010 to write up the test cases and logging in the bug and also tracking the bugs
• Database Validation to check the updated data in the Database
• Involved in development of test cases from Use cases at sprint level
• Performed End-2-End System test
• Responsible for developing testing checklist, Test Traceability Matrix, Test Suite, Test Cases, and Performance Monitoring during functional and regression testing for sprints
• Performed functional testing in Utest, Pre-Prod and Prod Environments

Software Quality Assurance Analyst

Confidential, Austin, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Rules based processing system ( Confidential ) project, Central Fee projects
• Experience developing documentation related to testing including but not limited to: master test plan, performance evaluations, QA plans, test scenarios, test procedures and expected results, etc
• Experience recommending the level of testing to be performed and the evaluation criteria to be applied
• Perform system level testing to ensure that all programs operate as an integrated system
• Develop and execute test procedures to assess system performance and identify problem areas
• Performed business rule set testing of Decision Validation Services (DVS) in Rule Team Server
• Use rule team server to create test suites, run tests, and inspect the results, change rules and / or test data as needed.
• Define, enhance and support testing requirements and testing activities specified in individual tasking
• Scope testing time for assigned projects
• Followed government compliance regulations for implementation

Quality Assurance Engineer

Confidential, Austin, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Performance and expert tester for sales configuration of Power Systems
• Performed Scalability, Performance and Load Testing using Load Runner 6.0 (System Analysis, Creating Virtual User Scripts, Defining User Behavior, Running Load Test Scenario, Monitoring the Performance, Analyzing Results)
• Interaction with Confidential Techline business partners to resolve their configurator problem in desired Confidential products
• Worked on many configurator projects and have knowledge of hardware products - Power Series models and Blades Server
• Working with development teams investigating and correcting configuration bugs based on testing results
• Developed and updated Test plans, Test Scenarios, and Test Cases for all hardware server mms and created problem defects. Using CMVC source control
• Conducted various management activities by analyzing and verifying test results, providing status reports
• Worked with Requirement writers to straighten out many hardware requirements and functional specifications

Staff Software Engineer

Confidential, Austin, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Configuration modeler on eConfig project. Developed logic and data models for generating valid, New and MES/Upgrade, orders for Confidential servers, software, and services
• Analyzed requirement documents, i.e., RFAs, Mfg. Placement Rule Instructions, Mat Rules, Feature Matrix, and Sales Manuals, to clarify and complete the Products’ Announce Requirements
• Designed and implemented the requirements to build configuration models used to sell Confidential i&pSeries and Power Systems’ product lines through eConfig application
• Worked with product planners, external and internal customers, and testers during various stages of development phase of a line item to ensure high quality software release
• Used standard processes to size, analyze, design, develop, and release the code. Used Lotus Notes Team Room, Order Process Tracking, and CMVC databases for these processes
• Documented my code and communicated new features to the team members
• Planned and worked aggressively and never missed any deadline and produced high quality configuration models with the least number of defects
• Used what-ever-it-takes attitude to ensure quality and completeness of work
• Used Confidential eConfig, which involved BaseEdit application, CFReport, and WWPrice
• Developed graphical user interface using MS DevStudio and produced user-friendly wizards to capture product specifications