OBJECTIVE:

Seeking a contract or permanent Software Analyst/ Sr. QA Lead Tester position.

SUMMARY:

• More than 20 years experience on Quality Assurance testing, analysis, and integration of mission - critical systems
• Full life cycle software development experience; including requirements analysis, software systems testing on mainframes, client/server, web services, and cyber security (Identity Management, SAML, XML and SOAP)
• Current Senior Test Lead on Nation Archives and Record Administration (NARA) Electronics Records (ERA 2.0)
• Senior Lead Automation on Confidential Common Securitized Platform (CSP) development
• Senior Tester/Analyst experience on State of Maryland (ACA) Health Exchange Integration Contract
• Senior IV&V Scientist/Test Engineer experience on Veteran Administration (VA) VRM IAM and VBMS
• Senior Software Test Engineer and IV&V experience on Department of State (DOS) TDIS 2.6, 3.0 and 4.0
• Lead QA test engineering experience on General Services Administration (GSA) E-Authentication Initiative
• IV&V Specialist experience on Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) TDWR mission-critical systems
• 3years engineering experience on Department of Defense (DOD) Medium Range Missile System for the U.S. Navy
• 5 years UAT experience on Healthcare systems for commercial (EDI, X12, HIPPA), and State government systems
• Sr. QA Tester on Carefirst BCBS Healthcare Enterprise-Wide integration test team for FLEXX, NASCO and Trizetto
• Structured software methodology consists of: Agile AWD, ISO 9001, ITIL v3, CMMI-Level 3 and RUP

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software applications experience that includes: Senior Software Test Engineering, Subject Matter Expertise, SOA, Agile SDLC, Complex Government Systems Development Process, Cyber Security, Amazon Web service Cloud Technology and Healthcare Systems

INTERNET: Amazon Web Service (AWS) Cloud technology, Enterprise-Wide systems, Cyber Security (Identity Management technology, SOAP, XML, PKI, and LDAP Serve), Google Chrome, and Explorer Browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Portal Technology, E-Commerce, and Healthcare B to B procurement experience.

AUTOMATION & TOOLS: Experienced on the following SOAtest Parasoft, SoapUI, IBM Rational Jazz tool suite (RQM, RTC, RIT and RFT,) Clear Quest, RequisitePro, ClearCase, JIRA, HP Quality Center (QC), HP Application Life Cycle Management (ALM 11.52), XML editor, TIBCO ESB, ORACLE 11g, TOAD 9.5, Google Applications (Gmail, Chat, Docs, Drive etc.,), Windows 7, Windows10 and Microsoft Office Suites

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, COLLEGE PARK, MD

SENIOR SOFTWARE TEST ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Function as Agile test lead on National Archives and Records Administration (NARA’s) first “Agile” project implementation using Amazon Web Services (ASW) Cloud technology
• Exercise subject matter expert (SME) knowledge and experience on NARA ERA 2.0 “agile” development process (full life cycle) from design and development to “Pilot to Production”
• Posses subject matter expertise on Business Object Management (BOM) ERA Base workflow navigation with respect to Transaction Request (TR) processing and integration with ERA 2.0 Digital Processing Environment (DPE) system.
• Conduct BOM SDLC artifacts reviews (SwRS, test plan, test report etc.,) and provide formal comments to vendors using NARA’s Document Review Comments Form (DRCR).
• Responsible for BOM, DPE, and DOR test plan and test report development, artifact reviews, requirements analysis, system test script development, test script execution, regression testing and defect generation all within a fast pace “Agile” development process
• Spearheaded 1terabyte testing for upload/ingest into the ERA 2.0 system in both SIT and CAT environments over the weekends which saved time, money and attributed to project schedule success by finding and reporting major and critical defects at the beginning of the development iteration
• Create test plans, test suites, test cases, test scripts set-up and executions in IBM Rational Quality Manager (RQM) repository for each development release (sprints 1-30) and Pilot to Production phase (sprints 1-10)
• Optimize regression test case development approached in RQM tool and trained test team on optimized method which reduced manual errors and saved time by more than 70 percent
• Perform daily customer's facing activities; such as, daily stand up and defects triage meetings with government product stakeholders, managers and development team
• Exercise excellent oral and written skills for defects reporting, and for weekly and monthly status deliverables.

Confidential, BETHESDA, MD

SENIOR AUTOMATION TEST LEAD

Responsibilities:

• Function as senior automation lead tester on implementation of the GSE future housing finance system known as Common Securitized Platform (CSP)
• Responsible for creating automated test scenarios using IBM RIT automation tool in a SOA xml message driven environment where Uniform Loan Delivery Dataset (ULDD) was the core message format for driving system processing
• Design SQL views for regression testing for Bond Administration module. Manage, set up, and execute test scripts, using IBM RIT automation tool.
• Responsible for mapping 100s of ULDD data sets using excel spreadsheet and imported data into RIT automation tool across all modules in the CSP system.
• Exercise multi-tasking skills (scenario analyst, test data creation, test execution and defects reporting) in a fast pace and tight scheduled “Agile” driven environment to meet short deadline.
• Posses’ full life cycle software development experience on CSP new secondary mortgage development platform using COTS and Java developed software.
• Exercise quick learning skills, trouble shooting skills, and communication skills both orally and in writing

Confidential, LINTHICUM, MD

SENIOR QA ANALYST/TESTER

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for expert testing and analysis support on Maryland’s Affordable Care Act (ACA) MD HIX development
• Conduct test data mapping for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)’s applicant in order to validate the Federal HUB web services communications.
• Conduct MD HIX to Federal HUB web service testing using both SOAPUI Pro and SOAtest automation test tools
• Configure the tools for WSDL Validation Test Suite (Schema Validity and WSDL Regression).
• Set-up and execute Functional Test Case Suite (Imported and configured Data Source, Regression Controls, Run test, analyze request/response, and trouble shoot report errors).
• Conduct End2End testing on CURAM Medicaid eligibility system (COTs), Connecture Enrollment (COTS, and Financials Bill generation (COTS)
• Responsible for exercising multi-tasking skills (scenario analyst, test data creation, test execution and defects reporting) in a fast pace and tight scheduled “Agile” driven environment to meet short deadline.
• Possess full life cycle software development experience on MD HIX and working knowledge of SOA technology, JIRA, Agile, SoapUI testing, Curam eligibility rules, Connecture enrollment, and EngagePoint financial processing.

Confidential, Lanham MD

Senior Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Test Lead on functional specification analysis and test script development for Department of Labor (DOL) Claim Billing Process (CBP) system to process medical bills, facilitate prior authorization of services, respond to inquiries related to medical benefits through a call center and service oriented architecture-based systems, along with the implementation of fraud and abuse detection program.
• Co-authored Rational Quality Manager (RQM) 4.0 configuration file design and responsible for importing over 1000 test cases and test scripts into RQM tool for formal testing.
• Trained test team (about 15 users) on the basic RQM functionality (test case and test scripts importing, test scripts execution, and reporting features).
• Function as the RQM administrator and data manager (test cases and test scripts maintenance) within the test tool repository.
• Responsible for updating the Master Workbooks and coordinated with over 12 testers and requirements analyst to ensure requirements traceability data were accurate in order to generate Requirement Traceability Matrix ( Confidential ) as part of artifact delivery to the government.

Confidential, MCLEAN, VA

ADVANCE INTEGRATION/TEST ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for providing Advanced Integration test engineering expertise to support the VA Veterans Relationship
• Management (VRM) and Identity and Access Management (IAM) contract in partner with Confidential .
• Responsible for COTS and Service Orientated Architecture (SOA) Web application testing.
• Provide testing / analysis expertise on the following IAM projects: Specialized Access Control (IBM DataPower XI50), SSOi (CA SiteMinder), Provisioning (CA Identity Manager), and e-Signature (IBM DataPower XI50) IAM work streams.
• Perform artifact reviews, requirements analysis, system test script development, test script execution, regression testing and defect generation all within a fast pace “Agile” iterative software development process.
• Develop Use Case document and Master Test Plan in accordance with the VA’s ProPath documentation templates.
• Execute manual testing using the IBM Rational tools (ClearQuest, ClearCase, and Rational Quality).
• Maintain Requirements Traceability Matrix ( Confidential ) throughout each test cycle.
• Possess excellent communication skills and dedicated to high quality and exceptional results on all task assignments

Confidential, ARLINGTON, VA

IV&V SCIENTIST/SENIOR TEST ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for providing IV&V analysis and test engineering expertise to support the Veteran Benefits Administration (VBA)’s system migration from a paper-intensive claims process to an electronic system using IBM Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) technology as the method of system integration and using “Agile” as the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) for software application development
• Provide superior system analysis techniques and testing experience in support of the Veterans Benefits Management System (VBMS) and the Rating Board Automation (VBMS-R) system applications
• Responsible for formal test plan development, artifact reviews, requirements analysis, system test script development, test script execution, regression testing and defect generation all within a fast pace “Agile” incremental and iterative software development process
• Participate in “Scrum” standup meetings, defect management reviews and “Sprint” release meetings in order to maintain a strong understanding of the application development status for each build release
• Execute all manual and automation testing using the IBM Rational Jazz platform of testing and development tools (RQM, RFT, RTC and RRC) for functional and regressing testing

Confidential, ALEXANDRIA, VA

Senior QA TEST ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Support the GSA Federal Public Key Infrastructure (FPKI) system redesign project.
• Responsible for FPKI Repository Build Manual and Operating Procedures documentation analysis and review.
• Generate a substantial number of technical comments and made a number of procedural corrections on the document.
• Design Detail Test Procedures and control Confidential for project releases
• Establish requirements traceability to one or more test scenarios and provided success criteria for each test case.
• Install Isode MVault repository software on CentOS x64 Virtual Machine (VM ware) used in the FPKI test Lab.
• Provide development level testing and troubleshooting support on product configured in the Lab.
• Work with senior level FPKI Subject Mater Expert (SME) on the update and editing of Lab repository documentation.

Confidential, ROSSYLN, VA

Senior Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Sr. Software Test Engineer in the Lab for IV&V testing and analysis on Consular Affairs application services.
• Provided User Acceptance Test (UAT) support to CST software development groups for the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) implementation.
• Responsible for test plan development, defects tracking, completeness and correctness of the associated Intellectual Properties (IPs/CIs) to meet the Bureau and Departments business requirements.
• Functioned as a Sr. Software Test Engineer in the Travel Document Issuance System (TDIS) Lab with hand on experience on multiple web base applications, client/server applications, databases, rational tools, and hardware equipments (document / photo scanners, barcode scanners, and passport book / card production).
• Day to day duties consist of the following: use case analysis, test case creation, functional and regression testing, defect tracking, XML analysis, SQL queries (SQL Server and Oracle), trouble shooting system failures, and interfacing with developers and the costumer.
• Responsible for creating deliverables: Level of Effort (LOE), Service Request Proposals (SRP), Test Plan, Quick Test Report, and Final Test Report.