SUMMARY:

• Seeking a mid - level Business Analyst or a Software Quality Assurance Analyst position in a firm offering the opportunity to utilize my knowledge and provides me opportunities for growth.
• Seven years of combined experience in Information Technology as a Business Analyst and Software Quality Assurance Consultant across Banking, Healthcare, Insurance domains.
• Experienced in Business Process Modeling, Gap Analysis, and Impact Analysis.
• Competent in Creating Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams such as Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Class Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams
• Experience in translation Requirements into Functional Specifications and using Requirement Traceability Matrix for Testing and Change Management
• Experience in creation of Screen Mockups & Prototyping, presentations and Operational/Training documents using Word, PowerPoint and Visio.
• Experience in Test Planning, Test Preparation, Test Case creation and execution.
• Experience working in following development methodologies: Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile, Rational Unified Process (RUP)
• Worked independently and as a team member and experienced in interaction and coordinating with project teams located onshore.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: HP ALM/Quality Center, QTP, JIRA, SPIRA

Operating Systems: Windows XP/7/10, UNIX/LINUX, OSX

Languages/Technique: SQL, XML, HTML, VBA

Packages: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project

Version Control: Visual SourceSafe, PVCS, SVN

Databases/Tool: Oracle, SQL Server, Microsoft Access &, Excel

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

QA Analyst

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Understanding requirement specification and design documents
• Involved in preparation of Test plan, Test design specification and Test cases
• Mapped test cases to functional/system/integration requirements for appropriate testing coverage in HP-ALM.
• Worked extensively with ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes
• Developed RTM to trace the requirements with test case
• Involved in Test execution and defect reporting using Quality Center
• Performed smoke testing, functional and regression testing
• Communicated with development team, technical support and business support in order to resolve the issues
• Identified and creates test data to support testing, processes and workflows, ICD9 and ICD10 codes, medical billing and claims testing
• Performed Sanity Testing and Smoke Testing
• Presented daily project status during the Status meets with the Test team, Development Team & UAT team for Defects and updated management for Status Reports
• Carried out UAT with the Business Users and presented the results to the Business Stakeholders

Tools and Environment: XML, SQL, MS Access, UNIX, Mainframe (IBM CICS), DB2. Windows ALM/Quality Center, SQL, MS Office

Business Analyst

Confidential, New York NY

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Analyzed System specification documents
• Created Business requirement document and developed Test Plans, Test cases, Test Scripts and Test procedures based on business requirement documentation for the testing of application software
• Execute Test scripts and record actual result.
• Conducted Regression testing after fixing the bugs on a weekly basis.
• Performing Back end testing with use of SQL Queries to validate the backend data of the ETL Process done.
• Updated Regression Test Bed to test new application revisions
• Involved in defect reporting and defect tracking using Quality Center
• Experience in coordinating the testing efforts, defects status reporting to management and issue escalations
• Experience in performing System Integration Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Creating and executing SQL queries on an Oracle database to validate and test data.
• Testing the source and target databases for conformance to specifications
• Tested data migration to ensure that integrity of data was not compromised.
• Developed SQL queries for data verification to compare the expected results with database and analyzed the data and the calculations in the mapping for its correctness.
• Coordinated with the developers to resolve defects.

Tools and Environment: Windows XP, Oracle 9i, MS Office, Quality Center, Web application testing, SharePoint, Business objects, TOAD

QA Analyst / Business Analyst

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Analyzed user requirements and designed the Test Plan and Test Scenarios accordingly.
• Involved in writing the test cases for the application as per the requirements in QC.
• Involved in preparing Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Contributed towards successful roll out of eight software releases with zero customer reported defects.
• Executed test cases and recorded defects in Quality Center.
• Involved in performing Functional, Integration and System testing.
• Involved in Preparing the daily status and daily reports for the test execution
• Experience testing the web application for 508 compliance.
• Performed functional testing for Web Services using SOPAUI for calls to core banking systems (like account, customer enquiry and holds on deposits).

QA Analyst

Confidential, Bloomfield, CT

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Carried out positive and negative testing
• Tracked and logged defects in Quality Center.
• Logged defects using HPQC
• Used SQL queries for back end testing to validate the information with the database.
• Involved in Provider and Member enrollment module.
• Documented the test results and reported the status of assigned test tasks to Developer.
• Participated in weekly meetings, where test status and defects were discussed, wrote enhancement and modification requests.

Tools and Environment: QC, Windows, SQL, and, Agile

QA Analyst and Tester

Confidential, San Jose

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Analyzed 3 BO 6.5 installations consisting of 5 universes and 240+ reports.
• Categorized the reports based on business criticality and propriety.
• Undertook analysis of existing reports and participated in consolidation exercise of multiple BO reports with similar data into a single multifunctional SSRS report.
• Documented Test Strategy
• Created Test Plan and Test Cases based on the Migration and the Technical Specifications.
• Identified the requirements for New Dashboard reports with operational metrics. Designed the reports and the underlying database queries.
• Reviewed test cases and results. Performed data verification.
• Used SQL extensively to validate the report output from the source JDE ERP system
• Participated in weekly defect review meetings.
• Performed Integration testing, System testing, Black Box testing, Back end testing and facilitation User Acceptance Testing

QA Analyst and Tester

Confidential

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Requirements, Test Plan and Test Scenarios.
• Created test cases for 7 Use cases focusing on User interface.
• Executed test cases and verified results.
• Performed back-end data verification using SQL.
• Used Quality Center to log issues
• Participated in defect review meetings.
• Performed Black Box and Regression testing