SUMMARY:

• 15+ years of broad experience with software analysis & design, coding, system integration and quality assurance.
• Very strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Dedicated, task - oriented, professional team player
• Selecting and applying Test Strategies and Approaches.
• Software Design and Integration of Automated Test Equipment (ATE) automotive plants.
• COTS Government, very large scale solution: Global Income Support.
• COTS Government, large scale solution - Child Protection.
• Certified Cúram BA with Cúram QA Analysis experience on three project.
• Defect and Req. Management tools: Confidential ALM, IBM’s RQM, Start Team, FogBugz
• Banking: BvDEP FACT, Testing of Rating Models, eligibility determination, Basel II.
• Source Control: IBM RTC; Microsoft TFS.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Query: PL/SQL Oracle; T-SQL SQL Server 2000/2008/R2; SQL DB2
• Test Automation Tools Confidential QTP 11, Selenium IDE with user extensions, Web Driver
• Financial applications - Web based publisher - dynamic optimization of profit.
• Languages C#/VS 2008; C/C++ Borland; Java command line Java Eclipse; VBA, VBS, QTP VB Script, Java Script, Shell, PHP.
• Web Service testing, WSDL, XML
• Instrumentation WMI

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Computer System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• CASS - the Consolidated Assistance Support System, is Confidential initiative designed to manage over 60 assistance programs for 1.5 million Confidential recipients; managed by 8500 users.
• The main programs were as follows: General Assistance and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, SNAP, Child Care, Medicaid and NJ Family Care.
• The SDLC for NJ CASS initially followed a Waterfall approach with intensive gap analysis naturally stipulated by building on COTS framework (Cúram 6.0.5.3. iFix12) what resulted in crystallizing over 2300 requirements.
• Joined the project to design System Test level Test Cases mainly in the area of Disbursement and Overpayments.
• SDLC switched to an Agile approach what lead to further clarification of requirements triggered by both Test Design and early Test cycles.
• Provided Test Data or identified existing data and worked out expected to support work of other System Testers working on SAP Business Objects based Reports.
• Actively interacted with Developers, in order to reproduce the defects in Time Travel, Development, UAT and Developer's Local environments. To re-test System Test defects.
• Supported Developers with Business Level details of Workflows required to arrive to the defect.
• Supported check printing design by Exploratory Testing. Conducted Analysis of (CR) Change Requests in order to design minimal sets of Test Cases.
• Became fluent in extracting from Oracle - using SQL - required data from the DB Schema that contains over a thousand (1000++) tables.
• Conducted System Level Test Design derived from Change Request and post UAT design expansions. Support of documentation to PMR.
• Support of developers by hands-on defect reproducing on their laptops.
• Provided Feedback and followed schedules maintained MS Project by Project Manager.
• Used tools for Pair-wise testing to improve the test coverage in sensitive areas.
• Supported UAT testers with Provider and other data to enable their work.

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted migration of test artifacts from Confidential QC to IBM’s RQM.
• Used DB2 queries to identify Cases that satisfy Test Data preconditions or other suitable data sets.
• Conducted Test Execution for the subsystems of Legal Proceedings and Financials in Cúram 6 Child Protection Module.
• Implemented Test automation via Selenium and Used modified Test Automation implemented with Web Driver in Eclipse/Java.
• Used Elements of Batch execution Analysis and error logs scanning for defect supporting details.
• Absorbed IBM’s and European product life cycle management standards and practices, IBM’s technical work environment and culture.
• Constantly interacted with Client (BASFI) and Cúram Business Analysts.
• Interactions with IBM developers.

Confidential

Computer System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Updated to the Financial High Level Design and Financial Detailed Design for payments and claims related functionalities included in Change Requests.
• Designed Manual Test Scripts and Test Suites for the benefit disbursement and overpayment recovery subsystems.
• Executed of script and Analysis of software and business level defects in the computer system.
• Lead role for the team of financial testers for the period of the main test cycle.

Confidential

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed System Level and Manual Testing on a Cúram’s Architecture based implementation of eGovernment System for Family, Youth and Child Protection Services, Linkin Information Management System based on test plan provided by the client.
• Performed Functional Testing of the above large confidential records keeping system for Legal, Investigation and Placement information.
• Identified defects in the system and prioritized them according to severity.
• Coordinated with developers to fix the defects so that the system meets the client requirements.
• Documented test results. Used PL/SQL in order to meticulously test customized Audit Trail functionality with respect to its completeness, robustness and its impact on the system performance.
• Analyzed interactions between Security and Audit functionalities.
• Used advanced functionality of Excel to drive selected web tests and mass download files from SharePoint.
• Used Selenium to parametrically pre-populate DB via GUI in order to cut down on a time otherwise required to analyze all integrity pitfalls faced when back end scripts are used.
• Tested staging tables, content of messages, during consecutive phases of gradually upgrading benefit Payment Systems to interchange info with PeopleSoft.
• Developed familiarity with almost a thousand tables big Cúram Architecture (Oracle 10 in dev. environment and Oracle 11 in production environment).
• Automated System Tests using Confidential (Hewlett-Packard) QTP 11.

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed the Exploratory Testing and Designed Functional Tests in Agile environment.
• Performed Technical analysis and implemented test tools based on Visual Studio 2008/2010 Team Foundation Systems, SQL Server 2005/2008, T-SQL, Selenium or Java as needs dictated.
• Performed the Load Tests, Stress Test and Performance Tests using TFS.
• Tested a time critical data flow between farms of servers scattered worldwide, with volumes of data archives in terabytes per month.
• Documented the test results.
• Integrated: Selenium Grid and VS Tester’s Edition to enable taking advantage of C# and Sun’s Java programming combined.
• Used the MbUnit, NUnit, MsUnit, Ant, Selenium 2 (Web Driver).
• Implemented OS kernel/user API calls to eliminate OS born obstacles to automation.
• Researched and tested rich set of Web Service/WSDL based API to Google, Yahoo and other traffic providers.
• Used PEX, Coverity to conduct Static Analysis of C# code.
• Used FogBugz for defect life cycle management.
• HTTPWatch, HttpAnalyzer, FireBugs and a host of Web testing oriented tools.
• Tested C# code that accessed WSDL services
• Tested stored procedures and Server Batch Jobs run on SQL Server.
• Used Windows Instrumentation, WMI, to monitor processes and database counters across SQL Servers and Servers of my concern by command line scripts.

Confidential

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Wrote and execute functional level test cases in Confidential /Mercury Quality Center for Basel II compliant Borrower’s Risk Rating business models and application, FACT.
• Performed T-SQL Unit-Level Testing in order to support data migration to SQL Server 2000 on Enterprise Watch List, EWL an in-house RBC’s application designed to trace and report on Single Names and Borrowers. Unit-Level Testing consisted in writing SQL statements and stored procedure with the purpose of catching inconsistencies in an ETL and data staging (EWL).
• Interacted with the client to understand the application and develop functional test plans and scripts.
• Identified and documented defects and prioritized them based on client input.
• Originally hired by RBC to test Model Copier - utility for the BvDEP’s FACT application designed to copy Risk Rating Models between different environments - performed Functional Testing on the Rating Models themselves.
• Passed ongoing tests on AML - Anti Money Laundering and other similar trainings.
• Performed Black-Box testing on the Risk Rating Model Copy Tool software.

Confidential

Software integrator

Responsibilities:

• Migrating of two multi-station production and quality control systems from WinNT and InterBase to WinXP clients and ORACLE 9i Server.
• Migrating database to Oracle. Required WinSock programming, instrumentation and robot system interfacing - C++.

Designer/Software Integrator

Responsibilities:

• Multi-head electronic sub-assembly testers often interfaced with climatic chamber.
• Test-runtimes, in a range of weeks or months, required a careful design focused on test results storage, memory leaks elimination and management of phases of a cycle.
• Multi-threaded implementations; Oracle interfacing.
• Execution-Time optimized, often equipped with Machine Vision System (Cognex, Xiris, Banner); fixture control; PLC interfacing; instrumentation interfaced via a wide range of links such as digital IO, USB, RS232, RS485, Firewire, CAN and CAN based protocols; IEEE488; Interactive link to plant or corporate information system.
• Multi-threaded implementations.
• Validation testers are used primarily in laboratories to validate the design or the manufacturing process.
• Key feature of such testers are enhanced GUI and flexible, broadened data acquisition and reporting capabilities.
• Built testers acquiring data about non-electrical properties such as forces and displacements.
• Maintained, upgraded multi-station manufacturing line for highly customized recreational vehicles on chassis of Bluebird.
• The line was driven by events and database content (Oracle).The stations synchronized work of PLCs, mechanical robots, workers, Automated Test Systems and inventory control.
• Required WinSock programming, PL/SQL and database connectivity setup, barcode reader and other RS232 interface devices setup - all in C++.

Technical, Sales and Customer Support

Responsibilities:

• Installed, serviced Distributed Quality Assurance systems for textile plants. Studied customer needs and suggested solutions to meet customer needs.
• Systems were based on Sybase.
• Server stored and continually evaluated FFT diagrams, histograms, event data in order to timely deliver actionable information based on user-defined and manufacturer-pre-designed triggers.
• Provided maintenance for various systems throughout Canada, including textile quality control laboratory equipment such as Advanced Fiber Information System and Data Acquisition Systems
• Support of Sybase / Solaris based manufacturing QA system.