SUMMARY

• Very accomplished, DoD Secret Cleared software QA Professional over ten years of experience in managing QA, and requirement gathering projects crucial to the delivery of systems such as Confidential Costpoint, Confidential Benefit Management (VBMS), Central Medicare system(CMS), Bureau of Census DAPPS (Decennial Applicant, Personnel, and Payroll System), Enterprise Payroll, and Human Resources; Self - starter visionary with excellent problem solving, analytical and presentation skills; Works well with others while often serving as a mentor, developing highly competent QA professionals with multi-faceted abilities; Performed critical IT QA work for the various federal government agencies.
• Highly motivated professional over ten years of experience planning, developing, and executing user accepting testing of wide variety of client/server and Web applications. Test methods include system, functional, back-end, manual, automated, user acceptance, regression, performance, white-box and black-box; on Windows.
• Over three years of experience in Agile methodologies - Scrums, Sprints.
• Experienced in evaluating, selecting, and using of defect-tracking tools such as RTC, RQM, JIRA and Test Director to improve quality and productivity of software applications.
• Four+ years of experience with PeopleSoft Payroll, Human Resources, Time & Labor, and Recruiting modules. Has PeopleSoft HCM 9.0 upgrade experience.
• Experienced at adapting test plans and best practices to the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Solid experience performing back-end testing using SQL; SQL server and Oracle database exposure.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• RTC
• RQM
• Test Director
• Quality Center
• WinRunner
• QTP
• LoadRunner
• Visual Studio 2005
• TFS
• PVCS Tracker
• SQL Server 2005
• Oracle and MS-Access
• XML
• VB Script
• TOAD
• MS Outlook and MS Office
• Windows (95/98/2000/NT/XP)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Lead QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Confidential Force Management System (FMS) - FMS is a large application designed to help the Confidential specify the structure of Confidential units to support national defense policies. The FMS application is implemented on the .NET platform using Windows Forms in the presentation layer and Oracle 11g as the database of records. Development is performed in agile environment where requirements are gathered from the customer for short sprints.
• Work together with the team in collecting and refining requirements from the customer.
• Develop and execute test cases for work items to be deployed for the sprint.
• Load test case scripts into Team Foundation Server 2010 for work items tracking. Develop and execute Oracle SQL scripts for the validation of behaviors that cannot be performed at the presentation level.
• Participated in Regression, and Pre-deployment testing and reported bugs to development team using TFS and creating the test cases.

Confidential

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• COSTPOINT - Confidential Costpoint is an integrated enterprise resource planning system designed for project-oriented businesses. Costpoint offers superior accuracy in tracking costs and revenues for all projects and activities. Costpoint automatically generates billings for all projects and customers. It gives financial and project manager’s unprecedented financial and profitability information about company and its organization, projects, and people.
• Coordinated in planning, and executing system testing for major releases of Costpoint product.
• Provided support to develop, execute, and track all testing efforts to support the end-to-end development, deployment, and maintenance of the system.
• Participated in preparing and configuring test data for Costpoint Material Management module
• Participated in Regression, Smoke, and Pre-deployment testing and reported bugs to development team using TFS and writing the test cases in quality center

Confidential

Sr. Systems Tester

Responsibilities:

• Confidential Benefits Management System (VBMS), a web-based system that standardizes disability compensation claims processing for the US Department of Confidential Affairs. As a Sr. Systems Test Engineer and member of the iSQA (internal Software Quality Assurance) Scrum team, providing support for testing activities in support of continued development, enhancement, and deployment of VBMS capabilities within an Agile development methodology.
• Utilized Rational Quality Manager to create test cases, test scripts, test execution records/results and release build records; to view and update test plans, and to view test environment records Developing and executing functional test cases.
• Created, updated and managed tasks, linked tasks to stories, collaborated with the Scrum Master and Test Lead on scrum and sprint activities.
• Participated in daily scrum, sprint planning and sprint review meetings; supported after hour deployments.
• Developing and executing functional test cases.
• Participated in Regression, Smoke, and Pre-deployment testing for every sprint.
• Provide support to develop, execute, and track all testing efforts to support the end-to-end development, deployment, and maintenance of the system.
• Contributed to 508 compliance testing.

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Sr. Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Working as a Software Tester on CMS Next Generation Desktop (NGD) application which serves over 40 million Medicare beneficiaries and the .NET-based MyMedicare.gov self-service portal with over 10 million registered users.
• Participated in 508 compliance testing.
• Analyzed system documentation, attended use case reviews and online demonstrations.
• Developed and executed detailed test scripts, identifying system defects and enhancements

Confidential, Suitland, MD

Software Tester

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Software Tester on BOC DAPPS. The Decennial Applicant, Personnel, and Payroll System (DAPPS) at the US Bureau of the Census (BOC) is a highly visible system serving as a data source for reporting requirements throughout the BOC and other federal agencies. The customized PeopleSoft system was originally developed for the recruitment, hiring, and paying of intermittent Decennial Census employees during the 2000 Decennial Census
• Four+ years’ experience writing and executing tests for PeopleSoft HRMS versions 8.9/9.0; HR, Payroll, Time and Labor, Recruit, and Base Benefits modules. Has worked with PeopleTools for four+ years.
• Performs system, integration, regression and performance tests on DAPPS.
• Major contributor in the HRMS v9.0 upgrade and interface efforts with Field Data Collection Automation (FDCA) and the Decennial Fingerprinting Initiative.
• Performed Interface testing between DAPPS and Census Hiring Employment Check (CHEC) System application to verify database triggers.
• Creates CSRs when defects/bugs are identified in the process of testing.