EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

Working as a Senior Quality Assurance Analyst with over 8 years of experience in software quality assurance, manual and automated test cases and testing thin client web applications using Mercury Interactive Tools (QTP and Quality Center. Expertise in Security testing, business analysis, developing Software Test Plans, Test Case Design, Test Scripts, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Stress Testing and Agile Methodology. Recognized for exceptional leadership and organization - building skills as well as the ability to motivate others on all levels in the of organizational goals.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

UFT/QTP, LoadRunner, ALM/Quality Center, Test Director, SOAP UI, Jira, Visual Source SafeVisual Intercept, Rational Clear Case, Clear Quest, Visio, Rational Robot, Rational test Manager, TFSVisual Studio Test Professional 2010 (VSTS), Microsoft Test Manager 2010 (MTM), Requisite Pro, Serena TeamTrack, LINUX, UNIX, Windows, Android, Blackberry OS, IOS, Windows mobile, Palm OS, Android, IOS, Blackberry OS, Oracle, MS SQL Server, MS Access, DB2, Teradata, Iphone, Ipad, HTC, Samsung android devices, Blackberry, Windows phone, API, IBM Web Sphere, SharePoint, XML, Linux, Web services, e Commerce, legacyAS400, J2ME based mobile devices, AS 400, etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Old Tappan, NJ

Sr QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• As QA responsible for conducting functional testing, Mobile platform compatible testing, Device compatible testing, Network availability testing.
• Responsible for developing the Test strategy, Test plan, Features/User Stories Grooming, PI Planning sessions, schedule (Deliverables), data / resource requirements.
• Provided technical leadership to teams across certify QA gain user involvement, establish and define acceptance criteria, meet the deliverables by establishing high level scenarios
• Worked with business and development teams to understand product requirements and vision and work with a team of quality engineering professionals to ensure the highest quality product delivery.
• Acted as lead QA Engineer on multiple high-visibility projects involving cloud disaster recovery and backup solutions.
• Executed test cases through ALM/Quality Center and reported defects in ALM/Quality Center.
• Developed and executed test cases test Scenarios and followed-up defects using ALM/Quality Center.
• Installed the UFT/QTP for automating test cases and developed user defined functions to support Automated Scripts, used Data Driven Testing and Data Base accessing techniques to support the Scripts
• Prepared automated scripts for Maintenance and Regression testing using UFT/QTP.
• Tested the Business applications on Mobile web and native app both on Android and iOS real devices and emulators.
• Tested the application devices like iPhone/iPad/Samsung/LG.
• Optimized test scripting for Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer browsers and conducted testing for iPad, iPhone, Samsung Galaxy Tab, and Windows Mobile devices.
• Generated Automation Scripts from Scratch for UFT/QTP.
• Provide weekly and monthly reports to QA Director/Sr.Directors/VPs on performance.
• Performed Parallel, stress testing, UAT, GUI, Functional, Regression, UAT, Smoke testing and Cross Browser testing on different browsers like Internet Explorer, Chrome, Safari and Firefox where multiple tests were run at the same time.
• Driving daily stand ups and testing activities (Smoke Tests, Regression, UAT, Alpha, Mobile, API, Integration and Ad-Hoc testing).
• Used Hybrid, Keyword/Data Driven Framework and extracted data from external Excel files using Apache POI and loaded into the variables in the scripted code.
• Coordinating the investigation of customer complaints.
• Used Firebug, Firepath to debug, edit and locate the objects based on ID, Name, XPath, Css Selector, Link, Partial Link, Attributes and Tags.
• Involved in Web services testing using SOAPUI Tool. Validated request and response XML. Added assertions to validate the XML in Web services SOAP and RESTFUL service.
• Used GitHub as a source repository system to share code within the office as well as with the team in overseas.
• Analyze the Business Requirements and closely work with the Business Team to get the clarifications addressed.
• Created Test plans, managed team members, assigned tasks and conducted meetings. Worked on SQL scripts to load data in the tables.
• Reviewed product requirement documents, functional specifications, and involved in developing test strategy, test plan and test case documents.
• Used Firebug/Fire Path Add-on tools to identify the Object's id, Name, XPath, link in the application.
• Performed back end testing by writing and executing SQL queries to validate that data is being populated in appropriate tables and manually verify the correctness of the data with front-end values.
• Performed agile testing, review the stories and participated in Daily Scrum, Iteration Planning and Release Planning meeting and used RTC Tool.
• Participated in peer review with team and developers to review test cases/test scripts.
• Performed System, Integration, Smoke, Sanity, Functional, End to End, Positive and Negative and monitored the behavior of the applications during different phases of testing using testing methodologies.

Environment: Bit Bucket, Fire Path, CRAFT (Cognizant Reusable Automation Framework for Testing), JIRA, QMetry, Microsoft Access Management Database, Eclipse, IE Driver, Chrome, Robot Framework, Service Now

Confidential, Brentwood, TN

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Test Plan, Test Cases, Test scripts and Test data for the application as well as for the database verification based on the functional requirements and test specs.
• Analyzed documented test requirements and user requirements, test plans, and test cases using HP ALM.
• Used HP ALM for Test Case repository tool.
• Attended Daily Scrum, Iteration Planning and Release planning Meetings
• Tested Complex ETL Mappings and Sessions based on business user requirements and business rules to load data from source flat files and RDBMS tables to target tables.
• Helped the System test lead in developing the Test Plan and Testing Strategy for ETL/BI
• Written complex SQL queries for validating the transformation rules for ETL Jobs.
• Created ETL test data for all ETL mapping rules to test the functionality of the Informatica Mapping
• Involved in testing various business rules User/Customer functionalities, and Change Processes.
• Experienced in ATG, Commerce, POS, ATM Credit Debit e-commerce mPOS, OMS, order management system, WMS, warehouse management system, cart Merchandizing PCI EMV PINPAD Supply Chain Logistics SEO
• Used SOAP UI tool to test SOA based architecture application to test SOAP services and REST API.
• Developed Groovy scripts to test Report application output and used Groovy Script to customize test.
• Validation of each Functionality with SQL database.
• Developing SQL queries and used them on specific tables to get the required results.
• Prepared user documentation with screenshots for UAT (User Acceptance testing).
• Coordinated with developers and record defects in JIRA to track until they are resolved.
• Maintained Test Matrix & Project Matrix using excel sheet to keep track of Project's schedule and status.

Environment: QTP/UFT, ALM, JAVA, HP ALM, SQL, Web Services, SOAP UI, Restful, Groovy Script HTML, CSS, JIRA, MSWord, MS Excel, Windows 7.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. QA Analyst/Mobile tester

Responsibilities:

• Worked with SMEs for SUT and provided an overview and knowledge regarding various modules of application to test team members.
• Created test plan, test cases and test procedures to cover various test scenarios to cover all areas of applications and to conduct different types of testing
• Work in Agile, scrum, and sprint environment in order to change the requirements and features set.
• Performed SIT and UAT test execution activities throughout STLC
• Defect tracking Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (TFS)
• Using TFS for Test case management, and Defect Management purposes.
• Prepared automated scripts for Maintenance and Regression testing using QTP.
• Automated test scenarios for GUI, Functionality and performed data driven testing on the application inserting different data in excel sheet using QTP.
• Created and maintained detailed test cases to perform various types of testing in Test Plan module of MTM.
• Created and executed automated (Coded UI) scripts in Visual Studio and in TFS Test Manager
• Testing Mobile apps on cloud environment/tools
• Primarily responsible for Android mobile app functional validation, data validation and API testing using Advanced REST client, JSON validation
• Analyse and gather data logs on defects using Android studio and AWS cloud data
• Publishing the application in production for all platforms ( Android, BlackBerry).
• Performed Regression, functional testing of Retail and eCommerce application
• Gathered requirements for the integration of POS system with the supply chain system
• Supported retail business processes and functionalities including POS application and systems; merchandise processes, such as allocation, goods receiving, store transfers, return to vendor.
• Experienced in ATG, Commerce, POS, ATM Credit Debit e-commerce mPOS, OMS, order management system, WMS, warehouse management system, cart Merchandizing PCI EMV PINPAD Supply Chain Logistics SEO
• Created and executed automated (Coded UI) scripts in Visual Studio and in TFS Test Manager
• Documented Defects found during test on the Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) and communicated recorded problems to the responsible development personnel.
• Documented and reported defects within established process and tracking systems using MTM.
• Involved performing end to end testing of Ecommerce applications
• Define and implement black-box, white box, grey-box and automated testing suites for eCommerce Web application and Order Management Systems
• I was exclusively working on “Warehouse Management” which is a web-based logistics system that provides an easily deployable method for receiving, storing and shipping inventory through one or more remote facilities
• Involved in testing of both Inbound and outbound processes of Red Prairie WMS
• Responsible for functional testing of Receiving, Picking, Shipping, Order Fulfillment, Reclamations, Cycle Counts, Inventory Control, Invoice Counting, Reports
• Performed Regression Testing by generating QTP scripts based on the business process.
• Performed Data Driven Testing using Parameterization in QTP to test the functionality of the application with different sets of data.
• Experience in conducting various types of System and Integration testing for an E-commerce web based application such as Security(to validate Username/Password), Account Creation process, different workflows, e-mail testing for each stage of workflows, Role level access based on the access grants, navigation testing to check the integrity between different screens within the application etc.
• Validated various canned and ad-hoc BO reports related to the application.
• Built RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix) to capture all requirements in the testing process.

Environment: s: Oracle, Java, .net, Team Foundation Server, MTM (Microsoft Test Manager), TFS, Visual Studio, Quick Test Pro, UNIX, Share Point, UNIX, POS Registers, Emulator, perfecto mobile, MS Excel, VB Script, iOS, Android, Apple, Blackberry

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Test Coordinator / Mobile Tester

Responsibilities:

• Participating in the requirements analysis and design meetings with DEV, BIZ team for Review and facilitate in requirement freezing.
• Planning all the testing activities (Test Planning, Test Estimation and scheduling of QA activities, Test Strategy, Test Case Design, Requirements Traceability matrix, Review, execution and Reports)
• Tested the UI of the end product on mobile, PC, Android and Apple platforms to ensure that language translation and currency conversions were displaying as required
• Requested different versions of iOS, Android and Blackberry mobile devices
• Worked on a E-Commerce Web-based application accessed by potential customers for all the different offerings
• Worked with java based applications and C++ simultaneously: iOS and Android
• Planning and execution of Installation Testing, Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, usability testing, Compatibility Testing, Performance Testing and security testing.
• Experienced in Equity, equities, Options, FOREX, Mutual Funds, Hedge Funds, trading, trade, Swaps, Swaptions, Futures, FRAs, Escrows, API, Risk management, wealth, securities, fixed income, Commodities, Mutual Fund loan, LOS, loan mortgage Origination, FX, FIX, Derivative Capital Market Asset Risk ACH SWIFT AML Wire transfer
• Executing the test cases (manual and automated) and reporting the bugs in Mingle and QC/ALM.
• Mentoring and Monitoring the QA Team, troubleshooting any technical problems.
• Performed browser compatibility and configuration testing on various operating systems such as Blackberry OS, Android OS, iOS etc.
• Collaborating with development team and project managers in test execution and communicating all the issues.
• Generating project status reports/metrics and updating project plans and Tracking them.
• Coordinating and leading the reviews and inspections and follow up on ongoing test activities.
• Conducting QA status/Defect triage conference calls with US clients and reporting the status to QA Manager.
• Providing regular feedback/status on development and projects to Project Manager.
• Involving in interviewing the new candidates for the project and providing and mentoring support on all QA activities.
• Publishing the application in production for all platforms (Android, BlackBerry).

Environment: Oracle 10G, Java, Asp.net, ALM/Quality Center, Quick Test Pro, HTML, UNIX, Web logic, Emulator like Device Anywhere, perfecto mobile, Android SDK, Windows Mobile SDK, IOS, Blackberry OS, Android OS

Confidential, New York, NY

QA Engineer / UAT Tester

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for coordinating the manual QC and automation QTP to end-to-end and UAT testing efforts for new release testing.
• Responsible for compliance to standards and tools for unit, component and system integration level test results, defect management, and test status reporting.
• Report and maintain product release statistics
• Establish regression execution patterns and schedule.
• Works with offshore team and provides effective solutions to work with offshore teams to enable multiple shifts for regression testing.
• Validating the load process of ETL to make sure the target tables are populated according to the data mapping provided that satisfies the transformation rules
• Create effective solutions for regression Test artifact reviews
• Plans, manages strategic and tactical aspects of regression and manages multiple Releases effectively.
• Facilitate team status/checkpoint meetings as necessary
• Experienced in Equity, equities, Options, FOREX, Mutual Funds, Hedge Funds, trading, trade, Swaps, Swaptions, Futures, FRAs, Escrows, API, Risk management, wealth, securities, fixed income, Commodities, Mutual Fund loan, LOS, loan mortgage Origination, FX, FIX, Derivative Capital Market Asset Risk ACH SWIFT AML Wire transfer
• Scheduled various ETL batch processes using Autosys and testing stored procedures
• Tested the ETL Informatica mappings and other ETL Processes (Data Warehouse Testing)
• Assist Test Manager and Planner with resource forecasts and estimates
• Assist in early life support of the Releases.
• Worked closely with development and business team to understand requirements and business process and defined issue resolution with functional and technical teams.
• Tested ETL mappings to extract and load data from different databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, XML files and flat files and loaded them in to Oracle
• Involved in scheduling and participation of weekly status, requirement analysis, functional specification (functional and technical teams) reviews meetings.
• Involved in peer review and group reviews of the test scripts developed by test team as per the Coding standards to test asset quality. Decisions within defined to do policies and practices.
• Ensured on time test deliverables as per schedule by generating defect Status reports test status reports at the end of each Functional, System and Integration test phases.
• Created and maintained System and Automation Test plans. Performed Functional Negative, Regression, System Integration testing.
• Involved in Coordinating testing team at offshore and onsite for test design, construct test scenarios, and execute tests to plan accordingly.
• Used QC for designed and developed test plans, scripts, and tools using the detailed business requirements document provided by the work streams.

Environment: SQL, Agile Methodology, Internet Explorer 8.x, Oracle, J2EE, Power Point, MS Project, Quality Center, QTP,SQL and E-commerce.

Confidential, New York, NY

Test Engineer / SOA Tester/ Web Services Tester

Responsibilities:

• Working on BRD, FRD, TRD, SRD, RTM, Test Plan-overview, Test Scope(In-Scope& Out of Scope), Version, Test Approach/Strategy, Test Schedule, Test Cases/Test Scripts, Test Rounds, Test Traceability Matrix, Defect Management &Reporting, Entry & Exit Criteria, Environment, s.
• Worked Extensively with Inbound 837 P, and 837I 835/SOR (statement of Remittance-Out bounds) claims processing system called CIS (Claims Inventory System).
• Working with CPT/ ICD Codes. ICD-9 and ICD-10 for HIPAA 5010 transactions.
• Performance test on IBC's system used for Claim storage, business edits, routing and status and data enrichment lookups using Navinet-Gateway (a multi-payer claim entry system), Paper free and EAI - Enterprise Application Infrastructure.
• Created and modified test data for the HIPAA 5010 transactions.
• Responsible for full HIPAA compliance lifecycle from gap analysis, mapping, implementation and testing and processing of Medicaid Claims.
• Participated in the development of the Business Requirement Documents and functional requirements. In charge of preparing Test Cases based on BRD and FRD.
• Created test scenarios and tested HIPAA Transactions and Code Sets Standards such as EDI 837/834/835, 270/271, 276/277.
• Experienced in EDI, MMIS, Medicare, Medicaid, HIX, ICD, 270, 271, 834, 835, 837 payer Claim processing enroll Provider Billing X12 Edifecs HL7 Part D Pharmacy Health Insurance Exchange HL7 facets QNXT X12 HIPAA EDIFACT CTP claims test pro AMISYS PowerMHS COB
• Testing claims or enrollment processing for medical/Pharmacy
• Held regular JAD meetings with the system architects, developers, database developers, quality testers during the entire project to assure that the critical as well as the minute details of the project were discussed and issues were resolved beforehand.
• For web service testing used Soap UI, Soap UI Pro tool, Analyzing of web services/API functional and design documents and prepared test cases based on User requirements, Involved in preparation of Test Plan, Prepared the Web Services/API test suite for positive and negative test cases using assertions, Performed Interoperability Testing when services are integrated to UI application, A WSDL document describes a web service.
• Prepared Execution Matrix, Test Reports and Bug Reports
• Involved in web service REST Testing tools-Synchronous Web services and Asynchronous Web services.
• Responsible for GAP analysis of ICD9-ICD10.
• Authored and executed Test cases for Claims and Customer Service Workflow.
• Entering Claims and Customer Service Tasks into the FACETS.
• Responsible for Back-End Testing Using SQL Commands.
• Developed SQL queries, functions, stored procedures and triggers to perform the backend testing of the data
• Perform functional, exception and scenario testing.
• Extensive experience of Performance, Load, and Stress testing using Load Runner
• Logged the errors, reported defects, determined repair priorities and tracked the defects until resolution using Quality Center.
• Extensively used SQL statements to query the Oracle Database for Data Validation and Data Integrity.
• Extensive knowledge of Test Matrix, Traceability Matrix.
• Quality Center was used to create the test plan, store test cases and run the test sets.
• Provides feedback concerning completeness and accuracy of AUT.
• Responsible for performing System and integration testing for release.

Environment: Windows, Facets, Oracle, Share Point, SQL, Quality Center, MS Office, MS-Visio, UML, 508 Compliance Testing

Confidential, Greenwood Village, CO

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Post Conversion and POS (Point of Sale) to ensure data is mapped correctly according to system requirements
• Responsible for coordinating the manual end-to-end, backend and UAT testing efforts for new release testing in quality center.
• Documented and tracked test scripts, test results, test analysis, and reported the defects using Quality Center and assisted the higher levels of management in analysis of risks and issues in project releases.
• Create Test scenarios, Test Plans and Test cases.
• Prepared the Test Status Reports on daily and weekly basis.
• Performed different tests like Function, System, Regression and backend Database testing.
• Experienced in PAS, Underwriting Reinsurer Reinsurance, Annuity, annuities, Casualty life insurance claims IRA PAS policy administration system retirement Guidewire policy center, billing center
• Maintained good communication with the Onsite and Offshore team members.
• Run the SQL queries to fetch test data and backend (database) testing to validate the data using TOAD tool
• Maintaining Traceability Matrix between the functional requirements and the test scripts developed and application theories and new concepts.
• Report the defects to development team and re-verify the defects when it's fixed, also need to update the status in HP Quality Center.
• Performed Test Case Review, Execution and walk troughs.
• Prepared test plans, Design and preparation of test data scripts for testing POS and E-commerce application.
• Interacted with the business users, prepared test plans, including testing overview, testing approach, testing strategy, roles, and responsibilities and Monitoring and reporting the performance and effectiveness of QA Activities, writing and reviewing and closing defects

Environment: TOAD, Windows XP, HP Quality Center, QTP, XML, Html, Java Script, SQL

Confidential, Union, CA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Executed test case for all HR processes and services including iViews, pages, work sets and roles
• Documented Test cases corresponding to business Requirement document and other negative conditions.
• Involved in Developing Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Test Data.
• Performed End-to-End testing manually.
• Responsible for GUI Testing, API Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing and Acceptance Testing.
• Tested the backend database (Oracle/DB2) using SQL queries.
• Worked with XML/SOAP UI (web services)
• Extensively used Groovy scripting for Soap UI frame works in API testing.
• Developed automation test scripts in Groovy Script for Smoke testing of the application using SOAP UI.
• Extensively testing the application with multiple inputs using Data Driven framework. using QTP.
• Communicated defects encountered during regression test and follow up with developers until all issues were resolved
• Created the complex SQL queries to fetch data from the multiple tables based on the Test cases.
• Tested Confidential CST tool
• Responsible in providing regular test reports to the management.
• Reported the defects to the developers using Jira defect reporting tool.
• Investigate software defects and interact with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Responsible for test data preparation for the system/integration testing, traceability matrix to ensure the test case coverage and defect logging.
• Participated in defect review meetings with the team members.

Environment: .NET, SQL, Agile Methodology, Web Logic, API, Internet Explorer 6.x, Oracle, PVCS, J2EE, TLG, Enabler, Power Point, MS Project, Quality Center,WCF,ASP.NET, XML, Windows XP, UNIX,IVR and TOAD

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in complete software testing lifecycle (Requirement Analysis, Test Planning, Test Cases and Scripts Development, Test Execution, Test Reporting, Test Result Analysis, Defect tracking, Test Closure).
• Analyzed business requirement documents, functional requirement documents, Use cases, Use case diagrams.
• Documented test plan, including test strategies, test cases and schedules in Quality Center.
• Worked closely with developers and business analysts to formulate test plans, test strategies and test cases in the pre-testing phase for Smoke testing, Functional testing, System testing, Regression testing and Data driven testing using QTP.
• Customized test cases and schedules for Credit Card Online application
• Queried the Mainframe ETL Target DB2 database to verify the data consistency based on ETL Business Rules.
• Responsible for Testing Web Services requests using SOAPUI
• Performed GUI Testing on web and mobile applications.
• Used data driven testing features to provide data values to the variables in a script.
• Performed manual testing and automation testing of the web application.
• Wrote extensive scripts to perform smoke tests for verification of weekly builds.
• Performed various types of testing like Smoke testing, Functional, Integration, System, Regression, Data driven testing, usability testing.
• Involved in testing mobile Banking Module for "Find Locations", "check accounts" and "pay bills" on iOS, Android and BlackBerry operating system.
• Performed compatibility testing, interruption testing, and network testing for stability of mobile app.
• Used TOAD for writing SQL queries for validating, retrieving and comparing the data.
• Designed and developed SQL queries to test back end.
• Performed cross-browser testing to verify if the application provides accurate information in different (IE, Firefox, Safari) browsers
• Maintained Quality Center defect-tracking tool, including submitting and assigning defects to the application developers along with the release of defect aging reports.
• Verified Tracked and Reported defects and classified based on Severity and Priority.
• Collected and analyzed test metrics and subsequently submitted reports to track the status and progress of the testing effort.
• Interacted with the Project Manger to provide estimates for different phases in the projects and also interacted with the client team to convey the progress

Environment: QTP, SOAP, Oracle, Quality Center, Mozilla, IE, Windows 7/XP, PVCS, Citrix, C#.Net, MS-Office, Java, J2EE, Servlet, ASP, Linux XML, MS-Project, Web sphere, Web Logic, VB script, TOAD

Confidential, Dallas, TX

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Used Test Director for designed and developed test plans, scripts, and tools using the detailed business requirements document provided by the work streams. This included performance and regression testing where required.
• Used SQL Statements for manipulating the data.
• Experienced in FliteTrac, CrewTrac, Crew Recovery Manager (RMC), Tracking System Wide upgrades, Mileage requests for Other Airlines, Mileage Multiplier, Million Miler, Online Airline Reservation system, flight reservations, View Reservations, flight check-in, status and schedules, mobile boarding pass, book and change flights, book car, cruises, flight attendants, pnr, flight scheduling, crew scheduling, flight operations, global distribbution system (GDS)
• Worked closely with lead and infrastructure work stream lead to ensure that all testing activities occurred in a timely fashion and in accordance with the level of quality required by the governing standards and business requirements.
• Responsible for compliance to standards and tools for unit, component and system integration level test results, defect management, and test status reporting.
• Developed automated LoadRunner scripts and defined test case scenarios.
• Used Test Director to execute the test plan, track execution against the plan during testing of employee pay roll, UNDERWRITING, processing and reporting, benefit tracking, direct deposit with the capability of using the customer's bank of choice .
• Gathered test data and created test plan for all kinds of loads up to maximum of 500 virtual users.
• Used Load Runner for Created scenarios to perform automated load, regression and stress tests.
• Preparation of test presentation on the existing UNDERWRITING application which details the test processes and testing technologies to be implemented.
• Prepared defect reports.

Environment: Test Director, MS SQL, UNIX, Agile Methodology, Visio and Project 2003