SUMMARY

• Over Nine Years of experience in Quality Assurance Testing of diverse applications on various platforms.
• Excellent understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Test Methodologies from project definition to post deployment documentation.
• Involved extensively in Manual Functional Testing of both Web Applications and Mainframe Legacy Systems.
• Extensive NASCO claims knowledge, including HIQK, HEHK, HQBK.
• Strong in Mainframe testing techniques/tools
• Proficient in File and Database access methods (VSAM and DB2), MF utilities (TSO, ISPF) and SORT Tools - DFSORT, SYNCSORT and ICETOOL.
• Extensive experience in Healthcare Domain and Medical Insurance.
• Experienced in Web Based Testing, Mainframe Testing, HIPAA EDI Testing (837I, 837P,835) using ICD 9, ICD 10, HCPCS codes.
• Having experience of different ETL tools in Business Intelligence like Informatica power center, Informatica Cloud and IP Switch.
• Having complete knowledge of Data warehousing/Data Migration ETL process.
• Experience as ETL Functional tester
• Experienced in various SDLC industry standard models like Waterfall, SDLC methodologies.
• Extensive experience in System, Functional, Regression, User Interface (GUI testing), Integration, User Acceptance (UAT), and System Testing.
• Expertise in Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Scenarios, Test Reporting.
• Experience in Agile methodologies.
• Experienced in Healthcare Claims adjudication (Professional and Facility) workflow and have worked in NASCO application for various BCBS clients.
• Performed End-to-End, Navigation, Positive, Negative, Data Driven Testing and UAT.
• Working knowledge in SQL queries in ORACLE, DB2 platforms.
• Expertise with Quality/Test & Defect Management tools like Quality Center, Clear Quest, etc.
• Experience in Automation Testing - Selenium.
• Provide Daily/Weekly Status Report on Test Design/Execution progress to test leads as required.
• Planning, deploying and managing testing effort for any given engagement/release.
• Participate in Testing Status Meetings on Daily and Weekly Basis and communicate Testing Daily/Weekly Testing Metrics to Test/Project Leads.
• Excellent organizational, technical and problem-solving skills with a special talent for team oriented assignments, communication, inter-personal skills and can multitask various deliverables.
• Ability to comprehend and interpret a problem and its solving techniques.
• Self-motivated and ability to master new technologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools: Informatica Power Center 10x, IP Switch, Test Director/Quality Center 10.1, Rational Clear Quest

Languages: COBOL, DB2,SQL

Operating Systems: OS 390,MVS, Windows 2000/NT/XP

Mainframes: JCL, Batch Processes, VSAM, QMF, File-Aid

MS-Suite: MS-Word, MS Excel, MS-Visio, MS Outlook

Data Bases: Oracle, MS-SQL Server

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analysis of business requirement documents to understand the requirements in detail.
• Responsible for developing various test scenarios, test cases based on business requirements and functional specifications
• Involved in Test case walkthrough with technical and business teams.
• Prepared the membership and claims data.
• Responsible for test cases execution and update the test case status
• Report Defects in Clear Quest.
• Report test execution status to Test Lead and Test Manager.

QA Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in web and mainframe testing.
• Involved in analysis of business requirement documents to understand the requirements in detail.
• Responsible for developing various test scenarios, test cases based on business requirements and functional specifications
• Involved in Test case walkthrough with technical and business teams.
• Prepared the SIT/UAT data to support testing.
• Setup JCLs for given Test Environment, using PROD JCLs.
• Identification of test data and test scripts and execution of Manual test cases
• Test execution by using TSO, ISPF, File Aid and IBM SPUFI Tools.
• Prepare the Test JCLs and Procedures and prepare the input flat/VSAM Files.
• Testing support by using the SORT Tools - DFSORT, SYNCSORT.
• Executing the JCLs/Procs and monitoring the online/batch JOBs.
• Wrote the SQL Queries to extract the Mainframe COBOL DB2 Tables by using File-Aid DB2 or IBM SPUFI tool
• Responsible for test cases execution and update the test case status
• Report Defects in Clear Quest.
• Report test execution status to Test Lead and Test Manager.

Software Tester Specialist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate SIT, Regression, E2E testing, UAT
• Coordinate Test case execution
• Create test data for Claim Inquiry, Member creation, claim loading and adjudication using ICD 9, ICD 10 and HCPCS codes
• Extracting the claims Information from mainframes (Rumba) and execute the JCLs/PROCs to send it to downstream applications.
• Setup JCLs for given Test Environment, using PROD JCLs.
• Edit Mainframe files using various tools like File-Aid.
• Retrieve member, provider, diagnosis, procedure, claim, payment and correspondence details from database using SQL queries
• Execute test cases by creating providers, inquiring provider eligibility and inquiring claims using SQL queries
• Execute test cases by using the existing Test data/members, creating Professional and Institutional claims through HIPAA EDI (837I, 837P), and web application
• Report Defects in Clear Quest
• Report test execution status to Test Lead and Test Manager.
• Perform root cause analysis.