SUMMARY

• 10+ years of broad experience with software analysis & design, coding, system integration and quality assurance.
• Very strong analytical and problem solving skills. Exposure to UAT in RAS and RUP.
• 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 Case Management, very large scale solution: Global Income Support.
• COTS Case Management, large scale solution - Child Protection (type: SACWIS).
• Certified Curam BA with QA Analysis experience on three project.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Defect and Req. Management tools: HP HPQC, IBM’s RQM, Start Team, FogBugz.

Banking: BvDEP FACT, Testing of Rating Models, eligibility determination, Basel II.

Source Control: IBM RTC; Microsoft TFS.

ETL Testing: Stored Procedure Testing, BI Testing, Data Quality Analysis.

Query: PL/SQL Oracle; T-SQL SQL Server 2000/2008/R2; SQL DB2, OLAP Cubes

Test Automation Tools: HP 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, TFS, SSAS/MDX.

Web Service testing: WSDL, XML, Ajax, and HTTP.

Instrumentation: WMI, Network Monitoring

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Mainly Responsible for System Test level Test Cases in the area of Disbursement and Overpayments on a system that nominally was expected to disburse around one billion dollars per month.
• Payments included reconciliation, cancellation, and reissuance.
• Overpayments included recoupment and recovery; that is a monitored referral to collection agency, as well as, intercepting tax returns for personal income taxes.
• Supported Developers with Business Level details of Workflows required to arrive to the defect.
• Supported check printing design by Exploratory Testing in order to elicit requirement clarifications from the client facing BAs.
• Conducted Analysis of (CR) Change Requests in order to design minimal sets of Test Cases.
• Very methodical in using HPQC to link Requirements, Test Cases and produce reports that lead to actionable conclusions.
• Conducted System Level Test Design derived from Change Request and post UAT design expansions. Support of documentation to PMR.
• Became fluent in extracting from Oracle - using SQL - required data from the DB Schema that contains over a thousand (1000++) tables.
• 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.
• 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.
• Inquisitive mind and ability to think creatively and embrace needs and aspirations of junior and senior team members.
• Lead role for a variable size team (2-3) of financial testers.

Confidential

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted migration of test artifacts from HP 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 Curam 6 Child Protection Module.
• Implemented Data Driven Test Automation using user extensions to Selenium IDE and Excel generates scripts from XML template.
• Used/modified Keyword Driven Test Automation implemented with Web Driver in Eclipse in 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 Curam Business Analysts.
• Interactions with IBM developers in Bangalore, India.

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.
• SDLC was Agile-scrum.

Confidential

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed System Level and Manual Testing on a Curam’s Architecture based implementation of Government Assistance 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.
• Conducted Tests of Security Audit Table logs in the system’s response to entries to the system applied by users with different privileges.
• 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 Curam Architecture (Oracle 10 in dev. environment and Oracle 11 in production environment).
• Automated System Tests using HP (Hewlett-Packard) QTP 11.

Confidential

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed the Exploratory Testing and Designed Functional Tests in Agile - scrum environment. I was providing QA work for 5 developers.
• 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.
• Used advanced Excel database connectivity to test aggregated data in OLAP cubes against source data in relational database.
• 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#. 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/evaluated PEX, Coverity to conduct Static Analysis of C# code, Telerik Studio.
• 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, TFS, SSAS/MDX
• 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 HP/Mercury Quality Center for the 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.