CAREER SUMMARY

• Over five years of extensive experience in IT field wif emphasis on Quality Assurance. me worked on testing client/server and web - based applications using both Manual and Automated Tools. Good team player wif excellent communication skills and ability to work independently along wif strong problem solving, learning and interpersonal skills.
• Experience in creating test plans, designing test cases while covering all test conditions and eliminating redundancy and duplications.
• Ability to understand & analyze business processes & workflows wif the objective of providing recommendations for the best use of technology to improve the process.
• Ability to quickly understand and interpret business requirements.
• Experience in creating, modifying and enhancing both manual test scripts and test scripts created by test automation tools- Load Runner, Quick Test Pro, Quality Center.
• Exposure to both Manual and Automated Testing of applications developed on Windows platform.
• Experienced in GUI, Regression, Performance and Functional, Load and Stress Testing.
• Strong Knowledge of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) and STLC (Software Testing life Cycle).
• Validated various ICD 10 and ICD 9 rules implementation.
• Worked wif EDI 837, 835, 835.
• Good understanding of health care industry, claims management process, noledge of Medicaid and Medicare Services.
• Experience in testing Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) according to HIPPA compliance.
• Experience in writing SQL queries in SQL server for database testing and test data preparation.
• Experience in Black Box, Positive, Negative, Data-driven, System, Smoke, Usability and Security testing of web-based applications.
• Active participant of Defect Management and resolution process.
• Ability to work on multiple projects wif tight deadlines.
• Involved in maintaining Test Matrix and Tractability Matrix and performed Gap Analysis.
• Good working noledge of major operating systems and tested applications developed in wide variety of environment viz., Windows 2000/NT/Unix/ Mac OS 8.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal & written, wif particular emphasis on the production of clear & detailed written Test Plans, Business Requirements, & Functional Specification.
• Excellent in communication and presentation skills. Experience working wif business users, IT technical staff as well as senior management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software Development Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall.

Testing Tools: QTP

Bug Reporting: Quality Center, Rational Clear Quest, Test Director, JIRA

Programming Languages: C++, Java, J2EE, VB,SQL/PL

Databases: MS Access, SQL Server

Operating System: Windows (XP, 2000, NT, 98), Unix

MS Office Tool: MS office, MS Outlook, MS Project

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated the team of 3-5 QA testers onsite and worked together to write the Test Cases.
• Involved in the all phases of Software Test Lifecycle activities.
• Prepared Test Cases based on business requirements and business rules for HIPAA EDI Transaction 834, 837 and 835.
• Extensively worked in preparing the EDI transmissions files and validating the data according to test scenarios.
• Tested the HIPPA EDI, 834, 837/835 transactions according to test scenarios and verified the data wif Facets on different modules.
• Validated the data from EDI transactions in the front end as well as back end.
• Validated values of EDI Files codes against ICD-9 and ICD-10 compliance.
• Trained and mentored junior testers on critical business functions and processes in order to prepare all testing related documentation.
• Involved in FACETS Implementation, involved end-to-end testing of FACETS Billing, Claim Processing and Subscriber/Member module.
• Identified issues wif System testing Support and Defect tracking.
• Executed SQL Queriesfor the daily status meeting.
• Developed SQL queries as per the request from the business team in SQL server.
• Edited claims (EDI Claims) wif UltraEdit.
• Verified the application’s functionality on different Configurations by performing Configuration Testing and Security Testing.
• Wrote complex SQL queries in TOAD to perform Back-End testing.
• Interacted wif programmers to identify and resolve technical issues.
• Played a major role in Interface testing both functionally and manually.
• Developed strategies wif Quality Assurance group to implement Test Cases in Mercury Quality Center.
• Used Quality Center documentation management and defect tracking.
• Represented QA team in Defect Triage Meetings, weekly status meetings wif IT and business people.

Confidential, Louisville, KY

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed system requirements and developed detailed Test Plan.
• Performed Manual Testing as well as Automation Testing for the EDI transactions.
• Conducted GAP analysis and filling gap according to the format set by HIPAA.
• Involved in FACETS Implementation, involved end-to-end testing of FACETS Billing, Claim Processing and Subscriber/Member module.
• Work on coordination of benefit (COB) in a claim processing.
• Involved in validation of the data in 278 transactions in accordance to companion guide.
• Developed Test Script for Functionality, Security, and Regression testing.
• Ran the scripts on multiple environments (QA, UAT and Production) to ensure that requirements were still met.
• Performed Back-End Testing to check database integrity by writing SQL queries.
• Responsible for creation of test data for testing 278 transactions set.
• Set claim processing data for different Facets Module.
• Tested HIPAA regulations in Facets HIPAA privacy module.
• Wrote test cases in Quality Center derived from the Design documents and generated a Traceability Matrix for testing purposes.
• Created Traceability Matrix to ensure implementation of all functionalities, identify all test conditions and test data needs.
• ICD 9- ICD-10 Conversion Analysis - Worked in the analysis of the ICD 9 - ICD-10 codes.
• Uploaded the diagnosis codes, procedure codes to the related tables in test environment to verify the changes related to ICD9 - ICD-10 changes.
• Used Quality Center to record documenting information useful in debugging process, evaluating test data.
• Prepared and maintained the Test Matrix, Requirements Traceability Matrix.
• Participated in release meetings and also participate in Retrospective session.
• Extensively worked on any requirement upgrade and/or change request while doing UAT.
• Worked closely wif development team to ensure the application performance and stability and also ensure the application completes the whole end to end process.
• Participated in weekly status meeting wif Development and Management Teams.

Environment: Oracle, Windows 2000, IIS, Quality Center, JAVA, SQL, Facets, MS-Suit.

Confidential, Denver, CO

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and analyzed the Business Requirement Document and Functionalspecification document.
• Participated in Requirement meetings and Detail Design meetings for better understanding of the functional requirements.
• Performed Manual Testing prior to Automated Testing of the application for Usability testing.
• Prepared Test Data and performed Positive and Negative testing.
• Prepared Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to map the functional Test cases wif the requirement from the functional Requirement Document.
• Compared and analyzed actual to expected results and reported all bugs in Quality Center.
• Performed regression testing to ensure that bugs fixed did not generate new bugs.
• Created detailed Test cases for different modules in the application according to the functionality of documentation.
• Involved in various types of testing like Functional testing, integration testing, End-to-End testing, Regression testing, User acceptance testing of the application.
• Performed Sanity, Smoke, Functional, Adhoc and Regression Testing using QTP tools.
• Tested new functionality and performed regression testing for every release and modification in the application using QTP.
• Written Data Driven test to handle the scenario requiring multiples sets of data.
• Participated in weekly project status meeting and reviews.
• Interface wif developers to solve software problems.
• Attended daily stand up calls, Walkthrough and Scrum meetings.
• Participated in Sprint planning, Retrospective and Estimation meetings.
• Created Test plan and Test Summary for each sprint.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Functional testing by executing Test script manually.
• Formulated Test Plans based on requirements gathered by Business Analysts.
• Performed testing for various modules
• Drafted Test Cases based on the Test Plan and used cases by the clients.
• Uploaded the requirements, developed test cases, linked the test cases to requirements, executed test cases, and tracked the defects in Quality Center.
• Involved in Navigational testing, Field validation, Functional testing.
• Conducted Back End Testing using SQL queries to validate database connectivity using WinRunner.
• Involved in back end database testing by creating test SQL scripts.
• Enhanced Test Scripts for Data Driven testing using QTP.
• Extensively used QTP for generating the automated test scripts for all the Data Load Application tables.
• Functional Test of Data Update was done to verify functional correctness of the Data Update functions.
• Created GUI Checkpoints and Database check points using QTP.
• Used the Quality Center to create and maintain Test Requirements.
• Coordinated test results analyzing in Quality Center (QC) for defect tracking.
• Participated in meetings and reviews to evaluate documents, plans, code, risk, specifications, and approval process for project deliverables wifin deadlines.