SUMMARY:

• Seeking a challenging position as a QA Analyst / Software Test Engineer in a client server or mainframe environment. I have over ten years of experience focused on software quality assurance testing.
• Specific types of testing experience include: performance, functionality, module, negative, volume, system, regression, transaction, black box, and UAT testing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: UNIX Shell Scripts, C, C++, Basic, Visual C++, Visual Basic - 5.0

RDBMS: SQL Server 8.0, Oracle, MS-Access, DB2, and Sybase

Software: Excel, Power Point, Outlook, Word 6.0, Lotus123, Dbase IV, and WordPerfect

Hardware: IBM PC, Gateway, Compaq, IBM 3090, Dell, Toshiba, Fujitsu, and HP

Testing Tools: WinRunner, LoadRunner Xrunner, Silk Test, and PreVue-X

Operating Systems: UNIX, Linux, Windows 98 / 2000/NT / XP Professional, Exceed, IBM Mainframe and IBM Terminal Emulator

Bug Reporting Tools: Visual Intercept, PVCS, Test Director, MKS, PR Tracker, Rally, Jira and Team Track

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior QA Analyst

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Wrote test plan and test cases for newly build Pinnacle registry
• Helped nurses and doctors how to collect and submit patient data to the registry
• Certified vendor for CATHPCI registry
• Verified and validated vendors are submitting correct data before sending to the CMS
• Verified and validated web application functionalities make sure they satisfy requirements
• Upload and analyze vendor data, let them know what kind of changes to make to submit data to CMS

Senior QA Analyst

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Meet with the manager on daily basis for requirement analysis
• Performed "QA Draft Audit" for work requests before presented to the government
• Sending issues related to the work request to the manager to correct them
• Any outstanding issues before the CCB meeting created a defect report
• Participate CCB meeting with the manager, developer, DBA and testing team
• Created test plan and test cases for newly added functionalities
• Executed test cases verify and validated system - generating report correctly

Senior QA Analyst

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Design, Execute and maintain test plans test cases and/or test scripts
• Document, maintain and monitor software defect reports in defect tracking system
• Meet with developer and QA team on daily basis discuss defect and testing progress
• Create test plan, test strategy and regression testing status report
• Participate defect review meeting on weekly basis
• Create a user story when new functionalities requested by the user group
• Executed test cases individually and in a group as well as, used the test plan editor by running specific portions of the test plan.
• Analyzed the test result by looking at the test result files and comparing them with the expect result vs. the actual result.

Senior QA Analyst

Confidential, Timonium, MD

Responsibilities:

• Writing test cases using Emperix eManager based on the requirements.
• Modified/Create new test cases when functionalities added to the application
• Wrote SQL queries to retrieve data from backend Oracle database.
• Using SQL queries update database, verify validate database table and delete
• Wrote and executed SQL Queries to ensure Data Integrity to meet user requirements.
• Create XML file send through the Transim for customer authorization
• Executed test cases both manually and with Emperix eManager
• Reviewed the proposal and requirements specifications and drafted a test plan.
• Documented the bugs found during the process of testing.

Senior QA Analyst

Confidential, Timonium, MD

Responsibilities:

• Tested newly released builds on Linux and Solaris platforms for different clients
• Responsible for releasing QA response document to the manager after every release testing cycle.
• Created test cases manually as well as through Test Case Generator (custom tool).
• Analyzed differences using Code Wright during Regression testing to write up defects.
• Attend developer meetings to keep track of upcoming changes for releases.
• Used Team Track and PVCS Tracker to report defects
• Assisted with project plan and scheduling milestones for the entire team

QA Analyst / Software Tester

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Responsibilities:

• Wrote software requirements, test plans, test procedures and builds test cases based upon business rules and system analysis
• Executed all the test cases and defect reports build by build
• Worked closely with the developers in isolating bugs found in test environment
• Used Interact to log and monitor defects, tracking reported errors to closure and analyzing and reporting on test results
• Provide mentorship for junior software testers
• Worked with Project Managers to deliver thorough software test products in timely fashion

Software Tester

Confidential, Towson, MD

Responsibilities:

• Participated in JAR and JAD sessions to ensure proper test planning and test execution. Assisted in developing, maintaining, and utilizing a regression test environment.
• Defined, documented and provided traceability matrices to ensure all requirements were addressed and met.
• Worked closely with development team included discussing defects or programming error in the weekly meeting.
• Created negative test cases, ensuring application did not accept any negative values and generated all error messages.
• Wrote and executed SQL queries to ensure Data Integrity met user requirements.

QA Analyst

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Ran automated test scripts using WinRunner against the newly released build and analyzed the failed step manually to determine why they failed. Created and executed manual test scripts using TestDirector.
• Reported bugs to the developers through Winrunner defect management tool.
• Set up global data table used by the automated scripts with appropriate value so that automated scripts ran smoothly.
• Created and modified test plan and test cases for newly added functionality as well as enhanced functionality using TestDirector.
• Updated the TestDirector bug database by retesting the fixed issue if it passed close the issues, if it failed, reopened the issue and assigned it to the appropriate developer.
• Filled all the appropriate information in Test Director's test properties such as Version, Build number, Run by, Component, and Exchange for history purposes.

QA Tester/Analyst

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Added transaction statements into the scripts to measure the performance of the client server and application server using the Load Runner;
• Executed test plan and test cases under UNIX and Windows platform.
• Any found bug reported to the developer through defect management tool provided by TestDirector.
• Complete regression testing was performed after each error was fixed.
• Performed initial recording of WinRunner scripts and further enhanced them to include synchronization and verification statements.
• Parameterized the scripts to aid data driven testing using WinRunner data table concept.

QA Analyst

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Automated test scripts with rational prevue - X and Mercury WinRunner, Xrunner.
• Compiled test date from test scripts executions.
• Developed and executed integration, systems, and user acceptance test scripts.
• Used Load Runner for stress test purposes.
• Verified and validated software functionality using requirements.
• Expanded test coverage of the existing test harness.
• Tested and validated the financial derivatives trading system including foreign exchange, money market and interest rate structured products such as Stock, Bond, Swap, and Option.

QA Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Run UNIX Shell Scripts to load data into the database according to the Technical Specifications.
• Created many kinds of negative and positive Testing make sure application is not excepting any negative value.
• Found bugs were reported to the development team through an on-line error tracking system called Rally.
• After successful completion of all of testing, wrote a test report for each project.
• Developed test plans and test cases for IBM Mainframe application from the FRS.
• Performed black box testing on new releases of the Mainframe application.
• Maintained the necessary documentation to support the testing of the mainframe application.
• Liaised with the developers on issues requiring their attention and resolution