SUMMARY

• 9+ years of total IT experience and very good knowledge QA of Software Applications and Testing. Extensive experience in testing of data warehouse / data marts for business applications with Banking, Financial, Brokerage, Insurance, Pharmaceuticals, Manufacturing.
• Extensive 5 years of QA experience in Data Warehousing technology in building and managing various data warehouse / data marts using Informatica products such as Informatica Power Center/Power Mart, Power Connect, Power Analyzer and Power Exchange Tools.
• Experience in using SOAP Sonar for providing simple, intuitive and comprehensive testing for SOAP - , XML- and REST-based services
• Experience working in using Databases like Oracle, Teradata, SQL Server, DB2, MS Access and DB2. Expertise in Database Programming (Stored Procedures, Triggers, Packages, PL/SQL) using Oracle.
• Used QTP for Checkpoints, Regular Expression and Accessed Data Tables for multiple applications.
• Involved in writing test scripts and functions in Test Script Language using QTP for automated testing.
• Automated detailed test cases by using Quick Test Pro.
• Experience in Pharmaceutical, Financial, Banking, Manufacturing, and Securities industries.
• Extensively used ETL methodology for testing and supporting data extraction, transformations and loading processing, in a corporate-wide-ETL Solution using Informatica.
• Extensive experience in Business Intelligence reporting tools using Cognos Series, Power Play, Transformer, Impromptu Web Reports (IWR).
• Extensively used SQL, PLSQL to create complex queries, SQL Override, Stored Procedures, and Triggers.
• Expertise in writing Unix Shell Scripts.
• Excellent Analytical and Logical Programming skills with a good understanding at the Conceptual Level and possess excellent Presentation, Interpersonal skills with a strong desire to achieve specified goals. Excellent written and verbal communication skills including experience in proposal and presentation creation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

OS: Sun Solaris 2.7/2.6, HP-UX, IBM AIX 4.3/4.2, MS DOS 6.22, Win NT/2000/98/95.

ETL Tools: Informatica PowerCenter 9.0/8.x/7.x.

BI Tools: Business Objects, Crystal Reports and Siebel Analytics

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, VB, C, C++, COBOL.

Databases: Oracle 10g/9i/8i, MS Access, SQL Server 2008, DB2 9.x, Teradata V2R6

Testing Tools: Win Runner 8.2, Load Runner 7.8, QTP 8.2, Quality Center 10, and Test Director

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NYC NY

Sr. ETL QA TESTER

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Specifications and involved in identifying the source data needs to be moved to data warehouse.
• Well exposed to SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) and Test methodologies.
• Configured the QA Environment for Manual Testing as well as Automation through autosys.
• Tested the data and data integrity among various sources and targets.
• Extensive knowledge on SOX standards & BASEL II Final Rule for Capital Calculations.
• Designed, developed stored procedures using PL/SQL and tuned SQL queries for better performance.
• Used debugger to test the data flow between source and target and to fix the invalid mappings.
• Used InformaticaPowerCenter 8.6.1and its all features extensively in migrating data from OLTP to Enterprise Data warehouse.
• Designed and created the Microsoft Visio diagram which represents the workflow and execution process of all the process in the reinsurance world.
• Written various Autosys JIL Scripts to activate the UNIX scripts in production i.e. Jil scripts for the Box and Commands.
• Enhanced the daily test automation environment using Python 2.3
• Created several Ad-hoc reports in Business Objects XI R2 to validate the data.
• Involved in testing the Business Objects performance & connectivity across different domains.
• Tested complex objects to the universe to enhance the report functionality.
• Extensively used SQL queries to check storage and accuracy of data in database tables.
• Written complex SQL queries for validating the data stored in different database tables.
• Helped the team in analyzing the data to be able to identify the data quality issues
• As a Test Lead involved in gathering System and Business requirements, studying and coordinated with the Development and Business teams to prepare Test Plans and Execution Plans.
• Involved in Database testing by writing & executing SQL & PLSQL queries using TOAD to validate that data is being populated in an appropriate tables & manually comparing the results with front-end values.
• Worked as ETL Tester responsible for the requirements / ETL Analysis, ETL Testing of the flow and the logic for the Data warehouse project.
• Monitored the data move process through Data Extract to Flat file through Informatica Execution flows and Loading data to Data mart through NZLOAD utility.
• Tested database for Data Validation, Data Verification using NZ SQL.
• Involved in writing the test cases and Test plans based on Informatica mappings and Data Analyst mappings, BA Visio diagrams.
• Used PMCMD command to start, stop and ping server from UNIX.
• Extensively worked on handling the application response for Positive and Negative sets of data using data driven testing. Also manually tested the application for each system build, for both negative and positive testing.
• Involved in automation of test cases using QTP.
• Did functional testing using QTP
• Good experience in communicating with offshore team
• Communication with the client for weekly status report
• Test execution in accordance with test strategy and test schedule, review; issue identification and data mining exercises in accordance with project plan timelines.
• Tested the ETL process for both before data validation and after data validation process. Tested the messages published by ETL tool and data loaded into various databases.
• Generated tractability Matrices to ensure that all the requirements are covered by the test cases.
• Extensively used Informatica Debugger for testing the mapping logic during Unit Testing. Performed unit testing, integrated testing and validated results with Business Analyst and/or customer.
• Involved in FTP process to transfer the files from one server to other.
• Automated and scheduled the Informatica jobs using UNIX Shell Scripting.
• Stimulated several production cycles. Worked with data validation, constraints, record counts, and source to target, row counts, random sampling and error processing.
• Participated in Daily and weekly status meeting with team members and coordinated with teams (Development, Business, and QA) for the progress of the work done in application.

Environment: Informatica power center 9.1.0 1, SQL, PL/SQL, Python 2.3,Autosys 4.5,Unix Shell Scripting, Business Objects Enterprise XI R2/ R3, Oracle 9.2 and 10G, Teradata V2R6, HP Quality Center 10, Autosys, MQ Series, Microsoft Visio, Web Focus report

Confidential, Pittsburgh, KS

Sr. ETL/DW/Backend Tester

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test Cases in HP Quality Center and executed them.
• Involved in writing the Test Plans based on Business Requirement and Functional Requirement documents.
• Involved in implementation of the Test plans, Test cases and Test Scripts.
• Created Test sets in Test Lab to move all the test cases from Test plan to execute the test cases.
• Tested the data and data integrity among various sources and targets.
• Developed and involved in both Manual Testing and Automation Test Scripts based on Use cases developed.
• Tested to verify that all data were synchronized after the data is troubleshoot, and also used SQL to verify/validate my test cases.
• Testing and bug fixing of an embedded logging application written in Python.
• Provided Autosys expertise for batch processes running in the QA environment within the Enterprise Business Intelligence group.
• Experience with Autosys job scheduler including jil scripting, virtual machines and Converted existing scheduled processes from Cron to Autosys.
• Tested Business Objects reports and Web Intelligence reports.
• Managed user accounts and security using Business Objects Supervisor.
• Tested the universes and reports in Business Objects 6.0
• Extensively used Informatica power center for ETL process.
• Preparation of ETL mapping specifications.
• Worked with QTP for Regression Testing.
• Configured Quick Test Professional with Quality center.
• Executed of QTP Script for automation testing, analyzing the automation result
• Reviewed Informatica mappings and test cases before delivering to Client.
• Used all Teradata utilities including Fast Load, Multi Load, Fast Export, SQL Assistant, BTEQ & TPUMP
• Trained and coordinated with the offshore team members in understanding the requirements and test cases for UAT.
• Tested the ETL Informatica mappings and other ETL Processes (Data Warehouse Testing).
• Involved in ETL Mapping Design and Performance tuning to Load mapping process.
• Experienced in writing complex SQL queries for extracting data from multiple tables.
• Reviewed the test cases written based on the Change Request document.
• Testing has been done based on Change Requests and Defect Requests.
• Involved in preparation of System Test Results after Test case execution.
• Experienced in writing UNIX script.
• Effectively coordinated with the development team.
• Created critical scenarios for each change request and defect request.
• Worked on HP Quality Center and updated defects status with appropriate information. Test cases and Test plans are managed and controlled using HP Test Director. And also used HP Test Director to manage and track defects.
• Involved in various testing phases like Unit Testing, System Integration Testing, Validation Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Parallel Testing, Performance Testing and Regression Testing.
• Used various SQL queries to validate the test case results for back-end test cases.
• Well exposed to Software Development Life Cycle and Test methodologies.
• Hands on experience with working on Autosys jobs and MQ’s. MQ’s are used for intermediate storage where the messages are stored for temporary purpose.
• Hands on experience working with SQL Server DTS Packages.

Environment: Informatica Power Center 8.1, SQL, PL/SQL, SQL Server 2000/2005, Unix Shell Scripting, XML, XML Spy 2008, XSLT, TOAD 9.2,Oracle 9.2, SOA, SOAP UI, REST Teradata, HP Quality Center, Rational Suite, DB Artisan 8.5.2, Autosys, MQ’s

Confidential, Mettwa IL

ETL/Data/SQL Tester

Responsibilities:

• Gathered user requirements from each Business Units for test.
• Interacted with the Business users to identify the process metrics and various keys dimensions and measures.
• Designed and developed Test Plans and Test Cases and executed them.
• Involved in implementation of the Test plans, Test cases and Test scripts.
• Involved in the error checking and testing of the ETL programs using Informatica session log and workflow logs.
• Involved in ETL Mapping Design and Performance tuning to Load mapping process.
• Organized sessions in a batch to run the sessions in a batch in sequential order or start them concurrently by the server.
• Used NZLOAD to load data from flat files to Netezza
• Initial testing was conducted manually and later phase was executed using Mercury Tools
• Conducted the Functional, System, Regression, and Performance testing of the Web application using Mercury tools Quick Test Pro and LoadRunner.
• Worked with Quality center to document test results and validate test scripts. Used Quality Center in routing defects, defect resolution and assigning business cases to business users.
• Developed Automated Test Scripts using Win Runner.
• Designed process performance loading strategies. And also wrote the optimizing techniques to improve the process loading time within the streamline using Server Manager to load the data into the Target Database.
• Involved in writing Test cases and Test plans which are managed and controlled using HP Test Director. Also used HP Test Director to manage and track defects.
• Involved in various testing phases like Unit Testing, System Integration Testing, Validation Testing, User Acceptance Testing and Performance Testing.
• Used various SQL queries to validate the test case results for back-end test cases.
• Well exposed to Software Development Life Cycle and Test methodologies.
• Created and published Impromptu/Report Net reports.
• Tested several complex reports generated by Cognos including Dashboard, Summary Reports, Master Detailed, Drill Down and Score Cards.
• Used Query Studio to test ad hoc reports.
• Involved in Unit Testing of all reports and packages.
• Involved in testing the Cognos reports by writing complex SQL queries.
• Developed complex queries using different data providers in the same report.

Environment: Informatica Power Center 8, Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL, Netezza 4.6UNIX Shell Scripting, XML, TOAD, HP Quality Center, Report Net, Framework Manager, Report Net 1.1

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

Data Tester/ETL/SQL

Responsibilities:

• Used Informatica Power Center for Extraction, Loading and Transformation (ETL) of data into the Data Warehouse.
• Involved in developing the Test Cases, Test Plans and Test Scripts using the Business Requirement
• Developed Shell Scripts to perform pre-session and post-session operations.
• Involved in writing the Test Cases, Test Plans and Test Scripts using the Business Requirement
• Involved in Manual Testing of the Application.
• Involved in Positive and Negative Testing.
• Completely involved in developing Test Plans and developed Test Cases/Test Strategy with input from the assigned Business Analysts
• Extensively involved in the Performance testing of the programs, ETL Procedures and Processes
• Coordinated with QA Testing Team to test various test scenarios involving Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Used various SQL queries to validate the test case results for back-end test cases.
• Extensively used Mercury Quality Center (Test Director) and created Test Cases in the Test Plan according to the specifications.

Environment: Informatica Power Center 7.1, Oracle, XML Files, Dat Files, MS Excel, Flat Files, SQL, PLSQL, SQL Server, Unix Shell Scripting

Confidential, Groton, CT

ETL/BI Data Tester

Responsibilities:

• Gathering of user requirements and source system analysis and establishing mappings between source to target attributes.
• Involved in writing the Test Plans based on Business Requirement and Functional Requirement documents.
• Involved in writing the Test Cases and Test Plans based on Informatica mappings Data Analyst mappings and BA Visio diagrams.
• Automated and scheduled the Informatica jobs using UNIX Shell Scripting.
• Developed Shell Scripts to perform pre-session and post-session operations.
• Involved in Positive and Negative Testing.
• Extensively involved in the Performance testing of the programs, ETL Procedures and Processes
• Coordinated with QA Testing Team to test various test scenarios involving Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts

Environment: Informatica Power Center 6.x, Oracle 9i, SQL, PL/SQL, UNIX Shell Scripting.