SUMMARY:

• A minimum of 4 years of experience as a User Acceptance Tester.
• My experience as a User Acceptance Tester spans more than 10 years and includes several MMIS Installations and Confidential Mandates such as NPI and T - MSIS.
• Strong analytical and debugging skills.
• My analytical and debugging skills began development in the earliest years of my IT Career, as a Programmer Analyst.
• They have become a part of my major technical assets.
• Strong knowledge of the technical aspects of Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) or Maryland Health Benefit Exchange system.
• I have been involved in a number of technical aspects in the following Medicaid Management Information Systems: Alaska, Louisiana, Nevada and Virginia.
• Detail oriented; especially related to quality of deliverables.
• I have developed several of the following deliverables: Statement of Work (SOW), Traceability Matrix, RAD, GSD, DSD, Impact Assessment, Test Plan, Testing Approach Plans, Project Plan, etc.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and solve technical issues as they relate to testing mainframe applications.
• There are many technical issues that can surface during testing of mainframe applications and systems. My past experience in development and testing has been and continues to be an asset in defect detection, analysis and resolution of most issues.
• Proven experience working effectively with team members and other support personnel.
• As a Project Manager on EPSDT development for the Virginia MMIS with a Business Owner and a team of three developers, and as a Business Analyst on several other MMIS projects, I have proven experience working effectively with team members and other support personnel.
• Experience as a mainframe tester on complex and dynamic, multi-agency technology projects within the healthcare industry.
• As a member of the SQA team on the Virginia MMIS, which is a Mainframe System, I have tested all Subsystems including Eligibility/Member, Provider, Claims, Service Authorization, Reference, TPL and Financials. Testing included development, releases and Confidential mandates.
• Experience in testing and supporting the MMIS or the Maryland Health Benefits Exchange system.
• As a member of the SQA team on the Virginia MMIS, which is a Mainframe System, I have tested all Subsystems including Eligibility/Member, Provider, Claims, Service Authorization, Reference, TPL and Financials. Testing included development, releases and Confidential mandates.
• Experience in COBOL, DB2, CICS and JCL development or testing.
• The MMIS platforms that I have developed, maintained and tested were written in COBOL, CICS, VSAM and DB2. JCL was employed to execute Batch processes.
• Familiarity with SQL, HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• I have been exposed to SQL, HTML, CSS and JavaScript during development, testing and implementation of a Business Intelligence System for the Virginia DSS.
• Hands-on experience in backend testing on DBs such as FOCUS, DB2 and Oracle.
• My backend testing experience includes Data Analysis and Data Validation of several Relational Databases.
• Demonstrated strong technical testing skills using SQL to perform complex DB queries.
• My technical testing skills were demonstrated during IV&V activities for the Alaska MMIS. The outcome uncovered data conversion issues when member related tables were joined with other subsystem tables during complex DB queries.
• Working knowledge of WebFOCUS, COBOL JCL Procedures and Libraries, CICS, Catalogues, HFS, PDS, OpenVMS, DCL, TSO, ISPF, SDSF, VSAM, Endeavor, Panvalet.
• I have a working knowledge of many components as MMIS platforms are extremely complex. A variety of tools and utilities are crucial for peak performance and accuracy. Efficient development and extraction of test data and test execution on the mainframe would be impossible without a “Know How” of many of these components.
• Demonstrated experience with industry standard Quality Assurance best practices for Agile and Iterative SDLCs, testing methodologies, version control systems, implementation, and deployment activities.
• I have experience with industry standard Quality Assurance best practices for Agile and iterative SDLCs as well as waterfall testing methodologies, version control, implementation, deployment and certification.
• Experience in system testing, data warehouse migration testing, data integrity testing and data transformation related testing.
• My assignment as the Business Analyst on the ESS Project for the Virginia MMIS was based on ETL related activities via data warehouse migration testing as well as data validation and testing.
• The information provided on this form for this labor category is true and correct to the best of my knowledge:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Testing Team Lead

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Responsibilities:

• Managed and planned preliminary testing activities and tasks for the latest software application release for the State of Virginia s Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS).
• Interacted with product management and the development team to assure that requirements were fully understood and documented in Rational RequisitePro.
• Executed test cases and documented the results for a prior application release, resulting in defect management and resolution activities.
• Coordinated all testing activities for the prior release in Rational ClearQuest and Test Manager.

Senior Business Analyst

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Responsibilities:

• Developed all T-MSIS project deliverables including the Statement of Work (SOW), Detailed System Design (DSD), Change Management and Testing Approach Plans.
• Facilitated project status meetings and prepared the minutes to include action item (AI) assignment, tracking and resolution.
• Developed Software Release test plans for subsystems within the Virginia MMIS including Claims, Member and Provider.
• Managed and tracked product defects from assignment through resolution.

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Senior Technical Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed and coordinated Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) reviews for the State of Alaska’s Medicaid Enterprise System.
• Developed test scenarios and scripts, including user stories to validate data conversion from the Alaska Legacy MMIS to the new Medicaid Enterprise System.

Senior Technical Analyst Consultant

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Responsibilities:

• Developed use cases, user interface and user requirement specification documents in relation to implementation of the Executive Support System (ESS) for the State of Virginia’s Medicaid Management System (MMIS).
• As the lead business analyst, liaised with developers, user representatives and management to support Cognos application design and documentation reviews.
• Planned, developed and executed the Test Plan, utilizing Waterfall, Agile and Iterative Models for defect identification, tracking and resolution.

Confidential, Glen Allen, VA

Senior Technical Applications Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Planned, developed and executed test scripts resulting in a 67% reduction in post release implementation software defects, across all subsystems in the Virginia Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS).
• Coordinated and developed a MITA conceptualized approach to the Maine MMIS Procurement endeavor.
• Coordinated, developed, managed and implemented the Coordination of Benefits Agreement (COBA) initiative for the State of Virginia’s MMIS.
• Coordinated and developed the full Software Development Life Cycle of the Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment (EPSDT) subsystem, managing a team of four developers and one business owner.
• Developed subsystem specifications including Requirement Analysis, General Systems Design, Detailed Systems Design and Program Specifications for the Virginia MMIS.
• Developed the MMIS Certification Plan for system validation by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ( Confidential ).
• Developed and coordinated the agenda for Joint Application Design (JAD) Sessions between Confidential and the State of Nevada.
• Developed system proposals in response to the states of Alaska, Delaware, Kansas, NevadaNew Mexico and the District of Columbia MMIS development and implementation Request For Proposals (RFPs).