SUMMARY:

• Around 7 years of experience in Quality Assurance and Software Testing in various industries such as Medical and Healthcare
• Associated with verification and validation of software for Medical devices.
• Excellent skills in writing Test Plans and Test Cases.
• Extensive experience in testing Client/Server and Web - based Applications.
• Expertise in Automated testing tools such as Seleniumand QTP.
• Expertise in Bug reporting tools such as Test Director and Quality Center
• Proficient in manual and automated testing of applications on Windows and Unix environment
• Very good experience in Back-End Testing using SQL on UNIX and Windows platform to validate the consistency of data
• Maintained Test Matrix and Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Proficient in concepts like Boundary Value Analysis, Equivalence Partitioning, Decision tables.
• Good Experience with CAPA investigation.
• Performed Gap Analysis.
• Good knowledge on Perl Scripting.
• Hand on Experience in Embedded C Development
• Proficient knowledge in various types of Software Testing such as Unit testing, Integrated testing, System Testing, Black box testing, Positive Testing, Negative testing, Performance Testing, Stress Testing, Back end Testing and Regression Testing.
• Hand-On Experience in working with 3D CAD tools.
• Good working knowledge of major Operating Systems such as Windows 98, 2000, XP, Vista, 7 and UNIX
• Extensive knowledge of SDLC.
• Adequately appreciate the need for and subscribe to Good Documentation Practices.
• Awareness of International standards applicable to medical devices and software like ISO 13485, IEC 14971, IEC 62304.
• Comprehensive knowledge of FDA Quality System Regulations
• Proficient in concepts like Boundary Value Analysis, Equivalence Partitioning, Decision tables.
• Working Knowledge of HIPAA
• Excellent communication and writing skills with the ability to adapt to new and dynamic environments
• Good team leader, Player and can work alone with minimal or no supervision
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize and work with time constraints while paying attention to details.
• Good problem-solving, judgment, and decision-making skill.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Quick Test Professional (QTP), Selenium, AutoCAD, IAR Workbench

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

Databases: Oracle, MS Access, MS SQL Server

Scripting Languages: TSL, VB Script and C

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/00/NT/XP, HP-UNIX, MS-DOS, Mac OS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, West Chester, PA

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all the phases of SDLC and QA Life cycle, with timely delivery against aggressive timelines.
• Manage both offshore and onshore team.
• Conduct weekly status meeting with the offshore and onshore team and update the managers with the status.
• Prepared Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Procedures using Business requirements documented Functional requirements document of the system.
• Understand the application requirements and system design
• Prepare Test case data needs before developing the Test cases.
• Involved in performing Functionality testing, Validation testing, Negative and Positive testing, Integration testing, Ad-hoc testing.
• Analyzing the logs and escalate the issues to Developers.
• Performed Selenium testing of a Web-based application.
• Worked on Web based Patient Diabetes Management Application.
• Involved in Hardware Board bring up Testing.
• Involved in Bluetooth Communication Testing with the Insulin Pump.
• Performed Software Testing Using IAR Workbench.
• Involved in Unit Testing and Created CSV’s for the Software Flashing tool ‘Zippy’.
• Performed Pressure Test, Drop Test, Variable Environment Test, Stress Test, Range Test.
• Experience in designing and executing the automation test scripts using Selenium-WebDriver.
• Good knowledge on Selenium IDE testing tool.
• Developed Perl scripts to automate frequent reports for the users
• Responsible for providing the status updates to the team on daily basis.
• Prepared Traceability Matrix to show the test coverage requirement.
• Participated in daily status meeting, Coordinated with the developers and Business Analysts to resolve the defects and close them.
• Support, co-ordination and responsibility of the testing activities which includes review of test cases and test conditions, walkthrough of test cases with clients.
• Status Reporting (Daily/Weekly status report, Test Summary Report and Productivity sheet).
• Test management and updating results in Quality Center.
• Prioritized and reported defects using Defect Tracking tool JIRA.
• Creating issues on JIRA and assigning the bugs to the developers for further investigation.

Environment: ALM/Quality Center, JIRA, QNX, Selenium, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Windows, IAR Workbench.

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Senior Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in project planning, coordination and implementation of QA methodology.
• Participated in analyzing the user/business requirements, functional specifications and use case documents to create the test plans and test cases for system testing.
• Responsible for testing of new functionality and enhancements, regression testing, system end-to-end testing, functional testing, black-box and gray-box testing, integration testing, negative and adversarial testing.
• Created and executed test sets and maintained documentation of test results using Quality Center.
• Monitored and tracked defects/risks and managed through resolution using Quality Center.
• Analyzed test result reports and test case results and determined causes, and created detailed and comprehensive defect reports.
• Involved in development of Critical Drug Delivery Test Cases Using DRC+ Algorithm.
• Performed Negative Testing for the Questions from FDA.
• Created CSV’s for the Patient Simulators and involved in Validation of the simulators.
• Involved in Battery Life Testing.
• Involved in Unit Testing.
• Hands on Experience in UI Development using QNX Photon.
• Automating the test cases for calculating the Transactions for the unit usage and checking the patient logs from the start of the procedure to the end of the procedure using Selenium WebDriver using Java.
• Generate Selenium WebDriver test execution reports.
• Created CSV’s to perform validation of patient Simulators used.
• Adhered to Good Documentation Practices during protocol execution.
• Participated in various meetings and discussed enhancements and modification request issues.

Environment: Selenium WebDriver, Selenium RC, XML, Quality Center, Oracle Database, MS Project, MS Office, Windows/Linux.

Confidential

Senior Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the business requirements, functional specification and use case documents.
• Developed test plans, test cases using requirements, use cases, wire frames and design documents.
• Performed GUI and Functionality testing, Integration Testing and System Testing.
• Performed extensive manual testing of each module.
• Performed Manual Testing prior to automate testing on the application.
• Experiences working in ANSI x12 EDI Transaction.
• Involved In Testing the EDIs according to HIPPA code set 834 enrolment and disenrollment in a health plan using QTP
• Involved in testing EDIs according to code set X12 835 Claim Payment & Remittance Advice Claims processing and 837 Claim transactions.
• Executing SQL commands performed back-end testing.
• Executed SQL statements to check if the data integrity has been maintained.
• Created SQL queries for data validation.
• Performed manual Back-End testing on the application by writing complex SQL queries.
• Wrote INNER, OUTER JOINS to retrieve desired or expected data from tables of database with and without comparison operators to perform Backend testing in QTP.
• Designed the Recovery Scenarios using External Function calls.
• Inserted comments into Vuser Script in Load Runner
• Monitored and analyzed Activities Report, Performance Reports, Cross results and merged graphs in Load Runner
• Conducted heavy data-driven testing using Parameterization and Data Driver Wizard in QTP to test the application with different sets of data in each iteration
• Inserted Checkpoints to check for broken links, Text and standard properties of an object using QTP
• Tested user interface and navigation controls of the application using QTP
• Performed Functionality and GUI Testing using QTP.
• Experience in creating performance test scripts and configuration of performance tests Using Performance testing tools like HP Performance center
• Actively participated in walkthroughs and enhancement meetings
• Customized Mercury Quality Center to suit the requirements of testing effort
• Monitored the Defect Tracking Process and generated customized graphs and reports for the client using MQC

Environment: Quality Center, HIPPA, EDI, QTP, Load Runner, Windows 2000, SQL Server, SQL, MS Office, Visio, Excel, Access, Outlook, Oracle 9i, HP Performance Center.

Confidential

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Functioned as the Technical support officer and offshore QA coordinator for the modules within the Sprints in the SCRUM methodology that includes various modules within the transformation module.
• Actively participated in the sprint planning meetings during which the requirements for the next sprint are reviewed, daily scrum meeting during which the status updates are discussed and sprint review sessions where the developed portion of the product is reviewed with the users.
• Interacting with the clients for the requirements gathering and understanding, participation in business meetings and ambiguity reviews.
• The onsite team used to co-locate to help work closely with business and developer teams to discuss the status of the project, understanding of the requirements, test strategy and issues/questions.
• Participation in regular meetings with the Onsite QA team, to transfer knowledge on the requirements and to share/manage the testing related tasks accordingly.
• Analysis and understanding of the existing application and framework and analysis of the storage formats of various modeling tools. This is to set up test data accordingly covering the test cases.
• Preparation of the test strategy, test plan and test cases in co-ordination with the Onsite QA team.
• Execution of the test cases and tracking of the bugs through Version One.
• As and when the developer team is ready with a portion of the module, we used to test it quickly for the developer team to promote the same to UAT for demo with the users.
• Worked with tight deadlines to fit to timelines of the sprint in the scrum methodology.
• Writing PL/SQL procedures for processing business logic in the database. Tuning of SQL queries for better performance.
• Developed ETL mappings, transformations using Informatica Power Center 6.2 for transferring data from existing system to info warehouse.
• Involved extensively in creating different types of transformations like source qualifier, expression, filter, aggregator, joiner, update strategy, lookup, and stored procedure.
• Involved in performance tuning of the mappings and sessions. Determining performance bottlenecks due to source files and transformations.
• Developed mapping to load data in slowly changing dimension and involved in code migration from development to production phase.
• Extensively used Informatica Power Center 6.2(Workflow Manager and Workflow Monitor) for creating and monitoring workflows and sessions.

Environment: ALM/Quality Center, JIRA, QNX, Selenium, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Windows, Load Runner, Test Director, Windows 2000/XP, Oracle on UNIX, LabVIEW