SUMMARY:

• Certified ISTQB Tester with Thirteen (13) years of experience in analysis, creating and executing test plans, test cases, test Scenarios, test execution in all phases of system development life cycle with clients like Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, BCBS, Confidential (AT&T), All State.
• Recommended from Confidential as a State Testing SME for successfully completing and executing the states testing.
• Created Test Plan and Performed of Integration and End - to-End with multiple (50 Medicaid States, HPMS, NPPES, PECOS US Treasure Department)
• Experienced in Black Box, White Box, UAT, Smoke Testing, Integration, Component, Systems (end-to-end), Regression, Functional/Non-functional testing.
• Created a new Testing team and established work process (water flow): reviewed business requirements, conceptual/functional, systems specifications, system integration test (SIT) test plans, test cases, execution, review expected results.
• Tracked defects using Quality Center to analyze the variation between the expected and actual results.
• Created test strategy and test plan for multiple projects in Claims Healthcare System (Validation and Adjudication /Mainframe and Web based application) and analyzed and provided resolution where applicable to incidents related to testing services and update in Test Director.
• Created, reviewed, modified, and executed test cases, defect identification, defect logging, tracking and closing in HP Quality Center.
• Reviewed business requirements, conceptual/functional, systems specifications, system integration test, test plans, Functional, Test State Test plans, working closely with developers & business units.
• He is Local Resource and available for F2F interview.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools: & Applications: MS Office 2010/2013/2016, MS Excel, MS Word, Oracle 11g/10g, My SQL, DB2, Sql, WAS, Mainframe/Linux, OS/390, DB2, Oracle, EFT, MicroStrategy Reports, GUI, Quality Center 10.0, LAM, DOORs, QC, SOAP, QTP, UAT.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

QA Tester

Environment: WAS, Mainframe/Linux, OS/390, DB2, Oracle, EFT, MicroStrategy Reports, GUI, Quality Center 10.0, LAM, DOORs, QC, SOAP, QTP, UAT

Responsibilities:

• Worked on National Level Repository (NLR) project, Web-based and client-server environment - WAS, Mainframe/Linux, OS/390, DB2, Oracle, EFT, MicroStrategy Reports, GUI, Quality Center 10.0, LAM, DOORs, QC, SOAP, QTP
• Created and verified standards of quality and testing procedures - Reviewed and modified quality assurance programs and tested according to user’s specific requests and data inputs.
• Experienced in Black Box, White Box, UAT, Smoke Testing, Integration, Component, Systems (end-to-end), Regression, Functional/Non-functional testing.
• Created, reviewed, modified, and executed test cases, defect identification, defect logging, tracking and closing in HP Quality Center.
• Executed used test cases for manual testing procedures carried out test data for positive and negative test scenarios for functional testing.
• Involved in Manual Testing to check the basic functionality of the modules under test using Quality Center.
• Tracked defects using Quality Center to analyze the variation between the expected and actual results.
• Reviewed business requirements, conceptual/functional, systems specifications, system integration test, test plans, Functional, Test State Test plans, working closely with developers & business units.
• Created Test Plan and Performed of Integration and End-to-End with multiple (50 Medicaid States, HPMS, NPPES, PECOS US Treasure Department)

Confidential, Chicago, IL

QA Analyst

Environment: QTP, UAT, QMF, SPUFI

• Participated in project meetings Created test strategy and test plan for multiple projects in Claims Healthcare System (Validation and Adjudication /Mainframe and Web based application) and analyzed and provided resolution where applicable to incidents related to testing services and update in Test Director.
• Responsible for Test steps, test conditions and test results including the documentation.
• Created, configured and executed the test scenarios on Mainframe for Functional (System), Regression, Smoke, Performance and User Acceptance Test
• Performed Automatic UAT, using Hiperstation and QTP and Create test environment
• Used Query Management Facility (QMF) and SPUFI utilities.
• Performed functional testing based on Business Requirements and Design System Specification (DSS) documents.
• Helped and monitored team members.

Confidential,Hoffman Estates, IL

Project Coordinator and Team Lead for Offshore QA Testing Team in Manila

Environment: HTML, XML, JAVA, J2EE

• Created a new Testing team and established work process (water flow): reviewed business requirements, conceptual/functional, systems specifications, system integration test (SIT) test plans, test cases, execution, review expected results
• Monitored batch cycle during test execution phase on Mainframe, researching problems and correcting JCL errors or contacting appropriate personnel to resolve issues.
• Provided system testing for data product and services system (sales, purchase orders, accounting and other activities) on the mainframe (Assembler, COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, SAS) and web- site (HTML, XML, JAVA, J2EE) based systems.
• Created test cases required for testing.
• Participated in high level design, business and technical requirements.
• Created test strategy, test plan, test steps, test conditions and test results including the documentation and user acceptance.
• Performed test execution and defect tracking.
• Analyzed and provided resolution where applicable to incidents related to testing services and update in Test Director.
• Provided support during implementation.
• Utilized Test Director to log issues encountered while testing.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Tech Lead

Environment: QMF, SQL, DB2, UAT, SPUFI

• Developed test plans for upcoming software changes and modifications.
• Responsible for analysis, program design and application development using JCL, COBOL, DB2 version 7.0, SQL, SPUFI, QMF, CICS.
• Reviewed the existing system code.
• Created Unit Testing and DB2 Test tables.
• Documented all the programs, jobs and their flow and dependencies.
• Prepared test scripts.
• Created new production job streams, procedures and job documents and modified existing ones.
• Involved in development of test plan and writing test cases based on the functional and business requirement documents.
• Developed test plans and test cases for load, System, Stress, UAT and performance testing.
• Created, configured and executed the test scenarios for Manual UAT and Automatic UAT, using WinRunner
• Used Query Management Facility (QMF) and SPUFI utilities to extract data from DB2 subsystem.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Specialist

Environment: UAT, COBOL, DB2

• Implemented and tested TIB/Rendezvous software in a Mainframe environment and for other platforms. (Functional and User Acceptance Test)
• Designed and developed message system.
• Tested TIB/Rendezvous COBOL and TIB Adapter for CICS/DB2.
• Interacted with and assisted others in the RV QA organization at user certification sign-off meetings.
• Involved in Automatic emerge message system.
• Performed unit and integration testing.

Confidential, Northbrook, IL

Programmer/Analyst

Environment: JCL, COBOL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, ASSEMBLER, EASYTRIEVE.

• Responsible for production support within financial system, including the testing and maintenance of the system.
• Worked as a team member in financial system.
• Prepared unit test plans.
• Responsible for maintaining and enhancement of various software applications using JCL, COBOL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, ASSEMBLER, EASYTRIEVE.
• Designed maps for menus, input and reports.
• Created VSAM files and DB2 tables to store and access data.
• Oversaw the integration of the off-site developed deliverables into the on-site technical environment, including placement of source code in appropriate development libraries, execution of clean host compiles and DB2 binds, and successful re-execution of unit tests originally conducted off-site.
• Tested the project using Xpeditor.
• Executed the test cases, documented test results in test execution documents, and prepared the problem log for all the bugs.
• Generated reports summarizing daily transactions for each branch.
• Involved in on-call production support 24x7 tasks included; problem solving, small enhancements, performance monitoring, and interacting with users including the analysis, design, development and implementation of several projects as member Detail Team using COBOL, BAL, DB2, CICS, VSAM.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Programmer/Analyst

Environment: Cobol, Assembler, Easytrieve, VSAM, DB2 and CICS

• Responsible for support within provider system, including the analysis, design, development and implementation of several projects as a member of Managed Care team, using Cobol, Assembler, Easytrieve, VSAM, DB2 and CICS on mainframe platform.

Confidential,Chicago IL

Programmer/ Analyst

Environment: Assembler, COBOL, NATURAL, ADABAS and CICS

• Performed multiple roles on the renovation of various batch and on-line mainframe systems for “Year 2000” compliance.
• Responsible for “Year 2000” analysis, assembler code changes, unit, system, compliance and integration tests, including implementation and post implementation support.
• Provided accurate documentation and assisted in presentation of renovated systems at User Certification Sign-Off meetings.
• As part of system analysis, created a project specification for VSAM and physical sequential files, which included both file expansion and conversion using Assembler, COBOL, NATURAL, ADABAS and CICS.

Confidential,Northbrook, IL

Programmer/Analyst

Environment: Assembler, COBOL, Easytrieve and VSAM.

• Responsible for production support within claim technology system, including the analysis, design, development and implementation of several projects as member daily update team (New-York Medical Surcharge, Taxes Benchmark, and Colorado Assign Risk).
• Created test data, test plan and test result on unit test level.
• Performed integration test, coding and debugging programs in Assembler, COBOL, Easytrieve and VSAM.
• Provided analytical and technical assistance by investigating system inquiries and by creating supporting documentation.