SUMMARY: Professional work history includes around fourteen years of IT experience with extensive hands-on experience in Software Development, Configuration Management, Software Quality Assurance, Test Automation, Data warehouse and Reporting in leading organizations.

EDUCATION: Bachelor of Engineering

SKILLS: ASP.Net 4.0, Visual Basic 2010, SQL Server 2008, J2EE/Java 6, Oracle 10g, XML Spy 2012, Microfocus (formerly Compuware) QA Director 6.2, TestPartner 6.3, QALoad 5.9, Silk Suite 2010 R2 (SilkCentral, SilkTest, SilkPerformer), Tevron CitraTest 731d1, JIRA 4.1, HP Quality Center 11.0, Quick Test Pro (QTP) 11.0, LoadRunner 11.0, Serena Version Manager 8.1, Bugzilla 4.0, IBM Cognos 8 BI(ReportNet, PowerPlay), IBM AppScan 7.7, WebSphere 6.0, WebLogic 10.3, Tomcat 5.5, Solaris 10.0, Scrum Agile methodology, ITIL methodology, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Employer: Confidential
Test Lead Atlanta, GA Oct 2011 - till present

Company Description: SAIC received the contract to support the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), providing full Systems Development Life Cycle services for the continued design, development and implementation of the National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) Program Area Modules.

Project Summary: National Electronic Disease Surveillance System Base System (NBS) enables CDC's state health department partners to report infectious diseases to CDC and helps local public health departments manage disease investigations and patient records. NBS Decision Support functionality is the ability to systematically manage routing and processing of event records and investigations based upon pre-defined algorithms. This functionality provides users with the ability to 'teach' the system to understand what action should be taken when a certain criteria is met. By doing so, the user enables the system to automatically perform certain processing actions that have traditionally required human intervention.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:

• Develop the Test Plan, manual Test Cases and few automated Test Script for Define Workflow Decision Support (Add/Edit/Activate/Inactivate/Test/Clone Algorithm), Apply Workflow Decision Support (Run Algorithm), Review Workflow Decision Support (View Activity Log)
• Setup, import and managing the Release (4.3), Milestones, Requirements, Test Plan, Test Lab and Reporting in HP Quality Center and defect tracking in Redmine
• Working with Business Analyst, client and Development lead and incorporated the changes in Test Plan, Test Cases and automated Test Script in between testing cycle
• Reviewing, updating and maintaining Release 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2 releases QTP scripts written by previous vendor QA team and developing new scripts for 4.3 release
• 153 Manual Test Cases and 68 Automated Test Script execution in 6 weeks for Oracle and SQL prior to 4.3 Beta Release to limited States
• Installed and setup the QA lab with JBOSS 4.3, SQL Server 2008, Oracle 10g and NEDSS application deployment

Environment: J2EE/Java 6, JBOSS 4.3, HP Quality Center 11.0, Quick Test Pro (QTP) 11.0, Oracle 10g, SQL Server 2008, Redmine 1.2, XML Spy 2012, Scrum Agile methodology

Employer: Confidential
Test Lead Calgary AB, Canada March 2008 - Oct 2011
Company Description: Confidential, 90,000 employees and 7000 physicians are responsible for delivering health services to the 3.5 million people living in Alberta, Canada. Programs and services are offered at 400 facilities throughout the province, including hospitals, clinics, continuing care facilities, mental health facilities and community health sites.

Project Summary: IT PMO offers Testing Support Services to assist projects in meeting their testing and quality assurance objectives when implementing new IT solutions. IT Testing Service provides a range of support services that include subject matter expertise in various types of testing (Test Management, performance, functional, Security and integration/cross platform), testing processes and standards, and the use of test & security automation tools. The group has a standard set of test tools that are available to projects and operational team in AHS.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:

• Responsible for presenting QA Best Practices and Methodologies to multiple teams and participated in discussions with different QA teams to enhance their existing QA practices including automated solutions
• Lead and mentor a team of three in QA methodology and excellence, training, assigning tasks and QA project planning
• Create a project plan and define milestones, key performance indicators (KPIs),exit criteria for each task and perform BPT (Business Process Testing) within HP ALM
• Testing Service team owns, configure and administrate the HP ALM dashboard view that allows project owners to initiate, manage and track multiple projects simultaneously. These dashboard views also display individual work items on role base and assigned to users across all quality center projects
• Analyzed user requirements, performed preliminary investigations and developed corresponding automated test scripts for smoke, functional and performance testing
• Configuration, Test planning, writing Test Cases and manual/automated testing the Computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system which allows physicians to personalize order sets, incorporating evidence-based orders as appropriate over time and integration with other clinical applications
• Develop and implement the test automation solution to Patient Entry Electronic Record (Logibec- Clinibase ) and parsing the data for other clinical application within HL7 framework
• Working with vendor, lab assistant and clinical analysts to configure, develop and manage the manual and automated test scripts and develop data-driven automated functional and performance testing when AHS planned to replace PathNet Laboratory Information System (LIS) and Diagnostic Imaging Radiology Information Systems (RIS) and Enterprise Scheduling Management (ESM) with Cerner Millennium LIS/RIS Implementation
• Managing all aspects of a Test cycle including resource planning, Test Plan, traceability matrix, test case and test script management, manual and automation testing, defect tracking, UAT and project documentation with ability to support multiple simultaneous projects
• Installed and configured License Server, Silk Suite, HP Quality Center ALM, HP QTP and CitraTest with Compuware Team on AHS hosted environment
• Project list - PIEM, Millennium, Diagnostic Image, SCM, IAM

Environment: J2EE/Java 6, Visual Basic 2010, Sunrise Clinical Management (SCM), Cerner Millennium , Cerner Command Line (CCL), Logibec Clinibase, Microfocus (formerly Compuware) QA Director 6.2, TestPartner 6.3, QALoad 5.9, Tevron CitraTest 731d1, Silk Suite 2010 R2 (SilkCentral, SilkTest, SilkPerformer), HP Quality Center 11.0, Quick Test Pro (QTP) 11.0, LoadRunner 11.0, Oracle 10g, SQL Server 2008, ITIL methodology, Scrum Agile methodology

Employer: Confidential
QA Manager Calgary AB, Canada March 2006 - Feb 2008
Project Summary: SupportBridge live support solution optimizes the technicians' contact time by facilitating a less expensive channel of interaction for live support and by automating detection, diagnosis and repair in the live support process. SupportBridge's Live Chat and Desktop Sharing provide enhanced remote interaction between technicians and customers, removing the need for time-consuming manual support (telephone, e-mail, desk side) and reducing customer downtime.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:

• Managing timelines, group goals, project delivery schedules, hiring and staff supervision
• Lead and mentor a team of five on-site, assigning them tasks, 360 degree performance review and motivating them to meet deadlines while following Agile Methodology
• Design and implement test plans, test cases, defect tracking and business process test methodology approaches to scenario optimization using HP Quality Center
• Automate build and deployment processes then execute automated unit and integration scripts
• Installed and setup the QA lab with WebSphere 5.2, Tomcat 5.5, Web Logic 9.2, SQL Server 2005, Oracle 10g and IIS 6.0 along with SupportBridge application deployment.
• Developed Quick Test Pro (QTP) scripts for smoke and functional testing. Performed data driven tests using QTP and developed custom functions to add Function Generator
• Managed resource contention between ongoing development projects and urgent defects reported in QA and sustain engineering

Environment: J2EE/Java 5, WebLogic 9.2, WebSphere 5.2, XML, HP Quality Center 9.0, Quick Test Pro 9.0, LoadRunner 9.0, Oracle 10g, SQL Server 2005, Tomcat 5.5, Clarity 8.0, SubVersion 1.0, Solaris 9.0, Windows Vista, Windows NT/2000, Scrum Agile methodology

Client: Confidential
QA Lead (Contract) Ft. Washington, PA USA July '05 - Feb '06
Project Summary: The U.S. Congress developed Part D to help Medicare participants with the cost of their prescription drugs. It will offer most people who are eligible for Medicare a significant opportunity to save. This Part D enrollment process is a mixture of government requirements and internal requirements as put together by United Health Group business people. On an extremely high-level, the enrollment processing system simply determines if an application is approved or denied. This decision is called adjudication. Adjudicating an application is complex, due to predicted volumes and government system integration.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:

• Migrating the project from WebSphere 5.1 to WebSphere 6.1, Java 1.2 to Java 1.4, EJB 2.1 to EJB3.0, and Ant to Maven 2
• Mapping Functional Elements, Control Elements in TestPlan/Test Matrix to ensure proper testing and regression testing
• Mentored five contractors in use of Team Track for Defect Tracking, Test Director for Manual Test Scripting and Automation Testing
• Developed WinRunner scripts for smoke and functional testing. Performed data driven tests using WinRunner and developed custom functions to add Function Generator
• Automate build processes and publish build results to developers and QA teams. Publish daily source code repository activity for changes on the development and integration branches.
• Developed Informatica ETL scripts to extract and cleanse data from SQL databases for loading into DW and then DataMart
• Implemented Cognos Framework manager security for Data access, Object level access and Package access
• Development of filters, calculations, prompts, conditions and created various reports, using Cognos Report Studio and designed Power Play reports to provide summarized results by measures and dimensions
• Provided Knowledge Transfer to the end users and created extensive documentation on the design, development, implementation, daily loads and process flow of the mappings

Environment: J2EE/Java 5, WebSphere Application Server 5.0, XML, LoadRunner 8.0, TestDirector 8.0, WinRunner 8.0, Oracle 9i, Solaris 8.0, Windows NT/2000, Serena Version Manager 8.1, Serena Team Track 6.0, SQL Navigator 4.2, Informatica PowerCenter 7.1, Cognos ReportNet 1.1 MR2, Cognos PowerPlay series 7, Agile Methodology

Client: Confidential
Senior QA Analyst (Contract) West Point, PA USA Dec. '04 - July '05
Project Summary: The goal of the project is to develop a database for USHH to store and manage Community of Practice (CoP) Network data. This database shall be considered the authoritative source of CoP Network data for the division. A series of reports and data extracts will be developed to address the needs of Sales Strategic Planning, Hospital/Specialty Sales Planning and Support (HPSS), Field sales, Marketing, IM & D, IS, Vertical and EPI. The datamart approach shall provide customers with the ability to create custom report using DSS or other front end tool.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:

• Design and implement test plans, test cases and business process test methodology approaches to scenario optimization
• Analyze and write detailed specifications and Test Requirements using Test Director
• Extensively use Informatica workflow manager to test complex mappings, from varied transformation logic like lookups, Filters, Expression, Sorter, Aggregator, Update Strategy and more
• Designed and developed Informatica mappings for data loads
• Installed and Configured Cognos Series 7.0 in the UNIX Environment and created the Configuration setup using Configuration Manager Created Reports and Cubes and published to the Web for User Access
• Create and run workflows and Worklets using Workflow Manager to load the data into the Target Database
• Tested Standard and Ad-hoc Reports using Cognos. The reports were created using the slice & dice and drill down features and the reports included cross tab, Master Detail and simple reports
• Involved in Designing models using Framework Manager and deployed packages to the Report Net Servers

Environment: J2EE 1.4, XML/XSL, LoadRunner 8.0, TestDirector 8.0, WinRunner 8.0, Oracle 9i, Solaris 8.0, Windows NT/2000, ClearQuest , SQL Navigator 4.2, Informatica PowerCenter 7.1, Informatica PowerExchange 5.2, Cognos ReportNet 1.1 MR2, Cognos PowerPlay series 7 Version 2

Client:Confidential, Senior QA Analyst (Contract)Horsham, PA USA July '04 - Dec. '04
Employer:Confidential, QA Lead Conshohocken, PA, USA February 2003 - June 2004
Client:Confidential, Senior QA Analyst (contract) Schenectady, NY USA July 2001 - Feb. 2003
Client: Confidential, QA Engineer (contract) Cupertino, CA USA July 2000 - June 2001
Client:Confidential, IT Analyst (contract)New York USA Aug '98 - June '00
Client: Confidential, Software Engineer (contract) Louisville, USA June 1997 - July 1998

Essential Duties and Responsibilities included the following:

• Generated metrics that tracked requirement trends, change requests and problem reports (Defect status and Defect life cycle). Reviewed defects per unit and test execution status.
• Developed WinRunner scripts for smoke and functional testing. Performed data driven tests using WinRunner and developed custom functions to add Function Generator.
• Experienced in coordinating, negotiating and motivating outside vendors and off-shore resources in support of timeline and IT project deliverables along with mentoring six resources on-site and off-shore
• Hands on experience in application development using Java, J2EE, EJB 2.0, XML, XSL and WebLogic
• Identified bottlenecks and points of degradation: Involved monitoring of critical bottlenecks, resource consumption (i.e., front-end & back-end servers as well as middle-tier servers - CPU, memory, disk IO, network, etc.) and their associated load levels
• Provided support for the SQA and development groups with nightly build process and automation
• Analyzed user requirements, performed preliminary investigations, and developed corresponding application test cases and plans
• Developed and Tested ETL scripts to extract and cleanse data from SQL databases for loading into DW and then DataMart
• Maintain Development, Test and Production mapping migration Using Repository Manager, also used Repository Manager to maintain the metadata, Security and Reporting.
• Provided Knowledge Transfer to the end users and created extensive documentation on the design, development, implementation, daily loads and process flow of the mappings
• Created List, Sub and Cross-Tab reports using Cognos Impromptu and distributed Catalog to users for Ad-Hoc reporting and analysis
• Created dimension maps and multidimensional cubes using Impromptu's Query Definition in PowerPlay Transformer

Environment: Java-Jdk 1.4, WebLogic 8.1, JRun 3.1, Tomcat 3.2, XML/XSL, JUnit, ClearQuest, Bugzilla, Oracle 9i, Ant 1.6, WinRunner 7.0, LoadRunner 7.0, TestDirector 7.0, AppScan 4.0, Toad 7.4, PVCS 7.5, Informatica PowerMart 6.5, Power Analyzer 4.3, Solaris 8.0, Windows NT/2000