Objective
Seeking challenges as hands on QA/tester, where my background, technical expertise can be used to play a key role in the success of your organization.

Experience

• Highly experienced business IT professional with more than 13 years of rich experience in various capacities as Technical Developer/Programmer/QA/Validation Analyst.
• Expertise in handling/leading large complex projects comprising of 6-15 team members.
• Functional Areas worked on include Clinical Research,Advertisement Industry, Chemical Industry, Pathological Billing and Reports, Hospital Management, Employee Management and University.
• RDBMS proficiency in support and development using Oracle 8i, MS Access
• Possesses a well rounded knowledge of most facets of computer development technology which includes Application development, implementation as well as a keen attitude towards quality and improving processes
• Have worked on diverse platforms and quick to grasp any new technologies and a good record of delivering complex software projects on time.

Project Management Proficiency

• Four plus year of experience in Project Management.
• Expertise in handling/leading large offshore software development complex projects comprising of 10-15 team members.
• Strong interpersonal and team building skills.

Technical Proficiency 
Operating Systems: 
WIN 95 /98/2000/NT Windows XP Office / Home, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows, DOS
Database Programming: 
Oracle Database (8i / 7x / 6.0), PL/SQL, SQL, MS Access 2000.
Front End Application Tools: 
Expertise in VB.Net, VB 6.0, Developer 2000, Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports, Toad, Foxpro2.5, Dbase III+.
Microsoft Tools: 
Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Reporting Tools:
Crystal Reports

Methodologies

• Software development Life cycle

Education

• Bachelors in Computer Science
• Accredited Certification in Oracle 7.X with Developer 2000, Visual Basic 6.0

Technical Courses / Training

• Oracle Developer 2000 by Aptech, Pune, India.
• Power Builder 6 by NIIT, Pune, India.

Other skills
Proficiency in imparting software training

Technical Experience

Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
Validation Analyst – Confidential, 
Project : Clinical studies 
These studies include all phases of clinical trials for blinded and unblinded treatments. The subjects are registered using phone through an application called Icophone.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for reviewing the technical design documents and comparing those with the business requirement document
• Writing test scripts for manual testing.
• Functional and Formal testing of the study.
• Writing User Acceptance test scripts.
• User Acceptance testing setup.
• User Acceptance testing support.
• Working though all phases of SDLC
• Analyze test results and document issues in the system.Worked proactively with Programmers, Business Analysts and Project Managers to understand and solve issues.

Feb 2006 - Nov 2009 
Software tester - Confidential., Houston, USA

Project 1: Silver Tag
This project was a bidding website, similar to EBay. It is the lowest unique bid auction site with about 200K active users.
The site included both admin and customer facing sections. Admin section included managing users, auctions, cheat prevention etc.
Customer facing section included auction list under various categories, bidding, awarding bonus etc

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for technical design documents, coding standards to offshore development team. Get software code from offshore team based on technical design. Write test scripts for manual testing.
• Testing and suggestions on improvement of the forms appearance.
• Manage project delivery schedule.

Project 2: Quoting Tool
Quoting tool is a structured settlement quote comparison tool. The tool consists of customer facing access protected request for quote form. All mandatory and optional information is entered to generate and compare quotes. On submitting quote request it is picked up by waiting quoting engine that executes quoting software one after another provided by insurance companies and generates quotes. The background consists of intelligent screen and report capture and generates a comparative report. The tool has reduced 16 hours of manual work to 4 minutes.
The application generates reports that are stored in a custom document management system from where the users requesting quote can download/view the comparative reports.

Responsibilities:

• Create test scripts to test the various scenarios generating quotes and comparative report.
• Report bugs to development team. Generate training document for end user clients to use quoting tool by various structure settlement agents around United States.

Project 3: Casebook 
Casebook is a full fledged social networking site for lawyers. Apart from common social networking features the main feature of the site allows for uploading and sharing documents by lawyers. E.g. Plaintiff lawyers can upload and share depositions. Uploaded document are indexed and are searchable. The site has an elaborate admin and customer facing sections.

Responsibilities:

• Co-ordinate development of the casebook web application with offshore development team.
• Generate test scripts to test social networking features with focus on privacy of user information.

Jan 2000 – April 2004 
1) Project Leader – Confidential, NJ, USA 
Confidential is one of the leading Magazines publishing company in New Jersey, USA

Project: AIS (Advertisement Information System)
This system consisted of master maintenance of Magazines (like Good Housekeeping, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, etc.), Advertisers, Sales Representatives, Issues, Code values of advertisements, etc. The system collected all the information to place the order of the advertisement and accordingly the order was priced. Other modules were Adjustments, Re-Pricing, Issue Closing, Invoice Closing, etc. Pricing was the major and complicated module in this system. A class was created which took all the parameters necessary and then the calculations were performed.
Crystal Reports was used to generate reports. My responsibility as a leader also included scheduling the module testing and GUI testing to the testing team. Proper documentation of Test plans and Program Specifications were maintained. Also made an outline of a Context-sensitive help design for the completed modules.

Responsibilities:

• Project Lead in architecture of designing the modules.
• Involved in offshore product development management by scheduling and monitoring the application module.
• Handled entire manual testing of the project. Designed test plans & document Unit, Functional Test Cases for the Application module.
• Designing of the Technical / Program specs by gathering user and business specifications directly from the user community and also from Business Analyst. The technical specs also include process flow diagrams.
• Interacting with the client and users for any modifications.
• Designed & coded complex PL/SQL Packages, Stored procedures, Functions.
• Coding of major and complicated modules like Pricing, Re-Pricing, Adjustments.
• Share problem-solving responsibilities with the team.

Skills: Oracle 8i, VB 6.0, SQL, PL/SQL (Packages/Stored Procedures/Functions etc), Crystal Reports, MS Word, MS Excel, Windows 2000 environment.

2) Sr. Software Developer – Confidential
Confidential is one of the biggest Pathology laboratories in the city. All types of medical tests like the routine blood, urine, and hemoglobin are performed here. This laboratory is attached to a hospital due to which other services are also provided here like X-Rays and sonography.

Project: Report generation & Billing system 
The application generated summarized and detailed reports about Blood, Urine, Hemoglobin, and Sonography, X-ray tests. Oracle 7.1 used for handling data. VB 6.0 used for designing data entry screens and Crystal Reports for generation and printing of the various reports. Stored procedures and functions were used for standard calculations.

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Senior Programmer in architecture of designing the Oracle 7.3 database.
• Lead a Team comprising of 6 members to design and develop the front-end application using VB 6.0.
• Extensive client interactions to establish system requirements and help plan and schedule resources. The whole project process was well documented / presented using MS Excel / MS Word, which includes planning, scheduling & assigning the tasks, test cases in support and development.
• Responsibility included study of existing system, user and client interaction, system coding, testing, implementation, fixing of bugs in the code, user training and code maintenance.
• Share problem-solving responsibilities with the team.
• Provided Technical support to the project team members.
• Played a major role in training the users and providing all necessary documents for reference.

Skills: Oracle 7.3, SQL, PL/SQL (Packages/Stored Procedures/Functions etc), VB 6.0, Crystal Reports

3) Team Leader – Confidential 
Confidential is a Mechanical seals company. It also deals in chemicals for water treatment. It manufactures gland packing and its major clients are Reliance, Sugar Industries and Process Industries.

Project: Quality assurance of chemicals
The code of the system procured different chemicals with their various parameters and checked their quality appropriateness for further tests for water treatment industry. Planning future requirements, creation of database users & security management, roles, grants to users etc.

Responsibilities:

• Designed & Developed Shell Scripts, PL/SQL Packages, Stored Procedures, and Functions etc using Oracle 7.1 as a Back-end and Developer 2000 (Forms 4.5, Reports 2.5) as a Front-end tool.

Skills: Oracle 7.1, SQL, PL/SQL, Developer 2000 (Forms 4.5, Reports 2.5), Windows 98 environment.