QA Analyst

SUMMARY

• 7+ years of IT work experience throughout the Software Development Life Cycle, Analysis, Application Testing and Implementation.
• Strong knowledge in Six Sigma, ISO 9000:2000 standards, PDCA Cycle, Pareto Analysis, Cause & Effect Diagrams, Brainstorming, Benchmarking, and Quality Management Process.
• Expertise in process improvement, conducting gap analysis and tailoring business processes to suit organizational needs.
• Hands-on experience using Quality Center/Test Director and exposure to Load Runner & QTP/ Win Runner.
• Experience in tracking test coverage and providing Metrics to the management.
• Extensively involved in Black Box Testing and participated in Backend Testing.
• Performed Smoke, Functionality, Integration, Regression and System Tests.
• Experience in documentation of Defects with high level of detail, accuracy and informative recreation steps.
• Experience in testing, using Health Level Seven (HL7) Protocol and good understanding and exposure to HL7 and Validated HL7 messages.
• Expertise in Testing, Creating, Analyzing HIPPA Data for EDI Health Systems
• Worked on EPIC Modules ADT/Prelude, ASAP, Cadence, Inpatient, Ambulatory EMR, Resolute Billing.
• Performed Neuron Configuration.
• Responsible for DIM (Device Interface Module) Configuration/Connectivity.
• Involved in Neuron connectivity with various types of Anesthesia Machines and Validating Anesthesia Variables.
• Validated Spacelab Configuration.
• Expertise in data validation on Oracle, SQL and IBM DB2 databases.
• Worked invarious technologiesincluding Java, Mainframe Systems and have hands-on experience with SQL/Oracle for backend testing.
• Experience in using Clear Case & PVCS for Version Control.
• Good understanding of Rational Clear Quest, Rational Test Manager and Rational Performance Tester.
• Motivated team player with excellent analytical, communication, written and presentation skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Testing Tools: Quality Center 9.0, Test Director 7.2/7.6, Quick Test Professional 9.5, Win runner 7.6, Load Runner 9.0, Bugzilla, Remedy, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Functional Tester, Rational Performance Tester
• Work Flow Tools: MS-Visio, MS-Project, MS-Excel, MS-Word, MS-Power Point
• Languages: JAVA, .NET 3.5, C++, VB, Teradata SQL, SQL, PL/SQL
• Web Technologies: HTML, XML, Java Script, VB Script
• Web Servers: Apache's Tomcat, Web logic App Server, Web Sphere, BizTalk, MS-IIS
• Databases: Oracle 8i/9i/10g, Teradata V2R6, SQL Server 2000/2005/2008, MySQL, MS Access, DB2
• Operating Systems: Windows 2000/NT, UNIX/ Linux, Windows XP Professional SP3, Vista.
• Networking: TCP/IP, LAN, FTP, HTTP
• CRM: Siebel 6.X, 7.X and 8.0, SAP, Oracle Applications
• Others: Epic Hyperspace(Prelude, ASAP, Ambulatory, Cadence), HL7, Cognos, MS Office, Project, Outlook, Lotus notes, NetMeeting, Informatica, Data stage, Toad for Oracle

Professional Experience

Confidential- Fairview Hospital Jan. 2011 - Till date
Bio Medical Device Integration Testing
QA Analyst

Device Integration testing involves validation of all Spacelab and Anesthesia machines variables in the Epic application

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Data Validation (Space Lab to Epic)
• Responsible for Validating Spacelab Configuration
• Validating Spacelab variables in EPIC
• Configured Neurons
• Responsible for Neuron connectivity with different types of Anesthesia Machines
• Responsible for DIM (Device Interface Module) Configuration and Connectivity
• Validated HL7 messages from Neuron to Capsule server
• Validating Anesthesia Variables into EPIC

Confidential Jan. 2010 - Jan. 2011
Epic Innovations

• Studied Requirement analysis and Gap analysis of Business System Design.
• Involved in preparing the Use cases.
• Participated in UI design, User flows and Requirement review meetings.
• Created detailed test plan, test strategy and test cases based on functional specification, flow diagrams and use case documents.
• Documented Test cases and Scripts referencing the business rules in Quality Center
• Performed Functionality, GUI, Integration, Regression, System and End to End testing.
• Tested the customized Epic Modules - Ambulatory Epic Care, Prelude/ADT registration, Billing, Emergency(ASAP), Pharmacy/Willow and Cadnce(Scheduling).
• Validated the discreet data in EPIC my chart and created test EMR data.
• Involved in validating the patient records and health information data in EPIC interfaces.
• Coordinated integration testing activities with other development teams and upstream/downstream application test teams.
• Analyzed the user requirement changes and implemented procedures to test the changes.
• Reported the issues in Quality Center with proper priority and severity to the concerned developer.
• Attended the bug triage meetings to discuss the issues with development team and BA's.
• Prepared status summary reports of the test cases (Executed, Passed and Failed).
• Updated and maintained the test scripts as per change in requirements.
• Setup the data for UAT environment.

Environment: Epic Hyper Space, Image Casting RDX, LIS application, Quality Center 9.0, QTP 9.5, Agile Scrum, Windows XP.

Confidential, Richmond Jun. 2008 - Dec. 2009
QA Analyst

Odyssey is a combination of databases. It maintains customer account information, credit decision procedures and graphical user interface to set up solicitations.
Responsibilities:

• Performed requirements analysis before the start of design phase to identify any gaps in requirements.
• Involved in developing a test plan and test strategy for end to end testing.
• Performed Functionality, GUI, Integration, System and Database testing.
• Tested the functionality of the application, validated data at back-end on Oracle server, documented errors and analyzed the same.
• Developed test cases for system, integration and regression testing.
• Developed test scenarios to test the functionality of the application.
• Responsible for updating and maintaining the test scripts as per change in requirements.
• Used SQL to validate data in DB2 tables.
• Created and executed the SQL queries to fetch data from the databases.
• Involved in database validation - check the updated data in the database.
• Prepared RCA reports (Root Cause Analysis) for defects.
• Assisted end-users in UAT by setting up test data for UAT scenarios.
• Developed test automation scripts using QTP for Regression testing.
• Conducted Data Driven Tests using QTP.
• Tested the browser under specific conditions, such as with Java script enabled and disabled.
• Did extensive cross browser testing to make sure the functionality and UI of applications are working on different browsers (IE 6, 7, 8, Firefox 2, 3, Safari3, 4, Netscape 9, Opera 9, 10 and Chrome 1).
• Involved in Performance Testing using Mercury Interactive Load Runner tool.

Environment: JAVA, EDI, .Net 3.5, Oracle 9i, HP Quality Center 9.0, QTP 9.5, Load Runner 9.0, SQL Assistant, SQL, Toad, DB2, UNIX, Data stage, MS-Office Tools, Windows XP Professional SP3.

Confidential, MN Jun. 2007 - Apr. 2008
QA Analyst.

Responsibilities:

• Assisted Test Lead in developing Master Test Plans, Test Cases & Scripts.
• Involved in developing Test scenarios maintaining testing standards.
• Participated in Requirement / Use Case analysis and risk analysis.
• Developed templates for User / Customer Training and documentation.
• Participated in implementing End-End testing manually.
• Used Share point for Document Management and Dimensions for version control.
• Helped setting up QA environment for testing the applications.
• Used Test Director for requirements management and defect tracking.
• Participated in Regression testing of builds after code freeze.
• Tested interfaces between Print Manager and the applications like LBLP, TKT, BCODE etc.
• Involved in peer review of test cases, Test Pool meetings and Impact analysis.
• Involved in developing Testing Best Practices for TTS Stores development department.
• Involved in testing the DB2 data transfer on IBM Mainframe Environment.
• Tested loading of data to the wireless scales through batch jobs.

Environment: DB2, Mainframe, JAVA, J2EE, SQL Server, Mercury Tools (Test Director 7.6), MS-Word, Ms-Excel, MS-Project, Tomcat, UNIX, Windows XP/2003 Server/ NT/2000, O'Neil Printers.

Confidential, India Nov. 2005 - Apr. 2007
Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Manual Testing of the application.
• Created and maintained test cases for manual testing and to leverage for automated test scripts.
• Involved in Black box, Regression, Functional, Integration, System, and UAT testing.
• Involved in database validation.
• Tested ETL jobs that loads data to Data warehouse and Data Mart
• Performed data validation for data movement from various sources into EDW.
• Tested Type1 and Type2 updates on Dimension Tables.
• Tested Data Extraction, Transformations Loading, Error Logic as per ETL Logic.
• Used SQL Queries to verify the data from the Oracle database.
• Extensively involved in writing SQL queries (Sub queries and Join conditions).
• Prepared the test data for incremental loads and Base loads.
• Reran the test cases and Test scripts for Integration testing, Regression testing after fixing bugs in the software.
• Created automated scripts by including timers for recording Response times, and text checks for confirming the retrieval of the correct page.
• Conducted functionality testing using win runner during the various phases of the product development.
• Created and managed testing strategies and test cases using test director.

Environment: VB.Net, ASP, Oracle 8i/9i, Datastage, Win Runner 7.6, Test Director, Clear Quest, Windows XP/2000, UNIX.

Confidential, France Sept. 2004 - Aug. 2005
Quality Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Proposed, articulated, convinced & implemented the most common improvement methods of Six-Sigma.
• Authored the documentation defining the methods for investigating causes to business issues and helped in conducting data / process analysis.
• Interacted with the Suppliers to analyze root causes for the defects.
• Kept necessary control on non-conforming components.
• Calculated the vendor rating based on quality and delivery.

• Master of Science.