QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY

• Over 8-years IT experience focusing on software development and quality assurance
• Thorough understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including requirement analysis, system analysis, design, development, documentation, testing, implementation, and post implementation review.
• Extensive experience as QA Lead, Sr QA Analyst leading the entire testing unit and successfully completed several enterprise projects.
• Expertise in QA automation, manual testing and excellent knowledge & understanding of different testing methodologies.
• Excellent knowledge in OO design/development in Java/C++
• Extensive experience with relational databases including SQL Server 2000, Oracle 8i/9i, DB2 and Teradata,
• Working knowledge of mainframe, client/server, or web-based environments
• Working experience in Agile Scrum projects
• A motivated team player with excellent written and oral communication skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr IT Consultant 10/2004 - Present
Confidential

Clients worked:

Worked as a Sr. Software Verification Engineer 01/2008 - Present
Confidential

• Work on Confidential Project, which is the nation’s leading remote monitoring service system at Medtronic’s Patient Management department. The CLN consists the Medtronic CareLink Monitor, the Clinician Website and the Patient Website, and it provides comprehensive devices data compare to an in-office interrogation.
• Consult with development engineers in resolution of problems.
• Participate in the technical review of software requirements with System Engineering.
• Provide feedback in preparation of technical appraisals of programming languages, systems, and computation software.
• Ensure quality computer integration into the overall functions of scientific computation, data acquisition, and processing.
• Utilize Python Automated Module for IE (PAMIE) framework and create automation scripts for CareLink regression and installation test
• Provide mentoring to less seasoned testing staff, monitoring work efforts for potential issues
• Lead the Agile Scrum on various projects

Worked as a Sr. Test Analyst 01/2006 – 12/2007
Confidential

• Worked on various projects related to Enterprise Analytics Warehouse (EAW), which includes Temporary Data Store (TDS), Medicare Analytics Report, DHS, BHI, TDS to EAW.
• Provided quality control process and assurance expertise to the testing process.
• Created Requirement Validation Matrix (RVM) based on design documents and ensure all requirements are complete and testable
• Defined the system test strategy and test plan that encompass end to end testing. And ensure the plan adhere to the testing methodology.
• Participates in development walkthroughs, such as requirements, logical process design, and logical data design. Sign off on requirements and design documents
• Conducted test strategy, test plan, test case and test results walkthroughs with business and application development stakeholders
• Assisted Project Manager in project planning for testing activities, including review and update, in conjunction with the Project Manager, using appropriate tools (e.g. MS Project), testing tasks within the overall Project Plan.
• Monitored testing progress, identify issues, track resolutions and report status to Management
• Proposed QA process improvements
• Provided training to junior test analysts

Worked as a Sr QA Analyst 10/2004 – 12/2006
Confidential

• Worked on an enterprise data warehouse project - Enterprise Data Trust (EDT) which aims to integrate customer knowledge and marketing across Carlson’s all business units and provide business strategies and intelligent decisions for the company.
• Developed test plans to ensure validity of business and technical applications based on technical specifications and business requirements using Test Director.
• Developed and execute test cases and check for the accuracy of the data within the data warehouse as well as individual source and application database
• Performed business and data mapping validation testing accordance with a predefined plan, monitor product changes, record test results,.
• Effectively communicated and reported testing status, issues, and concerns with Project Manager and other team members
• Managed plan for releases, manage content of releases, analyze release production readiness and implementation requirements, and communicate release information with the release team.

Quality Control Analyst 08/ 2003 – 09/2004
Confidential.

• Worked in a team environment to plan and execute a test strategy for new and modified software products for the retail industry.
• Utilized Mercury suite of tools to maintain efficient Quality Assurance process for automating manual test suites (QTP, TestDirector)
• Reviewed project deliverable for compliance to higher-level source documentation, applicable department standards and the Retek Methodology.
• Performed functional testing of products under development in accordance with a predefined plan, monitor product changes, initiate problem reports, and record test results.
• Applied knowledge of software engineering and test practices towards the quality improvement of Retek applications.
• Participated in all phases of the software development lifecycle including project planning, requirements definition, design, code, test, release and support.

Software Quality Engineer 03/2003 – 08/2003
Confidential

• Software validation for both front end web application and back end COMs.
• Developed and executed test plans and strategies and perform unit, system, and regression testing using manual testing and Mercury automated testing tools.
• Worked closely with software development teams to rectify quality issues resulting in downstream defects.
• Analyzed product/application software to ensure that it conforms to acceptance criteria as defined for the product.
• Managed and updated test plans, test cases, test environment, and test scripts through life cycle.
• Utilized Mercury Quick Test Pro (QTP) to automate the web application test. And automate the regression test suite by using QTP.

Graduate Assistant 08/ 2001 – 12/ 2002
Confidential

Responsibilities/Accomplishments

• Software development of a market campaign tracking system in Java through life cycle of OOA (Object-Oriented Analysis), OOD (Objected-Oriented Design), coding, and testing.
• OOA (Object-Oriented Analysis) and OOD (Object-Oriented Design) using Rational Rose (UML).
• Relational database design and SQL*Plus.
• Inter-process communication and TCP/IP programming by BSD socket in UNIX system.
• Using synchronization primitives to solve synchronization problem in operating system (system kernel objects used including lock, mutex, semaphore, etc.).
• Multi-task system programming through multi-thread and multi-process in UNIX.
• Client-Server software design pattern and programming.

EDUCATION

• Master of. Science in Computer Science
• Bachelor of Engineering

TECHNICAL SKILLS
Operating Systems Windows 2000/XP, IBM AIX, Sun Solaris
Web Technologies ASP, JavaScript, VB Script, HTLM/DHTML, XML, XSLT
Languages/Scripting MS SQL, VB Script, Java, Perl, C/C++, Python, Unix Shell script
Databases DB2 V8, SQL Server 2000/2005, MS Access, Oracle 8i/9i, Teradata V2R5
Data Analysis: SQL Navigator, TOAD, SAS Enterprise Guide, SQL Server Enterprise Manager, PL/SQL Developer
Test Tools TestDirector, Quick Test Pro (QTP), PVCS Tracker, Rational Clear Quest
Other Tools MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio, PVCS Version Control, Visual Source Safe, Rational Clear Case, Informatica Power Center