PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over Six years of experience as a Quality Assurance Analyst in Testing Web based, Client Server using automated tools such as Quick Test Pro (QTP), Test Director, Quality Center (QC) and Manual testing.
• Excellent working knowledge of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) in Requirements gathering, Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Testing, Methods like Waterfall, RUP & Agile.
• Extensive Knowledge in understanding SRS (Software Requirement Specifications) and AUC (Application Use Cases).
• Have knowledge about HIPPA versions.
• EDI transactions 835/837/834/270/271.
• Hands on experience in preparing Test cases, Test Plans, Executing Test cases, converting the Test Cases to Automation Scripts, Creating Automation Components.
• Performing GUI, Regression, Functional, Integration, System, User Acceptance, Black Box, Sanity, Performance, Stress, Reliability, Compatibility, Cross Browser, Security and Database Testing.
• Hands on experience of defect reporting into bug tracking systems such as Mercury Quality Center (QC)/Test Director.
• Good exposure in creating documents (QA Status Report, QA Summary Reports, QA Test Logs, issue and defects) to apprise project team members as to the status of meeting defined quality goals.
• Able to learn quickly and independently to understand the technical aspects of products in sufficient detail so the test results can be analyzed and problems isolated independently.
• Conducted bug scrub meetings and status review meetings to provide quality assurance feedback throughout the project life cycle.
• Worked closely with Business Analysts and Developers to review Test requirements.
• Strong analytical, interpersonal, communication, coordination, problem solving and decision - making skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: HP QTP 10, Quality Center 10.0, Test Director 8.0, Load Runner, Clear Quest

RDBMS: MS SQL, SQL Server, DB2 and MS Access.

Languages/Scripting: C/C++, VBScript, JAVA, UNIX Shell scripts, JCL (Mainframes)

GUI: VB.Net, ASP.Net, C# Visual Basic 5.0/6.0

Tools: MS Office, MS Outlook, MS Project, SharePoint

Operating Systems: Windows 9x/NT/2000, XP, Vista, UNIX, DOS

Other Tools: Trizetto Facets, Ruby, TFS, PVCS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Louisville, KY

Sr. Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the user requirements, functional specifications and Use Case documents and created the Test Plans, Test cases for Functional testing.
• Coordinated with the business analysts and developers and discussed issues in interpreting the requirements and effectively managed the finalized requirements using Quality Center.
• Actively participated in GUI (Graphic User Interface) testing, Functional testing, System testing, Ad-hoc testing and coordinated UAT.
• Maintained the Requirement Tracibility Matrices (RTM) to track the coverage of Requirements vs Designed test cases.
• Used Quality Center to store, schedule the test cases and report the Defects.
• Identify defects in aggregate tables and report data, enter defect in Quality Centre and coordinate with developers to resolve them based on defect severity and priority.
• Created test cases using QTP and mapped the test cases and defects with Quality Center.
• As part of compatibility testing, executed the workflow manager web application related test cases on different browsers like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Fire Fox and Netscape Navigator and on different Operating Systems.
• Extensively involved in Backend testing of SQL Queries using Oracle, SQL Server.
• Knowledge of the relational database concepts like table Primary and Foreign keys, Views and Referential Integrity.
• Involved in providing the Testing Effort estimates and provided the timely feedback on progress of the testing activity.
• Successfully Completed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) on each release of the project with the help of end user requirements.

Environment: Windows XP, MS Office, MS Excel, MS Word, Java, Toad, Quality Center, QTP

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements, System requirements, and Functional requirements for Client Server and Web Application.
• Involved in different module of the application to Analyze and test.
• Involved In developing Test Plan, Test Requirements, Test Cases and detailed test cases in Excel Sheet and Quality center.
• Performed Functional, System, Integration, Regression, User Acceptance and Back End Testing of the Client Server and Web application.
• Involved in writing detailed test cases for the Integration testing for Client Server and Web Application.
• Prepared Test Data and created test input requirements for Data Driven Testing
• Used Quality Center to track and report System Defects. Written the description for the bugs of the application and helped the developers to track the problem and helped to solve it.
• Performed Quality Assurance reviews on Development Life Cycle.
• Participated in for defect reviews with the developers, managers and business people and presented the Defect reports in the defect review Meetings
• Participated In Test planning meetings and submitted Test case Status during the meetings.
• Performed Database Testing using SQL Advantage, queried test data from Sybase by writing SQL Queries.
• Data validation and Database integrity testing done by executing SQL statements.
• Checked the data base and with the application queried result is being equal, for that lot of SQL queries is being extensively used to check the data from the data base.
• Performed data driven test by passing parameter from text files.
• Developed automated test scripts using QTP to perform Functional testing

Environment: Quality Center 9.1, Quick Test Pro 9.1, Gemstone, Java, HTML, Sybase, Oracle, SQL Server, PL/SQL, Windows NT 2000, Windows Excel

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the requirements and created test strategy, test plan and test cases for the various scenarios in testing.
• Used EDI for message flow from Clinical systems to Billing office.
• Created User manuals for the Central Billing office which explained the step by step process for billing a patient right from the patient visit in the Take Care Clinic.
• Extensively used Agile Methodology and Adhoc testing for the applications.
• Actively involved in smoke test and User Acceptance testing.
• Was actively involved in creating test plan, test strategy and test cases for SharePoint portal project.
• Extensively used SharePoint for Defect tracking and as a central repository for maintaining the requirements and the testing documents.
• Performed manual testing as well as automated testing using VBScript Language.
• Extensive experience in Unit, System and Data Validation testing.
• Performed database testing using SQL server 2005.
• Tested the EDI transaction sets for Claims (837 and 835 remittances).
• Performed testing of Batch and Real Time updates of HIPAA-4010-mandated ANSI 270 (Eligibility and Benefit Request), the ANSI 271(Eligibility and Benefit Response) and ANSI 835 (Remittance)
• Performed Extensive testing on Patient Health Information (PHI) in terms of ICD-9 and CPT codes.
• Designed the QA maturity model for the various functions that QA does for the organization.
• Worked closely with the Central Billing Office to understand their Billing requirements and tested the messages based on their needs.
• Communicated and maintained strong working relationship with the implementations team regarding Client and workflow.
• Created Test Scripts in SQL for data validation in the Database.
• Created HL7 Guides for Version 2.2 and Version 2.5 of messages.

Environment: SQL server 2005, TOAD, BizTalk, Quality Center, VBScript Agile, Windows, XML, HTML, SharePoint.

Confidential -Irving, TX

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements, System requirements and Functional requirements.
• Involved In developing Test Plan, Test Requirements, Test Cases and detailed test cases in Excel Sheet and Test Director.
• Performed Functional, System, Integration, User Acceptance and Back End Testing of the application.
• Involved in writing detailed test cases for the Integration testing.
• Involved in Writing Test requirements, Summary Test Cases and Details Test cases for different modules for the application.
• Prepared Test Data and created test input requirements for Data Driven Testing
• Developed automated test scripts using QTP to perform Functional testing.
• Used Test director and Dev Track to track and report System Defects. Written the description for the bugs of the application and helped the developers to track the problem and helped to solve it.
• Performed Quality Assurance reviews on Development Life Cycle.
• Participated in for defect reviews with the developers and with managers and presented the Defect reports in the defect review Meetings
• Participated In Test planning meetings and submitted Test case Status during the meetings.
• Performed Database Testing using SQL Server, queried test data from SQL Server by writing SQL Queries
• Checking the data flow and extensively using SQL Queries to extract the data from the Database
• Data validation and Database integrity testing done by executing SQL, PL/SQL statements.
• Checked the data base and with the application queried result is being equal, for that lot of SQL queries is being extensively used to check the data from the data base.
• Performed data driven test by passing parameter from text files.

Environment: Windows Excel, Test Director 7.6, Quick Test Pro 8.2, .Net, C#, HTML, SQL Server, SQL, PL/SQL, LoadRunner 7.0,Windows XP

Confidential

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing and coordinating different phases of the software development cycle.
• Conducted detail business requirement study with analysis of management vision and goal to comprehend a thorough understanding of project specifications.
• Used Quality Center for establishing Traceability to Requirements (RTM), Test cases, Bug tracking and reporting, also followed up with development team to verify bug fixes and updated bug status.
• Responsible for communicating business requirements to development team and translating them into functional specifications. Used MS Power Point, MS Word and MS Excel.
• Developed manual test plans, test scripts and test cases.
• Extensively used SQL queries to check the data flow through the Front-end and Back-end to extract the data from the database.
• Tested functionality, GUI and system requirements of the application under test.
• Performed Security testing for unauthorized access of the web application with valid and invalid data
• Conducted regression testing on each new build identified software errors and interacted with developers to resolve issue.
• Conducted data integrity testing using SQL commands.
• Responsible for reporting bugs