Experience

• Seven Years of experience in Software Automation Quality Assurance Testing, with solid expertise in testing software, client-server, desktop and web applications on Microsoft, .Net, Java, Database, Server Side Platforms using Manual and Automation Tools.
• Mercury Tools (WinRunner, QTP, Quality Center, TestDirector and LoadRunner), IBM Rational Tools (Rational Clear Quest, Rational Clear Case) for Client Server and Web based applications.
• Strong understanding of QA Process, Use Cases and Waterfall, Agile, V-Model SDLC Methodologies and can work through different releases of product.
• Proficient in Analyzing System & Functional Specifications, Use Cases, Business Requirements, Business Rules to Identify Test Requirements, track the requirements (Bi-Directional traceability matrix)
• Prepared Test Plans, Risk Management plans (Risk based Testing), Testing Strategy, Documenting the Testing Procedures, Design Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Scenarios, Test Data, and Execute Test Runs.
• Participated in all aspects of SDLC testing including Unit, Integration, Functional, GUI, Regression, Proactive Testing, Availability Testing, End-to-End, User Acceptance (UAT), System Integration, Performance, Stress testing and Database (Back end) testing using SQL, TOAD.
• Proficiency in providing Metrics to management, Defect management including Defect creation, modification, reproducing (wherever necessary), tracking, prioritizing and reporting using Industry standard Tools like IBM Rational Clear Quest, Test Director, Quality Center and manually using excellent detailed formats in Microsoft Excel.
• Experience in HIPAA Medical Claims Analysis, Design, Implementation and Documentation
• Have extensive experience in creating, maintaining and performing Functional, GUI and Regression scripts using WinRunner, QTP.
• Exposure in the Quality processes involving in Defect Prevention, Metrics collection, Software Configuration Management and Version Control Management – Visual Source Safe, IBM Rational Clear Case.
• Have extensive experience in Windows, UNIX – examining log files, developing and executing batch, shell scripts.
• Extensively used SQL and Scripting to load the data from flat files into database
• Strong experience in Backend testing using PLSQL/SQL programs.
• Have experience in new, enhancement and maintenance projects.
• Have good experience on processing the Claims, Payment to Claims, Verifying EOBs and other statements for PMHS, health, pharmacy, dental claims (Entering and verifying).
• Have experience in Blackbox and Whitebox testing.
• Excellent Communication, Leadership and Interpersonal skills with clear understanding of business logic.
• Experience in designing of framework.
• Experience in testing Web Services using various tools.
• Involved in Regression, Functional, SIT and UAT testing.
• Familiar with CMM Levels
  
  Technical Skills

Testing Tools : Quick Test Pro11.0, TestDirector7.5, Quality Centre, Load Runner, Rational ClearQuest, Rational Clear Case Eggplant, WinRunner8.0, Xenu, Aprompt, Infocus, Micro muse alerts
Languages : C, C++, VB, VC++, SQL.
Operating Systems : Windows 95/98/NT/2K, MS-DOS, UNIX and MAC OS X.
Application Servers : WebLogic 7.0, JBoss 3.2, Mainframe
Web Servers : Apache 2.0, SOA,SOAPUI
Databases : ORACLE 8.0/9i, SQL Server, DB2
GUI Tools : Visual Basic 6.0
Database Tools : TOAD, SQL Developer
Mainframe Tools : TN3270

Web Technologies : HTML, XML

Confidential,Nashville, TN August 2009 to February 2012
Project Name: e-Payment Phase II
Senior Automation Test Engineer

Emdeon Business Services is a leading provider of intelligent revenue cycle management solutions that accelerate and simplify the payment cycle for healthcare providers, payers and patients. Emdeon Business Services is an independent company owned jointly by General Atlantic LLC and Hellman & Friedman LLC.
The ePayment Phase II – Payment and Remittance Automation project objectives are to automate the payer-to-provider payment processes, as well as to automate the payer-to-provider remittance advice delivery.

• *Received A++ Award for ePay WebServices

Roles & Responsibilities: As a Tester/Onsite coordinator, Responsible for the following contributions:

• Coordinated with the Business Analysts, Developers and Test Team Leads and discussed the requirements needed for successful Test Plan and Test Strategy.
• Review requirements, specifications, user documentation, help files, and other project documentation to assure quality of the products and tests to be developed
• Prepared Test Plan and Test Cases in Quality Center 9.0 based on the system/functional requirements.
• Prepared the traceability matrix to ensure 100% requirement coverage.
• Identified, Documented, and Tracked software defects using Quality Centre and discussed it with the development team to solve the defect.
• Written the UNIX shell scripts to get Analyze the logs to understand the defects.
• Involved in Backend testing. Have written complex SQL queries and scripts.
• Executing SQL Statements in Shell Scripts to check the Functionality of the Product
• Used Verification Points and conducted data driven Test with the Test Data sets and verified the contents of the website using QuickTestPro 11.0.
• Involved in HIPAA Medical Claims Analysis, Design, Implementation and Documentation
• Developed the Functional Libraries for Regression Testing in QuikTestPro 11.0.
• Working Experience with the Development team to capture and reuse automated Unit Test Cases, Test Stubs and Drivers, and other Development test objects
• Ensure proper version control and configuration management of all test objects developed and test environments used.
• Coordinate with the offshore team and track the Test Execution Status and Defects Status.
• Develop and maintain good professional working relationships, especially within the test team and with those who interact regularly with the test team.
• Performed the Interface Testing to make sure the interactions between the functional units.
• Provided support for UAT Test Team in using the Quality Center 9.0.
• Developed test cases and scripts in Load Runner 8.0 for Stress and Performance Testing of the application by creating Virtual Users.
• Used LoadRunner for testing the maximum load and Performance of that the application can handle as well as the response time for read, write and update transactions.
• Enhanced the Test Cases according to the Change Request Documents.
• Performed the GUI Testing using the style guides provided.
• Involved in the End-To-End test and responsible for the Quality Assurance of the application.
• Created the Test data using Shell scripts.
• Used Oracle TOAD, WINSQL in the Validation & Creation, and Execution of the SQL scripts for Backend Testing and to fetch data from the database.
• Worked as software configuration coordinator to manage the Testing documents and updates by using VSS.
• Performed Web services testing (both Back and Front end) using SOAPUI tool.
• Performed Server Logs testing using Micro Muse alert mechanism.
• Prepared various metrics like QA Summary report, Effort variation metrics, defect metrics and test case execution metrics.
• Involved in providing estimation.
• Test case writing, review and Execution using Quality Centre.
• Defect tracking Identified and Reported bugs using Quality Centre and Local ER system.
• Preparing Test summary Report, Lessons Learnt report.

Environment: QTP, Java, JSP, Oracle, Test Director, Quality Center, Rational Clear Quest, LoadRunner, WebLogic, JavaScript, TOAD, SQL Developer, Windows 2000/XP/VISTA, UNIX, WinSQL

Confidential,Plainsboro, NJ December 2007 to April 2009
Confidential,
Senior Automation QA Analyst

CareGain is the industry leader in application software solutions for the consumer directed health care industry. CareGain powerful patent-pending Defined Care ® Platform (DCP) enables health plans and third-party administrators to cost-effectively create and administer consumer-directed health plans while leveraging their own internal systems and infrastructure

BCBSMI NASCO is the health plan implementation for Michigan NASCO. This plan includes the subscribers Add, Update (Demographic details), terminate and Re-instate the subscribers. MINASCO deals with CDH products. It mainly involves in Provider/Payer enrollment, Claims processing, Providing EOBs and various statements etc..,

Roles & Responsibilities: As a Team Lead/Tester/Onsite coordinator, Responsible for the following:

• Analyzing Requirements and Functional specifications.
• Verified that the requirements were testable, designed the test approach and ensured clear definition of roles and responsibilities.
• Involved in the development of the Test plan - Approach, scope, resource assignments & schedules and Testing Strategy.
• Prepared the Effort estimation for the project.
• Given the KT sessions on requirements and application to the team.
• Responsible for preparation of test scenarios and test scripts from use cases and requirement documents.
• Developed Requirements Traceability Matrix to map the test cases with the Requirements.
• Prepared the test execution plan and tracking the execution
• Prepared the Application Quality Index to track the stability of the application
• Collected the metrics and analyze the applications status
• Prepared the Test Metrics & Defects Report for the Daily Status meeting with development team.
• Created & Executed Test Procedures manually before using the automated testing tool QTP 9.2.
• Worked on QTP 9.0 for Regression, Integration, and system Testing.
• Developed and maintained automated testing scripts with QTP 9.0.
• Enhanced scripts by adding the GUI, text checkpoints.
• Involved in Backend testing by using SQL queries and scripts.
• Supported UAT testing team in execution of scripts and data setup.
• Participated in automated scripts code Walkthroughs and QA Reviews.
• Used Parameterization for testing the application with a set of data.
• Worked as software configuration coordinator to manage the Testing documents and updates
• Involved in the End-To-End test and responsible for the Quality Assurance of the application
• Work with the Release Engineering team to create and maintain an automated nightly build verification test.
• Supported Production release team by testing defects that came in production.
• Defect tracking Identified and Reported bugs using Test Director.
• Involved in preparing various metrics like QA Summary report, Effort variation metrics, defect metrics and test case execution metrics

Environment: QTP, TestDirector, Java, J2EE, WebLogic, EJB XML, HTML, Oracle 8i, SQL, MS Word, MS Excel, UNIX, Windows NT/XP, TOAD, WinSQL.

Confidential, September 2006 to November 2007
Project: CTS-PSV Development and Testing
Quality Assurance Engineer

WellPoint, Inc. is one of the biggest Healthcare Insurer in US. It has several insurance policies to its customers. WellPoint, Inc. currently conducts its credentialing process out of Cactus. WellPoint is currently in the mid of overhauling several components of the credentialing process as a part of the Credentialing Technology Services project. WellPoint, Inc. plans to setup a subsidiary Anthem Credentialing Services Inc. (ACSI) to maximize returns the investment on the credentialing infrastructure. WellPoint has finalized on internal requirements and is currently working on documenting requirements for functionality that will be needed to service external clients
WellPoint is approaching the Credentialing Technology Services project in a phased manner with three separate releases. The first released is scheduled to go live by Q4 2006. This phase will comprise of building a repository to hold PSV data from license boards and certification agencies and automation of Primary Source Verification on the Standard Cactus Platform from the PSV repository.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Analyzing Requirements and Functional specifications.
• Verified that the requirements were testable, designed the test approach and ensured clear definition of roles and responsibilities.
• Involved in the development of the Test plan - Approach, scope, resource assignments & schedules and Testing Strategy.
• Prepared the Effort estimation for the project.
• Given the KT sessions on requirements and application to the team.
• Responsible for preparation of test scenarios and test scripts from use cases and requirement documents.
• Developed Requirements Traceability Matrix to map the test cases with the Requirements.
• Prepared the test execution plan and tracking the execution
• Prepared the Application Quality Index to track the stability of the application
• Collected the metrics and analyze the applications status
• Prepared the Test Metrics & Defects Report for the Daily Status meeting with development team.
• Worked as software configuration coordinator to manage the Testing documents and updates
• Involved in Reviewing of Test Plan.
• Involved in the End-To-End test and responsible for the Quality Assurance of the application
• Involved in Reviewing of Test Plan.
• Test case writing, Review and Execution.
• Defect tracking Identified and Reported bugs using Prolite

Environment: TestDirector, Java, J2EE, Web logic, EJB XML, HTML, Oracle 8i, SQL, MS Word, MS Excel, UNIX, Windows NT/XP, TOAD, WinSQL

Confidential,May 2005 to August 2006
Project Name: PPMRFC
Quality Assurance Engineer
Arbitron is a radio rating company in US for past 50 years. In the process of getting related details to rate the radio station, they developed a device called Portable People Meter. This meter can identify the radio signals and provide reliable data to the Arbitron server from samples/panelists. For PPM they added some features and launched a new product called PPMRFC.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Analyzing Requirements and Functional specifications.
• Verified that the requirements were testable, designed the test approach and ensured clear definition of roles and responsibilities.
• Involved in the development of the Test plan - Approach, scope, resource assignments & schedules and Testing Strategy.
• Prepared the Effort estimation for the project.
• Given the KT sessions on requirements and application to the team.
• Responsible for preparation of test scenarios and test scripts from use cases and requirement documents.
• Developed Requirements Traceability Matrix to map the test cases with the Requirements.
• Prepared the test execution plan and tracking the execution
• Prepared the Application Quality Index to track the stability of the application
• Collected the metrics and analyze the applications status
• Prepared the Test Metrics & Defects Report for the Daily Status meeting with development team.
• Worked as software configuration coordinator to manage the Testing documents and updates
• Involved in Reviewing of Test Plan.
• Involved in the End-To-End test and responsible for the Quality Assurance of the application
• Test case writing, Review and Execution.
• Defect tracking Identified and Reported bugs using Prolite.
• Conducting dry run for the application.
• Involved in designing framework.
• Involved in providing estimation.
• Test script writing, Review and Execution.
• Involved in querying the database for the updations.
• Involved in checking Functionality of application using WinRunner8.0.
• Defect tracking Identified and Reported bugs using Test director.
• Attended Project Closure Meetings

Environment: WinRunner 8.0, TestDirector, Java, J2EE, Web logic, EJB XML, HTML, Oracle 8i, SQL, MS Word, MS Excel, UNIX, Windows NT/XP, TOAD, WinSQL