SUMMARY

• Over 7+ years of experience Software Quality Assurance (QA) experience testing Data Warehouse, Database (ETL), Web, Client - Server Systems and Applications for various Industries.
• Experience in defining Testing Methodologies; creating Test Plans and Test Cases, Verifying and Validating Application Software and Documentation based on standards for Software Development and effective QA implementation in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Extensive experience in Mercury Testing tools (Test Director, Quality Center) and Rational Suite ( Clear Case, Clear Quest, Test Manager).
• Experienced in Property & Casualty Billing. Strong knowledge of various modules of insurance like channel management, policy servicing, claims management, underwriting, reinsurance and Finance
• Experienced in Onsite-Offshore Co-ordination, Test Management, Test Automation, Onsite Offshore Model Process Consulting, Requirements Management, Defect Management, Release Management and Team Management. Has performed planning and testing of Client/Server and Web applications
• Strong in Software Analysis, Planning, Design, Development, Testing, Maintenance and Augmentation for various applications in data warehousing, metadata repositories, data migration, data mining and Enterprise Business Intelligence.
• Expert in ETL, Data Warehousing, front-end testing.
• Extensive experience in writing SQL to validate the database systems and for backend database testing.
• Extensive experience with IBM Mainframe for analyzing the data in designing the ETL Process.
• Extensively worked on design and implementation of Database Management Systems such as Oracle 11g/10g / 9i / 8i / 7.x, DB2 UDB, MS SQL Server, and MS Access.
• Implemented all stages of development processes including extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) data from various sources into Data Warehouse and Data Marts using Informatica PowerCenter using Informatica Designer (Source Qualifier, Warehouse Analyzer, Transformation Developer, Mapping and Mapplet Designer), Repository Manager, Workflow Manager and Workflow Monitor.
• Experienced in working with Business Users, Business Analysts, IT leads and Developers in identifying and gathering Business requirements to further translate requirements into functional and technical design specifications.
• Worked extensively in UNIX (AIX) and Linux environment, used Shell Scripts for automating batch transfers, table space management, automated backup, user group maintenance, security and custom report generation.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Ralph Kimball’s data modeling concepts including Dimensional Data Modeling and Star/Snowflake Schema Modeling.
• Extensive experience in performing Black Box, Regression, Integration, and User Acceptance testing.
• Experienced working with Excel Pivot and VBA macros for various business scenarios.
• Effective independently or in a team. Worked as a Team Leader. Excellent communication as well as inter-personnel skills. Ability to convey technical information at all levels. Excels in research, analysis, and problem solving skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ETL Tools: Informatica PowerCenter 9.1/8.6.1/8.1 / 7.1/ 6.1.

Data Bases: Oracle 11g/10g / 9i / 8i / 7.x, MainFrame via web3270, DB2 UDB, MS SQL Server 2008/2005/2000 / 7.0 , MS-Access, teradata v2r6

Development Languages: SQL*Plus, T-SQL, PL/SQL 2.2 / 8.x, Unix Shell Scripting, Benthic Software Golden 5.7/ Goldview32/ ImpExp32, TOAD 7 / 7.6, SQL Loader, VBA

Operating Systems: UNIX (AIX), Linux, MS-DOS, Windows vista / XP / 2000 / NT / 98 / 95.

Methodologies: Ralph Kimball’s Data modeling, Star and Snowflake Schema Modeling

Testing Tools: Mercury Quality Center 11.0/ 10.0/ 9.0 / 8.0 , Test Director 7.6 / 7.0, Quick Test Professional 6.5 / 5.6, Win Runner 7.5 / 7.0

Workflow Tools: Putty, WinSCP3, MS-Project, MS-Excel, MS-PowerPoint, MS-Word.

Management Tools: Peregrine Service Center 5.1, HP Project and Portfolio Management Center (ITG) 7.1

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, ST.Petersburgh FL

Sr. ETL QA BI Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Business Requirement Documents and the Functional Specification.
• Full Life Cycle Testing (SDLC) and development of both claim submission and remittance retrievals.
• Provided consultation to P&C Insurance Companies on regulatory/compliance issues.
• Provides policy administration and technical services to commercial property/casualty insurers of all sizes.
• Worked in the Property and Causality in the insurance deductible the lower your premiums could be.
• Closely went through and worked on all the stages of SDLC for this project and designed and executed Functional, Integration, Regression, and System (End to End), UI Testing, Browser Compatibility, Backend (Database) Testing.
• Strong exposure to the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and extensive experience with QA testing methodologies and procedures.
• Prepared Test Plan from the Business Requirements and Functional Specification.
• Developed Test Cases for Deployment Verification, ETL Data Validation, Cube Testing and Report testing.
• Familiar with CMMI, the Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology within the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) along with Agile and Scrum.
• Submitted change requests and worked with change request records in Clear quest.
• Participated in entering, tracking system defects in Rational Clear quest.
• Performed UAT (User Acceptance Testing) and executed to verify requirements, look and feel of the applications.
• Responsible for creating manual test scripts to include Functional Test, Regression Test, UAT, Migration Test and Study Configuration Test.
• Worked on Guidewire, extensively worked on Guidewire Policy center & Guidewire Claim Center.
• Used GuideWire software to track the claims of the policyholders.
• Responsible for Unit Testing of the Mappings created according to the business requirements.
• Testing (that includes unit, integrated, regression, and UAT) a new .NET application which uses Microsoft Visual Studio under the Scrum (Agile) Methodology.
• Created UAT test cases and scenarios based on Use Cases, and made sure that UAT test case meets the business requirements.
• Worked on Informatica Power Center tool - Source Analyzer, Data warehousing designer, Mapping & Mapplet Designer and Transformation.
• Tested to verify that all data were synchronized after the data is troubleshoot and also used SQL to verify/validate my test cases.
• Worked on Informatica Power Center tool - Source Analyzer, Data warehousing designer, Mapping & Mapplet Designer and Transformation.
• Supported the extraction, transformation and load process (ETL) for a Data Warehouse from their legacy systems using Informatica and provide technical support and hands-on mentoring in the use of Informatica for testing.
• Extensively used Informatica to load data from Flat Files to Teradata, Teradata to Flat Files and Teradata to Teradata
• This work will include loading of historical data onto the Teradata platform, as well as reference data and metadata.
• Involved in developing detailed test plan, test cases and test scripts using Quality Center for Functional and Regression Testing.
• Used QTP for Checkpoints, Regular Expression and Accessed Data Tables for multiple applications.
• Automated detailed test cases by using Quick Test Pro.
• Used Quick Test Pro to write the automated test scripts by using various actions and reusable actions.
• Worked in keyword view as well as expert view of Quick Test Pro.
• Creating test scripts using Quality Center and performing regression testing on new versions of the software.
• Conducted the Functional, System, Integration, and Regression, of the Web application. Escalation of critical problem/issues during testing and reporting them in Test Director.
• Reviewed Informatica mappings and test cases before delivering to Client.
• Worked as ETL Tester responsible for the requirements / ETL Analysis, ETL Testing and designing of the flow and the logic for the Data warehouse project.
• Strong technical expertise in Integration testing, Functional testing, GUI testing, Backend testing, and Security testing.
• Performed API Testing, GUI front-end and Backend testing for internal web-based applications.
• Written several UNIX scripts for invoking data reconciliation.
• Solid Back End Testing experience by writing and executing SQL Queries.
• Creation of test scripts in SQL based on published design documents
• Exported the results through SQL and documented the test results for test cases, suites executed.
• Wrote and maintained SQL stored procedures database performance tuning on Informix and Sybase.
• Worked on Various SQL Server procedures for various Bugs, executed queries in test databases using SQL queries.
• Executed SQL Queries for testing integrity of data in database (Backend Testing).
• Backend and Database Testing: Oracle, MS-SQL Server, MS Access databases.
• Experienced in writing complex SQL queries for extracting data from multiple tables.
• Testing has been done based on Change Requests and Defect Requests.
• Preparation of System Test Results after Test case execution.
• Performed Functional, Regression, Data Integrity, System, Compatibility testing
• Written several complex SQL queries for validating Business Object Reports.
• Fine-tuned for performance and in corporate changes to complex PL/SQL procedure / Packages for updating the existing dimension tables using PL/SQL Developer on Oracle 8i RDBM.
• Performed backend database testing by writing SQL and PL/SQL scripts to verify data integrity
• Developed SQL Stored Procedures and Queries for Back end testing.
• Extensively executed T-SQL queries in order to view successful transactions of data and for validating data in Sql Server Database.
• Extensively used Informatica power center for extraction, transformation and loading process.
• TOAD is used to perform manual test in regular basis. UNIX and Oracle are using in this project to write Shell Scripts and SQL queries.
• Wrote SQL queries to validate source data versus data in the data warehouse including identification of duplicate records.
• Experienced in writing test cases, test scripts, test plans and execution of test cases reporting and documenting the test results using Mercury Quality Center
• Prepared Test status reports for each stage and logged any unresolved issues into Issues log.
• Used T-SQL for Querying the SQL Server database for data validation.
• Writing the test scripts for manual testing.
• Involved with ETL test data creation for all the ETL mapping rules.
• Preparing and supporting the QA and UAT test environments.
• Tested different detail, summary reports and on demand reports.
• Communicated discrepancies determined in testing to impacted areas and monitored resolution.

Environment: INFORMATICA POWER CENTER 9.1, VB Scripting, Clear Quest, Guidewire Datahub, SQL, PL/SQL, UNIX, Agile, Quality Center 11.0, IBM AIX 5.5, DB2, TERADATA V2R6, QTP 11, GUI, UAT, UNIT, SYBASE 12.5, Shell Scripting, XML Files, AUTOSYS, XML SPY 2010, ORACLE 11G, TOAD 10, Word, Excel, Outlook.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, KS

SR.ETL QA BI TESTER

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Business Requirement Documents and the Functional Specification.
• Prepared Test Plan from the Business Requirements and Functional Specification.
• Carried out data profiling for multiple loan feeds.
• Used GuideWire to upgrade the current Claim system to track the claim of the policyholders and third party applications.
• Reviewed client business requirements to identify product gaps in the Guidewire product.
• Helped the UAT team to run the scenarios in Clear Quest.
• Executed end to end business test cases using Clear quest and clear case.
• Performed validation tests to ensure that the developed functionality meets the specifications prior to UAT testing.
• Involved in user training sessions and assisting in UAT (User Acceptance Testing).
• Assisted in System Test and UAT testing scenarios as required.
• Involved unit and integration test for the Informatica and database level.
• Involved in the complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Wrote, prepared and executed Manual Test Cases based on Requirements and Use Cases, and Automated Test Scripts throughout Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Performed ETL testing based on ETL mapping document for data movement from source to target.
• Strong testing Quality Assurance experience within agile environment.
• Good understanding of agile software development lifecycle (iterative and incremental).
• Performed tests on various features of agile development process.
• Extensively used Informatica to load data from Flat Files to Teradata, Teradata to Flat Files and Teradata to Teradata.
• Performed GUI Testing, Unit testing, Integration testing and System testing.
• Performed functional, data driven database GUI and cross browser testing.
• Executed regression tests at each new build in QTP.
• Inserted Synchronization points in the script using QTP.
• Automated detailed test cases by using Quick Test Pro.
• Used Quick Test Pro to write the automated test scripts by using various actions and reusable actions.
• Used Quality Center for bug reporting.
• Tracked and reported the bugs with Quality center.
• Defect Reporting & Defect Tracking using Quality Center.
• Tested complex objects to the universe to enhance the report functionality.
• Written several complex SQL queries to validate the Data Transformation Rules for ETL testing.
• Written extensive UNIX Shell scripting for data parsing and text parsing needs including archiving the old data, running backend jobs & setting up of job dependencies.
• Performed extensive data validations against Data Warehouse
• Loaded flat file Data into Teradata tables using Unix Shell scripts.
• Responsible for verifying business requirements, ETL Analysis, ETL test and design of the flow and the logic for the Data warehouse using Informatica and Shell Scripting
• Tested several Informatica Mappings to validate the business conditions.
• Conditional testing of constraints based on the business rules
• Designed and executed the test cases on the application as per company standards and tracked the defects using HP Quality Center.
• Informatica Power Center was used to extract, transform and load data from different operational data sources like Oracle, SQL server into SQL database.
• Extensive experience in writing SQL and PL/SQL scripts to validate the database systems and for backend database testing
• Wrote complex SQL, PL/SQL Testing scripts for Backend Testing of the data warehouse application.
• Used XPath to navigate through data elements and attributes in an XML document.
• Worked with XML feeds from multiple sources systems and loaded the same into Enterprise data warehouse.
• Developed and Executed SQL statements in Toad to retrieve data and to validate data.
• Implemented Database Checkpoints for Back-end Testing.
• Performed the Back-end Integration Testing to ensure data consistency on front-end by writing and executing SQL statements.
• Conducted the Functional, System, Regression, and Performance testing of the Web application using Mercury tools Quick Test Pro and LoadRunner.
• Worked on SQL Tools like TOAD and SQL Server Management Studio to run the SQL Queries to perform manual test in regular basis and validate the data.
• Involved extensively in doing back end testing of the data quality by writing complex SQL.
• Designed and prepared scripts to monitor uptime/downtime of different system components
• Written Test Cases for ETL to compare Source and Target database systems.
• Monitored the data movement process through Data Extract to flat files through Informatica execution flows and Loading data to Data mart through NZLOAD utility.
• Testing the ETL data movement from Oracle Data mart to Teradata on an Incremental and full load basis.
• Developed the ETL process to automate the testing process and also to load the test data into the testing tables.
• Used Excel Pivoting for various running totals, total sales for trades, highest performance of trades

Environment: Informatica PowerCenter 8.6.1, Clear Quest, GUI,, Guidewire, UAT, UNIT, VBA, VB Scripting, SQL, PL/SQL, Excel Pivot, Agile, Oracle 10g/9i, MainFrame via Web3270, VSAM Files, Copy Books, QTP 10, DB2 UDB, WinSQL, UNIX (AIX), Linux, PuTTY, WinSCP3, Mercury Quality Center 10.0, Word, XML, Excel, Outlook, Autosys, Teradata, TOAD, XML

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

QA/SQL/ETL Tester

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analyzing various data sources such as flat files, ASCII Data, EBCDIC Data, Relational Data (Oracle, DB2 UDB, MS SQL Server) from various heterogeneous data sources.
• Delivered file in various file formatting system (ex. Excel file, Tab delimited text, Coma separated text, Pipe delimited text etc.)
• Prepared the guides for UAT.
• Responsible for complete manual testing of application under test (UAT).
• Tested the ETL Informatica mappings and other ETL Processes (Data Warehouse Testing).
• Responsible to design, develop and test the software (Informatica, PL SQL, UNIX shell scripts) to maintain the data marts (Load data, Analyze using OLAP tools).
• Developed inline view queries and complex SQL queries and improved the query performance for the same.
• UNIX and Oracle are used in this project to write Shell Scripts and SQL queries.
• Involved in Identifying of the unused test cases in the Test Plan in Quality Center and prepared a consolidated doc to delete the test cases.
• Involved in automation of test cases using QTP.
• Did functional testing using QTP
• Did extensive work with ETL testing including Data Completeness, Data Transformation & Data Quality for various data feeds coming from source.
• Executed campaign based on customer requirements
• Followed company code standardization rule
• Developed several VBA macros.
• Identify issues, information, and behaviors during the adoption of a proprietary information management system.
• Accelerate the rate of adoption of the system, improve the quality of the data being input and generated, and promote accountability amongst the staff and users.
• Develop code necessary to introduce additional reports, reverse engineer data models to the business meaning, and instruct users on the account management and implementation process advantages derived from the system.
• Identify and document deficiencies in the proprietary information management system during initial implementation.

Environment: Informatica PowerCenter 8.1, Clear Quest, UAT, VBA, Excel, Quick Test Pro 9.2, Oracle 9i, DB2 UDB, SQL Server 2000, SQL, PL/SQL, TOAD, VB Scripting, SQL Developer, UNIX (AIX), Shell Scripts, Mercury Quality Center 9.0, Microsoft Office 2003, Word, Excel, Outlook, Windows XP/2000, TERADATA V2R6, MLOAD, FLOAD, TERADATA SQL ASSISTANT, BTEQ

Confidential, Manhattan, New York

ETL/SQL Tester

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Data Profiling for various needs of business.
• Scrubbed data to accurately generate customer pull. Provide output files in various file format based on customer request.
• Used various checkpoints in the Informatica designer to check the data being transformed
• Automated and scheduled the Informatica jobs using UNIX Shell Scripting.
• Extensively used Informatica power center for ETL process.
• Developed automated scripts for functional testing and Data driven testing of the application using QTP.
• Extensively worked on QT Pro to design and develop various manual and Goal oriented Scenarios for Application.
• Worked on calling shell scripts from post-session and pre-session events. Extensively involved in implementing performance tuning techniques for the queries.
• Involved in the Maintenance and Production Support
• Used Quality Center as a Defect tracking tool to report the defects encountered while testing. Base lined the Test Plan, Test Criteria & Project Schedule by walkthroughs and review meetings.
• Involved in extensive DATA validation using SQL queries and back-end testing
• As QA Tester, performing responsibilities with both the functionality and back end testing.
• Extensively used various types of transformations such as Expression, Joiner, Update strategy, Look up, filter for developing mappings.
• Optimized QTP scripts for Regression testing of the application with various data sources and data types.
• Executed regression tests at each new build in QTP.
• Development of mappings as per the technical specifications approved by the client.
• Created sessions and workflows to run with the logic embedded in the mappings using Power center Designer.
• Used workflow manager for session management, database connection management and scheduling of jobs.
• Reviewed specifications for feasibility of customer list pull criteria and commit date
• Executed Campaign based on customer request and reviewed execution log to keep track of the number of records going into and coming out of every job step
• Prepared the Test Plan and Testing Strategies for Data Warehousing Application.
• Delivered file in various file formatting system (ex. Excel file, Tab delimited text, Coma separated text, Pipe delimited text etc.)
• Tested Database Triggers, Stored Procedure, Functions and Packages.
• Optimized queries using rule based & cost based approach.
• Executed campaign based on customer requirements
• Followed company code standardization rule
• Preparation of technical specifications and Source to Target mappings.
• Extensively used SQL programming in backend and front-end functions, procedures, packages to implement business rules and security
• Tuned database and SQL statements and schemas for optimal performance.
• Expertise in SQL queries for the cross verification of data.
• Designed documentation for the developed graphs.

Environment: Informatica PowerCenter 7.1, Clear Quest, Quality Center 8.0, TOAD 7.6, Oracle 9i, DB2 UDB, QTP 9.0, SQL, PL/SQL, UNIX (AIX), Shell Scripts, Word, Excel, Outlook, Windows 2000 / NT.

Confidential, Manhattan, new york

ETL QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for building the management process, making sure controls are being followed, assisting in the requirements design, and coordinating the efforts of performers in the Enterprise Information Management Department.
• Created technical specifications, mapping documents and managed test cases.
• Participated in development of an estimation tracking tool for level of effort projections.
• Gathered information, compiled findings and prepared management reports for staffing levels.
• Developed database applications for managing IT staffing requirements and monitoring the status of outstanding requisitions.
• Written several complex SQL queries to validate the data conditions as per the mapping document.
• Performed Functional Testing and Back-end Testing using the database comparable results Manually
• Load new or modified data into back-end Oracle database.
• Implemented Database Checkpoints for Back-end Testing
• Performed the Back-end Integration Testing to ensure data consistency on front-end by writing and executing SQL statements
• Detailed repeatable end to end test cases for application, interviewed developers to gain detailed information on complex calculations and backend exception processing in order to validate the back end utilizing SQL Plus
• Provided data analysis, identified trends, summarized results and generated reports for Card Solutions Delivery reorganization effort.
• Extensively used SQL and PL/SQL Procedures and Worked in both UNIX and Windows environment.
• Created UNIX shell scripts for Informatica ETL tool to automate sessions.
• Developed graphic representation of various metrics used in the forecasting, budgeting and procurement processes for the Merchandising Department.
• Utilized Access database to collect data from multiple database sources using ODBC methods.
• Monitored sessions using the workflow monitor, which were scheduled, running, completed or failed. Debugged mappings for failed sessions.
• Extensive performance tuning by determining bottlenecks at various points like targets, sources, mappings and sessions.

Environment: Oracle 7.3, SQL, PL/SQL, SQL*Plus, MDL, Gerb Tool, Microstation95, Mainframe, Small world, Windows 2000/NT/98/95, Word, Excel, Outlook, Microsoft office 97, Informatica 6.1, UNIX, Shell Scripting, XML.