SUMMARY:

• Around 3+ years of experience in Software Testing (mostly Manual).
• Experienced in documenting, and executing test cases.
• Well versed in working with different types of testing such as Integration testing, Smoke testing, Sanity testing, Regression testing, Functional testing, End - to-End Testing, Back end testing, GUI testing, User Acceptance testing (UAT). Knowledgeable about difference in Smoke and Sanity testing.
• Well experienced in working with developers as a team to resolve the failed test cases.
• Well experienced to use defect tracking tools Confidential and knowledgeable about Jira.
• Experienced in 508 Compliance Testing tools (Jaws, Dragon, Magic)
• Experienced in developing SQL queries for back end testing using different wild cards and experienced in working with several database management systems.
• Good experience of Quality Assurance methodologies like Agile, Scrum, Waterfall.
• Experienced of Quality Center.
• Knowledgeable in Health Care Domain, Claim Life Cycle, EDI files, 4010 and 5010 conversion etc.
• Professional yet friendly to work in any group according to the requirement, has good teaching ability.
• Almost 10 years of experience of writing proposals for grants and presenting the work in seminar within groups or in client site. Experienced in initiation, process and submission of project within deadline in Food and Drug Administration of Confidential .
• Experienced of writing. Worked on Business Proposal writing team in ISSI starting searching for the proposals, selecting the proposals, writing the proposals and working on both the technical and financial proposal writing part.
• Experienced of writing Business proposals (technical and financial proposals for State and Federal Government).
• Experienced in understanding, identifying and analyzing customer’s needs and gathering requirements and preparing the Requirement Test Matrix.
• Capable to work with Client/Business users and developers to obtain the better quality final product.
• Excellent organization skills, ability to work independently and as part of a team, Solid analytical, dynamic troubleshooting skills, and written and verbal communication skills.
• Interested to learn new skills and can catch new things quickly.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Manual test scenarios and test cases using Excel sheet, Section 508 Compliance Testing tools (JAWS, DRAGON, MAGIC).

Defect Tracking Tools: Bugzilla, Jira

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile and Scrum

Project Tools: MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint).

Database skills: Experienced in writing simple Structured Query Language (SQL) queries to retrieve data from database, insert, modify or delete unwanted data.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES:

Confidential, Greenbelt, MD 

 QA Analyst/BA Analyst

Responsibilities 

• Designed, planned, created and executed Test Strategy, Detailed Test Plans, and Test Cases
• Helped to prepare requirement documents along with the Project Manager and Business Analyst to reduce project risk and improve the quality.
• Worked with the Team Lead of the Programmers to resolve the defects in the test cases.
• Used JAWS to make the application user friendly for the blind people
• Used DRAGON to make it useful for the physically disabled people
• Used MAGIC for making the application beneficial for the poor vision
• Used SQL for back end testing.
• Trained other testers in the organization for the Section 508 compliance testing.
• The work is still ongoing.
• Worked on searching different business proposals and writing the technical and financial proposals for both Maryland State and Federal Government proposals.

QA Analyst

Responsibilities 

• Mostly worked on database of the Metro Police Department (I/LEADS). Performed backend testing using I/LEADS database.
• Prepared several simple and complex SQL queries to extract duplicate and incorrect data from the database of DC Police related to different street address of DC while using different scripts with various wild cards to get maximum data out of the database.
• Involved actively to modify the address in I/LEADS live test scenario while removing duplicate records from the system using Edit Plus.
• Documented all the SQL scripts related to obtain the street records for future use.
• Used SQL queries to obtain street records of different Cities of MD and VA from nmmain database and then verified them with the correct records from duplicate records, DC maps and also using google maps.
• Created an alias to the “Master Record” for every duplicate record that follows a defined set of business rules.
• Worked as an administrative users to work in MPD real test scenario for Address verification, detecting Incidence and correct SSN from several duplicates records. Name merging, several other Data Cleansing and Development of Business Rules for LEADS Users.
• Actively participated to teach writing SQL queries, do back end testing and lot of way of performing data analysis to several officers who will continue working on the I/LEADS system.
• Prepared and presented the work on weekly basis in front of the team members and once in a month to the division people.

 QA Analyst

Responsibilities

• Created, designed and documented Test Cases and worked with Programmers to resolve bugs.
• Simultaneously worked as Admin and as User to test the application for smoke testing, functional testing, regression testing.

QA Analyst

Responsibilities 

• Coordinated all QA activities and enhancements using Agile Methodology.
• Involved in analyzing the functional requirements.
• Documented Test Cases depending on the requirements and performing the testing accordingly.
• Helped to prepare requirement documents at the beginning of the project.
• Conducted smoke, sanity, integration, GUI, back end and regression testing.
• Interacted with team lead and Business Analysts for requirement clarification, change requests, and document updates.
• Used Confidential to detect the defects and track bug record.
• Divided tests into multiple actions to design more modular and efficient tests.

Confidential

Data Analyst/ Research Fellow

Responsibilities

• Managed several projects. Worked from searching the opportunity, selecting, planning and initiating the project writing along with other team members. Writing and reviewing and editing the proposal. Submission and follow up till the grant is approved.
• Working with the team members to arrange for group meetings weekly, presenting data within group in front of higher authorities in the division and center.
• Presenting the works in International Conferences (American Association for Cancer Research, Annual symposium of FDA, NIH Research Festivals and several others).
• Worked in different designation in Food and Drug Administration for vigorous data analysis with previous data analysis experiences in India and worked as project coordinator to teach data analysis to summer interns each summer.
• Helped team people to write Project for submission for Grant. Helped in each step of initiation, conception, writing, discussion and submission of proposal.
• Worked together with team members to prepare the semi-annual, annual report to get the grant support continuously. Presented the budget in front of Dept. Management.
• Worked on statistical data analysis and presented the results in power-point presentation in several conferences as posters to support the work.
• Participated to support the summer interns teaching program actively each year, to teach them data analysis, proposal writing and presentation skills for their future betterment.
• Presented the works in several meetings.