Badri Prasad Saha

Employer:

acesq1@r.postjobfree.com

408-***-****

Executive Summary:

* 9+ years of professional experience in the IT Industry, as Software Test Engineer and/or QA Lead with strong hold in Manual and Automation testing skills

* Extensively involved in both Manual and Automated testing of Object Oriented, Client-Server, and Web based applications.

* Expertise in composing and execution of Test plans, Test cases and Test scripts.

* Good experience in automated testing using Quick Test Pro (QTP) and Quality Center (QC).

* Good experience in creating automation scripts using QTP to ensure business compliance.

* Good Experience in Defect Management (reporting and bug-tracking) using test management tools such as Test Director/Quality Center.

* Extensive hands-on experience in Black Box, Functional, Regression, Smoke, Sanity, End-to-End, UAT.

* Well versed with System Development Life cycle (SDLC) using software test life cycle (STLC)

* Test software applications used in healthcare industries in the areas of Contract/What If Modeling (Medicare /Commercial), Cost modeling, Accounts receivable analytics and Supply chain management

* Good experience in database testing using SQL queries by using Left, Right Joins & conditional Queries

* Experienced with testing on Web based environments such as J2EE/.NET, Windows and UNIX.

* Excellent coordination in working closely with End Users, Business analysts, Project Managers, Developers to understand requirements, business processes for Quality Assurance and led regular walkthroughs.

* A good team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to grasp new ideas and technologies quickly, to balance multiple short-term and long-term projects, and to effectively communicate with the staff members.

* Evidenced and recognized for high productivity, attention to detail and the ability to effectively engage and meet the needs of Business Requirements.

Education:

Master of Science (Computer science) from Sambalpur University (India) 2004

Certifications:

"Certified Tester Foundation level "offered by Indian Testing Board (an affiliate of ISTQB)

Technical Skills:

Primary Skills: Automation and Manual Testing

Test/Defect Management Tool: Test Director 7.X/8.X, Quality Center 9.X/10.X, ALM 11.0, QTP (Quick Test Pro) 11.0

Scripting Tool: VB Script

Databases: Oracle 9i/10g/11i, SQL Server 2000/2005/2008

Operating System: Windows Family, DG UNIX

Projects:

Project #1: Standard Monthly Accrual (SMA)

Client: Hospital Corporation of America (HCA)

Location: Nashville, TN, USA

Environment:ASP.Net, C#, Oracle 11g

Tools: Quick Test Professional (QTP) 11.0, Quality Center (HP ALM) 11.0, VB Script

Roles: Lead Tester/Automation Engineer

Duration: Dec 2010 – Present (Ongoing as it is being enhancement)

Description: The Standard Monthly Accrual (SMA) web application standardizes and simplifies the way revenue deductions are accrued and analyzed. It provides a set of reports that assist hospital CFO’s and their staff in computing discount accruals at month end and enter their accrual data for the current month end period.

Responsibilities:

* Meet/discuss/coordinate with stack holders to understand business requirement

* Prepared Test Plans documenting Strategy/Scope/schedule/risketc

* Involved in all Testing phases such asFunctional, Regression, End to end, UAT Testing.

* Hands on experience in prepare Hybrid (Keyword and Data driven) framework for QTP Automation.

* Hands on experience writing VBscript, Descriptive programming using QTP

* Hands on experience creating test cases, execute, log the defects manually and using Automation tool QTP

* Prepared Test Plans, Test cases based on the system requirements/Business requirements.

* Performed Smoke and Sanity testing to find discrepancies at the early stage of SDLC.

* Excellent involvement in Manual/Automated testing.

* High level of experience with different Interface systems supporting our application and working with end-to-end testing.

* Created and enhanced test scripts for regression testing with verification checkpoints available in QTP 11.0.

* Automated Test scenarios for GUI, Functionality, Boundary, Security and Regression Testing using QTP11.0.

* Updated and managed multiple scripts using Object Shared Repository.

* Performed database testing using SQL queries by using Left, Right Joins & conditional Queries.

* Defect Reporting & Defect tracking using Quality Center 11.0

* Generated Test Analysis Reports using Quality CenterReporting Tool.

* Good interaction with Development, Project management and User group.

Project #2: Alliance for Decision Support (ADS)

Client: Hospital Corporation of America (HCA)

Location: Nashville, TN, USA

Environment:Java, Small talk, Oracle 11g

Tools: Quality Center (HP ALM) 11.0

Roles:Test Lead

Duration:October 2011 – Present (Ongoing as it is dependent on Regulatory)

Description: HCA Contract Modeling uses this system to provide three components of decision support: contractmodeling, cost modeling and Ad hoc reporting. ADS allows to model complex contract terms so an accurate expected reimbursement can be calculated for patient encounters.

Responsibilities:

* Worked on ADS Version 3.2.7 with Patch 35 through 41, ADS Version 5.0/6.3 POC

* Meet/discuss/coordinate with stack holders to understand business requirement

* Prepared Test Plans documenting Strategy/Scope/schedule/risketc

* Prepared Test cases based on the system requirements/Business requirements.

* Involved in all Testing phases such asFunctional, Regression, End to end, UAT Testing.

* Performed Smoke and Sanity testing to find discrepancies at the early stage of SDLC.

* Excellent involvement in manual testing.

* Performed manualtest for GUI, Functionality, Boundary and Regression Testing.

* Defect Reporting & Defect tracking using Quality Center 11.0

* Generated Test Analysis Reports using Quality CenterReporting Tool.

* Good interaction with Development, Project management and User group.

Project #3: McKesson Performance Analytics POC

Client: Hospital Corporation of America (HCA)

Location: Nashville, TN, USA

Environment:ALM 11.0, Java,Oracle11g

Roles: Test Lead

Duration: Feb 2012 – Jul 2012

Description: The purpose of this project is to execute a proof of concept to determine McKesson's Performance Analytics and HBI functional readiness to support HCA's Analytics & Pricing Services and Decision Support Services functions.

Responsibilities:

* Meet/discuss/coordinate with stack holders to understand business requirement

* Develop and execute manual test cases

* Defect Reporting & Defect tracking using Quality Center(QC) 11.0

* Co-ordinate with the development team for defect closure

Project #4: Supply Management and Resource Tracking System (SMART)

Client: Hospital Corporation of America (HCA)

Location: India

Environment:Test Director/Quality Center/MF Cobol/DG UNIX

Roles:Lead Tester

Duration: Aug 2007 – Nov 2010

Description:SMART provides automated support of inventory, purchasing, receiving, distribution, file maintenance, and accounts payable activities.It supports both single facilities and multiple facilities in a market environment. It also supports company-owned distribution centers from which inventory is requisitioned and distributed to market facilities.The system can be interfaced with other HCA IT&S systems to permit information to be shared between systems. This sharing of information provides all systems with the most accurate and the complete data as possible.

Responsibilities:

* Meet/discuss/coordinate with stack holders to understand business requirement

* Estimate work requests

* Develop and execute manual test cases

* Coordinate, allocate and assign task at hand

* Reviewing test case/results

* Defect Reporting & Defect tracking using Test Director/Quality Center

* Co-ordinate with the development team for defect closure

Project#5: Projects.incindia.org

Client: Institute of Chartered Financial Analyst of India (ICFAI)

Location: India

Environment:ASP/C#/AJAX/SQL Server 2000

Roles: Lead Tester

Duration: Feb 2005 – July2007

Description: ICFAI National College has 151 Centers all over India. This software is a web-based application that provides interface for accounts management, employee management, human resource management, and material management information to the staff present in different department of center (colleges), regional offices and Head Quarters.

Responsibilities:

* Understanding the business requirement of the system

* Developing and executing manual test cases

* Defect Reporting & Defect tracking using BTS

* Co-ordinate with the development team for defect closure

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