PADMA GOURA

408-***-****

abhrv2@r.postjobfree.com

Status:US Citizen

SUMMARY:

• Around 7 years of diverse experience in the field of Information Technology with

emphasis on Quality Assurance, Software Design, Development, Testing and Quality

Analysis

• Experience in gathering functional requirements.

• Experience in Business Process Analysis, Business Requirements gathering, Data

Analysis (SQL, PL/SQL,TSQL Queries).

• Experience in coordinating testing efforts among the team, exposure to Software

Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and expert in manual testing procedures.

• Working knowledge of Oracle fusion middleware.

• Experienced in verification and validation of data.

• Supported and participated in UAT testing in staging environment.

• Experience in business analysis and data analysis.

• Preparation of scenarios based on Business Requirements, Creation of test cases using

Quality Center Tool.

• Experience in testing software applications and writing test scripts.

• Extensively worked in Manual Testing of applications on UNIX and Windows

Environment.

• Experience in writing System test plans, defining test cases, developing and Maintaining

test scripts according to the business specification given

• Expertise in Problem solving and Tracking Bug Reports using Bug tracking Tools

• Experience in Manual and testing including Black box testing, Regression Testing,

Integration Testing, System Testing.

• Experience in Standardization of QA Methodology, Test Plan Formulation .

• Experience in creating OBIEE reports and testing.

• Flexible and resourceful, applying strong organizational, time-management as well as

planning skills to deliver projects on time, despite intense pressure and aggressive

timelines

• Good knowledge in project life cycle.

• Highly motivated, Goal-Oriented Professional with excellent Problem Solving skills,

Communication Skills verbal and written as well, trouble shooter, strong drive to exceed

customer expectations.

• Good working knowledge with VISIO, MS Office suite products.

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TECHNOLIGIES:

TOOLS: OBIEE, SQLDeveloper, TOAD, Quality Center 10.0, HP Quick test Pro,

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MS Office, MS Visio.

• TEST REPORTING TOOLS: Clear quest, Quality Center,OBIEE

• METHODOLOGIES: OOD/OOA/OOP Design Patterns, Object-Oriented

Programming, Client/Server Distributed Systems, Project Management

• LANGUAGES: VB, VB.NET, SQL, SQL PLUS, PL/SQL

• WEB TECHNOLOGIES: HTML, DHTML, ASP, JSP, VBScript, JavaScript.

• DATA BASE: Oracle 10g, SQL Server.

• OPERATING SYSTEMS: Windows 95/98/2000/ME/NT/XP, LINUX, UNIX,

• HP-UX

• NETWORK PROTOCOLS : HTTP, TCP/IP, SMTP and Telnet

EXPERIENCE: Aug’10 Present.

Verizon

Irving, TX

QUALITY ANALYST/BUSINESS ANALYST

VFRAME-Verizon Financial Reporting & Analysis Management Environment:

Vframe was developed to provide analysts and management the ability to access

standardized financial & managerial information from a single source.

Utilize enhanced tool sets and web based delivery mechanisms for more effective

reporting.

DRM One Organizational Hierarchy:

This is a multi faceted project that includes implementing a standard hierarchy

which will be fed from OSS to DRM/Wire line to PeopleSoft to VFEAME

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test plan for testing repots in OBIEE according to functional requirements

• Wrote test cases and generated steps in quality center.

• Wrote test cases to test reports and ran these test cases manually.

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• Conducted UI testing in dashboards and BI delivers.

• Documented defects in quality center.

• Conducted research on existing tables which are subjected to change as per the business

requirements.

• Wrote SQL queries to find whether the data exists after 2008 and prepared list of tables to

be converted or deleted.

• Gathered necessary information about the lob_key changes and prepared document for

further reference.

• Created OBIEE reports and tested the data.

• Verified the access to the subject areas by logging in as that particular user.

• Verified and validated data in OBIEE reports.

• Verified the Join conditions in rpd (ODS Schema).

• Prepared the documents what needs to be tested in SIT (testing phase).

• Verified OBIEE filters and compared the results to the data base.

• Wrote SQL scripts to validate OBIEE results

• Wrote test cases for testing Oracle BI Answers.

• Identified issues to leads and provided possible solutions.

ENVIRONMENT: OBIEE, Essbase,ORACLE 10g, Winows,UNIX,MS Office,MS VISIO,Quality

Center 10.0,SQL Developer, TOAD

Employer: 9Yards Technologies, LLC

Irving,TX

Client: Pharm Chem., Inc

Feb ‘07 – July'10

QA Analyst/Lead

I. Online Specimen Collection & Tracking System:

PharmChem developed a Website for Online Specimen Collection from manual to automated

process. Based on existing forms and future requirements, new systems were defined and

developed. The objective was to retrieve existing customer data from legacy systems, capture new

data related to Accounts and/or, Customers and connect to PharmChem Databank, and propose

different options for Test Panel selection. Because of this application, the data entry functionality

was shifted from PharmChem to Specimen Collector(s) and it reduced the operating cost from $23

to $15 per Specimen.

Responsibilities:

• Gathered and analyzed requirements, detailed design, and formulated test plan for the

functional testing of the application.

• Documented the gathered requirements using MSWord, MS Visio, Excel and

PowerPoint.

• Used MS Project for project management and planning

• Created test cases and performed manual testing of the application initially.

• Performed Black Box testing for whole application

• Analyzed business requirements and functional specification documents to write test cases

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• Performed manual testing by following the end user business processes on the entire

application to test for real world scenario

• Interacted with developers and Business Analyst team to discuss the design and testing

scenarios of the application

• Defined requirements by writing Business reuirement Document( BRD’s) and Functional

requirement Documents (FRD’s )

• Prepared Functional Specification Document(FSD)

• Conducted the regression testing for each release of the application. Conducted back end

testing using SQL queries to validate data.

• Wrote reusable test cases.

• Creation and execution of Test Scripts and documenting the final results.

• Extensively used Recovery Scenarios while doing the regression testing.

• Performed IST (Integrated System Testing), regression on different operating system

and browsers.

• Used Quality Center to report and track defects. Ensured that the severity level for the

bugs was assigned properly and the highest severity bugs were resolved immediately so

interacted with developers to resolve any defects and issues.

• Participated in End to End testing

• Responsible for weekly status, attend the meetings showing progress and future testing

efforts

Environment: QualityCenter 10.0, Windows 2000, JSP, HTML, DHTML, CSS,

MS Visio,MS Project.

II. Automated Testing & Laboratory Analysis System (ATLAS):

PharmChem developed an automated Laboratory Information System (LIS) called ATLAS. It is

developed to automate the Laboratory process in various departments like SRD, EMIT,

GCMS,DR, STORAGE, and CUSTOMER SERVICES.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinating with teams like business, brokers, and external customers, which are

involved in the interfacing of the application

• Gathered requirements through general meetings, study design document & conference

calls and documented the requiremets

• Peer review of the documents like Test plan and test scripts developed by the Team.

• Developed Test plan for Test Plan using the Business Specifications.

• Participated in the Business review meetings.

• Wrote test cases and documented defects.

• Manually performed the functionally testing and also was responsible completing the

regression testing

• Conducted the System integration testing of the application manually for different

Modules.

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• Performing queries to the database using 'SQL' to check successful Transaction & to

create particular test cases

• Presentation of the QA Status report and the Defect Status reports in the weekly meeting.

Worked very closely with the Business Team, Development team and Management.

• Point of contact for both onshore and offshore for testing related activities

• Interacting with Development and QA Teams to ensure overall quality of the software

• Involved in Logging defects, Monitoring their status and tracking them to closure using

Quality Center.

• Participated in the Weekly status meetings with the client

• Developed various reports to communicate testing issues to the project manager.

Environment: Quality Center 9.0, Windows NT/2000,Unix QTP 6.5, SQL Scripts,

PL/SQL,SQL*Plus.

Employer-Intellisoft Technologies

VERIZON

eRegistration: Oct'04-Nov'06

QualityAnalyst

Verizon customers are encouraged to register online to receive information through emails and have

access to Bill View and Bill Pay applications. A temporary user_id and password being generated

and printed on monthly bill and asked customers to go online and register their information and

create permanent user_id and password. Customers who registered online will have access to view

their Bill and full access to all the information. Also provide access Bill Pay application to pay

online securely. This application (eRegistration) encourages the customers to register online and

provides all the required information to the customer. It also encourages the customers to signup

with different products that are in promotion online. This application not only cut down the cost and

also promotes the business thru online advertisement.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in reviewing functional design specifications, developing test strategies and

specification as well as test plan and reports.

• Created Test cases for the manual testing of the application.

• Involved in Regression testing, Functional testing, Integration testing and System testing.

• Involved in analyzing the test results and identifying and solving the bottlenecks, and

documenting the test results.

• Performed the System integration testing of the application manually for different Modules

• Involved in coordinating the test plan development, test cases and tests execution.

• Developed SQL queries to perform Database Testing

• Participated in User Acceptance Testing (UAT), coordinated and dealt with clients for

maintaining better quality standards.

• Interaction with developers and Business Analyst team to discuss the design and testing

scenarios of the application.

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• Retested the defects that are in Test status and updated the defect-tracking sheet.

Participated in status meetings to report issues

• Defects were tracked and reported using Test Director

• Responsible for providing regular test reports to the management

Environment: Test Director 6.0, HTML, ASP.NET, JavaScript, Oracle, PL/SQL, Windows

NT, Solaris, UNIX.

Educational Qualifications:

• Bachelors in Science (B.Sc).

• Masters in Business Administration (MBA) – Major in HR & Computer Science.

• PG Diploma in Computer Applications (PG DCA).

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