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Project Quality Assurance

Location:
Herndon, VA, 20170
Posted:
January 10, 2011

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Resume:

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Summary:

. Nearly nine years of experience as Lead Quality Assurance Analyst/Data

Analysis/System/UAT Test Consultant in validating Web, Client/Server,

and Data Warehouse applications.

. Extensive experience in doing functional, system, regression and back-

end data validation testing using industry followed practices.

. Experienced in both Manual and Automated testing techniques.

. Experienced in verification and validation strategies for business

functionality, data validation in the areas of Financial, Data

warehousing, and ETL based applications

. Knowledge of data quality tools and techniques for effective data

management

. Good analytical and presentation skills, problem-solving techniques,

proven leadership qualities with emphasis on team effort backed by

effective communication skills.

Education:

Bachelor of Commerce (1996-1999)

Masters in Management Information Systems and Computer Applications

(1999-2001)

Experience:

Fannie Mae, Herndon, VA

Jan 2006 to Dec 2010

Sr Data Quality Analyst/ UAT Lead

Project 3: Tax Bond Model (TBM)

SCBSL-Tax is tax accounting and reporting system, it is tracking and

calculating tax cost basis of Securities in FM portfolio, and primarily

used by corporate tax accounting team. The main output of SCBSL-Tax is the

user reports to provide the results of tax security Amortization, Sales

gain/loss, and Mark-to-Market. It also interfaces with Hyperion-DTA and QRM

system to provide data for tax forecast.

Project 2: Premium Discount Tax (PDTax)

PDTax application is designed to amortize for tax purposes, premium &

discounts resulting from Acquisition by Fannie Mae of mortgage loans and

mortgage backed securities (MBS) in accordance with the provisions of IRC

and approved change in accounting method (CAM) request. The application

will compute and track mark to market (MTM) adjustments for loans and MBS

designated as held for sale (HFS) for Tax purposes.

Project 1: LIP Impaired Securities Tracking (LIST)

LIST was developed to execute impairments on securities in the LIP

portfolio.

The LIST processes accretion of impairment, amortization adjustments, and

adjustments to sales, relief for impaired securities and the mark to market

for the LIP. The LIST produces the adjustment amounts that will support

journal entries made in to the general ledger.

Environment: JAVA, J2EE, Oracle 10g, HP UNIX 10.20, WebLogic 9.1, Rational

Clear Case, Rational Clear Quest, Windows NT/2000, Mercury Quality Center

10.0, MS-Office, MS-Project, QTP, Toad, Business Objects BOXI, Ab-Initio

2.0

Role/Responsibilities:

. Involved in reviews for the Business Requirement Documents to

identify/refine requirements

. Develop and manage Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Cases, RTM and test

deliverables after the completion of system testing/UAT phase.

. Coordinate and monitor execution at different levels of functional,

system, integration, and automation of all the applications and

validation of financial analytics/business objects reports

. Efficiently manage the team resources, test environments and successfully

support multiple releases on tight schedules

. Setup and Coordinate daily meeting across the projects for expedited

follow-up, resolution and verification of the issues/enhancements.

. Coordinate with the business users during UAT for validation of business

requirements/scenarios.

. Responsible for tracking projects for delivery, tracking issues, risk and

status reporting to the executive level

. Demonstrated consensus building and relationship building skills to

obtain support for the process of collecting and reporting project and

operational metrics

Woodlands Software Solutions Jun 2001 - Dec

2005

Project 1:

QA & Test Consultant

Worked on testing of Data warehouse project in verification of Credit Card

decision making system INCARD. INCARD application is a rules engine based

decision enabler based on the financial client's decision requirements.

Once an application is received INCARD uses the various rules set-up,

credit policies and the Fraud Meta Model to approve and authorize an amount

or reject an application. For online applications, the decision is conveyed

immediately by sending the approval status as response.

Project 2:

I-BEAM Investment center provides the customers to view and manage their

Account Information that consists of Account Holdings, Activity and Order

Status. The customer can perform online trading for Securities, Mutual

Funds and Additional investments. This is a web-based application developed

in Java and the database was Oracle.

Environment: JAVA, J2EE, Oracle 9i, HP UNIX 10.20, Weblogic 8.2, Rational

Clear Case, Rational Clear Quest, Windows NT/2000, Test Director, MS-

Office, MS-Project, Toad, Business Objects 6.1

Responsibilities:

. Analyzed business and system requirements and developed test

strategy for testing the application

. Created Test Plans, Test Cases/Scripts and Business scenario's

based on the business and functional specifications.

. Used mocked up data and SQL PLUS/TOAD to create and execute SQL

scripts for back-end data validation.

. Monitor the successful running of the UNIX scripts/jobs to

verify the loading of bulk-load files from source into the

target reporting database.

. Verified within each module, that the proper events, SQL calls, functions

and procedures were executed without error and that all complied with the

established business requirements specification.

. Performed end to end verification and search capabilities of the

functionality of the application.

. Coordinated with the project team in the resolution and validation of the

defects/issues successfully and generated test metric reports for the

management to facilitate a decision on the Go/No-Go to production.

. Generation and validation of customized reports using Development

Suite of Business Objects and verifying the quality of the rendered

data in the application screen.



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