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Nisha Nambiar

*************@*****.***

Summary of Qualification:

. 6 plus years of experience with specialties in Requirement Analysis,

Testing (Manual, Database, Automation, Regression) and Data

Querying/Analysis/Mapping

. Excellent analytical skills for understanding business requirements,

system requirements/concept validation and data related requirements,

business rules/processes, and detailed design of the application

. Experience in data analysis by executing SQL queries. Good knowledge

in RDBMS concepts and worked with Oracle and SQL server

. Extensive experience and understanding of Web Technology, E-commerce

Principles, Content Management Systems (CMS), Service-Oriented

Architecture (SOA), Change Management, Business Process Modeling (BPM)

and Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence (DW/BI). Strong ability to

learn new technologies in short span and implement independently to

increase efficiency, productivity, and profitability

. Adept in using SDLC methodologies. Knowledge of Agile and Rational

Unified Process (RUP)

. Able to map current practices with best practices in similar fields

and model the gaps via Gap Analysis

. Performed knowledge transfer across different departments. Experienced

in onsite-offshore project model

Documentation

. Business Requirements Document (BRD)

. Functional Requirements Document (FRD/FSD)

. Technical Specification Document (TSD)

. Test Plan Document (TPD)

. Defect/Bug Report (DR)

. Data Mapping Document (DMD)

. Gap Analysis Document (GAD)

. Root Cause Analysis Document (RCA)

Testing

. Hands on experience in all phases of Client/Server & Web Applications

testing life cycles, including requirement gathering, analysis, test

planning, scheduling, testing, defect tracking, management and

reporting

. Broad Knowledge in reviewing Test Procedures, creating Test plans,

Test scenarios, and defining Test cases for both System & Integration

Testing

. Skilled in Test Data reviewing, using Test Matrix, analyzing bugs,

interacting with team members in fixing errors and also assisted in

Post -Production support

. Led User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with Test Plan, Assigning Team,

Execution, Documentation and Defect Report

. Worked closely with QA team in planning smoke, sanity, regression and

compatibility testing

. Expert in using Quality Center/Test Directory for test management, QTP

for regression testing

. Extensive experience in coordinating testing effort, responsible for

test deliverables, Status reporting to Management, Issue escalations

. Experienced in defining testing methodologies, Designing Test plans

and Test cases, verifying and validating web based applications and

documentation based on standards for software development and

effective QA implementation in all phases of software development life

cycle (SDLC)

. Adept at using Manual Testing to Troubleshoot systems, Integration,

User Acceptance, Positive and Negative functionality and regression

testing

. Experience in Database testing and data validation

Technical Skills:

Test Process Regression test, System test, UAT, Production Deployment tests,

Performance testing, End to End tests, Data Migration Testing,

Data Integrity testing, Security testing and Load testing.

Process Models V-model, Waterfall, STLC, SDLC

Languages/ PL/SQL, C, C++,

Framework

Operating Unix (Solaris, AIX, HP-UX), Linux, Windows NT / 2003/2000/XP

System

Testing Tools QTP, Load Runner

Bug Tracking Quality Center, Clear Quest

tool

Database Oracle, SQL Server

Certifications:

. Leadership & Human Capital Management Certificate, New York University

. Microsoft Certified Professional (C++, NT)

. Certified in Training 101 and Training with Impact, Interviewing Skills

and Supervisory skills

. Certified to coach trainers and team-leads and impart soft-skills to

employees

Education:

. Bachelors in Computer Science, Statistics and Math

Employment History:

UCI, NYC, NY

May'10 -Current

Sr.QA Analyst

Project Media Research/Scheduling Applications

Description:

The TV System's Research and IT team build a user-friendly suite of

applications for generating Nielsen and related ratings data reports. The

core of the application suite is known as TVResearch. TVResearch is a

client server application to analyze different Nielsen data sources

including National, NAD (National Audience Demographic), Weighted Average,

Pre-People Meter, Local Metered Markets, and ACM (Average Commercial

Minute). It mainly had 8 main applications to do research.

TV Scheduling group has variety of applications to deal with

scheduling/managing their programs. The Contract Management, Program

Accounting and Scheduling System facilitates the process of acquiring

program titles, managing title inventory, developing schedules, projecting

title usage, and managing liability and amortization expense for Cable and

Network programming inventory. Scheduling Systems assists personnel in

performing their daily programming and scheduling functions more

efficiently.

Responsibilities:

. Managing/Leading around 12 application's testing efforts of Research

and Scheduling IT group.

. Managing/coordinating offshore team of 4 to 7 resources.

. Planning and managing QA release schedules roadmap.

. Establishing scope, estimation, project plan and QA process for each

application.

. Maintaining base-line and track scope changes, project plan and

process compliance.

. Obtaining sign-offs on plans and deliverables from customer.

. Communicate progress, issues & risks of each application to delivery

managers and Leads

. Guiding testing team(s) on technical, QA process, QA methodologies &

communication aspects.

. Ensuring full compliance with Quality Processes.

. Working with Business Analyst, Application Managers, and Developers to

understand new features/enhancements and create test plans.

. Requirements analysis, test planning, test case preparation and

execution.

. Working on QA plans and schedules based on changes in project plans.

. Performing smoke testing on new QA builds.

. Performing regression testing for QA releases which has modification

and enhancements.

. Performing sanity test on minor changed QA builds.

. Test management, defect tracking by using Quality Center.

. Test deliverable reviews.

. Attending status report meetings with Project team.

. Attending defect review meetings with Project team.

. Test environment preparation.

. Collecting test metrics to review the progress of the projects and

projecting metrics to the management.

. Daily/Weekly status to Delivery Managers on tasks/deliverables

accomplished last week & planned for next week and top issues of each

application.

. Weekly project status reviews with the leads.

. Collecting monthly QA SLA/metrics data of each application.

Platform, Overland Park, KS

Jan 08 -Apr 10

QA Analyst

Project: Search Optimization and Usability Improvements

Overview -This is an education advertising company which works with

different schools and universities to enroll prospects for different

courses provided by the universities. They have their own websites to do a

search based on the information provided by the prospect and give a list of

schools which the prospect. The search and navigation of search results had

to be re-written to improve performance, accuracy and improved usability.

Responsibilities:

. Working with the Business users to create an overall test strategy and

implementation plan.

. Test Planning, End to end test scenarios, test case preparation, test

data and execution.

. Test Data requirement coordination and preparation.

. Performing regression testing QA releases.

. Mocked up production data in access database and analyzed the data

elements to come up with distinct patterns that would cause

performance issue and would need to be tested.

. Project tracking and Defect tracking.

. Coordination with build masters about QA releases in to different test

environments.

. Test deliverables review.

. Attending defect review meetings with Project team.

. Colleting test metrics to review the progress of the projects and

presenting to management.

. Weekly status dashboard to Delivery Managers on tasks/deliverables

accomplished.

H.C. Publisher, New York City

Sep 06 - Nov 07

QA Analyst

Project: Digital Data Repository

Overview - H.C. Publisher has a digital repository of it products. This

repository has very limited functionality in terms of how books were

grouped, indexed, searched. This project was to improve the over

functionality of the Digital Data repository and thereby increase its

usage.

Responsibilities:

. Analyzed business requirements, system requirements, data mapping

requirement specification

. Involved in developing detailed test plan, test cases and test scripts

using Quality Center for Functional\Manual and Regression Testing.

. Involved in Data mapping specifications to create and execute detailed

system test plans. The data mapping specifies what data will be

extracted from an internal data warehouse, transformed and sent to an

external entity.

. Stimulated several production cycles. Worked with data validation,

constraints, record counts, and source to target, row counts, random

sampling and error processing.

. Involved in extensive DATA validation using SQL queries and back-end

testing

. Logging defects in Version One, and report on daily basis the status

of the project to business.

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