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Location:
Lombard, IL, 60148
Posted:
August 27, 2010

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Summary

Experienced as QA Analyst Lead and BA positions.

Excellent communicator with external customers, vendors, subject matter experts, quality

assurance teams.

• Proven track record of delivering all project deliverables on time and under budget.

Excellent knowledge in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Expert in Mercury Quality Center and QTP.

Excellent understanding of web technologies.

Strong in the Financial industry.

Solid understanding of JAD and AGILE methodologies

Experienced in writing requirements as related to business processes.

Excellent logical skills for understanding and developing system workflows and verifying

Software Metrics and well suited for communicating with both technical and non technical

professionals.

Strong in developing test strategies, test plans, test scripts, test cases, test data, test

checklist, defect tracking & reporting.

• Technical skills with proficiency in data analysis and process analysis

Experienced in change controls and change requests.

Strong skills in Back end testing using SQL Queries on Oracle tables and MS SQL

Server.

Expertise in software management tools such as Quality Center for Requirements

creation, Test Sets, and Reports.

Good understanding of Relational Database Management Systems.

Extensive experience testing of client/server and database applications which are

developed in .NET, C++, Java, AS/400, Visual Basic, COM, ORACLE 8i/9i, UNIX and

Windows NT/2000/XP.

Experienced in testing Client/Server, Web based and stand alone applications.

Strong functional knowledge in E Commerce, Global Marketing, Banking, Telecom,

Insurance, and Health care industries.

Excellent communication skills with the flexibility of working both individually and as a

team member and also a quick learner.

Education

BBA in Management of Information Systems, Ohio University, Athens, OH, June 2000

Technical Skills

Defect Reporting Tools: ClearQuest and Quality Center

Scripting Languages: VB Script

Languages: .NET, C, COBOL, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, XML, VB Script, Java, and TSL

Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server, DB2 and MS Access

Operating Systems: Windows NT/98/2000/XP, UNIX, OS/400, DOS

Automated Testing Tools: WinRunner, QuickTest Professional, LoadRunner, Rational

Robot, ClearCase

Harris Bank, Buffalo Grove, IL

QA Analyst

August 10 to Present

Harris Bank just acquired Amcore Bank and this project involves testing the conversion of

customers from Amcore’s legacy system. This is a short term project that required QA testing of

8 different applications including Mainframe.

• Trained on all of Harris’s bank products including: Various kinds of Checking, Savings,

Money Market, Loans, CDs, Mortages, etc.

• Tested in various applications including client facing, internal, web based as well as

mainframe applications.

• Reported and Tracked defects

• Executed test scripts

Whitman-Hart, Chicago, IL

QA Analyst

June 10-July 10

Whitman Hart is an interactive agency that develops websites and online marketing for large

companies. This was a short term project that involved testing SC Johnson and Harley Davidson

websites. The applications tested were: SC Johnson Carbon Calculator and the Harley Davidson

website.

• Executed test scripts

• Tracked defects

• Cross browser testing in FF, IE, Chrome, and Safari.

The Trizetto Group, Inc., Naperville, IL

BA/QA Analyst

June 09 – March 10

Trizetto Group is a publicly owned company that offers Integrated Management Solutions for

Health Care. Primary duty was quality assurance and testing a new product called Incentive

Manager which is part of the a award winning Value Based Benefits project as recoginized

internally. The goal is to allow payers and members to manage programs designed to provide

incentives for preventative health care. Developed and executed test cases to validate quality

level of software under development.

Worked closely with Product Design and Software Engineering teams as

functional/design specifications are designed and developed.

Worked in a .NET framework environment

Involved at some level throughout the entire system or software enhancement

development life cycle, designing initial testing requirements, writing, communicating and

verifying test execution.

Executed and reported on planned tests, report and manage defects, and regress

software fixes for new and existing builds.

Entered requirements, test cases, and test executions in Mercury Quality Center and did

defect tracking in Serena Business Mashups.

Conducted test case walk throughs with the designer, programmer, and team leads.

Used Aqua to edit the Oracle database.

Managed multiple testing tasks across maintenance releases and systems under

development.

Analyzed system impact during design reviews and product integration, and troubleshoot

test failures.

Communicated product testing knowledge across development and QA teams.

Pulled together test cases in support of business cases (use cases), design documents

and systems requirements.

Documented and tracked defects and fixes and ensure fixes do not adversely impact

existing functionality. Provide status reports to QA Manager and Lead.

JPMorgan Chase & Co., Chicago, IL

Business Analyst

June 08 – February 09

Treasury Services: Responsible for user acceptance test scripts for several applications,

primarily DIMS (Document Information Management System). This project consists of integrating

iVault, and Global Docs with DIMS. It is a component of the TSS Global Client Documentation

Repository/Management Program whose goals are to reduce operational, regulatory, reputation

and legal risk, improve the client experience, and gain operational efficiencies by improving the

client on boarding documentation processes. In addition to DIMS, also tested TS Deal Manager.

Responsible for writing use cases and assisted with funtional requirements gathering.

Primarily Responsible for writing user acceptance test scripts

Responsible for extensive requirements analysis, change controls, and estimation.

Conducted meetings with subject matter experts, project managers and QA teams.

Involved in all phases of the software development life cycle.

Responsible for managing user acceptance testing, defect tracking, meetings with UAT

Leads, reporting, QA cross referencing (also checks and balances).

Used Mercury Quality Center to enter requirements, create test execution grids, run

manual tests, generate Test Plan reports, Test Results Reports, in addition to extensive

defect ticket creation and defect analysis in Quality Center.

Responsible for creating Critical Business Functions, Kick off presentation, Test Data

Criteria, and Test Data creation.

Responsible for training business users and incoming team members.

Managed user roles and entitlements.

U.S. Cellular®, Chicago, IL

Business Analyst

April 08 – June 08

Online Photo Album: U.S. Cellular® has developed a replacement Online Photo Album for

customers consisting of various enhancements and top of the line technology to facilitate

customer experience. The purpose of the new project is to replace the existing service with a new

online album and legacy service.

The project scope has been identified as: 1. Provide a service to allow Multimedia Service (MMS)

customers the ability to save and share photos and blogs. 3. Provide the ability for non MMS

customers to view photos online (legacy service). 4. Migrate customer data from the current

vendor (QPass) to Newbay at implementation

Responsibilities included: converting Online Album Business Requirements into User

Acceptance Test Scenarios.

Managed Vendors offshore.

Setting up Test Environment and configuring handset equipment for testing.

Creation of UAT Requirements Traceability Matrix.

Creation of Business Process Test Flow diagram.

Assisted with UAT planning, execution, and testing.

Conducted several team meetings, reviews, and walk throughs with vendors, business

(marketing and customer service) and technical teams.

Tested migration of customer accounts into test environment.

Handled change requests for business requirements.

McDonald’s Corporate Headquarters, Oak Brook, IL

BA/QA Analyst

Mar 07 - Mar 08

Global IT Marketing: Solely responsible for on site testing of promotional children’s games: Flash

based Web applications including the Digital Engagement Platform: Shrek, Shrek III, Surf’s Up,

Bee Movie, Happy Meal, Happy Set, and Happy Meal Australia.

Solely responsible for on site testing of the applications in several languages including:

French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, International English, and

Italian.

Additionally, tested Happymeal.com, Happyset.com (Japanese) and Happy Meal

Australia for every new Happy Meal toys promotion. (Developed by creative agencies and

DreamWorks Animations).

Involved in communications with various vendors.

Developed 2007 and 2008 Test Strategy presentations via PowerPoint and presented

them to senior management.

Developed 2007 and 2008 Test Plans for the Digital Engagement Platform, for Happy

Meal, and all localizations.

Integrated the Digital Engagement Platform and Happy Meal in to McDonald’s on site

web servers.

Developed business requirements for Voice of McDonald’s II.

Responsible for system integration testing, load testing, functional testing, and regression

testing.

Created reports and extensively communicated with senior management and creative

agencies on a daily basis.

Assisted in deployment of applications from development, staging and production

servers.

Used Mercury Quality Center to enter requirements, create test execution grids, run

manual tests, generate Test Plan reports, Test Results Reports, in addition to extensive

defect ticket creation and defect analysis in Quality Center.

Used HTTP Watch to generate data on load times. Extensively analyzed trends from

HTTP Watch.

Generated daily Akamai Site Accelerator Diagnostics Reports which included daily

statistics on hits per second, No. of Visitors, Top URLs, and Server Health. Analyzed

trends in data on daily load times and trends in each category of Site Accelerator

Diagnostics.

Managed defects in Mantis, a free web based bug tracking system.

Kaiser Permanente, Los Angeles, CA

QA/Business Analyst

Nov 05 - Mar 07

Health Connect Working at KP Health Connect User/Security Provisioning Project as a senior

tester. Security Provisioning provides the ability to search the enterprise directory for any person

within KP and provisions to create, modify, deactivate and delete Epic accounts of KP users on

demand. Wrote test cases using functional specifications and by collecting the requirements thru

meetings with developers.

• Executed test cases for system testing, integration testing and regression testing.

• Used Quality Center for writing/executing test cases and reporting defects.

• Conducted meetings with developers & business persons for reviewing the developed

test cases.

• Trained & assisted new test leads on the project.

• Worked on the Admin tool, to looks up for AD users.

• Coordinated with the automation team in an effort to automate the basic regression test

cases and explained them the test scenarios.

Conducted cross training sessions with team members in order to achieve expertise to all

testers in all areas of execution.

Kaiser Permanente, Los Angeles, CA

QA/Business Analyst

May 05 - Oct 05

Health Connect KP Health connect Project is to connect 8 regions across the country with a

single Health care system integrating patients' clinical medical records with appointment

scheduling, registration and billing systems. Physicians, nurses and other health care

professionals who are involved in members' care will be able to access accurate, complete and

up to date medical information. Patients will also be able to access portions of their medical

records online, such as test results, immunization history and current medications.

• Responsible for gathering requirements, developing test cases, and conducting QA

meetings.

• Responsible for functional testing of Order Scheduling for Inpatient system in Epic.

• Responsible for functional testing of Outpatient system in Epic.

• Responsible for designing test plan, test cases and executing them manually as well as in

quality center.

• Conducted regression testing using QTP

PNC Financial Services Group Inc., Cincinnati, OH

QA Analyst

May 04 - Feb 05

PNC Bank is one of the largest diversified financial service organizations in the US. Its major

businesses include Regional Community Banking, Corporate Banking, Private Banking, Mortgage

Banking, Secured Lending, Asset Management and Mutual Fund Servicing. The company has

developed new software, PINACLE, for information reporting with many salient features for the

operations of Treasury Management.

Analyzed the Business Requirements Document (BRD) and modified the existing test

plan and prepared detailed test cases for the application under test (AUT).

Executed test cases manually and also using automation tool and reported the defects to

developers through Defect Manager in TestDirector.

Performed manual testing of the AUT.

Participated actively in the team meetings with the developers for defect reviews.

Progressive Insurance Company, Cleveland, OH

QA Analyst

Sep 03 - Mar 04

Sun Trust is offering different services to its customers in investment banking, financial services

(for consumers and businesses), financial transaction processing, asset and wealth management

and private equity. Sun Trust agent provides customer and account information to the customers.

The system gives the information about money transfers, loan approvals, generating the end of

the day transactions and preparing month ends balance sheet. It executes on a three tier client

server environment.

Involved in development of test cases for Web Application

Automated test scripts using WinRunner 7.5.

Created Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts for some of the modules of the

application under test (AUT)

Involved in various levels of testing like Functionality, Integration Testing

Analyzed user Requirements, General Design, Detail Design documents

Performed Cross Browser Testing on Netscape & Internet Explorer and compared the

results by running parallel tests

CIGNA Health Care, Easton, PA

QA Tester

Feb 03 - Aug 03

CIGNA is a leading provider of health care coverage, group life and accident insurance through

their web site www.cigna.com supported by the web applications mycigna.com. MyCIGNA.com is

a one stop web based application, which provides access to user ýs personalized health care

information. Users can manage their accounts, check their claims, and search for hospitals,

physicians to get personalized information.

Developed test plans, test cases, test conditions, test designs and test reports using Test

Director.

Responsible for executing and tracking test cases for web based applications for CIGNA.

Responsible for functional and regression testing using Win Runner.

Responsible to Create detailed problem reports in defect tracking database of Test

Director.

Experienced in completing assigned tasks according to requirements in Test Director

within project timeframes.

Good in Co operating with a cross functional team to set and verify requirements and

design.

Conducted system, UAT and regression testing, debugged the software errors, and

interacted with developers to resolve technical issues.

Sun Trust bank, Atlanta, GA.

QA Tester

Jun 02 - Dec 02

Sun Trust is offering different services to its customers in investment banking, financial services

(for consumers and businesses), financial transaction processing, asset and wealth management

and private equity. Sun Trust agent provides customer and account information to the customers.

The system gives the information about money transfers, loan approvals, generating the end of

the day transactions and preparing month ends balance sheet. It executes on a three tier client

server environment.

• Involved in development of test cases for Web Application

• Created Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts for some of the modules of the

application under test (AUT)

• Involved in various levels of testing like Functionality, Integration Testing

• Analyzed user Requirements, General Design, Detail Design documents

• Performed Cross Browser Testing on Netscape & Internet Explorer and compared the

results by running parallel tests

The Revere Group, Chicago, IL

Technology Consultant

Jun 00 - Jun 02

The Revere Group is a consulting firm and leading provider of business solutions, servicing

industries such as Healthcare, Insurance, Manufacturing, and Financial Services. The Revere

Group has grown to over 250 consultants, with offices in four cities: Chicago, Milwaukee,

Charlotte, and Boston. From client server, to ERP, to e business and beyond, the company has

evolved to meet the changing needs of its clients.

Lead developer and project manager for a full life cycle Siebel implementation for dot

com client.

Developed a customized customer care solution with Siebel eBusiness software for an E

Commerce dot com called Full Audio.

Responsible for gathering requirements, developing test cases, and conducting meetings.

Responsible for front end user interface design and development, administrator tasks,

configuration, installation, user training, and knowledge transfer.

Created Test Plans, Test cases, and Test scripts for some of the modules of the AUT.

Lead developer for a Vantive and Crystal Reports implementation for market research

corporation

Was responsible for a developing a largely customized data validation reporting system

using

Vantive software and VB scripting.



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