Software Engineer

SUMMARY Over *+ years of diverse experience in the field of

Information technology with - Efficiently managed multiple tasks

in high paced and time sensitive production atmosphere. Actively

involved in all aspects of software development life cycle.

Expertise in developing Software Test Plans, Test Case Design,

and Test Scripts based on User Requirements Specification (URS)

and System Requirements documents.

Experience in software Integration Testing, Regression Testing,

and Usability testing.

Ability to apply technical expertise to organize and implement

white and black-box test efforts and to analyze requirements for

software design, development, and validation.

Experienced in GUI application testing, Database testing,

Front-end testing, Functional Testing, System testing, Cross

Browser Testing, and Web- based applications.

Represent QA in all phases of product development including

requirement, design, construction, testing, implementation, code

reviews and support.

Active role in requirements review, functional document review,

Testing review and key resource for UAT phase and production

roll-out.

Expertise in QA Methodologies, Quality Assurance Life Cycle

(QALC), Defect Management Life Cycle, Software Development Life

Cycle (SDLC).

Extensive experience in Financial, Healthcare, Retail,

Pharmaceutical and Mortgage industries.

Ability to learn new technologies and challenging concepts

quickly and implement them.

Strong Team player and contribute towards the team goals. Ability

to work productively and effectively in a team as well as

individually.

TECHNOLOGY:

Testing Tools: Quality Center 9.0, Test Director 8.0, Win Runner 7.5, Rational

Clear Quest

Hardware: IBM PC & COMPATIBLES.

Oper. Systems: MVS/ESA (XA), WINDOWS 9x/2000/2003/XP, IBM Mainframe

Databases: DB2, Databases: Oracle 9.2, Microsoft SQL Server 7.0, Microsoft

Access.

Languages: OS/JCL, Easytrieve Plus, Visual Script(Evla), ASP, SQL, COBOL,

CICS

EXPERIENCE:

04/2003 - QA Analyst/Software Test Engineer, Express Scripts, Bensalem, PA

Present Actively involved in all aspects of software development life

cycle

Participate in requirement discussion meetings, to make sure all

new and updated functionality will be testable.

Creating various documents to support testing during an early

stage of the software

development life cycle.

Performed analysis of requirements and specification

documentations to design and develop test plan and test scripts,

using Test Director.

Participating in the Formal Functional Reviews - Software

Inspections.

Creating test scripts for manual and automated testing and SQL

queries for testing the database.

Developing and maintaining test suites for regression testing

Executing test cases and documenting the validation of test

scenarios.

Analyzing issues and logging the software defects into the Bug

Tracking System.

Developed SOP for testing different modules for weekly and

monthly content releases

Developed check list for GUI, and browser compatibility

testing.

Experience in Integration, System, Regression, UAT testing.

Verified data stored in flat files.

Performed regression test for project's database tables using SQL

statements.

Analyzed test results to ensure existing functionality and

recommend corrective action, Track problem reports using issue

tracking software. Maintained documentation of test results to

assist in debugging and modification of software; Identify,

report, and document software bugs and operational

characteristics that are inconsistent with stated requirements

and design specifications, and resolve issues with software

developers

Assisted product support with analysis and verification of

software defects reported to determine validity and

clarification.

Coordinated test plans and results with various teams (product,

10/2000 - technology, project management and third parties); managed and

03/2003 prioritized all bug tracking items and dispatch to appropriate

teams where applicable; establish, track and report Quality

Assurance support metrics; provided report daily/weekly issues,

tickets and closure dates.

Established test objectives and priorities based upon perceived

risk of application changes. Ensure that risk functionality is

tested first. Provided input from QA team to determine risk level

for "GO-NO GO" decision.

Configuration Engineer, Elite (formerly Law Manager Inc.),

Conshohocken, PA

Software development for case management systems, database

design, and notebook design. Developed high-level specs for

highly sophisticated case management system for large law firms,

government agencies and corporations, including FDIC, Marathon

Oil, INS, US Corps of Engineers, Citicorp, Philip Morris, and

PPL.

Programming using high-level programming tool and imbedded

event-driven language (similar to Pascal). Also developed tool

for automatically generating client's specific case management

system.

Programming efficient stored procedures using sophisticated

relational database in Oracle, MS-SQL and Sybase.

Programming very complicated reports using stored procedures with

Seagate Crystal Report 6 and 8.

Consistently communicate with internal and external business

clients and technology groups to gather requirements information,

perform detail analysis and document system enhancements and

modifications.

Review and evaluate test against production results to ensure

quality and implement changes.

Develop Test Plans and prepare pre-condition data for testing new

applications.

Execute all automated and manual test procedures to ensure the

quality of the developed application.

02/2000 - Document the modification requests for all bugs detected and

09/2000 track the bug fixing process until they were closed.

Perform analysis to determine nature and scope of enhancements

and problems in order to complete system design and full cycle of

testing revisions.

Use the Additional Data View Tool, and Test Director.

Educate and train new employees for configuration, writing stored

procedures and reports using LM98, LM2000 (windows case

management system and development tool), Oracle, MS-SQL, Sybase

and Crystal Report

Grom Systems

Senior Programmer/Analyst

10/1999 -

01/2000 Designed, coded, tested and implemented an internet-based

solution. The website utilizes dynamically served content using

ASP files containing VBScript and HTML. ADO is used to connect to

a SQL Server 7.0 backend. CDONTS methods are used for dynamic

e-mail notifications sent to various company officers. Developed

an online User Management system for the administration of the

website. Designed, coded, implemented, and maintained a search

engine. Coded multiple parsing engines to retrieve data from

various sources. Participated in the design and maintenance of a

SQL Server database. Used COM object to maintain business logic

and to provide an extra layer of security for the website.

Independent Consulting Services Inc.

Senior Programmer/Analyst

Y2K Remediation for Income Tax, Gross Receipts, Wage Information,

and Lottery applications.

Responsibilities:

Designed and developed applications for converting data.

Conversion was made from Microsoft Focus Cobol to Microsoft SQL

Server 6.0 Database, using Data Junction v.5.1 (to convert MS

COBOL files to random access files), LSORT 3.52(to merge

different files with the same structure). Analyzed and modified

existing batch and online COBOL 74 programs using VSAM files

Redemption of these applications using both "windowing" and

expansion" solutions utilizing the UNICAST/2000 remediation tool

set.

Interfaced with user to obtain testing methodology for batch and

online programs.

Data manipulation using SQL queries in DB2.

Used SQLLOAD to load data to DB2 Tables.

03/1997 - RCG Technology, Inc.

10/1999

Senior Programmer/Analyst

GE MORTGAGE SERVICES

Provide maintenance and support to the Second Mortgage

Transaction system (SMT).

Designed and developed the interfaces between existing business

application

Maintained online CICS as well as BATCH programs for SMT system.

Analyzed project design and coding of the new logic processes and

reports for

Retention, Broker Loan and Smart Systems, file maintenance,

writing JCL streams.

Analyzed, designed, developed and implemented numerous custom

programming requests for the Financial/Accounting departments

using COBOL, CICS, JCL, MAP GENERATOR, VSAM, NDM (NETWORK DATA

MOVER for moving data between different systems).

Production support (on-call on rotational basis).

Wrote documentation and provided assistance to users.

Provided Unit, Acceptance, and Negative testing. Created test

script for all test cases by using standard company Test Plan

template.

01/1993 - Pep Boys, Inc., Philadelphia, PA

03/1997

Programmer/Analyst

Development, maintenance, support and user liaison of

Merchandising and Distribution business application system

(Purchasing, Store Order Processing and Inventory Control), using

COBOL, CICS, DB2 and VSAM technology.

Designed and implemented Special and Drop Ship Order Processing

system, which allows end-users to place online, orders which

later are processed in the nightly batch process.

Modified Order Processing system to accommodate retail operations

in Puerto Rico

Key team member on a Recall System project. The Recall system

tracked recalled store inventory in stores and warehouses for

subsequent return shipments to vendors. Recalled inventory

amount was also posting to A/P via a real time interface.

EDUCATION: College Of National Economics, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

B. S. in Computer Science and Economics

PERSONAL: USA CITIZEN

REFERENCES: Upon request

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