Test Cases Project

Fekrselame Tesfaye (Metu)

Cell: 202-***-**** - ****.*******@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Business analyst/Business System Analyst with diverse experience in working with various clients, projects and environments in analyzing systems, identifying business requirements, writing system requirements, developing functional requirements and use cases, creating test plans and test cases, performing gap analysis and risk analysis, and developing requirement traceability matrix.

Well versed in Agile - Scrum model development methodology.

Experience in healthcare, diagnostic and government consulting industries

Solid knowledge of CMMI, GDP, HIPPA, GMP, GLP, and FDA CFR 21 Part 11

Experience in maintaining effective working partnerships with clients, Program Manager, Developer, and Testers.

Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), RDBMS, OLTP, ETL, OLAP, and Data Warehousing Concepts.

Expertise in Facilitating Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions with Business Owner/ Client

Excellent Team player to work in conjunction with testers (QA), developers and other team members in validation and testing of the complex project.

Proficient in creating test plans, test scenarios, test cases, test scripts and executing functional testing, system testing, integration testing, smoke testing, regression testing, and user acceptance testing.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts in Economics, St. Mary's University College Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Diploma in Surgical Technology, Durham Community College, NC

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Business Modeling Tools/ Requirement Management Tools

HP ALM, Quality Center, JIRA, MS VISIO

508 Compliance Tools

JAWS, WAVE

Databases

SQL Server, SQL, Oracle

Operating System

Windows, UNIX

Languages

JAVA, SQL,

Applications

MS Office Suite

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCES

ICF International, Fairfax, VA 11/2015- Present

Business Analyst

Work closely with the business users, and the stakeholders, developers and QA team during the entire phases of SDLC.

Work as a liaison between business users and developers to submit requirements and changes, clarify questions and issues.

Document requirements using various techniques including document analysis, interface analysis, interviews, requirements workshop, and JAR session

Conduct sprint planning based on new and backlogged requirements.

Assist in creating and assigning tasks and bug fixes, writing test cases (as needed) using Scrum process.

Design, execute, and document application testing

Document assumptions, dependencies, issues, and risks.

Conduct GAP Analysis to understand the deficiency of the existing application.

Work with the Project Manager in the development of weekly and monthly status reports.

Involve in planning, prioritization, change management, and closeout of the project.

Assign tasks to the development team: Monitor and track progress of projects following Agile Methodology.

Interface with business owners and SMEs to finalize Activity Diagrams.

Facilitate defect review meetings involving all stakeholders to review defects, identify severities, set priorities as per client requirements, and ensuring that accuracy and deadlines are met.

Monitor project milestones using MS Project.

Facilitate meetings with customers to gather and document requirements and explore potential solutions.

Plan, design, and recommend business processes to improve and support business activities.

Work with the Quality Assurance Lead to develop detailed Test Plan and Test Cases.

Create the Requirements Traceability Matrix for reviewing and tracking requirements.

Interact with computer systems, end-users, and project business sponsors to determine, document, and obtain signoffs on business requirements.

Involve in sprint reviews and product demos.

Assist with project planning, requirements development, and change management activities.

Review test results and reported bugs/issues using JIRA and HP ALM.

Environment: HP ALM, JIRA, MS Visio, UML, Visual Studio, Oracle, SQL, MS and J2EE

Qiagen, Gaithersburg, MD 05/2013-11/2015

QA Tester

Interacted with system architects and developers to ensure business system features are properly implemented

Participates in Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Functionality Testing.

Analyzes, defines and prioritizes the business requirements, and functional specifications

Participated in JAD sessions with different interacting department managers and refined the requirements.

Gathered requirements through document analysis, individual and group interviews.

Maintained requirements to requirement traceability matrix in order to rapidly assess the effect of changes in requirements.

Worked closely with the QA Team to review and enhance the Test Plan and Test Cases.

Associated with the QA team to detect defects and take necessary actions to resolve the issue. Attended review meetings and walkthroughs to discuss the status of the project.

Used Quality Center to write, execute and maintain test cases

Created test cases and automate them for the purpose of regression testing.

Environment: JIRA, Quality Center, Oracle, SQL Server, UNIX, Windows, .NET

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