Quality Assurance

Rahul Parashar

***************@*****.*** 804-***-****

SUMMARY:

A determined and motivated professional with 6 years of experience in working with Agile and Waterfall

software methodologies, creation of process flow models, and use case stories. Furthermore, depicting

requirements with manual testing and test management, using Quality Center 11.0. Highly skilled in

requirements gathering and business requirements and systems specification requirements documentation.

Offering exceptional communication skills, an eye for detail, and experience interfacing with clients.

PRODUCT KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ETL Tools/ Reporting tools: Informatica, Cognos, Business Objects, Ab Initio

Operating systems: UNIX, Windows 7

Databases: MS SQL Server2008, Oracle 9i/10g, Teradata

Utilities: SQL*Plus, TOAD, SOAP UI, Putty, Test Data Management, Excel, QTP

Testing Tools: Rational Clear Quest, Quality Center ALM 11, Visual Studio Team Server, TFS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Affinion Loyalty group Sept 2012 – Jan

2014 Test Lead/Coordinator

Planning and allocating resources to tests/dates in Quality Center.

Creation of test plan and Test strategy documents.

Defect tracking and resource planning for testing efforts.

Regression testing using the Quick Test Professional

Running and maintaining Automation scripts in QTP.

Test Data Management.

Test Web services using SOAP UI.

Liaison between business and Quality team for procuring approvals.

Organized requirement review meetings with business teams.

WellPoint, Richmond VA

Data Quality Analyst /Test Lead Oct 2011 – Sept 2012

Requirement Analysis and Preparation of Requirements Trace matrix

Creation of test plan documents.

Create complex SQL queries in Teradata to validate the data received.

Creation of test evaluation summary documentation and presentation to the stake

holders to get approvals

Capital One, Richmond VA

Onsite Coordinator /Test Lead July 2011 - Oct 2011

Understanding the business requirement and coming up with the scenarios for

performing the validations.

Test Data creation for ETL testing.

Offshore testing team coordination and review of test documents created by the

offshore team

Execute UNIX commands to validate the files received from various Lines of

Businesses.

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Medtronic, Mounds View Minneapolis

Data Analyst / Quality Assurance Analyst Feb 2011 – July 2011

Create methodologies for performing data quality testing on the SAP MDM tool

for the data received from various source systems like SAP, Siebel and SQL

server 2005 and Oracle.

Create the test plan and test strategy documents for data validations.

Defect Management and participate in daily scrum meetings as single point of

contact from testing team.

Test Planning and test case creation in quality center.

GSK-IPLAN, Bangalore (India)

Data warehouse QA Analyst Nov 2010 – Feb 2011

Test cases and test plan documentation for the report validations and performing

the database testing

Writing complex SQL queries to validate data in the oracle database.

Creation the test strategy for ETL testing using informatica.

ETL data validation for the data flowing in from the transactional database

(OLTP) into the reporting database using the informatica (OLAP).

Credit Suisse - Collateral Management, Pune (India)

QA Analyst/ DW test lead Oct 2009 – Nov 2010

Worked with the business on requirement gathering.

Create test strategy based on the business requirements

Create test plan and Test Approach documents for ETL part of the project

Defect tracking and test management using the test management tools (Quality

Center)

360 Siebel Project, Pune (India)

ETL Test Analyst June 2009 – Oct 2009

Create test approach documents to perform validations from transactional to

analytical database

Create test plan documents for the ETL part in the project. The project also had a

piece for report testing and Siebel front end testing.

Data quality and data profiling on the analytical database.

E-Cube, Bangalore (India)

QA/Data Analyst Mar 2008 - June 2009

Reports creation by writing complex SQL queries on the SQL database based on

the requirements provided by the business teams.

Created a website to automate the process of project initiation in E-Cube and the

whole process of project initiation.

Data profiling and data quality validations.

EDUCATION:

Punjab technical University, Punjab India

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Rahul Parashar

***************@*****.*** 804-***-****

Electronics and Communication Engineering Aug 2003 – July 2007

Degree in electronics and communication engineering.

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