Quality Assurance Business Analyst

Location:

Upper Marlboro, MD

Posted:

December 31, 2024

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Dexter H. Rose

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Upper Marlboro, MD 20772

*************@*****.*** Cell: 703-***-****

Business Analyst/Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Business Analyst/Senior Quality Assurance Analyst with over 18 years as a BA/QA Analyst. Team Lead involved in all aspects of the software development lifecycle. Performing requirement elicitation, analysis, and interpretation of business and functional requirements. Providing support for the evolution of the defined requirements into system specifications.Strengths include knowledge of Software Quality Assurance Institute’s Capability Maturity Model; web-based testing, Automated testing, Performance testing, metrics building, tracking and performance reporting. Conducts back-end testing utilizing Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, XML, Dynamic SQL, and execution of Store Procedures to validate test cases.

EDUCATION

BBA, Marketing, Howard University, Washington, DC

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SQL, XML, XML SPY, HTML, Linux, SIT, Rally, Raven dB, ETL testing, DataStage, Cerner, VB Scripting, Magic, PVCS Tracker, Microsoft Visual Studio 2012, VSS, WS-ftp, Beyond Compare, Oracle, SQL Monitor, SQL Developer, TOAD, WinRunner, Microsoft SQL Server, Excel, RQM,Rational RequisitePro, Rational Test Manager, IBM Curam, JIRA, ClearQuest, Rational TeamTest and Rational Test Studio, Rational Functional Tester, Rally, Serena Teamtrack, HP Vugen 12.53, HP LoadRunner 12.53, HP UFT12.53, JMeter, Cucumber, REST, HP ALM 12.53,HP Quality Center, QTP, SharePoint, Section 508 Testing, API Testing, JAWS, WAVE, VMware, ReSharper, Web Service testing, SOAPUI, TFS, Selenium, Cypress, Great Plains, Azure DevOps, Scrum Master, Informatica, Nimble Testing, Ansible Looker, Redshift, Big Data, cloud computing (AWS) and Change Management.

CERTIFICATES

Lean Practitioner Certification

Microsoft Solutions Framework Essentials

User and System Requirements for Successful Software Development

Technical Writing: A Comprehensive Hands-On Introduction

Took Classes for ASQ’s Certified Mgr of QA / Organizational Excellence

Serena TeamTrack for Users and Administrators

American Mgmt Association Information Technology Project Management

Introduction to Visual Basic.NET Learning tree

Rational TeamTest Fundamentals for Performance Testing

I/S Project Management: The human side of the equation

Rational Test Studio for Functional Testing

Data Processing Certificate, Aetna Casualty and Surety

SECURITY CLEARANCE

Level: Tier 3 Interim Secret

Investigation: OPM

Granting Agency: DOC

WORK EXPERIENCE

Office of Personnel Management (OPM) - CTEC

Business Analyst/Senior Quality Assurance Analyst 5/19-Present t

The FEHB is the largest employee sponsored Health Benefits program of its kind and provides health insurance to federal employees.

Prepare requirements specifications, and other intellectual property and documentation artifacts appropriate to the phase utilizing Curam.

Performing requirement elicitation, analysis, and interpretation of business and functional requirements. Providing support for the evolution of the defined requirements into system specifications. Utilize Feasibility Study and/or Cost Benefits Analysis of alternatives including the defined SDLC documentation.

Create requirements, test scenarios, and test data for use during functional and system test phase, in an Agile software development environment for Payment Process Automation Initiative (PPAI) and Healthcare data Warehouse (HIDW) projects utilizing Azure DevOPs and AWS.

Utilized flowcharts in the preparation stage of the change management cycle, flowcharts can help you map out the current state of organizational processes.

Utilized Gantt Charts to ensure that change management projects which include large number of tasks,are completed in a timeley manner. Tool used to visualize and track the tasks scheduled over a period of time.

Performed testing of Ansible Playbook and DataStage ETL Jobs. Performed Informatica Testing. Performed Linux Testing, API testing and Nimble testing.

Produced formal test plans and led the testing effort for assigned projects and interacted with the development team to perform 508 compliance testing and SIT testing.

Utilize mainframe experience to perform testing.

Created System Process document for the QACMS/FACES ticket handling process.

Performed the documentation of our business rules to conduct testing.

Create test cases in JIRA and performed testing of the Cumulative Error, ACFS Daily Summary and the Process Report.

Update JIRA Epic links to Test cases for traceability. Proactively updating test cases with test steps.

Setup of JAD sessions for requirement gathering and audio-visual presentations.

Develop test data for testing of the Cumulative Error Report. Along with overall testing in an iterative process of the developed application ulilizing Cypress.

Dept of Homeland Security (DHS) - PPT Solutions

Business Analyst/ Operational Test Agent

11/18 – 8/19

Prepare requirements specifications, and other intellectual property and documentation artifacts appropriate to the phase.

Utilized flowcharts in the preparation stage of the change management cycle, flowcharts can help you map out the current state of organizational processes.

Create test plans, test requirements, test scenarios, and test data for use during functional and system test phase, in an Agile software development environment for new and existing applications including Nimble testing.

Create requirements, test scenarios, and test data for use during functional and system test phase, in an Agile software development environment utilizing Azure DevOPs, Cypress and AWS.

Setup of JAD sessions for requirement gathering and audio-visual presentations utililing Azure DevOPs.

Oversaw Client / Server System Release Management as well as Web based Server Application / Release Management. Conducts Backend testing utilizing Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, XML, XML SPY and dynamic SQL executing Store Procedures to validate test cases. Utilizes HP ALM 12.5, JMeter, Cypress, SQL Developer, Rational Functional Tester, 508 compliance testing, API testing, Security Integration Testing, Oracle tools, JIRA and TOAD for testing.

Us Census Bureau Suitland MD 4/2017 – 12/18

Business Analyst/ IT Specialist -Automation

Create requirements, test scenarios, and test data for use during functional and system test phase of the Comet, CPRSII, FAC/ATAS and E-Corr applications, in an Agile software development environment, for new and existing applications utilizing Azure DevOPs and AWS.

Utilized flowcharts in the preparation stage of the change management cycle, flowcharts can help you map out the current state of organizational processes.

Setup of JAD sessions for requirement gathering and audio-visual presentations while utililing Azure DevOPs.

Created several SOPs, Specification documents and Functional Efficiency Reports.

Prepare requirements specifications, and other intellectual property and documentation artifacts appropriate to the phase.

Conducts Backend testing utilizing Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, executing Store Procedures to validate test cases for Economic Applications Division (EAD). Utilizes SQL Developer, Cypress,Nimble, Oracle tools and TOAD to generate data for testing.

Performed System Integration, Web Service, ETL Testing and API Testing of the Census Bureau Solutions and validated data integrity between the different sub-components, such as Comet, CPRSII, FAC/ATAS and E-Corr applications.

Utilized HP ALM for requirements, testing, defect tracking, metrics and development management, for overall release and project planning.

Utilizes HP ALM 12.5, QTP, HP UFT, JMeter, Selenium, Cucumber, Cypress and SharePoint to record, regression test and performance test applications.

Conducts Section 508 compliance testing and training to testers and Developers to uphold this Standard.

Conducted formal training class in ‘Concepts of agile testing’. Conducted formal training class in ‘Section 508 testing Refresher”. Provided formal training class in ‘Introduction HP UFT 12.53 Part 1’.

Dept of Commerce – US Census Washington, DC 4/2015 – 4/2017

Business Analyst /SR QA Engineer Team Lead

Create requirements, test scenarios, and test data for use during functional and system test phase of the CaRDS application, in an Agile software development environment, for new and existing applications.

Setup of JAD sessions for requirement gathering and utililing Azure DevOPs.

Utilized flowcharts in the preparation stage of the change management cycle, flowcharts can help you map out the current state of organizational processes.

Prepare requirements specifications, and other intellectual property and documentation artifacts appropriate to the phase.

Conducts Backend testing utilizing Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, executing Store Procedures to validate test cases for Decennial Information Technology Division. Utilizes SQL Developer, Oracle tools, Cypress and TOAD to generate data for testing.

Performed System Integration Testing of the Census Bureau Solution and validate data integrity between the different sub-components, such as NON-ID, ENUMPREP, LABEL and NRSET that make up Census Applications.

Utilized HP ALM for requirements, testing, defect tracking, metrics and development management, for overall release and project planning.

Utilizes Rational Suite of tools, Rational Functional Tester, HP ALM 12.5, JMeter, QTP, LoadRunner, ClearQuest and SharePoint to record, regression test and performance test applications.

Conducts Section 508 compliance testing and training to testers and Developers to uphold this Standard.

Provided a Powerpoint presentation and training to understand the concept of agile testing.

EVOLENT HEALTH CARE, Arlington, VA

Business Analyst/SR QA Engineer 4/2014 – 4/2015

Performing requirement elicitation, analysis, and interpretation of business and functional requirements. Providing support for the evolution of the defined requirements into system specifications.

Prepare requirements specifications, and other intellectual property and documentation artifacts appropriate to the phase utilizing Curam.

Create requirements, test scenarios, and test data for use during functional and system test phase of the Evolent’s value-based Healthcare system (Identify), in an Agile software development environment for new and existing applications.

Setup of JAD sessions for requirement gathering and audio-visual presentations utililing Azure DevOPs.

Prepare requirements specifications, and other intellectual property and documentation artifacts appropriate to the phase. Utilize Feasibility Study and/or Cost Benefits Analysis of alternatives including the defined SDLC documentation.

Utilized flowcharts in the preparation stage of the change management cycle, flowcharts can help you map out the current state of organizational processes.

Oversaw Client / Server System Release Management as well as Web based Server Application / Release Management. Conducts Backend testing utilizing Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, XML, XML SPY and dynamic SQL executing Store Procedures to validate test cases. Utilizes HP ALM 12.5, JMeter, SQL Developer, Rational Functional Tester, Oracle tools, JIRA and TOAD for testing.

Performed System Integration Testing to validate data integrity between the different sub-components that make up Evolent’s Analytics for Medicaid/Medicare EDI 834 transactions for members and providers.

Environment Dynamic SQL, XML, .NET Framework, ASP, VB.NET, Java script, PowerBuilder

AVALONBAY COMMUNITIES, Arlington, VA 11/2013 – 5/2014

Business Analyst/ Sr QA Engineer

Utilized Ralley to create User Stories, defects and to track development objectives tied to deployments

Create requirements, test scenarios, and test data for use during functional and system test phase

Setup of JAD sessions for requirement gathering and audio-visual presentations. Utilize Feasibility Study and/or Cost Benefits Analysis of alternatives including the defined SDLC documentation.

Performing requirement elicitation, analysis, and interpretation of business and functional requirements. Providing support for the evolution of the defined requirements into system specifications.

Prepare requirements specifications, and other intellectual property and documentation artifacts appropriate to the phase.

Conducts Backend testing utilizing Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, XML, and dynamic SQL executing Store Procedures to validate test cases. Utilizes SQL Developer, and Oracle tools to generate data for testing.

Mr. Rose maintained Ravendb a 2nd generation document-oriented database to perform testing on their customer-facing website. Utilizing SQL Developer, and Oracle tools he generated data for testing and performed testing of the ETLs, Message queues and Service bus integrations

Performed System Integration Testing of the Associate Portal and Resident Portal to validate data integrity between the different sub-components and configuration files that make up Avalonbay’s Applications. Utilizes, Loadrunner, ClearQuest, Rally, Ravendb and SharePoint to record, regression test and performance test applications.

Create test plans, test requirements, test scenarios, and test data for use during functional testing in an Agile software development environment for new and existing applications.

Environment Dynamic SQL, XML, .NET Framework, ASP, VB.NET, Java script, PowerBuilder and PHP.

ENGAGEPOINT, Linthicum, MD 1/2013-11/2013

Business Analyst/SR QA Engineer Team Lead- Maryland Healthcare Exchange- Healthcare Act

Create test plans, test requirements, test scenarios, and test data for use during functional and system test phase of the Maryland Healthcare Exchange, in an Agile software development environment for new and existing applications.

Prepare requirements specifications, and other intellectual property and documentation artifacts appropriate to the phase utilizing Curam.

Performing requirement elicitation, analysis, and interpretation of business and functional requirements. Providing support for the evolution of the defined requirements into system specifications.

Prepare requirements specifications, and other intellectual property and documentation artifacts appropriate to the phase.

Conducts Backend testing utilizing Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio and dynamic SQL executing Store Procedures to validate test cases. Utilizes HP ALM 12.5, SQL Developer, Oracle tools and TOAD to generate data for testing.

Performed System Integration Testing of the Maryland HIX Solution and validate data integrity between the different sub-components that make up Engagepoint’s Applications. This includes Eligibility, Enrollment & Case Management. Also, tested Plan Shopping, IBM Curam, Management, SHOP and Financial Management.

Performed System Integration Testing to validate data integrity between the different sub-components that make up Engagepoint’s Analytics for Medicaid/Medicare EDI 834 transactions for members and providers.

Conducting Section 508 testing to ensure electronic information technology is accessible to people with disabilities. Utilizes the following tools, UFT, JMeter, QTP, LoadRunner, JIRA, SOAP UI and SharePoint to record, regression test and performance test applications.

Utilized flowcharts in the preparation stage of the change management cycle, flowcharts can help you map out the current state of organizational processes.

Environment Dynamic SQL, XML, .NET Framework, ASP, VB.NET, Java script, PowerBuilder

WELLPOINT HEALTHCARE, Alexandria, VA 12/2010 – 1/2013

Business Analyst/SR QA Advisor XML Team Lead

Create test plans, test requirements, test scenarios, and test data for use during functional and system test phase of the SDLC, in an Agile software development environment for new and existing applications.

Prepare requirements specifications, and other intellectual property and documentation artifacts appropriate to the phase utilizing Curam.

Conducts back-end testing utilizing Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, XML, XML SPY and dynamic SQL executing Store Procedures to validate test cases.

Performed System Integration Testing to validate data integrity between the different sub-components that make up WellPoint’s Analytics for Medicaid/Medicare EDI 834 transactions for members and providers.

Utilizes Rational Suite of tools, Rational Functional Tester, TFS, QTP, Loadrunner, ClearQuest, SOAP UI and SharePoint to record, regression test and performance test applications.

Conducting Section 508 testing to ensure electronic information technology is accessible to people with disabilities. Utilizes SQL Developer, Oracle tools and TOAD to generate data for testing.

Designs / develops and maintains automated scripts / tools for testing by updating regression tests and certifying modifications prior to implementation.

Utilized flowcharts in the preparation stage of the change management cycle, flowcharts can help you map out the current state of organizational processes.

Environment Dynamic SQL, XML, .NET Framework, ASP, VB.NET, Java script, C#

SAIC-US CENSUS BUREAU, Suitland, MD 6/2009 – 12/2010

Senior QA Engineer Team Lead/Business Analyst

Developed test plans, test requirements, test scenarios, and test data for use during functional and system test phases of the SDLC, for new and existing applications.

Performing requirement elicitation, analysis, and interpretation of business and functional requirements. Providing support for the evolution of the defined requirements into system specifications.

Produced formal test plans and performed back-end testing utilizing XML and dynamic SQL executing Store Procedures to test. Led the testing effort for assigned projects and interacted with the development team.

Produced formal Test Plans and performed Back-End testing utilizing SQL queries to execute test on over 50 products connected with the 2010 census.

Utilizes HP Quality Center, QTP, Loadrunner, SerenaTeam Track and Version Manager to record, regression test and performance test applications.

Utilized SQL Developer, Oracle tools and TOAD to generate data for testing.

Designed / developed and maintained automated scripts / tools for testing by updating regression tests and certifying modifications prior to implementation.

Environment SQL, .NET Framework, ASP, VB.NET, Java script, PowerBuilder and PHP.

UNIVERSAL SERVICE ADMINISTRATIVE COMPANY, Washington, DC 6/2005 – 7/2009

Senior QA Engineer Team Lead

Produced formal test plans and led the testing effort for assigned projects and interacted with the development team.

Performing requirement elicitation, analysis, and interpretation of business and functional requirements. Providing support for the evolution of the defined requirements into system specifications.

Create requirements, test scenarios, and test data for use during functional and system test phase

Tasked to be SerenaTeamtrack Administrator for entire department.

Documented and reported issues discovered during testing in Serena Teamtrack.

Conducting Section 508 testing to ensure electronic information technology is accessible to people with disabilities.

Designed / developed and maintained automated scripts / tools for testing by updating regression test and certified modifications prior to implementation.

Environment .NET Framework, ASP, VB.NET, Java script, PowerBuilder and PHP.

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