Engineer Manager

Stephen Raja Roby

Phone: +1-804-***-****

Email Id: ***********@*****.***

Experience Summary:

• 7+ years of IT experience with strong knowledge in Data warehouse testing process, methodologies, techniques, specification, execution, testing and releasing of the product/ modules.

• Hands on Manager with proven ability to direct and improve quality programs, reducing defects and improving overall efficiency and productivity

• Certified, ISTQB Certified Tester (Foundation Level).

• Expertise in DW Testing Concepts, Teradata Data validations, Quality Center, Data warehousing Regression strategizing, SDLC Process, Release Management Process, DW Testing Estimations, DW Test Strategy, Testing Metrics Collection

• 4 years of experience working in large-scale Data warehouse testing projects in Healthcare sector. Have good knowledge on Claims, Membership, Provider subject areas

• 3 years of experience in manual/automated testing process

• Strong working knowledge on RDBMS in SQLSERVER and Oracle, with SQL.

• Great Problem solving, Testing and Analyzing skills, working with real time development and Maintenance projects.

• Coordinated QA efforts that resulted in consistent on-time delivery of scheduled maintenance releases. Managed establishment of enhanced process in regression validations, status reporting, and post production monitoring process.

• Provided best class solutions through Productivity improvement, Test Case reusability, Regression Model for Data warehousing, Data warehousing estimation template

• Have experience in preparation of Estimates, test plan, Test strategy, SOW.

• Actively involved in all phases of project life cycle – System analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Implementation, Maintenance and Support of various Intranet applications.

• Have worked on end to end development projects from Business Requirements to Implementation and Support.

• Have worked with Business Analysts, Business Users, Architects, System Admins and other downstream and upstream application teams during the course of project.

• Excellent Presentation and Communication Skills

• Good knowledge on software developments process including Waterfall model and Agile (Scrum)

• Continually provided value added services and solutions, to the client through analyzing and giving suggestion on Productivity tools, Process Improvements, Productivity improvements, with Logical and Reasoning skills.

• Involved in Change management, Release management and Deployment process during implementation.

• Handled releases and worked as release manager for enterprise releases in Data warehousing.

• Team player, Self-motivated, vivid learner, Knowledge Sharing, with Excellent Leadership and Communication skills.

Skill Set:

Testing Tools QTP, Load Runner

Test Management Tool Quality Center, Star Team, Keystone, Clear Quest

Operating Systems Windows 7/VISTA/XP/2000/2003, Sun Solaris, Unix

Database Oracle9i, MS-Access, SQL Server, Teradata.

Management Tools Visio, Project Professional

Education:

Masters of Business Administration in Systems & Human Resources, 2005

Anna University, India

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering, 2002

Madurai Kamaraj University, India

Work Experience:

Manager for Cognizant Technology Solutions from Oct 2008 till date

Senior QA Engineer for Virtusa India Pvt Ltd from Sep 2005 to Sep 2008

Lecturer for National Engineering College from Nov 2002 to Apr 2003

Project History:

Project Title EDWard Maintenance Releases

Client WellPoint Inc.

Role Manager

Technology Teradata, Unix, SQL Server, Quality Center

Duration June 2010 to till date

Responsibilities:

As a Manager, my responsibilities include,

Managing a team of 25 members for all the testing activities including billing, resourcing

Creation of consolidated Test Strategy for the release components.

Have done through impact analysis based on the requirements of the program.

Created detailed documentation on Test Plan, Test Data Requirements.

Helped the testing team in resolving technical issues.

Worked with DEV and UAT team to provide Testing support.

Involved in Release management and Deployment process during implementation.

Provided daily dashboard on the status of the release components.

Preparation of the metrics dashboard for the defects, test effectiveness, testing productivity.

Designed a separate regression model for Data warehouse Testing

Project Title EDWard Direct Sourcing

Client WellPoint Inc.

Role Test Lead, Senior Tester

Technology Teradata, Unix, Test Director

Duration Oct 2008 to Apr 2010

Responsibilities:

As a Test Lead, my responsibilities include,

Creation of Test plan and provide inputs for the Test Strategy

Involve in the requirements gathering to gather the depth of the requirements by communicating with Business users, Technical SMEs, UAT Users

Perform thorough impact analysis on the requirements for the project in scope

Preparation of status reports on a daily, weekly and biweekly basis for various stakeholders.

Provide the data needed for the metrics collection and projections.

Help technically solving the critical issues faced by the team

Helping the team on performance tuning the SQL created for the test execution

Collating all the results and provide the inputs for the daily dashboards on defects

As a Senior Tester, my responsibilities include,

Understanding the requirements and raise any clarifications through Clarification Tracker

Creation of Test cases for the Test execution

Creation of Test scripts for data validations

Creation of Traceability in Test Director for the executions

Project Title BTGS Sales Tools (PENCIL, SPEED, FAST, CAF, SITESCREEN, FW/SITW, IP CONVERGE TOOLS)

Client British Telecom

Role Senior QA Engineer.

Technology Remedy, Excel, VB, Html. Java, Jsp, Weblogic 8.1

Duration Dec 2006 – Sep 2008.

Responsibilities:

Analyzed system requirements and involved in developing test plans, test cases and test schedules based on high-level and detailed designs.

Coordinated testing resources and end-user testing activities including publishing testing schedule, defects logging, identifying and implementing solutions as well as monitoring progress throughout completion.

Interfacing with the client, overseas IT teams and the project team over various project related issues, providing functional inputs to the development team and coordinating the software testing related activities.

Allocated and tracked the tasks of the QA Team.

Interacted with the development team and the business team in resolving the critical issues.

Mentoring and planning training for new members.

Participated in review meetings and took the initiative to meet the QA testing targets.

Verified the data stored in the database with the help of SQL queries.

Status reporting to the Leadership team.

Giving reports to the management about the efficiency of each major release by analyzing the Defects on each major release.

Preparing the Test Report for major releases.

Project Title DECOMP

Client British Telecom

Role QA Engineer.

Technology Java, Jsp, Weblogic 8.1, Oracle 9i

Duration Aug 2006 – Nov 2006

Responsibilities:

Analysis of Business and System Requirements.

Involved in designing Test Scenarios, Test Cases.

Continually and effectively communicated with QA manager, testers, SMEs, developers and DBAs to meet project time-lines, goals and resolve questions in prior to and during the test execution phases.

Execution of Test Cases.

Interpreted test results, documented and tracked defects, issues, and problems with completeness and accuracy.

Project Title

3P (PMS,PPSR,OSAT,P&CS)

Client British Telecom

Role QA Engineer and Release Manager

Technology Java, Jsp, Remedy, Weblogic 8.1, Oracle 9i

Duration Dec 2005 – Jul 2006

Responsibilities:

Verified and validated that tests are conducted and documented according the standards approved by management.

Responsible for requirements decomposition, business analysis, scenario generation and testing.

Handled the Release Management Activities by approving the releases to SIT.

Designing and Execution of Test Cases.

Used SQL queries to perform backend testing on the database.

Coordinated the testing efforts and the allocation of resources to different modules to speed up the process of execution.

Involved in creating test logs and Test Summary reports and communicating to the leadership team.

Project Title Product Management System

Client British Telecom

Role QA Engineer

Technology Java, Jsp, Weblogic 8.1, Oracle 9i

Duration Oct 2005 – Nov 2005

Responsibilities:

Developing / Reviewing / Executing Test Cases.

Defect Reporting & Bug Logging using Star Team.

Involved in client interaction at all phases.

Interaction with Dev, attending meeting and sending team’s status report.

Performed Positive and Negative testing of the application.

Project Title DECOMP Performance Testing

Client British Telecom

Role QA Engineer

Tools Loadrunner 7.8

Duration Sep 2006 – Dec 2006

Responsibilities:

Designing Test Scenarios for the Performance Testing.

Generating the Vuser Scripts.

Execution of the Vuser scripts in Controller.

Analyzing the results based on the Transaction time.

Preparing the Test Report for each execution and providing the inputs to the onsite teams about the performance of the application.

Maintenance of the generated scripts.

Project Title OSAT Performance Testing

Client British Telecom

Role QA Engineer

Tools Loadrunner 7.8

Duration Jan 2006 – Apr 2006

Responsibilities:

Designing Test Scenarios for the Performance Testing.

Generating the Vuser Scripts.

Finding the Performance bottlenecks by executing the Vuser scripts in Controller.

Analyzing the results based on the Transaction time.

Preparing the Test Report for each execution and providing the inputs to the onsite teams about the performance of the application.

Maintenance of the generated scripts.

Personal Details:

Name: Stephen Raja, Roby

Address: 3501, Corum Drive

Apt#1211, Richmond,

VA, 23294.

Email Id: ***********@*****.***

Phone: (804) 937 - 8527

Work status: H1B

Declaration:

I hereby declare all the above stated information is true to the best of my knowledge.

Regards,

Stephen Raja Roby

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