QA Consultant

Tatiana Timoshkina

OBJECTIVE:

Seeking a challenging position in the field of Software Senior Quality Assurance Analyst with responsibility that utilizes my technical, organizational, communication skills and experience, while further permitting growth and creativity.

Summary:

• Excellent Communication, interpersonal skills and worked with the team leads, developers, customers closely.

Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle and Software Testing Methodologies. A professional with proven hands-on skills in testing, scripting and analyst of batch, on-line systems and client server based applications. Managing testing and solving production issues. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Strong interpersonal and problem-solving skills.

Software/Hardware:

• QuickTestPro8/9,TestDirector7.2/7.6,Winrunner6.x/7.x,VBscript,JavaScript,HTML,Oracle7/8/9Server, COBOL II, ILE COBOL, DB2, Designer/Developer2000,Discoverer,SQL,SQLPLUS, PLSQL, Crystal Reports,

Oracle Financial 11I, RETEK, PVCS,

• UNIX, (AIX 4.3, Sun/Solaris), PC (MS DOS, Windows), Mainframe based applications

• Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle and Software Testing Methodologies.

TheReserve, Manhatten ,NY

QA Analyst Sep 2006- present- JAN 2009

The Reserve offers Money Market Funds, Insured Deposits, Bank Cash Sweep Services and other Cash Management Solutions to its customers to support its various Products and Services (CST). The Reserve’s clientele includes Institutional, Brokers and Individual Investors. In order to help its clients grow, The Reserve constantly updates and maintains its IT Applications.The Quality Assurance (QA) team plays a vital role in this entire process.

Responsibilities:

• Functional testing and validation of Shareholder Accounting System (SAS), Bank Cash Sweeps (BAS),

Insured Deposits(IDP), Combined Statements (CST),The Reserve Solutions and Online Applications

• Prepare Master Test Plan (MTP), which serves as guiding document for Test Objectives, Different types of Testing, and the planned testing efforts and the scope of testing with regard to Project functions.

• Analyze the functional specifications and review the business manuals in order to summarize system-specific business rules and other operating conditions.

• Developing test plans, test cases and test scripts to ensure coverage of requirements, create an execute SQL script to validate test results.

• Coordinate weekly project status meetings to ensure that all user concerns are being addressed on time.

• Report defects and follow-up on outstanding issues.

• Performed functional and system regression testing for FDIC – Insured Products.

• Planning, organizing, scheduling and tracking of testing procedures for multiple projects from concept and specification through design and test with final handoff to Clients.

• Performed user acceptance and parallel testing.

Sapphire Consulting, Clifton ,NJ Sept 2005 – Sept 2006

QA Tester/Analyst

Customer Care Application: is an application developed to handle new support cases, track existing cases, automated alert support engineers based on predefined criterion etc. The data was stored in Oracle database. User interface developed in Visual Basic 6.0, Business Objects 5.1 used for reporting.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in QA test practice to test application.

• Installed and implemented Business Objects 5.1 full client and assisted in Web. Intelligence 2.5 installation for Proof of Concept pilot.

• Created repository and set up initial security

• Created SQL and PL/SQL procedure to retrieve information form Oracle database.

• Coordinated unit, system, and user acceptance QA test efforts.

• Requirement gathering, analysis and data modeling.

• Created Win Runner scripts for functional and regression test.

• Created suite of 15 reports for Call Center Managers to understand the characteristics of the tasks coming into the call center, manage call growth and staffing.

• Created suite of 5 reports for HR Department to be used to determine employee compensation.

• Trained end users on use of reports.

Brooks Brother New York NY May 2003- Sept 2005

Programmer Analyst

Participated in successful implementation and maintenance of retail/merchandising RETEK data warehousing system. Implementation and support of Vista Plus client/server application. Implementation and support of Oracle Financial Application 11. Implementation of Reports Module for Company.

Responsibilities:

• Utilized the Oracle Central Distribution Database (creating and altering tables and views, creating new indexes to speedup the retrieving information from Database for Forms and Reports, creating new Rolls to implementing menu security, administration of Database objects by granting privileges that will allow users to manipulate the objects.)

• Data loading. Export and Import Utilities, SQL * Loader, FTP Modify UNIX Scripts for running batch programs.

• Analyzed data and maintained reports for the Company (daily, weekly, monthly calculation, Financial, inventory Reports)

• Designed and coded stored procedures, functions, packages and database triggers to facilitate

• Data entry validation to insure data integrity and to combine several program units into one logical structure.

• Performed optimization and tuning SQL Statements using Explain Plan command and SQL

• Trace facility, created indexes.

• Designed Web Oracle Reports (pages): HTML, PL/SQL, Oracle Web

PriceWaterHouseCoopers New York NY Feb 1999- May2003

Application Developer

Upgrade PAS-Partner Administration System (HR, Payroll, and Financial Applications).

Pas provide foundation for building and maintaining the database, for generating analysis and

reporting information.

Responsibilities:

• Planned and directed Oracle ERP implementation and legacy application projects.

• Redesigned business processes for e-commerce EDI gateways that reduced purchase order cycle from average of seven days to two days

• Reduced production issues, instituted / improved development, testing, and acceptance methodologies. Implemented critical technical productivity tools, decreased patch, testing, and implementation times.

• Established risk / issue reporting and tracking, end-user reporting, and change management procedures.

• Oversaw migration of legacy processing and renewal system to Windows NT

• Carried out all planning and scheduling of project life cycle

• Participated in design, development and implementation of GUI-based applications

• Provide support to analysts and application developers in design and develop PL/SQL programs.

Burlington Coat Factory, Burlington, NJ Sept 1995- Jan 1999

Programmer Analyst

Burlington Coat Factory Retail Company with large assortment of current high-quality, designer and name-brand merchandise. Participated in implementation of SALES TRACKING and Billing System. Participated in implementation of GUI-based applications.

Responsibilities:

• Database analyses, design indexing Data Warehousing System

• Design of entry screen – Sales screen, Vendor screen, Invoice screen, Purchase Order Screen (Oracle forms)

• Created Reports for Company and Central Distribution Center Managers, daily, weekly and inventory reports for DC users using SQL*PLUS and Reports 2,5

• Responsible for the various Oracle Central Distribution Database changes (creating and altering tables; creating new indexes to speedup the retrieving of information from Database for Forms and Reports.)

• Design and coding stored procedures, functions, packages, and database triggers to facilitate data entry validation, to insure data integrity, and to combine several program units into one logical structure.

• Responsible for developing and maintaining front ends for the Central Distribution using FORMS 4.5 and 6 I

Education:

Polytechnic College, St. Petersburg, Russia.

BS in Engineering

EDP Computer Institute NY

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