Candidates About

·         9+ Years of experience in Software Testing and Quality Assurance.

·         Functional and regression software testing projects - Test planning, execution and monitoring, Database Testing, Defect Management Lifecycle and Coordination.

• Software Quality Assurance Processes and Testing Data Driven Applications - Manual and Automated testing procedures.

·         Client/ business teams across the globe for requirements documentation and consultation with development team.

·         Test case execution and defect management.

·         Rally trained.

·         Data mapping.

• Designing, reviewing and documenting system Test Plans and creating Test Cases on the basis of product release features, client requirements.

·         Smoke testing, Functionality testing, Regression testing, Multi System Integration testing and User Acceptance testing.

·         SQL database querying and database level test verification.

• Defect Management process which includes Identifying, Analysing, Reproducing and Communicating with team members in fixing and closure of defects.
• Agile and Waterfall development methodologies.

·         Experience in support process management. Coordination with end users as part of information gathering.

·         Coordination with business owners for planning, creation and execution of User Acceptance Tests. Supporting business UAT teams during executions. Feature training and functionality supports.

·         Expertise in creation and management of various project artifacts - Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM), Test Plans, Test Task WBS, Test Scenarios, Test Case, Test Data design, Test Status Reports and Metrics, TESD.

·         Excellent understanding of full Software Development Life Cycle and extensive knowledge/experience in all stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle(STLC) and lead teams in onsite - offshore model.

• Expertise in conducting bug triage calls and interacting with Business and Development to nail down the issues in order to meet the project deadlines.

SQA/ Testing	Black box, Integration, Functional, System, End to End , Regression, User Acceptance Testing, Automation testing, Database Testing, system Integration testing, and Performance testing.
Skill set	MAINFRAME, COBOL, JCL, PROC, SORT UTILITIES, CICS, IMS, DB2, SQL, DATAWAREHOUSING, FTP, NDM, TABLEBASES, CONTROL M, SQL Teradata.
Utilities/Tools	Change man, File-Aid, File Manager, FMIMS, IMS File-Aid, Expediter, Debug, Abend-Aid, Fault Analyser, IBM Debug Tools, SAR, CA-Dispatch, and Table base, Teradata, QC, ALM, RQM, CQ, MS office tools, SharePoint, Visio, QTP, Control- M, Teradata.
Operating System	Windows, MVS/OS390, UNIX.
Database	DB2, IMS DB, SQL server.

 

Domains

Healthcare – CMS Medicare Senior business – MA/MAPD/PDP , Part D                          Membership enrolment and billing                          Claims, Reinstatement                          Pharmacy                          Healthcare reforms                          Provider migration                          Broker

 

 

Role 1:  Mainframe tester and Lead        

§  Broker commissions Project

§  Provider migration testing Project

§  Amerigroup Plan WellPoint integration –Medicaid business Project

§  Membership SSCR project

 

Responsibilities:-

·         Responsible for complete QA lifecycle for multiple projects – Review business requirement specifications, derive project testing effort estimate, manage development of detailed testing framework, plans.

·         Involved in the business requirements review meetings analysing business needs and taking part in requirements framing. Assessing requirements for functionality and testability and request for change requests if necessary.

·         Collaborate with the development teams, database teams and testing teams reviewing various project work products for requirement coverage for ensuring high quality software releases.

·         Managed multiple environment test release. Reviewing deployment procedures and documents. Performed smoke test for new deployments.

·         Involved in Business and Functional Specification review meetings, Design walkthroughs and Test Plan reviews.

·         Understanding test requirements- derive testability rating. Communicating testing needs

·         Preparation of test scenarios/test cases, RTM (preparation, review and tracking during entire project lifecycle).

·         Design the test cases and test data. Prepare test data tracking matrix, manage data relation and track correctness during testing.

·         Managed a team of 6 people involving various day to day activities like

o    Billing and work planning. Task creation and allocation / Create and review Test Plans, Test Strategies / Scrum meetings / Task Monitoring / Coordination within testing-development-client SME-onshore BA / Test Cases – Preparation, Review and Management / Test Execution – Test Cases Execution, Progress Monitoring and Status Reporting / Defect Reporting and tracking / Regression test planning.

·         Constructing SQL queries based on the test case and verify data integrity by ensuring expected data is persisted in database.

·         Management of support activities.

o    Work with project helpdesk team to identify and document project support issues and support desk tickets / Work with SMEs to derive solutions / Document solutions to support issues – present for business signoff / Coordinate with support development team for software code fix / Work with team to develop functional and regression test cases. Monitor test execution

·         Created Training Document for New testers and knowledge transitioning activities.

·         Executing mainframe batch jobs and analysing the job log/ files/ databases/ table-bases / screens for results verification.

·         Checking control M (CTL M) / SAR for job analysis/monitoring.

·         Performed functional testing manually and constructed positive and negative test scenarios as per requirements.

·         Executed Regression Test cases and updated test cases to as for new changes.

·         Coordination with Development and Business teams to resolve the defects on daily basis.

·         Test project status and schedule monitoring. Risk monitoring; provide early warning about any possible bottlenecks in execution.

·         Reported the testing activity status to the test Manager and Stake holders.

·         Tracking defects to closure.

·         Reviewing Test summary and sign-off the release.

·         Participated in Production testing.

·         Usage of QTP for development and maintenance of test scripts.

·         Management of Post Production issues, warranty and post warranty.

Amerigroup Plan WellPoint integration –Medicaid business Project:

Responsibilities:-

§  Setup and co-coordinating Client Calls and team meetings with Development team and UAT testers, Business Analysts to clarify requirements/ test case and plan discussion / testing progress status/ defects and observations discussion / test results discussion.

§  Interact with business users to capture requirements, understand business, analyze gaps and both negative and positive scenarios. Get the scope defined for the requirements.

§  Test Case planning based on the requirements traced to formulate Requirement traceability matrix.

§  Involved in Test activities such as Test Planning, Estimations, execution and defect tracking in CQ tool and uploading the relevant documents/trackers and details in the SharePoint site.

§  Test script development for test cases and involve in related reviews. Source and target system data mapping and validations.

§  Mentoring and training new team members in the project and providing appropriate knowledge transitions.

§  Work as an independent testing team to support testing during different phases of the project life cycle like development, Regression testing, System integration Testing phase, User Acceptance testing phase, Implementation readiness phase and Post production phase. The testing progression trackers are developed to capture the status of testing and all the defects/observations captured and related resolutions formulated during each test level and iteration.                                                                                                                  

§  Ability to write queries using SQL /  Knowledge of UNIX commands / Experience in ETL and dataware housing testing - Execute tests using automation framework and validate test results to ensure meeting requirements

Role 2:  Mainframe tester        

§  WGS 2.0 Membership Senior (Medicare)Project Pool

WGS 2.0 Membership Senior Project Pool – Medicare business Project:

Responsibilities

 

·         Responsible for complete QA lifecycle for multiple projects – Review business requirement specifications, derive project testing effort estimate, manage development of detailed testing framework, plans.

·         Preparation, review and management of test cases for multiple unique business conditions demanded by special functionalities defined in the application.

·         Conduct test case walkthrough with client, management and development teams.

·         Requirement Traceability Matrix – preparation, review and tracking during entire project lifecycle.

·         Test cases execution, progress monitoring of and test status reporting by executing batch jobs and validating online screens, FTP//NDM results, files, table-bases, databases, db2 tables, job logs etc.

·         Test project status and schedule monitoring. Risk monitoring; provide early warning about any possible bottlenecks in execution.

·         Performed functional testing manually and constructed positive and negative test scenarios as per requirements.

·         Retesting and Regression testing.

·         Management of support activities.

o    Work with project helpdesk team to identify and document project support issues and support desk tickets / Work with SMEs to derive solutions / Document solutions to support issues – present for business signoff / Coordinate with support development team for software code fix.

 

Role 3:  QA trainee        

§  WGS 2.0 Membership HCR (Health Care Reform) Project

§  Medicare Part D Reinstatement Project

 

Membership HCR (Health Care Reform) Project:

 

Medicare Part D Reinstatement Project:

Responsibilities:

§  Test Case estimation and time required for the completion of test phase, resource identification.

§  Functionality testing

§  BRD walkthroughs with client Business Analyst.

§  Test Planning – Preparation of function log and test script

§  Analysis of business gaps,  analysis of Functional Requirements from the FS document

§  Generation of Test Cases by designing flow-charts / Reviewing of Test Cases designed by team 

§  WBS updating and weekly progress report preparation.

§  Test Execution and defect logging

§  Assigning tasks to team, tracking and reviewing the tasks

§  Sending Daily Execution report to the stake holders of the project

§  Knowledge transfer to new/existing team members

 

Role 4:  Developer         

§  Medicare Part D – Pharmacy & CMS Webtool plan-finder Project

Medicare Part D – Pharmacy & CMS Webtool plan-finder Project:

Responsibilities:

 

·         Understand the requirements and develop design based on requirements after impact analysis.

·         Design walkthrough with client and gather approval.

·         Make code changes based on design and unit testing within the given time frame.

·         Handover the code to testing teams.

·         Address the defects, if any.

·         Implementation activities.

·         Post production support / Warranty support.

·         Project based Configuration Librarian (CL) which includes Monthly audits and Documentation & Reporting of audit results

·         Project based Defect Prevention Group Member (DPG) which includes Monthly DP meetings, Discussion on review & IT defects, Prevention methods in future releases.