Pavan Kumar

Professional Summary:

 Around 4 + years of professional experience in Software Industry, Expertise in all kinds of testing
(Manual and Automation) with focus on Web based testing, Data warehouse, Web services, Client-
Server applications
 Extensive knowledge on all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).Experience in Agile,
Scrum and Waterfall models of SDLC.
 Extensive experience in Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Defect Life Cycle (DLC). Participate in
complete testing Lifecycle, Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Execution, & Defect Report.
 Worked with Business analysts to understand the business and involved in walkthroughs, and
periodical meetings to come up with project plans.
 Experienced in Integrating and coordinating testing activities into software development activities
 Proficient in designing, reviewing and documenting system test plans, defining test procedures and
creating test cases on the basis of product release features, client’s requirements and related tech-
nical documents.
 Worked with different RDBMS Oracle, SQL Server, Teradata, MySQL, IBM DB2 and their GUI utilities
like SQL Loader, Oracle SQL developer, Teradata SQL Assistant, WinSQL to do transaction of data
 Extensively involved in SIT and UAT by supporting Testing and implement QA Process.
 Worked on Autosys for Batch Processing ETL, PL/SQL subprograms and performed backend testing.
 Experienced in programming Database Objects like Tables, Stored Procedures, Views, Rules, De-
faults, user defined data types and functions using Oracle, SQL Server and DB2.
 Working knowledge on various types of data feeds like: XML, DB2, Oracle and Flat files.
 Excellent in writing SQL and PL/SQL queries and UNIX shell scripts to perform Backend testing
 Designed the Data Driven tests in Quick Test Professional (QTP) script to validate with different sets
of test data. Used Quality Center for defect tracking.
 Strong working experience in the Data Centric Testing, Data Analysis, Design and Development
 Supporting multiple projects, while maintaining strong quality and ability to meet deadlines
 Proficiency using Rational Clear Case for Documentation and used Clear Quest for Defect tracking.
 Excellent analytical skills, documentation skills and presentation skills
 Self-starter and ability to present ideas in a concise, logical and well organized format

Technical Skills:

Bug Tracking/Test Management
Data warehouse ETL Tools
Reports Business Intelligence
Relational Database (RDBMS)
Operating Systems
Methodologies
Business Tools
Programming Languages
Microsoft Tools
HP ALM/Quality Center/ Clear Quest/Clear Case/ Load Runner
Informatica 9.6, Data Stage, AbInitio, SSIS
Business Objects, Cognos, SSRS, OBIEE, Microstrategy, Crystal
Reports, Hyperion , SAS
SQL Server, Oracle, Teradata, MS Access, MySQL, IBM DB2
Windows, Vista ,UNIX, Linux
Scrum, Agile, Spiral, Waterfall and Kunban
SQL, PL/SQL, TOAD, QTP, SOAP UI, web services,
Java, .Net, XML, HTML, C/C++, VB & Java Script
Microsoft Excel, Word, Power point, MS Project , Visio

Professional Experience:

Dean Health Plan, Madison, WI Jan ’13 – Till Date

QA Analyst
Responsibilities:
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  Documented the business requirements, developed test plans, test cases created for the data-
base backend testing and to test database functionality.
 Designed and executed various Test scripts for Regression tests
 Assisted in gathering the business requirements, ETL Analysis, ETL test and design of the flow
and the logic for the Data warehouse project
 Developed ETL test cases for various lines of businesses based on ETL mapping document.
 Backend testing of the DB by writing SQL queries and PL/SQL scripts to test the integrity of the
application and Oracle databases.
 Expertise in writing SQL Statements in database to make sure whether the data is populated in
Data Mart/Data warehouse According to Business Rules.
 Used Agile Test Methods to provide rapid feedback to the developers significantly helping them
uncover important risks.
 Extensively tested several OBIEE reports for data quality
 Responsible for validation of Target data in Data Warehouse and Data Marts which are Trans-
formed and Loaded using ETL Informatica Power center.
 Involved in investigating the errors by tracking the root cause for the error.
 Collected evidence for each step of the process to ensure that any errors are captured in time
and resolved immediately.
 Worked with various EDI transactions like 834,834,835,276,277in accordance with HIPPA stan-
dards.
 Promoted Unix/Informatica application releases from development to QA and to UAT environ-
ments
 Used Quality Center to maintain Test Case and Reports Repository.
 Have programming skills in SQL and PL/SQL and experience in SQL Server and Oracle databases
on UNIX and Windows platforms.
 Written Complex SQL Queries. To do manual testing in my feature on the SDM tool for every re-
lease and check the configurations.
 Report testing: Extensive experience with Reporting Tools like OBIEE
 Worked in an agile technology.
 Used BO Info View for testing the scheduled reports and viewing the history.
 Wrote SQL and PL/SQL scripts to validate the database systems and for backend database test-
ing.
 Coordinated the end to end testing efforts of the HIPAA compliance and EDI transactions.
 Raised defects in HP Quality Center defect tracking system.
 Performed front-end testing on OBIEE Executive Dashboard portal
 Designed Traceability Matrix to match the test scripts with the Functional design document.
 Good experience in writing SQL in order to data validation in migration as part of backend test -
ing worked with ETL group for understating mappings for dimensions and facts.
 Worked on issues with migration from development to testing.
Environment: Informatica 9.6.1, OBIEE, Oracle 11g/10g, Quality Center 11.0, XML, Agile, Win SQL, T-SQL,
SQL, TOAD, SQL Assistant 6.0, PL/SQL, IBM DB2,UNIX, MS Visual Studio, MS Access, Flat Files.

BCBS, Jacksonville, FL May ’10 – Nov ‘12

QA Analyst
Responsibilities:
 Assist entry-level tester(s) on reviewing requirement, preparing and executing test cases and report
software defects. Performed black box, Functional, Integration, Stress and Regression testing of the
Website.

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 Performed Regression Testing to verify various sections of the system to ensure that changes or
fixes in the system not only work, but also do not adversely affect the remainder of the system.
 Created and executed SQL queries to validate the data and used data manipulation language.
 (DML) to update the data in the database and verify with front end that application handles the
changes correctly.
 Initiated defects and assigned to Development teams with appropriate severity levels.
 Actively participated to setup the test environment for the application(s) needs to be deployed on
test environment.
 Executed the Test cases using Quality Center Tool for Web based application and checked the func-
tionality of the application for every release.
 Participated in weekly status meetings, conducted walkthroughs, documented proceedings. Modi-
fied and maintained test cases with changes in application interface and navigation flow. Conducted
weekly batch testing to incorporate changes in new builds.
 Provided the management with test metrics, reports and schedules.

Environment: Quality Center, Oracle 9i, SQL, T-SQL, SSIS, SQL Server 2005, MS Excel 2003, Shell
scripting, UNIX, Windows NT