Suhas Dave

suhasbdave@gmail.com

201-367-8980
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Over 7+ years of experience Software Quality Assurance (QA) experience testing in Manual
and Automation Web, Client-Server Systems and Applications for various Industries.
Experience in defining Testing Methodologies; creating Test Plans and Test Cases, Verifying and
Validating Application Software and Documentation based on standards for Software Development and
effective QA implementation in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Strong in Software Analysis, Planning, Design, Development, Testing, Maintenance and Augmentation
for various applications in data warehousing, metadata repositories, data migration, data mining and
Enterprise Business Intelligence.
Strong experience in Business and Data Analysis, Data Profiling, Data Migration, Data
Integration and Metadata Management Services.
Strong knowledge of test management tool HP Quality Center, HP Application Lifecycle
Management and Rational Clear Quest tools.
Diverse experience with various testing methods such as Functional testing, Regression
Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, Security Testing, User Acceptance Testing
(UAT), Database Testing, End to End Testing.
Hands on experience in various testing methodologies like Black box testing, White box
testing.
Proficient in writing SQL queries, PL/SQL and executing SQL queries to perform backend
testing
Extensive experience in writing SQL to validate the database systems and for backend database
testing.
Extensively worked on design and implementation of Database Management Systems such as Oracle
11g/10g / 9i / 8i / 7.x, DB2 UDB, MS SQL Server, and MS Access.
Experienced in working with Business Users, Business Analysts, IT leads and Developers in identifying
and gathering Business requirements to further translate requirements into functional and technical
design specifications.
Worked extensively in UNIX (AIX) and Linux environment, used Shell Scripts for automating batch
transfers, table space management, automated backup, user group maintenance, security and custom
report generation.
Comprehensive knowledge of Ralph Kimballs data modeling concepts including Dimensional Data
Modeling and Star/Snowflake Schema Modeling.
Extensive experience in performing Black Box, Regression, Integration, and User Acceptance testing.
Experienced working with Excel Pivot and VBA macros for various business scenarios.
Effective independently or in a team. Worked as a Team Leader. Excellent communication as well as
inter-personnel skills. Ability to convey technical information at all levels. Excels in research, analysis,
and problem solving skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Data Bases

Oracle 11g/10g / 9i / 8i / 7.x, MainFrame via web3270, DB2 UDB, MS SQL Server
2008/2005/2000 / 7.0, MS-Access, teradata v2r6

Development Languages

SQL*Plus, T-SQL, PL/SQL 2.2 / 8.x, Unix Shell Scripting, TOAD 7 / 7.6, SQL Loader,
VBA

Operating Systems

UNIX (AIX), Linux, MS-DOS, Windows vista / XP / 2000 / NT / 98 / 95.

Methodologies

Ralph Kimballs Data modeling, Star and Snowflake Schema Modeling

Testing Tools

Mercury Quality Center 11.0/ 10.0/ 9.0 / 8.0, Test Director 7.6 / 7.0, Quick Test
Professional 6.5 / 5.6, Win Runner 7.5 / 7.0

Workflow Tools

Putty, WinSCP3, MS-Project, MS-Excel, MS-PowerPoint, MS-Word.

Management Tools

Peregrine Service Center 5.1, HP Project and Portfolio Management Center (ITG)
7.1

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CLIENT:
BCBS
DURHAM
NC
JAN 2015/TILL DATE
ROLE: SR. MANUAL QA TESTER
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) is a nationwide leader in delivering
innovative health care products, services and information to members, including thousands served
on behalf of other Blue Plans.

Reviewed the Business Requirement Documents and the Functional Specification.

Full Life Cycle Testing (SDLC) and development of both claim submission and remittance retrievals.
Closely went through and worked on all the stages of SDLC for this project and designed and executed
Functional, Integration, Regression, and System (End to End), UI Testing, Browser Compatibility,
Backend (Database) Testing.
Selected and implemented agile development practices according to the application requirements for
every project
Designed and coded application components in an agile environment utilizing a test driven
development approach.
Extensive Agile and Scrum experience. Responsible for delivering agile projects that provide
exceptional business value to users.
Used HP Quality Center to perform Manual Testing and logging and tracking defect in BugZilla until the
bug was fixed
Created Manual Testing strategy and performed Database Testing using SQL Queries by retrieving data
from Oracle Database
Analyzed Manual Test Cases with QA Team for most important & high priority Requirements for
conversion to Automated Test Scripts using HP Quick Test Professional (QTP)
Worked in Automation of two modules using QTP. Tested VB Scripts in QTP which was used later to
Automate Check and Deposit processing modules.
Involved in writing test scripts and functions in Test Script Language using QTP for automated testing.
Involved in automation of test cases using QTP, Automated detailed test cases by using Quick Test Pro.
Involved in testing Web services and XML with tool called SOAP UI. I have been using this tool to
locate WSDL file on internet, create Test cases, run them, do load testing, security testing.
Experience in testing using message queues(JMS) , in SoapUI/ GEMS or any supporting tool
Experience in web service testing tools like Soap UI pro or any supporting tool, Experience in using
JDBC in Soap UI
Experience in IBM Rational Suite for maintaining test requirements, test flows using Requisite Pro,
automate tests using Rational Robot and Rational Functional Tester, Rational Manager, Defect tracking
using Rational Clear Quest, version control using Rational Clear Case
Involved in White Box Testing with the help of developers and viewed the source code with the help of
Rational Rose.
Trained the users before UAT on how to test and document the test results. Also, assisted the users
during UAT. Took part in Triage Meetings with the required parties after defect analysis to prioritize
defect resolution
Involved in user training sessions and assisting in UAT (User Acceptance Testing)
Performed validation tests to ensure that the developed functionality meets the specifications prior to
UAT testing
Analyzed massive and highly complex data sets, performing ad-hoc analysis and data manipulation.
Focal point for making sound decisions related to data collection, data analysis, data security,
methodologies and designs.
Conducted research to collect and assemble data for databases Was responsible for
design/development of relational databases for collecting data.
Experience in Data Validation, Data Modeling, Data Flows, Data Profiling, Data Mining, Data Quality,
Data Integration, Data Verification, and Data loading, Involved in extensive Data validation using SQL
queries and back-end testing
Used T-SQL for Querying the SQL Server database for data validation.
Performed UAT (User Acceptance Testing) and executed to verify requirements, look and feel of the
applications.
Responsible for creating manual test scripts to include Functional Test, Regression Test, UAT, Migration
Test and Study Configuration Test.
Tested to verify that all data were synchronized after the data is troubleshoot and also
used SQL to verify/validate my test cases.
Written several UNIX scripts for invoking data reconciliation.

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Solid Back End Testing experience by writing and executing SQL Queries.
Creation of test scripts in SQL based on published design documents
Exported the results through SQL and documented the test results for test cases, suites executed.
Worked on Various SQL Server procedures for various Bugs, executed queries in test databases using
SQL queries.
Executed SQL Queries for testing integrity of data in database (Backend Testing).
Experienced in writing complex SQL queries for extracting data from multiple tables.
Testing has been done based on Change Requests and Defect Requests.
Preparation of System Test Results after Test case execution.
Performed Functional, Regression, Data Integrity, System, Compatibility testing
Written several complex SQL queries for validating Business Object Reports.
Fine-tuned for performance and incorporate changes to complex PL/SQL procedure / Packages for
updating the existing dimension tables using PL/SQL Developer on Oracle 8i RDBM.
Performed backend database testing by writing SQL and PL/SQL scripts to verify data integrity
Developed SQL Stored Procedures and Queries for Back end testing.
Extensively executed T-SQL queries in order to view successful transactions of data and for validating
data in Sql Server Database.
TOAD is used to perform manual test in regular basis. UNIX and Oracle are using in this project to write
Shell Scripts and SQL queries.
Wrote SQL queries to validate source data versus data in the data warehouse including
identification of duplicate records.
Experienced in writing test cases, test scripts, test plans and execution of test cases
reporting and documenting the test results using Mercury Quality Center
Prepared Test status reports for each stage and logged any unresolved issues into Issues log.
Used T-SQL for Querying the SQL Server database for data validation.
Writing the test scripts for manual testing.
Preparing and supporting the QA and UAT test environments.
Tested different detail, summary reports and on demand reports.
Communicated discrepancies determined in testing to impacted areas and monitored resolution.

Environment: SQL, PL/SQL, UNIX, Agile, Quality Center 11.0, IBM AIX 5.5, DB2, TERADATA V2R6,
SYBASE 12.5, Shell Scripting, XML Files, VSAM COBOL Files, IBM, AUTOSYS, XML SPY 2010,
ORACLE 11G, TOAD 10, Word, Excel, Outlook.

CLIENT: NEW YORK COMMUNITY BANK, HAUPPAUGE, NY

ROLE:
QA
MANUAL
TESTER
MARCH 2012-DEC 2014
New York Community Bank is one of the largest companies in the New York State, which provides
financial services such as: credit cards, auto loans, checking, savings, money market accounts and
online banking services to a broad range of retail, business and institutional clients.

Reviewed the Business Requirement Documents and the Functional Specification.

Prepared Test Plan from the Business Requirements and Functional Specification.
Carried out data profiling for multiple loan feeds.
Prepared and contributed in creating Test plan and Test Strategy along with arranging and executing
Test Cases for Manual and Automated Testing
Wrote, prepared and executed Manual Test Cases based on Requirements and Use Cases, and
Automated Test Scripts throughout Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC.
Executed and maintained Test Plans, Test Case, Test Scripts, and Test Data for manual testing
approaches using track & defect management tool HP Quality Center (QC).
Used Test Director, Quality Center and Business Process Testing for management of test plan, test
design, test execution and defect log phase. Rational Quality Manager for management of STLC
including requirements gathering, risk analysis, project planning, scheduling, testing, defect tracking,
management, and reporting.
Maintained the data integrity during extraction, manipulation, processing, analysis and storage.
Built data input and designed data collection screens Managed database design and maintenance,
administration and security for the company.
Discussed intelligence and information requirements with internal and external personnel.
Used SOAP UI, Web Logic ANT task to test Web Services running on Web Logic Server.
Responsible for Setting up Web Services project using WSDL in SOAPUI and provided setup help to
other team members.
Testing of Web Services using web services client generated using Apache Axis, SOAP UI, TCP Monitor
to track request and response SOAP Messages
Assisted in System Test and UAT testing scenarios as required, Responsible for complete manual
testing of application under test (UAT)

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Responsible for creating manual test scripts to include Functional Test, Regression Test, UAT, Migration
Test and Study Configuration Test.
Used Quick Test pro to write the automated test scripts by using various actions and reusable actions.
Manually tested the application functionality and developed Automation test scripts to perform
functional and regression testing and prepared automation test scripts, Methods and functions in QTP.
Automated test cases, for data driven tests and linked test scripts using QTP to perform Regression
testing of different application versions.
Load and Volume testing was done by using Load Runner, Conducted the Functional, System,
Regression, and Performance testing of the Web application using Mercury tools Quick Test Pro and
Load Runner.
Extensively used SQL statements to query the Oracle Database for Data Validation and Data Integrity
Worked with data validation, constraints, source to target row counts.
Perform Functional, Data Validation, Integration, regression and User Acceptance testing.
Ensure data integrity and data validation throughout the multiple environments across the application.
Automated detailed test cases by using Quick Test Pro.
Used Quick Test Pro to write the automated test scripts by using various actions and reusable actions.
Familiar with CMMI, the Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology within the Software Development
Life Cycle (SDLC) along with Agile and Scrum
Testing (that includes unit, integrated, regression, and UAT) a new .NET application which uses
Microsoft Visual Studio under the Scrum (Agile) Methodology, Strong testing Quality Assurance
experience within agile environment
Used Quality Center for bug reporting.
Tracked and reported the bugs with Quality center.
Defect Reporting & Defect Tracking using Quality Center.
Tested complex objects to the universe to enhance the report functionality.
Written extensive UNIX Shell scripting for data parsing and text parsing needs including archiving the
old data, running backend jobs & setting up of job dependencies.
Performed extensive data validations against Data Warehouse
Loaded flat file Data into Teradata tables using Unix Shell scripts.
Conditional testing of constraints based on the business rules
Designed and executed the test cases on the application as per company standards and tracked the
defects using HP Quality Center.
Extensive experience in writing SQL and PL/SQL scripts to validate the database systems and for
backend database testing.
Developed and Executed SQL statements in Toad to retrieve data and to validate data.
Implemented Database Checkpoints for Back-end Testing.
Performed the Back-end Integration Testing to ensure data consistency on front-end by writing and
executing SQL statements.
Worked on SQL Tools like TOAD and SQL Server Management Studio to run the SQL Queries to perform
manual test in regular basis and validate the data.
Involved extensively in doing back end testing of the data quality by writing complex SQL.
Designed and prepared scripts to monitor uptime/downtime of different system components

Environment: VBA, SQL, PL/SQL,XML, Excel Pivot,. Agile, Oracle 10g/9i, QTP, DB2 UDB, WinSQL,
UNIX (AIX), Linux, PuTTY, WinSCP3, Mercury Quality Center 10.0, Word, Excel, Outlook, Autosys,
Teradata, TOAD, XML

CLIENT: WILMINGTON TRUST,

ROLE:
MARCH 2010-FEB 2012

WILMINGTON,

DE
QA

MANUAL

TESTER

Worked with Data Profiling for various needs of business.

Scrubbed data to accurately generate customer pull. Provide output files in various file format based
on customer request. .
Developed automated scripts for functional testing and Data driven testing of the application using
QTP.
Extensively worked on QT Pro to design and develop various manual and Goal oriented
Scenarios for Application.
Worked on calling shell scripts from post-session and pre-session events. Extensively involved in
implementing performance tuning techniques for the queries.
Involved in the Maintenance and Production Support
Used Quality Center as a Defect tracking tool to report the defects encountered while testing. Base
lined the Test Plan, Test Criteria & Project Schedule by walkthroughs and review meetings.
Involved in extensive DATA validation using SQL queries and back-end testing
As QA Tester, performing responsibilities with both the functionality and back end testing.

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Wrote complex SQL, PL/SQL Testing scripts for Backend Testing of the data warehouse application.
Extensively used various types of transformations such as Expression, Joiner, Update strategy, Look
up, filter for developing mappings.
Optimized QTP scripts for Regression testing of the application with various data sources and data
types.
Executed regression tests at each new build in QTP.
Development of mappings as per the technical specifications approved by the client.
Created sessions and workflows to run with the logic embedded in the mappings using Power center
Designer.
Used workflow manager for session management, database connection management and scheduling
of jobs.
Reviewed specifications for feasibility of customer list pull criteria and commit date
Executed Campaign based on customer request and reviewed execution log to keep track of the
number of records going into and coming out of every job step
Prepared the Test Plan and Testing Strategies for Data Warehousing Application.
Delivered file in various file formatting system (ex. Excel file, Tab delimited text, Coma separated text,
Pipe delimited text etc.)
Tested Database Triggers, Stored Procedure, Functions and Packages.
Optimized queries using rule based & cost based approach.
Executed campaign based on customer requirements
Followed company code standardization rule
Preparation of technical specifications and Source to Target mappings.
Extensively used SQL programming in backend and front-end functions, procedures, packages to
implement business rules and security
Tuned database and SQL statements and schemas for optimal performance.
Expertise in SQL queries for the cross verification of data.
Designed documentation for the developed graphs.

Environment: Quality Center, TOAD, Oracle, DB2 UDB, QTP, SQL, PL/SQL, UNIX (AIX), Shell Scripts,
Word, Excel, Outlook

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