AZIZ PEPERMINTWALA (Business Analyst, QA Test, CM, App Support)

809 W Broad St #219

Falls Church VA 22046
apb1b61c@westpost.net
(703) 241-0998

EDUCATION:
M.S, Computer Science & Applications, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and State University, 2000
B.E, Electronics Engineering, University of Bombay, 1994

CITIZENSHIP:
United States

SECURITY CLEARANCE:
Public Trust level 5 starting 2002 from US Department of Health and
Human Services

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE:

Mr. Pepermintwala has over 15 years of technical experience in

business analysis, requirements elicitation, application development
and software testing. He has experience in developing test
strategies, test plans, UAT scenarios and documentation of test
results against design specifications for business applications to
ensure that the business objectives are met. On a mission-critical
support contract for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), he is
currently responsible for testing and development of Oracle 8i
database applications built with Oracle Developer 6i, PL/SQL and
Java, including providing technical direction to the development team
based on test results to develop a corrective action plan. He has
extensive experience testing C++ software for communications systems.
His work spans the areas of test automation and programming support
using C, Pascal and several proprietary programming languages in the
Microsoft Windows and HP UNIX environments. Mr. Pepermintwala has
successfully worked in CMMI Level 3 and ISO 9001 environments to
ensure compliance with CMMI processes and deliverable schedules.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
 PSI INTERNATIONAL, INC.
FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION (FDA)
AERS OMME CONTRACT AT CDERApplications Engineer 7/2004 to 8/2010

In support of a large-scale FDA contract as Business Analyst,

analyze business applications, design specifications, and provide
software testing and development services for the Adverse Event
Reporting System Operations, Maintenance Modifications and
Enhancements (AERS OMME) project. Participate on a team providing
software maintenance and enhancement using Oracle 8i, Developer 6i,
and PL/SQL sponsored by the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
(CDER). Responsible for Creating Test Plans, Testing multiple
software systems, providing software builds, Maintaining the
Configuration Management and coordinating software releases and user
acceptance tests. Participate in design and code reviews. Provide
support for managing the AERS Help Desk. Tested the Programmed
software changes using Oracle Developer 6i and developed SQL queries
for complex database reports and provided technical direction to the
development team based on test results to construct a corrective
action plan and schedule. This work includes but is not limited to
the development of test cases, performing the testing, identifying
software defects, writing effective bug reports, assisting developers
to understand and duplicate software anomalies and updating all
supporting documentation. In addition, provide maintenance of
software configuration management using PVCS Version Manager as well
as providing Helpdesk Support using PVCS Tracker. Served in PSI's
Engineering Process Group for the company's CMMI Level 3
certification activities.

PREVIOUS PROJECTS a"

PSI INTERNATIONAL, INC.

FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION (FDA)
SISTIR CONTRACT AT CBERSystems Engineer 12/2001 to 7/2004

In support of a large-scale FDA contract as System/Test Engineer,

analyzed business applications, design specifications, provided
software testing and development services for the FDA's Strategic
Information Systems Technical Integration of Resources (SISTIR)
project. Participated on a team providing software maintenance and
enhancement using Oracle 8i, Developer 6i, and PL/SQL for the Lot
Release System (LRS), sponsored by the Center for Biologics
Evaluation and Research (CBER). Responsible for testing multiple
software system releases. Programmed software changes using Oracle
Developer and developed SQL queries for complex database reports and
provided technical direction to the development team based on test
results to construct a corrective action plan and schedule. This work
included but was not limited to the development of test cases,
performing the testing, identifying software defects, writing
effective bug reports, assisting developers to understand and
duplicate software anomalies and updating all supporting
documentation. In addition, served as a Quality Assurance Lead for
the company's CMM Level 2 certification activities.

CALNET, INC.Software Engineer 4/1997 to 7/2001

Provided software testing services for Cable and Wireless USA's

Digital Multiplex System (DMS) in the System Testing and Engineering
departments. Responsible for testing communications software systems
developed using C++. Created test plans, wrote bug reports, and
authored other technical documentation. Analyzed business
applications and design specifications. Developed automated test
cases using GUI programming tools and proprietary scripting
languages. Assisted the Operations division in troubleshooting and
resolving critical problems occurring in production software.
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES_Assistant Systems Analyst_ _3/1995 to
4/1997 _

Provided programming support for Nortel's Signal Transfer Point

(STP) Test Automation project. Performed programming tasks under UNIX
using proprietary languages similar to C/C++ for development of
automated test cases for communications software. All work was done
adhering to processes for ISO 9001 compliance. Participated in other
projects involving software bug fixing using Pascal, developing
software for test tools, creating technical documents including user
manuals, and writing functional specifications. Also conducted
classroom training sessions for newly hired programmers.

TUSY TRONIC, INC. _Programmer_ _10/1994 to 3/1995_

Involved in software maintenance and support activities for Tusy
Tronic's Top-Acc Financial Accounting application. Responsible for
programming in C and Btrieve to design software feature enhancements
and bug fixes. Additionally, provided software installation and
troubleshooting services at customer sites.

SPECIALIZED TRAINING:

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 Oracle Adverse Event Reporting System 4.6.1, November Research
Group, May 2009
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IBM Rational Functional Tester, International Business Machines,
April 2008
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CMMI Level 3 process area training modules, PSI International, May
2007
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Rational RequisitePro hands-on, International Business Machines,
March 2007
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Supervisory and management training modules, PSI International, May
2006 to May 2007
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Training modules for Software Engineering, Tata Consultancy
Services, March 1995 to May 1995

HARDWARE: IBM PCs, HP 9000

SOFTWARE: Oracle Adverse Event Reporting System 4.6.1, Oracle 8i,

Oracle 7.3, Oracle Developer 6i, Oracle Developer 2000 (Forms 6.0),
SQL*Plus, TOAD (Tool for Oracle Application Developers), Java, XML,
Apache, Tomcat, JDeveloper, Microsoft Systems Management Server, MSSO
MedDRA Browser 3.0, Microsoft Access, MS SQL Server, Novell Btrieve,
PVCS Tracker, MS Visual SourceSafe, Rational RequisitePro, MS Office
Suite, MS Windows XP/2000/98/NT, UNIX, HP-UX, MS DOS, Novell Netware
LANGUAGES: PL/SQL, SQL, C/C++, Java, XML, ASP, HTML, Pascal, UNIX
Shell Scripting, various proprietary languages: Pro-Tel (PROcedural
language for TELecom), AGE (Automation Generic Environment), T (Test
case development language), FlexDial (a programming system for
creating FLEXible telephone DIALing patterns), Fas-Test (a
programming tool for rapid test automation)
APPLICATIONS: Database Programming, GUI Development tools, Test
Automation tools, Communications Systems tools, Financial Accounting,
Word Processing, Spreadsheets