diff --git a/IOMC/EventVertexGenerators/src/BeamProfile2DB.cc b/IOMC/EventVertexGenerators/src/BeamProfile2DB.cc
index 6a922283d057a..78d59250fef9c 100644
--- a/IOMC/EventVertexGenerators/src/BeamProfile2DB.cc
+++ b/IOMC/EventVertexGenerators/src/BeamProfile2DB.cc
@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@ class BeamProfile2DB : public edm::global::EDAnalyzer<> {
   static void fillDescriptions(edm::ConfigurationDescriptions& descriptions);
 
 private:
-  void beginJob() override;
   void analyze(edm::StreamID, const edm::Event&, const edm::EventSetup&) const override;
   void endJob() override;
 
@@ -72,23 +71,13 @@ namespace {
   }
 
 }  // namespace
-//
-// constants, enums and typedefs
-//
-
-//
-// static data member definitions
-//
 
 //
 // constructors and destructor
 //
 BeamProfile2DB::BeamProfile2DB(const edm::ParameterSet& iConfig) : beamSpot_(read(iConfig)) {}
 
-BeamProfile2DB::~BeamProfile2DB() {
-  // do anything here that needs to be done at desctruction time
-  // (e.g. close files, deallocate resources etc.)
-}
+BeamProfile2DB::~BeamProfile2DB() = default;
 
 //
 // member functions
@@ -97,9 +86,6 @@ BeamProfile2DB::~BeamProfile2DB() {
 // ------------ method called for each event  ------------
 void BeamProfile2DB::analyze(edm::StreamID, const edm::Event& iEvent, const edm::EventSetup& iSetup) const {}
 
-// ------------ method called once each job just before starting event loop  ------------
-void BeamProfile2DB::beginJob() {}
-
 // ------------ method called once each job just after ending the event loop  ------------
 void BeamProfile2DB::endJob() {
   edm::Service<cond::service::PoolDBOutputService> poolDbService;
@@ -117,9 +103,9 @@ void BeamProfile2DB::fillDescriptions(edm::ConfigurationDescriptions& descriptio
   desc.add<double>("SigmaZ")->setComment("in cm");
   desc.add<double>("BetaStar")->setComment("in cm");
   desc.add<double>("Emittance")->setComment("in cm");
-  desc.add<double>("Alpha")->setComment("in radians");
-  desc.add<double>("Phi")->setComment("in radians");
-  desc.add<double>("TimeOffset")->setComment("in ns");
+  desc.add<double>("Alpha", 0.0)->setComment("in radians");
+  desc.add<double>("Phi", 0.0)->setComment("in radians");
+  desc.add<double>("TimeOffset", 0.0)->setComment("in ns");
   descriptions.addDefault(desc);
 }
 
diff --git a/IOMC/EventVertexGenerators/test/BeamProfile2DBWriter_cfg.py b/IOMC/EventVertexGenerators/test/BeamProfile2DBWriter_cfg.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..4077b19e9fa27
--- /dev/null
+++ b/IOMC/EventVertexGenerators/test/BeamProfile2DBWriter_cfg.py
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+import FWCore.ParameterSet.Config as cms
+import FWCore.ParameterSet.VarParsing as VarParsing
+
+process = cms.Process("writeBeamProfile2DB")
+
+options = VarParsing.VarParsing()
+options.register('unitTest',
+                 False, # default value
+                 VarParsing.VarParsing.multiplicity.singleton, # singleton or list
+                 VarParsing.VarParsing.varType.bool, # string, int, or float
+                 "are we running the unit test?")
+options.register('inputTag',
+                 "myTagName", # default value
+                 VarParsing.VarParsing.multiplicity.singleton, # singleton or list
+                 VarParsing.VarParsing.varType.string, # string, int, or float
+                 "output tag name")
+options.parseArguments()
+
+
+process.load("FWCore.MessageLogger.MessageLogger_cfi")
+from CondCore.CondDB.CondDB_cfi import *
+
+if options.unitTest :
+    tag_name = 'simBS_tag'
+else:
+    tag_name = options.inputTag
+
+#################################
+# Produce a SQLITE FILE
+#################################
+CondDBSimBeamSpotObjects = CondDB.clone(connect = cms.string('sqlite_file:test_%s.db' % tag_name)) # choose an output name
+process.PoolDBOutputService = cms.Service("PoolDBOutputService",
+                                          CondDBSimBeamSpotObjects,
+                                          timetype = cms.untracked.string('runnumber'),
+                                          toPut = cms.VPSet(cms.PSet(record = cms.string("SimBeamSpotObjectsRcd"), # SimBeamSpot record
+                                                                     tag = cms.string(tag_name))),                 # choose your favourite tag
+                                          loadBlobStreamer = cms.untracked.bool(False)
+                                          )
+
+process.source = cms.Source("EmptySource")
+
+process.maxEvents = cms.untracked.PSet(input = cms.untracked.int32(1))
+
+process.simbeamspotwriter = cms.EDAnalyzer("BeamProfile2DB",
+                                            X0       = cms.double(0.0458532),   # in cm
+                                            Y0        = cms.double(-0.016966),  # in cm
+                                            Z0        = cms.double(-0.074992),  # in cm
+                                            SigmaZ    = cms.double(3.6),        # in cm
+                                            BetaStar  = cms.double(30.0),       # in cm
+                                            Emittance = cms.double(3.931e-8)    # in cm
+                                          )
+
+process.p = cms.Path(process.simbeamspotwriter)