SUMMARY:

• Analytical and detail - focused Testing and QA professional wif more TEMPthan 15 years of experience driving testing activities to support software development across a wide range of platforms and environments.
• Proven expertise in all phases of teh software development lifecycle (SDLC) backed by exemplary communication and team leadership skills; adept at managing high-priority projects, coordinating onsite and offshore resources to complete projects on time while ensuring products meet or exceed expectations for quality, cost-efficiency, and performance. Areas of Expertise:
• Test Engineering & Project Management
• Requirements Gathering & Analysis
• Functional & Technical Specifications
• Test Case / Scenario Development
• Manual & Automated Testing
• On- / Off-shore Team Leadership
• FX core settlement process
• Client Server & Object-Oriented Methodologies
• Performance, Load & Stress Testing
• Smoke, Functionality & Regression Testing
• Troubleshooting, Defect Analysis & Resolution
• CFR Part 11 Validation
• ETL Data warehouse Modeling and Testing

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

QA Testing: Mercury WinRunner 7.0, QTP 6.5& 9.5, UFT 11.5, LoadRunner 5.0, Test Director 5.0, HP Quality Center 10.0, Rational ClearQuest, Gomez, On Time, Jira

Languages / Development: Java, VBScript, .Net, HTML, MQ Series, XML, Visual Age 3.02, IBM Visual Age 3.5, JDK 1.2.1, JBuilder, COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2

Databases: MS SQL Server (2005, 2008), Oracle (9i, 10g), MS Excel, MS Access

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

Test Lead

Technical Scope: IBM DB2 Client V10.0, AIX, JIRA, Swift/Payplus messages, FX core trading, UFT11 and VB script.

Responsibilities:

• FX trade life cycle testing flow.
• Automation framework developed using UFT tool. Data driven testing performed to validate business process. UI functionality error logs verified using VBScript debugging technique.
• Experience testing XML & Swift, Payplus and SIC Messages such as MT300,MT202,MT942,MT941,MT950, MT298, MT012, MT018, FTRINF, FTRADM, TMA11, TMB11 and TMS32 based on teh ISO 20022 Universal financial industry message standards.
• Completely tested input processing of trades which also includes unilateral and bilateral trades using OFAC hotscan wrapper and simulator responses.
• UAT performed for settlement process covering short and long position limits till fund completion target time is reached.
• Verify payment processing such as payin and payout validation, payout acnoledgement and rejection from central banks.
• Verify Intraday and end of day reconciliation report generation from external RTGS system.
• Validate currency and settlement member suspension and reactivation process.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior QA Lead

Technical Scope: HP Quality Center 10.0, SharePoint, SSIS/SQL Server Client 2008, Scrum Tool

Responsibilities:

• Successfully identified risks, potential breakdown points, and other factors to eliminate future failover.
• Collaborated wif configuration, integration, and business teams to understand business processes and define testing scope.
• Maintaining existing ETL processes to support week and month end data processing across systems based on relational and dimensional database modeling.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior QA Lead

Technical Scope: HP Quality Center 10.0, QTP 9.5, IP Agent/IC Client, Soap UI, SQL Server Client 2005, SharePoint, Cognos, DB2 Client, Web Tester

Responsibilities:

• Successfully tested and implemented all business functions of multiple account scenarios and portfolio details, including IVR speech reorganization from third-party vendor into client- and field-facing IVR routing VDN tables.
• Collaborated wif project stakeholders and subject matter experts to elicit business requirements; formally documented requirements and translated them into functional and technical specifications.
• Establish project plan and scope of work, leveraged data mining approach to create test data, and spearheaded all aspects of solution testing and implementation.
• Managed local and offshore teams of QA engineers and other engineering resources to complete deliverables on time and in line wif development standards.
• Researched and evaluated alternative solutions; recommended most efficient, cost TEMPeffective option to senior management for use in case of production failover.
• FIX Protocol, testing messaging connectivity and communication

Confidential, Secaucus, NJ

QA Lead

Technical Scope: Adminitrack, Safari/MAC, SQL Server/SSIS package (2005/2008), On Time, Jira, Gomez performance tool, VB.Net

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely wif business team to analyze root cause of existing production failover;
• Participated in defect review meetings and assigned defects to appropriate teams.
• Prepared impact analysis reports to minimize potential for future production failure and optimize maintenance efficiency.
• Partnered wif subject matter experts and technical architect to enhance workflow processes and ensure application stability.
• Utilized Gomez tool to create performance test strategy.
• Validated HCP data bulk load and initial synchronization process, and generated defect report.
• Performed Grey box testing of VB.Net applications involving HCP forms.

Confidential, Woodcliff Lake, NJ

QA Lead

Technical Scope: Global Desktop version (GDv 3.1, 3.2), Rational ClearQuest, SQL Queries, QTP 6.5, VB Script, Quality Center 9.2

Responsibilities:

• Created test plan, test scripts, traceability matrix, and issue migration documents for ARO Administrators and external users.
• Performed full range of smoke testing, functional testing, and regression testing activities.
• Initiated and steered defect review meetings wif Development and Business Services group, and provided project team wif defect status reports daily.

Confidential

QA Tester

Technical Scope: WinRunner 7.0, TestDirector 5.0, LoadRunner 5.0, QTP 5.6, VB Script, Oracle 10g, SQL, PL/SQL, Java Script, Windows 2000/XP

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business Requirements Document (BRD) and system requirements, and designed test plan, cases, scenarios, schedules, and procedures based on those requirements.
• Performed both manual and automated testing for performance, load, and stress tests;
• Developed and automated end-to-end manual test cases for different modules, created manual scripts based on use case requirements, as well as automated scripts for testing application’s functionality and navigation.
• Conducted data-driven testing (DDT); prepared data retrieval queries, and imported data from test database to DATATABLE.
• Executed release-based testing in different sets for four releases; identified critical test case on each release and updated regression suite.
• Worked closely wif users and development team to identify and fix defects; performed bug tracking, prepared weekly management status reports, and coordinated meetings between test and development teams to review defects.

Confidential

QA Tester

Technical Scope: Java, J2EE, LDAP, Oracle 9i, Windows XP, UNIX Shell script, VB Script, MQ Series

Responsibilities:

• Identified test requirements and methodologies for new and existing applications; created test cases for hardware and software components based on input collected from external sources.
• Analyzed and documented tool selection criteria for regression, performance, and load testing and defect management, and documented methodologies for functionality, user interface (UI), performance, and compatibility testing.
• Wrote test approaches for LDAP and Single Sign On (SSO) Site Minder authentication.
• Created traceability matrix dat accommodated future failover scenarios in all SDLC phases.

Confidential

QA Tester

Technical Scope: Visualage 3.5 IDE, WebSphere, Rational Rose, Unix, Windows, Java, JSP, JavaScript, XML

Responsibilities:

• Performed functionality and regression testing and development of marketing subsystem using Javadoc API, ensuring compatibility wif Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator; verified system model wif Business Analysts, and interfaced wif developers to document functionality and resolve defects.