PROFILE:

• An I.T professional around 5 years of experience as Business/QA Analyst and Software tester with expertise in Manual/Automation Testing and Web Service Testing for client - server and web-based applications.
• Good Financial Product knowledge in Fixed Income, Treasury,Bonds, securities, Interest Rate SWAPS .
• Good experience in Telecom, Retail, Media & Research domains with strong Business and Functional knowledge of these industries.
• Solid understanding of Business Requirement Gathering, Data analysis, Data Modeling and Business Process Modeling.
• Experienced automated testing tools such as Quality Center, HP Quick Test Professional and Junit and SOAPUI.
• Experience in defining Testing Methodologies, creating effective Test Document and Test Plan, Test Cases Design, Test Environment Setup, Test Data Setup, Defect Management, Test log, Test results, Test Traceability Matrix and Test Metrics.
• Extensive Knowledge of Quality Assurance standards, methodologies and strategies with better understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), concurrent development strategies, process streamlining, iteration modeling, waterfall, Agile and RUP methodologies
• Experienced in developing UML use case diagrams, work flow diagrams, data flow diagrams, flowcharts, screen mockups and report prototypes using dynamic UI with HTML, MS Visio.
• Specialized in Requirement Analysis, Scenario Document and Defect Prevention Checklist based on system requirement specifications.
• Good knowledge in requirements elicitation, Gap Analysis, Risk Analysis and JAD sessions.
• Extensive experience of manual testing of applications and expert in Using Quality Center/Test Director as repository for maintaining test cases, execution and tracking the defects.
• Hands-on experience with automation testing using Selenium and QTP/UFT .
• Good experience in Web Services testing using SOAPUI, XML, & WSDL. Providing required input data to request XML & get the required data from response XML & use the response data from other request XML using SOAPUI .
• Strong experience with SOA architecture which include Soap Web Service Testing
• Hands on experience with BI tools such as Cognos, Tableau .
• Good understanding of Database Management Systems like MySQL, Oracle and MS SQL Server.
• Expertise in back end testing and writing SQL queries, Joins, procedures using Oracle and MS SQL Server.
• Hands on experience of mobility testing at API & GUI level.
• Expertise in Data Validation and Verifications, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, System Integration Testing, Database Testing, Migration Testing, Smoke Testing, Production Testing, User Acceptance Testing and End to End Testing.
• Excellent documentation skills in creating BRD, Use Case Specifications, SRS, FRD and Minutes of Meeting.
• Participated in daily scrum meetings with project managers and system developers to create, plan and review technical solutions that met business and technical requirements .
• Good knowledge on JIRA tool for reporting the bugs and good experience on SSRS tool.
• Good Basic Knowledge in Siebel (CRM & Provisioning).
• Good knowledge on HTML, CSS, Java Script, OOPS, Java and J2EE technologies.
• Good knowledge on various version controls like SVN, Git Hub and CVS
• Good communication skills, presentation skills and inter personal skills have ability to work both individually and as a part of the team
• Regular interaction with clients and have performed activities like daily status reporting.

TECHNOLOGY & TESTING PROFICIENCIES:

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center, Test Director, Soap UI, HP QTP

Testing Methodologies: System Testing, Database Testing, Data Migration Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing, End - to- End Testing, Functionality Testing, Validation

Scripting: SQL, Unix script

Operating Systems: Unix, Windows

Database Tools: MS SQL Developer, Oracle, MySQL, DB Visualizer

Reporting Tools: SSRS, JIRA

Modelling methodologies: Agile, RUP, Waterfall

Modelling/Reporting Tools: SSRS, JIRA, MS Visio, Requisite Web,Balsamiq

Languages: Java, J2EE, SQL, HTML,CSS, Java Script

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Jersey city, NJ

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Conducted JAD sessions with Subject Matter Experts (SME's), Front office, Middle office, Traders to obtain domain level information and recording the requirements in a format that can be reviewed an understood by both business and technical team.
• Understanding business requirements in the Interest rates environment. This involves working with Agency/Dealership/Interest rates swaps and options/Proprietary desk.
• Understanding the STP flow from external systems all the way to downstream systems.
• Knowledge about Trade Capture system and PnL/Risk calculation engines.
• Involves knowledge of Dealer & broker trades, SEF clearing and TRACE reporting.
• Knowledge of reference data used in the TC and Risk systems.
• Created wireframe for the GUI using UI/UX concepts such as performing a claims analysis, storyboarding, creating information and activity scenarios. Involved in creating business processes and modeling diagrams.
• Documented the Use Cases and prepared the Use Case, Activity, Logical, Component and Deployment views using MS Visio for a clear understanding of the requirements by the development team.
• Generated reports using Cognos for data analysis.
• Created various spreadsheets for tracking relative values of fixed income securities, bond market analysis etc.
• Involved in setting up reference data in Markitwire .
• Good knowledge on FIX protocol.
• Performed thorough testing in Staging and UAT environments for multiple releases.
• Tested ECN scenarios - RFQs inquiry creation, negotiation and execution over MKTX, BBG & TWeb and the subsequent trade flow & life cycle.
• Implemented Interfaces for loading Source data into Staging area and Staging data into Dimension and Fact tables of Reporting Data mart.
• Prepared ETL design document which consists of the database structure, change data capture, Error handling, restart and refresh strategies.
• Thoroughly tested entire trade workflow using profiles of Traders, Sales and Operations.
• Designed Interfaces to load data from Flat files, CSV files in to staging area Oracle and load in to Oracle Data Warehouse.
• Coordinated User Acceptance Testing with Sales and Operations.

Environment: HP Quality Center, JIRA, UNIX, WinSCR, Putty, SQL Server, MS office 2013, Scrum Methodology, Fix protocol,Cognos.

Confidential

Business/Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of 3 as Business/QA analyst and played a key role in requirement analysis and requirement mapping.
• Involved in gathering the requirements that were critical to the business process flow and using those requirements for the Business Requirements Document (BRD)
• Conducted JAD sessions with Subject Matter Experts (SME's) to obtain domain level information and recording the requirements in a format that can be reviewed an understood by both business and technical team.
• Involved in creating business processes and modeling diagrams using Rational Unified Process (RUP).
• Documented the Use Cases and prepared the Use Case, Activity, Logical, Component and Deployment views using MS Visio for a clear understanding of the requirements by the development team.
• Conducted weekly meetings between the System Users, Business Users and Technical team to update the progress in the project and address issues encountered.
• Used MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Project, and MS Visio for documentation and analysis reports among other project management and reporting tools.
• Involved with the QA design and develop test strategy, test plan, test cases, review test scripts & test cases, provide walkthroughs, execute test cases and analyze test results, report defects and track till close, and communicate status .
• Preparation of Test Scenario Document, Test Strategy, Defect Prevention Checklist and Requirement Checklist.
• Involved in business users and gather requirements, analyze the feasibility of their needs, develop business requirements and functional specification documents.
• Setup Test Data based on Functional Specifications for validation of feature.
• Involved in System Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Non-functional Testing, End to end Testing, Database Testing, UAT and Production Testing.
• Involved in automation testing and writing scripts using Selenium
• Performed database testing using SQL for checking the transaction data and data integrity in Oracle, SQL Server
• Validate the Autosys jobs by scheduling to run shell scripts that monitor and report the execution of production processes
• Report defects and Track them till fixes using HP Mercury Quality Center
• Created test result report and worked on software process development approach on Agile and Jira.
• Conducted meeting for Test Scenario review and Test result review.
• Track the Defects identified during Testing in a defect log and follow up with Development / Maintenance Team until the problem is resolved and verified.
• Involved in capturing the defects in HP Quality Center.
• Regular interaction with Clients performed activities like daily status reporting and weekly status reporting.
• Contributed in Preparation of User manuals for Nielsen related Applications.
• Prepared Training & Support material (in the form of presentations) and presented it to Clients.
• Got numerous appreciations from Nielsen Media Program manager and Test Manager for my proactive initiatives and defect free deliverables.

Environment: HP Quality Center, JIRA, UNIX, WinSCR, Putty, SQL Server, MS office 2013, Scrum Methodology, MS Office, Oracle, SQL Server, MS Visio, UML, RUP, SSRS, Agile

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Played a key role in requirement analysis and requirement mapping.
• Perform Integrated System, Functional, Regression, and User Acceptance Testing, and Lead the testing activities, mentor the new team members
• Perform planning and execution activities like estimating test effort, design and develop test strategy and test plan, test cases creation, execution & analyzing results, defect reporting and tracking, and communicating testing status
• Develop and Execute Test Plan for testing activities for each release, Create, Review and Execute test cases in HP Mercury Quality Center 9.0
• Perform database testing using SQL for checking the transaction data and data integrity in Oracle, SQL Server and Sybase databases.
• Generated reports using tableau.
• Drive Defect, Test Case review, root cause analysis, and assessment meetings
• Involved in running the test script using HP QTP/UFT.
• Preparation of Test Objective Matrices.
• Setup Test Data based on Functional Specifications for validation of feature.
• Involved in System Integration Testing, Regression Testing and Non-functional Testing.
• Responsible for the quality and timeliness of deliverable
• Review the Test cases and Test results within Testing Team.
• Track the Defects identified during Testing in a defect log and follow up with Development / Maintenance Team until the problem is resolved and verified.
• Involved in capturing the defects in HP Quality Center.
• Regular interaction with Clients performed activities like daily status reporting and weekly status reporting.
• Contributed in Preparation of User manuals for Merch Applications.
• Prepared Training & Support material (in the form of presentations)

Environment: HP Quality Center, Confidential Web Applications, SQL, MS office 2010,QTP/UFT.

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test Cases in HP Quality Center and executed them
• Understanding business requirements and functional specifications of applications.
• Preparing test cases and requirement trace matrix.
• Mainly involved in the web services testing using SOAP UI and Poster Add-on.
• Extensively involved in Black Box testing and performed functional, regression and system testing for the application.
• Executing the test cases and test scripts to ensure applications are performing according to Business requirements.
• Prepared Test cases, Tested the application with Win Runner.
• Integration and Regression testing and System testing, alarm testing, migration testing, Facilitated user-acceptance testing
• Identified Test Scenarios and executed Test Cases.
• Defect tracking using Test Director.
• Participated in Walk-through, Inspections and Reviews of specifications for Test Cases.
• Performed Backend Testing by using SQL for Database integrity.
• Wrote SQL queries to validate the data
• Played a key role in requirement analysis and requirement mapping.
• Understanding the Business Rules.
• Analyse Business Requirements and write Test cases.
• Involved in System Integration Testing, Regression Testing and Non-functional, Alarm Testing, End-to-End Testing and Data Migration Testing
• Responsible for the quality and timeliness of deliverable from Offshore
• Track the Defects identified during Testing in a defect log and follow up with Development / Maintenance Team until the problem is resolved and verified.
• Involved in capturing the defects in Test Director.
• Developed and execute test cases, test scenarios and followed-up defects.
• Studied User Requirement Specifications (URS) and converted them to Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) and Software Requirement Specifications (SRS) for application modules.
• Used ALM to import test data, defects and test cases.
• Bug reporting, tracking and documentation on the Bug tracking System using ALM.
• Analysed the results of manual and automated tests.
• Integration and Regression testing and System testing
• Conducted functional and regression testing.
• Extraction of test data from tables and loading of data into SQL tables.
• Participated in daily defect tracking conference calls with developers, Product manager, Project manager
• Participated in requirement walkthroughs and creation of test plan.
• Conducted Gap Analysis to ensure all Business Requirements was covered by test cases.
• Performed Sanity Testing and Smoke Testing.
• Developed SQL Queries to perform database testing. Performed Backend Testing using Toad.
• Experience in testing and writing SQL and PL/SQL statements.
• Involved in testing the databases using complex SQL queries.
• Involved in extensive data validation using SQL queries and back-end testing.
• Trained and coordinated with the offshore team members in understanding the requirements and test cases for UAT.
• Played a key role in requirement analysis and requirement mapping.
• Tested the application both Web and Mobile (iOS and Android) to ensure the compatibility.
• Provisioned sim using Siebel for different devices as a part of functional testing.
• Created and executed Automated Test Cases for Build Acceptance Testing
• Involved Functional, UAT, Compatibility and End-to-End Testing
• Reported and kept tracking found Defects
• Performed Regression testing for fixed issues
• Developed and validated of quality control methods of substances using an appropriate analytical techniques
• Implemented new methods and monitored of quality of routine analysis

Environment: HP Quality Center, Siebel, SQL, MS office 2010,QTP.