SUMMARY:

• 11 years of experience in Banking & Financial services, Retail and Healthcare industry.
• Worked primarily as Business Analyst/Quality Assurance Lead using Agile and Waterfall software development methodologies.
• Expertise in gathering, analyzing and documenting business requirements and developing Business Requirement Documents and Functional Requirement Specifications.
• Experience in reviewing the business requirements and specifications, analyzing the impacts and feasibility.
• Reviewed the application structure and database design with development and testing teams.
• Developing a clear understanding of existing business functions and processes.
• Experience in documenting business cases and identifying potential data issues at initial stage.
• Experience in different functional areas Securities, Money Markets, Mutual Funds, Portfolio management and Reporting.
• Experience in coordinating with business and IT across all phases of software development life cycle.
• Good understanding of Software Development Life Cycle methodologies.
• Reviewed business requirements, design documents and prepared project Test plan and Test strategy for assigned project releases.
• Provided support to development team by reviewing the Application Design document and testing team by reviewing the Test Cases during development and testing phase.
• Provided support to end users during User Acceptance Testing and provided Root cause of the issues.
• Experience in coordination of all implementation tasks including different teams as well as provide consultation to clients on system implementation.
• Experience in data modelling and data analysis.
• Experience working on SOAP based web services and automation testing.
• Involved in project coordination and reporting testing status to the management.
• Actively involved process improvement activities like process flow and bug tracking.
• Extensive client management experience with clients in different geographies.
• Effective communication skills with ability to work independently as well as in team.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE:

HP ALM, HP UFT, Mainframe, Microsoft Test Manager, Agility Enterprise, Investments Jira, HP Quality center, HP QTP, Clear Quest, Rally, Soap UI, Oracle, SharePoint Microsoft Visual Studio Version 6.0, Serena Team Track, PVCS, Microsoft office, Test data management tool

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for business analysis for Systems Integration Team of SEI wealth Platform.
• BA Lead Working on various projects of a lending product Loan IQ for servicing the lending activities to their business clients. Loan IQ provides the servicing and support for the post Loan Origination process once the Deal is closed like payments, bills, fees, interest, principal etc.
• Actively involved in handling various activities of the project like information gathering, analyzing the information gathered, documenting the functional or business requirements.
• Organized review meetings with end users and prepared the Business Requirement Document.
• Actively Involved with formal Review for Requirement Documents and Design Documents at every phase of development.
• Conducted the project meetings successfully by coordinating all users and support personnel.
• Provided clarifications and acted as a bridged communication between end users and development team.
• Reviewed the application structure and high - level design document with development and testing teams.
• Reviewed Test Plan and Test strategy for every release based on business requirements.
• Provided support to the testing team by reviewing the Test scenarios and cases during development and testing phase.
• Actively involved in reviewing the defects and providing root cause analysis.
• Agile Testing Methodology followed for every release of the project and used Rally for project status purposes.
• Conducting knowledge sharing session for Loan IQ and other applications with team members located in different geographies.
• Participated in project efforts and defining estimates of every release.
• Provided support in new implementation of SEI Wealth Platform, provided better understanding of the product to the end client and handled client queries.
• Participated in project meetings, identified areas of improvement and provided recommendations.
• Demonstrating the working software to the stakeholders.

Business Analyst/Test Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for business analysis for Systems Integration Team of SEI wealth Platform.
• BA Lead Working on various projects of a lending product Loan IQ for servicing the lending activities to their business clients. Loan IQ provides the servicing and support for the post Loan Origination process once the Deal is closed like payments, bills, fees, interest, principal etc.
• Responsible for managing the quality assurance team and coordinating with the client for testing purposes.
• Experience creating of Project Plan and Strategy, determining BA tasks and involved in estimation of these tasks.
• Responsible for creating Test schedules involving determining tasks and delegating it to the team located at multiple geographies and tracking the same.
• Reviewed the documentation created by the team and provided review comments.
• Worked as part of a Scrum Team using Agile methodology and ensured timely delivery of Sprints.
• Experience interacting with the client for daily activities related to the Project.
• Experience interacting with Business Analysts and developers for better understanding of the Business requirements.
• Involved in mentoring the offshore team by conducting Walkthroughs, knowledge transfer sessions within the team and providing timely resolution of offshore queries.
• Support, coordination and responsibility of the testing activities which includes review of test cases and test conditions, walkthrough of test cases with clients.
• Developed and implemented business solutions which required enhancements to the existing system.
• Worked on resolving Change Requests by doing impact analysis and proposing business solutions.
• Involved in providing suggestions for improvement in testing procedures followed.
• Actively participated in estimations for Sprint and involved in capacity planning.
• Prepared status and defect reports for daily status meetings.
• Ensured testing processes and methodologies are followed by the testing team.
• Involved in managing the Defects found during testing using HP ALM.

Test Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Business Requirements, Design documents and prepared Test Plan and Test strategy for every release of the application.
• Actively involved in the formal Review for Requirements Documents and Design Documents at every phase of development.
• Responsible for managing the testing team, assigning tasks and tracking the same.
• Reviewed Test scenarios and Test cases and used Share Point and HP ALM for documentation purposes.
• Executed test cases, documented actual results and evaluated expected results.
• Involved in Defect Tracking and used Team Track and HP ALM for defect tracking purposes.
• Prepared status reports and defect reports for daily status meetings and sending it to the team.
• Agile Testing Methodology followed for every release of the project and used Agility Enterprise for project status purposes.
• Involved in coordination with different teams to determine impact of testing across teams and data needs.
• Provided support to different teams for end to end testing and resolved issues.
• Participated in the creation and execution of Automation Test scripts for IBOR using HP UFT.
• Used Mainframe for testing, batch run and data validation.
• Used Document Direct for Reports validation.
• Participated in project meetings and used leadership and analytical skills to contribute to the quality of the product.
• Coordinated with different teams for testing purpose for every release.
• Improving specification and design documents through active review and feedback with developers.

Quality Assurance Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for quality assurance of the data migration of SEI wealth management product of major financial clients related to security trading, clearing and settlement of assets, debts and options.
• Experience leading the testing team and assigning testing responsibilities and follow up till test completion and reporting the status to Project Manager, responsible for updating the weekly reports.
• Experience working with the development team to create a suite of test data for data validation.
• Experience of the flow of data from the source through the ETL process into the target warehouse.
• Experience validating the data at each transformation- source tables, staging tables, loading tables and target tables using the data mapping files.
• Developed test scenarios and scripts based on business requirement document to compare Source and Target database systems.
• Validating the process to ensure data in target tables is populated based on the mapping using SQL.
• Reviewed the mappings to ensure the transformation rules are applied correctly.
• Involved in dataextraction, transformation and load process using SQL to ensure that the functional and technical requirements are as defined in the business requirement document.
• Reviewed the mappings to ensure the transformation rules are applied correctly.
• Experience with SQL queries for backend testing and validated database, verifying the data and test results.
• Extensively used Oracle/SQL server for writing SQL statements.
• Reported daily status of issues and progress during testing application.
• Assisted clients with user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Managing testing enhancements and customisation of existing process.
• Collaborated with the business and development teams to prioritize the business requirements for the release and define and communicate the testing exit criteria.
• Worked in agile development environment with frequently changing requirements and interact with BusinessAnalystsand Developers in requirements analysis, design reviews, testing and documentation.

Quality Assurance Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements, prepared Test plans, test scripts, execution, defect tracking and reporting status to the management.
• Managing the testing team by delegating tasks to the team and tracking the same.
• Coordinated with Development team and Business Analysts on a daily basis for deliverables.
• Creating detailed reports on assigned test execution completion, defects and issues to the project manager.
• Collaborated with the business and development teams to prioritize the business requirements for the release and define and communicate the testing exit criteria.
• Prepared status reports and defect reports for daily status meetings and sending it to the team.
• Worked closely with the application development managers to appraise them of the importance of the identified business needs and prioritized their implementation.
• Communicated the requirements to the technical team for the technical specification design.

Business Analyst/ Test Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for gathering, analyzing and documenting business requirements and developing Business Requirement Documents.
• Coordinate with the management in understanding different business process and functionality.
• Communicating process changes, enhancements, and modifications to the team.
• Coordination with Development and Testing team on a daily basis for deliverables.
• Experience in reviewing the business requirements and specifications, analyzing the impacts.
• Analyzed the requirements and prepared Test plan and Test strategy for every release.
• Reviewed the design documents for every release.
• Involved in preparing Test scenarios and test cases covering all requirements of the application.
• Creating detailed reports on assigned test execution completion, defects and issues to the project manager.
• Responsible for coordinating with other teams on the environmental issues and interacting with external team to setup test data.
• Experience interacting with the client, creating and tracking to test schedules, coordinating on issue escalations, reviewing and providing feedback to test deliverables submitted by client.
• Experience in providing support for user acceptance testing.
• Logged defects and followed up on issue resolution ensuring timely customer reporting needs were being met.
• Actively participated in enhancement meetings, project review meetings, Weekly status meetings and various other meetings which were focused on making the application more effective.
• Planned, coordinated, and monitored project levels of performance and activities to ensure project completion.
• Involved in various documentation tasks such as daily status reports, weekly progress reports, Requirements traceability Metrics (RTM) and defect logs.
• Actively involved in reviewing business requirements and design specifications.

Quality Assurance Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed the Business requirements and prepared business cases based on the requirements.
• Designed and developed testing plan for business processes.
• Analyzing business requirements and prepared test scenarios and detailed test cases.
• Involved in creation and execution test scenarios.
• Actively involved in defect tracking and used HP Quality center for defect logging.
• Actively involved in coordination with different teams as well as provide consultation to clients on system implementation.
• Actively participated in support and status meetings.

Quality Assurance Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing business requirement for writing test scenarios and detailed test cases for various functional modules of quartz including Security trading, Security Administration.
• Creating and executing test scenarios for component Testing, Integration testing and Internal Acceptance testing.
• Defining test data requirements for component testing.
• Tested FIX message for trade processing for equities and fix income instruments.
• Tested Swift messages for trade processing for mutual funds, clearing and settlement of traditional assets.
• Regression testing using Automated Test Suites before every incremental delivery of Software and analysing the test results thereby ensuring a bug free delivery to the client.
• Preparation of Test Scenarios for Change requests from clients for carrying out the preventive and perfective maintenance of the software as per the needs of the client.
• Logging and tracking bugs found during initial testing as well as Regression Run.
• Preparation of set up documents for onsite delivery.
• Developed test plans, test cases and traceability to functional requirements.
• Conducted GUI testing, System testing, Integration testing, Smoke testing and Regression testing.
• Involved in the Manual Testing before the tests were automated.
• Actively performed regression, black box testing.
• Document and communicate issues, bugs, risks and concerns to project managers and developers in efficient and timely manner.
• Conducted Regression testing after the bugs have been fixed by the development team.
• Actively participated in various meetings like defect resolution meeting, QA status, Knowledge transfer meeting.
• Created Test Strategy and Test plan for the testing effort.
• Maintained the test traceability matrix.
• Participated in brainstorming sessions to develop the test scenarios.
• Assisted QA Manager in project scheduling and project management.
• Executing the test plans for various modules of quartz including Security Administration, Payments and Funds Transfer and Securities Lending & Borrowing.
• Tested SWIFT messages for security settlement and reconciliation business processes.
• Tested interfaces connecting Quartz with third party vendors for various transactions.
• Preparation of Test Scenarios for CMRs for carrying out the preventive and perfective maintenance of the software as per the needs of the client.
• Regression testing using Automated Test Suites before every incremental delivery of Software and analysing the test results thereby ensuring a bug free delivery to the client.
• Logging and tracking bugs found during initial testing as well as Regression Run.
• Preparation of set up documents for onsite delivery.
• Coordinating with the onsite team for the closure of client reported software issues.
• Creating and executing test plans for various phases of software testing including component testing, integration testing, system testing and regression testing.
• Working with development teams investigating and correcting software bugs and deficiencies based on the testing results.
• Worked on test planning, test execution and test result analyses of Change Management requests as per the needs of the client.
• Played a key role in the testing of portfolio management module of quartz.
• Played a key role in testing of interfaces connecting quartz with the client front end application.
• Preparation of configuration documents.
• Coordinated User Acceptance Testing with the UAT group to ensure the correct business logic.
• Coordinating with the onsite team for the closure of client reported software issues.
• Played a key role in transmitting functional knowledge to technical teams for product development.