EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• Over 9 Years of diverse IT experience in Information Technology with emphasis on Quality Assurance, Manual Testing, Automated Testing, System Testing of OMS, Compliance (CRA), web and Financial Applications.
• Well versed in reviewing and analyzing the Business Requirement and developing the Test Plan, Test Strategies, Test Case, Test Data, and Test Scenarios.
• Proficient in Manual Testing and Automation testing.
• Extensive experience with testing Backend Databases and Middle tier transactions, OMS, Trading Systems, Portal and Financial Applications.
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Extensive experience with Front Office, Middle Office and Back Office Systems.
• Strong in Analyzing Business Specs and Developing Test Plans, Test Scripts and Test Cases and User Acceptance Testing.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum Methodologies .
• Solid Experience in Agile process to plan, create and manage the backlog items, participate and organize scrum meetings.
• Expertise on Agile Environment and tested the application under SCRUM (Agile) Methodology and attend Daily Scrum meet for status report.
• Extensive experiences with QTP, WEB testing, FIX Protocol.
• Strong knowledge in SQL queries and UNIX commands.
• Experience with VB Scripting.
• Good Expertise in Tableau reports testing.
• Good domain knowledge in Compliance system.
• Strong Experience in Testing of Applications developed in JAVA, C#, .NET, ASP.
• Well versed with Networking, GUI Automation Testing, System Testing including Functionality (Black Box), Performance, Gray Box, Stress, Load, Regression, Integration, White Box Testing and Usecript, WEBLOGIC and SIEBEL CRM, UNIX (Solaris) and Windows.
• Expertise in Problem solving and Bug Reporting using Defect Tracking Tools like JIRA, HP ALM, and Rally.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

LANGUAGES: C, JAVA,.NET, PERL, XML, VB Script, SQL, PL/SQL, Visual Basic

TOOLS: Quick Test Pro (QTP), Load Runner (Performance Centre), Quality Centre, Test Director, Aegis FIX Client Simulator, TOAD, JIRA

DATABASES: SQL Server, ORACLE, Sybase and MS - Access.

PACKAGES: MS Office, Power point, Word, Access, Excel, Project management, Visio

OPERATING SYSTEMS: MS-DOS, Linux, UNIX, Windows 3.11/NT/95/98/2000/XP, Sun OS

PROTOCOLS: FIX, Telnet, FTP, TCP/IP and E-mail

CONCEPTS: System design, SOA, Capacity Planning, Project management, Design and development of new application programs, problem analysis, structured application programming, program debugging, Documentation and Implementation.

OTHERS: MS Office, Adobe Products, Web Logic, Web sphere, SABLIME, PORTAL infranet, TIBCO RV

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NJ

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Complete Software Development Lifecycle Experience (SDLC) from Business Analysis to Development, Testing, Deployment and Production.
• Analysis the BRD and wrote Test Case according to the Business Scenario.
• Created, Updated and Reviewed of Test cases and Test Scenarios
• Reviewed Business requirements, IT Design documents and prepared Test Plans which involved various Test Cases for all assigned module/projects; Review Test Requirements, Creating Test Plans and Test Strategy documents.
• Attend walkthrough meeting with BA, and discuss about BRD for more clarification.
• Analyze business and system requirements and translate into test objectives.
• Participate in meetings with the users, system engineers and development team.
• Worked closely with BA, discuss the business scenario to resolve the issue.
• Wrote Test case In ALM with CDT (Context Driven Testing) approach.
• Involved in Functional, System, Integration and Regression testing.
• Attend daily Standup (SCRUM) call and giving the updates of daily work status.
• Involved in Sprint Grooming, Planning and Scoring (Story Points) meeting.
• Experience in Estimating the Story Points in JIRA ticket and worked effectively in 3 weeks of Sprint.
• Identified the defects in the same Sprint and assigned to the Respective “Developer”, retested successfully once it’s fixed.
• Wrote Structure Query Language (SQL) queries to check proper data population in application table and for data verification to perform Backend Testing against Oracle Database.
• Prepared meeting notes on daily execution/highlight of the project and send out the reports to managements.
• Interact with Developers and Business Analysts to perform various types of testing throughout Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Bug Life Cycle (BLC).
• Performed “Integration Testing” with the combination of 3 to 4 Sprint tickets.
• Provide the Integration testing status report to the entire team with Product Owner.
• Presented the Demo to “UAT team” for the Sprint work done in QA cycle.
• Tested the Config data for year basis of “Cluster, Region, Product, Sub Product, and Assessment Unit, User, and Role permission.
• Identified the “Production issue” and prioritized by the “Product owner”.
• Create Test Plans, Use Cases and Test cases.
• Wrote Test case In ALM with CDT (Context Driven Testing) approach.
• Involved in migration process of QC to ALM. And ALM to Rally.
• Very adept working in fast paced and multi-task various projects at the same time.
• Validated in different Reports from CRA and Tableau reports.
• Extensively worked in production to validate the production data in the different system.
• Validate the different system Uploader and connector in Smoke testing and validate the system in functional testing.
• Extensive knowledge of configure the JIRA board for our project specification.
• Good knowledge of using the current SPRINT board and release KANBAN board
• Excellent team player to grasps all the team build activities.
• Good knowledge in handle Production issues during release.
• Daily attend Defect Status meeting with developer and BA to validate the TC and Reassign the Defect to developer.
• Maintain Good Rapport with Vendors to resolve all the Defects.
• Daily update and managed Offshore team

Environment: Angular JS, SQL-Server Management Studio, GIT-Repository, NOLIO, Service Now, JAVA Developer IDE, JIRA, HP ALM.

Confidential, NY

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in testing of several projects for Stride OMS (Equities, Options, and Bonds) and EM (IoI’s, Alerts, Advertisements’ to Autex or Bloomberg.
• Created and executed detailed function test scripts based on the business requirements.
• Participate in meetings with the users, system engineers and development team.
• Analyze business and system requirements and translate into test objectives.
• Testing involves various OMS's, Options Trading Systems, Fixed Income and Equities Trading
• Successfully lead and managed several QA projects right from Requirements gathering, Planning, Execution and UAT.
• Executed Smoke and Regression testing using QTP Automation test scripts for all releases.
• Evaluation of feasibility and environment stability of the targeted test cases for automation
• Analysis of targeted manual test cases (Execution of manual test cases, Identification of input & output parameters, check points)
• Design and develop the process for automation framework and standards.
• Preparation of Test Data Specifications.
• Maintained different libraries as per the functional area in QTP.
• Developed scripts for Data Driven Testing, Cross Browser Testing, and Functional Testing using QTP.
• Facilitate group meetings and coordinate with other teams for successful completion of the projects.
• Extensive testing experience with Order Management System (OMS), trading systems for different exchanges - NYSE, Nasdaq, AMEX,.
• Analyzed the FIX Message Log files which involve verifying the tags on the outgoing and incoming FIX Messages.
• Extensively used SQL for data integrity / backend testing.
• Involved in integration testing which involved front office, middle office and back (settlement) office components.
• Extensively used FIX Aegis client simulator to send equity and option orders and validate the order transactions
• Involved in testing of OMS for stocks, Options order routing to different trading systems based upon rules.
• Used extensive UNIX commands, XML, Perl Scripts for logs analysis and server testing.
• Experience in testing desktop GUI OMS Applications.
• Wrote and executed SQL scripts to Verify and Validate the Data
• Tracking and closing the defects on automated scripts using Quality Center.
• Very adept working in fast paced and multi-task various projects at the same time.

Environment: UNIX, SQL, Java, .NET, FIX, Sybase, Quality Center, Web Logic, Tomcat / Apache, Web Objects, J2EE, IBM Web sphere, XML.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Complete Software Development Lifecycle Experience (SDLC) from Business Analysis to Development, Testing, Deployment and Documentation.
• Create Test Plans, Use Cases and Test cases.
• Involved in testing of different projects like Equities Trading System, Fixed Income Trading System, Options, PE5, Auto Enroll- Auto Save and CDI upgrade Projects.
• Involved in manual and automated testing of various projects including FIX applications using FIX Protocol.
• Tested Gateways connecting to different exchanges using a trading application which involved through usage of FIX technology.
• Also involved in automating functional and regression test cases using QTP.
• Preparation of Test Data Specifications
• Maintained different libraries as per the functional area
• Extensively used automation frame work, Descriptive Programming, Parameterization, reusable actions etc in QTP.
• Usage of FIX protocol to verify communication between gateway and exchange and checking FIX tags.
• Used various contract types to route the orders from an exchange like Futures, Strategies, Spreads and Options.
• Involved in GUI (functional testing) of Java and .NET applications.
• Coordinate user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Involved in Functional, System, Integration and Regression testing.
• Manually executed test cases and reported defects using Quality Center.
• Extensively used UNIX commands for checking the log files and updating the defects with the log files for the backend database testing.
• Accessed data from SQL Server database using several SQL scripts for backend testing.
• Work closely with development team and Project management to validate the functionality and defects for each new release of the project
• Extensively used XML for web services testing.

Environment: UNIX, SQL, Java, .NET, SIEBEL, FIX, SQL Server, QTP, Quality Center, Load Runner, Web Logic, Tomcat / Apache, Web Objects, J2EE, XML.

Confidential, NYC

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Review Business Requirement Documents and the Technical Specifications.
• Manage and lead the portal migration effort for JAVA to .NET.
• Performed Data-migration testing from Portal Infranet upgrade for Sirius GUI applications like STARSS and CUWI developed in JAVA, ASP and .NET.
• Involved in writing of extensive SQL queries for data migration testing for Portal infranet on UNIX platform. Front end used is TOAD.
• Involved in writing several SQL queries on Oracle database to validate the customer information on Portal.
• Involved in Functional, Integration and Regression testing of Confidential Package Pricing and Ala Carte applications both by manual and automated means.
• Extensively Involved in Automation of Confidential web applications using Quick Test Pro (QTP) for regression testing.
• Extensively used Descriptive Programming, check points, object repositories, Reusable Actions (Functions) and reporting Functionalities in QTP (Quick Test Pro) for automation of Confidential web Applications.
• Involved with testing of SMS billing System, including requesting and receiving payments. Validate all log files and invoices after running billing.
• Worked extensively with Team Tracker, used for defect tracking and documenting test cases.
• Also extensively used UNIX commands for checking the CM (Portal Infranet) logs, wrote and executed shell scripts as part of backend testing.
• Involved with testing of new releases, maintenance releases and back merge releases of Confidential applications.
• Also involved with testing of web services, the external elements which interact with Confidential applications like IVR, TRUITION and OEM thru XML requests.
• Developed test cases and scripts in Load Runner for Load, Performance and Stress testing of the application by creating Virtual Users for different Confidential web applications .
• Created Virtual Users using Load Runner to measure response time, traffic etc.
• Done Performance Testing Using Load Runner to checking the system behavior under typical user loads.
• Recorded and Enhanced vuser scripts in Load Runner by inserting transaction points, Rendezvous points, Parameterization and correlation.
• Stressed web servers for performance testing using Load Runner’s Virtual user generator scripts.
• Involved in the emulation of real user behavior by creating Vuser scripts apart from the GUI scripts in Load Runner.
• Successfully identified bottlenecks and functionality issues with the application when running under load
• Created Reports/Graphs using Load Runner analysis tools.
• Participate in weekly meetings with Development and Project management team.
• Tested credit card processing, including a live connection to the credit card processor (payment Tech).

Environment: UNIX, SQL, Java, .NET, ASP, TOAD, ORACLE, QTP, Web Logic, J2EE, Load Runner, XML.