SUMMARY:

• 15 years of IT experience as Quality Assurance & Business Analyst in Banking and Finance domain. QA experience both in Management and ‘hands - on’ level, with a proven/track record of delivery, strong strategic vision and ability to inspire/mentor teams.
• Good exposure and knowledge in test delivery management, estimation, planning and scheduling tasks and testing methodologies. Experience in setting up and managing offshore teams and establish processes for effective executions.
• Domain Expertise in Investment Banking - Clearance settlement, Collateral Management, Triparty Repo, Prime Brokerage business.
• Expertise in managing and executing different types of QA testing including Functional, Integration testing, Regression testing, System Testing, Database, ETL & BI report testing, Batch testing, Swift message testing, Accessibility testing and Acceptance testing for Web and Mainframe applications.
• Experience in creating Test Plan, define Test Strategy and ensure complete test coverage
• Experience in Different Software development methodologies like Waterfall & Agile Software Development process.
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle, Software Test Life Cycle and Defect Life Cycle.
• Knowledge of JAVA and Selenium Web driver.
• Outstanding ability to interact with all levels of management, cross-functional business end-users and peers. Strong ability to forge solid working relationships with developers, project managers, subject matter experts (SME), stakeholders and application end-users.
• Experience in UNIX & SQL.
• Experience of managing Migration/Technology upgrade project, Migrating OS from UNIX to Linux, Upgrade of Oracle DB from 10g to 11g, WebSphere upgrade, Java version upgrade, Aix UNIX version upgrade, Oracle Form & Reports version upgrade.
• Self-starter and ability to learn new things in a quick span of time.
• Strong analytical and planning skills.
• Excellent Oral, Written, Interpersonal and Communication skills.
• Successful Test Program delivery despite critical risks and stringent timelines.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• S/W development life cycle methodologies
• Requirements, functional specifications, gap analysis and Estimation.
• Test Management, Test Strategy and Planning
• Risk analysis, Defect Management, Status reporting
• Functional, Automated, Regression, DB, Acceptance, ETL, Batch, Accessibility testing
• Agile, Waterfall methodologies
• Exposure to Performance Testing
• Languages - J2EE, SQL
• Databases - Oracle.
• Test/Defect Management Tools - ALM, JIRA, and Bugitt.
• Automation testing using QTP, Reflections.
• Scripting: Shell scripting.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NY

Sr. QA/ QA Lead

Tools: /Software: MS Project, MS Visio, MS Excel, ALM, JIRA, SQL, UNIX, Linux, Reflections, Win SCP, Putty, Macro, Java, Selenium.

Responsibilities:

• As Sr. QA/QA lead at JP Morgan, I was responsible for leading the QA activities for the Trade Manager Re-engineering project.
• Requirement and Gap analysis.
• Create Estimation, test plan, test strategy documents.
• Participated in Scrum meetings and provided inputs/status from QA stand point.
• Developing manual test scenarios and documenting test cases in Jira.
• Executing Functional, Regression, Accessibility, DB testing in test environments.
• Interact with the Business Analyst & Product Owner to understand impact of the change and ensure testing activities progress as per agreed plans. Also developed resolutions to risks proactively.
• Used SQL queries to extract data from Oracle databases.
• Coordinating with multiple project teams to perform integration and end to end testing.
• Identifying project risks and plan to mitigate the identified risks.
• Drive defect triage with AD/Business teams and ensure defects are being prioritized for resolution based on defect severity/priority and track them to closure.
• Support UAT testing: Track UAT defects, data load in UAT environment for testing, track UA test progress.

Confidential

Sr. QA/ QA lead

Tools: /Software: MS Project, MS Visio, MS Excel, ALM, SQL, UNIX, Linux, Reflections, Win SCP, Putty, Macro, QTP.

Responsibilities:

• As Sr. QA/QA lead at JP Morgan, I was responsible for leading Test Delivery for GCF Phase 1, Phase 2 and Phase 3 changes, Rolling Settlement for Tri-Party, FATCA, and Risk Based Margin projects.
• Monitor and review critical aspects of for GCF Phase 1, Phase 2 and Phase 3 changes, Rolling Settlement for Tri-Party, FATCA, and Risk Based Margin projects.
• Requirement and Gap analysis.
• Create Estimation, test plan, test strategy documents.
• Participated in Scrum meetings and provided inputs/status from QA stand point.
• Preparing regression packs for all Confidential projects.
• Communication & Risk Management: Scheduled meetings with the client Program Managers and other stakeholders on a regular basis to disseminate the status of the projects and ensure that any risks currently in place or forecasted are discussed and mitigation plans agreed upon.
• Functional, Regression, ETL, Database, Batch, Swift Message Testing, Automation, Performance, Volume testing in test environment.
• Automation testing using Reflection.
• ETL testing for MIS system Datawarehouse for Broker Dealer group.
• Ensuring the delivery of the testing artifacts like Estimations, Test Strategy, Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Logs, and Defect Logs etc. to the relevant level within client team structure and ensuring timely review / sign-off of the deliverables.
• Ensure prompt tracking and reporting of project and testing activities including daily status reports, weekly status reports, monthly dashboards, testing results, test case coverage, defects discovered and their status.
• Support UAT for all the projects.
• UAT/Production Verification testing: Track UAT/Prod issues and follow up for issue resolution.

Confidential

Sr. QA

Tools: /Software: MS Project, MS Visio, MS Excel, ALM, SQL, UNIX, Linux, Win SCP, Putty, Macro.

Responsibilities:

• As Sr. QA at JP Morgan, I was responsible for leading QA activities for the Confidential upgrade project.
• Requirement and Gap analysis.
• Interact with the client to understand impact of the change and ensure testing activities progress as per agreed plans. Also developed resolutions to risks proactively.
• Create Estimation, test plan, test strategy documents.
• Identifying project risks and plan to mitigate the identified risks.
• Prepare environment readiness check list. Follow up for environment (SIT/QA/UAT/PROD) readiness.
• Ensure delivery of test scenarios, test cases, test data, test execution logs and defects logs.
• Validate all environments once available for testing.
• Functional, Regression, ETL, Database, Data load, Automation, Performance, Volume testing in QA/UAT AND PROD environments.
• Schedule daily/weekly status meeting with Client PM and all stake holders to update the current status of project and ensure that all risks are highlighted.
• Schedule defect meeting with PM and AD team and ensure defects are being prioritized for resolution based on defect severity/priority.
• UAT/Production Verification testing: Track UAT/Prod issues and follow up for issue resolution.

Confidential

Sr. QA

Tools: /Software: MS Project, MS Visio, MS Excel, SQL, Toad, UNIX, Reflections, Putty, QC

Responsibilities:

• As Sr. QA/QA lead at JP Morgan, I was responsible for leading QA for Confidential project.
• Understand project requirements by reviewing of BRD and FSD documents for the project.
• Requirement and Gap analysis.
• Create test plan, test strategy describing the methods, techniques and tools used for testing and ensuring that plan meets business requirements, goals and addresses all the risks.
• Prepare Project schedule & effort estimation.
• Determine test data requirements and prepare test data set up for all environments.
• Build and review test cases according to established Test Case Development Standards in Quality Center (QC) tool.
• Verify the build deployed in the required test environment and perform sanity test.
• Perform Functional/Regression testing for all applications/modules.
• Verify Batch jobs functionality- evaluating batch job status, verify logs and querying database to validate the data loaded in database.
• Defect triage call with project teams/stake holders/customers.
• Organize the status meetings and send the Status Report (Daily, Weekly etc.) to all project stake holders.
• Coordinate with offshore team members for all testing activities. Review all deliverables to ensure the quality of deliverables.
• Create QA metrics like Effort Variance, schedule variance, productivity, defect density etc. to measure efficiency & effectiveness of testing.
• Report task progress - daily status, weekly and monthly status reporting.
• Support UAT testing: Track UAT defects, data load in UAT environment for testing, track UA test progress.

Confidential

QA Lead

Tools: MS Excel, QC, TOAD, Putty, QC

Responsibilities:

• As QA lead at JP Morgan, I was responsible for leading QA activities for PCWS project
• Requirement analysis for all change requests.
• Create Test plan and estimation.
• Identifying testing risk areas and devising mitigation plans
• Identify test scenarios, Create requirement traceability matrix, test case design, reviewing test cases and test data creation.
• Test case execution (Functional testing, Regression testing, Smoke testing, Acceptance testing).
• Test Status Reporting, Defect Reporting, Defect Tracking.
• Create test data.
• Support UAT/Prod testing: Track UAT/Prod issues and follow up for issue resolution.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Tools: MS Project, MS Visio, MS Excel, QC, TOAD, Putty, Oracle Forms & Oracle Reports

Responsibilities:

• As Business Analyst for Confidential project, I was responsible to discuss with Business the changes required in functionality for each application in Confidential platform.
• Prepare the Scope document and detailed business requirement for each application in scope for migration.
• Review the Scope and Business requirement with all stake holders (Business, AD, PS and QA).
• Follow up and get the sign off on scope and business requirements

Confidential

QA Lead

Tools: MS Project, MS VisioMS Excel, QC, QTP, TOAD, Putty, Oracle Forms & Oracle Reports, Autosys, Macro.

Responsibilities:

• As QA lead at JP Morgan, I was responsible for leading all QA activities for the Confidential project.
• Requirement and Gap analysis.
• Identify the impact of the change/upgrade and finalize the testing approach for the project.
• Prepare environment readiness check list. Follow up for environment (SIT/QA/UAT/PROD) readiness.
• Create test plan, test strategy documents, test estimation and identify project risks.
• Create/Identify scenarios, test cases and test data, also review the test cases.
• Functional, Regression, Database, Data load, Automation, Performance, Volume testing and sanity testing in QA/UAT AND PROD environments.
• Prepare daily/weekly status reports for all stake holders.
• Defect Management and Tracking
• Drive status and defect calls with all project stake holders.
• Support UAT/Prod testing: Track UAT/Prod issues and follow up for issue resolution.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Tools: MS Excel, QC, TOAD, Putty, Oracle Forms & Oracle Reports

Responsibilities:

• As QA Analyst at JP Morgan, I was responsible for Requirement analysis, Create Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test scenarios, Test cases and RTM
• Test execution - Functional testing, Regression testing, Sanity, DB and Acceptance testing
• Test case walkthrough to SME’s.
• Application walkthrough to SME’s and UAT team.
• Create and load test data in test environment.
• Defect Tracking and Reporting to all stake holders.
• Reporting to top Management on the Progress, Publish Management reports on daily/weekly/monthly basis.
• QA/UA environment management.
• Automation testing using QTP.