SUMMARY:

Analytical and detail - focused Testing and QA professional with more than 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 the 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 PROFICIENCIES:

QA Testing: QTP 6.5& 9.5, UFT, Selenium Webdriver, Appium, Junit, TestNG, Cucumber, Jenkins, Soap UI, REST, HP Quality Center 10.0, HP ALM, RUMBA/Mainframe, TSO/ISPF, Gomez, On Time, Jira, TOAD, MQ explorer, Payplus/Swift, FDR ISO messages, Lexcel/FDR simulator, Eclipse

Languages / Development: Java, VBScript, JavaScript, HTML, MQ Series, XML, Python, Ruby, Gherkin, COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, UNIX, AIX, Linux, Microsoft Azure Cloud Environment, Hadoop Cluster, HUE(Hive/Impala), Trifacta Enterprise Wrangler, Microsoft Power BI Pro

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

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Wayne, NJ

Big Data test lead

Technical Scope: Microsoft Azure Cloud Environment, Hadoop Cluster (Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub), Trifacta Enterprise Wrangler, Microsoft Power BI Pro, HUE(Hive/Impala), Mysql, HP ALM, Agile/Scrum.

Responsibilities:

• The overall test approach for the Enterprise Data Hub(EDH) environment will in corporate traditional Extract-Transform-Load(ETL) testing principles, such as data quality and completeness, along with dashboard validation.
• ETL principles will support test execution coverage on the different data layers to validate the data wrangling recipes that are created on each layer.
• Dashboard testing will verify and validate requirements and specifications completeness.
• Data lineage and traceability verification and validation from ingestion to the dashboards along with monitoring across the different business layers.

Confidential, New York, NY

Test Lead

Technical Scope: Mainframe TSO/ISPF, CICS, ISO messages, Lexcel/FDR simulator, HP ALM, Selenium, Junit, TestNG framework, Jenkins, Cucumber, Gherkin, Ruby, BDD, Agile/Scrum.

Responsibilities:

• Testing master card payment authorization, full, partial reversals, adjustments and settlement transactions using ISO messages processed through Lexcel/FDR scripts.
• Payment feeds such as amount, card number, merchant location, MCC codes are sent to Lexcel/FDR simulator and the tool in turn process the input and send the output to corresponding mainframe RUMBA applications such as TLR memo post, PCCS card activity, SMD payment systems.
• Merchant will get paid upon submitting the settlement transactions for the relevant banknet id irrespective of the holdover periods. Payments sent to merchant will be verified in web Ammo screens.
• Automation testing performed for web Ammo screens using Selenium Web driver and TestNG framework. Integration with other application tested using Cucumber BDD framework.
• Multiple holdover periods, extended holdover authorizations and multiple settlement transactions test scenarios were written in Cucumber Ruby feature file and executed.
• Full and partial reversal transactions are tested to make sure funds are not released from the card holder and dropped from TLR memo post on the same day before night batch runs.
• Adjustment transactions are tested to make sure customer get credit to their account.

Confidential, New York, NY

Test Lead,

Technical Scope: IBM DB2 Client V10.0, AIX, Linux, JIRA, XML, Swift/Payplus messages, FX core trading, Selenium Web driver, Python, Appium, Agile/Scrum.

Responsibilities:

• FX trade life cycle testing flow.
• 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 the ISO 20022 Universal financial industry message standards.
• Verify payment processing such as payin and payout validation, payout acknowledgement 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.
• Native and hybrid mobile and web applications tested for trade input screens using Appium, Selenium Web driver bindings.
• Test scripts written using Python containing Selenium client library.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior QA Lead, .

Technical Scope: HP Quality Center 10.0, SharePoint, SSIS/SQL Server Client 2008, Scrum Tool, UFT, JavaScript, Apache Tomcat, WSDL web services, XML, SOAP, REST.

Responsibilities:

• Successfully identified risks, potential breakdown points, and other factors to eliminate future failover.
• Collaborated with configuration, integration and business teams to understand the business processes to define testing scope.
• Maintaining existing ETL processes to support week and month end data processing across systems based on relational and dimensional database modeling.
• Tested WSDL Web services using SOAP, REST UIs for NYDOE student enrollment and registration screens.
• Automation testing performed using UFT tool.
• Validated client side UI screens using Javascript.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior QA Lead,

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

Responsibilities:

• Successfully tested and implemented all business functions of multiple account creation scenarios and portfolio details including IVR speech reorganization from third-party vendor into client- and field-facing IVR routing VDN tables.
• Collaborated with project stakeholders and subject matter experts to elicit business requirements; formally documented requirements and translated them into functional and technical test 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 with development standards.
• Researched and evaluated alternative solutions; recommended most efficient, cost effective option to senior management for use in case of production failover.
• Using SOAP UI web services testing performed.
• 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, VBScript.

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with 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 future production failure and optimize maintenance efficiency.
• Partnered with 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 with Development and Business Services group and provided project team with defect status reports daily.

Confidential, Pine Brook, NJ

QA Analyst

Technical Scope: TestDirector 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 with 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, Cincinnati, OH

Java Developer,

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

Responsibilities:

• Identified business requirements and methodologies for new and existing applications; created unit test plan for hardware and software components based on input collected from GE’s external sources.
• Provided L2/L3 application release and operation support.
• Developed algorithm for LDAP and Single Sign On (SSO) Site Minder authentication.
• Scheduled and monitored remote diagnostics using Shell script.