SUMMARY:

• Over 6 years of Software Quality Assurance experience in banking and financial institutions
• Strong knowledge of Capital Markets, Financial Products such as Equities, ETF, Fixed Income and Derivatives
• Proficient in working Agile and Waterfall methodologies
• Manual QA Specialist with exposure to automation tools such as UFT/QTP
• Strong experience in System Development Life Cycle ( SDLC ) and Software Testing Life Cycle ( STLC ).
• Expert in Functional, System, Integration, FIX - messages, End to End, Back-End, UAT, Performance/Volume and Regression testing
• Experienced in writing Test Plans , Test Scenarios , Test Cases and Test Analysis Reports on the basis of product release features, client's requirements and related technical documents
• Experienced in developing and reviewing Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)
• Solid knowledge of logging defects, prioritize them, retest fixed defects and track them till closure using Bug tracking tools like HP ALM , JIRA and Bugzilla
• Participated in root cause analysis meetings to avoid future occurrences of similar defects
• Used Excel functions VLOOKUP , Filtering and other statements for data cleansing, data matching, data converting and calculation of yield and spread
• Using SQL complex queries to perform Back-End Testing
• Using Unix performed extraction of FIX Logs ; analyzing and benchmarking them with the data inputted at the front end and database
• Hand on experience of testing an ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) process
• Experienced in testing Electronic Trading Platform
• Full Understanding of Theoretical Value and Option Greeks (Delta, Theta, Gamma, Vega)
• Experienced in testing Trade Life Cycle, Order Management Systems (OMS) and FIX Protocols
• Used VeriFIX for performing End-to-End testing
• Worked closely with business analysts, project managers and developers to ensure business requirements are clear and adequately followed
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, adapting testing efforts to meet project needs and deadlines.
• Excellent communication and social skills, good attention to details and work well in a team environment.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NJ

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Analyzing and executing Product Backlog Items for each Sprint.
• Performed various type of Testing for testing functionality and UI of the application
• Gathered and analyzed user/business requirements and developed System test plans.
• Analyze, created and defined test cases for Product Backlog Items (PBI) assigned to me.
• The test cases represented both positive and negative testing of real-life and hypothetical business scenarios.
• Developed and reviewed Test Strategy, Test Plans and Test Cases using MS-Excel , Visual Studio and Team Foundation System ( TFS ) to test the business functionality.
• Validated Ad Hoc Reports to assure correct data is getting generated.
• Participated in QA Meetings with on Shore as well as off shore team to explain requirements and distribution of Product backlog Items (PBI ) to improve testing process.
• Check the logs to look at the fix messages and drop copy messages to trouble shoot the issue.
• Performed Import/Export testing to assure integration between templates and the application.
• Compared Executed Allocation Report with Allocation logs and Database
• Worked closely with QA Automation team members to help create/ automate respective test cases.
• Created data and executed Baseline Allocation using In house build tool for Performance, load testing .
• Involved in writing SQL queries for Backend Testing and to verify the database updates, inserts and deletions etc., of the records, and validate them.
• Used Selenium to run automated test script for Regression Testing.
• Worked closely with Development team to identify bugs and followed up for their fixation
• Interact with development team for new functionality and review defects
• Attended review meetings and walkthroughs to discuss the status of the project

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing Business Requirements Documents and Identify documents required for System and Functional Testing efforts for all test scenarios
• Participating in designing and maintaining test plan using business requirements documents and other supporting documents provided by business analysts
• Involve in full Software Development Life Cycle ( SDLC ) using Agile model with Equities and Options
• Drafting test artifacts, including Test Plans, Test Scenarios Test Case and Requirements Traceability Matrices
• Create, write, execute, and maintain manual and automated test cases for electronic trading
• Demonstrate effective bug and defect tracking and reporting mechanism, using JIRA
• Performed automated testing using HP UFT
• Working closely with Automated team to select which test case should be automated
• Participating in root cause analysis for defects and provided process improvement suggestions to eliminate future occurrences of similar defects
• Perform end to end testing going through Trade Life cycle (TLC)
• Conduct Theoretical Value Testing using in house built application
• Often use SQL’s statements such as Joins , Aggregation and Conditions for Backend testing purposes
• Using Linux Terminal to retrieve the FIX logs and compare them against TEST DATA
• Often using MS SQL server to retrieve data from database for back end testing
• Simultaneously managing tasks on multiple projects at the same time
• Working in a team environment as well as independently without frequent supervision
• Collaborate with stakeholders (business analysts, developers, product owners and others) to understand business requirements and stakeholders’ needs
• Attending management meetings representing QA team

Confidential

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities

• Prepared Test Strategy and Test Plan for multiple projects, which followed Agile methodology.
• Analyzed the Business Requirements Document and Functional Specifications Document to understand the new enhancement
• Detecting and identifying severity and priority of the Defects .
• Conducted Smoke (Sanity), GUI, Functional, End to end, Back End, UAT, Regression and System Testing of the software.
• Developed Test Cases and Test Plan from User Stories for system functional specification
• Interacted with Business Analyst and Dev-Team to understand business requirements and tracking bugs to deliver high quality product
• Logged detailed described defects and reported it to the development team using HP ALM
• Helped analyzing Root Cause Analysis of the bugs and suggested ways to eliminate further appearance of these defects.
• Participated in SCRUM-meetings to report the status of the product: progress and issues
• Performed Integration testing to verify the data interface between various application
• Test functionalities on devices and various browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari browser
• Attended review meetings and walkthroughs to discuss the status of the project

Confidential

JR/Mid QA Analyst

T Responsibilities:

• Was involved in writing Test Scenarios and Test Cases for the application after analyzing the Business Requirement documents and user stories
• Participated in preparing, reviewing and execution of Test Cases
• Performing Black box testing such as GUI , Functional , System , Regression , End to End, Integration and Backend
• Performed Backend Testing using SQL to retrieve the data from database
• Prepared Test Cases for Positive and Negative test scenarios for Functional testing.
• Performed Smoke/GUI testing and System testing to ensure successful launch of the project.
• Developed Requirement Traceability Matrix to assure all the requirements are covered by test cases
• Opened and tracked defects using Bugzilla
• Participated in Creation and Maintenance of TAR
• Used QTP automat tool for running written scripts by developers
• Interacted with development team regarding the new Functionality
• Attended meetings and walkthroughs to discuss the status of the project

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: Java, HTML/CSS and JavaScript, VB Script

Database: MS SQL Server, Oracle, My SQL

Testing Tools: VeriFIX , HP QTP (UFT), HP Quality Center (HP ALM)

Bug Tracking Tools: HP ALM/QC, JIRA, Bugzilla

Operating Systems : Windows, Unix/Linux, Mac OS

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall, V-Model