OBJECTIVE:

Aspire to take a challenging role in Business Analysis, Quality Assurance and provide creative and dynamic solutions that will help the organization to achieve its tactical & strategic goals.

PROFILE SUMMARY:

• A Quality Assurance professional who will deliver projects with creative thinking, enthusiasm, commitment, strategic focus in line with the organizations goals and objective and years of solid experience in both Systems analysis and Quality Assurance specifically in the banking domain.
• Abhishek is a Banking and Financial Services (BFS) professional with close to 8 years of experience.
• Detail - oriented and skilled in the analysis, design of system applications and Quality Assurance, Requirements management, user acceptance testing, Change Management, Reporting, SQL, Data Management, Data Quality, Data Governance.
• Outstanding communication, presentation and facilitation skills.
• Adept at creating and coordinating extensive workshops & communication channels to keep key stakeholders and team members apprised of goals, project status, and resolving issues and conflicts
• Expertise and experienced in variety of Software Testing Life Cycle and Change management methodologies, and establish a customer-focused approach for each projects specific to the customer needs and objectives.
• Experience in Adhering to CMMi QA Process and preparing of documents as per the CMMi L5 process.
• Expertise in automated testing using Selenium Web Driver using C# and Visual studio Coded-UI.
• Experience of various Front office activities such as Portfolio Management, Modeling and Rebalancing, Trade life cycle, Overnight Loads, and post trade processes.
• Experience in working with third party data providers like State Street, Citi, Bloomberg and SMG.
• Managing Quality Assurance Activities, conducting estimates, test cases, and scenarios.
• Generating and providing reporting and status reports to facilitate project completion.
• Completing lifecycle testing, ensuring compliance with specifications and standards.
• Ability to write SQL queries and perform Database related testing.
• Expertise in all quality related documentation (test planning, requirement decomposition, test cases, test scripts, test data, Defect Reports, RCA and Test reports) and proficient in automated testing.
• 2.5 years of international (onsite) experience in Systems Analyst, Subject Matter Expert and On-site Test Lead (USA-New York and PA).

SKILL & EXPERTISE:

SME: Asset & Wealth Management, Capital Market products

Expertise: Front Office Trading, Regulatory Reporting

Knowledge on: Financial regulations, Accounting Systems.

Quality Assurance Process & Methodologies: ETL/DB Testing, Black Box, Functional, Integration, System, Regression, User Interface and Database Testing

QA Tools: Selenium C#.Net

PM Process & Methodologies: Agile, WaterFall

PM Tools: MS Project, JIRA, HP Quality Center

Technology: Visual Studio C#.Net & Microsoft SQL.

Regulatory Filtering: MiFID-I/II, LCDB

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

IT Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Perform the Quality Assurance on various Investment Reporting packages diversified across the various asset classes.
• Performing the requirement gathering sessions with the stake holders.
• Analyze and report the data discrepencies on the reports.
• Fixing the cosmetic bugs in BIRST tool.
• Preparing the test summary report
• Plan, Monitor and Control testing procedures

Confidential

Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Defining demand and change management processes & approach.
• Execute QA processes and maintain an exceptional the level of quality, efficiency, and effectiveness in the deliverables of each product sprint
• Participate in the design and development of a common, scalable, reusable, easy-to-maintain, and effective testing platform and execution framework.
• Perform all aspects of quality assurance during the sprint cycles
• Design and create automated test scripts and scenarios using Selenium and C#.
• Captured business processes, gathered and documented business requirements and produced technical specifications; translating effectively the business needs into what the technical team required to implement
• Requirements management Horizontal lead for FMS taking care of the HP ALM tools administration, process governance, requirements stream process reporting and providing guidelines to other solution requirements verticals and horizontals.
• Change Analytics steam vertical PM driving the changes. The object of CA is to make a sound strategic change investment decision optimizing the investment portfolio and managing the demand capacity balance.
• Managed a team of 6 resources including externals.

Confidential

Quality Assurance Engineer / Subject Matter Expert - IT

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with business partners, IT team leads, project leads, business analysts, end users and third-party contacts to design, plan, execute, and validate test scenarios, scripts, or procedures to test system modifications and receive business user acceptance prior to implementation.
• Participate in product design reviews, providing input on functional requirements, product design, schedules, or potential risks and Identify, analyze, and document problems with program function, output, online screen or content.
• Review software documentation to ensure technical accuracy, compliance, or completeness, or to mitigate risks.
• Plan test schedules or strategies in accordance with project scope or delivery dates programs that address areas such as database impacts, software scenarios, regression testing, negative testing, error or bug retests, or usability.
• Demo the Production Ready Deliverables to stake holders for their approval and to maintain transparency.
• Document software defects, using a bug tracking system, and report defects to software developers and project, managers or leads, Monitor bug resolution efforts and track successes.
• Investigate customer problems referred by technical support.
• Manage resource Planning, Test Planning, Reviews of offshore work, daily Deliverables, mentor and train the resources.
• Document test procedures to ensure replicability and compliance with standards.
• Documentation of process improvements regarding best practices regarding test automation.
• Testing high volume trade generation and order booking for a High Volume and Algo trading for Systematic Marketing Group (SMG) which majorly included portfolio swaps and futures. Conducted stress testing for the application and automated the functional test cases.
• Extensive testing for Swaps products - equity portfolio swaps and excess return, from order generation, execution over fix/ manual booking, creating swap defaults and post trade settlement.
• Successfully implemented Confidential proprietary tool ADPART which is an Automated Test Scenario, test prioritization, Optimization and Test Case Generation by embedding critical Model business flows.
• Managed requirements prioritization and traceability
• Provided adequate support and KT to the technical team and testing team.
• Creating test scenarios and detailed UAT test cases
• Coordinate user, Down Stream and third party testing.

Quality Analyst

Confidential, New York

Responsibilities:

• Collect & elicit business requirements from plan accountants and defining scope with stakeholders.
• Involved in Scenario preparation and Test case preparation.
• Bug Reporting on QC.
• Preparing the test summary report
• Execute testing procedures
• Write manual tests with a view to automation
• Learn the automation tools in use