Qa Lead Resume
Jersey City, NJ
SUMMARY:
- Around 17 years of diversified experience in Information Technology
- Around 11 yrs of extensive banking and financial services experience as IT Business/Data Analyst
- Around 14 yrs in Quality Assurance
- Around 8 years of diversified experience in Software Development
- Around 9 years of experience of working with offshore teams.
- Around 11 yrs in Financial Industry
- Knowledge of Python development
- Worked in UNIX platform
- Around 9 Yrs in ETL and 15 yrs in SDLC methodology
- Effectively define and utilize metrics and reports to manage QA efforts
- Providing effort estimates for project schedules for QA team
- Providing leadership, performance feedback, mentoring, career development to team members
- Review test estimates/schedules for completeness and accuracy and work with Project Management to align expectations on schedules
- Balance resources the need for multiple concurrent projects
- Build cross - team alignment around quality objectives and the steps to achieve them
- Manage to completion concurrent ad hoc and project related test requests
- Experience in testing applications manually as well as using the automated testing tools like ALM, Jira
FINANCIAL KNOWLEDGE:
Trade life cycle/event, Derivatives, Equities, FX Spots & Forwards, Fixed Income Instruments, Money Market Instruments, Mutual Funds, Regulatory Reporting, Collateral Management, Market data feeds, Post-trade processing, Reference data
DETAILS ON EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, Jersey City, NJ
QA Lead
Responsibilities:
- Testing data from upstream system Carbon, Neon, Mercury in Quartz platform using Sandra DB
- Validating Data at Pledge Processing
- Validating Data at downstream system Musketeer, BTM, Intrader, Impact etc
- Validating SWIFT data
- Manual and Automated testing of Collateral pledge processing done using QZFit
- Automated OTCBI - RQV workflow using Python
Confidential, North Brunswick, NJ
QA Regulation
Responsibilities:
- Interact with project stake holders, conduct analysis and document testing scope, functions, capabilities
- Manage test schedules, track and monitor distribution of work & effectively communicate test progress
- Ensure successfully supporting the needs of the business community
- Experience in presenting the test status. Metrics, Risks, Mitigation and improvement plans to stake holders
- Implementing procedures and standards to ensure continuous use of best practices
- Provided regular status reporting to management teams on test processes and QA activities (coverage, quality metrics and improvements
- Writing complex SQL queries for searching and reconciling data for end to end testing
- Used Unix scripts and Autosys jobs to process the trades
- Extensively used XML and STV files
- Used data from Calypso, Fidessa, Bloomberg and other front office trading application
- Creating Project Plans for QA, Test Strategy, Test Plan and writing test cases
Confidential, Jersy City, NJ
Sr. QA Lead
Responsibilities:
- Identify and mitigate project and/or test risks with escalation/delegation of issues to appropriate members of the project team
- Participate in all phases of the project life cycle e.g. requirements review/analysis, test planning, test execution, and test reporting and assessment.
- Drive best practice, quality standards, operating efficiencies, and process and product improvements in the range of products
- Review the test artifacts and support team in delivery
- Liaise with project stakeholders on daily/weekly basis
- Track, investigate and resolve any issues during the project execution.
- Wrote complex SQL queries for reconciling data
- Worked in Autosys, Tibco, Informatica ETL process testing
- Coordinating and working in a Production support team
- Creating Project Plans for QA, Test Strategy, Test Plan
- Perform Business analysis in order to support Market Risk reconciliation processing between Front Office and Back office
Confidential, Manhattan, NY
Project Test/QA Lead
Responsibilities:
- Complex SQL queries for reconciling data
- Trade analysis using MS Access
- Coordinating and working in a Production support team
- Worked in Autosys, Tibco, Informatica ETL process testing
- Creating Project Plans for QA, Test Strategy, Test Plan
- Perform Business analysis in order to support Market Risk reconciliation processing between Front Office and Back office
Busuness Analyst
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Work with Business users to clarify business requirements and project objectives for the Central Funding desk for the following asset classes:
- Interest Rate SWAPs
- FX Forwards
- Equity Derivatives
- Commodity Derivatives
- Credit Default SWAPs
- Design processes to reconcile Risk data from various trading systems with accounting/sub ledger data
- Gather and documents requirements and business rules in order to provide technology group with clear and specific functional requirements
- Work with business and technology partners to increase the data quality for reconciliation
- Analyze Front Office/Risk and Back Office Accounting/Sub Ledger data to create new or enhance existing reconciliation processes
- Work closely with developer and QA/DVA resources to ensure that project is developed, tested, and deployed to Production in a timely and accurate matter
- Provide walk through sessions to business users to introduce any new process or enhancement of existing ones in order to obtain sign off on the requirements
- Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Create Procedure Documents, Functional Requirement Documents, Data and Process flow diagrams
- Provide ongoing analytical support
Confidential
Project Test/QA Manager
Responsibilities:
- Coordinating with Claims and Premium Stake holders
- ETL using Ab Initio - Data Reconciliations of Premium and Claim
- Complex SQL queries for reconciling data - Source, Warehouse and Datamart
- Analysis of data between Cognos and Terradata databse
- Interacting with Technical, Business and Project Management Team
- Coordinating with the development and Business analysis team.
- Worked on data warehouse, business functionality data quality performance
- Data Load: Parameters setting Validation, Initial Data Load
- Created and executed Test Cases, added Requirements, created traceability matrix in ALM/Quality Center
- Created Metrics for managing the projects and reporting to higher management
- Created Traceability Metrics for tracking requirement
- Design and implement SDLC policy and procedures
Confidential, Manhattan, NY
Project Test/QA Manager
Responsibilities:
- Coordinating with Risk Managers across the globe
- Worked on data warehouse, ETL using Informatica
- ETL - Data Reconciliations of Credit and Market Risk
- Analyzing data using Excel Pivot table
- Worked on data warehouse, business functionality data quality performance
- Data Load: Parameters setting Validation, Initial Data Load
- Worked on Web Service Mocking to simulate the functionality of a Web Service in SoapUI
- E2E Business - UI and Interface Testing, Maintenance Data Feeds - Regression
- Slicing and dicing of data using OLAP cube
- Testing equity feeds develop strong metrics based reporting for the following asset classes
- Creating Project Plans for QA, Test Strategy, Test Plan
- Created Metrics for managing the projects and reporting to higher management
- Created Traceability Metrics for tracking requirement
- Work closely with team to ensure all deliverables are prioritized & executed to meet project plans
- Creating process and templates for project plans, test strategy for TCOE
Confidential, Hopewell, NJ
Project Test/QA Manager
Responsibilities:
- Coordinating with Client Project managers and Stake holders
- Created and executed Test Cases, added Requirements, created traceability matrix in Quality Center
- Coordinating with the development team.
- Creating Process and Methodology for Testing team
- Mange test cycles and develop strong metrics based reporting
- Creating Project Plans for QA, Test Strategy, Test Plan
- Created Metrics for managing the projects and reporting to higher management
- Created Traceability Metrics for tracking requirement
- Work closely with team to ensure all deliverables are prioritized & executed to meet project plans, tracking defect in Jira
- Worked on data warehouse, data conditioning, data mining and performed different level of testing in ETL running the automation scripts.
- Worked on Web Service Mocking to simulate the functionality of a Web Service in SoapUI
- Work to deadlines, on multiple tasks, and operate with general supervision and guidance.
- Worked on data warehouse, ETL using Informatica
- Interface with end-user to understand requirements and technical documentation
- Manage and lead a team of QA Leads/Analysts (both onshore and offshore)
- Work cross-functionally across the HUBs to provide comprehensive test strategies and plans for an entire business unit
- Manage and track actual progress against multiple test plans
- Effectively manage resource allocation for both onshore and offshore across multiple initiatives
- Ensure overall quality of test cases written and executed
- Effectively communicate testing status of multiple projects to Executive Management
- Develop and report key testing metrics to measure quality of the project and quality of overall QA effort
Confidential, Westport, CT
QA Manager
Responsibilities:
- Overseeing day to day testing activities for Collateral Management, Portfolio Management and Accounting Management
- Coordinating with the development team.
- Creating Project Plans for QA
- Creating Test Strategy, Test Plan
- Created Metrics for managing the projects and reporting to higher management
- Created Traceability Metrics for tracking requirement
- Work closely with team to ensure all deliverables are prioritized & executed to meet project plans
- Created and executed Test Cases, added Requirements, created traceability matrix in Quality Center
- Design and implement SDLC policy and procedures
- Conduct gap analysis of the SDLC
Confidential, Manhattan, NY
QA Lead
Responsibilities:
- Overseeing day to day testing activities for Legacy A2 and customization of Odyssey
- Coordinating with development, test, infrastructure and business users
- Review and validate requirements definitions
- Define test scenarios, test scripts and expected results to ensure proper coverage and disclosure of defects based on business reqs and use cases.
- Data conditioning and Data mining, running the whole ETL cycle in Websphere
- Created and executed Test Cases, added Requirements, created traceability matrix in Quality Center
- To manage and govern an offshore + onsite team of testers.
- Manage the relationship between QA and the Business users
- To ensure QA Processes and Framework are followed within the QA Team
- Creating Project Plans for QA
- Created Metrics for managing the projects and reporting to higher management
Confidential,Manhattan, NY
QA Manager, On-Shore Co-ordinatorResponsibilities:
- Overseeing day to day testing activities for all applications
- Managing and working closely with offshore team of 20.
- Coordinating with the development team.
- Creating Project Plans for QA
- Worked with Equity, Derivatives, Bond, Fix Protocol engine
- Created Metrics for managing the projects and reporting to higher management
- Created Traceability Metrics for tracking requirement
- Hands-on experience in integration and system testing
- Worked on data warehouse, ETL using Informatica
- Work closely with team to ensure all deliverables are prioritized & executed to meet project plans
- Created and executed Test Cases, added Requirements, created traceability matrix in Quality Center
- Design and implement SDLC policy and procedures
- Planning for the SIT and UAT release testing.
- Providing technical leadership and mentoring to testers
- Working on Manual testing using Test Director.
- Developing and implementing methods for improving functional and system integration testing
- Performed Automated Regression testing in SIT and UAT environment
- Wrote tools for testing data warehouse, ETL using Informatica.
- Managed performance including testing, monitoring, planning for performance business scenarios
- Conduct gap analysis of the SDLC
- Managing the implementing and administration of testing tools
- Responsible for tracking and controlling status of all BofA THUB department testing activities, including provision of management status reports
- Responsible for planning of all functional testing activities, including providing testing effort estimates to project managers
- Created Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Test Reports in Test Director.
- Building QA Team from the scratch
- Managing team of 24, including off-shore resources.
- Overseeing day to day testing activities for all applications
- Work closely with team to ensure all deliverables are prioritized & executed to meet project plans
- Creating Project Plans
- Created and executed Test Cases, added Requirements, created traceability matrix in Quality Center
- Maintained improvement process of the SDLC
- Providing technical leadership and mentoring to ITT testers
- Created Metrics for managing the projects and reporting to higher management
- Working on Manual testing using Quality Center
- Worked on data warehouse, ETL using Informatica.
- Developing, implementing, and enforcing operating procedures and controls for the ITT and HBUS Technology Service department
- Working on Automated testing using Quick Test Pro 8.0/WinRunner 8.0
- Developing and implementing methods for improving functional and system integration testing
- Responsible for tracking and controlling status of all ITT and HTS department testing activities, including provision of management status reports
- Working on Performance testing using Performance Center 8.0
- Responsible for planning of all functional testing activities, including providing testing effort estimates to project managers
- Created Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Test Reports in Quality Center