SUMMARY

• Lead Quality Assurance Analyst with more than 9 years of experience in Financial services.
• Proficient in developing Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts based on Business and Systems Requirements specifications.
• Excellent experience in Testing and Supporting Front Office Electronic Trading applications.
• In depth experience in testing Smart Order Routing business engines and Order Management systems. Proficient in the usage of Front Office GUIs and Testing Tools.
• Extensive Hands - On experience in testing financial applications using FIX Protocol.
• Good knowledge of complete Order Life cycle, Front Office to Back Office.
• Experience in implementing and usage of Test Management tool, Mercury Quality Centre.
• Hands on experience in Testing AML and Compliance Business Models.
• Extensive experience on Sybase, SQL Server Databases; developing and executing complex Queries to test model behavior and logic, creating Test Data to simulate Test scenarios.
• Proficient in Data Analysis of large Transactional and Trade Data Sets.
• Experience in Business Analysis activities, including Requirements Gathering, analysis and creating Functional Specifications.
• Testing Experience with both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Good experience in working with and leading geographically distributed teams.
• Hard working individual with excellent inter-personal and communication skills and eagerness to learn new business lines and tools.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

QA Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead Quality Assurance efforts for Global Real Time Indices Platform group, utilize knowledge of business products and real time market data and processes.
• Manage multiple projects; work in a dynamic, agile environment, coordinating with geographically distributed teams.
• Evaluate requirements and define Test designs and approaches; manage testing tools and oversee test preparation, execution, and automation.
• Ensure proper and timely configuration of test systems and environments while contributing to the continuous improvement of the testing methodology and testing techniques.

QA Lead

Confidential, NJ

Responsibilities:

• QA Lead for Compliance and Anti Money Laundering group. Act as SME for Quality Assurance activities across geographically distributed teams..
• Define Test Strategies and Test Approach for all projects in Surveillance IT. Work closely with Business Analysts and Users to formulate QA Strategy.
• Design, Develop and Implement Test Plans, Test Cases and Test scripts for implementing new models and enhancements to existing Compliance and AML Business Models.
• Test and validate Surveillance Models output as Actimize Alerts and BO reports.
• Extensive usage of Database tools, SQL queries for Test Data creation and Data analysis activities.
• Perform ETL and Data Warehouse testing.
• Maintain Mercury Quality Centre as test management tool for Surveillance IT.
• Usage of issue tracking tool, JIRA and content management tools like MS Sharepoint
• Create UAT plans, conduct User Acceptance Testing, and obtain business sign off.
• Facilitate resolution and communication of cross-application/organization architectural issues and decisions.
• Work on Ad Hoc Business User Requests to generate Wire scans and Fincen search results.
• Create Data Specifications document and Business Requirements Document.
• Participate in Project Management activities, including creation and maintenance of Project Plans and other project metrics, issue logs.

Senior QA

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Conducted Functional testing of Smart Order Routing Business Engines.
• Performed Regression testing, Integration and System testing of Smart Order Routing engines involving orders received from multiple upstream systems, like Algorithmic Trading engines and Order Management system.
• Conducted Stress and Load Testing of Business Engines and Functionalities by populating bulk orders and simulating multiple order actions.
• Conducted User Acceptance Testing exercises and provided ongoing Application Support.
• Defined Test strategies and developed Test Cases, Test Plans and Estimates for Testing of Smart Order Routing Business Engines..
• Extensively used Electronic Trading GUIs, FIX order entry tool, Aegis Client Simulator and Perl scripts.
• Performed Testing with Market Data Simulators and Exchange Simulators to simulate Market Data and Exchange behaviors.
• Worked with developers in creating test data and templates for Automated Testing Tool Repository, Test Harness.
• Traced process logs in UNIX/LINUX to confirm engine behavior and business logic.
• Created QA Process Reports like Monthly Defect Count per Release per Application and prepared QA Schedule and Estimates.
• Provided Release Support and Release Notes with functionality and configuration details to Production Support team for Release Rollout.
• Performed Agile Testing and Quality Assurance activities on Emergency Patches and Releases.
• Closely interacted with Business team for Requirements Gathering, analysis and creation of Functional testing document from Business Requirement documents.

QA Team Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• QA Team lead for a group of 4 people. Acted as primary interface for QA team for developers, production support team and end business users.
• Supported and Tested Order Management and Algorithmic Trading systems, Derivatives-Futures and Options, Fixed Income, Direct Access, Private Wealth Management, and Institutional front office applications.
• Conducted Testing through Sales and Trading GUIs and FIX protocol.
• Formulated Release Management process for QA environment.
• Configured Job scheduling tools like Autosys and Cron.
• Interacted with Business users on gathering business requirements and simulating test scenarios to get UAT Sign Offs.
• Created project management reports for project progress, status and issue reporting.
• Participated in recruitment of QA team members and actively mentored new resources.