SUMMARY

• Over 1 4 years of extensive experience in STLC covering analysis, planning, designing, testing - both manual and automation testing, defect management and reporting with strong expertise in Quality Center.
• Professional experience in Software Quality Assurance in industry domain such as Investment Banking, Finance - Securities Domain. Extensive testing experience with capital market products including fixed income, stocks, options, mutual funds.
• Extensive experience in reviewing requirements and design specification document, preparation of test deliverables such as Test Plan, Test Case, Test Data, Requirement Traceability Matrix, test summary report and defect status report, and attending defect triage meeting with different project stakeholders
• Extensive experience in various testing types such as Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, System Integration Testing, Automation testing, Retesting and Regression testing
• Proficient in writing SQL queries and executing SQL queries to perform Backend Testing
• Expertise in Web Service Testing using SOAP UI tool.
• Expertise in fix message protocol validation.
• Extensive end to end order routing testing experience using Bloomberg and Beta.
• Knowledge on basic mainframe testing and commands.
• Proficient in UNIX command and exposure to mobile application testing on iOS and android devices
• Extensive experienced in web accessibility testing using JAWS tool.
• Extensive experienced in handling the projects that follow waterfall, iterative and agile scrum methodologies.
• Experience in leading large-scale complex projects utilizing SDLC from inception through production rollout within timeline, scope and budget.
• Proactive with excellent communication & documentation skills, quick learner, positive attitude to learn new technologies, excellent team player as well as individual contributor
• Excellent organizing, troubleshooting and analytical skills. Ability to multi-task and detail oriented.
• Proficient in working with MS Office tools including Word, Excel, PowerPo int.
• Skilled team leader and experience in maintaining highly functioning team of 8+ members.
• Around 8 years of exposure to working in Client environment and been interface between client and offshore team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Test Automation: Coded UI (using C# ) , QTP

CMS(Content Management System): CMS Authoring Tool

Defects Management Tools: Rational Clear Quest, Microsoft Team foundation server, Quality center

Test Management Tools: Mercury Quality Center 9.0, MTM, SOAP UI

Mobile testing: IOS and android, windows device testing

Verticals: Investment Banking, Capital market

Databases: MS SQL server 2008, Sybase,DB2, CICS

Web accessibility: JAWS, Wave tool, colour contrast analyser(CCA)

Debugging tools: HTTP watch, Fire bug

Messaging Protocol: FIX protocol validation using Beta

Order routing: Bloomberg

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

QA Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Single point of contact for order routing PDT deliverables from QA team.
• Provide QA Estimation from inception to construction phases.
• Having experience in managing a team of approx 8 members on-site and off-shore and coordinating the deliverables by assigning workloads to the respective teams.
• Training plan / knowledge sharing sessions. Review of test artifacts
• Conducted Walkthrough on Testing Requirement/Test Case Review with Business Analyst/SME/Development Team.
• Communicated with BA/developers to create Test Environment and prepared Data Generation before verification and validation.
• Having experience with estimation poker for AGILE story sizing, using Jira for uploading and tracking and updating the story for the AGILE project.
• Creating agile test script and defect in HP ALM for Agile projects.
• Extensive integration testing with multitier applications like charles river, 1FIX, Beta, Bloomberg systems.
• Proficient in FIX message validation and conducting end to end order routing testing using BETA and Bloomberg.
• Created the Traceability Matrix to track the requirement coverage.
• Performed Test Execution including System, Integration, Functional, Regression, Ad-Hoc, End to End Testing managed by using Enterprise Quality Center.
• Logged defects by input all required information and retest them after build is complete.
• Review and advise the end to end test scenarios covering 3rd party systems to internal systems.
• Tracking overall project execution status and delivery.
• Handling “Defect Triage” for the project.
• Progress reviews & status updates to wellsfargo management.
• Collect, publish and maintain project metrics.

QA Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Build a modern security reference data capability to support critical business outcomes by integrating a 3rd party provided security master technology platform and tool set that would become the single authoritative source for all fixed income security descriptive data at Schwab
• Rationalize the selection of data providers according to business needs, capabilities and performance of the vendors and costs
• Implement robust business rules and standards around the loading and on-boarding of data to drive better data quality and operation efficiency
• Create a centralized data management organization to establish a central point of product ownership for all descriptive data vendor relationships and commercial contracts, support new data standards and manage exception processing, and monitor utilization of data and performance of vendors on an on-going basis.

QA Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Single point of contact for project deliverables from QA team.
• Provide QA Estimation from inception to construction phases.
• Having experience in managing a team of approx 5 members on-site and off-shore and coordinating the deliverables by assigning workloads to the respective teams.
• Training plan / knowledge sharing sessions. Review of test artifacts
• Conducted Walkthrough on Testing Requirement/Test Case Review with Business Analyst/SME/Development Team.
• Communicated with BA/developers to create Test Environment and prepared Data Generation before verification and validation.
• Having experience with estimation poker for AGILE story sizing, using microsoft TFS for uploading and tracking and updating the story for the AGILE project.
• Creating agile test script and defect in Microsoft TFS for Agile projects.
• Extensive integration testing with multitier applications like Market data, Schwab bond source, stamp and scores systems.
• Designed detailed Test Steps for Test Cases and generated Test Data using Quality Center.
• Created the Traceability Matrix to track the requirement coverage.
• Performed Test Execution including System, Integration, Functional, Regression, Ad-Hoc, End to End Testing managed by using Enterprise Quality Center.
• Conducted testing on IOS and android and windows mobile devices for modern mobile web project.
• Executed SQL queries in SQL Server 2008 to ensure data is populated into the correct table and data integrity is maintained.
• Logged defects by input all required information and retest them after build is complete.
• Review and advise the end to end test scenarios covering 3rd party systems to internal systems.
• Tracking overall project execution status and delivery.
• Handling “Defect Triage” for the project.
• Progress reviews & status updates to Schwab management.
• Collect, publish and maintain project metrics.