SUMMARY

• 15 years’ experience in financial services domain with over twelve years extensive experience in Business Analysis and Quality Assurance with leading Investment banks and Hedge Fund
• Extensive knowledge in capital markets space specializing in Order Management systems and sound knowledge in area of Equities, Derivatives, Options, FX along with back and middle office Operations, alternative investment products like Real estate and Private Equity
• Experienced in testing various applications (web / client - server) using Quick Test Professional, Quality center/ Test Director, and manual testing.
• Experienced using Quality Center, Quick Test Professional, JIRA and, Visual studio and Power BI
• Strong Analytical skills and problem-solving techniques
• Strong experience in Interbank FX Back office and Middle Office Operations, Equity clearing and payments
• Experienced with the On-site and Off-shore model

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Business analysis
• Test Management agile and waterfall defect management
• Pre-Sales
• TFS, JIRA
• Quality Center
• POWER BI
• Geneva
• SHARE POINT
• FIX protocol
• SWIFT
• SQL
• AS 400
• Data Analysis and Comparison
• Datawarehouse
• Change Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior QA

Responsibilities:

• Analyze and understand processes and workflows and Business requirements and write test solutions for inhouse Real Estate applications
• Functionality and regression testing of various Web based and desktop applications for various projects involving Real estate Valuation, Pricing and other projects.
• Operated under Agile and Scrum frameworks to complete releases every two weeks and well-organized sprints in a hedge fund environment
• Utilized HP Functional Test Suite (HP QuickTest Pro, HP Quality Center) for uploading test scripts and create traceability matrix
• Log defects in Visual Studio for issue tracking and update .
• Create comprehensive and detailed Test plan and estimate the execution effort for each release cycle
• Assign priority to test scripts and publish test documents in SharePoint
• Work closely with Development team, Business analyst teams and other stakeholders
• Took an active role in testing activities such as test case review and updating scripts based on changes implemented in Dev and UAT environments
• Data analysis, comparison and review for data migrations between new and decommissioned applications in excel and power bi
• Participated in daily scrum meetings
• Tested application compatibility on different platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac OS).
• Coordinating, tracking and updating Testing issues to relevant stakeholders that impact the go live date
• Work with automation frameworks to define, build and maintain changes to test data and scripts
• Release management activities and Post production verification after every release cycle

Confidential

Lead QA

Responsibilities:

• Participate in product design planning meetings to help define test cases
• Help minimize, review, and isolate production defects.
• Develop and execute overall test strategies and plans that will validate applications, support stated requirements and meet quality assurance goals
• Plan and execute all phases of defined test cycles including system, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing

Confidential

Senior QA

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple testing projects simultaneously
• Project Plan, Weekly Status Report, effort estimation, and Impact analysis, Onsite-Offshore coordination
• Develop Manual Unit and System Test cases bases on business requirements
• Ensured all client and/or partner issues were addressed within the scope of established requirement processes
• Review the requirements, develop extensive functional Test cases to cover all requirements to achieve expected results
• Conduct daily dashboard meetings to update project status and reporting to top management
• Suggest Process improvements and provide recommendations
• Facilitated change management across entire process from project conceptualization to testing through project delivery until Production
• Perform Gap analysis and identify the root cause of Production issues after the release
• Extensive knowledge of the life cycle of exchange traded instruments (Equities, Bonds) and OTC products including FX, Rates, Swaps and Credit
• Employed effective time management when dealing with coordination and accountability around personnel and security asset

Confidential

Business analysis and Quality

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing and understand client business processes and implementing appropriate solutions for CAPS, Floors, IR Swaps and Swaption Workflows
• Responsible for writing business requirements for IR Swaps and Swaption workflows and document various data sources for upstream and down stream systems
• Interfaced with multi-functional teams on a global delivery model with teams in New York and London
• Performed gap analysis between the old and the new application
• Collaborate with the product managers and developers to provide a high level of functionality, usability, and testability expertise during the requirements phase
• Interact with users during UAT test cycle before the go live phase
• Participate in the future development of in-house automation frameworks/tools