SUMMARY

• Techno - functional professional with 13+ years of diverse experience across multiple organizations in the banking & finance industry. My analytical, technical and communication skills have helped me prove my excellence at work to meet organizational objectives & deliver good quality work.
• Domain experience in Front Office Equity Order Management Systems, CRD (Charles River IMS) for compliance, and Equity Trading Systems.
• Competent in performing Business Analysis, defining functional requirements, creating BRD and defining Use Cases, Sequence/Activity diagrams using MS Visio.
• Engage with (on-shore & off-shore) Development teams for functional Implementation, provide user demos, and validate system functionality.
• Troubleshoot production issues, participate in system design, implementation and test activities.
• Setup FIX protocol connectivity with external brokers and validate Equity FIX Trade Workflows with Cash Desk, Algo brokers, Block Trade Venues such as BIDS, Luminex, Liquidnet, ITG, and dark Pools. Also use VeriFIX and Omgeo Oasys systems for trade validations.
• Proficient with all forms of Testing types including Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Integration and End to End Testing, Risk Based Testing, and UAT.
• Proficient with DevOps, and also have experience with testing tools such as SOAP UI, Postman, Junit, Selenium, Jenkins, and REST Api using RestAssured librarires.
• Use UNIX (SecureCRT and SecureFX) and SQL (Toad, Rapid SQL) queries to engineer test data, execute Autosys jobs using Autorep and WCC tools, configure test environments, deploy prod changes for Cash/Algo broker configurations and debug logs using Splunk.
• Quick Bug fixes in C# using Microsoft Visual Studio, create data models using ER Studio Data Architect.
• Expert in Software Testing Life Cycle processes - Requirement Drafting, Functional Design, Test Plan, Test Approach, Test Preparation, and Test Execution. Create Requirements Traceability Matrix to ensure comprehensive requirement coverage.
• Design/Review Mind-maps and Automation/functional Test scenarios using Mind Manager and Hexawise.
• Understanding of Automation tools such as Selenium, QTP, and in-house Service layer test editors.
• Manage QM Release Activities including Test Plan preparation, providing Test Estimates and QM resource planning, Test Strategy development, Project roadmap tracking, Provide user demos and publishing test results to the stakeholders.
• Experience working in Agile - Scrum framework.
• Proficient with project tools such as - HP Quality Center, qTest, Atlassian tools - JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo, Bitbucket, Source Tree, MS Share point, and Visio, Slack, Beyond Compare, Splunk, Automation utilities in Python.
• Use PowerCenter workflow manager for analyzing job workflows, and GEMS tools for EMS queues.
• ISEB-ISTQB, & Accenture Certified Test Engineer. Six-Sigma Yellow Belt, and Machine Learning enthusiast.
• Lead/Coordinate Offshore teams in India for project delivery.
• CSM - Certified Scrum Master by Scrum Alliance.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Technical Test Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Perform Business analysis and translate requirements into user stories for Development team.
• Design Mind-maps and test scenarios using test designing tools like Mindjet Manager and Hexawise
• Perform Business validations for Equity Trading features such as MIFID Regulations, IOIs (Indication of Interest), Trading Alerts, ATS Block Trading and Algo trading strategies.
• Engineer test data in Oracle/Sybase using Toad and Rapid SQL.
• UNIX Test Server configuration, Server/client log debugging and code deployment using SecureCRT, SecureFX, Bitbucket, Bamboo, Splunk, XLDeploy, and Slack.
• Use Jenkins, PowerCenter workflow manager for analyzing job workflows, and GEMS for EMS queues, Use automation utilities in Python.
• Application Interface validations using SOAP UI, Postman, RestAssured, JUnit and upstream/downstream app interfaces.
• Quick Bug fixes in C# using MS Visual Studio, create data models using ER Studio data architect.
• FIX Flyer, ETP Admin, and VeriFIX for FIX Protocol transaction simulation. Setup FIX broker connections and validate FIX workflows with external brokers.
• Trade workflow testing with FIX/Algo Brokers, Crossing Networks & Dark Pool venues - Luminex, Liquidnet, ITG, Block cross, and BIDS.
• Omgeo Oasys-Direct for validating the US trade Allocations.
• Automation Test Execution - HP QTP, and SIA Test Editor, Soap UI, Maven, RestAssured libraries, Jenkins and Postman.
• Certifications and skills used - ISEB, ISTQB, ACTE, and SIX Sigma Yellow Belt.
• DevOps, Agile Methodology, Scrum, Kanban for Iteration planning and execution.

QA Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Test Planning, Data Designing, and Executing the test scenarios to validate Business and Regulatory requirements for the settlement application.
• Performed Functional Testing, Regression Testing, SIT-L1 and End2End Testing, Backend testing, Exploratory Testing, Risk Based Testing and UAT Testing. Also, managed Test Artifacts using HP Quality center.
• Interacting with DTCC systems for validating the Test Trades.