SUMMARY:

• Experience in working with analysts, managers, developers and testers for complex projects during the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including UAT.
• Experienced in creating test plans, test cases and test procedures on multi - tier and web applications and have a firm grasp over business knowledge in the securities domain.
• Experience in testing batch process, DW data and Research data validation
• Experienced in creating framework for automation.
• Involved in testing products using waterfall and agile methodologies and running scrum meetings.
• Involved in FIX and API testing and investing issues on real time trading platform.
• Involved in planning & running “penetration” and vulnerability scans, communicating results with risk team and business lines.
• Involved with many vendors for end to end rollout of security tools, globally.
• Analytical, methodical, and resourceful approach to problem solving, identifying and documenting root causes and corrective actions to meet system requirements.
• Highly motivated person with excellent analytical, interpersonal, verbal and written skills.

COMPUTING SKILLS:

Source Control /BugTracking/QA Tools: Github, Jira, Bugzilla, TFS (Team Foundation Server), PVCS Tracker. Test Director, WinRunner, SharePoint, MS Project Manager, Splunk, Clarizen, ServiceNow

Cyber Security Tools & Technologies: Qualys, Nessus, Cybereason, ServiceNow, QRadar (SIEM), PMP, KMP, Phishme. Proof Point, LMS tool-Totts Lab, Smart Dashboard, Domain tools, CyberReason, Palo Alto Traps

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr.QA Analyst

Confidential, Jersey city, NJ

Responsibilities:

• I have been working on 3 major initiatives at Tradeweb which are Portfolio Solutions, Bond works and Billing migration project.
• All three of the projects had overlapping timelines.
• I simultaneously interacted with two different teams, working on three different projects and using two different development methodologies.
• I have been actively involved in testing DW data validation, batch processing and research tables data validation.
• There are hundreds of processes that run every ten minutes to populate data in DW and Research tables.
• As part of my billing and trading testing projects, I have been involved in comparing data in these tables regularly.
• Portfolio solutions is a complex Fixed Income portfolio analytics tool with integration to the TradeWeb marketplace and enabled traders/brokers to execute fixed income trades in real-time.
• The system had several views for traders e.g. trade history, accounts, tax-lots, bond event history etc.
• It had also had robust reporting capabilities like shock analysis (what if) and account transaction reports.
• It had a team of 9 full time developers churning out new features, stories and enhancements in weekly iterations.
• I single handedly tested and verified all new requirements, change requests and bug fixes. I effectively communicated with product dev, development and sales teams who were all involved in the project.
• I tested Bond-desk/TWR real-time trading platform through web UI and using FIX (version 5.0) messages and internal APIs.
• I also verified execution reports generated by the system.
• I was involved in the Billing migration project from Bond desk’s proprietary system to Tradeweb’s billing system after the merger of the two companies. We had to ensure the assets, pricing code and pricing structure is mapped accurately. I also verified that contributors and distributors are billed as per their contracts with Tradeweb.
• Additionally, I provided them empirical feedback on how to improve and adapt the agile process for our team.
• I constantly stayed on top of development team to embellish tasks/stories with additional details and examples.
• I have always been a team player, proactive in solving any and all production queries and have shared my knowledge with my team with enthusiasm and great passion.
• I have also been involved in coordinating Vulnerability and Penetration testing scans from 3rd party vendors.

Environment: /Tools/Technologies: BondProX (inhouse ETL tool), Oracle ODI, JIRA, Bamboo, FIX Messaging, SharePoint, Selenium, Load Runner, Qualys, Nessus, MS project Plan, Clarizen, Splunk, Confluence, Oracle, C++, Java Scripting, Jasper. ServiceNowAIG (Wealth Management Group)

Sr. QA Lead.

Confidential, NY

Responsibilities:

• Involved in planning and executing test strategy, test plans, test scripts and manual testing for Advisor Portal used by Registered Advisors of Confidential (one of broker dealers owned by AIG) to access their portfolio management reports.
• Confidential has around 42 billion of AUM. My responsibilities included coordinating the testing and planning efforts with offshore team based in Manila, business users based in NY, and the development team in California.
• In addition to this, I was also tasked with guiding and mentoring the offshore team. I worked extensively with business users for user acceptance testing.
• As a lead, not only I participated in UATs but also guided junior users on new functionality and changes.
• I also provided them data and detailed test cases to conduct UAT.
• I was responsible for coordinating the testing efforts on major functionalities, Bonuses and threshold rules.
• I was also in charge of all in-house reports and advisor reports.
• This included all commission reports, rebate reports, licensing & Registration reports and subscription to services reports etc.
• Decommissioning legacy back office app and migrating to web portal.
• This enabled in-house users to access all the functionality through web without logging in to VPN. This was a major migration project in terms of security and access.
• From a QA standpoint, we had to ensure both access control and functionality was working as expected.
• I was also involved in testing all reports generated by the Advisory portal (12B1) against the back end SQL Server database and an EOD feed coming in from Pershing.
• The reports that I extensively worked on are commission reports, registered/non-registered advisor reports and rebate reports.

Confidential, East Rutherford, NJ

Sr. Quality Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created test scripts by analyzing user requirements and coordinated with business/technical analysts.
• Managed test execution, test analysis through all phases, including functional, regression, performance, integration and acceptance. Attended weekly meetings with Director and development team to resolve open issues, testing and release status etc.
• Coordinated all major and minor releases to QA and production.

Environment: AS400, Jwalk, DB2, Websphere, JSF, Java and ILE, Test director, Winrunner, Bugzilla

Sr. QA Automation Lead

Confidential, Parsippany, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing and refining user requirements with development team and users using Test Director. Mentoring and team members on developing test plans and automated scripts using WinRunner and load Runner. Actively managed regression, functional and system testing for all major/minor releases.

Confidential, Manhattan, New York

QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Set up the entire QA infrastructure from scratch including hiring the entire QA team.
• Introduced and implemented automated testing tools like eTest suite and MercuryWinrunner/LoadRunner.

Confidential, Brooklyn

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked with client-server products with Forms 5.0 & Visual Basic as front ends and Oracle as the back end.
• Developed test strategies & test plans for testing all modules.