SUMMARY

• 9 years of extensive experience as QA Analyst delivering high - quality software solutions in Banking and Capital Markets Domains via Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Managed and performed various roles. Analyze requirements, develop Test plan and write Test cases, and executing different type of testing.
• Have excellent analytical/problem solving skills. Analyzed business and functional system requirements and use cases to efficiently work together wif project managers, business analysts, developer team, and QA team on-shore and off-shore.
• Hands on bug reporting, bug tracking, managing and analyzing defect life cycle using defect management tools such as RALLY, JIRA and HP/ALM, JIRA-XRAY.
• Solid noledge Unix commands for investigating trade flow issues
• Experienced in backend and ETL testing (SQL, PL/SQL, DB2 and Oracle DB)
• Validation of data transformations and perform End-to-End data validation
• Tested Front office data as source and tables in teh settlement databases warehouse as target.
• Develop Test strategy, test plan/design, execute test cases and defect management for teh Application
• Extensive noledge in automated testing of web and client/server applications using Quality Center, Jira and Quick Test Professional.
• Full understanding of quality control cycles via Validation and Verification and processes to comply wif specified requirements. Active participation in monthly releases, pre-testing in DEV, SIT and UAT environments.
• Experienced in analysis and implementing data from external vendor ECN platforms for scenarios of various security products.
• Full understanding of Trade Order Management Systems, Global Transaction Management, FIX Protocol, XML along wif understanding teh Tag lines for Fixed Income and Foreign Exchange products.
• Ability to test applications written on different languages such as JAVA, JAVA Script, XML, and HTML languages.
• Experienced in different types of testing such as, Regression, Functional, Integration, System, User Acceptance, Sanity and Database Testing.
• Experience in Market data flow, end to end order flow validation.
• Extensive noledge of SQL Server and Oracle databases. Ability to construct queries and resolving debug occurring issues in database
• Hands on using UNIX to monitor/verify logs and update file for played scenarios
• Active participation in Scrum meetings, daily JIRA review meetings, scheduled stand-up calls wif onshore and off-shore team members in Agile and Waterfall Methodologies.
• Absolutely strong team player wif full dedication and commitment towards set up goals/deadlines and learning new material. Ability to work effectively in both independent and team situations wif positive results.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: UNIX/LINUX, Windows

Testing Tools: HP ALM, UFT(QTP), JIRA, Beyond Compare, Power BI

Languages: C, C++, PHP, VBScript, HTML/CSS, XML

RDBMS: SQ, Server 2008, Oracle, MS Access

Microsoft Tools: MS Office Package (Word, Excel, Power Point), Outlook.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Newark, NJ

Sr QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Work extensively wif Salesforce upgrade and migration.
• Tested teh process modular, Business rules and work flows.
• Performed testing of teh new functions implemented in teh upgrade process, as well as their UI inputs in teh Database.
• Extensively tested and validated Salesforce historical Data migration.
• Tested and validated all teh Views, store procedures and Backend data.
• Coordinated wif teh Business users /Backend / for new Change request and User Acceptance sign-off.
• Verified Order flow, trade booking and recording in DB via different trade scenario including artificial trade status simulation. Used SQL to write queries for Back-End testing to verify data and trades scenario simulation.
• Involved in extensive DATA validation using SQL queries and back-end testing
• Participated in various meetings communicated wif Development, Business and Support teams to resolve any issues.
• Prepared daily/ weekly status reports on Test case execution, defects, RTM etc.
• Developed estimation, test plans to outline teh scope, analysis, approach, resources, schedule of testing as well as writing test cases, test execution, and test completion report;
• Extensively worked on Backend testing using SQL and validated teh script against teh database.
• Updated, executed and maintained Test Scripts when Change Request received.
• Executed Functional, Regression, System and Integration testing of teh application.
• Validated Market data flow from different ECNs such as Market Access, Option Desk, and FinPro.
• Used JIRA-XRAY to manage and organize all phases of teh software testing process: writing test cases, executing tests, logging defects, tracking defects.
• Performed problem solving and root cause analysis when defects occur.
• Worked closely wif Business Analysts, and Project Managers to discuss and collect business requirements.

Confidential, Pennington, NJ

Sr QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of Business Requirement Documents and complex specifications for upcoming releases, created test scenarios for change requests and functionalities added in new builds.
• Tested teh Trade Capturing, Processing, Confirmation, Settlement & Notification functionalities.
• Verified End to End Order flow from UI to downstream to Position Blotter
• Executed different type of aggressive and passive orders wif DAY, FAK, FOK
• Used HP ALM (Quality Center) to organize and manage all phases of teh software testing process, including planning tests, writing test cases, executing tests, logging defects
• Validated Trade Booking/Post Trade feed flow as part of algorithmic trading platform
• Verified PTF Trade details such as: CUSIP, Price, Size, trade date, settlement date using SQL.
• Tested data and process flow between various components of teh application and downstream systems.
• Tested User Interface inconsistency and application functionality.
• Validated generated external report forms and content by comparing database data and report outputs using complex SQL queries.
• Created complex SQL queries for validating updates, inserts and delete from multiple database tables.
• Used Autosys job scheduling tool for running and killing teh jobs
• UsedFix Protocolto understand various message types, also FIX logs and debug if any issues found;
• Extensively worked wif CTM, TDMS and OASYS for testing teh Trade Capturing, Processing, Confirmation/Matching, Settlement & Notification functionalities;
• Handled responsibilities of identifying and preparing defect reports gathered from testing.
• Performed teh tasks of preparing test reports as well as developed formal acceptance test procedures
• Responsible for testing: Buy and Sell sides of Fixed Income and Equity Trading, amend and cancellation of trades between counterparties.
• Developed and executed SQL queries to perform backend testing of teh database.
• Involved in writing and executing Test Cases for manual and automated Testing.
• Written modification requests for teh bugs in teh application and halped developers to track and resolve teh problems.
• Worked wif test automation team to create automated test scripts using QTP.
• Developed manual test script and converted them to automate script to perform functional and regression testing;
• Ran SQL queries for data validation wif Data Base;
• Developed estimation, test plans to outline teh scope, analysis, approach, resources, schedule of testing as well as writing test cases, test execution, and test completion report
• Extensively worked wif Central Trade Matching for testing teh E2E Order flow;

Confidential, New York, NY

Sr QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of Business Requirement Documents and complex specifications for upcoming releases, created test scenarios for change requests and functionalities added in new builds.
• Member of Agile/Scrum QA team focused on options and equity trading.
• Tested teh Trade Capturing, Processing, Confirmation, Settlement & Notification functionalities.
• Verified End to End Order flow from UI to downstream to Position Blotter
• Executed different type of aggressive and passive orders wif DAY, FAK, FOK
• Used HP ALM (Quality Center) to organize and manage all phases of teh software testing process, including planning tests, writing test cases, executing tests, logging defects
• Validated Trade Booking/Post Trade feed flow as part of algorithmic trading platform
• Verified PTF Trade details such as: Cusip, Price, Size, trade date, settlement date using SQL.
• Tested data and process flow between various components of teh application and downstream systems.
• Tested User Interface inconsistency and application functionality.
• Validated generated external report forms and content by comparing database data and report outputs using complex SQL queries.
• Created complex SQL queries for validating updates, inserts and delete from multiple database tables.
• Performed data validation on teh source feed files dat were generated in UNIX environment using UNIX commands as necessary.
• UsedFix Protocolto understand various message types, also FIX logs and debug if any issues found;
• Extensively worked wif Trade Order Management Systems (TOMS) for testing teh Trade Capturing, Processing, Confirmation/Matching, Settlement & Notification functionalities;
• Handled responsibilities of identifying and preparing defect reports gathered from testing.
• Performed teh tasks of preparing test reports as well as developed formal acceptance test procedures
• Responsible for testing: Buy and Sell sides of Fixed Income Electronic Trading, amend and cancellation of trades between counterparties.
• Developed and executed SQL queries to perform backend testing of teh database.
• Involved in writing and executing Test Cases for manual and automated Testing.
• Written modification requests for teh bugs in teh application and halped developers to track and resolve teh problems.
• Worked wif test automation team to create automated test scripts using QTP.
• Developed manual test script and converted them to automate script to perform functional and regression testing;
• Ran SQL queries for data validation wif Data Base;
• Developed estimation, test plans to outline teh scope, analysis, approach, resources, schedule of testing as well as writing test cases, test execution, and test completion report
• Extensively worked wif Trade Order Management Systems for testing teh E2E Order flow;