SUMMARY

• Extensive knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process, software development methodologies, software test methodologies and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) process
• Experience in reviewing and analyzing business requirements, system requirements and technical design documents, user requirement specifications, and interpreting Functional Requirement Specification (FRS) documents for all phases of SDLC
• Expert in analyzing business requirement documents and develop test Strategies/Test Plans, test estimations, test procedures, after build and release execute test cases/scripts by identifying different test scenarios.
• Experienced with MS TFS and HP ALM/QC test management tools that work with Release Management, Requirements, Test Plans, Test Resources, Test Labs, Defects and Dashboard Modules to perform all phases of System Test Life Cycle
• Strong analytical background with in - depth experience in financial services and banking business applications.
• Extensive work experience in Chase/Chemical Bank Credit Card Services FDR & TSYS systems conversion project to manage multibillion $ of Outstanding loan portfolios from FDR to STARS General Ledger and Corporate MSA/Infopac system
• Highly knowledgeable and experienced in Global Security Market products, Equity security and Fixed products and instrument setup, trade settlement, fail trades reporting, cash and holdings position analysis, verification/validation (reconciliation) of all portfolio accounts to custodian banks, broker/dealer and verified all Accounts Manager Reports by testing all Front Office/Middle Office/Back Office Applications and multi-tier service bases interfaces for different clients.
• Experience in testing Bloomberg Trading Systems, Electronic Trading Systems, Algo Trading Platforms (TWAP, VWAP, POV, PAIRS etc), Smart Order Routing Technology (SORT) Systems, MSP (Morgan Stanley Dark Pool), LX (Lehman Dark Pool)
• Excellent understanding of Order and Risk Management Systems for Fixed Income, Foreign Exchange, Equities and Securitized Products. Expertise in Functional, Performance, Regression and Automation testing of Front, Middle & Back Office applications

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Platforms: Windows, Unix/Linux, Mac

Methodologies Agile, Waterfall:

RDBMS: MS SQL Server, Oracle SQL Developer, MS-Access, MySQL.

Testing & Defect Tracking Tools: HP Quality Center/ALM, HP Suite QTP (UFT), Selenium, CA Rally, JIRA, Bugzilla

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

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior QA Analyst

Confidential - Jersey City, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Member of System Integration Testing (SIT) team worked on testing of new asset management reporting system ordered by UK based firm (Columbia Threadneedle Investments)
• Worked in Agile methodology
• Reviewed and analyzed the database requirements for developing test scenarios for different reports
• Developed test cases/scripts based on test scenarios
• Used Multifonds (Fund accounting, portfolio accounting and investor servicing software) for generating different type of financial reports on Net Asset Value, Exchange Rates, General Ledger accounts and pulling details on trade of particular fund (OP Code, Subscription/Redemption, Trade date, trade exchange rate, value date, etc.)
• Revamped the role of Quality Center in the reporting and invocation of the UFT Test plans, Test Lab Test Sets in Test case execution of UFT Test scripts required for testing.
• Developed automated test scripts using UFT for Functional and Regression testing for data synchronization ensuring pub/sub model verification.
• Created reusable actions using UFT for existing test case request response web services for enterprise integration.
• Architected and created Virtualization Environment for Upgrading and configuring of the HP Functional Testing Suite creating a virtual test lab for UFT functional testing with multiple scripts running simultaneously.
• Used CDS/FSR (CitiDirect for Securities/Fund Service Reporting) application to run the reports with provided parameters and using certain types of funds (Equities/Bonds/OTC/ETD/FX) to test if these reports are being generated in CDS UAT environment in correct form and pulling correct data from Multifonds (cross-referenced and validated report data with Multifonds data)
• Performed functional, system integration, regression and user acceptance testing of 450 plus PDF, XLS and CSV formatted reports and updated HP Quality Center/ALM and CA Rally with evidences, requirements, mapping document, steps to reproduce and descriptions
• Created adhoc data files, uploaded using internal Confidential applications such as Jasper metadata browser (SIT, UAT env.) and manually generated reports to test summary rounding issues, percentage of Net Asset Value (% NAV) calculation, decimal precision, and formatting pattern/stacking/wrapping/spacing issues
• Entered/updated/maintained user stories in CA Rally and provided daily report to Scrum master
• Interacted with BAs, PMs, SMEs and developers on daily basis to come up with appropriate solution for defects
• Attended Daily Stand up Meetings and Webex Conference calls

QA Analyst

Confidential - New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Agile methodology during the project life cycle
• Closely collaborated with Business Analysts, Project Managers and SMEs in planning, coordinating and implementing the testing methodology
• Analyzed requirements/user stories for creating test plans and test cases with clear and detailed test steps
• Tested the Trade Capturing, Processing, Confirmation/Matching, Settlement & Notification functionalities
• Tested equity trading system with market order, limit order
• Mapped test plan back to functional requirements for ensuring all the requirements have been included in the test cases
• Tested back end to confirm trade ticket is recorded accurately
• Executed Functional, Regression, System and Integration testing of different modules of the application such as portfolio details, orders, balances, activity, trade tickets, watch lists
• Checked data flow from front-end to back-end and used SQL queries to retrieve data from database
• Created Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) using business requirements and test cases
• Used HP Quality Center/ALM to organize and manage all phases of the software testing process, including planning tests, writing test cases, executing tests, logging defects, tracking defects and creating Test Analysis Report (TAR)
• Interacted with Business Analysts and Developers to resolve software related defects issues
• Used Unix/Linux commands to monitor log files
• Participated in all the meetings related to Sprint planning, daily stand up meetings, story review meetings and discussed the issues arising out of test execution.

Sr. QA/UAT Analyst

Confidential, RI

Responsibilities:

• Member of the EMV Chip Card Team at Citizens Financial Bank - tasked with analyzing requirement documents provided by CFG /Master
• Card/TSYS and testing the EMV end to end process for Commercial and Consumer credit cards.
• Involved in creating test plan and test strategy for EMV and Rebrand credit card products.
• Developed and executed scripts to test new accounts set up for large business and small business for EMV and Rebrand credit card products.
• Performed product code changes in TSYS mainframe environment to test required expected results for Rebrand.
• Scripted and validated Card Plastics and Activation stickers for EMV and Rebrand credit card products.
• Posted transactions and processed payments in TSYS screens to validate monthly statements.
• Scripted and conditioned data in TSYS screens to validate expected results on web application - Business Access CCOS (Credit Card Online Services).
• Scripted and validated that transactions posted and payments processed on a day to day basis through business access applications trace back to TSYS
• Co-ordinated with TSYS team to validate multiple scenarios for online transaction testing. (Involved day to day interaction with TSYS teams and continuous validation within TSYS environment for all transactions and payments processed).
• Co-ordinated with Master card team to validate multiple scenarios for offline transaction testing. (Involved day to day interaction with Master card and continuous validation within TSYS environment for all transactions and payments processed).

Sr. Quality Assurance Analyst

Confidential - Naperville, IL

Responsibilities:

• Member of the LOS Replacement Team at Confidential tasked with analyzing technical requirement documents / design documents provided by WGS (Wipro Gallagher Solutions) and testing their Loan Origination application 'NetOxygen'
• Reviewed business requirement documents to understand the various customization needs for BMO's 300+ products combined with multiple programs, discounts, fees and pricing options to create high quality scripts.
• Chosen to script for high priority and high complexity requirements for Mortgage Loan processing.
• Developed use case scenarios and test scripts from MS Visio workflow diagrams and system requirement documents.
• Created business scenario and use cases for mortgage workflows
• Wrote maximum number of test scripts on the team for mortgage loans.
• Interacted with BMO and vendor product owners to understand mortgage workflow with process modifications, analyzed gaps and missing requirements to create apt and high quality test scripts that generated high priority defects.
• Expertise in testing mortgage and consumer loan documentations generated during loan process
• Involved in testing Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) regulatory and compliance requirements.
• Worked with the vendor (WGS) to communicate gaps in requirements that helped them create change requests for requirements and enhancements.

Sr. QA

Confidential - Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Experience to test along with Agile and SCRUM team.
• Tested NYMEX based Electronic Settlement System (ESS) and generated bug-report.
• Logged and tracked defects on QC and ClearQuest and assigned to developers to fix the issue
• Executed Putty UNIX commands to check the logs in different files/folders/library and reported issues.
• Create and review test scripts and test scenarios from functional specification document and loose requirements and store them in Team Foundation Server.
• Created bugs in TFS (Team Foundation System) and verified fixed bugs
• Extensively used TFS for test planning, bug tracking and managing and reporting
• UNIX and Oracle are used in this project to write Shell Scripts and SQL queries.
• Worked on trade systems, Settlement Pricing Systems (ESS) to test of various stock products details, trading price and reports verification.
• Tested OTC trading systems and identified issues for front end GUI and back end side.
• SOA Approached on system level, service level, integration testing on • Worked with SOA component for XML/HTML message testing
• Worked as ETL Tester responsible for the requirements / ETL Analysis, ETL Testing and designing of the flow and the logic for the Data warehouse, Data Migration operations.

QA ANALYST

Confidential - Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed software requirement specifications (SRS) to understand the business requirements and reviewed master test plan.
• Tested the brokerage and financial services applications like Equities, Fixed Income, Investment Research, Investment Deposits, Accounts (Accounts Activity, Balance & Holdings, and Portfolio Management) E-statements, Confidential bonds, Mortgage Modules, Integration Module.
• Worked on FIX messaging and generated various test scenarios to validate different FIX Transactions.
• Involved in developing test plan, designing the test steps, writing Test Cases and running test scripts using Test Management Tool Quality Center and QTP.
• Executed performance testing on LoadRunner and analyzed graphs, reports.
• Worked on supply chain management for managing different consumers.
• Tested Siebel Sales and Call Center modules.
• Tested EIM table mapping and subsequent transfer of Customer data using EIM and SQL queries.
• Writing Sql Queries on Siebel Interface Tables and Siebel Base Tables to check the data to insert properly or not.
• Involved in extensive Data Validation using SQL queries.

QA Tester

Confidential - New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and analyzed the requirement documents and the functional specification
• Developed test plan, test cases based on the requirements and use cases
• Developed Traceability Matrix to determine strategy for test case traceability and test coverage analysis
• Created test cases in Excel and uploaded them in HP Quality Center/ALM
• Performed GUI, Functional, Regression and Smoke tests on the new enhancements added to the web application in UAT and Production environment
• Used HP Quality Center/ALM to manage requirements, storing and executing test cases, tracking and reporting defects
• Executed test cases manually and verified actual results against expected results
• Performed Regression testing of overall application to ensure end-to-end usability

QA Tester

Confidential -Jersey City, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with Business Analysts, Developers and Project Managers throughout the development life cycle under Agile Methodology
• Reviewed requirement documents for creating test plans and test cases
• Implemented Functional, Integration, and Regression testing of the application
• Executed Smoke/Sanity Testing on new builds
• Involved in testing the backend database, retrieved the data from the tables using SQL queries
• Used HP Quality Center to organize and manage all phases of the software testing process, including planning tests, writing test cases, executing tests, logging defects, tracking defects and creating Test Analysis Report (TAR)

Junior QA Tester

Confidential - Seattle, WA

Responsibilities:

• Created Test Cases with detailed and clear steps
• Performed Functional, GUI and Regression testing of the application.
• Performed Back-end Testing to ensure that data matched with the recorded data in GUI front end
• Executed Smoke Testing
• Reported defects in Quality Center
• Worked closely with Project Manager/Business Analyst and developers to deliver bug free application