SUMMARY

• Thirteen Year Experience of QA in Investment Banking, Finance and Insurance Domain.
• Coordination for Implementation of end to end QA Framework - Manual & Automation Phase including Test Strategies, Test Planning, Test Scenarios and Test Cases.
• Automation scripts development of Web Applications using Selenium RC and Webdriver APIs. Data driven, Keyword driven and Hybrid Framework management using TestNG, Log4j
• Strong working knowledge of Software testing (Functional/Non-Functional, Unit, System, Integration, Black box, White box, Regression, Automation, User acceptance testing, Mobile App testing).
• Strong knowledge of all phases of major SDLCs including RUP, Agile (Scrum), RAD, Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATD). Experience in testing Hadoop based application, using Map Reduce Framework for handling Big Data. Good knowledge of UNIX/SQL.
• Working knowledge of front, middle and back office components of investment banking i.e. Trade life cycle for exchange and OTC traded financial instruments as Equities, Fixed income securities, FX and corresponding derivatives.
• Project Management & Project Coordination skills in implementing in house & client s various Approach & Frameworks. Experienced in Order Management systems, exchange connectivity testing and Trade Position management.
• Experience in projects related to retail online banking, Mortgage and Student Lending (loan generation), Appian work flow. Team player with sound technical, excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Mobile testing of Banking applications using Xcode, ADB, Andriod Studio, Seetest

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows, Mac, UNIX, Linux.

Languages: Java, Selenium, Cucumber, HTML, CSS

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, Salesforce

Products Tools: Quality Center, JIRA, Microsoft Team Foundation Server, Microsoft Test Manager.

Software: SQL Plus, SQL Navigator, TOAD, Putty, MS Office, FileZilla, SVN, CVS, Visio, MPP, Fiddler, ClearQuest, Rally, Onbase, Servicenow, Eclipse, SOAP UI, Signavio

Mobile Testing: Xcode (iOS testing), Seetest, ADB, Andriod Studio (Android Testing)

Big Data: Hive, Hue, HDFS, MapReduce, Hbase

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, San Francisco

Lead Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overall coordination, status reporting and stability of project / program oriented test efforts.
• Establish and implement project management processes and methodologies for the project/program test community to ensure testing activities are delivered on time, adhere to high quality standards and meet customer expectations. Followed Agile (Scrum) methodology for test planning and execution.
• Writing Use cases, Test Cases, Technical specifications and managing traceability of requirements with deliverables using JIRA, SharePoint and Confluence wiki. Participated in Sprint planning, Backlog creation and prioritization, user acceptance testing, defect triages.
• Establish a distributed (onsite: offshore) operating model for greater efficiency and execution. Capacity driven model enabling tracking of team utilization for effective resource loading.

Confidential, San Francisco

Lead Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overall coordination, status reporting and stability of project / program oriented test efforts.
• Mobile testing of Banking applications using Xcode, ADB, Andriod Studio and Seetest
• Establish and implement project management processes and methodologies for the project/program test community to ensure testing activities are delivered on time, adhere to high quality standards and meet customer expectations. Followed Agile (Scrum) methodology for test planning and execution.
• Writing Use cases, Test Cases, Technical specifications and managing traceability of requirements with deliverables using Team foundation server. Participated in Sprint planning, Backlog creation and prioritization, user acceptance testing, defect triages.
• Establish a distributed (onsite: offshore) operating model for greater efficiency and execution. Capacity driven model enabling tracking of team utilization for effective resource loading.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overall coordination, status reporting and stability of project / program oriented test efforts.
• Establish and implement project management processes and methodologies for the project/program test community to ensure testing activities are delivered on time, adhere to high quality standards and meet customer expectations.
• Process modelling with Signavio and Appian process modeler.
• Followed Agile (Scrum) methodology for test planning and execution. Writing Use cases, Test Cases, Technical specifications and managing traceability of requirements with deliverables using Team foundation server.
• Participated in Sprint planning, Backlog creation and prioritization, user acceptance testing, defect triages.

Confidential, Chicago

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overall coordination, status reporting and stability of project / program oriented test efforts.
• Establish and implement project management processes and methodologies for the project/program test community to ensure testing activities are delivered on time, adhere to high quality standards and meet customer expectations.
• Followed ATDD (Acceptance Test Driven development) approach to perform all tasks. Writing Use cases, Test Cases, Technical specifications and managing traceability of requirements with deliverables.
• Worked on FIX Protocol and how the messages flow across from Engine to different systems and how they are manipulated as per customer requirements. Using BigData Hadoop to test the storage, manipulate and retrieve data from Hadoop cluster by running Map Reduce jobs to do so.
• Worked with files structures like: XML, JSON, AVRO, LZO, Gzip, SNAPPY compression.

Confidential, New York

Lead BA/QA

Responsibilities:

• Implement UAT best practices and eliminate redundancies around test planning, execution, management and regression.
• Development and execution of UAT for Streams related to Listed products, Vanilla Options, Exotic options (Cliquet, Rainbow, Asian, barrier etc.), Swaps (Variance Swap, Interest rate Swap, and Total Return swap), Functional payment framework (FPF), and structured notes as a part of the Sophis De-Commissioning Program employing business scenario-based approach.
• Expand efficiency and coverage of testing utilizing in-house automation tools, including the creation of an automated regression test suite.
• Manually test and to build an automated regression suite of identified modules of Markitwire, FPF and Helix trade capture scenarios through TCR and also implement Testing Framework in Alignment with Confidential Central QA strategy including Development of Test scripts and execution of UAT scenarios.
• Establish a distributed (onsite: offshore) operating model for greater efficiency and execution. Capacity driven model enabling tracking of team utilization for effective resource loading.

Confidential

Lead BA/QA

Responsibilities:

• Creation of major deliverables as Business Requirements (Functional/Non Functional requirements), Use cases, Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), Data flow Diagram (DFD), Sequence diagrams, Project plan, Test cases and Test Scenarios.
• Ensuring Client Acceptance (UAT), installation and deployment. Full regression testing of the application.

Confidential, New York

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Led the requirement gathering and functional design/specification phase for trade certification process of financial instruments as Futures, Options, Equities, between Traders and Brokers, market makers on Stock Exchanges (NYSE, CBOT, CME and CBOE etc.).
• Communicated with various project stakeholders to gather and define requirements that helped in identifying and resolving functionality as well as business logic related issues.
• Worked on FIX protocol implementation by creating Trading algorithms and platforms for proper order execution. Project scope involved integration testing of Order Management system add-ons.
• Worked on deliverables as Business Requirements (Functional/Non Functional requirements), Use cases, Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), Data flow Diagram (DFD), Sequence diagrams, Project plan, Test cases and Test Scenarios to streamline requirements with product development.
• Led the requirement gathering and functional design/specification phase for creation of Order Management System modules as broker restriction, commission control, and Firm positions enabling brokers to manage their front and middle office tasks.
• Analyzed and implemented the requirements. Liaised with the Business team for requirement gathering for Algorithm creation with FIX Algorithmic Trading Definition Language using XML standards.

Confidential, California

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on requirement gathering phase for the Asset and mortgage backed security valuation project, which led to an increase in revenue by automated monitoring of securities prices.
• Worked on Implementation of pricing control of Portfolio for pricing administrators comprising of Price quotes management system for price data gathered from financial institution desks (broker/dealers).
• Worked on deliverables as Business Requirements (Functional/Non Functional requirements), Use cases, Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), Data flow Diagram (DFD), Sequence diagrams, Project plan, Test cases and Test Scenarios to streamline requirements with product development.
• User Acceptance Testing of the application.

Confidential

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Creation of major deliverables as Business Requirements (Functional/Non Functional requirements), Use cases, Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), Data flow Diagram (DFD), Sequence diagrams, Project plan, Test cases and Test Scenarios.
• Ensuring Client Acceptance (UAT), installation and deployment. Full functional and regression testing of the application.

Confidential

Manual Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assisting of development team with the business case. Creation of Software Test plans, test strategies and test cases. Provide a framework to collect quality measurements such as defects, issues, change requests, review findings, and improvement opportunities and actions.
• Check/Review system, integration and user acceptance test cases prepared by test engineers. Frequent conference meetings for discussion with project Stakeholders regarding interdependencies coordination, resolving issues and updating status.
• Provide guidance to project stakeholders on devising effective approaches to achieve the project objectives. Analysis and processes mapping (current state/future state) by Traceability Matrix analysis. Status reports about project outcomes to the Project Manager(s).
• Managing the risks by Identifying risks and then taking the precautionary step to avoid those risks.