SUMMARY

• Over six years of Software testing experience in all phases and stages of Software Testing Life Cycle and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Strong knowledge of financial products; equity, bond, swap and derivatives
• Experience in testing buy and sell side of equity fixed income, derivatives
• Strong knowledge of Trade Lifecycle from front office all the way to back office
• Deep understanding in advanced testing methodologies and the software development life cycle for Client/Server, multi - tier/web based applications in Financial Securities industry including Capital markets, Wealth Management, Derivative trading and Foreign Exchange
• Exposure in various methodologies such as Agile and Waterfall
• Good experience in analysis, requirements gathering, strategy, plans, scripts, and exit reports, defect tracking based of QA methodologies
• Expertise in Documentation of Test plans, Test Cases, Test Procedures and Test Scripts for the database
• Experienced in Black Box Testing, Positive, Negative, Data Driven Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, UAT and Functional Testing
• Experienced in logging of the defects and coordinating efforts with the development team to solve the problems using HP ALM/Quality Center
• Strong knowledge in creating Test Cases; RTM, TAR and executing Test Cases
• Strong knowledge and working experience in Test planning, Test execution and results analysis
• Extensively used SQL queries and Unix commands for data verification and backend testing
• Experience in doing sales force and data reconciliation
• Strong knowledge of Capital Markets including Fixed Income, equity and options trading, Derivative products and FX market
• Experienced in developing and executing automation Regression testing and System testing using UFT/QTP and ALM/Quality Center, JIRA, BUGZILLA
• Experienced in performing Data driven testing to validate the components displayed on the website using and developing QTP framework using VBScript and Object repository
• Strong on databases including Oracle, MS SQL Server

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: Windows, UNIX/Linux and Mac

Front End: MS Office, MS Project, Visual Basic.

Domains: Finance Capital markets, Wealth Management, E-trade, FX

Technologies: HTML, VBScript, JavaScript, PL / SQL

Servers: IBM Web sphere, Web logicDatabase Oracle, SQL Server, My SQL Server, MS-Access, and TOAD

Testing Tools: HP ALM/Quality Center, JIRA, BUGZILLA, HP UFT/QTP, Rational Robot, Test Manager and Clear Quest

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York, NY

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Tested the Trade Capturing, Processing, Confirmation/Matching, Settlement and Notification functionalities
• Tested a Front-End Execution process for equity module and validated with Back End by accessing Oracle Database
• Involved in full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using Agile model and worked closely with Business Analyst, Developers and clients, attended walkthrough and requirement review meetings
• Used HP ALM/ QC to organize and manage all phases of the software testing process, including planning tests, executing tests, logging and tracking defects and creating Test Analysis Report (TAR)
• Participated in daily SCRUM and weekly team meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification requests
• Performed End to End testing of trade workflow from its initiation in GUI
• Performed Functional & Integration testing of middle office applications
• Successfully created Test Cases with clear and detailed test steps
• Involved in writing Test cases for checking the functionality of the application
• Performed System Testing, Backend, End to End and Regression testing based on specifications
• Prioritized test cases by business impact, critical and frequently used functionalities for regression testing
• Reported and logged Defects through HP ALM/QC to developers. Interacted with Developers on the status of Bugs reported on a regular basis
• Created Requirements Traceability Matrix, to make sure that all requirements are covered with Test Cases
• Involved in writing SQL queries for Backend Testing and to verify the database updates, inserts and deletions of the records, and validate them
• Involved in selecting the test cases to be automated
• Attended onsite/off-shore team member reviews and meetings, teleconferences

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in entire, Testing Life Cycle, which included Design, Development and Execution of the entire Test Process
• Participated in gathering Business Requirements and designed the project according to the Business requirement specifications
• Identified & presented effort estimations related to testing efforts to Project Management Team.
• Involved in preparing and writing Test cases, Test Plan, Test Script, Test design and Strategies.
• Reported bugs and tracked defects using HP ALM
• Maintained Progress Report of team members for update on individual work during test execution cycle in HP ALM
• Prepared daily/weekly bug status reports highlighting bug fix metrics and tracked the progress of test cycles in HP ALM
• Wrote complex SQL queries for data validation in back end testing
• Wrote SQL queries to perform database Validations
• Performed functional testing using UFT for end application testing
• Written test cases for automated tests using UFT
• Developed automated test scripts from manual test cases for Regression testing based on the requirement documents using UFT
• Performed Data-Driven Testing, Text Output values by using Global and Local spreadsheets in UFT for testing multiple data
• Maintained Master object repository in the central repository and changes are made to it for every version using UFT
• Performed test case execution using a keyword framework with UFT
• Performed all aspects of verification, validation including functional, structural, regression and system testing
• Involved in testing the UI applications
• Planned and supervised the project milestones, test deliverables & test schedules with TM

Environment: HP ALM, QTP, Quality Center, SQL Server, TOAD, JIRA, Windows, UNIX/Linux, MS Office, Oracle, VBScript, HTML, XML, JAVA.