SUMMARY

• 9 years of overall experience in Software Quality Assurance & Testing as QA/Lead working with onsite and offshore teams in Investment Bank, Wealth Management, Capital markets and BFSI domain with and thorough understanding of STLC and SDLC.
• Expertise in Tri Party Repo, Global Collateral Management, Portfolio Optimization, Trade Life Cycle, Trade Settlement, Depositary Receipts, Corporate Actions, Forex Settlement, Capital Markets, Investment banking, Broker Dealer Service, Derivatives, Swaps, Fixed Income Securities and Credit Risk.
• Performed manual testing including Black Box and White box testing
• Strong exposure in Functional, UAT, System Integration, Sanity, Regression, Security, Performance, Back out, Data Migration, Implementation support and in Automation Testing tool QTP, Selenium.
• Experienced in using HP Quality Center (ALM) as a complete test management tool starting from Requirement creation to Dashboard generation.
• Used IBM Clear Quest, JIRA and HP Quality Center (ALM) as defect tracking tools.
• Proficient in Business Requirements Analysis, Release Management and validating and determining gaps in functional specifications.
• Expertise in deriving QA Estimation and Maintenance of Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to ensure coverage of requirements.
• Experienced in defining Testing Methodologies, Designing Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Estimates, Test Cases, Verifying and Validating Web/Windows applications and Documentation of documenting complex test and business scenarios based on standards for Software Development and effective QA implementation in all phases of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and generation of Test Metrics such as Root Cause Analysis and Orthogonal Array.
• Extensively involved in status reporting, metrics collections, risk impact assessment and mitigation plans
• Excellent troubleshooting abilities using log verification in UNIX
• Expertise in querying and testing RDBMS such as Oracle, MSSQL and Sybase for data integrity
• Good expertise in creating estimation methods such as Dependency Structure Matrix and getting Impact Analysis reports from Dev Team
• Exceptional leadership skills in terms of task allocation, monitoring test progress, running defect status meetings and escalating at the right time.
• Well versed in Estimation and Drafting of Test Cases and execution of Test scripts in HP Quality Center ALM (in V - Model, Waterfall and Agile (Scrum and Sprint Planning) testing methodologies)
• Experience in V-Model, Waterfall and Agile (Scrum and Sprint Planning) testing methodologies
• Expertise in HP PPM, MS SharePoint, Microsoft Power Point, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Access, Rational ClearCase, Rational ClearQuest, CVS, Visual Studio.
• Proficient in managing Bug Life Cycle, Defect tracking, responsible for test deliverables, status reporting to management, issue escalations
• Experienced in leading a 10-15-member team.
• Exceptional Client interaction skills, Task Allocation and Resource Management skills
• Experienced in communicating with Business units and external testing teams for gathering test data and test execution
• Experience in Swift Messaging
• Expertise in handling Audit for projects and in the preparation of Test process documents
• Experience in leading offshore Teams across different locations.
• Excellent communication, presentation and written skills, self-starter, quick learner, team player

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: V-Model, Waterfall, SDLC, Iterative, Agile Unified Process

Language Proficiency: SQL, UNIX, C++, VB Scripting, PERL, TCL/TK

Operating Systems: Win 95/98/XP/2000, 7, 8, UNIX

Testing Tools: HP Quick Test Professional 9.5, HP Quality Center Application Life Cycle Management (ALM) 10.0, 11.0 and 12.0, JIRA, Clear Quest, Selenium

Testing Tools: HP PPM, Lotus Notes, Rapid SQL, Clear case, MS Access, Microsoft Share Point

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understanding Business Requirements and providing test estimates. Creating, updating and reviewing test plan, test strategy, test cases, test scenarios, test data and functional test matrix.
• Develop and implement comprehensive SDLC and STLC
• Mentor, train project teams in developing QA/UAT Test Strategy, High Level Estimates and Test Plan
• Enhance quality control in deliverables by reviewing documents and checkpoints with team members
• Defining End to End Testing Approach and Test Strategy
• Approve Build Notices and Release Notes using ClearQuest and HP Quality Center ALM and Support the Release and Deployment process
• Conduct weekly meetings, create Defect tracking report, Testing Progress charts and Scorecard reports providing bird’s eye view to define project health for higher management
• Coordinate UAT efforts between Management, Operations, Development and BUC group
• Involved in Risk Management (Identifying and mitigating the risks associated with testing).
• Understanding project design and implementation.
• Maintaining stable test and production environment, creating test cycle, executing tests, defect tracking and analyzing test results for the projects.
• Performing Functional, UAT, System Integration, Sanity, Regression (QTP), Performance, Back out testing and Database testing
• Created SQL queries (DDL and DML statements) to perform database validations
• Generating defect status report using Quality Center and running the defect status meeting with QA, Development and Business team.
• Generating testing status reports and charts using HP Quality Center ALM and distributing to all project stake holders.
• Verify Unix logs and xml files for trade processing
• Optimized the usage of HP Quality Center ALM by using Requirements to Dashboard modules
• Mentoring, coordinating and assigning tasks to the offshore team
• Designing and planning for performance load testing and tracking test metrics for the same.
• Verifying the testing process is followed throughout the testing phase and maintaining supervisory policies and procedures for the product.
• Provided complete QA support for UAT, Client testing and Production support.
• Preparing for third-party party Audits.
• Validating Swift Message MT527, MT530, MT531, MT548 etc.
• Providing test sign off and Implementation support.
• Demonstrating about the application and supporting BNYM clients like Morgan Stanley, Barclays, JP Morgan Chase, Fidelity, Nomura and other clients

Environment: Java, HP Quality Center, ALM, Clear Quest, QTP, Rapid SQL, UNIX, V MODEL Methodology, Lotus Notes, HP PPM, Windows 8

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understanding Business Requirements and providing test estimates. Creating, updating and reviewing test plan, test strategy, test cases, test scenarios, test data and functional test matrix.
• Develop and implement comprehensive SDLC and STLC
• Mentor, train project teams in developing QA/UAT Test Strategy, High Level Estimates and Test Plan
• Enhance quality control in deliverables by reviewing documents and checkpoints with team members
• Approve Build Notices and Release Notes using ClearQuest and HP Quality Center ALM and Support the Release and Deployment process
• Coordinate UAT efforts between Management, Operations, Development group
• Understanding project design and implementation.
• Maintaining stable test and production environment, creating test cycle, executing tests, defect tracking and analyzing test results for the projects.
• Performing Functional, UAT, System Integration, Sanity, Regression (QTP), Performance, Back out testing and Database testing
• Created SQL queries (DDL and DML statements) to perform database validations
• Generating defect status report using Quality Center and running the defect status meeting with QA, Development and Business team.
• Generating testing status reports and charts using HP Quality Center ALM and distributing to all project stake holders.
• Optimized the usage of HP Quality Center ALM by using Requirements to Dashboard modules
• Mentoring, coordinating and assigning tasks to the offshore team
• Designing and planning for performance load testing and tracking test metrics for the same.
• Verifying the testing process is followed throughout the testing phase and maintaining supervisory policies and procedures for the product.
• Provided complete QA support for UAT, Client testing and Production support.
• Preparing for third-party party Audits.
• Providing test sign off and Implementation support.

Environment: Java, HP Quality Center, ALM, Clear Quest, QTP, Rapid SQL, UNIX, V MODEL Methodology, Lotus Notes, HP PPM, Windows 8

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understanding Business Requirements and providing test estimates. Creating, updating and reviewing test plan, test strategy, test cases, test scenarios, test data and functional test matrix.
• Develop and implement comprehensive SDLC and STLC
• Mentor, train project teams in developing QA/UAT Test Strategy, High Level Estimates and Test Plan
• Enhance quality control in deliverables by reviewing documents and checkpoints with team members
• Defining End to End Testing Approach and Test Strategy
• Approve Build Notices and Release Notes using HP Quality Center ALM and Support the Release and Deployment process
• Conduct weekly meetings, create Defect tracking report, Testing Progress charts and Scorecard reports providing bird’s eye view to define project health for higher management
• Coordinate UAT efforts between Management, Operations, Development and BUC group
• Involved in Risk Management (Identifying and mitigating the risks associated with testing).
• Understanding project design and implementation.
• Maintaining stable test and production environment, creating test cycle, executing tests, defect tracking and analyzing test results for the projects.
• Performing Functional, UAT, System Integration, Sanity, Regression (QTP), Performance, Back out testing and Database testing
• Created SQL queries (DDL and DML statements) to perform database validations
• Generating defect status report using Quality Center and running the defect status meeting with QA, Development and Business team.
• Generating testing status reports and charts using HP Quality Center ALM and distributing to all project stake holders.
• Verify Unix logs and xml files for trade processing
• Optimized the usage of HP Quality Center ALM by using Requirements to Dashboard modules
• Mentoring, coordinating and assigning tasks to the offshore team
• Designing and planning for performance load testing and tracking test metrics for the same.
• Verifying the testing process is followed throughout the testing phase and maintaining supervisory policies and procedures for the product.
• Provided complete QA support for UAT, Client testing and Production support.
• Preparing for third-party party Audits.
• Providing test sign off and Implementation support.

Environment: Java, HP Quality Center, ALM, Clear Quest, QTP, Rapid SQL, UNIX, V MODEL Methodology, Lotus Notes, HP PPM, Windows 8

Confidential

Senior Test Engineer/QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Business Requirement Document.
• Creating test scenarios, test cases and traceability matrix.
• Creating, maintaining the test environment and performing sanity check to ensure the stable test environment.
• Reviewing the test scenarios, test cases and ensuring it meets the user requirements.
• Execute test cases, analyze test results, defect tracking and publish test results.
• Updating the test scripts for the automation team.
• Maintaining the release and test artifacts using the configuration management tool.
• Exhaustive integration, system, regression, recovery and performance testing.
• Executing complex SQL queries to validate the database updates.
• Knowledge transfers to the team members and ensure the testing process is followed throughout the SDLC phase.
• Involved in developing standards and procedures for defining standard testing process.
• Coordinating test execution and task allocation for the team
• Communicating with the business team to gain knowledge on the business processes
• Preparing for third-party party Audits.
• Providing test sign off and Implementation support.

Environment: Web Application, Clear Quest, QTP, Rapid SQL, UNIX, Agile Methodology, Lotus Notes, HP PPM, Windows.

Confidential

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Gathering and reviewing Business Requirement Document.
• Creating test scenarios, test cases and traceability matrix.
• Creating, maintaining the test environment and performing sanity check to ensure the stable test environment.
• Reviewing the test scenarios, test cases and ensuring it meets the user requirements.
• Setting the project in HP Quality Center ALM and defining and mapping requirements, cases and defects.
• Execute test cases, analyze test results, defect tracking and publish test results.
• Setting up project calls with stake holders, business, Dev and BA teams.
• Interacting with business users and providing UAT support.
• Exhaustive integration, system, regression, recovery and performance testing.
• Executing complex SQL queries to validate the database updates.
• Involved in developing standards and procedures for defining standard testing process.
• Coordinating test execution and task allocation for the team
• Preparing for third-party party Audits.
• Providing test sign off and Implementation support.

Environment: Web Application, Clear Quest, QTP, Rapid SQL, UNIX, V MODEL Methodology, Lotus Notes, HP PPM, Windows.

Confidential

Test Engineer /Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Business Requirement Document.
• Creating test scenarios, test cases and traceability matrix.
• Creating, maintaining the test environment and performing sanity check to ensure the stable test environment.
• Reviewing the test scenarios, test cases and ensuring it meets the user requirements.
• Execute test cases, analyze test results, defect tracking and publish test results.
• Updating the test scripts for the automation team.
• Maintaining the release and test artifacts using the configuration management tool.
• Exhaustive integration, system, regression, recovery and performance testing.
• Executing complex SQL queries to validate the database updates.
• Knowledge transfers to the team members and ensure the testing process is followed throughout the SDLC phase.
• Involved in developing standards and procedures for defining standard testing process.
• Coordinating test execution and task allocation for the team
• Communicating with the business team to gain knowledge on the business processes
• Preparing for third-party party Audits.
• Providing test sign off and Implementation support.

Environment: Quick Test Professional, Test director, JIRA, Waterfall methodology.

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Business Requirement Document.
• Creating test scenarios, test cases and traceability matrix.
• Creating, maintaining the test environment and performing sanity check to ensure the stable test environment.
• Reviewing the test scenarios, test cases and ensuring it meets the user requirements.
• Execute test cases, analyze test results, defect tracking and publish test results.
• Updating the test scripts for the automation team.
• Maintaining the release and test artifacts using the configuration management tool.
• Exhaustive integration, system, regression testing.
• Knowledge transfers to the team members and ensure the testing process is followed throughout the SDLC phase.
• Involved in developing standards and procedures for defining standard testing process.
• Coordinating test execution
• Communicating with the business team to gain knowledge on the business processes
• Providing test sign off and Implementation support.

Environment: ClearQuest, Waterfall methodology, Windows 2000, Accounts, Admin