SUMMARY

• Senior QA Consultant having 8 years of experience in Financial Domain across various sub - verticals in
• Manual testing environment and Automation.
• Efficiently collaborated wif multiple stake holders like Business Analysts, FS authors, Developers, Project Managers and Clients to understand teh requirements and their transformation into applications to accomplish milestones.
• Involved in project task allocation, reviewing of scripts developed by peers and suggest areas of improvement where required, discovering errors, resolving defects and ensuring client expectations are met wif high quality software solutions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• HP Quality Center Version 9.2
• HP Quality Center Version 9.0
• Application Lifecycle Management 11.0
• Rational Team Concert
• Clear Quest
• Jira
• QTP 10 & UFT 11.2

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Plainsboro, NJ

Senior QA Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Test Lead for a 8 member team in offshore including both functional and automation resources
• Activities involved in are as follows - BRD Analysis, Requirement Gathering, Context Call, Test Plan Preparation, Test Script Preparation, Data Management, Test Execution, Defect Management, Post production Defect Analysis, Review teh testing artifacts and Coordination wif Offshore and LOB’s
• Reviewing / Walkthrough of scripts developed by peers and suggest areas of improvement where required
• Involved in task allocation, status reporting activities, estimations, pre-release resource planning etc
• Assist in teh growth of team members by providing ample support to help them improve on their strengths
• Provide timely updates to clients on status of risk items, propose mitigation plans and overall status of projects in teh current release and other releases in pipeline
• Identify areas of automation and create basic automation scripts for testing teh applications hence improving productivity and efficiency of execution
• Create reusable automation components to be able to execute teh scripts over multiple releases for Regression testing of applications
• Taking ownership of various modules and collaboratively work towards teh system being more stable and efficient through rigorous use of Automation models played a pivotal role in process improvements, based on teh technical nature of various projects, Ensuring quality products

Confidential - Plainsboro, NJ

Senior QA Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Target Allocation v/s Investor profile risk band
• Review documentation, understand teh testing requirements and establish objectives
• Review testing scope and provide estimates
• Develop Test Plan and Test Strategy (including Analytics) for teh projects
• Identify Test Data needs and work wif teh associated teams to ensure data availability
• Identify and asses testing risks using systematic approach
• Outline Test scenarios and test cases and conduct peer reviews
• Create calculators for Deterministic wealth forecasting, company match calculations, Education Surplus etc.
• Run teh Test Plan and Test Script review meetings wif all teh Stakeholders
• Identify UI areas wif scope (eg. Set-up Wealth Outlook plans for Analytics) for test automation and write automation scripts using HP UFT 11.5 for teh same
• Coordinate testing of applications wifin onshore and offshore teams
• Set up Test Harness, execute test cases including context refresh on Wealth Management+workstation and log defects in teh HP ALM (QC)
• Perform smoke and regression testing and provide support for post-production validation
• Organize and conduct teh defect review meetings wif all teh stakeholders
• Provide subject matter expertise on specific application usage or area of noledge (eg. Retirement
• Analytics, Goal Based Wealth Management etc.)
• Develop and maintain relationships wif teh project team members, Third party service (Morning Star (Wealth forecasting engine), Finance Logix (Estate & Insurance) etc.) partners and client areas as appropriate
• Work collaboratively to identify solutions to resolve variance from teh specifications
• Prepare Weekly Testing Reports
• Work closely wif teh Business partners and provide support to teh Business QA team during UAT phase
• Advise project manager regarding overall quality of project. Raise outstanding issues through established channels
• Take presentations for teh senior management on teh updates / progress of teh team
• dis project involved Agile testing methodologies as well. Analyzed user stories and create scripts based on teh stories from teh Dev cycle’s itself (Agile)
• Attend daily scrum calls and review meetings and also provide Agile status report on regular basis
• Schedule and attend Delivery Status Calls and Context calls wif Onshore counterparts, Business partners etc. for providing status updates and understanding teh requirements for various initiatives and timely and continuous status updates to clients and all other stake holders

Confidential

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in getting application transition from teh SME's for dis new engagement
• Co-ordinate wif developers and client representatives to understand teh requirements from teh mapping document
• Analyze teh functional documents and develop Test Plans, Test Scripts/Cases for teh functionalities
• Allocate task to team members
• Support team members for concerns raised during test execution
• Execute test cases and log defects
• Attend defect review meetings
• Responsible for attending teh meeting wif clients regarding teh project
• Preparing Lesson Learnt documents from teh project testing experience
• Co-ordinate and review test cases wif Automation Test Engineer for automating teh scenarios.
• Give presentations to client
• Co-ordinate UAT
• Metrics Preparation