SUMMARY

• Over 8+ years of experience in Analysis, Design, Development and Testing of Software Applications.
• Proficient in both manual and automation testing process with strong Financial, Banking and Healthcare domain knowledge.
• Comprehensive knowledge of service oriented architecture system testing practices and methodologies.
• Excellent experience withSoftwareQuality AssuranceTesting onGUIbasedClient - Server&Web Based applications.
• Extensive experience in functional testing, unit testing, integration testing, regression testing, GUI testing, back-end testing, browser compatibility testing, and component testing on Windows.
• Detailed knowledge of various phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Strong understanding of the Software development methodologies: Waterfall, V-Shaped, Agile etc.
• Have good understanding of Equities, Forex Market and Commodity Market.
• Experienced in testing Trading applications and extensively used different FIX message types like Administration and Application messages.
• Experience with Spot, Forward and Future Markets.
• Expertise in both Manual and Automation testing using Quick Test Professional and Selenium IDE /WebDriver for automation.
• Experience in testing the Mobile application developed using various mobile technologies including J2ME, Blackberry, Android, Symbian, .Net Technology etc.
• Automating the Mobile Apps using Automation tools like SeeTestAutomation.
• Very good exposure of testing applications on wide range of Mobile handset of different vendors which includes IPhone, Nexus, Samsung, Motorola, Windows Mobile, HTC, LG and many more.
• Having extensive knowledge in mobile technologies like CDMA, GSM, GPRS, WAP.
• Good understanding of working on the applications developed for touch screen phones.
• Have good understanding of Forex Market Terms - PIP, SPREAD and SWAP.
• Experience working on FIX protocol based locate request, transactions verification and settlement.
• Validation of FIX tags for various message types such as IOIs, Advertisements and Fixed Income.
• Proficient in Test Planning, Test Cases Design, Defect Tracking, Effort Estimation, Test life Cycle planning, Scrum Preparation, Reporting Analysis and other associated testing related tasks.
• Experienced in using HP Quality Center/ HP ALM for managing test plans, test cases, requirements traceability and defects.
• Good Knowledge of UNIX/Linux commands
• Generated Perl Scripts for Verifying/Validating the log files.
• Expert in Bug Tracking tools - Jira, Quality Center, Bugzilla, and Clear Quest.
• Proficient in writing SQL queries, PL/SQL and executing SQL queries to perform backend testing.
• Strong "research-oriented" focus, proven ability to multi-task and work in a project environment
• Works well both independently and as a team member; diplomatic, friendly and patient individual.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: UNIX, Linux, Windows 7/XP/2000

Databases: Oracle 11g/10g/9i, SQL Server 2008/2005, DB2

Software Tools: Jing, SnagIt, Dreamweaver, MS Project

Database Tools: TOAD, SQL Navigator, DB2

Programming Languages: .Net, JAVA/J2EE, COBOL, JCL, VSAM

Automation: QTP, Selenium, Junit, SeeTestAutomation

Scripting Languages: Perl Scripting, JAVA Scripting, VB Script, Angular.js, CSS,HTML

Protocols: FIX Protocol, FTP, TCP/IP, HTTP

Test Management Tools: HP Quality Center, ALM, Test Director, IBM Clear Quest, Microsoft TFS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NY

Programmer Analyst /Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing and creating High level test Scenarios from the Business Specifications.
• Developing test scripts using Quality Center.
• Performed functionality testing, GUI testing, and regression testing manually.
• Review test results and identify any dependencies, which may result in risk.
• Automating the functionalities based on the frequent changes.
• Developed VB Scripts for Automating Testing Activity in QTP.
• Performed cross platform and cross browser testing for application under test using QTP.
• Customized the QTP Test as per the Test Case by using the VB-Script.
• Extensively used VB Script for customizing the Automated Test Script.
• Customized QTP Scripts with Parameterization, Check Points, Library Files, Regular expression etc.
• Manually Performed Functional and Regression testing on Mobile App.
• Good with identifying severity and priority level of the defect and test case.
• Responsible for testing Match Engine and Market Data applications.
• Use Agile-Scrum process for productive work.
• Review message specification, instrument data documents for Market Data, Trading and Market Operations per iteration.
• Involved in smoke, integration, functional, regression, load, performance and production testing.
• Perform component and feature based testing. Develop SQL queries for back-end testing.
• FIX Client On-boarding, Validation of FIX tags for various message types such as IOIs, Advertisements and Fixed Income.
• Expertise in using FIX Protocol API. Testing admin and application FIX messages like heartbeat, logon, logout, resend request, reject, sequence, pre-trade, trade and post-trade messages.
• Read and understand the FIX log file and to interpret format and different tag combinations.
• Tracked and reported test cycle status.
• Use MS SharePoint to host documents in a centralized location.
• QTP, UNIX and Perl Scripts development and execution
• Interacted and worked with the business/developers for implementing Change Requests.
• Create test scenarios and ensure the test coverage completeness and find any gaps.
• Involves not only using the automation tool but also the creation of custom scripts

Environment: .Net, Fix 4.4, HP Quick Test Pro v10.0, Quality Center v10.0, HP ALM v11.0, MS SQL Server 2008, UNIX, Windows 7, XML, MS Office, MS SharePoint, Fiddler, IE, Firefox, Google Chrome, SnagIt, MS TFS.

Confidential, Newbury Park, CA

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Good working knowledge in X12 HIPAA EDI standards v4010 and v5010 standards and HL7.
• Involved in end to end STLC (Software Test Life Cycle).
• Involved in testing of Mobile, Desktop and Web Applications.
• Experience in working with open source tools Selenium (Selenium IDE and Selenium Web Driver) for automation.
• Created scripts for Web Application testing using Selenium IDE for Firefox Browser and enhanced the scripts using Xpaths and CSS Selectors.
• Recorded and plays back test in Fire fox using Selenium IDE.
• Created Automation test framework using Selenium.
• Used Firebug Tool to identify the Object’s id, Name, XPath, link in the application.
• Good understanding of working on the applications developed for touch screen phones.
• Mobile Apps Automation using SeeTestAutomation.
• Tested various Native/Web Based/Hybrid apps.
• Working with iOS Dev. team for solving issues using automation scripts.
• Identifying and preparing test data for Manual and Mobile Testing.
• Maintaining the regression suite and run the scripts in Simulator, Real Device and on Cloud.
• Generated Perl Scripts for Verifying/Validating the log files.
• Involved in development of complex algorithm for data analysis.
• Extensively used SQL Queries for backend testing of application.
• Responsible for UI, Functional, Web Services, cross browser, Automation and legacy applications.

Environment: HP Quality Center 10.0, UNIX, JAVA/J2EE, Eclipse, PERL, Selenium IDE/Web driver 2.10, Firebug, Junit, SeeTestautomation v6.5/6.6, TOAD, PL/SQL, Windows XP, MS Office.

Confidential, Tampa FL

QA Analyst/ BSA

Responsibilities:

• Attended Meeting with Business and Development teams to get proper understanding of the application.
• Performed various testing extensively - primarily Smoke, Integration, Functional, Regression, GUI, Database, Black Box, White Box, Back end Testing.
• Worked on different EDI transactions like 837 for submitting claims, 835 for payments, 834 for benefit enrollment etc.
• Involved in Developing and Executing Test Plan, and Test cases based on the Business Requirements Documents, Functional Requirement, and Use Cases.
• Created automated regression test scripts using Quick Test Professional and managed the test beds using Quick Test Professional.
• Developed test scripts to automate process of testing in Selenium WebDriver.
• Modified the selenium scripts and executed. Prepared automation test framework.
• Added annotations to the test. (selenium)
• Tests developed in Eclipse to start and to stop the selenium server and to execute the tests in browser.
• Involved and performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with Subject Matter Experts (SME) & UAT Team.
• Performed Back end Testing using SQL queries to validate the data in the database.

Environment: HP ALM 11.0, HP Quick Test Professional v10.0,Selenium IDE/Selenium WebDriver, Firebug, Junit, VB.Net, Oracle 10g, Windows XP, MS Office.

Confidential

Technical Associate

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Gathering and Produce Test Plan and high level Test Scenarios.
• Identify the Manual and automation scope for the Project
• Responsible for the Integration, functionality, GUI and system testing.
• Performed Functional and Regression Testing and logged defects in Quality Center.
• Involved in end to end testing of Application by creating and executing of Test Automation scripts in QTP using VB Scripts
• Involved in testing the application using Data Driven, Keyword Driven and data Parameterizations.
• Reporting the bugs on the bug tracking tools - Bugzilla
• Maintaining the bug cycle, bug verification, closure of the assigned testing tasks
• Tested the application by creating and using the Local Object Repositories, Shared Object Repositories and Function Libraries for testing.
• Stored and manipulated data in Oracle Database, SQL.
• Maintain and provide status and progress of project activities
• Prepare Test Status report on weekly demand during planning and execution to summarized progress and results.
• Work closely with other developers and testers to feature requests.

Environment: JAVA/J2EE, HP Quality Center v9.0, HP Quick Test Pro v9.2, Bugzilla, Eclipse 3.x,Oracle 10g, UNIX, MS Office.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the specs provided by the business team.
• Coded the new features using the Pseudo code provided.
• Performed Code review and Peer review.
• Created Test scenarios and Test plans for the new features in Mercury Quality Center.
• Performed Smoke test, Functional, Non-functional and Regression testing.
• Logged bugs and did code fixes.
• Attended Status Meetings and Review Meeting to provide the daily and weekly updates.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, Mercury Quality Center, Oracle 10g, LINUX, MS Office.