SUMMARY

• Highly motivated and dedicated Quality Assurance Analyst with 6+ years of experience in financial and banking industries. Strong understanding of the Software
• Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), including designing, developing and implementing test plans, test cases, and writing test analysis reports. Solid background in all stages of Waterfall and Agile methods of software testing combined with exceptional analytical skills, strong work ethic, attention to details and ability to deliver high quality products in a fast - paced environment. Quick learner with strong communication skills.
• Hands-on experience and strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), Waterfall and Agile methodologies
• Solid experience in Black Box Testing: Functional, Non-Functional, GUI, System, Integration, Smoke, Regression, End-to-End, Back-End, Cross-browser, Exploratory, Ad-Hoc and UAT testing
• Experienced in RDBMS such as MS SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL
• Performed Manual Testing on Client-Server, Web-based and Mobile applications
• Experienced in Trade Life Cycle and Electronic Trading Platforms
• Full knowledge of Trade Order Management System, Global Transaction Management and Fix Protocol
• Strong knowledge of Capital Markets, including Fixed Income, Equity, ETFs and Derivative products
• Excellent understanding of Financial Institutions, Asset Management and Mutual Funds
• Expertise in writing Requirement Traceability Matrix and Test Analysis Reports (TAR), analyzing requirements, writing Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Cases for various Functional Modules of the application
• Ability to quickly understand and analyze Business Requirements/User Stories
• Experienced in logging and prioritizing defects, retesting of fixed defects and tracking them until they are closed, using bug tracking tools such as HP ALM, JIRA, Bugzilla
• Confident in constructing SQL queries using Joins, aggregate functions and other Data Manipulation Language statements to perform Data validation and Back-End testing
• Proficient in using UNIX commands for monitoring and analyzing the log files
• Excellent analytical skills and ability to autonomously solve problems, as well as collaborate with direct and extended teams to ensure on-time product delivery

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: HP ALM, Bugzilla, JIRA, Cygwin

Databases: RDBMS MS SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL

Architecture: Mobile, Web-based, Client-Server

Operating Systems: Unix/Linux, Windows, Mac OS, Android, iOS

Languages: HTML, XML, SQL, C++, C#, Java, JSON

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall

Domain: Financial, Retail Banking, Broker/Dealer, Asset Management

Data comparison tools: NotePad++, WinMerge

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NJ

Sr QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), using Agile model
• Analyzed functional and technical requirement documents related to the project
• Created test cases with clear and detailed steps for checking the functionality of the application
• Used HP ALM to organize and manage all phases of the software testing process, including planning tests, executing tests, logging and tracking defects and creating Test Analysis Reports
• Created Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to ensure all requirements of the project are covered by test cases
• Executed Smoke/Sanity testing on new builds
• Performed GUI, Functional, Integration, System, E2E and Regressing testing of the application to ensure a fully-functional build is released to client's users
• Conducted Back-End Testing by using Oracle SQL queries to verify updates of the records in database and validate them accordingly
• Extensively worked with Trade Order Management Systems (TOMS) for testing the Trade Capturing, Processing, Confirmation, Matching, Settlement functionalities
• Worked in UNIX/LINUX operating systems to monitor log files and search for patterns
• Interacted with developers to discuss and resolve issues related to software defects/bugs
• Participated in daily SCRUM meetings and weekly team meetings, discussing enhancement and modification requests
• Attended Bug Triage meetings to assign the priority and severity levels of defects

Confidential, New York, NY

Sr. QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Attended walkthrough meetings with Business Analyst to discuss the requirements
• Analyzed the user/business requirements, functional specs and Use Case documents
• Created Test Plans and Test Cases for various functional modules of the application
• Used HP ALM to create and execute test cases as well as log defects and create Test Analysis Report
• Created RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix) to map the requirements to the test cases
• Manually tested full trade life cycle of stock trading
• Executed End to End testing for single-trade and multi trade order placement
• Performed Smoke, GUI, Functionality, Integration, System, Regression testing on new software enhancements and modifications
• Used SQL to write queries for Back-End testing to validate data for existing clients
• Provided root cause analysis when defects occurred
• Provided weekly reports to the QA Lead on the status on the project, severity of issues and estimated timelines
• Coordinated with development team and QA Lead to identify and address software defects in a timely manner
• Attended and actively participated in Walkthrough meetings, Sprint Planning Meetings, Daily Scrums, and Bug Triages, Retrospective Meetings to discuss testing progress, testing process, enhancements and modification requests
• Proactively practiced detail-oriented testing approach to ensure that test cases covered all the requirements, all tests were executed and regression testing was successfully complete