Project Test/qa Lead Resume
Manhattan, NY
SUMMARY
- Around 17 years of diversified experience in Software Engineering
- Around 12 yrs of extensive banking and financial services experience as IT Business/Data Analyst
- Around 16 yrs in Quality Assurance
- Around 8 years of diversified experience in Software Development
- Around 9 years of experience of working with offshore teams.
- Around 9 Yrs in ETL and 15 yrs in SDLC methodology
- Effectively define and utilize metrics and reports to manage QA efforts
- Providing effort estimates for project schedules for QA team
- Providing leadership, performance feedback, mentoring, career development to team members
- Review test estimates/schedules for completeness and accuracy and work with Project Management to align expectations on schedules
- Balance resources the need for multiple concurrent projects
- Build cross - team alignment around quality objectives and the steps to achieve them
- Manage to completion concurrent ad hoc and project related test requests
- Experience in testing applications manually as well as using the automated testing tools like ALM, Jira
TECHNICAL SKILLS
- Trade life cycle/event
- Derivatives
- Equities
- FX Spots & Forwards
- Fixed Income Instruments
- Money Market Instruments
- Mutual Funds
- Regulatory Reporting
- Collateral Management
- Market data feeds
- Post-trade processing
- Reference data
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential - North Brunswick, NJ
QA
Responsibilities:
- Interact with project stake holders, conduct analysis and document testing scope, functions, capabilities
- Manage test schedules, track and monitor distribution of work & effectively communicate test progress
- Ensure successfully supporting the needs of the business community
- Experience in presenting the test status. Metrics, Risks, Mitigation and improvement plans to stake holders
- Implementing procedures and standards to ensure continuous use of best practices
- Provided regular status reporting to management teams on test processes and QA activities (coverage, quality metrics and improvements
- Writing complex SQL queries for searching and reconciling data for end to end testing
- Used Unix scripts and Autosys jobs to process the trades
- Extensively used XML and STV files
- Used data from Calypso, Fidessa, Bloomberg and other front office trading application
- Creating Project Plans for QA, Test Strategy, Test Plan and writing test cases
Confidential - Jersy City NJ
Sr. QA Lead
Responsibilities:
- Identify and mitigate project and/or test risks with escalation/delegation of issues to appropriate members of the project team
- Participate in all phases of the project life cycle e.g. requirements review/analysis, test planning, test execution, and test reporting and assessment.
- Drive best practice, quality standards, operating efficiencies, and process and product improvements in the range of products
- Review the test artifacts and support team in delivery
- Liaise with project stakeholders on daily/weekly basis
- Track, investigate and resolve any issues during the project execution.
- Wrote complex SQL queries for reconciling data
- Worked in Autosys, Tibco, Informatica ETL process testing
- Coordinating and working in a Production support team
- Creating Project Plans for QA, Test Strategy, Test Plan
- Perform Business analysis in order to support Market Risk reconciliation processing between Front Office and Back office
Confidential - Manhattan, NY
Project Test/QA Lead
Responsibilities:
- Design processes to reconcile Risk data from various trading systems with accounting/sub ledger data
- Gather and documents requirements and business rules in order to provide technology group with clear and specific functional requirements
- Work with business and technology partners to increase the data quality for reconciliation
- Analyze Front Office/Risk and Back Office Accounting/Sub Ledger data to create new or enhance existing reconciliation processes
- Work closely with developer and QA/DVA resources to ensure that project is developed, tested, and deployed to Production in a timely and accurate matter
- Provide walk through sessions to business users to introduce any new process or enhancement of existing ones in order to obtain sign off on the requirements
- Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Create Procedure Documents, Functional Requirement Documents, Data and Process flow diagrams
- Provide ongoing analytical support
Confidential
Project Test/QA Manager
Responsibilities:
- Premium - Renewal Price Change
- Coordinating with Claims and Premium Stake holders
- ETL using Ab Initio - Data Reconciliations of Premium and Claim
- Complex SQL queries for reconciling data - Source, Warehouse and Datamart
- Analysis of data between Cognos and Terradata databse
- Interacting with Technical, Business and Project Management Team
- Coordinating with the development and Business analysis team.
- Worked on data warehouse, business functionality data quality performance
- Data Load: Parameters setting Validation, Initial Data Load
- Created and executed Test Cases, added Requirements, created traceability matrix in ALM/Quality Center
- Created Metrics for managing the projects and reporting to higher management
- Created Traceability Metrics for tracking requirement
- Design and implement SDLC policy and procedures
Confidential, Manhattan, NY
Project Test/QA Manager
Responsibilities:
- Coordinating with Risk Managers across the globe
- Worked on data warehouse, ETL using Informatica
- ETL - Data Reconciliations of Credit and Market Risk
- Analyzing data using Excel Pivot table
- Worked on data warehouse, business functionality data quality performance
- Data Load: Parameters setting Validation, Initial Data Load
- Worked on Web Service Mocking to simulate the functionality of a Web Service in SoapUI
- E2E Business - UI and Interface Testing, Maintenance Data Feeds - Regression
- Slicing and dicing of data using OLAP cube
- Testing equity feeds develop strong metrics based reporting for the following asset classes
- Creating Project Plans for QA, Test Strategy, Test Plan
- Created Metrics for managing the projects and reporting to higher management
- Created Traceability Metrics for tracking requirement
- Work closely with team to ensure all deliverables are prioritized & executed to meet project plans
- Creating process and templates for project plans, test strategy for TCOE
Confidential - Hopewell, NJ
Project Test/QA Manager
Responsibilities:
- Coordinating with Client Project managers and Stake holders
- Created and executed Test Cases, added Requirements, created traceability matrix in Quality Center
- Coordinating with the development team.
- Creating Process and Methodology for Testing team
- Mange test cycles and develop strong metrics based reporting
- Creating Project Plans for QA, Test Strategy, Test Plan
- Created Metrics for managing the projects and reporting to higher management
- Created Traceability Metrics for tracking requirement
- Work closely with team to ensure all deliverables are prioritized & executed to meet project plans, tracking defect in Jira
- Worked on data warehouse, data conditioning, data mining and performed different level of testing in ETL running the automation scripts.
- Worked on Web Service Mocking to simulate the functionality of a Web Service in SoapUI
- Work to deadlines, on multiple tasks, and operate with general supervision and guidance.
- Worked on data warehouse, ETL using Informatica
- Interface with end-user to understand requirements and technical documentation
- Manage and lead a team of QA Leads/Analysts (both onshore and offshore)
- Work cross-functionally across the HUBs to provide comprehensive test strategies and plans for an entire business unit
- Manage and track actual progress against multiple test plans
- Effectively manage resource allocation for both onshore and offshore across multiple initiatives
- Ensure overall quality of test cases written and executed
- Effectively communicate testing status of multiple projects to Executive Management
- Develop and report key testing metrics to measure quality of the project and quality of overall QA effort
Confidential - Westport, CT
QA Manager
Responsibilities:
- Overseeing day to day testing activities for Collateral Management, Portfolio Management and Accounting Management
- Coordinating with the development team.
- Creating Project Plans for QA
- Creating Test Strategy, Test Plan
- Created Metrics for managing the projects and reporting to higher management
- Created Traceability Metrics for tracking requirement
- Work closely with team to ensure all deliverables are prioritized & executed to meet project plans
- Created and executed Test Cases, added Requirements, created traceability matrix in Quality Center
- Design and implement SDLC policy and procedures
- Conduct gap analysis of the SDLC
Confidential, Manhattan, NY
QA Lead
Responsibilities:
- Overseeing day to day testing activities for Legacy A2 and customization of Odyssey
- Coordinating with development, test, infrastructure and business users
- Review and validate requirements definitions
- Define test scenarios, test scripts and expected results to ensure proper coverage and disclosure of defects based on business reqs and use cases.
- Data conditioning and Data mining, running the whole ETL cycle in Websphere
- Created and executed Test Cases, added Requirements, created traceability matrix in Quality Center
- To manage and govern an offshore + onsite team of testers.
- Manage the relationship between QA and the Business users
- To ensure QA Processes and Framework are followed within the QA Team
- Creating Project Plans for QA
- Created Metrics for managing the projects and reporting to higher management
Confidential, Manhattan, NY
ETL QA Lead/Mgr
Responsibilities:
- Overseeing day to day testing activities for all applications
- Managing and working closely with offshore team of 20.
- Coordinating with the development team.
- Creating Project Plans for QA
- Worked with Equity, Derivatives, Bond, Fix Protocol engine
- Created Metrics for managing the projects and reporting to higher management
- Created Traceability Metrics for tracking requirement
- Hands-on experience in integration and system testing
- Worked on data warehouse, ETL using Informatica
- Work closely with team to ensure all deliverables are prioritized & executed to meet project plans
- Created and executed Test Cases, added Requirements, created traceability matrix in Quality Center
- Design and implement SDLC policy and procedures
- Planning for the SIT and UAT release testing.
- Providing technical leadership and mentoring to testers
- Working on Manual testing using Test Director.
- Developing and implementing methods for improving functional and system integration testing
- Performed Automated Regression testing in SIT and UAT environment
- Wrote tools for testing data warehouse, ETL using Informatica.
- Managed performance including testing, monitoring, planning for performance business scenarios
- Conduct gap analysis of the SDLC
- Managing the implementing and administration of testing tools
- Responsible for planning of all functional testing activities, including providing testing effort estimates to project managers
- Created Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Test Reports in Test Director.
Confidential, Buffalo, NY
QA Manager, On-Shore Co-ordinator
Responsibilities:
- Building QA Team from the scratch
- Managing team of 24, including off-shore resources.
- Overseeing day to day testing activities for all applications
- Work closely with team to ensure all deliverables are prioritized & executed to meet project plans
- Creating Project Plans
- Created and executed Test Cases, added Requirements, created traceability matrix in Quality Center
- Maintained improvement process of the SDLC
- Providing technical leadership and mentoring to ITT testers
- Created Metrics for managing the projects and reporting to higher management
- Working on Manual testing using Quality Center
- Worked on data warehouse, ETL using Informatica.
- Developing, implementing, and enforcing operating procedures and controls for the ITT and HBUS Technology Service department
- Working on Automated testing using Quick Test Pro 8.0/WinRunner 8.0
- Developing and implementing methods for improving functional and system integration testing
- Working on Performance testing using Performance Center 8.0
- Responsible for planning of all functional testing activities, including providing testing effort estimates to project managers
- Created Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Test Reports in Quality Center
Confidential, White Plains, NY
QA - Team Leader
Responsibilities:
- Managing an SQA team of 14, including off-shore resources.
- Overseeing day to day testing activities for all applications
- Providing technical leadership and mentoring to SQA testers
- Developing, implementing, and enforcing operating procedures and controls for the SQA department, Creating Project Plans for QA
- Testing SAP interface with the trading application
- Developing and implementing methods for improving functional testing
- Managing the implementing and administration of testing tools
- Created and executed Test Cases, added Requirements, created traceability matrix in Quality Center, and also tracking defect in Jira
- Responsible for tracking and controlling status of all SQA department testing activities, including provision of management status reports
- Responsible for planning of all functional testing activities, including providing testing effort estimates to project managers
- Created Metrics for managing the projects and reporting to higher management
- Primary liaison with Project teams
- Followed RUP methodologies & UML diagrams
- Created Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Test Reports in Test Director 8
- Took part in the meeting during Inception, Elaboration with Business group,
- Meeting with the Business group and developers for Defect review meeting
- Wrote SQL Commands to test the Back end Database
- Functional, Regression, Integration, and System Q/A testing.
- Performed extensive Automated testing using Quick Test Pro 8.0
Confidential, Wood Cliff Lake, NJ
QA - Team Leader
Responsibilities:
- Created Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Reports in Test Director 8
- Took part in the meeting with Development group,
- Wrote SQL Commands to test the Back end Database
- Performed extensive Automated testing using WinRunner 7.0.1
Confidential, Las Vegas, NV
QA - Team Leader
Responsibilities:
- Wrote Integration Test Plan, Integration Test Strategy.
- Extensively tested LoanQuest® Point of Sale
- Created Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Reports in Test Director 8
- Wrote SQL Commands in TOAD to test the Back end Database
- Performed extensive Automated testing using WinRunner 7.0.1
- Was responsible for Performance Analysis