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