OBJECTIVE:

Organized, dedicated QA testing professional with 9 years of experience in Securities & capital market domain. Specialized in manual and automation testing of server based, Windows .NET, Mainframe, Financial Information Exchange (FIX), Service Oriented application (SOA), Web, Mobile and Desktop applications in Rational Unified Process (RUP), Waterfall and Scrum methodologies.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Working as onsite QA lead and SME for Confidential client - trading QA team of 45 members working in different projects in agile methodologies.
• Extensive experience in application testing (black box) and automation testing using Selenium, SOATest, VeriFIX & TOSCA.
• Experienced in conducting Functional, Regression, System Testing and End to End testing for web, desktop, API (REST & SOAP) and server side applications.
• Extensive knowledge in API testing (REST and SOAP) using Parasoft SOA, Postman client & advance REST client for Order entry and order status functionality support.
• Extensive knowledge in testing web & desktop applications that are used for E-Commerce (online security trading and management systems).
• Expertise in Server side testing for applications using
• FIX protocol messaging & FIXML message
• Google protocol buffers, Cobol copybook message & Tag=value message
• Applications interacting with Microsoft SQL/IBM DB2 using stored procedure
• Applications writing & reading from Aerospike DB.
• Applications interacting through MQ’s, Mbus & Ultra messaging
• Server with In-memory processing
• Web service provider and consumer
• Experience in Scrum, Waterfall methodology and Rational Unified Process (RUP) using test management tools like
• Team Foundation server (TFS) & Microsoft Test Manager (MTM)
• JIRA, Zephyr, Confluence & HipChat
• Quality Center (QC) & Clear Quest (CQ)
• Experienced in analyzing test requirements, preparing quality test scenarios & test cases, test execution, defect tracking & root cause analysis.
• Very proficient in identifying defects via ad-hoc and exploratory testing.
• Very good debugging skills to identify the root cause and deep understanding about system architecture.
• Found many defects in the projects during document reviews and helped in refining the application during design phase and provided value to the project.
• Experienced in Splunk for searching, monitoring application generated big data using Splunk web interface for testing purpose.
• Expertise in developing Test approach, Test Strategy, Test plan & Test evaluation summary documents.
• Implemented and utilized Dependency Structure Matrix (DSM), Risk Based Testing (RBT) and Orthogonal Array.
• Experienced in SQL testing and used SQL server management studio 2005/2008 for scripting. Used TOAD interface for IBM DB2 mainframe and tested aerospike/persistence DB using web UI interface.
• Good knowledge on TCPViewer used to connect/disconnect TCP ports, Command prompt search used for finding string and Record-Playback tools.
• Extensive use of Mainframe CICS screens for testing and created Macro’s for automating mainframe screens.
• Extensive knowledge in server deployment and test environment support.
• Implemented Selenium web driver automation to capture aerospike (no SQL) data from web UI - aerospike viewer based on excel sheet input and populate results in excel file. Also, automated daily health check scripts for entering orders and validating order status.
• TOSCA Automation for creating JSON request and making REST API call and validating web service response.
• SOA test automation for creating JSON request and making REST API call and validating web service response using test data driven framework.
• Automated fix messages send to venues using VeriFIX tool. This tool was also utilized for performance testing, exchange simulation and replay of messages.
• Carried out performance testing using Parasoft test, performance center and In-house simulator tools along with App dynamics.
• Got trained in automation tools like QTP, Coded UI and service virtualization (no hands-on experience). Good understanding about HTML and JavaScript.
• Currently working in implementing CI (Continuous Integration)/CD (Continuous delivery) for our project using Bamboo.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Test management & testing Tools: TFS, MTM, JIRA, Zephyr, Bamboo, Confluence, HipChat, QC, CQ, Parasoft SOAtest, Postman, Advance Rest client, Mindreef, Putty, Data Recorder, TCP viewer

Methodology: Rational Unified Process (RUP), Waterfall, Agile

Operating Systems: Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10

Software testing type: Functional, Regression, System, End to End testing, Performance testing & Automation

Database: IBM DB2 using TOAD, SQL server management studio 2005/2008, Aerospike

Testing: Web testing, Desktop application testing, SQL testing, Web service testing, Server testing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Austin, Texas

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Working as Onshore QA Lead & Subject Matter expert (SME) on trading backend servers.
• Overall QA coordinator/End to end coordinator for multiple projects with 5-6 QA domains.
• Effectively contributing in agile ceremonies like Backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily scrum call, sprint review & retrospective.
• Implemented test estimation template for agile sizing.
• I brought more value to delivery by helping product owners during grooming sessions for identifying missed acceptance criteria with my SME knowledge.
• Helped development team in identifying the issues in web services contract definition that may possibly result in channel integration issues.
• Effective usage of Zephyr, JIRA & Hip chat for logging defects, test management and effective communication.
• Expert tester of web services using Postman client, Parasoft SOA, Advance rest client, multi browser.
• Expert in TOAD tool for DB2 validation using SQL commands and aerospike (no SQL) validation using web UI to ensure Service provider is doing proper update in database.
• Carried out performance testing to ensure that service provider is able to support load and stress testing and the response times are not degraded when compared to previous releases.
• Very good interpersonal skills, team player & high commitment to team & delivery. Always ensured that quality of delivery is not sacrificed with minimal time to market.
• Proactive in identifying and communicating impediments well in advance and ensured team is able to deliver what is committed within the sprint.
• Very passionate in learning new things and implementing best practices that effective in other teams.
• Responsible for planning the testing activities in RUP SDLC models.
• Effectively contributed in Requirement gathering, Analyzing Business Use cases and conducting Ambiguity review meeting.
• Test effort estimation (sizing) for projects & maintenance release.
• Prepared many Test Plan preparation, guiding offshore team for Test scenarios preparation.
• Conducted reviews of Test artifacts with Business and Development teams.
• Implemented Risk based testing (RBT) during Functional and Regression phase which helped in identifying bugs during earlier stage of testing.
• Acted as a single point of QA contact during test execution, reviewing observations from Offshore and tracking bugs and status reporting.
• Responsible for managing day-to-day project activities and coordinate tasks with other teams.
• Performed defect Tracking and reporting with strong emphasis on root-cause analysis to determine where and how defects are introduced.
• Used Team Foundation Server (TFS) for defect management & MTM for test cases.
• Attended daily meeting to address the test issues, defects tracking and demonstrating the progress
• Prepared Test Summary report and QA sign off emails after completion of testing.
• Did regular training sessions to familiarize new and current team members with the system Architecture and E2E understanding.
• Coordinated with Automation team in getting Automated the scripts after Functional testing.
• Weekly status meeting with QA managers for status update on Projects and maintenance release.
• Being a core member of Centre of Excellence (COE) team, I played major role in implementing performance testing (PC), Continuous testing, continuous delivery (In progress), automation solutions & implementing best practices.
• Implemented Selenium web driver automation to capture aerospike (no SQL) data from web UI - aerospike viewer based on excel sheet input and populate results in excel file. Also, automated daily health check scripts for entering orders and validating order status.
• TOSCA Automation for creating JSON request and making REST API call and validating web service response.
• SOA test automation for creating JSON request and making REST API call and validating web service response using test data driven framework.
• Automated fix messages send to venues using VeriFIX tool. This tool was also utilized for performance testing, exchange simulation and replay of messages

Confidential

QA coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Effectively contributed in all project meetings representing QA team.
• Acted as the escalation point for all testing related activities.
• Coordinated with impacted domains for all QA activities.
• Provide overall QA status reports.
• Identified risk and formulated mitigation plan for overall testing.
• Prepared Test approach, Test Strategy, Ambiguity review for Business requirements, SIT test plan, SIT test scenarios & Test evaluation summary and carried out walkthrough with all stakeholders and impacted QA domains.
• Consolidated test effort estimation (sizing) from individual domains and worked on overall test schedule.
• Organized meeting for QA/UAT defect triage (analyze and assigning).

Confidential, Austin, Texas

QA Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Contributed to the test requirement analysis and gathering.
• Effective Test preparation by reproducing bugs and understanding exact issue before starting testing.
• Developed test scenarios & test scripts and carried out team review.
• Participated in test execution, defect identification, logging and tracking.
• Expertise in identifying & logging bugs and root cause analysis.
• Test result documentation, test summary preparation.
• Gave Knowledge Transfer to new joiners and cross teams.
• Implemented Dependency structure matrix (DSM) in Project.
• Used Clear Quest (CQ) for defect management and Quality Center (QC) for test script management.
• For different projects, testing was carried out for web based and desktop based applications.
• Carried out quality Server side testing for applications using a) FIX protocol messaging b) Applications interacting with SQL DB using stored procedure c) Applications interacting with Mainframe through MQ’s and Mbus d) Applications with Start of Day (SOD) file plus intraday events e) Applications calling web services.
• Onsite visit for 1 month, purpose requirement gathering.
• Worked as SME by helping other team member to understand the business functionality, explaining system architecture and supporting other team for any environment issues.
• Used SQL (Structured Query Language) for retrieving, updating and deleting data to ensure applications calling stored procedure are working properly.
• Carried out Web services testing using Parasoft SOAtest and Mindreef for validating applications that interacts with Web services.
• Created complex excel formula for reducing efforts while preparing Daily and Weekly status reports.
• Extensive use of Notepad++, Textpad, Baretail etc for day to day activities.
• Extensive use of Mainframe CICS screens for testing aid and used/created Macro’s for automating.
• Used Putty, Command prompt search and Record-Playback tools for testing aid.

Confidential

Overall QA Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• This project was carried out in multiple phases,
• Schwab & OptionXpress (oX) integration for Options order routing to use oX routing and management capabilities.
• Equity order routing using architecture in previous phase.
• Streamlining the architecture for better performance and supporting all order flow efficiently.
• This is the project in which Active Trader Clients (Streetsmart) started supporting Brackets on Positions. It was only supported for Brackets on Order earlier.
• If messages are lost between distributed Server to mainframe, Replay functionality will query data from SQL database and will replay to mainframe.
• This is a project in which two servers that supported Order Entry to mainframe was consolidate into one to improve efficiency and performance.
• This was a new server implemented to query persistent accounts from SQL database and update mainframe database.
• This is the project in which Shorting of Direct Access orders was first supported for Active Trader Clients (Streetsmart).