SUMMARY:

• A competent professional with 14 years of Quality & Project Management.
• Extensive experience in Application, Functionality, Integration, Regression and Business End to End Testing.
• Vast Application knowledge on various Inhouse Trading & Investment Systems.
• Vast Application knowledge on various Financial Tools such as Charles River Investment Management System (Compliance and Order management), CameronFIX FIX Engine, WealthManager, SunGard, Intersystems
• Good knowledge across various Investment Types in financial world (Equities, Futures, FX and Fixed Income Bonds)
• Proficient in Functional, Negative, Regression, System Integration (SIT), User Acceptance (UAT), Load/Performance, Security, Browser Compatibility, Black box and White box testing
• Manage QC Domains & Projects, setting user properties, managing group’s permissions etc.
• Excellent knowledge in various Heterogeneous Source Systems like Oracle, MS SQL Server, Flat files and Legacy Systems.
• Experience with No SQL Databases such as Intersystems Cache, MongoDB and Progress OpenEdge.
• Experienced in implementing QA methodology for SDLC.
• Trained User groups in Quality Center.
• Provide technical support on HP Quality Center application.
• Customize HP Quality Center projects based on ongoing requirements from test teams.
• Integrate Quality Center with external tools and systems as needed.
• Experience in Quality Center upgrades essential.
• Strong knowledge of Mercury Interactive Automated Tools like Quick Test Professional, Win Runner for testing Web based and Client/Server Applications
• Holds the distinction of conducting Automated and Manual Testing using tools like Quick Test Professional, Win Runner, Load Runner, Test Director and Rational Suite.
• Hands on experience in developing automation scripts for GUI/CHUI Components to facilitate Regression testing on multiple releases.
• Experience in Version Control tools used CVS, VSS, EDR& SHAREPOINT.
• Strong experience in User Acceptance Testing.
• Experience in System, UI, Regression, Integration, End - to-End, Database Testing.
• Expertise in Performance, Load and Stress Testing for Networking & Web Applications.
• Expertise in Agile Kanban and Scrum development process.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: Progress 4GL, Cache, Visual C++, C, COBOL, SQL, VPL

RDBMS: Progress (Ver 7.x/8.x/9.x), Oracle 7.1 and Interbase, FoxPro, MS SQL Server, Mongo DB 3.2

GUIs: Progress UIB (Smart Objects), Delphi 2, ASP.NET, VB.Net, VB 6.0 and D2K

ChUI: Progress, Cache, Global Plus

OS: Windows XP, 2000, 95 and NT and UNIX

Configuration Tools: VSS, CVS, EDR, Sharepoint

Test Automation Tools: Quick Test Pro (QTP) 9.2, 8.2.6.5, QTP Automation frame work, IBM Functional tester, Load Runner, Selenium, and SOAP UI

Test Management Tools: HP ALM - Quality Center 11 and earlier versions, Selenium

Bug Tracking Tools: Bugzilla and Clear Quest, Jira (Bug & Issue Tracking)

GUI s Tools: ASP.NET, VB.Net, VB 6.0 and Developer 2000

Web Technologies: HTML/DHTML, VBScript, JavaScript

Web Servers: Web Logic Server, IBM Web Sphere and IIS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,Charolette, NC

Lead QA

Responsibilities:

• Determine complete scope, budget, complexity and size of testing effort
• Ensure that ambiguity reviews, test plans, and scripts are complete and accurate and that testing is executed on-time and within budget. (work with test planners and leads)
• Ensure that testing is performed in a consistent and traceable manner. (work with test planners and leads)
• Coordinate cross-functional teams.
• Understand existing test bed and new requirements and specifications
• Communicate daily status to project stakeholders
• Performing complex analysis of business requirements and system specifications to drive test timelines and deliverables
• Partnering with business and development teams to create detailed test strategies and acceptance criteria (NO test execution will work)
• Support defining of high level end to end testing scenarios/data flows for test planners and testers to follow
• Coordinating and supporting SIT/UAT testing and defect triage across integrated functional testing, automation and stress, performance and load teams
• Facilitating test support requirements including test data, test IDs and test environment readiness
• Identify testing dependencies & risks with requirements, scope, and application availability as well as understanding dependencies between testing teams
• Utilizing technical and functional knowledge of applications and enterprise standards to evaluate and resolve complex testing risks/issues and manages through resolution
• Reviewing testing results summary certification and driving the approvals process

Confidential,Chicago, IL

Lead Test Coordinator

• Working on Agile scrum Methodologies for Project development
• Attending daily stand up meeting to update team member on previous day work achievement and plan for today
• Prepare Test Strategy / Test Plan / Test Scripts
• Creation of the Test Scenario and Test Cases in Quality Center
• Identification or Creation test data for the test cases
• Execution of Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Negative Testing, Database validation Testing, Front end UI testing, Volume Testing
• Captured all screenshots for test cases.
• Tracking of defect in JIRA with defect description and steps to reproduce and screenshots
• Execution of End-to-End testing between various interfaces.
• Performed Root cause analysis on defects
• Support User Acceptance Testing
• Working Knowledge of Database Model
• Backend Testing -Verification and Validation of database tables by preparing complex SQL queries
• Prioritized the backlog Testing as per business priority
• Tracking & Effort Estimation of the Backlog in Scrum Work Pro, JIRA
• Review of test Scenario/ Cases with Teams and UAT Members
• Participation in Scrum Retrospective & Backlog Grooming
• Sprint Review Presentation to Business Member
• Support and Coordination of Testing activities with inter teams
• Testing Hot Fixes backlog in different testing environment
• Closely Working with the Team to achieve every sprint goal
• Communicate testing defects to developer and project manager via Email/ Defect Tracking Tool
• Documentation of the process document in central repository like Share point / Wiki

Confidential, Chicago, IL

QA Onsite Offshore Lead

• Knowledge transfer from the client to the team - Obtain the technical knowledge and share it with the team
• Communicate time lines, progress, delays back and forth from the team to the client and vice versa
• Participate in the review of FRD (functional requirements document) to understand the functional design.
• Preparing the Test Plan, Test Architecture Diagram
• Review the test scenarios/Test cases with the client team and provide a sign off
• Provide inputs on the test data preparation phase
• Provide test execution guidelines.
• Evaluate the usability of the Free Test tools such as Selenium, Soap UI.
• Participate in the evaluation of No SQL Database (MongoDB)
• Perform the smoke and sanity test on any deployed build and gives a go ahead for the team to continue testing.
• Participate in the test execution for the major modules that need Onsite Testing.
• Hold defect review meetings with the concerned development and support teams
• Collect metrics and reorganize the Tools to increase Team performance
• Support UAT and End Customer needs while in Sync with the Client Objectives.
• Support Team on time to time with necessary encouragement and Guidance.
• Understand offshore needs and facilitate the same.
• Ensure the slippages are minimal and promptly update the Client.
• Participate in Offshore calls in the IST time zone to support them in their time and then attend all the client calls/needs with any impact on day to day business.

Confidential, Newyork, NY

Lead BA QA

• Gather, Create and Manage Requirements.
• Prepare requirements related documents including BRD, FRS and change requests.
• Manage deployments in the QA environment, co-ordinate production deployments and release planning. Maintain sanity of QA Environment
• Keep Quality center updated and clean with latest Test and Defect statuses.
• Evaluate requirements and define testing objectives and approaches; manage testing tools and environments, test preparation, execution, and automation.
• Provide leadership in quality assurance, change management, process improvement, release management processes, and assessment and reporting.
• Continuous review and improvement of the testing and quality assurance methodologies and measurement of these processes.
• Maintain sanity of the code base using CVS.
• Effectively interact with global customers, business users and IT staff.
• Support test strategy activities, particularly in integration of multiple applications and systems.
• Evaluate testing technologies, conducting test strategy design and test script code reviews.
• Proactively resolves issues and escalate appropriately to the project management.
• Assist deployments on Weblogic and Oracle based builds

Environment: Java, DB2, CICS, Remedy, MQ, XML, Endevor, SQL, Oracle

Confidential, Newyork, NY

Test Architect

• Formulate and develop test Architecture.
• Prepare test Strategy and approach and guide them thru the approvals.
• Prepare test plans and scripts with the help of Business users and baseline them in the repository.
• Assist in design & development of the test Automation Frame work /harness.
• Train and guide the testers in using the test tools; ensure user access to the tools
• Prepare test environment across different applications.
• Extensively utilized SQL to validate the data and ensure data quality.
• Prepared test data setup activities and SQL scripts.
• Confirm user access controls and test data setups are completed prior to the testing.
• Coordinate daily test status calls and defect calls and provide management with regular status updates.
• Keep track of change requests, test and project timelines and update test plans accordingly.
• Support business analysts in delivering presentations and demos to the users.

Environment: Mainframe, DB2, CICS, Remedy, MQ, XML, Endevor, SQL, Oracle

Confidential,Malvern PA

Charles River IMS Business System Tester

Responsibilities:

• Develop and document Test Strategy & partner with BA to develop a combined Test Strategy
• Develop and document System Acceptance Test and User Acceptance Test Scenarios and Test Cases
• Lead and execute SAT and UAT testing, documents and leads issues to resolution
• Provide test execution results and reports on quality and coverage of SAT and UAT testing and approve hand-off to UAT
• Provide input to project manager on Fit/Gap Analysis.
• Assist in the analysis of issues found in UAT
• Document User/Client Acceptance Test Strategy and Partners with the BA to develop a Combined Test Strategy
• Document User/Client Acceptance Test (UAT) Scenarios
• Test the portfolio management & compliance modules and Order management Functionality of Charles river functionality.
• Work with Citibank, JPM directly to test the End to End FIX connections and order Confirgurations.
• Extensively worked with SQL to query database and ensure data quality of the application.
• Inspect test results, test plan, test cases. documents and leads issues resolution
• Assist in post-elevation verification
• Conduct project retrospective
• Planning the effort and schedule for each Agile cycle in beginning of the cycle.
• Update And track efforts and schedules to the project management In the daily Stand Up meeting at Agile board
• Update the Agile Kanban dashboard online and pull necessary reports for project management purpose.

Environment: Charles River 8.2, Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 and C#, Crystal reports 10, Oracle 10.2.0.3.

Confidential,Malvern PA

Charles River IMS Business Analyst & Tester

• Lead requirements planning and management
• Develop and document BCD (Business Capability Decomposition) and CIP (Capability Implementation Plan)
• Define and document functional and non-functional business and system requirements
• Provide Subject Mater Expertise defining business needs
• Provide Subject Mater Expertise defining business terms
• Inspect functional and non-functional business and system requirements
• Develop and document System Acceptance Test and User Acceptance Test Scenarios and Test Cases
• Lead and execute SAT and UAT testing, documents and leads issues to resolution
• Provide test execution results and reports on quality and coverage of SAT and PAT testing and approve hand-off to UAT
• Participate in Agile Planning and provide effort estimates
• Participate in Agile daily status meetings and mark the effort completed and upcoming activities for the day
• Keep the Agile online(Kanban) dashboard updated.

Environment: Charles River 8.2, FSA Test Servers, Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 and C#, Crystal reports 10, Oracle 10.2.0.3

Confidential

QA Lead/Test Tool Admin

• Lead a 10 member team for Performance testing of the application.
• Understanding the business requirements of the client and preparing the use case documents.
• Understanding the Functional and Design documents of the application
• Using Load runner for testing the Performance Testing of the applications as needed.
• Preparing the Test Plan and Traceability Matrix.
• Designing, Developing and Executing the test cases.
• Conduction end to end testing which includes Functional, Integration, Usability, GUI, Performance, Retesting and Regression testing’s of the application.
• Using TOAD to prepare the test data for Load runner scripts.
• Tracking the bugs using Quality Center till closure.
• Hosting the Project Quality Meetings and preparing the Minutes of Meeting report
• Analyzing the test results and reporting the bugs.
• Coordinating with developers to resolve the issues.
• Preparing the Test Reports, daily status reports and weekly status reports
• Train the team in Quality center and arranging the trainings for Load runner and QTP
• Maintain the test environments
• Hosting and maintain the test bed for UAT

Environment: Java, Solaris 9, Windows 2003, Oracle 10.2.0.3

Confidential

QA Lead/Test Tool Admin

• Involved in the design stages of the Application and participated in the meetings with the client, Business Analyst and the development team.
• Involved in designing of Test scripts based on the System requirements from the Business Analyst.
• Prepared The Test Plan and conducted review of test plan with QA and Development team.
• Prepared the Test Bed with all the client requirements.
• Prepared the test cases and reviewed the test casesl.
• Involved in Test Script evaluation along with the testing Manger, Business Analyst, Client and the Development Team.
• Extensively tested Graphical User Interface Components.
• Involved in testing of programs & functions individually to complete Black box testing phase.
• Involved in Functional testing of the system manual and Automation.
• Performed Integration testing, system testing, Regression testing using Win Runner.
• Performed Performance and multi user testing using Load Runner.
• Created the controller scenarios with load runner to identify bottle necks, and coordinated with the team in performance tuning.
• Investigated software bugs and interfaced with developers to resolve technical issues.
• Reported the bugs using Test Director and tracked the bugs till closed.
• Developed automated test scripts to facilitate Regression testing on multiple releases.
• Performed Sanity Testing, Functional testing, User Interface testing, System testing Regression testing and Smoke Testing
• Responsible for Acceptance testing by giving demo’s to the client and getting sign off.
• Responsible for documenting the process for future references.

Environment: GP 7.2, IBM AIX 5.2, Oracle Database 10.2.0.3, VPL Compiler, Windows 2003

Confidential

Sr. QA Lead

• Preparation of Test Plan based on business and functional specifications.
• Designing, building and Executing of automation test scripts for WEB applications.
• Developed Use Cases to highlight different requirements from the SRS.
• Created Test Scenarios and Test Cases based on functional requirement for Manual Testing
• Involved in Parameterization of scripts for performing data driven testing.
• Extensively used Quality Center, for Test planning, Bug tracking and Reporting
• Generated VB Test Scripts using Quick Test Pro.
• Automated Test Scripts for Functional and Regression Testing using Quick Test Pro.
• Object Repository is maintained in the central repository and changes are made to it for every version.
• Conducting Retesting with multiple sets of test data using Data Driven Approach.
• Used SQL commands extensively to check for integrity of data.
• Categorizing and reporting the bugs using Test Director.
• Analyzing the logs from the production and identifying the issues.
• Analyzing Test Execution results, logging of defects into Team Track and tracking till closure

Environment: Java, Solaris 9, Windows 2003, Oracle 10.2.0.3

Confidential

Quality Analyst

• Designing and Developing Test cases using the given use case documentation
• Preparing the Test Plan and conducted review of Test Plan with QA & Development team.
• Preparing the Test Bed with all the client requirements.
• Preparing the Test Cases and reviewing the Test Cases.
• Executed Test cases and verified actual results against expected results.
• Performing Sanity Testing, Functional testing, User Interface testing, System testing Regression testing,
• Upload approved Test Cases and testing related artifacts to Quality Center, maintain different versions of the artifacts and history of the versions.
• Validate the compliance for each trade using the Charles River Module (Stand alone)
• Execution of test cases to validate functionalities of the application using Quality Center
• Preparing and Executing the Progress 4GL queries to test data in the back end.

Environment: Progress 4GL (Char), Progress 9.1D, PVCS, Unix and Windows, 2000/XP.

Confidential

Quality Analyst

• Developed test cases and test data.
• Developed automated test scripts on QTP and running the same.
• Executed test cases manually to verify the system functionality as per user requirement
• De-bug and advise the developers for smooth transition.
• Involved in designing of Test scripts based on the System requirements from the BA
• Prepared the test cases and reviewed the test cases at peer level.
• Involved in Functional testing of the system manual and Automation.
• Developed automated test scripts to facilitate Regression testing on multiple releases.

Environment: IBM-Unix, QTP, Windows 2000, Oracle 7.1, JAVA, API’s XML, Parley, JAIN, OSA), QTP, Silk.

Confidential

Quality Analyst Trainee

• Writing test cases for Sanity and Functional testing.
• Tested the Application using Black box Testing Techniques.
• Creation, Updating and Review of Test cases and Test Scenarios
• Participated in reviews and meetings.
• Defect tracking and reporting the bugs using Bugzilla.
• Creation, Updating and Review of Test cases and Test Scenarios.

Environment: Windows 98, Solaris, AIX, J2EE, Tomcat, web logic, Oracle, MS- SQL Server2000, Win Runner7.0, Load Runner7.8 and Test Director8.