EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

• I have a total 9 years of IT experience. My main area of experience has been Project Co - ordination, Stakeholder Management, Functional Testing,Software Development, Test Analysis, Test Lead, Backend Automation and testing and Change Management. I have worked primarily in the domain of Financial services & Investment banking and Health care Insurance.
• Test Analysis and Management and Quality Assurance in Manual and Back-end automation testing.
• Experience as a software developer of around 3 years in Initial phase of the career in Perl, Oracle and UNIX
• Good experience in Trade Processing, Trade repository and Trade data management and Asset Management testing
• OMS System testing for various front office applications like LVTS, Calypso and Aladdin.
• Have worked on testing of financial products like fixed income, equities and money market products, and derivatives products like CDS, IRS, Asset backed securities like MBS
• Change Management Testing for Windows 7 infrastructure upgrade, large scale back office and middle office integration
• UAT Facilitation, Defects Management and co -ordination with various internal / external stakeholders
• Sound Oracle DB knowledge with DB internals and SQL performance tuning techniques.
• Strong experience in Functional Testing, Volume Testing, Stress and Load Testing, Regression Testing, UAT Testing, Backend Automated Testing, GUI Testing, and Integration Testing
• Providing extensive support in preparing Test Schedules, Identify Test Requirements, Creating Test Scenarios, Design Test Cases,Test Data, Test Scripts, Test Plans and Execute Test cases and Identifying QA risks.
• Experience in Data Quality, Data Analysis and Data Accuracy testing for the ETL reports with High Volume Data
• Developed Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Sets and Test Scripts, Excel Reports using HP Quality Center.
• Well versed with the QC Database Schema, worked with the team to generate automated QC Reports for releases, Test Cases Exceution and Defects.
• Frontend automation (QTP and Selenium) for regression suite and RFB checks.
• Reviewed the Requirements for testability, conducted walkthroughs with Analysts, Developers and other team members, and meeting with clients whenever needed for better understanding.
• Experienced in working with business analysts, development, Client groups in analyzing business specifications and in Working with other testers to resolve technical and end-user issues.
• Experience in various Testing Models like Waterfall and Agile/Scrum.
• Developed Backend Automation Frame work for Data Comparison in Perl and UNIX, which was used for various testing activities, also used for UAT.
• Sound Knowledge of Perl, Oracle, SQL, PL-SQL, Quality Centre and Unix
• Bug Fixing, Resolution and Verification and Root Cause Analysis.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools: HP Quality Centre /ALM, Rational Clear Quest,JIRA, Perforce, MS Office (Word / Excel / Powerpoint), SharePoint, SharePoint designer, DB Artisan, Squirrel, PG Admin, TOAD, LVTS, Calypso and Aladdin, XML

Operating Systems: Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows 8, UNIX, Mac OS

DBMS: Oracle, Sybase,DB2, GreenPlum, MS- Access, Microsoft SQL -Server.

Programming Languages: PERL and SQL, PL-SQL (Basic), JavaScript (Hands on), HTML

QA Work Area: Perl, SQL and UNIX Backend Automation Testing, UAT Testing, Trade Volume Testing, Stress and Load Testing, ETL and Reports testing, XML and Web services testing, Windows 7 Application Testing, Data Accuracy Testing, Integration Testing, Volume testing, Regression Testing, Batch Testing, Data Masking Testing,Data Migration Testing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential Jersey City

Onsite Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• QA Functional Testing and UAT Support for GTR application and Reports generated by GreenPlum
• Reports Execution and Testing of various reports generated through GTR for Data Quality and Accuracy. Consist of high volume records. Also Involves Batch Testing.
• QA Reports preparation and Task delegation to team members at onsite and offshore.
• Application and Data Migration support on weekend and patch release.
• Attend Requirement Meetings: To attend meetings with development teams & business users to understand the scope of repository and report
• Onsite Offshore co-ordination: Test Management and execution at onsite hours and coordination of work between offshore teams
• Effort Estimation and planning: To estimate the QA effort in man days, identify team, and assign the task to the team members.

Technologies: SQL, UNIX, Perl, QA Testing, Green Plum

Morgan Stanley - New York

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Data Feeds Platform and Data link - This project involved to verify the outbound and inbound data is transformed by the DFP tools an internally developed ETL tool correctly and testing the various functionalities of the DFP tool and related web services, batch testing and all the ETL functionalities of the DFP tool. Assisted users on UAT for DFP. Worked on Data Migration testing.
• SSC Phase 1 - Integration of MSIM trading systems with SSC systems for Broker confirmation, Trade Matching / Settlement and Custodian notification being done on State street systems.
• SSC Phase 2 - Phase 2 Activities involved are Recordkeeping, Performance measures, setting up Data ware house and Reconciliation. This phase will eliminate the existing accounting system GIM2. State Street will also be responsible for some back office functions like PM and Client reporting, also provide the necessary data for the MSIM Front End applications
• LVTS - Equities Renovation - A Monthly changes were introduced for LVTS trading system
• Windows 7 - MSIM upgraded the operating system from Windows XP to windows 7, I was managing the team of 12 members for this change management task. We had tested 80 different applications for the various versions of Windows Operating system family used by business users, Technology groups and infrastructure teams.
• Environment Setup and Support - for this task we set up a multiple test environment for the various development and testing activities from DB servers to Application servers.
• Trade Volume Testing: After the changes to back office and middle office systems, MSIM QA performed the Trade Volume testing,
• Corporate Action changes - The Corporate Action system of MSIM was transferred to a 3rd party bank,
• Smoke Testing and RFB Checks - Automation of various checks to be performed for the application monitor, batch monitor and Ready for Business Checks using PERL, selenium

Confidential

Onsite Project Co-ordinator and Lead

Responsibilities:

• Stakeholder Management, UAT Support and Project Co - Ordination
• QA Functional Testing of all the related applications,
• Automation Testing in SQL, Perl and UNIX, QTP, Selenium
• Attend Requirement Meetings with Business users.
• HP QC Dashboard and SharePoint reporting
• Onsite Offshore co-ordination and task delegation.
• Effort Estimation and QA planning and Status Report preparation

Environment: Windows XP, Windows7, UNIX

Confidential

Application Developer and White box tester

Responsibilities:

• Eligibility Class Development -To develop a testing framework for patients eligibility check for the medical insurance
• Environment Management - Manage the Development and QA Servers for the application.
• Report Builder and Testing - Development and design of the client specific reports.
• Periodic Data Refresh - Developed solution for Data refresh in Perl from production servers to Development Servers
• Masking of confidential data as per HIPPA act, Testing of Data accuracy for critical fields
• Bug Queue-Selecting production bugs according to the priority and fixing them and test them.