EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• With 11 years of experience in the Information Technology Industry in Business Analysis, Testing and application management of Web Based, Client/Server and Real time application.
• Domain experience include investment banking, insurance, healthcare and education
• Solid understanding of Investment banking domain which includes Fixed Income OTC derivatives Clearing, Equities, Fixed Income, compliance and Audit. Good exposure to front and middle office.

Performed Manual and Automated Testing on both Client-Server and Web-based applications.

• Extensively worked in System Testing, User Acceptance testing UAT , Black Box Testing, White Box Testing, Integration Testing, Data migration Testing, L10N, I18N, Performance testing, Application Security Testing, Cross Browser Compatibility testing.
• Performed extensive Back-end verification using SQL in databases like Sybase, SQL Server Oracle and shell scripts using UNIX.

SKILLS

TOOLS TECHNOLOGY

• Platforms
• Linux, Windows NT, 2000, XP with sp2, Windows 7
• Quality Assurance
• Knowledge of Project and Product SDLC, Bug life cycle. Manual and Automated Testing Techs Tools, Project management, Estimation, Test cases Test plans generation, Test Scenario Identification, Test Strategy
• Testing Tools
• ALM 11, Load Runner 7.2, Performance Center, jTest, SOAP test
• Business Analysis methods and tools
• Waterfall, Agile, Requirement Documentation, JAD, Use Case development, Wireframes, Screen mapping, Business Rules, BPM
• Bug tracking tool
• ALM QC , JIRA
• Version Control tool
• Microsoft VSS6, Microsoft Sharepoint, Perforce
• Scripts/ Languages
• Unix Shell Scripts, C, SQL, VBS, HTML, XML, XSD
• Front-end - IDE
• VB 6.0, Eclipse
• Database
• Sybase, MS SQL 2000/2005, Oracle 8i, MS Access 97/2000, Mongo DB
• UML tool / wireframe
• MS Visio, Prototyper
• Tools
• Microsoft Office 2003, Putty, SnagIt7, SQL Advantage, Toad, Hummingbird Connectivity, Verity5.0, Epiphany, Editplus, Beyond Compare, IBM Optim
• Proj. Management
• Microsoft Project 2003
• Financial Tools
• Sungard GMI, Kiodex, Bloomberg, Intex Desktop, DBAnalytics, Reference data

WORK EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Single point of contact between GMI and various downstream Risk, Regulatory and reconciliation application stakeholders.
• Good Understanding of GMI data structure and able to access GMI DB2 database. Able to write complex SQL queries to extract data to produce various result set for analysis.
• Managing 100 Risk and regulatory feeds. Responsible for establish, maintain and enhance any Risk Credit and Liquidity Risk and Regulatory Volcker, Basel-III, CFTC, etc.. feeds from Global Futures platform GMI to all the downstream system.
• Working very closely with business and stakeholder to establish functional requirement, authoring functional specification document liaising with business stakeholders, tracking development efforts, Quality Assurance and User Acceptance Testing.
• Developed and maintained the Smoke/Acceptance and regression test bed for Milestones.
• Facilitate User Acceptance Testing for the Business Users and Stakeholders.
• Manage various defects /CRs in Jira and holds triage meetings for the full prioritization and align it with the releases.

Environment: JIRA, UNIX, Toad for DB2, putty, shell, vbs, SQL, Sungard GMI, Sungard Kiodex, MS Office, XML, VBA, WinSCP, HP Quality Center, MS Visio, Clearing House Market data, FO Trade feeds

Confidential

BA-PM UAT Manager

• Worked as Lead QA/BA for dbClear an OTC Derivatives Clearing platform. Performing and supporting Fixed Income OTC derivatives products including Interest Rate Swaps IRS , Credit default Swaps CDS also on major enhancement of platform including CCP and Client onboarding, upstream connectivity and downstream feed and reporting flow and Dodd-Frank Implementation. dbClear platform is Golden source of clearing house data for OTC derivatives clearing.
• Managed dbREX application for Collateral platform. dbREX is critical application in fairly new and evolving OTC Derivatives clearing business CRD IV .
• Managed MNS application which is Firm wide initiative CRD-III which will report Market Risk Standard Approach MRSA floor calculation of risk weighted assets to the Basel2 Capital Requirement Directive III IV regulatory committee.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for stability, accuracy and expansion of dbClear Platform and helping active business users who are responsible to support OTC trades IRS,CDS,FRA, Basis Swaps, etc. clearing activity for their clients either using Principal or Agency model for Various CCP.
• Worked closely with the business users and stakeholder to establish functional requirement, tracking development efforts, Quality Assurance and User Acceptance Testing.
• Working very closely with upstream systems Trading Systems , downstream systems Collateral, Cash and Client Reporting and external entities like Custodians BONY, Harris Bank and Clearing houses ICE, LCH and CME iron out any data/report issues and perform Seamless integration testing.
• Established Requirement Traceability Matrix where requirements defined in JIRA as a RTB Defects or CRs or CTB New Development requirement.
• Using Quality Center 10 for the defect reporting and tracking. Produce various defect metrics and holds triage meetings for the full resolution
• Create and maintain Test plan and Test Cases and aligned it with Master project plan and Book of Work.
• Developed and maintained the Smoke/Acceptance and regression test bed for Milestones.
• Facilitate User Acceptance Testing for the Business Users and Stakeholders.
• Web services message verification using UNIX shell script and XML verification using VBA scripts by creating test harness tools.
• Leading total of 3 Onshore and Offshore resources in USA and Canada.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Interact with Program Managers, Development Leads, Technical Architects, and IT vendor teams
• Work with the CRD Capital Requirements directives project process covering all business aspects from requirements gathering through implementation.
• Conduct requirements gathering, business analysis, functional design, system and integration testing.
• Ensure that specific project deliverables are produced on time in accordance with the project plan and make sure that all relevant parties are informed of progress.
• Maintain a quality control process and ensure that project deliverables meet the required quality standards.
• Worked as test architect for the applications and performed data integration testing with various up and down stream systems which includes test case creation and stored in HP Quality Center
• Performed Trading data analysis and data verification using various testing strategies.
• Report project progress at regular intervals to management and produce key documentation for distribution.
• Represent UAT coordinator for the Multi-name Services application for CRD-III initiative as a whole.
• Acts as an escalation point for solution issues in the Production environment and during projects.
• Tracking defects in JIRA , produce various defect metrics and holds triage meetings for the full resolution
• Managing 3 resources offshore team in Halifax, Canada.

Environment: JIRA, UNIX, DBArtisan, putty, shell, vbs, Oracle 11, SQL, Bloomberg Ref data API, Intex desktop for MBS Deal structure , Java, MS Office, XML, DBAnalytics, Access VBA, Informatica,, WinSCP, HP Quality Center, Weblogic

Confidential

Senior BA - App Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a BA/Functional Analyst to support and orderly decommissioning of various Legal, Audit and Risk application with Application owner and Lehman Brothers counter parties
• Working very closely with Reference data team to provide SoD and ItD historical pricing and rating of securities Reference data feeds to Credit Risk team.
• On the go identify the application structure, create a new instances of application for the counterparties including data separation based on entities, region and data masking
• Identify the idle applications and work with infrastructure, database team for orderly wind down.
• Gather the Lehman Brothers counterparty risk data requirement from counterparties using database queries and create meaningful report for to facilitate requests.
• Taking a database dump using IBM optim tool, which is offline database archiving tool to freeing up database space
• Working as Data Integration Test Lead to manage effort from Sybase to Oracle data migration
• Tracking defects in JIRA, produce various defect metrics and holds triage meetings for the full resolution
• Working with Global teams including NYC, London, Singapore and India.
• Data extract requests involved huge interaction with Sybase, SQL Server and DB2 database
• Involved in enhancement of existing perl shell scripts and modify autosys jobs.

Environment: QTP 9.2, Quality Center, JIRA, UNIX, weblogic server, DBArtisan, putty, Informatica, shell, perl, sybase, Oracle, SQL, IBM optim, Reference data

Confidential

Senior Analyst Lead QA-BA

Responsibilities:

• Used Quality Center for the defect reporting and tracking.
• Developed and maintained the Smoke/Acceptance and regression test bed for Milestones.
• Requirement gathering by consulting business team. Analyzed the user/business requirements, functional specs and Use Case documents and communicate to technical team.
• Performance Test using LoadRunner and MPC which include multi regional performance testing.
• Implement Keyword driven Automation Framework using QTP to perform automated testing for 40 Application under Test.
• Performed WhiteBox testing using jTest and actual code review with development team.
• Performed the Back End testing using shell scripts and SQL.
• Expertise on working with onsite team, leading off-shore and vendor team and shift escalation procedure.

Environment: QTP 9.2, QualityCenter, LoadRunner 7.2, Performance Center, jTest, Eclipse, Unix, J2EE, JSP, WebLogic server, sharepoint, DBArtisan, Composite, SecureCRT

Confidential

Senior QA

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the entire requirement gathering from the inception stage of the project.
• Analyzed the user/business requirements, functional specs and Use Case documents.
• Used Clearquest for the defect reporting and tracking.
• Developed and maintained the Smoke/Acceptance and regression test bed for Milestones.
• Used the SQL's and verified the SQL Server database for the data integrity.
• Tested the business Process of the application manually
• Perform web-services integration testing for the several upstream downstream applications.
• Meeting with the business for the weekly and monthly status reporting was the key job.
• System, Functionality, White Box testing.
• Perform testing of the Data transformation using Biztalk server.

Environment: QTP 8.0, Rational Clearquest, SQL Server 2000/2005, Biztalk server 2005, .Net framework 2.0, Crystal Report 11

Confidential

QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirement gathering, analyzed the user/business requirements, functional specs, Test case creation based on Use Case documents.
• Managed a team of 3 QA testers
• Performed data migration and data verification testing using Beyond Compare
• Verification of financial data from the modelware and FIR system from the FIX responses,
• Involved in System testing and Functionality testing in manual testing process.
• Created Test Plan and Test Strategy document and maintaining Project Plan
• Used the Various kinds of SQL queries and verified the database for the data integrity.
• Extensively testing of the Perl SOAP webservices on UNIX to test integrated services and its functionalities. Verification of the valid responses data against the valid request, data in the system and the data in the database was the key testing

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the user/business requirements, functional specs and Use Case documents.
• Created stored procedures to verification of database changes.
• Created shell scripts automate the testing jobs.
• Core member of application support group who were responsible to track post release defect and support group.
• Testing was based on verification SOAP XML requests, kshell and perl files
• Verification of different kinds of application, database logs and system logs
• Monitored the batch testing using cronjobs.
• Test integration with upstream and downstream application using the SOAP test harness.
• Verification of role based access and distribution list for the research and research resources.
• Load, Stress and Performance testing done for using Load Runner by creating virtual users in Virtual user generator and running the different scenarios in the controller to measure end to end response time, GUI response time, server response time, to analyze the performance of the application by analyzing Vuser graphs, Performance graphs and Transactions graphs.

Environment: QTP 8, QC 9.0, Visual Intercept, E.piphany, Verity, Yudit, Sybase, SQL, UNIX, SOAP, XML, Web-Services, Perl, UNIX Shell Script, SQL, SQL Server, LoadRunner 6.5, Quality Java, J2EE, Apache, DBArtisan, Beyond Compare

Confidential

QA Analyst

Overall Responsibilities:

• Gathered and analyzed the user/business requirements
• Created stored procedures to verification of database changes for the database using TOAD.
• Verification of different kinds of application logs, database logs and system logs to check the server performance
• Performed black box, functional, integration and UAT testing using automated tool Winrunner
• Performed load, stress testing using LoadRunner tool to simulate the real time scenario using user STEP UP feature on the time boundary conditions.
• Created test plan, test cases, test scripts
• App verification of functional defect and logged it into defect tracking tool. BUG STUDIO
• Verification of web services using test harness.
• Application server log verification on SOLARIS for ATG dynamo and tomcat server
• Verification of pseudo payment gateway webservices for all kind of positive and negative scenarios
• Maintenance of QA artifacts in Visual Source safe version 6.0

Environment: WinRunner, LoadRunner, Test Director, Web Services, XML, Oracle, SQL Server, Toad, PLSQL, UNIX, VSS 6.0, SQL, ATG Dynamo, Java, J2EE, .Net, Bug Studio