QUALITY ASSURANCE § AUTOMATION DEVELOPER 
To work in a fast-paced dynamic environment to align my professional QA skills with a progressive company wherein the application of my technical, educational and work experiences would provide a significant contribution to the company’s continued success and thereby adding value to the organization and myself.

SUMMARY

• Over nine years of QA Automation/ Analyst experience in various domains viz. Financial, Pharmaceutical, Insurance, Telecommunications, Accounting etc.
• As a QA Lead coordinated the testing effort with the outsourced team.
• Extensive understanding of full software life cycle with a very good knowledge of all the testing phases of SDLC using different platforms & workstations.
• Analyzed Functional Requirements, Requirement Traceability Metrics, Test Execution Metrics, Test Plans andprepared Test Cases.
• Experienced in Automated testing tools Quick Test Professional, WinRunner, Rational functional testerin a GUI based Client/Server Database applications, web based and Multi-tiered Internet applications.
• Performed Regression, Functional, GUI, positive-negative, Black box, Performance, Load, and UAT testing.
• Performed extensive testing using Parameterization and Data Driven tests in QTP. Used Descriptive programming, Regular expressions and generated User defined actions.
• Used Quality Center for writing, executing test cases and report defects.
• Good at bug reporting/bug tracking using the test management tools.
• Used SQL queries for data manipulation. Performed back-end testing.
• Developed UNIX shell scripts for downloading data from various servers using FTP.
• Have knowledge and understanding in 21 CFR Part 11, Gap Analysis, Change Control, GLP, cGMP and GAMP guidelines.
• Understanding of the ERP processes. Companyhas decided to add new modules
• to enhance the functionality of its ERP solution and hence was involved in the testing.
• Was involved in testing after installing new patches for an existing ERP implementation that were released by ERP vendor for its software.
• Performed independently as well as an active team member & has excellent communication and interpersonal skills including good documentation skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Jersey City Feb ’07 to till date
Senior QA Automation Developer/Lead
Confidential is the world’s premier voice and electronic interdealer broker and source of global market information and commentary for professionals in the international financial markets.

Responsibilities:

• Created automation framework for QTP and used VBScript heavily for writing the automation test scripts for back office trading systems, reporting and front office applications.
• As a QA Lead was responsible for overseeing the automation testing effort both onsite and offsite teams.
• Created Proof of Concept in the early phase to see if that project was a good piece to be automatable.
• Performed Functional, Regression testing and worked mostly in the Expert view.
• Enhanced QTP Scripts using different Checkpoints, Parameterization, Regular expressions, Environmental variables, User defined functions, User messages, and warnings and used Recovery scenarios for Error handling.
• Created different actions (internal, external and reusable), Used shared object repository as well as Descriptive programming.
• Maintained regression test suit and Performed regression testing for every modification in the application & new builds using Quick Test Professional. Used Multi test manager for batch processing. Later executed the scripts via the Test Lab module of Quality center.
• Played a major role in the successful migration of the automation suite from London to US team. Modified the QTP scripts handed over by the London team in accordance with the US environment. Standing data was setup in the Oracle forms to match up the external data provided for batch run.
• Worked with File System Object (FSO).
• Performed back-end testing and executed SQL queries from QTP script using ADODB objects.
• Parsed XML files from QTP and validated the data against the external data provided.
• Used functional Tester for automating BrokerTec front-end. Wrote Java functions, procedures and virtual functions.
• Extensively worked on handling the application response for positive and negative sets of data using Data Driven Testing. Provided the data externally from Excel and text files.
• Wrote functional test cases for manual testing by analyzing the user requirements and Use Cases for MBS system.
• Generated reports from Quality center as a deliverable to the users/clients.
• Keeping track of errors in Team Track Tracking System and reporting to the development group.
• Coordinated with developers, project managers and system analyst to resolve various issues related to bug fixing, re-analyzing certain functionalities and providing creative feedbacks.

Projects

1)TXPRESS

TXpress is a real-time back office processing applicationfurnishing BROKERTEC with STP abilities, serving as a platform for real-time information sharing. It is a back office system processing fixed income trades (US Treasuries, agencies, Repos) clearing and settling.

2) Trade Capture and Trade Tracker
Trade capture is a C/S application dealing with cash products, Capital markets, Credit, Equity and Commodity Derivatives. After processing trades are sent to Trade Tracker/Queue Manager.

3) GUIBOS 
GUIBOS is a back office, billing system dealing with Deal Capture, Confirmation, Invoicing, Reporting and Archive. Several external systems feed deals into GUIBOS for confirming and billing.

4) RIMS
Static reference data and historical trade information from “Allison” system for ICAP Securities and ICAP Corporate business, and the “TXpress” system for the IEB electronic brokerage will be uploaded into the RIMS system. 

5) ETC and JETS
ETC is a front end application for First brokers, ETC Energy and ETC corporate. It feeds trades to JETS database.

6) Broker Tec
Broker Tec is the front-end application developed in Java, for brokers. OIW, OMW, BOOK are major components. This is the largest revenue maker on the electronic world.

7) MIS
MIS is a web based reporting system for ICAP securities and provides statistical information, customer enquiries and various monthly, term end reports which aids in analyzing the performance of the desks, brokers and in turn of the company.

8) VSD
Voice Standing Data is an application used to enter new requests and the approval hierarchy by various levels in the firm including manager, legal, compliance and standing data.

Confidential., NY June ’05 to Dec ‘06 
Confidential is a leading global payments, network and travel company. Worked on applications supporting various Lines Of Business. Performed IST and UAT testing of VLS, CTO, CA, PBS modules.

QA Analyst (Project: CTO Systems Isolation)

• Reviewed URD, FRS, assisted in preparing Test Plan and written Test Cases.
• Tested the application using QTP as automation test tool, Mercury Quality Center as requirements management tool and as bug tracking tool.
• Performed Regression tests, Integration System Testing and UAT after every build.
• Enhanced test Scripts using different Checkpoints, Regular Expressions, Environment variables, User defined functions, User Messages and Warnings.
• Used Parameterization in QTP extensively to perform Data-Driven testing.
• Created Test suites for batch processing.
• Checked logs and transferred files by FTP in UNIX.
• Used SQL queries to perform data integrity and back-end testing.

Confidential., NJ April ’04 to May ‘05
Confidential. is a specialty pharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures and markets both generic and proprietary prescription pharmaceuticals. This system was developed in Java to keep track of the requests made by scientist for various reagents.

QA / Validation Tester (Project: Bio Tracking)

• Prepared all documentation with compliance to the SOPs currently prevailing at Barr and in accordance with FDA regulations, particularly 21 CFR part 11: requirements, Test Plan and Test Scripts, and Summary Reports.
• Involved in writing and updating Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for reviews and approvals.
• Created test conditions to validate whether the system meets 21 CFR Part 11 requirements (Electronic Records and Audit Trail).
• Performed the Performance Qualification (PQ) / User Acceptance Testing (UAT) based on the user requirements.
• Mapped the requirements to the test cases using the traceability Matrix.
• Generated test scripts and enhanced them with TSL scripts, created user-defined functions and accessed them through function generator in WinRunner.
• Verified web objects and participated in performing Load test

Confidential, NJ Oct ’02 to Feb ‘04
Confidential is the largest telecommunications company in the United States and one of the largest in the world.

QA Consultant (Project: IMPACT)

• Analyzed test plan. Written test cases and created Test Scenarios. Extensively worked with GUI, functional testing and methodologies.

ProfitKey International, INC., NH Mar ’02 to Sept ‘02
The Rapid Response Manufacturing system is a fully integrated Manufacturing Resource Planning system.

QA Tester (Project: RRM Manufacturing)

• Analyzed the URD and FRS. Wrote functional test cases for manual testing by analyzing the user requirements and Use Cases.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: QTP, Quality center, Rational Functional tester, WinRunner, LoadRunner, TestDirector, Rational Clear Quest, PVCS, Team Track
Languages: VBScript, TSL, Java, Perl, SQL, PL/SQL.
Web Technologies: HTML, DHTML, XML, ASP, JavaScript.
Operating Systems: UNIX (Sun Solaris, HP), Win98/NT/2000/XP and MS-DOS.
Databases: Oracle, Sybase, MS SQLServer and MS Access,
Servers : Web Sphere, Web Logic, IIS, Apache.
Networking/Web: FTP, Telnet, TCP/IP.
Other Tools: MS Office-Word, Excel.

Education: Master of Science.
Course Work: Certificate Courses in Oracle SQL, Java and Microsoft ASP