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CAREER

  • 5+ years of experience in software development and testing for the Bank of New York Mellon in Banking and Securities domain.
  • Over 2 years of experience as Technical Lead – QA in functional testing, preparing test plans and estimates, allocating and reviewing the artifacts, preparing metrics, resource management and team mentoring for Broker Dealer Clearance– A project for US Federal Reserve at the Bank of New York Mellon, 1 Wall Street, New York, NY – 10286.
SUMMARY
  • Highly motivated, solutions-driven developer and QA tester with proven skills and experience in the Banking and IT domain.
  • Proficient in software development lifecycle including test strategy preparation, test plan development, test case creation, test case execution and bug tracking.
  • Experience in testing web applications in Waterfall and Agile development process.
  • Expertise in UNIX scripting and developing test scripts for functional testing of various applications.
  • Excellent Interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to remain highly focused and self-assured in a fast-paced environment.
EXPERTISE DETAILS
  • Expertise in analyzing requirement specifications and developing test cases, test scripts and planning for QA methodologies in banking related applications
  • Knowledge of software testing methodologies like Waterfall and Agile (Scrum).
  • Software Testing and Documentation and review of Business Requirements.
  • Expertise in preparing Test Summary Reports, Test Cases and Test Scripts for manual testing based on the User Requirements, System Requirements documents and UAT
  • Knowledge and experience with the complete Software Development Life Cycle including requirements, design, development and testing.
  • Excellent knowledge in RDBMS, Sybase and Oracle9i using Transact-SQL and SQL procedures for database backend testing.
  • Ability to work on both Unix and Windows platforms
  • Automation using Unix Shell and Perl programming to support testing activities.
  • Exposure in coordination between onsite-offshore team and defect management.
  • Ability to investigate technical problems and write clear and detailed reports.
  • Possess excellent analytical skills with good communication and self-organizing skills.
  • Ability to lead testing efforts with Business Analysts, developers, product owners, customers and offshore QA testers.
EDUCATION
  • Bachelor of Technology (Information Technology)

TECHNOLOGIES

Business Modeling Tools

  • Rational Rose, Microsoft Visio, MS Project, UML, Caliber
Defect Tracking Tools
  • Rational Clear Quest, Quality Centre
Microsoft Tools
  • MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint
Reporting Tools
  • Hummingbird BI Query
Operating Systems
  • MS Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, Unix, Linux
Programming Languages
  • C, Perl
Scripting Languages
  • UNIX Shell Scripts
Databases
  • Sybase, Oracle, SQL
Other Tools
  • HP PPM (Project and Portfolio Management), SSR(Smart Stream Reconciliations), SMART, BMC Remedy, RFH Utils, RUMBA, IBM Maestro, SQL Advantage

PROJECT DETAILS

Project : Broker Dealer Clearance Application

Role : Quality Assurance Lead

Duration : Mar 2010 – Jan 2012

Company : Confidential,

Team Size : 14

Technologies/Tools Used : Adobe Flex, Java, UNIX Scripts, QTP, Oracle, Quality Center, Caliber, Clear Quest, RFH Utils

Description of project : The Broker Dealer Clearance (BDC) Application provides clearance and settlement functionality for government securities for use by BNY Mellon. This project is a US Federal Reserve mandate to migrate the BNY Mellon specific systems, namely the Government Securities Clearing Exchange (GSCX) and the Clearing System of the Depository Trust Company (DTC) to the new BDC system. These existing systems run on the Open Virtual Memory System OS and will now port it to latest Java technology to improve maintainability and efficiency.

The intraday market is of the order of 3 trillion dollars and the agreements create a huge market in terms of dollars. Given the extraordinary nature and volume of data that it handles, the new system is required to be as efficient and robust as the current system. The project is extremely critical and important from the BNY Mellon point of view because of the importance given to it by the US Federal Reserve.

Responsibilities:

  • Analysis of Use cases and design of Functional test scripts.
  • Creation of Test cases for every sprint in accordance with the Agile Methodology.
  • Resource allocation and Estimate planning for in-sprint testing for a 14 member team (onsite and offshore).
  • Functional testing within the Sprint.
  • Co-ordination with developers on in-sprint issues and deliverables.
  • Onsite-Offshore Co-ordination.
  • Live demo on sprint deliverables to Product owners and SMEs.
  • Allocation and review of artifacts.
  • Mapping of test cases to requirements in Quality Center.
  • Preparation of Status Report and other metrics for overall release.
  • Preparation of In-Sprint testing report to scrum master.
  • Preparation of Business Understanding Document.
  • Training to regression team on Sprint deliverables.
  • Support and monitoring Regression Testing.
  • Creation of Automation Test Plan.
  • Execution of QTP automated test scripts.

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