PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Senior IT Professional with over six years of diversified experience in Software Design, Development and Testing. Specialized in QA Methodologies and testing of software components for Build/Release testing. Worked with an objective to produce operational quality and efficiency to exceed customer expectations. Professional attributes include strong communication skills and excellent record of achieving all goals through hard work and dedication.

Strengths include:

• High level of Analytical and Problem Solving skills with an eye for detail
• Expertise in Designing and Developing Test plan, Test cases and Generating Test Scripts.
• Hands on experience in MANUAL and AUTOMATED testing using Quick Test Professional, Winrunner, Test Director, Performance Center, Quality Center and Load Runner.
• Professional Experience in Private Equities, Hedge Funds and Trading Brokerage/ Banking, with strong financial systems background.
• Involved in full Life cycle of testing including Unit testing, GUI testing, Regression testing, Stress testing, Load, Performance, Volume, Functional, Integration testing and System testing.
• Working Knowledge to perform "ad-hoc" tests to exploit areas of suspect performance
• Good understanding of Operating Systems, Mainframes, Networks, hardware and common Performance related issues
• Strong skills in Backend testing SQL Queries on DB2 / SQL Server.
• Defect Tracking and Reporting using JIRA, ITQ, Test Director, Clear Quest and MS Word/Excel
• Coordination with various groups from Initial Defect Finding to its Final Resolution
• Can work under heavy work pressure/under deadlines

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools : Quality Center, Quick Test Pro 6.x/8.0, Win Runner 7.x, Load Runner 7.x, Test Director 7.x, Rational Clear Quest and JIRA

Languages : Java, C, Pascal, PL/SQL, Visual Basic, HTML, XML, Java
Operating Systems : Windows 95/NT/2000/XP, MS-DOS and UNIX
RDBMS : DB2, Oracle and MS SQL Server
Middleware : Servlets and JSP, Apache Tomcat Server, Web Sphere Application Server, Web Logic
Others : Mainframes, MS Office, MS Project

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communications

WORKING EXPERIENCE

Confidential,NY

Jan’10 to Present Sr. QA Analyst/Lead Project: Funds II : Funds

Description: Funds II: FLA-FPM-Funds is one of the phases in the overall multi-phase Fedwire Migration Initiative to migrate all services and processing off the Mainframe-Funds platform.

Version 5.0 will be initially deployed with Fedwire Application Interface Manual (FAIM) version 1.1, but will also include support for the new Fedwire Funds Service message (FAIM) version 3.0 format (structured cover payments, related remittance information, etc…).

Responsibilities include:

Was responsible to co-ordinate the efforts in putting the requirements together and developed a detailed scenario based test plan for the SVT Team Managed a group of 3 people co-ordinating the efforts for various phases involved in the testing Participated in analyzing the requirements to develop Requirements Traceability matrix Trained the new team member to creat the KWFs for automating the new and existing test cases Worked with UTP(Test Partner tool) to analyse and to automate all the Regression test cases Developed a macro(tool) in Excel to covert the text file to data file(excel file) utility to be used by the team for converting the test data Performed database testing using SQL queries on Oracle Server Worked on the Mainframe platform querying different JCL’s and getting the information, also was involved in sending some transfers via Mainframe platform Performed File-Aid and writing and executing queries in Mainframe Provided Analysis & Test estimates and the resources required for several upcoming changes in the requirements Managed several projects at the sametime by efficient planning and multi-tasking with the resources provided. Provided risk metrics and test results for each project upfront in order for issues to be discussed and resolved on time

Environment and Tools: Java, J2EE, Web Services SOA, MF, UTP(Test Partner), Bug@theBank, XML, Excel macros, Oracle, Web Logic, Windows XP, Mainframe-JCL, Mainframe-DB2, Eclipse for Configuration management, UltraEdit, MQ Series, ETL, Data Stage, VB Scripting

Confidential,NY Oct’06 to Aug’08 Sr. QA Analyst/Lead Project: WMR AI, Wealth Management Reporting-Alternate Investments

• Description: The Wealth Management Private Equity (PE) and Hedge Funds(HF) project is one of several components of the IMD multi-year Wealth Management Reporting (WMR) initiative.
• Worked as a Sr. QA Analyst for Prime Brokerage and trading applications/WMR(Wealth Management Reporting Tool) for a major investment banking firm/Lehman Brothers.

Responsibilities include:

• Developed Test Plan, Test Design Specifications, Test scenarios and Test cases to cover the functionality of the application.
• Analyzed the system requirement specifications and developed test plans, test cases to cover overall quality assurance testing.
• Interacted with end users to obtain specific system requirements.
• Played a key role in identifying the test scenarios for all the transactions involved in Private Equity and Hedge Funds and documenting them. Worked on Risk Complexity metrics to check that all the requirements were covered.
• Performed manual testing and data integrity testing by executing SQL statements.
• Created and executed SQL queries to fetch data from an SQL Server database to validate compare the expected results with those actually obtained.
• Participated in the end to end testing of the application from the Sub-system->Stage->RDS->DAL-> Down Stream application
• Extensively worked on Configuration management too VSS to save the documents and retrieve the history in case of any changes made to those documents
• Managed both onshore and offshore team to mockup the data for the scenarios created.
• Performed Regression testing for every modification in the application & new builds
• Actively participated in migrating all the test scripts to MQC and regression test all the upcoming releases in Quality Center
• Worked simultaneously on multiple releases by co-coordinating the efforts with the entire team
• Responsible in identifying the expected behavior for not so common scenarios by working with the Business Analysts.
• Actively participated in coming up with scenarios to test Transfer of Interest for Private Equity by coming up with several combinations of Transactions.
• Tracked Bugs and Reported using Defect Tracking and Maintenance Tool such as JIRA.
• Wrote SQL Queries to extract data from various database tables for testing purpose. Used DB2 for executing various types of SQL queries
• Automated all the test scripts using Quick test Pro to form the Regression test suite
• Extensively worked on Descriptive programming by developing the scripts using VB Scripting
• Prepared the Knowledge Transfer Document that would help the new members joining the team to get started and also was responsible in training them.
• Provided metrics that showed the number of test cases executed, number passed, number failed and the number of test cases left to execute on a daily and also on a weekly basis.
• Worked closely with users and program developers to ensure application development meets with the user expectations.

Environment and Tools: Java, Java Script, Web Services, TIBCO, EMS, MQ Series, XML, ETL, Data Stage, VSS for configuration management, DB2 for backend testing, MS Office, Windows XP, UNIX, MQC, QTP 8.0, JIRA for logging defects, VB Scripting Confidential,NY June’06 to Sep’06 Sr. QA Analyst Project: STARSS, Sirius Tool for Acquisition Retention Sales & Service Description: The 2006 Holiday Release is to provide the needed functionality and selected usability improvements for the Customer Service Representatives to support creating and provisioning new accounts and maintaining existing accounts and services for the 2006 Holiday Season.

Responsibilities include:

Was responsible to co-ordinate the efforts to put the requirements together and develop a detailed scenario based test plan for the US version of the 2006 STARSS Holiday release. Performed detailed functional testing of the changes included in the 2006 Holiday Release Detailed Scope document by executing. Was responsible for Scenario-based regression testing of existing critical and high-risk functions of the base STARSS functionality and key interface systems for both the US and Canadian configurations. Interaction with the STARSS User Interface (UI) for testing activities that require direct user interaction with Portal. All functions that occur on a periodic schedule were executed or launched by advancing the system date/time in Portal. Was responsible for verifying that the information on the screen is consistent with information expected and stored in the database. Imported all the test cases that were written in excel to Quality Center. Performed database testing using SQL queries on Sybase SQL Server Ensured that the functionality available for different users is as configured. Validated if each user type is limited to specific pages/screens and actions. Performance measured meets key performance indicator targets and the system performs error-free under expected peak usage conditions Was responsible for validating the provisioning of a particular activation in the Portal system for specific accounts by scheduling activation for these accounts For defect tracking ITQ was used in which, clear and concise description of the incident was entered into the system in an effort to minimize incident reports transferring back and forth between development and QA. Environment and Tools: MS Office, Windows XP SP1, Internet Explorer 6.0 SP2, Oracle 9.2.0.6, Portal, InComm Simulator, Paymentech simulator, Sybase SQL Server, ITQ for defect tracking, Putty to run billing Confidential,NJ June’05-June’06 Sr. QA Analyst – Coordinator Project: ADP Portal Solutions (Payroll/Benefits Self Service Application)

Description:
ADP Portal Solutions is a Web based, ADP hosted, Client managed/personalized Portal Application that provides Clients a single point of access to all ADP internet based Payroll Products and Benefits/HR Services and enables them to establish links to 3RD party vendors for external services.

Responsibilities include:

• Analyzed System/Feature requirements and designed test specifications, test plans, Test scenarios & test cases.
• Provided Analysis & Test estimates for three features, specifically ACS (Access Control Service), Corporate Directory and Client Wizard (Client Implementation Wizard) which consistently met 80% - 90% of actuals.
• Responsible for Portal/iSI (Internet Security) Integration Testing in multi-version environments, in QA, Staging and Production for several Core iSI Releases and for various iSI Engineering Upgrades related to Siteminder, Policy Server, Directory Server, Solaris and DB Clusters changes.

Performed the data validation to meet all test condition requirements.

• Participated in Feature Team meetings and Requirements/Analysis Reviews and provided valuable feedback.

Performed GUI testing as well as back-end testing that includes setting up complex test data, verification of backend results, troubleshooting, etc. Configured the QA environment of the application for functionality testing and integrated system environment.

• Performed DIT, Component, Functional, Integration and E2E Testing.
• Mentored & coordinated a team of off-shore (India) QA Engineers to automate new feature Test Plans. Provided application walk-thru and resolved issues encountered by this team over the phone.
• Collaborate with cross functional as well as relevant cross project teams for timely resolution of issues and for optimum results.
• Communicate Test Status updates and defect metrics to project lead, escalate critical issues to Sr. Management.

Performed Regression testing on each new build using Quick Test Pro in the application Was responsible in working in Expert view for scripting with Quick Test Pro. Actively involved in E2E Testing and testing in Staging and reported the bugs using Rational Clear Quest. Provided feedback to the developers and the QA team on top priority issues. Worked independently and coordinated with developers to resolve issues for releases Ensured appropriate test coverage for End-to-End Testing. Reported bugs and communicated notifications to developers using Rational Clear Quest Environment and Tools: Java, Java Script, Web Services, XML, SOAP, MQ Series, WebSphere Portal Server, iSI, Oracle, Unix & Windows XP, Quick Test Pro 6.x/8.0, Rational Clear Quest for tracking defects