SUMMARY

• Over seven years of extensive, diversified experience in quality assurance of software development life cycle (SDLC) specializing in quality assurance processes and methodologies
• Experience in interacting with engineers, developers, and technical support personnel in aiding them on Baseline requirement specifications
• Excellent skills in testing Web based and Client/Server applications primarily in Financial domain
• Exposure to Real Time Trading Systems and experience in Equities, Options, FX trading systems and Fixed Income
• Solid knowledge of Counterparty Risk/Credit Risk and measurements PFE, EE, Value - at-Risk and Greeks
• Good Knowledge of FIX Protocol
• Extensive experience in Manual Testing & with Automated Tools using QTP, QC, and Load Runner
• Interest and experience in Capital Markets including Stocks, Bonds, Options and other Derivatives
• Functional knowledge of Equity Order Management in Electronic Trading Systems through Front office applications
• Worked closely with Development, Business and User groups to ensure that the product meets functional, quality, performance, scalability, privacy, security & usability
• Participated and contributed in all phases of Waterfall and Agile/Scrum Methodology
• Performed manual testing extensively - primarily Smoke, Integration, Functional, Regression, GUI, Backend, web and compatibility testing
• Well-versed in various systems testing concepts such as positive/negative testing, data-driven test, boundary value analysis, effort estimation and work breakdown structure
• Expertise in generating Test Cases and User stories based on product design documentation, requirements and business needs and following SDLC
• Expertise in creating bug reports using tools like Test Director, Quality Center, Clear Quest, HP Quality Center/ALM, Jira and MS Visual Studio/Team Foundation Server (TFS)
• Knowledge and experience with UNIX/LINUX and Windows platforms for back end testing
• Extensive experience in writing SQL Queries, UNIX commands and working on various operating systems

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows, Unix/Linux, iOS

Browsers: Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Mozilla, Safari

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall

Architecture: Client/Server, Multi-tier/Web based application

Testing Tools: HP Quick Test Pro/UFT, Quality Centre/HP ALM, MS Visual Studio Professional 2012/TFS, Jira

Database: RDBMS: MS SQL Server, MS Access, Oracle

Communication Tools: Microsoft Lync 2010, SnagIt, Communicator (IM), MS Outlook

Applications: RealTick EMS, LINK Partner Track, Workbench, Symphony Risk Desktop

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Senior QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Business requirements, user stories and prepared Test strategy, Test Plan, Test cases and maintain Requirement Traceability Matrix to ensure full functional coverage
• Conduct Test Plan and Test Strategy walk through with different upstream partners and vendors
• Create test cases, test scripts and execute them during the phases of analysis and testing
• All issues are tracked and documented in Jira and reporting the progress, and updating accordingly to both the Project Team members and QA Lead, Business Partners and Data partners
• Deploying the builds for each releases and patches to the test environment via Anthill, and validating the changes via SVN Tortoise to check what was changed in each build
• Deploying any Jill Changes, properties changes to the test environment, as per the instruction from the Dev team on where the changes are made
• Running jobs in Autosys using Linux/unix commands, monitoring the jobs and validating the results and checking logs for any irregular activities
• Trouble shooting each issue to retrieve more information for the Dev team to resolve
• Using Management Studio SQL Server 2012 to upload data for data manipulation and tweaking for testing scenarios as feasible
• Work closely with the BA, Dev, DBA, Operations, Business Owners and Partner groups and vendors for projects and efforts
• Able to work independently and coordinate with all as part of a collaborative, geographically dispersed team
• Can play both roles effectively as a lead and a team player and communicate to all fronts accordingly
• Performed Regression and End-to-End testing and generated VaR numbers for users
• Worked and tested applications in Symphony Risk Desktop
• Environment and Tools: MS SQL Server 2012 Management Studio, HP QC, Jira, MS Office 2010, Linux, AnthillPro, SVN Tortoise, Symphony Risk Desktop, TIBCO DataSynapse GridServer, TIBCO.

Confidential, Boston, MA

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understand requirements and specifications in order to create and carry out efficient test cases
• Subject Matter Expert (SME) in equity, options, spreads and other complex derivatives
• Manipulate databases through SQL in order to gather information, construct reports, and produce results
• Communicate with Product Management and Development to solve complex issues
• Learn the interworking of information databases and how data is passed between programs and services
• Analyzed complex business requirements for upcoming releases, created test scenarios for change requests and functionalities added in new builds
• Responsible for testing the Message Monitor , QuoteBoard , Montage Monitor , OrderSearch
• Verified the validity of a solution from an end-to-end testing and end-user perspective by testing trade blotter, confirmation email by both parties and querying database to make sure that the values are saved in right tables
• Verified FIX Protocol tags
• Utilized HP / Mercury (Quality Center) to develop, organize, and manage all phases of testing life cycle
• Authored complex SQL queries for validating updates, inserts and deletions from multiple database tables
• Performed negative testing, error/bug retests and usability, GUI, system, regression and functional testing
• Performed targeted and full regression tests based on feature complexity and risk factors in a continuously integrated environment
• Documented problems found during test on the quality center and communicated the encountered issues to responsible QA Manager
• Performed QA reviews for trade tickets with verification of information against source data
• Ensured comprehensive test coverage by understanding test scope and approach of dependent QA groups
• Logged and prioritized defects ; performed root cause analysis to provide suggestions regarding process improvements and to avoid repeat issues

Confidential, Montvale, NJ

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Cases based on the Business documents and Functional requirement
• Executed test cases manually to check GUI and Functional features of the Application under test, compared and analyzed actual with expected results and logged all deviations
• Verified the validity of a solution from an end-to-end testing and end-user perspective by querying database to make sure that the values are saved in right tables
• Performed Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, End-to-End Testing and Regression Testing for different builds
• Extensively used MYSQL for Database testing
• Authored complex SQL queries for validating updates, inserts and deletions from multiple database tables
• Used Traceability matrix to ensure complete test coverage
• Maintained and updated scripts for regression Test Suite to effectively manage the testing process
• Performed tests and the test results updated in the Detail Test Case Report on daily basis
• Active involvement in troubleshooting performance issues with the IT team
• Solid experience working with Agile methods in Agile environment
• Actively discussed raised issues in the Sprint retrospective meeting
• Provided status report on daily basis
• Wrote clear and concise defect reports and validated fixes

Confidential, Wellesley, MA

Manual Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed functional specifications, wrote test scenarios and test cases
• Responsible for manually testing the GUI application, business logic, functionality
• Assured designed test cases cover all business requirements within the agreed scope
• Executed tests as documented in the test case
• Logged bugs and worked with Developers in resolving them
• Retested and closed bugs after they had been resolved
• Kept clear records of all bugs identified, producing progress reports on a regular basis
• Ensured all regression scripts are kept up to date in accordance with specified functionality
• Updated all regression documents when new functionality is released
• Executed regression test cases as part of overall build process
• Gained knowledge of main categories of financial instruments such as derivatives, equities and debt
• Defect report tracking
• Actively participated in defect triage meetings and supported the test efforts in implementing the expected functionality
• Extracted the required data using SQL and tested the test data
• Participated in team meetings and process enhancement meetings