Quality Assurance Analyst Resume

Summary

9 years of Trading system experience in equity, fixed income seeking a position that offers professional growth while being resourceful and innovative.
Hands on experience in SDLC and Test Planning Process on Database application.
Experienced in business collaboration, process & data modeling techniques utilizing SDLC methodologies.
Experience with multi - tier and web applications testing.
Experience with Client/Server Architecture.
Software professional with strong analytical skills and proven success in demanding and fast-paced environment.
Very strong in Manual Testing as well as Automated Testing using Mercury Automated tools WinRunner and TestDirector.
Extensively executed SQL queries to insure data integrity to meet user requirements.
Experience in system and regression testing of application on Windows, Unisys, Tandem (HP NonStop), and UNIX platforms.
Proficient in Functionality Testing, Black Box Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, Acceptance Testing, Production Testing, Confidence Testing, and User Acceptance Testing.
Experienced in deciding Test Requirements, creation and execution of Test Cases, analyzing Test Results, tracking and reporting Defects.
Liaison between the various stake holders and the technical team through all stages of the SDLC, experienced working with offsite teams.
Conducted chalk talk with other QC analyst on primary projects that were installed in QC environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Certifications:

SILK and CMM (Capability Maturity Model)

Database:

MS SQL Server, MS Access

Software Packages and Tools:

MS Office 2000/XP/2003, MS FrontPage, Toad, Siebel 2000, and FTP

Operating Systems:

MS Windows 2000/XP/ NT, and Unix, HP NonStop and Unisys

Protocols:

Fix and TCP/IP

Testing Tools:

Mercury Tools- Test Director and WinRunnerr, Rational Requisite Pro, Serena, Robot, and Crystal Report

Experience:

Confidential, Trumbull, CT( )

Quality Control Analyst III ( )

Quality Control Analyst II ( )

Prepared and executed test plans and test case from business requirements spec/technical spec in various projects.
Created comprehensive test plans and test scripts from detailed design/functional requirements doc.
Interact with developers to resolve the discrepancies and retest any modifications.
Work with project managers and quality assurance managers to determine priority and severity of issues.
Verify and install software build provided by configuration management.
Work with automation group to automate manual scripts for regression testing.
Created test case execution and reviewed defect for financial market software.
Responsible for project turnovers from QC phase thru post implementation phase.
Conducted emergency release testing.
Added the project discrepancies in both QC and Production environment.
Acted as release coordinator for planning and execution of Production and UAT cycles to ensure all testing requirements are met for the upcoming release.
Coordinated the release rollout plan for successful production implementation.

Quality Assurance Analyst I( )

Assisted project team members on the Nasdaq Stock Market Standards and Procedures, Processes, and Methodology.
Conducted phase exit meetings in all phases of the projects assigned.
Gathered major issues that were addressed for the software development life cycle process.
Developed access databases to collect phase issues metrics for upper management to determine what causes projects to be delayed in production.
Assisted Project Office Manager on the project tracking database.
Attended appropriate project related meetings.
Created Systems Engineering notebook for auditors.