OBJECTIVE
Having over 4+ years of Business Analyst/ Quality Assurance experience, in the financial service, retail, insurance, and various industries, with full understanding of the trading order management life cycle (front office through settlement), Merger Integrations and many types of project management disciples’ including: SDLC, Six Sigma and Agile. Initially was responsible for measuring the profitability of financial products (Commodities, Fixed Income, Equity, and a wide range of derivative products). Highly experienced working as Quality Assurance Analyst with a record of developing and successful QA projects and solutions in both the Waterfall and Agile environments seeking an opportunity as a Business Analyst, Software Test Automation Engineer/Quality Assurance Engineer.

WORK EXPERIENCE

12/11 – Present Confidential, Rockville, MD
Automation Test Engineer
Project Description: 
Market Compliance and Regulatory Technology systems: NASDAQ Regulation examines NASDAQ member organizations to
determine whether these requirements are met. The Exchange also works with other private-sector, governmental, and law-enforcement agencies, including
SIRA, the SEC, and U.S. Attorney\'s office. NASDAQ Regulation also belongs to the Inter-market Surveillance Group, a group of domestic and non-U.S.
markets and agencies that share regulatory and financial information.
Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with cross functional teams to integrate market intelligence from all NASDAQ listings areas.
• Demonstrate ability to manage numerous priorities in a high-pressure environment.
• Work with members of the delivery teams in developing test plans, establishing quality processes / guidelines, assigning tasks, and managing
• groups/teams.
• Trained the testing team to develop automated scripts utilizing HP Quick Test Pro 9.5 to enhance the overall efficiency of the entire testing effort.
• Created custom checkpoints where necessary, and inserted standard, bit map, text area, and data checkpoints.
• Managed objects through the object repository and descriptive programming including child objects where the objects where not read.
• Utilized reusable actions and created a customized function library including passing environmental variable.
• Created data tables for the parameters to perform data driven test.
• Performed data validation through SQL scripts
• DHIMS-Theater DT&E automated scripts where used as a model for other testing teams to make use of HP Quick Test Pro 9.5
• Designed, administered and trained the test team to use Mercury Quality Center v.9.2 for managing defects, requirements and the test repository
• based on best practices.
• Used Quality Center 9.2 to keep track of the metrics including various graphs and reports that are used to create Test Pans, Test Reports and
• Executive Summaries.
• Responsible for reviewing requirements, traceability and system engineering documents.
• Engineered and implemented test process for Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) testing based on CMMI guidelines.
• Involved with requirements negotiation, prioritization, elaboration between the client and the third party development team.
• Proficient in different phases of testing: Integration Testing, System Acceptance Testing and Regression testing in a fast paced environment with over
• twenty-five different component or applications.
• Created test plans and test scripts to effectively test both technical and functional requirements to discover system anomalies.
• Strong interpersonal skills and experience in a collaborative team based results oriented environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Environment: J2EE, SOAP, Oracle, SQL, Star Team, Quality center, Microsoft Project Management, Clear Case, Clear Quest.

05/11 – 12/11 Confidential New York, NY
Lead QA Test Engineer
Project Description: 
Manufacturing Management, Process Control and visualization & Productions Process system: Li & Fung Ltd developed
application to visualize its total production transparency with flexible planning with complete control for its 15 billion productions.
Responsibilities:

• Participated in analysis of various marketing requirements, functional& requirements and other development documents.
• Supervised all functionality testing on each milestone of the application and advice on best practice for successful QA. Communicate with all levels of
• management on test status.
• Meet daily with Business Analysts, Product Staff and Development on Test Issues and Requirements.
• Created a formal quality assurance structure and developed testing processes according to SDLC and USE Cases standards.
• Implemented test plans, matrixes, scripts, and tools using gathered business requirements.
• Drafted policies and procedures, trained business analysts and developers in its use, and guided the team throughout the implementation of the program.
• For testing, in a large-scale server systems architecture environment, I have been maintaining standard test templates for functional test plans, test
• scenarios and test cases.
• Documented test procedures, reconciling test results from different tests.
• Help team deliver well-designed and written test cases to project.
• Oversee the execution of test cases, review test results and report defects.
• Consulted with the appropriate technical groups and release management team to determine where to go forward with the release or not go.
• Documented test procedures and findings. Reconcile test results from different test and different groups.
• Assessed readiness and deviation of product/ project performance based upon test results and product specifications.
• Performed functional and system tests on Web-based applications on different browsers: IE, FireFox, Safari, and Chrome, using QTP and LoadRunner,
• in both the QA and back-up environments.
• Developed test scripts based upon business requirements and processes, in the line with defined workflows and use cases.
• Maintained a repository of manual test cases and scripts using HP Quality Center
• Documented and prioritized defects, using JIRA defect tracking tool. Review all reported bugs and assign them the appropriate individuals.
• Tested Web-based applications built on IBM portal technology, written on JAVA, to test relevant existing system functionality.
• Worked with business and technology leads to identify the appropriate data for testing, and prepare that data for test cases using SQL. The data fed from
• DB2 and Oracle.

Environment: Java, XML, Soup UI, Unix, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Mantis Bug Tracker, SmarteScript, Microsoft Office Share Point Server (MOSS- 2007), Microsoft virtual PC 2007, QTP 9.2, VBScript, LISA, Mercury Quality Center 9.2

01/10 – 05/11 Confidential,New York, NY
Software Test Engineer
A.I.M.S responsibilities:

• Involved in writing the test plans, test cases and RTM involved in the process of analyzing the expected and actual results
• Prepared of test Status Report, Weekly Reports and Monthly Reports
• Investigate, identify, analyze, define and document business processes
• Generated the test scripts for Functional, Data driven and Regression testing.
• Extensively worked on handling the application response for Positive and Negative sets of data using Data Driven Testing
• Performed Functional, Regression, UAT and Integration testing on different browsers
• Assist with user testing of systems, developing and maintaining quality procedures, and ensuring that appropriate documentation is in place
• Responsible for Work Allocation and Review Test Execution Results reported by QA Engineers.
• Designed Summary Reports, Traceability Reports using Crystal Reports from MSSQL database of Quality Center.
• Used Quality center to prepare Test cases, procedures and Requirements Traceability Matrix
• Generated Test Analysis Report and graphs using Quality center
• Involvement in writing and modifying UNIX scripts and other SQL validation scripts, and writing scripts in SQL/PLSQL to validate the
• outputs
• Used Quality Center as the test management tool and QTP, Win Runner, Silk Test as the automation tool for the scripts on different modules of
• CMS.
• Developed custom templates for reporting Test case summary, Validation Status, Test case statistics and preparing Requirement Traceability
• Matrix utilizing the data from quality center using ODBC connection
• Facilitated formal review meetings with users and developers to report, demonstrate, prioritize and suggest resolution to issues discovered during
• testing cycles.
• Participated in daily calls with business users, developers and weekly status meetings.
• Participated in Lisa testing for Automate regression testing to dramatically reduce labor costs and improve time-to-market.
• Prepared Test Metrics, Bug database and generated monthly reports
• Had regular meeting with Developers to report various problems

Environment: UNIX, Oracle 9x, SQL, ASP, HTML, VB, Quality Center9.2, PVCS, QTP 9.0, WIN NT/2000, MS-Excel, LISA, MS-Word.

06/08 – 11/09 Confidential. Atlantic City, NJ
Software Engineer.
Project Description: Lawson applications business requirement identification and deployment: Bally’s Park Place deployed financial ERP system gathering business department’s requirements and sketch up flow chart.
Responsibilities:

• Prepared Test plan, Test Scenarios and Test Scripts as per functional, Business requirements using Quality center.
• Extensive use of Shared Object Repository by maintaining the naming conventions.
• Developed Master startup scripts by using Reusable Actions and Copy Actions and did the regression testing for each release of the application.
• Extensively worked on Execution of automated scripts, analyzing the results, enhancing the scripts
• User defined functions were written according to the functionality of the application.
• I Used Database Checkpoint to verify whether our application is getting the same data from the database.
• Verified SHELL SCRIPTS to make sure that it is invoking SQL LOADER properly
• Developed Test Process/Strategy and Plan test cycles and cycle content
• Conducted walkthroughs with team members and assigned tasks to team members.
• Prepared test results, bug reports documents.
• Provide training on testing methodology – how to turn requirements into test scenarios and test scripts.
• Knowledge transfer to the team members.
• Coordinate and track testing progress problem reports status to Project Management.
• Coordinating with Developers for Defect analysis and Bugs reported to developers.
• Using Mercury Test Director to manage the requirements, test scripts and also defects.
• Involved in meetings with Project Mangers, Developers and business users for project planning and implementing different QA methods.
• Investigating software defects and interacting with developers to resolve technical issues using Test Director.
• Extensively used Recovery Scenarios while doing the regression testing
• Responsible for weekly status, attend the bridge meetings showing progress and future testing efforts.
• Extensively communicated with developers using bug-reporting tool Quality center..

Environment: HP9000-UNIX, ORACLE7.3/8.0, SQLLoader, C, C++, PVCS, Mercury Test Director.

Skills

• Typing 45-50 WPM, knowledge of: MS-DOS, Server 2000/2003, Exchange, LexisNexis, Citrix, VMware, Windows 98/00/NT/ XP. Novell 5.1,GroupWise, Front page, C++, Visual Basic 6.0, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, pcANYWHERE32, computer hardware and software installation.
• Skilled in Office 2003/2007 (Excel, Access, Word, Power Point, Project Management), Extensive working experience of SQL 2000/2003, SAP SD/MM and FICO Module, Progression – Macola, TMS (Transportation Management System), LMS (Logistics Management System), WMS (Warehouse Management System) and seven other Mid Tier ERP systems (VAM, ARIA, Blue Cherry, AIMS, SAIMS, MAS-500, Great Plains, Gentran and 123 EDI).
• SQL Database, Crystal Reports, Report Writer, File Maker Pro. Knowledge of EDI Mappings: 850, 860, 812, 820, 816, 869, 870, 856, 810, 753, 754, 997 and setting up trading partners in various van such as AS2, FTP etc. EDI knowledge in various platforms such as AS-400 Platform, ARIA, GENTRAN, Unix, AIMS, SAIMS, EDI, QRS, IBM, and GE catalog, ADP terminal, Peach Tree, Quick Book Pro. Computer and customer service experiences.

Customer Experience:

• Top Tier: Saks 5th Ave, Nordstrom, Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus, Hickey Freeman, Ralph Lauren, Lord & Taylor, Dillard.
• Mid Tier: Macy’s East/West, Bonton, Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Kohl’s, Bed Bath & Beyond, Burlington Coat Factory, Target, Marshall, TJ Maxx, Ross Stores, Jc
• Penny, Sears & Roebuck, Meijer, Century, Toy Island, Stage Stores, Babies ‘R Us, Toys ‘R Us, Boscov’s.

EDUCATION
Confidential Institute 
Major: Accounting.
Bachelor degree in Applied Science.