SUMMARY

• Over 3+ Years of experience in the area of Software Testing.
• Well versed with all the stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Good Exposure on Requirement Analysis and Streamlining.
• Working Knowledge in SWIFT, TRADING, SETTLEMENT AND REFERENCE DATA.
• Experience working with Web Applications environment
• Well versed with
• Successfully Delivered 18+ major releases for dbCAR and CRDS applications.
• Have noledge on SQL database and Queries.
• Knowledge of testing process and methodologies.
• Worked on AGILE environment software development process.
• Experience in raising the defects using the Defect Management Tool by QC 9.0/ALM 11.0.
• Experience in preparation of process related documents such as: Traceability Matrix.
• Strong inter - personal skills, enabling effective interactions with customers, users and across teams. Able to negotiate commitments from other teams, to deliver aggressive deadlines.
• Have got appreciations from Managers and Delivery Leads for exceptional performance shown in testing area.
• Provided training to end users.
• Experience in using advanced excel and powerpoint.
• Gave Knowledge Transfer to the new joiners on Functional Specifications.
• Excellent communication skills to interact with all levels of the organization Managing Quality Centre, Defect handling, upload test cases to Quality Centre (via excel), Requirements, Traceability Matrix.
• To be the owner of critical issues and to address this in the weekly/monthly meetings with our application management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Window 98/NT/2000/XP/Vista, Linux, UNIX.

Languages: C, C++, Java, XML.

Databases: Oracle 10g/9i/8i, DB2 UDB, MySQL, MS SQL Server 2000, MS-Access

Web technologies: JSP, HTML, CSSS, JavaScript

Testing Tools: Quality Center, ALM

Browsers: Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera

Tools: TOAD, SQL Developer, Server studio.

System Design and Development: Requirement gathering and analysis, design, development, testing, delivery.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Test Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Strong noledge of all phases of SOFTWARE Development Life Cycle such as Agile and Waterfall methodologies, and Software Testing Life Cycle.
• Solid experience in Black Box Testing including: GUI, Functional, System, End to End, and Regression Testing of trading systems across a number of internally developed applications.
• Hands on experience in testing trading applications of Fixed INCOME, Equity, and Options Electronic Trading.
• Proficient in creating Test Plans, Test Cases, and Test Reports for manual tests on the basis of product release features, client's requirements and related technical documents.
• Highly skilled in defect management, analysis and reporting using HP Quality Center Generating Test Packs through excel checking the workflow for different region.
• Involved in preparing Daily Status Report.
• Testing Emergency BAU/Production patches.
• Coordinating with Operations and IT team located at India, UK, US and Singapore.
• Organize training sessions with the Application Development teams/Business Leads to gain technical /functional noledge for the applications supported.
• Actively followed the best practices of Incident, Problem & Change Management using HP Service Center and ensured all process are well defined & documented.
• Participated in peer review meeting for created Test plan, test cases and analyzing various testing documents and process of testing life cycle.
• Experienced in logging bugs, retesting fixed bugs and tracking till closure using HP QUALITY CENTER
• Extensive experience in RDBMS such as SQL Server and Oracle
• Arranged training session for new joiners.
• Experienced in writing SQL queries to manipulate data and to perform Back-End Testing
• Strong noledge of FIX Protocol and Capital Markets including Fixed Income, Equity, and Options trading
• Experienced in Trade Order Management System and Global Transaction Management

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Business Requirements Document and developed test cases.
• Performed Functional, System, Backend, and Regression testing based upon test plans and cases.
• Manually tested functionality of trading bonds, stocks and options.
• Tested the GUI of the application based on requirements.
• Used HP Quality Center to organize and manage all phases of the software testing process, including test planning, test executing, tracking defects and creating TAR.
• Participated in daily (SCRUM) and weekly team meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification requests.
• Reported defects using HP QC and followed up with development team till closure;
• Conducted Defect Review Meetings with Software Developers, BAs and QAs;
• Executed MS SQL queries to provide backend data consistency;

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked on ISO 15022 Swift Standards for Settlement Messages of series 54X, Clearing and Settlement.
• Involved in deriving the Test Scenarios and designing the manual test cases.
• Involved in generating the test data and preparing the weekly status reports.
• Tested the Trade Capturing, Processing, Confirmation/Matching, Settlement and Notification functionalities
• Executing the test cases and implemented Functional and Regression Testing.
• Manually tested functionality of trading bonds.
• UsedHP Quality Center to organize and manage all phases of the software testing process, including test planning, test executing, tracking defects and creating TAR;
• Worked closely with the application development and design and testing team to resolve technical issues and interacted with them to ensure overall quality of the software.
• Handling OTC Settlements and On Exchange testing.
• Performing Stability check on timely basis.
• Reported the results in status reports, status meetings and problem/bug reporting utilities;
• Bug Tracking and Error Reporting.
• Attending walk through conducted for preparation of Test Scenarios and Test cases.