SUMMARY:

• 9+ years of professional experience in People Management, Test Management, Stakeholder management in distributed delivery model.
• Experience in different Project Life Cycle Stages and assisting in repository maintenance, detailed test planning process such as creation of Test Approach, Test Plan, Test Scope Document, Estimation Sheet, Project Progress Report, Monthly Metrics and building out of unit and integration testing scripts and test cases. NCFM certified in Financial Markets and Equity Derivatives.
• Experience in Investment Banking. Experience in Trading Process for Morgan Stanley Clients in Holdings like Equities, Mutual funds, Common Stock, Preferred stock, Options, Fixed Income, Precious Metal. Etc. Experienced in verification of Client Statements having all kind of Account information and trading activities which includes buying and selling of all his assets.
• Experience in verification of all type of Mailers/Notifications being sent to clients on account of any trigger like New account opening, welcome letter, change of address, termination letter etc. Experience in Financial/Insurance, Web, Factory/Simulation Domain. Experience in Agile Methodology, Sprints using Scrum works.
• Rich experience in various phases of software development life cycle. Vast testing experience in Database, Mainframe, Security and localization. Experience on Functional and Regression Testing, Installation Testing, Smoke Testing, Navigational Testing, Integration, System Testing and User Acceptance
• Testing on Financial, Web Applications and Desktop Applications. Test requirements gathering and Analysis through direct client interaction and creating Estimation, Planning, Execution, Team management, work allocation. Experience in devising efficient Test strategies including planning, Regression suite preparation, traceability matrix and Test Summary reports. Experience in Confidential .

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows XP/2003/2007 Server/Vista/2000 Advanced Server

Web Technologies: Web services testing.

Databases: Oracle, SyBase, MS - Access, CPI (Mainframe)

Tools: ALM (Quality Center 11.0), Clear Case, VSS, Clear Quest, Teradata, TOAD, Scrumworks, QTP.

Domain Knowledge: Experience in domains like Capital Markets, Insurance, ERP, Simulation and Telecom

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

QA lead

Responsibilities:

• Identifies the participants involved in the transaction (counterparty, dealer, broker, exchange, etc.), Specifies the point of delivery (delivery, settlement instructions and location), Specifies the delivery or inventory price (settlement price or closing price)
• Identifies the currency, Defines the products changing specifications (periodic or event driven corporate actions such as stock splits, bonus issue, mergers, redemption, etc., Identifies the product specific cash related flows such as dividends, interest, etc.
• Institutionalized testing processes across the engagement, ensuring a consistent experience forthe client in terms of execution model, reporting & managing escalations.
• Leading a team of 6 professionals in charlotte and managing clients globally ( NY, Tokyo, London and Mumbai)
• Managing an important platform RDM ( Confidential Manager) as part of this project.
• Working closely with Business / B.As to ensure correct approach and correct product is build.
• Working with stakeholders in prioritization of defects/functionalities.
• Reviewing requirement analysis, test planning, execution, defect tracking for testing projects with Team and relevant client sponsors
• Building Functional and Technical skills within the team and creating Knowledge Transition plans
• Status Reporting for Management and publishing metrics client/stakeholders for the testing activities.

Confidential

QA lead

Responsibilities:

• Once logged into ClientServ client has access to summary of accounts, holdings, Activities performed, Gain/ Loss (both realized and unrealized) and have an option to trade stocks.
• Client has access to his documents like Monthly statements, Trade confirmations, Tax documents, General correspondence etc.
• Alternatively there is another system 3D where actual FA logs in and does trading on clients behalf and has much more rights than client.
• Institutionalized testing processes across the engagement, ensuring a consistent experience forthe client in terms of execution model, reporting & managing escalations.
• Working closely with Business / B.As to ensure correct approach and correct product is build.
• Working with stakeholders in prioritization of defects/functionalities.
• Managing delivery of testing projects from offshore against defined SLAs/metrics and established Improvement initiatives by initiating automation & innovation drive, resulting in improved team productivity and benefits to the client
• Reviewing requirement analysis, test planning, execution, defect tracking for testing projects with Team and relevant client sponsors
• Status Reporting for Management and publishing metrics client/stakeholders for the testing activities.
• Ensure co-ordination between Functional, Automation and Performance Test teams and review automation test scripts to meet the requirements
• Project management in ALM (Quality center 11.0)
• Leading a team of 8 Professionals
• Creating of Test Data for Execution

Confidential

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Institutionalized testing processes across the engagement, ensuring a consistent experience forthe client in terms of execution model, reporting & managing escalations.
• Working closely with Business / B.As to ensure correct approach and correct product is build.
• Working with stakeholders in prioritization of defects/functionalities.
• Managing delivery of testing projects from offshore against defined SLAs/metrics and established Improvement initiatives by initiating automation & innovation drive, resulting in improved team productivity and benefits to the client
• Reviewing requirement analysis, test planning, execution, defect tracking for testing projects with Team and relevant client sponsors
• Status Reporting for Management and publishing metrics client/stakeholders for the testing activities.
• Ensure co-ordination between Functional, Automation and Performance Test teams and review automation (QTP) and performance (Load Runner) test scripts to meet the requirements

QA Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Project Management which includes Project tracking, planning, reporting.
• Responsible for interaction with Dev Stakeholders.
• Managing Testing activities in Projects from Multi-Vendor systems
• Managing delivery of testing projects from offshore against defined SLAs/metrics and established Improvement initiatives by initiating automation & innovation drive, resulting in improved team productivity and benefits to the client
• Reviewing requirement analysis, test planning, execution, defect tracking for testing projects with Team and relevant client sponsors
• Status Reporting for Management and publishing metrics client/stakeholders for the testing activities.
• Ensure co-ordination between Functional, Automation and Performance Test teams and review automation (QTP) and performance (RPT) test scripts to meet the requirements
• Project management in HPQC Leading a team of 9 Professionals

Environment: J2EE, Oracle Web center, Endeca.

Confidential

Lead Consultant / Test LeadMorgan Stanley Smith Barney

Responsibilities:

• As a QA Lead, involved in managing the Testing engagement from Offshore perspective for projects executed out of Headstrong with following
• Managing Testing activities in Projects for different source systems
• Working with stakeholders in prioritization of Projects and managing escalations
• Building Functional and Technical skills within the team and creating Knowledge Transition plans
• Responsible for testing of all kind of mailers to customers.
• Reviewing requirement analysis, test planning, execution, defect tracking for testing projects with Team Leads and relevant client sponsors
• Daily Client interaction and status reporting / Client Management.
• Sending status to client/stakeholders for the testing activities.
• Project management in QC

Environment: Smith Barney environment which includes: CMOD (Content Manager On Demand), SB.Com (Smith Barney) / NextGen / SBlinx, Data Validation on Mainframe server

Confidential

Lead Consultant / Test LeadMorgan Stanley Smith Barney

Responsibilities:

• Confidential receive letters/notifications on account of various activities carried out like change of address, Billing confirmation, Welcome letter, Account opening, Termination letter etc to name a few. The CCC QA team carries out the testing of entire letters / Notifications which are being sent to clients on account of any trigger. This involves testing on various platforms so as to make sure the letters received by client are bug free.
• Reviewing requirement analysis, test planning, execution, defect tracking for testing projects with Team Leads and relevant client sponsors.
• Doing reconciliations daily for letters.
• Managing delivery of testing projects from offshore against defined SLAs/metrics and established Improvement initiatives by initiating automation & innovation drive, resulting in improved team productivity and benefits to the client
• Daily Client interaction and status reporting / Client Management.
• Execution of various activities across the testing lifecycle which includes requirements analysis, test planning, test execution, defect tracking.
• Sending status to client/stakeholders for the testing activities.
• Project management in QC
• Environment: QC 10, On Demand Server, MS 360, QMS, ClientServ, CPS/Merlin

Confidential

Lead Consultant / Test LeadMorgan Stanley Smith Barney

Responsibilities:

• Description: Post merger of Morgan Stanley and Smith Barney, the client reporting structure and format of the client reports needed to update taking in to account of both Morgan Stanley and Smith Barney customers. The change resulted in to a huge restructuring of reports and database. Statement team was involved in function and regression testing of the reports. Testing each and every change at minutest level so as make sure to deliver defect free reports to clients.
• Verification of all kind of Account information and trading activities in Monthly statement which includes buying and selling of all his assets.
• Verification of all kind of customer Holdings i.e. all his assets like Cash, Equities, Mutual funds, Common Stock, Preferred stock, Options, Fixed Income, Precious Metal. Etc.
• Task allocation and sending deliverables to client.
• Arranging knowledge transfer sessions whenever required.
• Sending status to client/stakeholders for the testing activities.
• Coordinating with automation team.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer QCPFSA

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirement analysis, creation of test cases for Product Editor, Part Editor, Import Product from Cerberus, prepare smoke test plan, executing system test cases, unit test cases and maintaining the bug status in Clear Quest, also involved in regression testing.
• Description: Panasonic provides components and design solutions to leading manufacturers in the consumer electronics, telecommunications, computer, and home appliance industries, among others. Confidential is a single software suite of dedicated, user selectable programs that encompasses the manufacturing process from CAD import to automatic process control and management. It maximizes equipment utilization, improves process throughput and reduces defects, scrap and rework of boards. Confidential allows building a factory automation system
• Involved in creation and execution of functional test cases, installation and smoke test plans for various modules of Confidential on various platforms, reporting and testing of defect items for various releases, support of Confidential and Windows Vista on all other operating systems, regression testing and installation testing, bug tracking using Virtual Intercept.

Environment: VB, VC++, MAI Viewer, MAI Comparison Viewer, DBU, Dbase, SQL 2000/2005, Visual Intercept

Confidential

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Description: The project involved testing the surveys that are developed by team SP on a tool named as Confirmit. It’s a programming tool. It involved testing the survey both manually and with an automated tool RDG Analyzer, which again is a performance-testing tool and is similar to Loadrunner. It also involved looking into the XML exports if any issues encountered
• Role: Involved in preparing test cases, checking all the links through navigation testing, performing smoke test and regression test manually, checking all kinds of logic and aesthetic properties, suggesting the areas of improvement, bug reporting and tracking bugs, used tool RDG to check performance of surveys..
• Description: This software helps in entering details of customers like name, address, contact details, references etc., through which activation utilities are fired. This software checks the CR status, CPV status as well as BCD status. Once they are all set the required utility is fired.
• Role: Involved in testing all modules of application using functionality testing, making strategy for testing of project, designing of test cases and test plans, execution of test cases as per test plan, reporting bugs to development team, interaction with developer to fix the bug.
• Description: This software helps in searching out instance ids of mobile numbers which helps in bulk provisioning for back end people. This software links with database and finds out the respective ids and their account numbers. It reports them in a format and later on can be copied.
• Role: Involved in making strategy for testing, preparing test cases, test execution and management, suggesting the areas of improvement, bug reporting and tracking bugs to development team, functional, validation and regression testing, effective coordination between development team and testing team.

Environment: Java, JSP, SQL Server 2000