SUMMARY

• Over ten years of experience in the fields of Business Analysis, Software Quality Assurance, and Production Support
• Certified ScrumMaster
• Full understanding and experience in advanced testing methodologies and the Software Product Development Life Cycle (Agile and Waterfall) for Client/Server and Web based applications in various areas of Financial Industry
• Front office support for Fixed Income desks
• Strong knowledge of financial products: equity, fixed income, derivatives, and swaps
• Strategies: Butterfly, Breakeven, Merger Arbitrage, Convert Arbitrage, Round Robin, and Rolls
• Experience with financial electronic messaging protocol Fix Protocol
• Experience in testing Equity, Fixed Income, and Derivatives products.
• Strong knowledge of Trade life cycle from front office all the way to back office
• Experience in interacting with Traders/Pf Managers to capture Requirements and Document them
• Performed different types of Testing: Functional testing, Integration testing, Backend testing, System testing, Regression Testing, and End to End Testing
• Experience in logging defects, prioritizing them, retesting fixed defects and tracking them till closure
• Strong knowledge in creating Test Plan, Test Cases, RTM and TAR and executing Test cases
• Extensively used SQL queries and UNIX commands for data verification and back end testing
• Participated in root cause analysis of defects and provided process improvement suggestions to eliminate future occurrences of similar defects
• Coordinated Triage, Sprint review, Scrum, Sprint retrospective, and BA walkthrough meetings
• Expert in developing and maintaining Test Scripts, analyzing bugs and interacting with Developers in fixing the defects
• Team player with an uncompromising attitude towards quality. Confident and ready to respond to unplanned demand. Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
• Ability to document and communicate the status of the testing progress against plans, taking corrective action and escalating as necessary
• Experience with Bloomberg terminal and staging environments(TSOX, EMSX, FXEM, VCON)
• Experience with trading apps like MarketAxess, Rediplus, YeildBroker, TradeWeb(US, EUR, Asia), Bloomberg, and FXconnect
• Experience with CRD compliance and Order Management systems
• STP(state thru processing) validation all the way from front end to the back end

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Platform: Windows, UNIX / Linux

Languages: CSS, Java, HTML, SQL, XML, Fix Protocol

Tools: MS SQL Server, HP / ALM Quality Center, Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel), Selenium IDE, Eclipse, Confluence, Jira, Jenkins, GIT, Maven, ANT, Postman

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Boston, MA

QA/BA(Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Capture requirements from Clients and document them
• Attended task/bug triage meeting where tasks/bugs are prioritized
• Organize session with developers to go over the requirements and get their effort estimates
• Create user stories/test cases in Jira based on business requirement document
• Execute test cases and capture test evidence in jira
• Log bugs in Jira and track them till closure
• Demo fixes/enhancements to users to get their feedback
• Send QA sign off once all tests are executed and bugs are fixed
• Types of tests: back end, end to end, functional, UAT
• Analyze server logs in case of errors/failures
• Used queries to check data in db
• Took part in scrum meetings

Confidential, New York, NY

QA/BA/Prod Support(Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Captured requirements from Clients and document them
• Created test cases in Jira and executed them
• Logged defects in Jira and tracked them till closure
• Onboarded and tested on clients' site once software is integrated with their systems
• Coordinated with clients for demo and captured their feedback
• Organized daily scrum meetings to discuss daily progress of the sprint
• Participated in creating regression suites and automate them
• Part took in bug triage meeting where open bugs are prioritized
• Extensively used database queries to validate data in database
• Analyzed logs in Unix environment to trace issues
• Evaluated post trade calculations of start cash, end cash, accrued interest, up front fee,and cash flows
• Tested trade strategies as: Butterfly, Yield Curve, Repo, Reverse Repo, Rolls, Unwind, Novation, Swap Spread, Swaption, FX Spot, FX Forward, FX Swap, and BreakEven
• Coordinated release

Confidential, Greenwich, CT

QA/BA (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Support front office Credit and Rate Desks
• HY Credit, Rate, CDX, Repo on Bloomberg TSOX
• IG Credit on MarketAxess
• Repo, TBA, Credit on TradeWeb
• Future, Option, Equity on Bloomberg EMSX
• Serve as first contact point in the event of execution issues
• Executed order did not flow back in
• Assist with accrued interest/ dirty price/ start cash/ haircut calculations
• VCON related issues.
• Allocation issues
• Routing to EMS issues
• Analyzing FIX messages to find root cause of issues related to outbound and inbound trades
• Supervised offshore team in Pune, India
• Interact with Traders to gather the requirements
• Create Business Requirement document
• Organize BRD walkthrough with QA
• Coordinate bug triage and daily stand up meetings with QA/Dev teams
• Coordinate Demo and Releases
• Close interaction with Developers for defect resolution
• Analysed XML and Fix Messages Post Trade
• Worked with Bloomberg to make sure market data is flowing to our system correctly.
• Experience with Bloomberg EMSX and TSOX environments
• Experience with trading apps like MarketAxess, TradeWeb(US, EUR, Asia), Bloomberg, and FXconnect
• Executed Smoke, Functional, End to End, GUI, UAT, BackEnd.
• Used HP ALM for test case execution and bug tracking.
• Utilized Sybase DataBase for data comparison, post trade confirmation, manipulate data in tables
• Participated in stand up status report meetings with QA manager, front office meetings with project manager.
• Tested such ticket types as IRS, CDS, TBA Roll/Swap, Future&Option, TRS, Fixed Income, FX, Fixed Deposit, Butterfly, Currency Swap, ETD Roll/Swap, Repo, Stock, Swaption, CDS Option.

Confidential, Pasadena, CA

QA/BA (Employee)

Responsibilities:

• Provided support on Trading and Portfolio Management systems for Fixed Income desks
• Interacted with Traders/PF Managers to gather business requirements
• Documented Business Requirements
• Organized BRD walkthrough meetings with Dev and QA teams
• Analyzed created scenarios and use cases
• Ran dry run on QA, UAT, and Prod environments for validation
• Participated in daily Project meetings and QA status meetings
• Maintained close interaction with PM for Use Case understanding and bug triage
• Utilized HP ALM and Jira for bug tracking, test case creation and execution
• Had access to Unix environment to restart jobs and to troubleshoot run time errors
• Used SQL queries for back end testing
• Validated STP process once all Compliance Workbench, Broker Admin, Back End are all integrated.
• Executed Functional, End to End, Smoke, Load, and Regression test suites.

Confidential, Pasadena, CA

QA Lead (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Use case analysis and developing test cases accordingly
• Close interaction with BA and Developers for use cases analysis and defect resolution
• Analysed XML and Fix Messages Post Trade
• Worked with Bloomberg to make sure market data is flowing to our system correctly.
• Experience with Bloomberg EMSX and TSOX staging environments
• Business and Technical requirement analysis
• Drawing use cases and test scenarios from BRD documents
• Setting up QA environment for testing
• Test execution
• Logging, Documenting, and Tracking defects till closure in Jira
• Executed Smoke, Functional, End to End, GUI, UAT, Regression, and BackEnd.
• Used SQL for back end data validation
• Analyzed Fix messages in the event of outbound or inbound message errors
• Participated in various meetings like daily stand - up meetings, weekly project meetings, weekly QA status meetings, Bug triage meetings, BRD walkthrough meetings
• Tested such ticket types as IRS, CDS, Future&Option, Fixed Income, FX, Currency Swap, and Equity
• Tested OMS connectivity with third party vendor trading apps like MarketAxess, Tradeweb, Bloomberg(EMSX,TSOX,VCON)

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

QA Analyst (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Involved in full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using Agile model and worked closely with Business Analyst, Developers and clients, attended walkthrough and requirement review meetings
• Experience with testing Equity (Preferred and Common) and Fixed Income Securities(Treasury, Muni, Corporate)
• Structured Products, derivatives, and swaps tested: CDS, TBA, TRS, IRS, Curncy Swap, Swaption, CDS option
• Experience with Bloomberg Terminal
• Analyzed Fix Messages in fix logs
• Utilized third party vendor apps like, TradeWeb, Marketaxess, Tradepipe, Bloomberg etc
• Used HP Quality Center (ALM) to organize and manage all phases of the software testing process, including planning tests, executing tests, logging and tracking defects and creating Test Analysis Report (TAR).
• Participated in daily (SCRUM) and weekly team meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification requests
• Successfully created Test Cases with clear and detailed test steps
• Involved in writing Test cases for checking the functionality of the application
• Performed Smoke, Sanity, Functional, System, Backend, End to End and Regression testing based on specifications
• Prioritized test cases by business impact, critical and frequently used functionalities for regression testing
• Reported and logged Defects through HP QC(ALM) to developers. Interacted with Developers on the status of Bugs reported on a regular basis
• Created Requirements Traceability Matrix, to make sure that all requirements are covered with Test Cases
• Involved in writing SQL queries for Backend Testing and to verify the database updates, inserts and deletions of the records, and validate them
• Involved in selecting the test cases to be automated
• Attended onsite/off-shore team member reviews and meetings, teleconferences

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

QA Analyst (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Plans to outline the Scope, analysis, approach, resources as well as test execution, and test completion report.
• Created Test Plans and Test Strategies for the various functional Modules in the application.
• Prepared Manual Test Cases and Test Scripts for checking the functionality of the application.
• Conducted Smoke, GUI, Functional, Regression and System Testing of the application.
• Attended Scrum and Walk-Through meetings cooperating with Business Analysts and Scrum - Masters, analyzing, creating and testing the permissions for various levels, and public queries update, create and delete based on the need of Client.
• Reported and assigned the bugs through Modification Requests (MR) using HP ALM/Quality Center.
• Performed Back End Testing using SQL queries to retrieve the data from database.
• Utilized FXconnect, EquityConnect trading applications for front end trade capture.