Contribute and expand my skills in the field of Quality Assurance. Enhance my knowledge in financial Applications, develop my knowledge of the Marketplace, Client Server Technology growth oriented and challenge driven environment with exposure to business models and strategies.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Experience in analysis of Documentation for Business Requirements and Software Requirement Specifications and writing macro level Test Strategies and detailed test plans, test cases, test scripts, execution of test scenarios, analyzing the actual results against the expected results, reporting the change requests, incident reports and defects etc. Creation of test data and automation of test scripts for functional and regression testing.
• Knowledge of Testing with various SDLC Methodologies like Agile (Scrum and XP), Rational Unified Process (RUP) and Rapid Application Development.
• Proficient in the use of various functional automation testing tools such as Quality Test Professional (QTP) and Win runner (WR). Expertise in Data Driven testing and Modular Script Model
• Expert at performing Back End Testing. Well versed with SQL queries to run the data integrity tests. Strong work experience in both UNIX and Windows environment.

Testing Tools: Mercury Quick Test Professional (QTP), WinRunner (WR), Test Director and Quality Center, Test Track Pro and JIRA
Operating Systems: Familiarity with both UNIX and Windows platforms.
Languages: Familiarity with C, C++, Perl and PL/SQL
Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server and MS-Access
Fix Simulators: Aegis Simulator and VeriFix

Confidential, New York, New York 2008-Present
Sr. Quality Assurance Analyst

Confidential CrossAsset XL
CrossAsset XL offers a powerful Excel-based analytics solution for derivatives and structured products, providing unprecedented flexibility for structuring, pricing and managing individual deals or a book of trades. Broad instrument support, available as a complete cross-asset solution or modules for fixed income, equity, FX, credit, commodities, or inflation. The application supports any type of market data especially Reuters, Fitch, MarkIT and CMA. CrossAsset
Confidential Portfolio
Confidential Portfolio provides institutions with a powerful and flexible front-office solution for pricing and managing even the most complex derivative portfolios. Deployable as a single-user or enterprise solution, Confidential Portfolio enables a consistent and transparent process for capturing trades, calculating valuations and analyzing risk across multiple trade types.
Confidential Bloomberg Edition
Confidential Bloomberg Edition provides unprecedented flexibility for structuring, pricing and managing even the most complex derivatives and structured products — powered with live Bloomberg data. Users can also take advantage of Confidential's strategic partnership with Bloomberg to upload instruments into the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL® service using NXDL, where they can take advantage of all the Bloomberg functions they already use.
Confidential Trader Application
Confidential Trader Applications combine the sophisticated pricing and risk capabilities of Confidential CrossAsset XL with a customized Excel interface, allowing users to easily capture and price deals, test trading ideas, monitor relevant market data and analyze risk
Responsibilities:

• Studied the Application and use-cases, analyzed business and functional requirements and prepared pre conditioned data for testing the application.
• Performed Functional Testing, Integration testing, FIX Testing and Regression Testing.
• Managed the entire QA efforts, including manual and automation, of an application in Agile Methodology – Scrum environment
• Involved in Installation and configuration of various Confidential applications on different platforms. Initiated and managed Change requests in Sales force CRM.
• Evaluated various Test management Tools and Test Automation tools by acting as a key person from evaluation, POC, NDA and final settlement of the testing tool. Used Seapines Test Track system for managing entire defect lifecycle and also used QA Wizard Pro to automate regression test cases.
• Prepared use cases in Visio after analyzing the documents
• Used Toad and developed complicated SQL queries to perform backend data validation and database testing.
• Standardize QA standards and practices across teams where possible
• Generated many test documents like Macro level Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Incident Report, Test Summary Report, Exit Report for every release.
• Coordinated meetings with Developers and Business Analysts to discuss ongoing projects on daily and weekly basis.
• Involved in FIX Testing and FIX Log validation by using Verifix.
• Performed batch testing by executing batch jobs in UNIX environment and verifying the output logs.
• Managed a team of 3, both onsite and Offshore projects by acting as a primary point of contact for various projects. Conducted sessions through breeze session to know the outsourcing team to understand the core issues for immediate fixes.

Confidential, Nutley, NJ 2007 – 2008
Sr. Quality Assurance Analyst

eMarketing Applications
Worked on various eMarketing applications like Boniva.com, Bonehealth.com, Cellcept.com and RocheUSA.com. These eMarketing applications allow customers to register and get latest alerts and information about the products. It provides an enhanced account management experience for the customers. They also used for tracking and measuring program performance.
GSK Interface
GSK Interface is information exchange application. GSK, who is a partner to Roche in the drug Boniva get the customer information of all the Boniva registrants. The latest set of Boniva options and the associated contact details for the Boniva consumer will be sent to GSK’s vendor TargetBase via secure FTP in XML format.
Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Functional and Business specification documents, Design Documents and Use cases
• Developed test scenarios, test plans, test cases and test scripts in the Quality Center (9.1).
• Performed Integration testing, Regression testing, Smoke Testing, GUI Testing, Functional Testing, System Testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Developed functional automated Test scripts using Quick Test Professional 9.2. Created user defined function libraries and Shared Object Repositories to enhance the maintainability of the scripts. Used Regular expressions to handle dynamic data.
• Used Mercury Quality Center for Test Management and for defect tracking. Customized Quality Center according to firms needs and added several custom fields.
• Used TOAD (9.1) to run SQL queries to retrieve data from Oracle database as part of validation methods and make sure that Database constraints and Triggers were working as expected.
• Maintained UNIX shell scripts for production and QA date base replications.
• Perfumed intensive XML testing by creating test scripts based on use cases to test SOAP based web services. Used Altova XML Spy to generate and validate xml data.

Quality Assurance Engineer
Worked as QA Engineer for the web based online banking application. This application gives customer access to their account through the Internet. Customers can check their account balance, view accounts activity, transfer funds/balances from other accounts, apply for new loans, credit cards, home equity, computer loans, personal loans, education financing services, etc.
Responsibilities:

• Analyzed user requirement document and system requirement specification document and use cases for developing Test plan which includes the objective, Scope, Testing strategy and others.
• Developed Test scenarios and Test cases using Quality Center.
• Involved in manual testing of the application using Quality Center and established the baseline scripts for future automation.
• Created automation scripts for functional and Regression Testing using Quick Test Professional.
• Developed User Defined functions using VB Script to enhance the reusability of test scripts. Created Shared Object Repositories to reduce script maintenance.
• Involved in back-end testing and written complicated SQL queries to check the existence of data that’s been entered in the application
• Used Test Director for Defect Reporting and tracking. Involved in developing QA Metrics and Test Incident Report for Defects on Daily, Weekly and Module basis.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC 2005 - 2006

Quality Assurance Engineer
Equities trading application has a GUI in Java/Swing and allows to trade stocks across the brokerage firms. It supports only common stocks of Listed and OTC. It provides moveable screen interfaces for various functionality like Order entry, incoming window, and audit trail. GUI is user friendly and can save workspace as per the trader’s preferences. With enhanced reporting features and fail over features it is easily maintainable and extendable application.
Responsibilities:

• Prepared test plans, test cases, test procedures, which included test methodologies and test summaries for the application under test.
• Automation: Main Responsibilities in Automation Testing Cycle are a) Created New Project in Test Director. b) Developed Test Plan, Test Cases and Test scripts in the Test Director c) Developed Test Scripts using Quick Test Professional (QTP) to perform Regression Testing d) Run the Test Scripts through Test Director by invoking QTP and WinRunner, Scheduling of Tests both locally and on remote machines, exported test results from Test Director. e) Developed user defined functions and reusable actions
• Conducted backend testing by using complicated SQL queries on oracle database
• Reported the Defects in Test Director and verified the Defects and updated the status.

Confidential 2003 - 2004

Quality Assurance Tester
Profound Banker for DCCB’S
Profound Banker is a comprehensive banking solution specifically designed and developed for urban Co-operative and District co-operative central banks. It provides an integrated solution to the front office and back office needs of the banks. Based on client server architecture, the package has been designed with high standards of security, affordable by all kinds of banks.
Responsibilities:

• Prepared Test Data and Test bed
• Developed, Reviewed and Executed Test cases.
• Responsible for Functionality, Integration, Sanity, UAT and Regression Testing.
• Created the effective Test reports by evaluating Test results.

PROFESSIONAL

Master of Business Administration, Systems

Bachelor of Computer Application, Computer Science