Sandeep Jaikaria

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QUALITY ASSURANCE ENGINEER

Experienced, collaborative Quality Assurance team leader with background spanning various industries including Media, Finance, Health, Payroll, and Insurance, completing projects that enhance operational efficiency and improve the bottom line. A goal oriented and purpose driven professional, skilled in designing and executing test scenarios and test cases, with experience in various testing types such as User Acceptance Testing, Manual Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, Functional Testing, End to End Testing and Smoke testing. Familiar with software development life cycle (SDLC), software testing life cycle (STLC) and bug life cycle; and coordinating and leading the offshore/onshore delivery models. Demonstrated expertise finding bugs and analyzing the root cause of their occurrence, effectively enhancing product quality and reliability.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Mobile App Testing Web Applications Bug Identification Root Cause Analysis Defect Management Agile Methodologies Test Planning Digital Activation Communication Attention To Detail Collaboration Team Leadership FixedIncome SDLC

Technical Tools: Team Tracker Quality Center Jenkins Eclipse JIRA TestRail QTest Test Director (7.0) ClearQuest SoapUI3.6 Unix Google DFP Chaos Crystal for Pixel-to-Pixel testing Charles web Proxy

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

The Weather Company, an IBM Business September 2015 - March 2024

Senior Quality Engineer

Projects: Watson Ads & Creatives

Oversaw Quality Assurance and delivery of Ads across digital platforms, such as smartphones, tablets and Desktop for Watson Ads and Creative Labs products, which utilize artificial intelligence to create personalized interactions with users, allowing brands to engage with consumers in a more meaningful and interactive way. By leveraging IBM Watson's advanced cognitive capabilities, it provides relevant product recommendations, answer questions, and offer help based on individual preferences, revolutionizing the advertising experience, making it more informative, entertaining, and user-friendly.

●Performed A/B testing and cross functional evaluation for our Watson Ads campaigns.

●Tested UI elements in the conversation from the corpus.

●Executed BAR events and metrics testing on all browsers and devices using Charles.

●Tested Mixpanel Analytics, which track user interactions with web and mobile applications improving customer experience.

●Tested Integrated Marquees, Integrated forecast ads for our Watson Ads on our Weather app across devices.

●Tested Watson Campaigns on different app versions from TestFlight/Hockey App Builds.

●Logged defects in Jira and mapped to the test cases for traceability.

●Performed functionality, Events, Metrics and Impression tracking testing for the ad campaigns.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.(NYC) March 2014 - May 2015

Senior QA Analyst

Project: CIB AML / KYC

Worked on article 6 of the OCC Consent order served to JPMorgan, building a new client due diligence platform for AML/KYC for wholesale clients on boarding globally across the bank within CIB in accordance with the JPMorgan KYC/AML Standards. Implemented functionality and guidance into Client Due Diligence platform to increase and promote better AML/KYC controls.

●Designed and developed Test Cases and creating Test data for AML/KYC application.

●Created use cases and test scripts with input from stakeholders for UAT and EUT.

●Liaised with business analysts and test functionality as per requirements.

●Ensured that users are able to accurately document and conduct client due diligence prior to release of functionality into production.

●Created test data in order to execute UAT Scripts for end users and also performed regression testing.

●Participated and ran Defect Triage meeting, interacted with BA, tech and stakeholders.

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Thomson Reuters, NYC April 2012 - December 2013

Quality Assurance Specialist

Project: Thomson Reuters Eikon (Fixed Income Views)

Designed and developed Test Cases and Test Conditions for Fixed Income Views. Thomson Reuters Eikon covers all the major financial markets – equity, fixed income, commodities and foreign exchange – and provides effective compliance and risk management, investment management and wealth management solutions. The content and analytics package includes pricing data, financial research, global financial news and commentary, financial estimates, fundamentals analysis, and visual analysis through charting and analytics in real time.

●Performed testing of Web services using in-house interface to compare views to data source.

●Performed regression testing, Functional and GUI testing for every release.

●Executed and evaluated the results automated Selenium automated test for the entire Fixed Income.

●Performed QA on all new features delivered for Fixed Income Views and Logging defects in Jira.

●Coordinated raising external defects for content, Search and performed acceptance upon delivery.

●Actively worked with Product Owner and Business Analyst on developing test cases for projects.

●Kept the stakeholders informed of any deviations from agreed upon delivery goals and milestones.

ADP, NJ March 2009 - April 2012

Senior QA Tester

Project: iProducts

IProducts is a suite of iReports, Documax, CD ROM, IPay, W2 services and Admin tool applications such as W2 release console, iPay ER Admin, iPay CSR Admin and HRII Vantage iReport. It support mainframe payroll output. Designed and developed Test Plan and Test Conditions for HRII-iReports web service as well as Function test plan.

●Ran Quarter and Payroll on mainframe and then released QTR from Released console manager to test iPay and W2 Services application.

●Built web server and mid web server from the scratch for iProductsDemo site application.

●Deployed software packages in the Backend, midweb and web server using BladeLogic.

●Used Unix to check the log files and also to verify the files for iPay and W2 Services after running the Quarter and payroll on mainframe.

ADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

BNY Mellon, NYC

Senior QA Tester

Project: Global Custody Gaps

Migration of Credit derivative database with enhanced functionality from domestic platform to BNY Global Platform. Created trades for Equity and Index options like Calls, Puts, buy / Sell and also for Futures. Executed different test cases and verified if actual functionality of application matches the expected Results.

●Tested Batch as well as online Mainframe based applications.

●Performed Manual Functional, Integration, and Regression and UAT testing for Derivative processing on Mainframe platform.

UBS, NYC

QA Lead Tester

Project: Alpine

Worked on a web-based application called Alpine. Alpine is a Fixed Income trade allocation part (Broker/Dealer) of STP (Straight through Processing) system. It is a Middle Office system that works along with FOS (Front Office System) used by the Ops / Traders desk and a downstream settlement system that goes through ADP. Designed and developed Test Plan and Test Scripts for Distribution, which consists of different application such as Alpine, Fixed Income online (FIOL), and Repo (Repurchase), MBS (Market Backed. Securities), Market Axes, Fixed Income and FIMIS Dashboard web-based applications.

●Performed validation for Fixed Income (Gov Bond, Treasury Bills), Block order matching and Allocation booking done for fixed income, MBS, Repo, CP (Commercial Paper), Trade Web, Market Axes and FIMIS Dashboard.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts (BA) Himachal Pradesh University

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