Prajakta Shirke

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EDUCATION

●Master in Data Analysis, UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON, DOWNTOWN, TX - May 2022

●MCA (Master of Computer Applications), Pune University, India – April 2010

●B.Sc. (Bachelor of Science-Statistics), Pune University, India – Oct 2006

IT TECHNICAL FORTE

Automation Tool

QTP, Fitnesse

Defect Management/Version Control Tools

HP ALM - Quality Center, JIRA, TortoiseSVN, GitHub

Programming Language and Database

SQL, Python, R

Web Technologies

HTML, XML

Packages

MS Office – Word/Excel/PowerPoint

Operating Systems

Windows 10, LINUX (CentOS)

Others

Rally-Kanban board, Tableau, SAS, JMP, Anaconda Navigator, Agile, Waterfall methodology

IDE

Jupyter, Spyder

EXPERIENCE

Data Analysis Projects, UHD, TX 2019 - 2022

Models: Linear Model, Lasso, KNN, Regression Trees, MLR model

Software and tools: JMP, SAS, Tableau desktop, Spyder-Python, SQL, R, Jupyter

COMCAST, Downingtown, PA 2014 – 2016

Test Engineer

NGVCP-Ventris (Next Generation Video Controller Plane) is next generation video controller plane which is a back office of Comcast which handles all behind the scenes functionality of VOD session set up, maintenance and session teardowns.

●Performing trick plays (play/pause/fast forward/rewind/last/stop) on the streaming assets and monitor the session setup and navigation logs using Splunk queries. Testing of DSMCC messages to S1 messages, LSC messages to RTSP messages, Unsolicited server messages, Instance advertisements, FQDN caching (DNS Queries), C1 HTTP protocol support

●Analyzing and creating functional test cases in ALM test plan to address requirements and use cases.

●Testing the steaming on the asset by requesting a session setup request via TCP or UDP using DSMCC protocols.

●Testing of VTW and VTE stripping for Cisco and Motorola.

●Pre-release installation of Ventris Client Gateway which includes installation of the rpm (using Linux CentOS) on a Ventris VM by SSH (Putty), PoCs-Proof of concepts.

●Configuring files on a virtual machine using Linux and Windows OS.

●Exploratory, manual and load testing to examine message request and response.

●Testing of Navigations per second using Navhammer (Python) and session setup using sledgehammer (XML scripts).

●Cloning of the base virtual machines to create new instances for different environments and assigning IP addresses to those instances.

●Using Rally, JIRA, GitHub to capture all the user stories and deliverables.

●Defect Reporting and defect tracking using HP ALM.

●Coordinating with the development team (onshore) via email and conference calls, Jabber, Slack, and Pidgin, WebEx, JoinMe.

●Supporting release testing and certification of automation test suites using Fitnesse.

●Participating in troubleshooting and triaging of issues with different teams and stakeholders to drive towards root cause identification and resolution

●Participating in daily scrum meetings and in weekly calls with offshore teams.

●Using Confluence wiki for documentation.

●Software Testing Methodology: Agile scrum

Environment, Software and tools: Windows, XML, JIRA, HP ALM, Rally, GitHub, Linux-CentOS, WinSCP, VSphere Client, Royal TS, Splunk, Fitnesse, Confluence, TortoiseSVN, Jabber, Slack, Pidgin, VPN, MySQL Workbench, Skype Business, WebEx, JoinMe.

TULLETT PREBON AMERICAS CORP., NJ

Test Engineer 2011 – 2014

Tullett Prebon Americas Corp. is an inter-dealer intermediary money broker in the wholesale financial markets, facilitating the trading activities of market participants. Product areas include: Fixed Income Securities and their derivatives, Interest Rate Derivatives, Treasury products, Equities and Energy and Commodities.

●Testing financial derivative products CDS (Credit Default Swap), IRS (Interest Rate Swap), TRS (Total Return Swap), FXO (Foreign exchange).

●Testing FXO application for Front office trading platform for Future currency options & auctions.

●Conducting the auction for various products, report generation (i.e., establishing the date and time of the auction, determining which item(s) are to be included in the auction, bidders. +-

●Requirement analysis, understanding scope, test case design, test scenarios, identification of test scenarios and writing test cases by referring to specification documents and test case reviews.

●Performing Sanity, Smoke, Black Box, Confirmation, Regression and Ad/Hoc testing on QA environments on various environments such as CITRIX, SharePoint and through local site servers.

●Performing restart and rollback testing.

●Identifying regression test cases to be automated in QTP.

●Maintaining regression test suite.

●reviewing automated test scripts.

●Creating and maintaining various status reports on a weekly basis.

●Identifying UAT Scenarios with the help of Team Lead, Sr. Test Engineer and business analyst.

●Preparing UAT (User Acceptance Testing) test cases.

●Generating test metrics for the project on a monthly basis.

●Coordinating with the development team via email and conference calls for daily updates.

●Defect/bug Reporting and defect tracking in JIRA, HP Quality Center (QC)/ALM.

●Contributing in QA release estimate

●Software Testing Methodology: Agile-scrum

●Software: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Outlook, Adobe

Environment and tools: Citrix, SharePoint, Shadow, Staging environment, SQL, Agile, Windows, QTP, JIRA, HP Quality Center, Configuration management -SVN, Java

AIMCO, Canada 2010 -2011

Calypso Test Engineer

AIMCO is a high performing investment banking manager & was implementing a Calypso product in place of their existing system Swap database for their Derivative management system e.g., OTC derivatives like CDS, IRS & EquityLinkedSwap.

Contribution:

●Testing of Portfolio Management Application Calypso.

●Analyzing requirements, test case design, test scenarios, writing and execution of functional and UAT test cases, test case review, defect reporting, defect tracing, documentation.

●Testing of Calypso's Trade workflow, Payment workflow, Message workflow, Interest Rate Derivatives, calypso interfaces, User access permissions.

●Testing of different types of reports generated by different user groups

●Testing the Bloomberg End OF Day scheduled task, MarkIT scheduled tasks.

●Performing integration testing for Calypso including testing of different interfaces inwards and outwards of Calypso.

Environment:

Windows NT/XP, Windows 7, Citrix, SharePoint, SQL Server, Java/J2EE, Agile/Scrum, JIRA

ADDITIONAL

●5+ years of experience in QA testing

●Analytical skills using software like JMP, SAS.

●Languages: English; Hindi; Marathi

Work Eligibility: Green card holder; will not require visa sponsorship for full-time employment

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