Manager Quality Assurance

MANJU GEORGE

***, ***** **, ****** ****, NJ-*****

646-***-****, ************@*****.***

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

. 5 years of experience in Testing & Quality Assurance.

. In-depth knowledge in various aspects of Securities Domain.

. Experience in SQL Scripting and use of various database interfaces

like Toad and Aqua datastudio

. Experience in Functional, Database, GUI and Performance testing of

various -applications used in Surveillance of trading systems.

. Working knowledge of different databases including Oracle 10g and

Netezza

. Thorough knowledge of SDLC, Testing Life cycle and various processes

and best practices used in testing.

. Experience in preparing Test plans, Test Specification documents,

Conducting reviews and Test report generation.

. Knowledge of Defect lifecycle and experience in usage of Defect

tracking tools like Test Director and Team track.

. Hands on Expertise in Mercury Quality Centre at various levels of

testing life cycle.

. 2 years of experience as an Onsite coordinator interfacing with

Offshore team

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND:

Wipro Technologies 2005 Nov

- Present

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)

Market Surveillance

Sr QC Analyst Onsite Coordinator

2010 Jun -

Present

The Market Surveillance division of FINRA monitors trading of

securities listed across various exchanges like NYSE and NASDAQ by

member firms away from and on the Floor of the Exchanges.

. Testing of the various programs that identifies and flags

irregular and suspicious trading patterns like Liquidity

Replenishment Point and Front End System Capture surveillances.

. Involved extensive analytical evaluation based on the various

rules and regulations under consideration

. Hands on experience with different databases like Oracle 10g,

Oracle 8i Netezza and unix environments for execution of job

streams

. Extensive use of SQL Scripting for data validation.

. Participation in entire project cycle starting from Requirement

phase, design reviews and project planning.

. Complete testing life cycle including Test estimation, Test

plans, Test cases, Scripting, Test data creation, Test

execution and defect tracking

. Use of Mercury Quality Centre for documenting Test Cases and

maintaining Traceability Matrices

. Work Experience on defect tracking tools like Serena Team track

and Mercury Quality Centre and Service Now and Remedy for Change

Requests

. Work allotment and coordination with offshore team of 4members

. Analyzing test coverage with different scenarios to cover all

the conditions

The New York Stock Exchange

Job Manager Application

Onsite Coordinator/tester

2009 Dec- 2010 Jun

Job Manager is an automated system which is responsible for running

the surveillance programs and reporting the status of each job runs.

It provides automated daily email notifications to surveillance owners

and stakeholders and weekly report to the management.

. Coordination and Test reporting for Wipro offshore team of 4

with NYSE

. Worked on extensive functional and GUI testing of the

application beside Database validation using SQL scripts.

. Performance and stress testing on the job scheduling and

notification generation functionalities of the application

. Logic testing and scripting for various surveillances

. Involved in thorough test case reviews and discussions to ensure

completeness of test coverage.

. Attended Defect review and weekly status meeting with

Development and test managers and reported status of test

execution by the team on a day to day basis

. Worked on Test Director for Test Case creation and defect

tracking

Insider Analytics

QA Analyst

2008 Mar-2009 Dec

Insider Investigation System plays a critical role in the

Investigation system of the New York Stock Exchange (N.Y.S.E) as it is

used for detecting the Insider in a trading with respect to any stocks

traded at the exchange. It tries to match the Individuals and

Companies that traded with the Individuals and companies who had prior

knowledge of the news thus gaining advantage over the other investors.

. Worked extensively on the GUI, functional and database testing

of various sections of the application like Automatic Search and

Match (ASAM), Chronology and Blue sheet Validation

. Involved in the Manual testing of new features introduced in the

Insider Application releases which had maximum number of bug

probability

. Work included Bug tracking, Bug closure, Updating coverage

numbers and interaction with the development and configuration

management team.

. Coordination with team to keep the timelines of good quality

deliverables

Alert and Case Management System,

2007 Jan- 2008 Mar

Onsite Coordination

2007 Apr - 2007 Jul

The Market Surveillance Division of the NYSE uses the Alert and Case

Management System (ACMS) to fully automate the alert creation, assignment

and routing process and case management. ACMS automates the retrieval of

data for alert analysis and customizes templates for analysis by type of

alert. Additionally, ACMS provides an automated log or tracking facility

for all alerts in the ACMS environment.

. Understanding of the complex alert workflow system and manual

testing of the various phases

. Testing the usability and functionality of the application under

various user privileges of the Alert lifecycle

. Data validation of underlying tables using SQL scripts.

. Close interaction with the end users and participation in test

case and results review

. Test Director for defect tracking

NYSE.com, E-Gov/LCA Integration

QA Analyst

2005 Nov- 2007 Jan

This project involved GUI testing of the nyse.com application and the

integration testing with the e-governance and Listed Company Application

of the New York Stock Exchange.

. Worked on testing 'nyse.com' which is the official website of

the New York Stock Exchange.

. The functional testing involved the integration with NYSE

Corporate Governance applications like e-governance and Listed

Company Application (specifically modules like Symbol Lookup and

Listing Directory)

. Created extensive test cases to cover the positive and negative

scenarios

. Performance and stress testing on the applications.

ENVIRONMENT AND TOOLS:

. Databases :Oracle 10g,Netezza, Sybase

. Tools: Toad, Aqua Data Studio, Teamtrack, Test Director, Quality

Centre, Remedy, Service Now

. Servers : Windows NT, Linux

. Operating System : Windows Server 2003, NT, XP, Linux

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION:

. Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science (4 years), AJCE, Kerala.

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