Project Quality Assurance

Urmil R Kapadiya

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SUMMARY

Professional QA Analyst with more than three years experience in financial sectors including Investment

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Banking and posses understanding of Securities Lending, Portfolio Management, fund accounting, risk

& pricing models such as Monte Carlo simulation, binomial option pricing models

Worked extensively on Mercury / HP Interactive Testing tools - Load Runner, Quick Test Pro (QTP)

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and test Management tools like Quality Center (QC)

Assisted architecture team members in various phases of SDLC

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Involved in documentation of Test Strategies developed Test Plans & Test Cases by using BRDs, SRS &

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FRS

Involved in documentation in all stages of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) beginning from

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definition and initiation to deployment and support as well as Software Test Life Cycle (STLC) beginning

from review to acceptance test.

Excellent understanding of Fixed income instruments, Bonds, MBS, ABS, CDs, Equities, derivatives and

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trading life cycle, Front office, Middle Office, Back Office Operations, Trading and Risk

Management.

Defect tracking, management & categorizing using Quality Center (QC) & Test Director (TD)

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Testing GUI based web application, client-server and database projects on Windows and internet/intranet

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applications

Has good familiarity with Bug Tracking Tools and Process

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Experience in writing and implementing Test Specification and Test Case

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Good knowledge of Quality Assurance process and activities carried out in the same with technology like

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Automated Testing Tool, Designing tools (Rational Rose & UML) and Manual testing as well.

Used SQL to validate the databases on TOAD and used MS Excel.

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Excellent communication skills and a genuine team player with good organizational and self-management

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skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

GUI/TOOLS: MS Excel, (VBA) MS Project, QTP, Win Runner and Load Runner, Debug Viewer, Data Generator,

TOAD

LANGUAGES: C, C++, JavaScript, HTML, and VB Script, VC++, PL, SQL, UNIX, LINUX

DATABASES: MS SQL Server 2000, My-SQL, MS-Access 95/98/2000,

OPERATING SYSTEMS: MS-DOS 6.0, MS-Windows 95/98, NT, 2000, XP, Mac OS X

EDUCATION

Master Of Science in Financial Engineering, USA

MS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Scot trade, PA (Data Warehouse) Apr.08 -Present

QA Analyst

The objective of this project was to automate, to the fullest possible extent, processing of trade cancellation and

amendment transactions. The project had been initiated to reduce the manual effort in trade initiation, trade

amendment, to improve the control in trade cancellation and to enhance the audit -trail. Cancellation and

amendment requests were received in the form of swift messages. They were validated and if valid, the

associated trade had been cancelled and swift message sent to the agent.

Environment/Tools: QTP, Quality Center, JAVA, MS SQL Server, UNIX

Responsibilities:

Involved in developing detailed test strategy, test plan, test cases and test scripts using Test Director for

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Functional, Navigational, Security and Regression Testing.

Make sure that the extracted data supplied to the different LOB timely and accurately.

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Converted manual test cases into Automated test Scripts.

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Prepared test Data and performed data testing using SQL. Also used MS excel for data mapping and data

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analysis Used SQL and MS Excel for all Data validation based on the Business Rules.

Responsible for preparing FMEA (Failure Mode and Effective Analysis)

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Developed Automation scripts in QTP and created a set of re-usable scripts

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Responsible for using Keyword driven automation framework Architecture

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Parameterize the scripts to run the scripts using varying form data.

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Used Test director to track and Report system defects and Bug fixes.

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Attended daily meetings with QA Lead to resolve issues if any.

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Was involved in JAD session and discussed all the testing issues with project team members

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Created Error Matrix and Test Summary at the end of testing process.

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HSBC Bank, India Jan.’05-July’06

QA Analyst

This project was initiated to develop a GUI to update the volatilities and forward rates to enable the risk

managers to perform more accurately and timely updates. The volatilities were updated for commodity codes

and forward rate updates were important for interest rate, foreign exchange rate and commodity transaction. To

improve the efficiency of parameter updates, a GUI application was developed for each of the various systems

and products.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for Programming the scripts and testing.

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Responsible for developing Test Plan, identifying Test Case, generating test report using tool like Bug

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Tracking system

Responsible for performing manual testing as well as automated testing.

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Testing the software using automated tools like Rational Robot.

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Responsible for scheduling the different activities of total software development life cycle, using MS

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Project tool

Responsible for testing of the integrated system for each line of business (LOB)

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Responsible to carry out manual testing using various testing methodologies.

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Designing and documenting various project related requirements using advance tool like Rational Rose

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with complete UML format

Responsible for performing code walk through using Project Analyzer tool.

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Developed related Database.

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Developed stored procedures at the database level to highlight the business logic.

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