Project Quality Assurance

Manish Kumar Verma Mob: +1-306-***-****

Canada Work Permit Visa ***********.**@*****.***

Objective:

To become part of a challenging, creative and growth oriented organization in the area of Software Quality Assurance.

Summary: 6.8+ yrs. of experience in Software Testing across different domains.Experience in Team Management, requirements gathering, analyzing, and contribute to technical design sessions.Experience in Manual, Functional, Regression and Automation Testing.Experience in Testing of Web-based & Java Swing applications for Trading, Insurance, BFSI and other Applications.Well Versed with preparation and execution of test cases, test bed and test data.Work experience in FrontOffice/BackOffice Applications, Multi Asset Class Trading IT functions including Algorithmic and Discretionary trading of Equities and Derivatives.Exposure to all stages of SDLC, STLC with good knowledge of QA/QC processes.Good problem solving and interpersonal skills.

Technical Profile:

Platforms UNIX/Linux, Windows-XP/Vista/Win7

Databases Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, MS Access

Scripting Languages Shell, Perl

Automation tools QTP, Selenium, Marathon

Tools Quality Center, Test Director, Rational, TFS, MTM, Proprietary tools(DESFlow, WTT)

Languages C, C++ & Java (basics)

Others Jprofiler, Jconsole, CVS, SVN, GIT, HTML

Achievements/Trainings/Certification:Certification of ISTQB (2012) Certified Tester-Foundation Level (CTFL) Certification of NCFM Module 01 (Financial Markets: Beginners Module) Certification of NCFM Module 03 (Capital Markets: Dealers Module)Secured 91.33 percentile in CAT 2006Secured 90.14 percentile in GATE (2003-04 i.e. in 3rd year) in Computer Science

Work Sequence:

Organization Duration Position

A. DEShaw India Pvt. Ltd. 25th June’05 to 24th Aug’ 12 Project Lead (QA)

B. Wipro Technologies. 17th Oct’05 to 22nd June’06 Project Engineer

Professional Experience: A

Project Lead (Quality Assurance) at DE Shaw Software India Pvt. Ltd. (Top 10 Hedge Fund in the World), Hyderabad, India Jul’ 07 to Aug’12.

Responsibilities:To perform functional testing of these applications on a monthly basis before they really pushed into production and test execution and bug triaging.Understanding the Requirements and Functional Specifications of the application.Participated in identifying the Test scenarios and designing the Test cases. Prepared and Executed Test Cases as per System Requirements.Performed various black box testing Methodologies Like functional testing, Compatibility Testing, Database Testing, Usability Testing and Regression testing.Extensively performed Manual Testing process to ensure the quality of the software.Carried out performance testing every release using Jprofiler and Jconsole.

Project# 1: CAS (Convertible Arbitrage Systems)

Project Lead

Project Type Testing, Debugging, Test case creation, and Automation

QA-Group 9 Team size 4

Environment Java Swing

Description:

The project deals with testing of different applications used by DEShaw for Trading, Hedging and tracking records of trades. CAS is convertible arbitrage system which involve trading of shares in any open trading day from placing an order to executing that order and till the updating the system with the end of the day statistics, which is the most critical task in DE Shaw.

CAS includes:

Market Maker: an application which is the core of DEShaw, which is used to trade, track all the different attributes related to a spn (shaw private number assigned to each company.)

Trade Monitor: an application which is used to keep track of all the trades entered, executed, amended and cancelled during a trading day.

Merger Editor: an application which is used to keep track of mergers, acquisitions, and other corporate actions happening across the world.

Project# 2: STAR (Shaw Trade Analysis in Realtime)

Project Lead

Project Type Testing, Debugging, Test case creation, and Automation

QA-Group 9 Team size 4

Environment Java Swing

Description:

The project deals with analysis of realtime and old date data of all the trading activity in DEShaw. Star provides the trading activity of each and every security. It provides the order activity, message activity, orders, fills, price-vol chart, FairPrice Signals and PnL for individual stock. It suggest price to trade using various algorithms.

Project# 3: DPortal

Sr. Member Technical

Project Type Testing, Debugging, Test case creation and Automation

QA-Group 9 Team size 3

Environment Java

Description:

DPortal is a web based application in Java which deals with BackOffice stuff which keeps track of Companies details like Reports, Meetings, Results, Announcements, Analyst Reports, Discussions and Positions. It is used by DEShaw to keep all the data and other important dates on which these actions are planned to happen and how many positions do we hold in that and what should be DEShaw's strategy based on that.

Project# 4: Jason Analyzer

Member Technical

Project Type Testing, Debugging, Test case creation

QA-Group 9 Team size 1

Environment Java

Description:

The project deals with analyzing quarterly report filings on SEC site of all the hedge funds and other funds management houses. It keeps updating and verifying data with sources like Bloomberg and Reuters. It also analysis and reports any significant change in the holdings of these fund houses.

Project# 5: CAT (Corporate Action Tracker)

Member Technical

Project Type Testing, Debugging, Test case creation

QA-Group 9 Team size 1

Environment Java

Description:

CAT-corporate Action Trader is a web based application in Java which deals in tracking all the different actions in the Business Market like merger, acquisitions, takeovers, deals etc. It is used by DEShaw to keep all the data and other important dates on which these actions are planned to happen and how many positions do we hold in that and what should be DEShaw's strategy based on that.

Professional Experience: B

Project Engineer (Quality Assurance) at Wipro Technologies (IT service provider in India), Hyderabad, India. From Oct’ 2005 to Jun’ 2007.

Responsibilities:Understanding the Requirements and Functional Specifications of the application.Participated in identifying the Test scenarios and designing the Test cases. Done Peer Review of the Test casesInvolved in preparation and execution of Test Cases.Performed various black box testing Methodologies Like functional testing, and Regression testing.

Project# 1: OLSE Base Drivers XP and WS03

Software Test Engineer

Project Type Testing, Debugging, Reporting

Client Microsoft Corporation, Redmond.

Group 20 Team size 4

Environment Windows XP

Description:

The project deals with the testing of Windows 2000, Windows XP & Windows 2003 operating system device drivers. The activities to be performed are "Lab setup", "Test automation" and "Test execution" and debugging. The role in the project deals with testing the driver functionality for Small Computer System Interface(SCSI) Devices like Disk Drives and Compact Disk Drives ; Integrated Drive Electronic (IDE) Controllers External Devices like San-Disks, USB-1394 storage drives and Zip Drives; Universal Serial Bus, Mouse and Keyboard Components; Remote Storage Management(RSM) and Remote Storage Services(RSS). Automation of test cases is done using C++ and Maui tools.

Education:Pursuing PGPM (Dual: Finance & IT) from IMT-Ghaziabad (distance learning) 2010-2013 B.Tech in Computer Science and Engg. from KNIT Sultanpur - 2005, UPTU XII from GTB Public School, Meerut. CBSE X from GTB Public School, Meerut. CBSE

Academic Projects:File Encryption in C with different algorithms.Word Dictionary in C++.Notepad in Visual Basic6 similar to Windows98.Flight Reservation System, front-end in VB and backend in MS-Access.Online Shopping Store in JSP and MS-Access.

Personal / Extra Curricular Activities:Won 2nd Prize in (Software Contest) in annual technical festival organized by ISTEChief Executive of C.S.I. Student Chapter KNIT, SultanpurMember of College Table Tennis Team and was awarded as player of the tournament in 2004

Other:Passport No F5728421 ( Valid from 10/02/2006 to 09/02/2016 )Visa Status Canada Work permit: W-1 (Valid till 31 Aug 2014, No: UCI-89383802);

US B1/B2 (No: 86134458, Valid till 2016)

References: To be supplied upon request.

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