SHOOLA RAY

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Software QA Analyst in Finance & Banking industries with 6 years of experience. Experienced in diversified and advanced manual & automated testing in Agile and Waterfall SDLC environments for Client/Server and Web-based applications. Deadline and detail oriented, result driven expert in Test Life Cycle with an excellent analytical skills. Easily collaborate with developers and project managers to accomplish milestones.

HIGHLIGHTS

Firsthand experience in System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) with the proficiency in Agile-Scrum and Waterfall.

Expertise in Software Test Life Cycle (STLC) including test strategy preparation, test development, test case creation, test execution and mapping all requirements to test cases (RTM).

Detail oriented in developing and maintaining robust and reusable test scripts, analyzing the system issues, interacted with development and business team members in fixing defects.

Comfortable in using various Application Management Tools such as; HP ALM and JIRA tools in creating self-explanatory test cases and product issues/defects.

Experience in setting up environment and execution of Black-Box testing focusing on Smoke, Functional, GUI, System, Regression, End-to-End and Integration.

Flexible in executing automated regression scripts using HP QTP/UFT& Selenium and analyzing the failed tests, confident in updating and maintaining data provider files, test variables, shared repositories.

Exposure to ETL testing by comparing flat files received in XML format using Notepad++ and MS Excel

Proficient in creating SQL Database Quires for back-end testing and data verification, where analytical mind approach is taken with implementing financial background.

Hands on Experience with Fix Protocol in testing electronic trading platform and utilizing VeriFIX tool for simulating Send and Response messages for various scenarios.

Comfortable with Linux/Unix commands and troubleshoot integration and connectivity issues on the server side, reviewing log files and FIX messages.

Strong knowledge of financial products and trade life cycle of Equity, Fixed Income and Derivative products.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center/ALM, JIRA, HP QTP/UFT, Selenium, VeriFIX,

MS Office, Notepad/Notepad++

APIs: FIX Protocol, XML

RDMDs: MS SQL Server, Oracle

Platforms/Environments: Windows, MAC, UNIX/Linux, HTML, Java, VB script

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

TradingScreen, New York, NY 12/ 2016 - Present QA Analyst

TradeSmart - is customizable front office application that enables buy side clients to trade a broad portfolio of financial instruments around the clock on any market and with a wide range of counterparties. Application integrates multiple-dealers and multiple asset-classes onto a single screen format for electronic order routing and facilitates liquidity aggregation across exchanges, and other liquidity pools.

Responsibilities:

Be a part of team in full stage of SDLC in fast paced Agile environment.

Attend daily, weekly SCRUM stand-ups, walkthrough, and requirement meetings, work closely with Development, Business Analysis and End Users

Be responsible and contribute in Creating Test Strategy, write and demonstrate test scenarios, document detailed and reusable Test Cases and execute planned tests with descriptive Actual result and artifacts.

Keep Testing process documents and deliverables well organized in HP ALM, JIRA or in MS Excel if need.

Implement efficient testing strategy to eliminate time consuming procedures

Participate in UAT and Production releases assuring no disruption occurs

Perform System testing, Backend testing, End to End testing, Integration testing and Regression testing based on specifications and Testing Strategy.

Utilize JIRA to log and track systems issues/tasks and generate status reports on unresolved issues.

Extensively work with Order Management System for testing the trade through Trade Capturing, Trade Processing & Matching cycles in web based electronic trading platform

Perform ETL testing comparing data received from Custodian and back-end data using necessary tools.

Work with automation team to write testing scripts in Selenium and run for Regression testing.

Verify various complex functionalities of the system that involves calculations, data analytics and business logic of Equity and Options trading.

Perform Back-End testing by retrieving FIX Logs using Linux to verify FIX Messages, data integrity with GUI and Test Data with and without in-house built FIX Translator.

Verify order details and system defaults in each phase of trade lifecycle from creation, correction, filling and canceling using VeriFIX to execute sell or buy side messages.

Validate data and quality of tables, reports, automatic notifications, and system/user defaults.

Create advanced DML SQL queries to analyze data or functionalities applying filters and calculations.

Cooperate with QA engineers in preparing correct data for expected results, provide configuration details of functional test cases to feed the automation script

Incorporate common FIX messages in Test cases for solid coverage of Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) and use extensively VeriFIX in backend and end to end testing.

Murex, New York, NY 05/2014-11/2016

QA Analyst

MX.3 for Trading - offers the finest product mix and asset class specialization to support business growth and optimize trading, risk management and operations. MX.3 provides fixed income specialists with a leading trading solution covering government and corporate bonds as well as structured securities on a very large scale of developed and emerging markets. It enables treasuries and institutional investors to efficiently diversify their investments and funding vehicles.

Responsibilities:

Participated in requirements calls to understand functionality review software requirements user stories and understand how they relate to the need of business user.

Involved in developing and modifying Test plan based on Business Requirement Documents.

Worked closely with software developers, BA and project managers involved in SDLC

Covered Functional, UI and Integration testing of the application with testing scenarios.

Created and tracked Bugs using JIRA and paired with developing team for fix.

Extensively used SQL queries and Unix commands for Backend testing to verify database updates

Extensive use of HP ALM for test execution, defect tracking and QA related reports creation

Wrote test plans for positive and negative scenarios for functional, GUI and back end testing

Responsible for creating test cases for End to End Testing and executing them.

Execute Automated Regression Scripts in HP UFT and review the failed result for the root cause analysis.

Extensively worked with OMS for testing the Trade Capturing, Trade Processing & Matching

Worked with Linux and SQL to check existing data entered at front end against back end.

Participated in root cause analysis for defects and provided process improvement suggestions to eliminate future occurrences of similar defects

Attended status meetings on a weekly basis and daily Scrum meetings.

Facilitated UAT sessions for small projects

Managed the weekly status of all active projects across the team members

Tested whole application, performed end to end test, validated severity levels and submitted bug free product;

CITIGROUP Inc., New York, NY 05/2012-04/2014

QA Tester

NBS – is a National Branch System application used by bankers to provide banking solutions to clients. It supports wide range of banking processes such as personal and business account opening functionality. Application also supports credit cards, personal and auto loans processing.

Responsibilities:

Analyzed Business Requirement Document and other related references to the project;

Worked with Business Analyst, Developers and QA Manager for clear exposure in order implement technical/functional and user requirements to Test Plans and Test Scenarios

Followed the SDLC methodologies, throughout testing process from initiation until deployment;

Was part of switching from Waterfall methodology to Agile methodology in the company

Participated in creating test strategy, test cases and successfully executed them based on requirements

Worked on functional and technical requirements to analyze business specifications

Created and executed Test Cases on HP ALM and logged defects

Involved running test scripts in QTP by supporting automation team

Used SQL for back end testing and to retrieve information from Database, by using appropriate queries

Participated in the QA Meetings and bug triage to prioritize bugs and verification of the Project Checklist during the Deployments

Ensured that assigned applications are accurately tested and met zero defect level

Accomplished all the required tasks and submitted daily status report to the Management

Communicated and interacted with different project teams and worked with developers to resolve error issues during test phase

EDUCATION

Baruch College, Zicklin Business School New York, NY

B. B.A. in Digital Marketing Minor: Information Technology

Ala-Too International University Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

BS in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science

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