Sr. QA Analyst

Experience Profile:

. Proven achiever and problems solver

. Extensive experience as Sr. QA involved in system, regression, smoke,

GUI, functional, integration, end-to-end, browser compatibility,

usability, installation, UAT and API testing on UNIX & Windows O/S and

desktop/ mobile.

. Worked under Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

Technical Competency:

Languages C, C++, Java, .Net, C-Sharp, Visual Basic, XML, SQL

Tools and Protocols API, JSON, HTML, XML Spy, Soap, Exceed Hummingbird,

Win SCP, Putty, JMX Console, VIM/VI editor, MS Office apps,

Beyond Compare, Adobe CQ5 (AEM), Adobe SiteCat Omniture, HP

Performance Center 10/11

DTS Jira, Test Director, Bugzilla, Lotus Notes, Clear Quest, MS Access,

SRS

App/Web Servers BEA Weblogic, JBoss, Apache, Tomcat

Databases Oracle, DB2

O/S Windows NT/95/98/2K/2K3/XP/7, iOS, UNIX

Professional Experience:

Goldman Sachs, NY

August 12 - November 14

Role - Senior QA Analyst

Worked on Alternative Investments and Manager Selection (AIMS) website

project named 'gsCIO'. Website was built collaboratively by Sapient and

Adobe - 3rd party vendors, and GS. Sapient provided development and

creative resources for the web site design. Adobe provided CQ5 CMS that has

been used for creating, maintaining and publishing content. GS provided

project management, access security, integration, entitlements framework,

infrastructure and data.

Responsibilities Managed:

. Executed functional, regression, access rights, entitlements, GUI and

acceptance types of testing in IE8, IE9, Chrome, iPad and Firefox

covering backend, desktop and mobile website testing

. Deployed code drops in integration and pre-qa environments; performed

post deployment sanity checks and smoke tests

. Conducted error log analysis for finding root cause of the issues

. Tested activation, deactivation and deletion of content; tested

replication and reverse replication in CQ5

. Modified CRXDE Lite data for verification purposes during functional

testing of Authoring features and for web portal.

. Tested CQ5 Digital Rights Management (DRM) protected documents and

password protected groups/ users access to them

. Tested reports suite on SiteCatalyst - the Omniture/ Adobe cloud-based

client-side analytic tools that collect usage statistics across web

application

. Executed performance suits of HTML-protocol based scripts using Load

Runner on Performance Center 11

Environment: AUM/ CQ5, Load Runner, HP Performance Center10/ 11

TD Securities (USA), NY April 12 - August

12

Role - QA Analyst

SQL Server data migration project focused on updating SQL version from

'2000/'05 to 2008 in MS Windows 2003 server environment. Project scope

included regression tests of 100 + batch jobs and 15 desktop and web based

applications.

Responsibilities Managed:

. Developed & implemented Test Plan, Test Strategy, high level &

detailed test scenarios

. Modified global and local configuration xml files, updated data prior

to the job execution

. Hands on execution of the batch jobs from both command line &

Scheduler in UAT environment

. Reconciled jobs output results such as PDF and Excel reports, log and

archived files, and SQL Queries against SQL 2000 and 2008 servers

. Documented test results, reported project status daily

Environment: SQL 2000/2008 servers, SQL Queries, UAT, Excel, MS Windows

2003

Goldman Sachs 2007 - 2011

Role - Senior UAT tester December 10 -

December 11

The project has been initiated by Global Portfolio Solutions (GPS) group

for its trading desk. The primary goal was to transition the existing OMS

to strategically new .Net-based platform, and to enable GPS

Implementation team to have all trading orders persist in a single

scalable 'Stirling' application.

Responsibilities Managed:

. Worked on 'Stirling' project from inception to its rollout into

production throughout planning phase, execution, user acceptance

testing and final sign offs

. Prepared project documentation such as project objectives, timeline,

and test coverage

. Developed test approach, strategy, and sign-off criteria

. Created UAT scripts for functional verification tests

. Executed test scripts and signed off on test results

. Coordinated OPS UAT testing efforts

. Served as the point person for all logged issues and future

implementation requests

. Provided status reporting to upper management using PowerPoint and

Excel

. Created and maintained high level application user guide targeted to

business and operations users

. Gathered and kept current project documentation for GS Internal Audit

department

Environment: UAT, Equities Trading OMS

Role - UAT/ QA tester April 10 -

December 10

The project has been initiated by Global Portfolio Solutions (GPS) for

Client Performance reporting group. The primary goal was to standardize

and automate monthly performance reports for 17+ global client's

portfolios. Automation enhanced transparency and performance matrices,

decreased costs and produced scalable platform for further business

expansion.

Responsibilities Managed:

. Participated in requirements gathering and refining.

. Conducted daily meetings with IT and business users; moderated weekly

status calls and bugs bushes.

. Generated baseline scripts for UAT verification tests.

. Derived performance metrics independently from business and IT.

. Executed several iterations of testing.

. Managed pre-parallel phase of the project and reports checkout;

successfully signed off the project into production parallel phase.

. Managed defects issue-tracking system. Tracked issues status and

logged new issues

Environment: UAT

Role - Senior QA Analyst

2007 - 2010

Acted as test technical lead for a suite of in-house and vendor-developed

applications, the suite allowed work paper management, risk assessment

and incident tracking. It was developed on J2EE and .Net platforms to

serve GS Internal Audit department throughout Goldman Sachs global

business and technology operations.

Responsibilities Managed:

. Led two QA testers by managing the team's effort and timeframes

. Assigned bugs and test script beds to team members based on their

skill level and availability

. Managed SRS defect tracking system

. Tracked and provided feedback on the quality of release candidates to

the management

. Analyzed requirements; developed test strategy, high-level test

scenarios, matrices and detailed test cases

. Executed QA acceptance smoke tests for new builds

. Performed functional testing of Java and Thick Client .Net apps in

dev, qa, uat, production support and production environments with

heavy emphasis on integration testing

. Conducted data migration and data validation testing. Used Business

Objects application

. Creating test cases from requirements, user stories and use cases

. Performed ad hoc and exploratory testing beyond existing test cases

and User Stories

. Retested bugs and hot fixes in all environments

. Tested user and group's entitlements including workflow approvals in a

three tiered access framework known as CrossLogic, WPM project and IM

. Confirmed the content, formatting, and layout of parameterized and

configurable reports produced in HTML, Word, PDF and Excel formats

TSYS Prepaid, NY 2005 -

2007

Role - Senior QA Analyst

Prepaid platform served banking industry by providing direct ACH deposits,

instant issuance cards capability, real-time card loading, online

purchases, ATM withdrawals, bill payments, gift cards and flexible saving

accounts and multi-purse technology. Configurable and customizable

distributed architecture of prepaid debit card processing and card issuance

J2EE Java platform consisting of multiple applications.

Responsibilities Managed:

. Tested back-end & front-end core functionality of prepaid debit card

processing system

. Identified types of authorization messages to be tested despite lack

of documentation and continuously worked on building library of such

messages

. Re-used the library for functional and regression testing

. Reduced regression test time from 2 days to 1 hour

. Led team efforts to conduct functional and regression testing of the

Quartz scheduler

. Restructured test efforts according to the priority level an each job

takes in Prod

. Identified and documented expected results by working with project

support and development teams. All efforts combined resulted in cut-

off of testing time

. Tested settlements flat files processing. The settlement job read

records sequentially, extracted the data, transformed and loaded it

into database (ETL), i.e. posted settlement records to the accounts so

the customer was able to retrieve his/her transactions history

. Placed batch files for processing and retrieved generated files from

QA servers executing UNIX command line

. Executed functional and regression testing of NACHA ACH deposits

. API testing by using XML SPY and Soap

. Investigated root cause of Java exceptions and errors by analyzing log

files in the UNIX environment

. Logged issues in Jira defect tracking system

. Heavily used SQL to investigate issues in production and QA

environments and to prepare test data

. Provided ongoing training for newcomers and technical supervision to

subordinated team members

. Initiated and maintained 'How To' documentation for numerous processes

and application's functional modules

. Promoted to Senior QA Analyst in June 2006

Environment: SQL, ETL, Java, J2EE, Jira, XML SPY, UNIX

Grow Network, NY 2002 - 2004

Role - QA Analyst

The Grow Network is an education company with a unique mission: to

transform assessment results into instructional tools for teachers,

principals, and parents. The Grow Network system transforms the results of

large-scale assessments into effective tools for action used by Departments

of Education in NYC, Chicago, and LA.

Responsibilities Managed:

. Executed regression and functional test cases

. Verified data in XML files against website content

. Generated and maintained problem reports

Bondbook LLC, NY 2001 -

2002

Role - QA/ BA

Bondbook developed a cross-matching web browser-based trading. Application

enabled brokers/dealers to trade anonymously corporate investment/high

yield grade bonds in a secondary money market.

Responsibilities Managed:

. Managed defect tracking system based on MS Access

. Functional/load automated testing of API application in UNIX

environment/ XTerm window using telnet session and VI editor

. Involved in Functional manual testing of API application

. Integration testing of the trading application and its back-end

subcomponents

. Verified data using MS SQL/ SQL queries and Exceed Hummingbird against

multiple test environments

. Conducted system, regression, rights management, GUI, ad-hoc and

exploratory testing

Environment: Fixed Income Trading, MS SQL, SQL Queries, API, MS Access,

GUI, Windows, UNIX

Moneyline, NY 2000 - 2001

Role - QA Analyst

A financial company provided hosted Internet-based transactional services,

real-time and historical content and applications to build and host the

execution engines. Market Axess system allowed real time corporate bonds

pricing and trading.

Responsibilities Managed:

. Involved in Functional testing of Market Axess trading fixed income

platform

. Executed ad-hoc, constructive and destructive test cases and test sets

for integration, functional and system testing

. Verified data using SQL queries against Oracle database

. Created peer requirements matrix with detailed test objectives and

scenarios by implementing Excel and Word

. Logged defect reports using Clear Quest

Environment: Fixed Income Trading, SQL Queries, Oracle, Excel, Word, Clear

Quest

RIA, NY 1999 -

2000

Role - QA Analyst

Financial Law &Regulatory Publishing Company, part of Thomson Corporation.

Checkpoint - Tax research database and management of tax issues web and CD

based applications.

Responsibilities Managed:

. Performed verification testing of the requirement specifications

achieved by document's reviews against relevant checklists

. Developed, modified and executed Installation test cases of the CD-ROM

based applications for a network (server/ workstation setup) and for a

stand-alone PC

. Involved in installation testing based on Install Shield

. Provided necessary test environments for compatibility testing through

building and then installing Ghost Images by using EasyCD Pro-95 and

Ghost

Environment: EasyCD Pro-95, Ghost

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