Project Management, QA lead, QA automation, Perl, Unix, Shell, Db2

Professional Summary

o Professional with * years of experience in the field of Software Testing

with extensive exposure over Manual Test Execution(Web & Client server

based), Automation test execution, Test Automation, Release management,

Leadership and Management activities like Test Planning, Strategy,

Reporting and Data Management, Design & development of automation

infrastructure, Along with Business Analytics Skill and in-depth

knowledge on counterparty credit risk.

o Experience in Leading and managing multiple projects simultaneously

o Daily stake holder interaction & reporting

o Translating business and system requirement into test requirement and

collaborating with Project teams.

o Efficiently managing and supported various testing stages, along with

effectively managed Onsite and Offshore team model.

o Executed end-to-end Test plan for Complex Credit valuation adjustment

Client-Server applications

o Excellent people skills, interpersonal skills, effective communication

with colleagues, and business users, leadership skills and acted in both

roles of liaison between business and development teams, for effective QA

support.

o Passionate and result oriented professional with strong technical &

domain knowledge.

o Expertise in creating, updating, review & Maintaining test cases & test

plans

o Communicate QA risks, milestones, and status to Project Manager, project

team and management.

o Expertise in Design and implementation of Backend & frontend testing

infrastructure

o Expertise in Automation testing using Selenium, QTP, Perl, Unix, Sybase,

db2

o Experience with test automation methodologies including: Code Driven

Testing (CDT), Data Driven Testing, Keyword Driven Testing (KDT), Modular

Driven Testing (MDT), Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior Driven

Development (BDD)

o Expertise in QA project set-up for functional and backend testing

o Extensive knowledge on Counterparty credit risk including components like

Credit value adjustment (CVA), Exposure, Funding value adjustment (FVA),

Debt value adjustment (DVA). Financial products including components like

Credit default swap(CDS), Bonds, Interest rates(IR), Commodity (COM).

Financial regulations like BASEL-II, BASEL-III. Applications related to

trading and risk calculation for these instruments.

Key strengths

o Team Management and coordination in Onsite-Offshore model

o Test planning, Test designing, Test strategy & execution of large testing

projects

o Project Scheduling, analysis, estimation and Reporting

o Ability to work independently as well as work in team

o Build effective next-level leadership; mentor team members to build

talent at all levels

o Excellent interpersonal, communication and organizational skills

o Establishing processes to enhance data, automation reusability and test

executions

o In depth knowledge of Manual (Web & Client server based) Testing,

Automation Testing, Data testing (ETL), Black box testing, white box

testing

o In depth technical knowledge of OOP concepts, coding, release management

o Hands on knowledge of required tools at all stages of SDLC

Technical Skills

o Operating Systems: Windows XP, win7, Win8, UNIX, MS-DOS

o Testing Methodologies: Regression Testing, System Testing, Integration

Testing, Functional Testing, UAT, ETL, Web Testing, Performance Testing,

Security Testing

o Tools: Quality Center, Eclipse, Autosys, VMS, MS Office, Mind-maps,

Selenium, PPM

o Defect tracking: JIRA

o Version Control Tool: Perforce, PPM

o Database: PL/SQL,MY SQL,DB2, Sybase, SQL server

o Languages: Perl, shell, xml, SOAP, cgi, css

Work Experience

Avighna global solutions LLC, Woodbridge, USA

Role: QA lead with Barclays Capital

Work Duration: Oct, 2014 - Till Date

Barclays Technology Center, Pune, India

Role: QA lead

Work Duration: June, 2013 - Sep, 2014

Capgemini Financial Services, New York, USA

Role: QA project lead with Morgan Stanley

Work Duration: Nov, 2009 - June, 2013

Capgemini Financial Service, Pune, INDIA

Role: QA analyst with Morgna Stanley

Work duration: July, 2007 - Nov, 2009

PrismIT Solutions, Pune, India

Role: Java developer

Work Duration: Jan, 2007 - June, 2007

Project Experience

BU/Project Market Risk/Credit Valuation Adjustment

Duration/Loc Oct,2014-Till Date, Jersey City

June, 2013/Pune, INDIA - Sept, 2014/Pune, INDIA

End Client Barclays Capital

Tools & Java, ASP.net, SQL server, Selenium, Autosys, Perforce, Perl,

Technology Shell, Unix, Quality center, Mind-maps, JIRA, MS Office, PPM

Project Credit Valuation adjustment project falls under Market Risk.

Abstract Market Risk comprises of various project out of which one

project is CVA. CVA receives data from various upstream

application in terms of different feeds, which contains

information related to various counter parties exposure,

credit spread, Credit upfront etc. related information. CVA

project performed scoping and transformation on received data

so that CVA & Pnl charge can be calculated for

counterparties. CVA sends all the collected data to Specific

Risk Engine, which calculates CVA charge & Pnl for all

counterparties and sends data back to CVA.

This application is used to evaluate the market risk related

to any counter party, which are involved in various trading

activities using other upstream systems. This application

extensively provides facility to prepare real time reports

for various metrics, which internally makes use of the

current mark values/changes which continuously keep on

updating by various market data servers like Bloomberg

Roles & Working as a QA Lead at Barclays Capital

Responsibili Drive project kick-off meeting

ties Participating in requirements gathering phase along with BU &

Strategies and translating business requirements into test

requirements, develop Test Strategy and QA Release & Support

plan

Daily Interaction with various internal IT support

functions, Development, Quality Assurance, Operations and

external 3rd party vendors to troubleshoot and resolve

problems

Drive daily scrum call with internal QA team to identify test

issues/bugs and discuss resolution

Test Management, Estimations & planning

Define and Apply Test strategies

Data testing, Data warehousing and Data life cycle

Hands-on test execution on web testing (Security,

Performance, Load), ETL, Functional Testing, System Testing,

Integration Testing, Regression Testing

Design and develop test automation infrastructure using Perl,

shell & Selenium

Hands-on Test automation using various methodologies

including: Code Driven Testing (CDT), Data Driven Testing,

Keyword Driven Testing (KDT), Modular Driven Testing (MDT),

Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior Driven Development

(BDD)

Implement documentation for all processes of STLC

Drive continuous integration & Release management process

Support UAT activities

Track & Maintain QA budget

Track and Monitor QA team Test Execution & Progress in QC

Create and Maintain Book of work

Metrics collection for Quality purposes along with Colleting

& Managing data for Internal Audits

BU/Project Market Risk/Credit Valuation adjustment

Duration/Loc Nov 2009 - June, 2013/New york

End Client Morgan Stanley(NY,LN,IN,TK)

Tools & Java, C Sharp, ASP.net, Db2, Perl, Shell, Unix, Autosys,

Technology Perforce, Eclipse, Quality Center, QTP, PPM

Project Credit Valuation adjustment comprises of 5 different projects

Abstract which includes RDX, RegW, Mpgs, Cvatrader & CVATW. Rdx is a

data processing and pricing application, which accepts

trading EOD data from various trading applications, process

it to consolidate based on trades, accounts and

counterparties and calculate Pv/notional. Regw is a

regulatory supporting project which emphasis on applying

certain regulatory standard for the counterparties based on

associated risks. Market Process Generation Service (MPGS) is

a project, which is used to generate market data for various

IR, Fx, credit curves by filtering & applying information

from various market data real time servers. Cvatrader is a

legacy application, which allows user to calculation CVA for

selected counterparties based on base data (flown through

Rdx) and market data (created through MPGS). CVA Trader

Workstation (CVATW) is end user application used by Morgan

Stanley business users across the globe to view, manage and

hedge the counterparty risk of the firm. This application

provides the facility to view Counterparties Risk, P&L,

Valuation and various metrics numbers for all the products

like Credit Derivatives, Interest Rate Derivatives, FX,

Commodities.

Roles & Working as a QA Lead at Morgan Stanley

Responsibili Participating in requirements gathering phase along with BU &

ty Strategies and translating business requirements into test

requirements, develop Test Strategy and QA Release & Support

plan

Track and Monitor QA team Test Execution & Progress in QC

Create and maintain Book of work

Maintain and Track QA project budgets

Environment Handling and Troubleshooting

Preparing Automation framework and Designing Scenarios that

will be candidate for Automation.

Metrics collection for Quality purposes along with Colleting

& Managing data for Internal Audits

Test plan preparation and test analysis

Manual Web Test execution, Functional Testing, Backend

Testing, Data Testing ETL

Automated test execution using QTP, Perl scripts

Set-up and configure Tomcat web services for web testing

portal

Plan and Develop automated test infrastructure using Unix,

Perl, Shell script for various QA projects

Responsible for Plan, Built, set-up & enhance the automated

infrastructure

Drive continuous integration & Release management process

Support UAT activities

Metrics collection for Quality purposes along with Colleting

& Managing data for Internal Audits

BU/Project: FID/Credit One

Duration/Loc Aug'08 to Oct'09/ Pune, INDIA

End Client Morgan Stanley (NY, LN, TK, HK)

Technology Java, C Sharp, ASP.net. Sybase

Project Credit one is a Credit Derivatives trading

Abstract application which is used by various divisions of Morgan

Stanley like Corporate Credit, Structured Credit, Emerging

Markets groups for trading Credit Derivative products like

Credit Default Swap, Basket Default Swap, Bonds, ABS Default

Swap etc, by creating, managing the lifecycle of the trades.

Traders of Morgan Stanley can also control the current prices

in the mark; manage risk the single name entities or

portfolios, mark the bonds.

This application is used to trade credit derivatives in

global markets like NY & LN and is used by around 300 users

of Morgan Stanley. On a daily basis approximately around 5000

credit derivative trades are entered into the system, for

which daily market credit risk, interest rate risk, valuation

and profit and loss is calculation based on the daily market

changes affecting the respective trades

Role Working as a QA Analyst at Morgan Stanley

Track and Monitor progress during QA release cycle.

Environment Handling and Troubleshooting

Defects Reporting and discussion with developers for

resolutions

Design Automation Framework and flow and map test Scope so as

Business logic is covered.

Back-end Smoke testing

Preparing a new build for testing

Generate and send the status report

Execution of Batch Jobs

Create script(perl and Unix) to automate various

jobs/features

Jobs scheduling/maintaining in Autosys

Create and Maintain database for backend automation

Check exceptions in the log file using various Unix commands

To send status reports to Development team and Business Users

from Client side

Attend status call with Clients and understand Business

requirements and different scenarios from Business/QA

perspective

BU/Project FID/Release Management Services

Duration/Loc Feb'08 to July'08/Pune, INDIA

End Client Morgan Stanley (NY, LN, TK, HK)

Tools & VC++, Java, ASP.net., Ant, Tomcat, Perl, Shell, Cgi, VMS,

Technology Perforce, Quality Center

Project Morgan Stanley installed distributed file servers

Abstract across the globe to ensure Users to have access to all the

applications as their local file system. All these cells

(File Servers) are mirror of each other to guarantee file

consistency

Release management is a bridge between developers and

testers. Release Management has its own dedicated website

where users can request for new build to be distributed. The

latest version is extracted from perforce (Configuration

management System), derived objects are created and

distributed across the globe to each file cells.

Role Worked as Release engineer at Morgan Stanley

Enhance and improve existing tools for the new project

distribution requests

Interacting with the client on various forums to discuss the

status of the project, user demo, clarify any queries

regarding the functionality etc

Develop and monitor a Perl processes responsible to

distribute projects from start to end

Design & Develop Continuous integration infrastructure for

various project

Integrate build and release services for various projects

into release management portal

Create, execute and report Unit test results for each build

Create & execute scripts in Perl, Shell

Testing & debugging

BU/Project FID/Settlement Magnet

Duration/Loc Aug'07 to Dec'07/Pune, INDIA

End Client Morgan Stanley (NY, LN, TK, HK)

Technology VC++, Java, ASP.net., Quality Center

Project Magnet (Multi Asset Global Netting) is the Derivative Trades

Abstract Repository. Magnet platform is created to support cash

settlement of FX and Credit Derivatives - in response to

growing volume and complexity in the credit market. Magnet

provides a broad range of pre and post-settlement cash flow

management functionality including payment netting, matching,

affirmation, cancel/correct, and is built around an

exceptional based workflow engine. It serves as a single

platform for all OTC derivatives products intended to take

mid-office applications data, turn it into a consolidated

data source, and integrate data and applications. Magnet

builds workflow for Settlements. This project talks to

various applications such as C1, FX, SAFE (Settlement and

Financial ex.)

Role Responsibilities

Requirement gathering and analysis

Perform smoke tests, regression test, sanity tests

To send daily status report to Development team and Business

Users from Client side

To interact with Clients and understand Business requirements

BU/Project WPAMA (Web Portal Assistance for Mobile Application)

Duration/Loc Aug'07 to Dec'07/Pune, INDIA

End Client Prism IT solutions

Technology Java, JSP, Servlet

Project WPAMA is in-house tool built to support mobile application.

Abstract It acts as a Management tool for the user content,

permissions, payments and advertisement. It provides complete

access to the admin user to configure mobile application

content. In addition to it, this tools also act as a portal

to create any new users, activate services, add/modify

content, delete content, delete user configuration from

database which is being accessed by mobile applications

Role Responsibilities

Requirement gathering and analysis

Develop web services portal using JSP, Servlet

To send daily status report to Development team and Business

Users from Client side

To interact with Clients and understand Business requirements

Build & release changes into live environment

Education and Certifications

o Post graduate degree 'Masters of computer science'

o Bachelors degree 'Bachelors of computer science'

o ISTQB - Beginners certification

o NSE Certification in Financial Markets: Beginners' Module

o UNIX - Brain bench certified

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