Quality Assurance Lead Profile

QA Lead with *.* years of experience in full cycle functional testing of IB and WM Trading applications.

Experienced in leading and interacting with geographically spread test teams (India, UK, USA, HK).

Excels in activities like brain storming, analysis of system/functional requirements, test design and reporting. Fast learner with good people skills and leadership ability

Extensive experience in Functional testing, System testing, Integration testing, GUI Regression testing, E2E testing, and middleware testing

Experienced in FIX protocol testing, Verifix tool:- manual as well as automated.

Experienced in testing with Various Trading Platforms for Fixed Income (BondDesk, In-house trading system), Pureto Rico Closed End Funds with FIDESSA, Equity Trading with Exchanges like NYSE, IBlisted

Experienced in SQL, Shell scripting and mainframe systems.

Experienced in Manual (Waterfall and Agile model) and exposure to Selenium Automation tool.

Sound understanding of the Equity and Derivative trading mechanism between Sales and Trading desks.

Sound knowledge of Pre Trade, Middle office and life cycle managing systems.

Good experience in working on business analysis aspects of Securitisation stack, which involved securitisation document design and development, on Thunderhead, collaborating with legal and development team.

Experienced working with end users in an environment that requires direct interaction during specifications, design and development and testing phases of product.

Working knowledge and experience in CMMi standards.

Hard working and able to adapt well to projects with short learning curves.

Area of Expertise

Creation of QA artifacts (Test Planning, Test Strategy, Test Traceability Matrix) Daily and Weekly Test Status reporting to higher management.

Resource allocation and Team management working as Onsite coordinator at client location.

Tools: Verifix, HP ALM,JIRA, QTP, Thunderbird

Domains worked: Investment Bank, Wealth Management

Operating systems: Windows 7, UNIX

Database: Oracle, SQL server, MSAccess

Experience

UBS WM Americas N.J.

UBS WMA- Retail trading Sep 2011 – till date

Test lead

This project aims at covering the quality assurance of console for Financial Advisors and Clients to place order for securities. This platform caters wide variety of securities like equities, options, fixed income etc

Consolidated Order Entry (COE) project aims at covering the quality assurance of console for Financial Advisors and Clients to place order for securities. This platform caters wide variety of securities like equities, options, mutual funds, fixed income (BondWorks) etc.

QA verification involves full trading life cycle's end to end testing of the following components:

1. Trade initiation and delivery.(front office function)

2. Risk management and order routing.(middle office function)

3. Affirmation and confirmation. (Back office function)

4. Clearing and Settlement.(back office function)

Roles and Responsibility

Requirements gathering from Business for the new functionality that needs to be implemented

Responsible for preparing and reviewing test plan and test strategy document, getting it sign off from the project stakeholders.

Resource allocation and billing with client

Reviewing defects created by test team and link it with the requirement to trace the progress of each phase (from development to release in production)

Creation of the test cases on the basis of the requirement.

Expertise in retail trading domain and applications. Testing with Exchange traded equities using Verifix tool.

Test Execution which involves verification of webservices, GUI validation, Mainframe and database validation.

Heading the status calls of QA progress and Daily status call.

Experience working with products within capital markets(fixed income, MBS,OTC derivatives, FX etc).

Setting up test data, QA/UAT environment for testing.

Responsible to provide UAT support and getting UAT signoff from Business users

Responsible to carry out the production checks when the code is released in production

Responsible for analyzing and handling production issues

Co-ordination with the Development team, offshore QA team and QA teams in India.

Reporting project health to senior manager and escalate any issue with the delivery.

Database: Oracle,DB2

Testing: Manual, Mainframe, Automation-Execution of scripts in Selenium

Tools: Verifix, HP-ALM

Trading Platforms: FIDESSA, BondDesk/ TradeWeb, In-house Fixed income trading platforms

Testing Areas: Exchange testing, FINRA reporting

Test Methodology: Agile and Waterfall

UBS IB Hong Kong

UBS AG-Investment Banking Derivative and Equity Linked (D&EL) July 2006– Sep 2011

Test Analyst

This covers the quality assurance and testing for the Equity Derivatives business on a Front-to-back basis. QA scope covers all the equity derivative applications under Valuation and Quoting, Decision Support, Price Distribution, Pre Trade Support and Post Trade Support.

Responsibilities

Plan and manage the QA process for each release cycle and associated QA deliverables.

Requirement gathering from onshore based clients and Business representatives.

Managing and reviewing test cases, test reports and coordinating with onshore team during each testing cycle.

Improve the QA processes and ensure that they are followed.

Reviewing and guiding the QA processes for individual application (on Team level) while working on testing of the integrated environment.

Maintaining and reviewing the QA deliverables, test strategies, test cases, test results/ reports.

Direct communications with the end users which involves front office and back office trade support teams

Preparing test cases and test plan targeting iteration and working closely with the development team spread across the globe.

User acceptance test cases preparation, conducting and coordinating the UATs.

Database: Oracle

Tools: Thunderbird, QTP, Putty

Technical Skills

1

Operating Systems

Windows, UNIX

2

Programming Languages familiar with

Java,UNIX Shell Script, VB Script, SQL

3

Database

Oracle 8i/9i

4

Applications

TOAD, SQL advantage, Rumba (Unix based Mainframe tool), Thunderhead (document generation tool)

5

Test Automation Tools

Selenium (intermediate only).

6

Test Management Tools

Test Director, Quality Center, X-tools - Jira, confluence

7

Version Control Tools

VSS, Subversion (Basic understanding)

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IITK). India

M.Tech., Chemical Engineering (Bio-Informatics),CGPA: 7.33, 2005

Govt. Engineering College, Ujjain. India

B.E., Chemical Engineering (Bio-Technology), Aggregate%: 81, 2003

Personal Details

Date of Birth 22nd Sep 1981

Nationality Indian

Visa Status Valid H1 till end of 2017

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