End to end test management

Srirupa Ghosh Chaudhuri

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Profile

Employed with Infosys for over 11 years, with experience in core and specialized testing services (Testing CoE) working for UBS AG (Investment Bank) throughout.

Relocated back to Greater NYC area after the last assignment as Test Manger in Finance Risk & Data Services (FRDS) IT Delivery function of UBS Investment Bank in London, UK.

Current immigration status - L2-EAD (sponsorship not required)

Extensive experience in testing under traditional waterfall and agile system development methodologies. Strong project and team management capabilities in a global delivery model and effective client relationship management. Strong expertise in industry standard testing tools and technologies.

Proven record of leading critical projects from the front, showcasing technical skills, business understanding, leadership ability, high impact communication, collaboration and analytical ability.

Demonstrable experience of QA delivery projects, with multi-disciplined team, across multiple locations and adept at defining and ensuring adherence to software development lifecycle and process frameworks.

Experience

Project: Investment Bank – Group Data Services IT

Role: TEST MANAGER

Client: UBS

LONDON, UK

Mar 2015 – Oct 2016

GREATER NEW YORK AREA

Aug 2011 – Feb 2015

Managed QA services in Group Data Services function at UBS Investment Bank supporting the strategic Data IT platform that is undergoing a transformation due to increased regulatory needs. QA ownership includes book & hierarchy data servicing process management for Front Office, Risk & Finance operating units.

The platform consists of a data-store that serves as golden source for bank-wide finance, legal and geographic hierarchy, and the trading/banking Books for all front office systems including their attributes and workflow associated with creating and maintaining Books and attributes data that is further published to risk and financial aggregation systems. The platform contains another integrated application that mandates the trading desks with explicitly defined list of products that they are allowed to trade, and products that are not allowed to trade, verified by their respective business and control functions. These mandates are instated by a comprehensive workflow process housed within the Book Store application. Being golden source of UBS hierarchy structure, platform sources static hierarchy & mandates data into various business divisions and groups namely Wealth Management, Treasury and Finance & Risk.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for all Test Management activities including requirement and scope management, Test Planning and strategizing, front-to-back Testing (functional and non-functional), UAT coordination, test environment management and release coordination - in a managed service account. Data Analysis and reconciliation for periodic changes to the firm’s books and hierarchy data. Integration testing with Front Office / Finance (upstream) and Risk (downstream) systems. Coordination with a multi-vendor team operating in a global delivery model. Worked on defining the strategy and roadmap for automation of regression tests as well as coordinated the non-functional test suite creation.

Additional responsibilities involve: testing standards and process enforcement, offshore/onsite coordination, tracking QA service SLAs and quality metrics, adherence to compliance norms, privacy and data protection policies, project budgeting and client invoicing, client engagement reports. Managed an onshore – offshore (spread across multiple locations - India, London, Poland and New York) team of 8-10 QA resources.

Accomplishments:

Led the QA delivery for highly agile and dynamic platform with complete accountability.

Subject Matter Expert in the application domain.

Point of contact for diverse stakeholder groups - Business Analysts, Business Users, Development Teams, Project Manager(s) and Senior QA Management.

Star Performer Award for year 2014 in Group Data Services IT.

Project: Investment Bank - Credit Risk IT

Role: TEST LEAD

Client: UBS

GREATER NEW YORK AREA

May 2010 – Jul 2011

Worked as Test Lead for the Credit Risk IT - Stress project for UBS Investment Bank while based in US.

Stress project is a standalone analytics application that is a key part of the Credit Transformation Program led for re-structuring the bank’s Risk management systems following the sub-prime crisis. The application provides the Credit Risk Officers with Stressed MTM numbers for the firm’s counterparties using various trade positions under different Risk categories, sensitivity parameter and extreme market stress scenarios. The system flags any/all potential risks in form of exposures via Business Object (BO) reports to End Users. This application is a strategic bridge between Market Risk and Credit Risk verticals of the IB.

Responsibilities:

QA ownership of the entire application covering all testing activities including Test Management, Estimations,

Requirement Analysis & liaising with business.

Carried out entire testing activity that involved manual test preparation & execution, test data setup, automation

& Performance testing.

Responsible for Reporting & coordination

Data Quality analysis & Issue resolution

Interaction with End Users

Accomplishments:

Derived excel based worksheets for translation of numerical & logical flows involved in the Stress calculations. The development team extensively used these excels while coding and unit testing.

Developed a Macro based tools for comparison of results produced from a bespoke Stress report generated by Business users against the results produced by Stress application. This led to effort saving during quantitative analysis carried out in QA/UAT cycles.

Besides the assigned project delivery, supported non-functional and functional testing of three other Credit risk systems.

Awarded the Certificate of Excellence for Best Quarterly Performance in the Risk IT function.

Project: Investment Bank – Margin Management IT – Valuations Reporting

Role: PERFORMANCE TEST LEAD

Client: UBS

LONDON

Aug 2007 – Feb 2009

SINGAPORE

Mar 2009 – Apr 2010

Valuation is a key reporting function under the Margin Risk Management Portfolio. It serves the client’s position reporting requirement of the Investment bank in the Cash, Fixed Income and Equity business areas. This complex Reporting tool consumes data from multiple upstream systems and feeds reports to downstream applications. The application is the source for providing collateral managers and margin trading clients with trade valuations directly from the bank's risk systems. Being an end-customer-focused application this application is critical to the firm’s business and thus has a high performance benchmark.

Responsibilities:

Understanding technical aspects & assessing system performance against non-functional requirements

Estimation, Planning and Test Management

Performance Testing using Mercury LoadRunner and regression automation using QTP

Non-Functional and Automated Regression Testing

Proposing Performance tuning solutions

Reporting & Onshore-Offshore coordination

UAT Testing support and coordination with end users

Accomplishments:

Single Point of Contact for client communications onsite and for coordination with offshore team

Designed the performance test suite for the application

Won appreciations from Development stakeholders for the in-depth technical knowhow of the application and identification of the performance bottlenecks that were improved in successive releases.

Carried out critical reconciliation tests involving thorough comparison of valuation reports every release

Project: Investment Bank - Margin Management IT - Margin Calculation Engine

Role: TEST ANALYST

Client: UBS

Pune, India

Aug 2005 – July 2007

Margin Management manages the risk of loss caused by the failure of counterparty to pay its obligations.

The application framework collates trade files received from various banking systems and segregates the trades into counterparty positions which are then subjected to Margin rules that determine the net collateral requirement for that counterparty and a margin call is made using statements generated from it.

The application support and automates the process of making a margin call on counterparty.

Responsibilities:

Worked as Test Analyst for the Margin Risk Management applications for UBS Investment Bank.

Job function included leading a team of test engineers to perform manual and automated functional testing for the application.

Activities included preparing Requirement Analysis, Test Scenarios and Test Case preparation, Test Data Setup and Test Execution for system and integration test cycle, creation and execution of Automation Scripts, UAT support and offshore-onsite coordination.

Accomplishments

Led the team to deliver QA for key regulatory projects

Designed the automation test suite for the application

Participated in the project/test management activities

Skills:

Waterfall and Agile Methodologies

Risk Based Testing

Global Service Delivery

CMMi, KMMi process adherence

Test Estimation, Test Plan and Test Strategy Preparation

Test Execution – Manual and Automated

Test Automation (QTP/Selenium) and Non Functional Testing (LoadRunner)

Test Environment Management and coordination

Defect Management, Test Status and Completion Reporting

UAT testing, support and Coordination

KPI and SLA Metrics Reporting

JIRA

HP Quality Center

HP LoadRunner

HP Quick-Test Professional

MS Excel

UNIX

Oracle

Sybase

MS Office Tools

IB - Credit Risk

Stress Computation Models

Selenium TestNG

BDD

TDD

Education and Specialization

MBA - Warwick Business School, Warwick, UK – Distance Learning – Graduated 2016

Bachelor of Engineering - Instrumentation Technology - Visvesvaraya Technological University, India

(Full time - 2001-2005. Gold Medalist)

ISTQB – ISEB Certified Tester

Mercury QTP Certification

HP Load Runner – H90 Certification

CSTE Certification

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