BA/QA Analyst

SUPRIYA VIJAYAN

E-mail: ***********@*****.***

Phone: 510-***-****

PROFILE SUMMARY

4+ years of experience in the field of Information Technology as Business Analyst, Scrum Master and Quality Analyst.

Strong Domain knowledge in ETP (Electronic Trading Platform) including derivative products such as (interest rate Swaps, Spreads, Treasuries). SEF and OFF-SEF trading via RFQ and CLOB.

Strong understanding of SCRUM and experience in agile methodology.

Responsibility include authoring Business Requirement Documents (BRD) by gathering Business Requirements and Expectations from Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and defining business processes, identifying risks, performing Gap Analysis, Feasibility Analysis and Impact analysis.

Proficient in preparing Business and System Use Cases and supporting all the documents with UML Diagrams such as Use Case Diagrams.

Organized and facilitated SCRUM meetings, Joint Application Developments (JAD) sessions and Joint Requirement Planning sessions (JRP), walkthrough, Interviews, Workshops and Rapid Application Development (RAD) sessions with end-user/clients/stake holders and the IT group.

Recorded requirements in the Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).

Experienced in manual and automated testing processes.

Experienced in all aspects of SDLC, such as Requirements Analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing, Quality Control and Deployment.

Proficient in Quality Assurance Life Cycle like developing Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test Cases (Manual / Automated), Defect Reporting and developing Test Scripts.

Developed and executed test cases for various Client-Server and Web based business applications.

Experienced in performing White Box, Black Box, Functional, Regression, Integration, System and Smoke tests, Data-driven, GUI Testing and UAT (User Acceptance Testing).

Ability to adapt to latest technologies, perseverant, innovative and organized

Have excellent analytical, problem solving, communication and interpersonal skills, with ability to interact with individuals at all levels and can work as a part of a team as well as independently.

Good DB skills with MySQL.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools exposure: Eclipse, Selenium, Rally (Agile), Rational RequisitePro

Operating Systems: Windows, Mac OS, Linux

Database knowledge: SQL and PL/SQL, MySQL

Defect management tools: Github,GitLab, Assembla, Rational Quality manager and Jira

SCM (Software Configuration Management): SVN, ANT, GIT, Jenkins

Programming languages: Basic java, HTML5, CSS3, XML, JavaScript

Microsoft Office: Excel, Word, Power Point, Visio, OneNote, Outlook

CERTIFICATIONS

PSM 1 (Professional Scrum Master) by scrum.org

Certified Tester Foundation Level (Affiliated by ASTQB)

Software Testing (Manual and Automation Testing) by Peridot Systems.

EDUCATION

MASTER OF SCIENCE (MS) IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Graduated: May 2014)

BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING (BE) IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India (August 2003- April 2007

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Clear Markets Holdings (September 2014 to current)

Charlotte, NC, USA

DESCRIPTION

Clear-markets is an innovator, developer and operator of electronic trading systems which involves trading of stocks, bonds and treasuries. It is an affiliate with QUICK in Japan and it has various branches around the world. I am playing an important role where I gain the best domain knowledge of electronic SEF, OFF-SEF trading as I am involved starting from business requirements till the end of delivering the product.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Working as “AVP Software Engineer “, leading the QA/BA department.

Collecting detailed documentation of business plan requirements and business models, RTM, writing BRDS, FRDS, FSDS.

Facilitating and managing team meetings including sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review and retrospective meetings, manage timelines; manage SMEs (Subject Matter Experts) to ensure the deliverable.

Elicited requirements through interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, Quality process descriptions, use cases & scenarios, Quality analysis, task and workflow analysis

Made minute notes, prioritized requirements according to releases.

Creating and executing test plans, test cases, test scripts and test execution including GUI and back end testing. Defect tracking and defect reporting.

Involved In automation testing using Selenium.

Used SQL queries extensively for backend testing.

Handling the whole release process, including onboarding of users in UAT and Production.

Developed status reports for each release before and after and maintained complete track of deliverables.

Develop UAT test plan, test cases to ensure testing is done within the Customer Management department

Involved in Project allocating resources and task scheduling for the development of the new system

Handling support of client’s issues when they report any bugs or issues related to the product.

Hands on experience with Jenkins for deployment, Github,GitLab, Assembla for defect tracking.

WNS Global Services (October 2008 to December 2009) Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Worked as “Technical Analyst “.

Had exposure to ITIL methodologies and in IT service management.

Involved in Business analysis, collecting requirements for the WNS employee portal(AVIVA LIFE INSURANCE) application, handling change management, determine gap analysis .

Responsible for BRD, FRD,RTM, use case diagrams, AS-IS, TO-BE diagrams, process flows, data mapping etc.

Responsible for testing UAT environment and also provide support for end users.

Actively involved in communication with the SME’s, stake holders and also conducting JAD sessions.

Involved in Risk assessment and problem solving when dealing with critical issues.

Have received “Best Performer” Award couple of times.

CSS CORP PVT Ltd. (October 2007 to August 2008)

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Worked as “Support Engineer”.

Provided Technical support for three of the supporting software’s (Rhapsody, Real Arcade, Real Player).

Responsible for raising and managing defects.

Responsible for escalating and also prioritize the defects based on the necessity.

Actively involved in client interactions to analyze and understand their requirements.

ACHIEVEMENTS

Awarded School first in high school.

Received Scholarship awards for academic excellence from Larsen and Toubro.

[Supriya Vijayan]

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