Meghna Paul

Phone:732-***-****

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Objective:

To obtain a challenging position of Quality Assurance Analyst position in Windows/NT/Web/API/Unix in client/server environment.

Summary:

Highly skilled, quality-driven, and result-oriented professional with more than 15 successful years of delivering Financial Applications and services in the Equities, Fixed Income and Derivatives Markets. Computer background experience in Design, Development, and Implementation of Business Requirements, Quality Assurance Test Strategy, Processes, Agile and Waterfall Methodologies, Test Matrix, Change Management, Test Plan and other testing needs on Client/Server Applications for financial organization.

Key Strengths:

Management and Leadership: Accomplished in leading personnel at all levels. Exceptional team building and resource allocation skills. Goal oriented with a long-term view.

Industry and Product Knowledge: Extensive knowledge of Equities, Fixed Income and Derivatives markets, Test Strategy, and OMS, Order Execution, Compliance & MiFID. In-depth knowledge of Order Management System (OMS) of Tradeweb Direct, ETL, CTCI and FIX connectivity with Exchange Testing.

Problem Resolution: Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. Proven ability to identify business needs, increase efficiencies, and cut costs. Proficient in guiding QA teams through analysis, test case design and execution.

FIX: Extensive knowledge on VeriFIX & ETP Studio, The Comprehensive FIX Testing System

JIRA: Extensive knowledge on JIRA Project/Bug management tool.

Automation: Experienced with QA automation tool Automated Script Writer (ASW), JAVA, Selenium, ETP Studio & VeriFIX. Maintained and implemented

ALM (Test Management Tool): HP Application Life Cycle Management (ALM)

Technical Skills:

Platforms: Sun, HP, Linux, PC, Windows

Application Testing experience: .Net, ASP, HTML, http/Post, SQL, C, C++, Java, XML/XSL, VB script, UNIX, Linux, shell and JSON

Database: Oracle TOAD, SQL, Microsoft SQL Studio, Tableau, TeraData

Communication Protocols: FIX, TCP/IP, SIPSIM and SAML Simulator

Automation Test Tools: ETP Studio & VeriFIX, Webking, QTP, Test Director, Selenium, Maven & Cucumber

Operating Systems Software: MS Office, MS Project, Citrix, NT, Access, IE, Chrome, Mozilla FireFox, Safari, Mantis, REST & SOAP WEB service and ClearCase, CVS,WinSip, JIRA, Confluence, SPLUNK

Professional Training: C++, Shell Scripting, APT FIX, JAVASIM,VeriFix and ETP Studio

Professional Experience:

Neuberger Bermam, New York February to Present

QA Specialist, Regulatory and Reporting (OATS/CAT)

Neuberger Berman is a private, independent, employee-owned investment management firm. The firm manages Equities, Fixed Income, Private Equity and Hedge Fund Portfolios for Global Institutional Investors, Advisors and high-net-worth individuals.

Responsibilities:

Experienced on OATS (Order Audits Trail System), FINRA and MSRB trace testing

Oversaw the successful delivery of multiple regulatory compliance programs including Reg NMS, OATS & CAT

Fully responsible Compliace related release for Charles River Development (CRD) technology systems and services to over 300 investment and global institutional firms

Experienced with fixed Income calculations, fixed Income industry knowledge

Experienced in hands-on QA validation or scripting and testing complex calculation modules, including preparing test results through excel based calculations, simple SQL script results

Experienced onSupport Production Support Activities along with Change Management Quality Assurance

Condinated team testing activities for planned releases, and emergency code fixes

Experienced on defining, analyzing and documenting business and user needs in the form of business, functional, non-functional requirements

Participated in Design discussion section with the Clients and developers, understanding client requirements

Coordinated UAT Testing and provide execution summary to Stake Holders

Attend meeting with Product Manager and client and find out the requirement. Write Use Cases, Test Plan and Test Cases

Owned the QA process and all aspects of the UAT environment – automating manual tasks and tests wherever possible

Worked closely with engineering stakeholders to ensure that the highest quality software is being delivered on time in a fast-paced environment

Communicate (verbal and written) with business, development, and senior management, on the progress of the Release Period project goals, testing efforts. Raising issue to the stakeholder, identify risk of adding new functionality in the system

Document test progress and incident tracking via JIRA

At the end of the project provide training to QA team to share knowledge

Performing User acceptance test and write Test plan, Test script for the client

Write SQL query to analysis the data. Test Store procedure and verify different kind of tableau report and ETL Testing for Data warehouse( Teradata)

Experience with multitasking. Working on under tight schedule and delivering quality of work on time

Tested FIX protocol message for order, order acknowledgement and execution

Experienced on Smoke, Functional, System, and End to End Test

Using Cucumber for writing UI Test cases

Environment: Java, VB, C ++, .Net, ASP, PowerBuilder, Oracle, SQL, Web, Windows NT, REST & SOAP web service, Linux UNIX

Tradeweb Direct, Jersey City, NJ November, 2011 to February, 2019

Quality Assurance Analyst

Tradeweb Direct is real-time inventory, accurate and competitive pricing, and quality execution with streamlined post-trade processing and comprehensive integration with internal and third-party systems, easy for seamless front-to-back connectivity, order validation and post-trade executions.

Accomplishments:

Performed Test for Fixed income Inventory, Market data processing (Bloomberg, Thompson One), Order entry, Blotter, Trading desk, Order Management System(OMS), Markup/ markdown matrix, Block trade, Multiticket, Bond calculator, E-delivery, Add ISIN in the system, TMS ( Trade Monitoring System), Portfolio application. Compliance test (Trace trade report for FINRA and MSRB), DOL (Department of labor account), PMP (Prevailing market price)

Experienced in MiFID II and MiFIR for Order Management System, Pre Trade and Post Trade validation. Expeience on SI, APA and ARM reporting.

Support all test activities, enhance, develop and execute manual and automated test scripts, record and track software discrepancies in every release. Map traceability Matrix

Testing web application in cross browser such as IE, Chrome, Mozilla Fire Fox, and Safari

Configure test environment for client test and conduct Client test in UNIX and web environment

Performing User Acceptance Test and write Test Plan, Test Script for the client

Experienced in ALM and ability to track, manage, and report on execution results, regression root cause analysis

Handle multiple project such as Vanguard (Bond trading), UBS (Wealth Management Application), STFL, RWbaird, Janney, Morgan Stanley and Southwest

Replicate production issue in QA/Demo env. Analysis the result and provide feedback to business and QA manager

Responsible for full life cycle of test(SDLC)

Tested Web service backend data via postman

Environment: Java, VB, C ++, .Net, ASP, Oracle, Web.

Gain Capital, Bedminster, NJ September, 2009 to Novemer 2011

QA Analyst

Gain Capital offers online trading services specializing in foreign exchange, contract for difference (CFD) and equities to retail and institutional trader worldwide.

Accomplishments:

Write test cases and test script from the business specification and technical specification or client expectation

Lead Multiple High Priority Projects with group of testers both on and off-shore

Manage, plan, administer, and/or execute Quality Assurance (QA) test activities during all test-related project phases, for one or more IT projects within client Release

Test activities include: Planning, Documenting, develop and execute test strategies/plans; debug and troubleshoot; perform impact, monitor and instruct test resources on proper procedures to ensure team compliance, status reporting to Manager on development projects, coordinate issue resolution, defect tracking and defect triage activities

Tested NFA Plugin rule, Liquidity Gateway, Liquidity Hub, Deal Hub, Order Manager Hub, Deal Blotter, FIX 4.4, GAIN GTX, Meta Bridge, Multi Account Management (MAM plugin), Trade Relay, Trade Controller, Rate Controller, MT Manager and MT client

NSX National Stock Exchange, Jersey City, NJ August, 2007 to September, 2009

QA Analyst

National Stock Exchange, the nation’s first all-electronic stock exchange is the low-cost provider of exchange services. A model of exchange efficiency, NSX has been a driving force for change in the world of securities exchanges, responsible for many industry innovations:

Performed Testing for Equity ECN Trading application (BLADE), Matching Engine, Helpdesk Application and Trade Reporting Facility (TRF), and www.nsx.com. All the applications were custom made to support the Real Time Trading at NSX (National Stock Exchange).

Accomplishments:

Designed and developed Test Cases and Test Plan from the business requirement/ product requirement/ technical specification or use cases

Experienced in Functionality Test, System Test, User Acceptance Test (UAT), Regression Test,Load Test and Performance Test

Reported, updated issues in Mantis bug tracking system

Verify Market data, incoming message and outgoing message

Participated in the team meetings to discuss the issues arising out of testing

Environment: Windows XP, Oracle, VB, PowerBuilderv9, JAVA, C++, Fix Protocol 4.2, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Project, .Net, ASP, Framework, Web Service, Linux Unix, PLSQL.

R.R. Bowker, New Providence, NJ June, 2005 to August, 2007

Test Analyst

Bowker represents this book and serial title information to publishers, booksellers, and libraries globally. Bowker owns the most instantly recognizable and prevalent book and serials catalogs in the industry.

Environment: Java, VB, C ++, .Net, ASP, PowerBuilder, Oracle, SQL, Web, Windows NT, REST & SOAP web service, Linux UNIX

Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Clark, NJ May, 1999 to June, 2005

System Test Engineer

(CRISP) Clinical Research Information System

Clinical Trial System drug study program is study preparation and protocol information. Trial Set up creates a protocol from a product and a project. Data is entered through CDE by several module questions and answers goes to the subsystems DM (Data Management), DTS (Discrepancy System), ME (Manual encoder). Crystal Report generates reports. CPC 2000 CLNPHARM data collector

CARE (Co-operative of American Relief Everywhere) September, 1990 to May, 1996

Data Analyst

Children Health Immunization Improvement(CHILD). CARE is an American organization helped Bangladesh government immunization program to improve their services.

Education:

BS from Jahangirnagar University, major in Computer science, Math, Economics, Statistics.

MS in Statistics from Jahangirnagar University.

Reference: Available upon request

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