Profile Summary

** ***** ** ******** ******* experience in Investment Banking and Securities domain.

Over 15 years of extensive experience in STLC covering analysis, planning, designing, testing - both manual and automation testing, defect management and reporting with strong expertise in Quality Center.

Professional experience in Software Quality Assurance in industry domain such as Investment Banking, Finance – Securities Domain. Extensive testing experience with capital market products including fixed income, stocks, options, mutual funds.

Experience in Automation testing using QTP/UFT, Selenium Web Driver /RC / IDE/, JUnit, TestNG, Jenkins, Maven, Github.

Worked Extensively on JUnit, TestNG framework for Unit Testing, Maven for Project building tool, Jenkins for Continuous Integration

Extensive experience in reviewing requirements and design specification document, preparation of test deliverables such as Test strategy, Test Plan, Test Case, Test Data, Requirement Traceability Matrix, test summary report and defect status report, and attending defect triage meeting with different project stakeholders

Experience in Automation testing using QTP/UFT (VB script) and Coded UI(C# script).

Proficient in writing SQL queries and executing SQL queries to perform Backend Testing

Expertise in Web Service Testing using SOAP UI PRO tool.

Expertise in fix message protocol validation.

Extensive end to end order routing testing experience using Bloomberg and Beta.

Proficient with Agile as well as water fall methodology, Making sure back logs are prioritized, estimated, requirements are clear, sprint planning and collaborative work space is available and track progress daily with help of stand-up meeting and burn down chart.

Proactive with excellent communication & documentation skills, quick learner, positive attitude to learn new technologies, excellent team player as well as individual contributor

Skilled team leader and experience in maintaining highly functioning team of 8+ members.

Around 9 years of exposure to working in Client environment and been interface between client and offshore team.

Technology Proficiency

Technology

Tools

Test Automation

Coded UI (using C# ), QTP, Selenium Webdriver, Jenkins

Language/Script

Visual Basic, Java, Java Script, JQuery, HTML, JSP

Defect & Test Management Tools

Rally, Jira, Rational Clear Quest, Microsoft Team foundation server, Quality center, Microsoft MTM,

Web service / API Test tools

SOAP UI PRO, Post Man

Methodologies

Safe Agile, Water Fall, Iterative models

Databases

MS SQL server 2008, Sybase,DB2, CICS

Web accessibility

JAWS, Wave tool, color contrast analyzer(CCA)

Debugging tools

HTTP watch, Fire bug

Messaging Protocol

FIX protocol validation using Beta

Order routing

Bloomberg

Project Details

QA Lead/ BA Project#1 Feb 2020 to till date

Client Name : SEI Investments

Location : Malvern, PA

C&R Wildcards:

SEI is a financial institution which provides Fully-integrated, platform-based solutions and financial technologies encompassing front, middle and back offices.

Corrections & Reversals(C&R) team supports production incidents, new feature enhancements and maintenance fixes for the trade corrections and reversals area.

Roles & Responsibilities:

●Go through the production reported incidents and identify the root cause and document the findings. Propose the game plan for mitigating the production issue.

●Support functional and integration testing for C&R feature enhancements and defect fixes.

●Provide QA Estimation from inception to construction phases.

●Conducted Walkthrough on Test strategy / Testing Requirement/Test Case Review with Business Analyst/SME/Development Team.

●Communicate with BA/developers to create Test Environment and prepare data before verification and validation.

●Create agile test scripts and defects in Rally for Agile projects.

●Created the Traceability Matrix to track the requirement coverage.

●Review and advise the end to end test scenarios covering 3rd party systems to internal systems.

●Tracking overall project execution status and delivery.

●Handling “Defect Triage” for the project.

QA Lead Project#2 Apr 2016 to Jan 2020

Client Name : Wells Fargo Advisors

Location : Saint Louis, MO

Technology : Java

Environment : Beta, Bloomberg, Windows 10, HP Quality Center, Jira, Agile, QTP / UFT

WFA Portfolio Management Initiative (Charles River Implementation): The WFA Portfolio Management Initiative aims to transform the advisory business for growth through the implementation of the Charles River development platform. The implementation of the Charles River development solutions will provide synergies across the WIM business lines, optimize the user experience and increase the efficiency of operational processes. WFA PMI is to unify WFA’s advisory business onto a single platform and provide the foundation for transforming the advisory platform to align with WFA strategy. This will have improvement / affect the WFA line of business specifically advisory operations, mutual fund operation, trade processing operations, advisory product groups, trading and rep as portfolio manager.

Bond Center: 1TMC Bonds is a 3rd party hosted application and is the primary fixed income trading platform that is fully integrated with WFA brokerage messaging and domain services. It will be used by WFA Traders and Financial Advisors and first clearing correspondent services. TMC integrates with Bloomberg for offering data and BETA for books and records and regulatory reporting.

Bond Center International: Provide a fixed income trading platform that allows the trades in international bonds / spot currencies and is fully integrated with other key brokerage tools and systems, reduces expense and meets the current and future needs of the business.

Roles & Responsibilities:

●Single point of contact for order routing PDT deliverables from QA team.

●Provide QA Estimation from inception to construction phases.

●Having experience in managing a team of approx. 8 members on-site and off-shore and coordinating the deliverables by assigning workloads to the respective teams.

●Training plan / knowledge sharing sessions. Review of test artifacts

●Conducted Walkthrough on Testing Requirement/Test Case Review with Business Analyst/SME/Development Team.

●Communicated with BA/developers to create Test Environment and prepared Data Generation before verification and validation.

●Having experience with estimation poker for AGILE story sizing, using Jira for uploading and tracking and updating the story for the AGILE project.

●Creating agile test script and defect in HP ALM for Agile projects.

●Used Descriptive, Synchronization, Call function, Parameterization, Checkpoints, Error Handling, Recovery Scenarios, Regular Expressions to enhance test affectivity also created reusable actions by using QTP/UFT.

●Customized test Result in QTP. Read Excel Data into Custom QTP Data Table using Custom Function. File System Object (FSO)

●Worked on Data Driven and Keyword driven Framework using QTP.

●Developed test scripts on Expert View and enhanced those scripts using Functional Libraries from scratch and performed regression testing for every new release using QTP as an automation tool with VB scripting.

●Extensive integration testing with multitier applications like Charles River, 1FIX, Beta, Bloomberg systems.

●Proficient in FIX message validation and conducting end to end order routing testing using BETA and Bloomberg.

●Created the Traceability Matrix to track the requirement coverage.

●Performed Test Execution including System, Integration, Functional, Regression, Ad-Hoc, End to End Testing managed by using Enterprise Quality Center.

●Logged defects by input all required information and retest them after build is complete.

●Review and advise the end to end test scenarios covering 3rd party systems to internal systems.

●Tracking overall project execution status and delivery.

●Handling “Defect Triage” for the project.

●Collect, publish and maintain project metrics.

QA Lead Project#3 Sept 2010 to March 2016

Client Name : Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.,

Location : Austin, Texas

Technology : .net

Framework : MVC

Environment : IBM Mainframe, Oracle 10i,Windows 7,Coded UI, HP Quality Center 10,Microsoft TFS,Agile estimation poker.

Security Master Redesign (Fixed Income):

The Security Master Redesign (SMR) project objective is to upgrade Schwab technology infrastructure to:

●Build a modern security reference data capability to support critical business outcomes by integrating a 3rd party provided security master technology platform and tool set that would become the single authoritative source for all fixed income security descriptive data at Schwab

●Rationalize the selection of data providers according to business needs, capabilities and performance of the vendors and costs

●Implement robust business rules and standards around the loading and on-boarding of data to drive better data quality and operation efficiency

●Create a centralized data management organization to establish a central point of product ownership for all descriptive data vendor relationships and commercial contracts, support new data standards and manage exception processing, and monitor utilization of data and performance of vendors on an on-going basis.

Trade Order Entry Modernization:

This Trade Order Entry Modernization project will update the order entry process for stocks, options and mutual funds in a variety of ways. The UI for each of these pages will be redesigned to better emphasize information vital to a trader. The UI look and feel will also be refreshed to provide a cleaner look and feel for the page. This trading functionality will also be rewritten (for stocks and options) to utilize the MVC architecture for more efficient processing and enhanced maintainability.

Modern Mobile Web:

Utilize best practices to extend Schwab.com into a responsive and flexible website that provides a best-in-class customer experience on a broader range of browsers and devices.

The scope of this project includes developing a Schwab.com Mobile Web experience optimized for Smartphones.

●Simplifies the technology and maintenance by consolidating source code

●Creates a consistent experience by using common business logic

●Opens a path to retire the existing Java platform

Roles & Responsibilities:

●Single point of contact for project deliverables from QA team.

●Provide QA Estimation from inception to construction phases.

●Having experience in managing a team of approx. 5 members on-site and off-shore and coordinating the deliverables by assigning workloads to the respective teams.

●Training plan / knowledge sharing sessions. Review of test artifacts

●Conducted Walkthrough on Testing Requirement/Test Case Review with Business Analyst/SME/Development Team.

●Communicated with BA/developers to create Test Environment and prepared Data Generation before verification and validation.

●Having experience with estimation poker for AGILE story sizing, using Microsoft TFS for uploading and tracking and updating the story for the AGILE project.

●Creating agile test script and defect in Microsoft TFS for Agile projects.

●Extensive integration testing with multitier applications like Market data, Schwab bond source, stamp and scores systems.

●Designed detailed Test Steps for Test Cases and generated Test Data using Quality Center.

●Created the Traceability Matrix to track the requirement coverage.

●Performed Test Execution including System, Integration, Functional, Regression, Ad-Hoc, End to End Testing managed by using Enterprise Quality Center.

●Conducted testing on IOS and android and windows mobile devices for modern mobile web project.

●Executed SQL queries in SQL Server 2008 to ensure data is populated into the correct table and data integrity is maintained.

●Logged defects by input all required information and retest them after build is complete.

●Review and advise the end to end test scenarios covering 3rd party systems to internal systems.

●Tracking overall project execution status and delivery.

●Handling “Defect Triage” for the project.

●Progress reviews & status updates to Schwab management.

●Collect, publish and maintain project metrics.

QA Lead Project#4 Sept 2013 to Mar 2016

Client Name : Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.

Location : Austin, Texas

Title : CWP Automation

Technology : .net

Framework : MVC

Environment : IBM Mainframe, Oracle 10i,Windows 7,Coded UI, HP Quality Center 10,Microsoft TFS, Agile estimation poker

Project details:

Testing Tools Used: VSTS Coded UI, WEB and VSTS TFS and C# Coded UI

VB, Macros, Extra Attachmate, Client Central

Client Web Platform (CWP) is a Schwab.com application used for Web Trading. It has a total of 110 applications (Around 15000 TC's).All the applications are categorized in t Line of Business (LOB's).1)Trade, 2) Services, 3) Login, 4)Global,5) Banking. We had successfully automated GUI and Mainframe test cases. We are 100% automation with respect to feasibility. Microsoft VSTS TFS 2010 was used as the Configuration Management Tool.

Roles & Responsibilities:

●Working as a technical lead and managing a team of 3 members

●Regression Maintenance and Iterative development

●Developed Reusable functions and different frameworks for applications

●Done POC’s and gave Demos to Onsite Client Project Team

●Explored Run time descriptive object creation to check the object

●identification and trigger operation

●Explored Macros VBA to automate mainframe backend applications

Sr. QA Analyst Project #5 Apr 2008 to March 2010.

Client Name : E*TRADE Financial Corporation

Location : Bangalore India

Technology : Java/J2EE, Oracle

Environment : Windows, Quality center, Sybase, UNIX, SOAP UI PRO

Platform : Windows

Project Scope:

E*TRADE Financial Corporation is a financial services company based in New York City, United States. It is a holding company, the major business of which is an online discount stock brokerage service for self-directed investors. Investors can buy and sell securities such as stocks, bonds, options, mutual funds, and exchange-traded funds via electronic trading platforms or by phone via E*TRADE Mobile Pro. The company also offers banking and lending products such as checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, and credit cards.

Key projects:

●E*Trade API : The objective of this project is to develop an Application Programming Interface (API) to allow customers to leverage E*TRADE’s extensive market data offering and order routing capabilities in using and building proprietary trading platforms. The API will enable users to build alternative platforms for trade generation, as well as provide 3rd parties to create applications that will direct trades to E*TRADE.

●Wealth management Independent advisor phase 2.2:

Block trading is a mechanism whereby a single trade can be placed for multiple client accounts. The trade is executed through an average price account belonging to the advisor who places the trade on behalf of those clients. On the Independent Advisor Platform, block trades are created from the sum of individual allocations and can only be traded through this average price account.

●Managed Portfolio:

The purpose of this project is to provide the systems/processes to enable the launch of the new Managed Portfolio program in 2009. The Managed Portfolios (MIPS) program is a discretionary advice offering from E*TRADE Capital Management (ETCM) consisting of Mutual Fund Wrap, ETF wrap and UMA accounts facilitated by Advisorport platform.

Roles & Responsibilities:

●Performed Black-box testing including Smoke tests, Regression testing, Functional testing and Beta testing.

●Performed web testing including, protocols

●Performed different types of Testing like Browser compatibility, field validation, usability, Security, Interface.

●Functionality Testing on Web Application by testing Links, Cookies, HTTP and CSS and Business Flow

●Involved in Batch Reports Testing and Systems Testing.

●Involved in Mobile Apps(smart Apps) Testing with IOS, Android devices, and Mobile Applications

●Tested projects in waterfall Methodology.

●Tested projects by using Web service with SOAP UI PRO.

●Involved in the Test Execution, Results Analysis and Defect Reporting.

●Coordinated with Business Analysts and Developers to drill down business requirements, customization and testing requirements.

●Involved in all phases and stages of software testing life cycle including end-to-end system testing and business requirements analysis.

●Represented in test team daily status calls during test execution and explained operations/users risks involved in changing the status or priority of the issues.

●Analyzed business requirements, functional specifications and created test scenarios and test cases.

●Performed database testing by writing complex SQL queries for the back end testing in SQL Developer.

●Maintained good communication with all team members in SDLC.

QA Analyst Project # 6 May 2005 to Mar 2008.

Client Name : Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.

Location : Bangalore India

Title : Domestic Web Trading

Technology : Java / J2EE

Environment : IBM Mainframe, Oracle 10i, Windows XP, DB2, Quality center

Project Scope:

Charles Schwab is one of the nation's largest financial services providers of securities brokerage, wealth management, and related financial and investment. Charles Schwab provides financial services to individuals and institutional. Key areas of Schwab's customer center involves Schwab portfolio checkup, Quotes & Research, At a Glance, Positions and Trading.

Key Projects:

●Fixed Income Redesign - Schwab is undertaking a major redesign of the current Fixed Income offering on schwab.com by leveraging much of the functionality available today to Schwab’ Bond Specialist from the Schwab Bond Source application.

●Automatic Investment Planning helps the customers to set up a long term financial investing in a regular and effective manner.

●Trade Mutual funds: Mutual funds are diversified portfolio of securities into which investors pool their money. The benefit of investing in these portfolios is the diversification of risk. The primary business goal of Trade-Mutual Funds is to provide information and avenues to perform mutual funds trading.

●View Edit Beneficiary application is to automate the process of adding, deleting beneficiaries or modify the beneficiary information for IRA accounts.

●ICGAO with this project the Global Account Open (GAO) application is being expanded to include opening an Investor Checking account. Prospects will open both a new Schwab one account and the IC account. Customer can either open a new Schwab one and new Investor Checking(IC) account or they can select an existing Schwab One account to tie to the new checking account.

●Account Summary page will provide an integrated view of all associations a customer has with Charles Schwab & Co. and Charles Schwab Bank.

Roles & Responsibilities:

●Requirements study and discussion with business on the ambiguities

●Project Sizing and Test Plan Preparation

●Test Case Review

●Conduct walkthrough on Test Case and update the feedback from the project team (client)

●Test Data Conditioning

●Test Case Designing & Execution in SIT and UAT

●Automating functional test cases using silk test tool

●Reporting the issues and logging the defects

●Participating in the production certifications

●Test Summary Report preparation

●Client interface: Customer interaction with project managers, Business users

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