Financial Analyst Engineer

SABRINA VADIEVA

Email: **************@*****.*** Phone: 646-***-****

SKILLS SUMMARY:

●5 years of well-established experience in software quality assurance / software testing field

●Comprehensive knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC)

●Experience of working in Agile/Scrum and Waterfall development methodologies

●Understating and exposure to Automation testing and expert in Manual Testing

●Participation and presenting on different Agile ceremonies: Daily stand-up, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospective

●Expertise in performing a variety type of functional testing: Smoke, Sanity, Negative, Positive, GUI, End to End, Backend and Regression

●Proficient in understanding, analyzing and estimating an effort for Business Requirements (BRD) and User Stories

●Expert on creating detailed Test Case based on requirements and executing them

●Performed test case reviews and nomination of test cases for automation regression suite by working closely and overseeing automation engineer

●Able to write and maintain Test Plan for the new and ongoing projects

●Solid understanding of Capital Market, Financial Instruments (Equities, Derivatives, Bonds, and Fixed Income)

●Knowledge of Equity Trade Life Cycle and ability to perform End to End testing on trading platforms

●Knowledge and ability to navigate in UNIX Terminal

●Experience working with FIX Messages and FIX Logs by accessing them through UNIX

●Ability to read and understand FIX Messages with and without FIX Translator

●Proficient in using SQL for backend testing - data verification, validation and manipulation

●Skilled in logging and prioritizing defects, retesting fixed bugs and tracking them until proper closure by following Defect Life Cycle

●Hands on experience with Application Management Tools: HP ALM, JIRA, BUGZILA

●Expertise in performing API testing using POSTMAN

●Strong communication skills (soft skills), can find my way with the Development Team, Product Owner, BA, Project Manager

●Helped to prove knowledge transfer session to a new resource and accelerate their involvement into the project

●Ability to work under the stress and tight schedules as part of a team and as well individually

●A diligent worker with good analytical problem-solving skills which plans appropriately and delivers before deadline

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: SQL, Java, HTML

Database: MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL

Bug Tracking tools: Jira, Bugzilla, HP ALM

Testing tools: Selenium(Webdriver, IDE), Cucumber, POSTMAN, BrowserStack

Mobile testing: Kobiton

Platforms: Windows, Unix/Linux, Mac OS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Jefferies New York, NY

QA Analyst 05/2018 - Present

Project: Jefferies - Finance Trade Accumulator - financial analytical collecting and trading platform that offers multi-asset investment opportunity for investors to analyze, trade and manage their portfolio. Unique approach for generating consulting informational massive sand prospective views.

Responsibilities:

●Part of the Agile team responsible for the Bond trading system part of the application

●Participating in backlog refinement and asking appropriate questions to have more details from product owner about user stories

●Analyzing the requirements during the sprint to write detailed test cases and cover all the possible scenarios

●Reviewing the test results with Product owner and adjusting if needed in test cases to reflect the user behavior

●Providing daily updates in daily stand ups and raising risks and impediments as early as possible

●Executing test cases and raising defects if found in Jira by following Defect Life Cycle

●Productively using Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to ensuring all the requirements were covered by test cases

●Carrying out Smoke/Sanity, GUI, Negative and Positive, End-to-End, Backend, Functional and Regression testing of trading application

●Performing cross-browser compatibility testing using tools like BrowserStack

●Performing backend testing on daily basis using SQL by verifying the data inserted into the backend against frontend

●Testing the order workflow of Single Buy, Single Sell, Multi Buy/Sell, Bid Wanted, Offer Wanted and more and ensured it is working as per Trade Life Cycle rules

●Retrieving FIX Log using Linux Terminal and analyzed FIX messages (tags and values) with and without FIX translator

●Testing API points prior UI was ready using Postman

●Verifing the application works well on different mobile OS

●Performing installation, security, update, interruption testing of mobile application

●Executing functional and usability testing of the application on real and virtual devices

●Using Kobiton to run tests on multiple devices with multiple versions of app available to refer

●Preparing Test Summary Report (TSR) and Defect report using Jira

●Attending Sprint Retrospective meetings to discuss the lessons learnt from the closed sprint and improvement for the upcoming sprint

EVO Payments Melville, NY

QA Analyst 03/2017 – 04/2018

Project: Esafe- is a risk management tool based on set rules in the system by financial analyst and risk management team and allows to approve, hold or decline a transaction based on raised flags triggered by the rules.

Responsibilities:

●Examined the Business Requirements Document (BRD) and Functional Specifications Document (FSD) to understand the application

●Cooperated with the Developers team to make sure the bugs were getting tracked and fixed

●Designed Test Plan, Test Scenarios and Test Strategy based on the Requirements

●Performed testing activities based on test plans and test cases

●Elaborated in User Acceptance Testing, Usability Testing, Functionality Testing, End to End Testing and Regression Testing

●Proposed effective solutions to the QA Supervisor to improve the occurred defects

●Assisted my team to decide which tasks should be automated

●Analyzed browser API requests and responses using dev tools as well as Postman

●Tracked and reported defects thoroughly: precise and concise steps to reproduce the defect, using HP QC

●Wrote SQL queries to extract data from tables and validate trade data

●Attended in the daily Scrum meetings with the Developer and Business team to discuss the defects logged in QC for every release

Tradeweb Markets Jersey City, NJ

Jr. QA Analyst 02/2015 – 02/2017

Project: Portfolio Analytics - Advanced Portfolio Analytics and solutions application that is designed for Financial Advisors, Broker and Traders to search for different bonds and offerings. Access to the holdings of their held

Responsibilities:

●Created Test scenarios and test cases for the application after analyzing the business specifications and requirements

●Performed different types of manual testing such as GUI, Functional, Backend and Regression testing, End to End testing of the entire trade process from initiating the trade to the settlement

●Attended in the daily Scrum meetings to discuss the status of the project

●Interacted with the development team for new functionality and review defects

●Tested the order workflow of Single Buy, Single Sell, Multi Buy/Sell, Bid Wanted, Offer Wanted and more

●Carried out SQL queries to perform data verification

●Used Linux to retrieve and validate FIX messages for Equity and Fixed income trades

●Used Jira to preserve, track, and resolve defects

●Performed Integration testing with different companies that used our product to make sure the system was set up properly and the trades were routed correctly

Education:

Russian-Tajik Slavonic University

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Dushanbe, Tajikistan

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