VAGRAM SARKISOV

E-mail: adjkbh@r.postjobfree.com Phone: 917-***-****

Sr. QA Analyst with 5 years of experience in the field of Software Quality Assurance Testing. Full understanding and expertise in advanced testing methodologies and software development life cycle.

SUMMARY:

Strong knowledge of all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Agile, Waterfall, Software Testing life Cycle (STLC).

Full knowledge of Trade life cycle, Front Office, Middle Office, Back Office.

Financial products – Equity, Bonds, Options and Swaps.

Demonstrate a strong ability to analyze Business Requirements, effectively provide explicit documentation for Use Cases, Test Plan, Test Cases and RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix)

Expertise in Performing different types of testing: Smoke, Functional, GUI, Integration, Backend, System, End-to-End and Regression Testing.

Developed and executed detailed ETL related functional, performance, integration test cases, and documentation.

Raise and prioritize the defects in Defect Management, retest the fixes and track the defects to closure using Quality Center (HP ALM).

Full experience in manual testing Client server, Windows based and Web based Applications.

Consolidated experience in SQL queries for backend testing and data verification. Extensively used SQL queries to manipulate the data.

Well versed in RDBMS such as Oracle, SQL Server, and MS Access.

Competence using Unix/Linux commands.

Created detailed QA documentation, participated in meetings for reviewing test process of applications/softwares with QA team, Developers and Business Analyst.

Hard worker with strong quantitative and analytical problem-solving skills.

Collaborated with Business Analysts and Developers as needed to ensure successful deployments.

Ability to resolve issues in a timely manner by prioritizing workload effectively.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: JIRA, Bugzilla, HP ALM

Operating System: Windows, Unix/Linux

Languages: HTLM, XML, SQL, JAVA, JavaScript

Databases: My SQL Server, Oracle, MS Access

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

09/2018 – present, Senior QA Analyst Hold Brothers Capital LLC, New York, NY

Graybox – is a software designed to help maximize the trader’s ability to perform faster and more competitively from anywhere in the world and in any market environment. It is highly customized to fit each trader’s unique needs and includes a built-in data center and risk management system.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Validated full trade life cycle, from Trade Capture to Trade Blotter.

Manually tested functionality of trading and mutual fund web-based application.

Creating Test Plan and Test Cases by analyzing the Business requirements for the various functional modules in the application.

Performed Functional and Regression testing for new releases for all functionalities in QA and UAT Environment.

Using HP ALM Quality Center for organizing the requirements, storing, and executing test cases and logging/tracking defects.

Executed End to End testing of TOMS application while monitoring the Log files.

Develop and execute detailed ETL related functional, performance, integration, and regression test cases and documentation. Verify UI, Database and Source Database data is matching.

Used UNIX commands for data verification.

Performing Back-End testing using SQL quires to verify the database updates, inserts and deletions of the records and validated them.

Preparing Requirements Traceability Matrix to establish traceability between requirements and test cases.

Assisting QA Team Leader with preparing Test Analysis Report (TAR).

Participating in defect report, and application walk through meetings.

Studied problems and provide solutions to the QA lead to fix issues.

10/2015 – 08/2018, QA Engineer First National Bank, Newark, NJ

National Branch System (NBS) – is an application provided transactional functionality, operational control, and actionable customer information, including a complete set of teller and supervisor transactions and a full set of support service. Application also supports credit cards, personal and auto loans processing.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Involved in entire Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), in analyzing the Business Requirements Document (BRD) and Functional Requirements Document (FRD), to understand the application.

Performed Functional testing, Regression testing, and Negative testing, Smoke, End-to-End, and Ad-hoc testing on modifications of production releases.

Involved in writing Test Scenarios and Test Cases for the application after analyzing the requirements.

Used HP ALM Quality to organize and manage all phases of software testing process, including planning test, executing tests, logging, and tracking defects and creating Test Analysis Report.

Wrote SQL queries to validate updates, inserts and deletions from multiple database tables and to verify the output Data of the reports.

Successfully used UNIX commands to monitor log files and search patterns.

Tested cross browser functionality of browser as well as: Internet Explorer, Safari and Fire Fox.

Involved in User Acceptance Testing and Usability Testing.

Reported bugs using JIRA to ensure defect resolution and tracked the defect until closure and generated Test Analysis Report (TAR).

Provided a weekly status to the QA lead, which will include status of projects, statistics, severity of issues, estimated timelines.

Provided feedback to projects team on the current status of the modification and improvements being tested.

Working closely with Business Analyst, and Project Managers to discuss and analyze business requirements.

EDUCATION:

South - West State University, Bachelor of Economics Kursk, Russia

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