Test Analyst

Bezhan Mukhammad

Email: *********@*****.***

Cell: 917-***-****

Quality Assurance Analyst with over six years of experience in financial industry and software product development environment, deep understanding of the software testing life cycle including Planning, designing, implementing, testing, document and identifying defects on technical specifications or business workflow.

Expertise in all phase of Agile and Waterfall methodologies and working experience in Financial Industries

Strong experience delivering software testing in an Agile-Scrum development environment.

Detail-oriented in Developing and executing test plans and test cases and influence decisions on testing approaches and test automation strategies.

Excellent analytical skills on reviewing and analyzing user stories, acceptance criteria and specifications in order to develop test cases.

Define individual test cases for GUI, Smoke, Sanity, Functional, Back-End, End-to-End and Regression Test scenarios and validate acceptance criteria to provide requirements coverage.

Contribute to a library of reusable test plans, test cases and test scripts for future projects / enhancements.

Understand the business issues and technology challenges of the organization and its customers.

Strong experience in Web services API Testing

Report meaningful and detailed bugs to development teams through JIRA or HP ALM.

Execute test cases/scripts, including Systems Integration, Regression, and Performance testing

Worked with the QA team in developing a QA testing strategy for the project, determining the appropriate manual and automation testing including UI, web service API and functional testing.

Strong experience in performing the Load/Performance testing using VERIFIX or HP Load Runner

Created and submitted Test Analysis Report including the status of test cases, defect reporting with analysis.

Good experience developing and reviewing Requirement Traceability Matrix.

Comfortable in handling Automated regression tests and troubleshoot the issues, identify the root cause of failed tests, create expected results and maintain test data for manual and automated tests.

Expert in Capital Market and Financial Instruments: Equities, ETF, Derivatives, Bonds and Fixed Income

Excellent knowledge in FIX Protocol, XML, Electronic Trading

Great Experience on Production Support Level 2

Have good technical skills to fix technical issues escalated from Production Support level 1

Excellent knowledge of Trade Life Cycle (TLC), Order Management System (OMS)

Well experience in using Linux Terminal to extract FIX Logs for fix message testing

Good experience in using SQL queries to extract with database for performing backend testing

Used VeriFIX to create test to simulate exchanges and run automated scripts for bulk order staging on number of asses classes, reporting fields, application defaults and compliance rules.

Strong attitude for learning new technologies and concepts

Good communication with developers on and business team clients on specific application issues

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: JIRA (Kanban, Zephyr), HP Quality Center / HP ALM, HP QTP / HP UFT, VeriFIX

Database: MS SQL Server, ORACLE, MYSQL

Languages: Java, HTML, VB Script, Python, HTML/CSS

Operating Systems: Unix/Linux, Mac OSX, Windows

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Fidelity Investments

QA Analyst Jersey City, NJ February 2017 – Present

Active Trader Pro is a dynamic trading platform that provides customizable tools to trade, track the market, see the latest financial news, monitor the portfolio, and more. Fidelity manages equity, fixed income, and mutual funds. Also the platform allows traders or investors to trade Options, Futures and ETF’s. The platform includes the advanced functionalities and features such as different Order types and TIF’s, which makes trading efficient and reliable.

Responsibilities:

Member of Agile-Scrum QA team worked on equity trading of Active Trader Pro.

Analyze business requirements, prepare test plans and test cases to validate the functionality being built

Participate in daily and weekly team meetings and discuss Enhancement and Modification requests

Locating defects and collaborating with developers to resolve technical issues

Create and execute Test Scenario, Manual Test Cases and Automated test scripts in HP ALM.

Perform Manual Testing for testing functionality and GUI of the application

Create Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to make sure that all requirements are covered with test cases

Had a JIRA bug tracker tool for Bug Life Cycle

Expertise on Soap UI for Web services API Testing

Organized and Perform Smoke, Negative, Positive, GUI, End to End, Backend, Integration and Regression testing

Prioritize test cases by business impact, critical and frequently used functionalities for Regression testing

Execute End to End testing and Regression testing on Equity, Options and FX trading

Experience in performing the Load/Performance testing using HP Load Runner

Manually perform Functionality testing of trading stocks, ETF and Equity Options.

Participated in Production Support as a Subject Matter Expert (SME)

Review test cases and other testing artifacts to ensure the accuracy and completeness of all testing materials

Execute Functional, End to End and Performance testing of electronic trading system via VeriFIX

Tested the GUI of the Active Trader Pro application based on requirements

Tested Trade Order Management Systems: trade capturing, processing, matching, settlement and notification

Retrieve FIX Logs using Linux Terminal, and analyze FIX message (tags and values) with and without FIX translator

Widely used VeriFIX to perform End to End testing, and conduct Performance/Volume testing with FIX messages

Create SQL queries for Back-End testing to verify UI tables, transactional functionalities and filters.

Use HP UFT to handle automated regression scripts for scheduled Regression validations.

Conduct knowledge transfer session for the new team members on Business requirements and system workflow.

TradeWeb

Application Test Analyst Jersey City, NJ June 2015 - January 2017

Trader Web Bonds: it is an electronic platform which allows investments and industry professionals to efficiently monitor price change and trades of corporate bonds and other types of fixed income instruments.

Responsibilities:

Analyzed business requirements, prepare test plan and test cases based upon Product specification

Wrote test cases, executed test cases using ALM and logged defects using JIRA

Used Excel to write test cases, executed test cases using ALM, mapped to Requirements

Created tickets for found bugs, used JIRA defect tracking tool

Wrote detailed recreation steps of found defect to easy job for development team

Used HP ALM to organize and manage all phase of the software testing process, including test planning, executing tests, tracking defects and creating Test Analysis Report (TAR)

Verified data matching, data cleansing process of ETL and validated the reports and tables generated.

Analyzed and monitored the proper integration of Market data into the system

Created SQL queries for Joins, sub-queries and clauses for Back-End testing and data matching

Simulated different level of user access to assure that user receives data based on their status

Investigated issues and provided suggestive solutions to the QA supervisor to correct issues

Parameterized the test scripts to run with different sets of data

Worked closely with Developers, Business Analyst and other stakeholders involved in project development.

Escalated arising risks to the Business Analyst and Project Manager to avoid project delay

Consulted and helped with knowledge transfer to new team members

Investigated issues and provided suggestive solution to the QA Lead to fixed the issues

Wells Fargo

Quality Assurance Analyst New York, NY November 2013 –May 2015

This is a Web application which was developed for allowing account holders to perform online transactions like pay bills, personal accounts, transfer of funds and balance enquiry. The applications have deployment release and the QA team is involved in the release note validation and regression validation of the End-to-End scenarios.

Responsibilities:

Involved in analyzing the Business Requirements and Functional Specification documents.

Designed and executed of Test Plan, Test Case Execution, reviewing test cases in QA environment.

Involved in Backend testing for Database integrity by executing SQL queries for validating the data in the Backend database tables

Worked in Agile and Waterfall methodologies depending on the projects assigned.

Created baseline test scenarios, Loan scenarios for loan seeding efforts

Used JIRA tool for trucking bug and create tickets for founded bugs

Exposure to all aspects of Software development, Troubleshooting, testing and Maintenance

Validate XML data feed and mapped to business values

Involved in creating Requirement Traceability Matrix to ensure comprehensive test coverage of requirements

Wrote SQL queries, stored procedures and triggers using SQL Server, tested SQL stored procedures and triggers and indexes for various database operations.

Execute Automated regression suites with Selenium WebDriver scripts.

Conducted UAT and reported Defects to Developers

Performed GUI and functionality testing of the web application on Windows and UNIX/LINUX

Facilitate knowledge transfer to team and Coordinating with the team for fixing the issues

EDUCATION:

BS in Computer Information Systems Tajik National University Dushanbe, Tajikistan

Certificate in Computer Programming and Application New York Institute of English and Business New York, USA

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