Test Lead Engineer

Objectives

Result-driven Test Lead/ QA with over 6 years of expertise in Fintech, Airline and Auto auction industries. An observer with an analytical mind who is passionate about delivering quality product for complex issues on time while bringing positive energy to the team. Believes in Mutualism where each person grows together and learns from each other.

Experience

Refinitiv, Dallas TX, November 2014 – June 2020

Test Lead Engineer, October 2018 – June 2020

Responsibilities:

Build, manage, and inspire the teams of 3-8 onsite and offsite QA team for complex Fintech system.

Focus on removing costs, continuous improvement, removing inefficiencies and complexity to deliver quality product.

SME of REDI and Eikon different components which helped the QA team to unblock any issues faced during testing.

Developed test strategy and test plans using Confluence and communicates strategy to business and developers to describe program evaluation, testing and correction.

Hired QA by interviewing QA from domestic to international locations.

Represented the QA team at status and technical meetings, for all applicable projects.

Performed analysis to document the problems faced and recommending solutions to teams to resolve the problems in Gnatt, Sprint Retrospective.

Worked with QA team to run REDI and Eikon application regression, track bugs using JIRA and Test Rail.

Knowledge transferred and trained QA team of 8 to 10 using WebEx, MS teams, Confluence so that they can work independently work in fast paced changing environment.

Individually tested REDI Eikon integration testing, live server migration testing in production environment and raising ticket using SNOW.

Worked with CI tools/DevOps using Jenkins, GIT, Kubernetes to deploy project QA, troubleshoot production issues, support code installs during deployment.

Tested Webservice application using REST/JSON, JSON parsing in SOAPUI.

Used Fiddler, Websocket, Web chrome tool to debug JavaScript middle tier layer Eikon and REDI applications.

Involved in querying using SQL and updating records and validate database records as expected.

Good command on UNIX, Python, bash scripting languages.

Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer, January 2014 – September 2018

Responsibilities:

Created and maintained ownership of test cases and test results throughout SDLC.

Performed Functional, System, Smoke, Integration, Regression, UAT, Compatibility, Back end testing, Performance, Web Service, API testing for various REDIPlus and Eikon application.

Independently analyzing issues, troubleshooting, recommending software changes and writing detailed bug reports using JIRA, Test Rail.

Expertise in testing Buy and Sell side trading, single stock, Portfolio trading, Spread trading, Option, Future trading, International Market data for Equities, Option, Option on Future, Spreads, Option Spreads, Futures, Bonds, FX rate and Cross Currency.

Command on different tools (JIRA, Test Rail, Confluence, SQL Server, Aqua data Studio, Excel API, Postman, OpenFin (HTML5), Putty, Github, Watchdog, AWS) for testing.

Attended walkthrough and daily scrum meetings with delivery manager, project manager, project owner, developers and testers.

Knowledge Transfer to other QA teams by organizing weekly meeting, sharing information using Confluence page, recordings, MS teams.

Created test cases based on Cucumber scripts.

Tested HTML5 windows that communicate over an OpenFin and Eikon client side bus.

Run Performance testing for Spread Trader application using VBA and API to trade 5000 pair trading at one time.

Results delivered while working in Refinitiv are:

Tested spread trading product from initial launch including user centric GUI, trading agent logic and algorithm which on average trades $30 to $100 million per day.

Tested OAuth2, single sing on and MFA application for REDI/ Eikon integration testing.

Delivered testing for EMS application for equities, options, futures, market data new and enhanced versions to production which can support 200 brokers in more than 80 countries.

Worked with team of 40+ to integrate REDI EMS with Eikon the next generation financial markets desktop which helps to open and powerfully pre-trade capabilities.

Tested application in Production environment for server migration which include 8 to 10 projects team coordinating together using MS team, emails to deliver time constraint testing.

ADESA, Caramel IN, May 2012 – July 2012

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, May 2012 – July 2012

Responsibilities:

Analyzed Business Requirements, wrote test cases and generated test scripts.

Created detailed Test Plan and Test Cases using HP Quality Center.

Performed Integration testing, System testing, Functionality testing and data validation testing to ensure the quality of product is stable.

Executed Test Cases and verified Actual Results against Expected Results using Squirrel SQL and SOAPUI.

Used Vi editor to search, track and process logs.

Responsible for providing regular test reports to the management using MS-Excel.

Presentation of the QA Status report and the Defect Status reports in the weekly meeting.

Hewlett Packard, LA CA March 2011 – August 2011

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, March 2011 – August 2011

Responsibilities:

Analyzed business requirements and developed Test Plans, Test Cases and generated Test Scripts for both Positive and Negative testing using SOAPUI.

Executed tests based on provided test cases. Effectively use Rally to maintain and execute test scripts

Improved Code quality with PMD, CheckStyle and Find bugs tools.

Wrote JUnit Test Cases for different packages in order to increase the Code coverage in Sonar and deploying code to HUDSON on Linux Environment.

Document software product defects and tracked it to closure.

Education

Master’s in Business Administration, Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX, 2014.

Bachelors in Computer Information System, Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX, 2009.

Technical Skills

QA Testing Tools

SOAP UI, Postman, Excel API testing,, Intellij, Eclipse., Visual Studio 2008/2010

Operating System

Windows 7/XP/2000/8/10, UNIX, LINUX

Web Technologies

Java, .Net, HTML5, XML, DHTML, Web services, OpenFin, AWS, JSON, SOAP UI

Databases

MS Access, SQL Server 2000, Squirrel SQL, Aqua Data Studio 14.0.8, SYBASE, DBaever, MongoDB

Architecture

Client/Server, Multi-tier/Web based application

Methodology

Waterfall, Agile Scrum, Kanban, CI/CD

MS Office Suite

MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS PowerPoint

Test Management tools

Quality Center, Rally, JIRA, Zephyr, Test Rail, Confluence

Continuous Integration

GitHub, Git, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Watchdog

Communication tools

Hipchat, IM, Jabber, Slack, WebEx, Microsoft Team

Debugging tools

Fiddler, Watchdog, Chrome DEV tools

Programming language

JAVA, JavaScript, SQL, C, C++

Soft Skills

• Ability to make quick decisions, us prioritization skills and to concentrate on detailed information.

• Highly motivated with a strong willingness to learn and take on new challenges, develop.

• Knowledge and skills and apply these to new transactions and scenarios.

• A quick learner with strong financial and analytical skills.

• Strong team player and ability to integrate.

• Strong organizational skills and detail oriented.

• Ability to multi-task and to work well under pressure, strong problem-solving and decision-making skill

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