Qa Engineer Software Tester

Sarmast Davlatbekov

Objective Summary

Seeks a position which will utilize and enhance Equities, Fixed Income and Derivatives trading systems support and testing experience coupled with strong SQL, FIX and Linux/UNIX skills. Additional skills include:

Excellent knowledge and implementation skills in complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) in Agile Scrum and Waterfall methodologies for Desktop and Web based applications.

High proficiency accessing databases and performing Back-End Tests and data reconciliation using Structural Query Language (SQL) and Linux.

Profound experience working and raising defects (bugs and issues), tracing them until closure following Defect Life Cycle utilizing Atlassian tools (Jira Confluence).

Superb comprehension of testing Market order, Limit Order, Stop Order, Stop -Limit Order, Trailing Stop Order in variety of Time in Force (TIF) options.

Good knowledge of Trade Life Cycle (TLC), Order Management System (OMS) and well experienced in testing Trading Applications.

Hands on experience with FIX Protocol using UNIX to access FIX logs in order to perform Trade Validation.

Proficient with SQL queries and CSS

Experience in API testing using Postman. Worked with both REST and SOAP HTTP APIs and automating tests for API endpoints using HTTP Request and Rest Assured libraries.

Great team player and self-motivated individual that able to work in a fast paced demanding environment.

Technical Skills:

Languages: Java, JavaScript, SQL, HTML, Swift, CSS

Platforms: Windows, Unix/Linux, Mac OS

Testing Tools: Selenium WebDriver, WebDriver IO, Selenium Grid, Postman, Cucumber, VeriFIX, TestNG, JUnit.

Database: MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server

Professional Experience

Fidelity Investments, New York, NY September 2020 – January 2023

Analyst - Test and Support team

ActiveTradePro is robust trading and analytical platform offered by Fidelity Investments. The platform is an advanced Java-based software application and allows clients to take advantage of opportunities in global market which includes complex financial instruments.

Responsibilities:

Member of Agile/Scrum QA/Platform Support team focused on equity side.

Extracting FIX logs, analyzing logs by interpreting tags and values with and without FIX translator.

Proficient with SQL queries to perform backend testing, commonly used Joins and aggregating functions.

Reporting and tracking bugs and providing updates on resolved bugs using JIRA bug tracking system.

Identify, prioritize, and triage Bugs/Issues. Troubleshoot and resolve bugs/issues with engineering team (s).

Executing Functional, End-to-End and Performance testing via VeryFix to simulate Exchanges.

Perform Integration, End-to-End, Regression, Functionality, Performance and System testings.

Analyze, review Business Requirements Document (BRD), and Software Requirement Specifications (SRS).

Participate in daily (SCRUM) and weekly team meetings and discuss Enhancement and Modification requests.

Work closely with Business Analyst, and Project Managers to discuss and collect business requirements.

Developing estimation, test plans to outline the scope, analysis, approach, resources, schedule of testing as well as writing Test plan, Test cases/execution, and test completion report.

Full understanding of Pre-Trade/Actual trade/post-Trade life cycle for both sides of Capital Market.

Proficient with SQL queries to perform backend testing, commonly used Joins, and aggregating functions.

Implement automated regression testing reducing test cycles using Cucumber, Selenium, TestNG and Jenkins.

Profound experience in writing X-Path, Customize and CSS expressions to locate Web Elements.

Create and manage CI/CD pipeline in Jenkins to schedule jobs in different environments.

Involve in production releases and pilot test in production environment.

Options House, Jersey City, NJ April 2018-August 2020

QA Engineer/Application Support

Options House is E-Trade’s web-based trading, analytical platform designed to meet the needs of active traders and investors. It is a customizable trading platform that offers a variety of features. Using the Options House Platform, investors/traders can trade stocks, options, futures.

Responsibilities:

Member of the testing team and heavily involved in the whole stags of Software Development Life Cycle.

Actively participated in daily SCRUM and weekly meeting to discuss new enhancements and modification requests

Extensively tested application Fix messages such as acknowledgement, partially filled or full filled, cancel request and cancel replace request.

Detailed understanding of application architecture in order to identify quality issues related to design or distribution of application components.

Support applications in production. Note interruptions or bugs in operation and perform problem solving exercise to determine problem and ensure use of the application

Created and extensively used SQL queries for Back-End testing for inserting, updating and retrieving the data by verifying based on various conditions on the Specifications.

Participation in production support issues and recreating defects reported by the Client-support team.

Created automation test from scratch using JAVA, Selenium and Cucumber-based framework.

PNC Bank, Fairfax, VA February 2017-March 2018

Jr. Software tester

PNC Bank had developed a Web Application for online Banking and allowing their account holders to perform online transactions as: opening personal accounts, balance inquires and detailed transactions report, transfer of funds and paying bills.

Responsibilities:

Member of mixed Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

Reviewed Functional Requirement Specifications and created test cases based on test scenarios drawn

from functional requirements.

Developed weekly status reports to show the progress of testing process of the team.

Performed different types of functional testing (GUI, End-to-End, Transaction and Backend)

Created and Extensive used SQL queries for Back-End testing for inserting, updating and retrieving the data by verifying based on various conditions on the Specifications.

Closely collaborated with Business Analyst (BA) and Project Manager (PM) to ensure timely delivery of high quality product.

Identified, reported, and managed defects in defect tracking system HP ALM.

Continuously updated testing documentation.

Reviewed and analyzed the System Requirement Specification (SRS), System Functional Specification (FRS) and developed test and test cases documents.

Education

Russian-Tajik Slavonic University, 2010-2015

Master’s Degree in International Relations, Dushanbe, Tajikistan

Sam Houston State University 2016

High Honor - Global Ambassador, Huntsville, TX

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