LIANA ISKANDAROV

Phone: +1-917-***-**** Email: adwuol@r.postjobfree.com

Location: Philadelphia, PA

Solid 6 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance Testing with diversified skills in Manual and Automation Testing. Full understanding and hands-on experience in advanced testing methodologies: Waterfall as well as Agile and the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) for Client/Server and Web Based applications in the field of Finance, Health and E-Commerce. Seeking a challenging position as a Software Test Engineer/Software Quality Assurance Tester.

Skills:

6+ years of solid experience as QA Manual and Automation Engineer

Extensive experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Competent in Agile and Waterfall methodologies

Actively Participated and presented in variety of agile ceremonies such as: Daily Scrum/DailyStandUp, Sprint Planning, Product Backlog refinement, Spring review, Spring retrospective

Have full understanding on Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) process.

Excellent in test strategy preparation, test development, test case creation, and test execution

Experience in Trade Order Management System and Trade Life Cycle

Hands-on experience in performing GUI, Smoke, Functional, and System Testing including Back-end, Regression, End-to-End Testing and ETL testing.

Experience in logging defects, prioritizing them, re-testing fixed defects and tracking them until they are fixed using Bug Tracking tool Azure.

Experience in writing SQL queries and UNIX commands for Back-end testing and data reconciliation

Full comprehension of Financial Instruments, Capital Markets (Equities, Fixed Income)

Experienced in Order Management Systems (OMS) and Electronic Trading Applications.

Knowledge of FIX Protocol, ability to read FIX messages by extracting FIX Logs using Linux Terminal and analyzing different tag combinations.

Experienced in using VeriFIX tool in order to perform E2E testing of trades and running automated scripts.

Participation in root cause analysis for defects and provided process improvement suggestions to eliminate future occurrences of similar defects.

Ability to document and communicate the status of the testing progress against plans, taking corrective action and escalating as necessary.

Experience in close interaction with business analysts and project managers to discuss and analyze complicated business requirements for upcoming system enhancements and modification requests.

Great communication, presentation and public speaking skills.

Black box and White box testing

WI-FI testing

Technical Skills:

Languages

SQL, Java, Gherkin, HTML/CSS

Databases

MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle

Automation Testing tools

Selenium, TestNG, Git, GitHub, WebDriver

ALM and Bug tracking tools

HP ALM/QC, Jira, Zephyr on Jira, Azure

Data exchange

JSON, FIX Protocol, VeriFIX

Professional Experience:

United BioSource Blue Bell, Pennsylvania

Quality Assurance Analyst 02/2022 – present

REMS (Risk evaluation and Mitigation Strategy) is a drug safety program that the FDA can require for certain medications with serious safety concerns to help ensure the benefits of the medication outweigh its risks.

Responsibilities:

Review all functional requirements and specifications documentation for clarity, completeness and testability

Perform GUI, Smoke, Functional, Back-End, End-to-End and Regression testing across the platform.

Identified, analyzed, and documented defects, questionable functions, errors, and inconsistencies in firmware and application functions, outputs, online screens, and content

Created Daily Reports to track the number of test cases executed, the type and the results.

Submitted defects and created custom-reports using Azure.

Report issues and bugs in Azure with all details and steps, and maintain them until resolved

Develop detailed Test Plan, Test Case Documents based on the BRD.

Worked on SQL queries in checking the validity of the Back-end

Mick Radio Nuclear Instruments 11/2019– 11/2021

Automation QA Tester New York, NY

Mick Radio Nuclear project is a web application that allows customers to access and request information about the products and participate in treatment trials.

Responsibilities:

Involved in entire Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Trading Life Cycle (TLC) verification

Develop detailed Test Plan, Test Case Documents based on the BRD.

Coordinate in the preparation of Test Strategy and Test Plan for the application after careful analysis of requirements and specifications

Develop and Maintained automated Regression Test Cases in Selenium WebDriver using Java Programming Language

Report issues and bugs in Jira with all details and steps, and maintain them until resolved

Wrote complex SQL queries to fetch data from database for Back-end Testing purpose

Wrote Cucumber feature files as a part of Behavioral Driven Development (BDD) process using IntelliJ

IDEA and Gherkin syntax

Run automation test suites using Jenkins CI/CD system

Maintained the Automation scripts in version control source tools Git, GitHub

TARGET Corp Minneapolis, MN

Quality Assurance Analyst 11/2017 – 11/2019

Red Card project is a benefit and discount program where customers can use their Target Debit Card, Credit Card or Mastercard (each, a “Red Card”) at Target stores or Target.com, they will receive 5% off their purchases and other benefits.

Responsibilities:

Reviewed and interpreted System Documentation and Business Requirements

Reviewing the requirements and coming up with detailed test cases to cover all the phases.

Participated in Agile/Scrum ceremonies: Daily meeting, Sprint Review meetings, Iteration Planning and more

Wrote SQL queries for Back-End testing and data reconciliation

Responsible for conducting UAT review sessions for test case design and test execution summary

Prepared and executed manual test scripts and cases

Maintained the Automation scripts in version control source tools Git, GitHub

Used defect tracking tool JIRA for defect processing and quality control procedures

Pioneered Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to keep track of the requirements and the test cases.

E-Trade Pro New York, NY

Junior QA Tester 10/2016 – 10/2017

E – Trade Pro is a web-based financial platform that allows investors to invest in different types of financial assets such as, Stocks, options, futures.

Responsibilities:

Member of Agile/Scrum quality assurance team focused on Equity trading

Involved in all Phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) as well as Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC)

Prepared Test Plan and Test Cases based on the business and functional specifications

Reviewed and Implemented Business Requirement Document (BRD)

Reviewed the test cases written for Unit and Integration level

Analyzed test specifications and converted them into Test Cases

Experienced working on Issue by tracking bugs using HP ALM

Attended weekly Status Meetings, Discussed and interacted with team members in a daily basis

Worked on SQL queries in checking the validity of the Back-end

Extract FIX Logs using Linux Terminal; analyze the values with and without FIX translator. Conducted verification of FIX messages and simulating OMS/EMS side with VeriFIX

Performed complete End-to-End (E2E) testing of the entire trade by following Trade Life Cycle. Verified Pre-Trade Actual Trade and Post-Trade steps against the test data and required scenarios. Test FIX messages like New Order Single, Executions Reports, Cancel/Replace Requests, Reject. Test Post-trade messages including Allocation and Allocation Acknowledgement

Intensively work with SQL to write queries for Backend testing in order to verify data

Extensively use VeriFIX to perform End-to-End testing of a Trade Lifecycle as well as utilizing VeriFIX to create automated and/or bulk orders; and have various scenarios for different asset types and many combinations of the FIX messages for Pre-trade, Trade and Post trade stages.

Education:

Taraz Innovative-Humanitarian University, Kazakhstan, Taraz

Bachelor of Economics and Business

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