NEELIMA VARAKANTHAM

** ********** **,

Robbinsville, NJ -08691

503-***-**** (M)

609-***-**** (H)

adxu89@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Over 6+ years of experience with 3+ years as a lead in the field of Quality Assurance in area of Financial Industry.

Results-oriented software professional with hands-on expertise as Software QA and Project Management.

Expertise in handling multiple projects at the same time and willingness to take new responsibilities and challenges.

Lead QA team and worked with offshore/onshore model.

Unsurpassed teamwork skills - interacted and resolved issues with developers, QA team members, user communities, project managers to ensure high quality software.

Excellent analytical, problem solving, and communication skills with an extremely short learning curve in adapting to new technologies and tools

Experienced in planning, coordinating and performing (UAT) User Acceptance Testing, Black box testing, Functionality Testing, Integration, Regression Testing and Load Testing on large-scale applications.

Involved in all the phases of SDLC and Quality Assurance using ISO standards.

Have thorough knowledge in database testing with skills in SQL, PL/SQL and ISQL databases like Oracle and Sybase and also experienced in UNIX and Perl scripting.

Strong skills in designing test plans, test cases, test scripts, traceability matrix and test reports.

A team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Expertise in both Manual Testing and Automated Testing

Worked extensively in Client/Server and Web based environments.

COMPETENCIES

Project Management Process improvements for end-users

Strategic and tactical solutions Multi-tasking and Time Management

Strong sense of ownership Onshore Offshore vendor relationships

Main Skill Area

Manual Testing, Quality Center, QTP 9.0, Win Runner 9.2, Oracle PL/SQL, Sybase, Rational ClearQuest, Load Runner 7.5, JIRA, Eggplant, Cucumber, Gherkin Language, TypeScript, Testing Anywhere, Automation Script Writer and VERIFIX 6.1/ETP.

Operating Systems

UNIX Sun Solaris, Windows XP/NT/2000/98/95 & DOS.

Databases

Oracle 8i, MS Access, Rapid SQL, SQL Server 2000, Sybase Version 12.5.

Software Tools/Packages

MS-Office, MS Visio, LabView and Matlab 6.0, DB-Artisan, Rapid SQL., Qlik Sense.

Professional Experience

Bloomberg L.P August 2020 – Current

Role : Tradebook QA/Product Analyst

Team Size : 16

Environment : Bloomberg FX/Equities/Futures tradebook applications, Bloomberg Terminal, UNIX, C++, ASW, Cucumber, TypeScript and Verifix/ETP for fix testing.

Bloomberg Tradebook® is a leading global agency broker that provides anonymous direct market access (DMA)

and algorithmic trading to more than 125 global liquidity venues across 43 countries. With unique tools and

unrivaled standards of execution, we seek new ways to deliver value to both the buy side and sell side.

Anonymous trading in 48 currency pairs with one counterparty and one average price ticket.

Analytics Integration — leverage powerful Bloomberg analytics; trade from key functionality with ease.

Straight-Through Processing — seamlessly connects our platform to your current workflow and back-office

Solutions.

Primary responsibility for quality of Tradebook product for enhancements, bug fixes or new functionality being implemented specifically Futures platform.

As a tradebook QA, I worked on FX/Equities platform and currently moved on to Futures support.

Highly involved in testing regulatory requirements especially Mifid changes.

Responsible for planning, executing and reporting on metrics of performance and conformance testing needed for regulatory purposes.

Involved in heavy communication and negotiation with internal clients (Business and R&D) in agreeing on QA process and methodology of testing procedures to have product deliverables and timelines to meet client’s expectation.

Took ownership of ASW automation script maintenance, enhancements and future plans for increasing the depth and breadth of functionality coverage for ECN.

Always on a look in generating capacity for self and team.

Works as a liaison between business and R&D by proactively identifying gaps in requirements to implementation.

Diligent in following and enforcing agreed SLA’s, process to ensure smooth execution and clear expectations.

Responsible for testing functionality, regression, integration testing including weekly moves and heavily known for multi-tasking.

Active participant in Bloomberg communities contributing to Bloomberg D&I initiative, as well to increase network and fine tune project management/time management skills.

With small tenor in tradebook, I have been entrusted to check on production sanity checks and known for being proactive and quick learner.

Have been actively involved in interacting with cross department for bringing in best practices and to initiate cross training sessions.

Took initiative in learning QlickSense and created metrics that is used in reporting team defect metrics to upper management.

Currently involved in automation effort using Cucumber and expanding test set in gherkin language.

Bloomberg L.P April 2018 – August 2020

Role : QA/Product Analyst

Team Size : 16

Environment : B-Pipe, Bloomberg Terminal, UNIX, C++, Quality Center.

Bloomberg L.P is one of the major product development companies, which provides products to collect and distribute Market data (From exchanges, contributors) in a consistent format that their clients (mainly financial companies) across world needed for trading and other financial services. The EPS QA group mainly focuses on testing functionality of product named B-Pipe, BPod, Platform which provides real time data with minimum latency. The group uses multiple different tools developed for internal use to verify the quality and accuracy of the real time data.

Back up for QA Lead, responsible for assigning projects and managing workload across all team members.

Highly involved and responsible for setting new procedures and processes to benefit the team in order to set high industry standards.

Actively participate in project scope and analysis, weekly meetings for package or patch moves.

Responsible to performing research and follow up with FA’s, R&D and data analyst’s teams to collect the project requirement.

Support product, release management teams to analyze and understand issues and help them resolve for the clients.

Highly responsible and known for getting things done on time, within schedule and high quality.

Responsible for writing test plan and getting it approved from FA’s and R&D.

Analyze and find the route causes of issues before logging them by analyzing market data.

Incorporate config changes to comparison tools (used by QA and R&D) that monitor/compare data on Beta environment against production.

Automated test cases using shell scripts to reduce turnaround time especially required during emergency patches and to incorporate into regression suite.

Responsible for updating dashboard with project details that are being communicated on weekly basis to end clients.

Develop and enhance QA book (documentation) that describes the product functionality and QA process and testing steps.

Responsible for identifying and filling gaps in testing process and procedures to better support the clients.

Accounted to manage and work on multiple projects in parallel.

Merrill Lynch April 2014 – March 2018

Role : QA Lead (AVP, Applications QA Manager-CaptMkt)

Team Size : 8

Environment : Java, .NET, C#, Quality Center, JIRA, Win Runner, Rational Robot,

QTP, Rapid SQL, UNIX and DB-Artisan.

Market Risk is an integral part of Merrill Lynch's core business activities managing the firm’s risk exposure, including market, credit, liquidity, operational and other risk. The group mainly focuses on the potential impact of fluctuations in interest rates, exchange rates, equity and commodity prices, credit spreads, and other systematic risks. Market Risk Group uses a variety of quantitative methods to calculate the sensitivities of the firm’s current portfolios to changes in market variables, and derives a number of useful statistics, including Value-at-Risk (VaR), the estimated amount that our current portfolios could loose with a specified degree of confidence over a given time interval.

Worked closely with developers, managers and support team to ensure high quality and timely releases.

Responsibility for setting up standards and procedures within the group.

Developed business contingent process to ensure production stability.

Managed team members on a day-to-day basis, helping them resolve the issues faced.

Schedule and assign tasks for both onshore and offshore team members having high visibility for three months using MS Project.

Review test cases to identify high-risk areas system and ensure appropriate test cases for integration of all applications are being developed.

Actively participated in enhancement meetings focused on current and upcoming projects coming into QA cycle to better understand and come up with scenarios ahead of time.

Conducted weekly team meeting to provide guidance and discuss best test scenarios with team members.

Attend meetings and walkthroughs on functional specification, test strategy/test plans with cross team leads.

Analyze and find the route causes looking into logs.

Extensively used Quality Center both as an admin and as a tester.

Documented test execution results and prepared test reports.

Maintain QA servers and environments.

Written shell and Perl scripts to manage redundant work.

Schedule and discuss risks involved with scheduled releases in bug review meetings.

Implement new test cases and update existing test cases in QC based on the release notes for each version.

Performed Functionality testing, Positive/Negative testing, Back-End testing, Regression testing, Integration testing during different stages of the application development.

Used JIRA as a bug tracking tool.

Worked as an admin for JIRA tool, responsible for creating and maintaining user groups and permissions.

Used SQL queries to verify and validate business functionality and also to verify results obtained on front end using tools like DBArtisan and RapidSQL.

Reviewed and executed automated scripts using Winrunner, Rational Robot and Quick Test Pro.

Used excel for analytical calculations to verify VaR values computed based on business logic.

Used Excel and ExcelDiff for comparing the data worksheets.

PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY January 2002 to August 2005

Client : Portland State University

Role : Research Assistant

Environment : C, Assembly Language, SQL and HTML, VHDL, Cadence, ADS/TekSpice,

ModelSim, Leonardo tool, Visual HDL

Project was to perform a research on delay faults and delay fault models. Reading IEEE papers tat describes about delay faults, the problems we face due to them and different delay fault models to come with best method to test the delay faults in a given circuit.

PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY May 2001 to December 2001

Client : Portland State University

Role : IC testing coordinator

Environment : Credence Systems Quartet ATE

Conducted Credence Quartet Training class for IC Testing, Digital IC and Mixed Signal Designs. Responsible for conducting, scheduling lab sessions and clarifying the questions for students for experiments in Quartet ATE.

ELECTRONIC CORPORATION OF INDIA LTD. December 99 to February 2000

Client : Electronics Corporation of India Limited, ECIL

Role : Intern

Environment : C++

Checking the design made for automatic vehicle counting and classification system using inductors from remote area depending on the results obtained with implementation of the design using C++.

EDUCATION

1.Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering, University of Madras, Chennai, India.

2.Completed training for Java, java script languages, APTECH, India

3.Master’s in electrical and Computer Engineering at Portland State University, Portland, Oregon.

4.PMP training completed – Pending to get certified.

Other Interests and Achievements:

1. Compeer participation in marketing, organizing computer quizzes & essay writing.

2. Organized and took part in Inter Collegiate Cultural activities & Sports.

3. Won the overall Championship in sports for women category for the year 1999-2000 in my under-graduation.

4. Scrum master certified.

5. PMP training completed (Exam pending)

Relevant Work Experience and Additional Training’s Attended:

1.Credence Quartet Training for IC Testing for Digital IC and Mixed Signal Designs.

2.Worked as a Web developer to upload the news using HTML for a non-profit organization in Portland State University.

Graduate Research:

1. Built in self-test methods in Computer Architecture.

2. Study about Delay faults and their different fault models to find delay faults in a given circuit efficiently.

3. Study of methods for detecting different types of faults (Mainly stuck-at-0/1 faults) and methods of improving the yield of chips.

4. Study of stack vias and advantages of them.

5. Written a paper about the improvement in Wireless Communication.

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