Sam Otun

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●6+ years of experience in the field of Software Quality Assurance Testing with diversified skills in Testing Financial Softwares

●Professional understanding and experience in Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Software Development Life Cycle (Agile and Waterfall methodology) for Client/Server and Web-based applications

●Experienced in Logging, tracking, and validating resolution of identified defects

●Deep knowledge of various types of testing i.e. Smoke, Regression, Functional, End-to-End, System, ETL and Back-End Testing

●Solid Experience in writing Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) and Test Analysis Reports (TAR)

●Solid expertise automating Test Cases in Selenium using Java, Maven, Cucumber (with Gherkin), Selenium WebDriver, JUnit, and TestNG.

●Experienced in API Testing using REST API for Automation and POSTMAN for Manual Testing and database testing by using SQL queries and JDBC for Back-end Testing.

●Worked with Continuous Integration / Continuous Development (CI/CD) using technologies like Maven, Jenkins, and Git to automate smoke tests.

●Extensively used SQL queries and UNIX commands for data verification and back-end testing

●Expert in defect tracking and test management tools like JIRA, HP ALM, BugZilla

●Enjoy working collaboratively with partners and other team members in working on complex projects and in the overall enhancement of the process

●Dedicated, self-motivated, result-oriented individual with excellent problem-solving and analytical skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages:

Java, HTML, SQL, Gherkin

Testing Tools:

Selenium WebDriver, Restful API, Postman, Maven, Gradle, Jmeter

Test Management Tools:

Jira, QC ALM, Q Test, Bugzilla

Databases:

Oracle, MySQL

Testing Frameworks:

Serenity (BDD), Page Object Model (POM), JUnit, TestNG

IDEs:

IntelliJ, Eclipse

Repository Systems:

Git, GitHub

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Edward Jones Investments St. Louis, MO

Sr.QA Analyst Sep 2021-Present

FITS – Fixed Income Trading System is a Web-Based application backed Bloomberg Trading order Manager which provides Branches and Headquarter of Edward Jones Financial services as Broker Dealer products as Treasury, Agency, Munic, Corporate, CD’s, MBS and CMO ( Trading Bonds)

●Created and maintained Smoke, Functional, and Regression Test Scripts, using Selenium WebDriver, Java, and Serenity BDD Framework based on Page Object Model (POM) for Web-Based Applications.

●Used Jenkins for CI/CD purpose.

●Designed Manual and Automated Tests, created Test Plans, automated Test Cases and executed automation tests using Selenium.

●Created Serenity HTML Report with detailed test steps and screenshots.

●Involved in extensive data validation using SQL queries, JDBC and back-end testing in Oracle SQL Developer DBs.

●Experienced Non-Functional Performance based Testing JMeter, LoadRunner

●Performed API Testing using POSTMAN for manual and RESTful API for automation.

●Collaborated in Git as Version-Control System for tracking changes/collaboration and Jira for project management purposes.

●Participated in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle in an Agile/Scrum environment to maintain quality development of the Sprint deliverables.

●Excellent time management skills.

●Tested Trade Capture, Trade Process, Trade Confirmation/Matching, and Trade Settlement/ Notification functionalities Full knowledge of Financial products and Capital Markets including Fixed Income and Foreign Exchange.

●Experienced in testing Trading applications and used different FIX Protocol message types like Administration and Application messages.

●Performed verified Financial file delivery methods as FTP,SFTP,API,FEED messages

●Carried out testing of full trade life cycle of bond trading from initiation on the UI and ending on Trade Blotter

●Attended onsite/off-shore team member reviews and meetings, teleconferences

Royal Bank of Scotland Stamford, CT

Sr.QA analyst Aug 2019 – Aug 2021

MATES - Multi-Asset Trading Execution System is a web-based Brokerage application which provides customers of RBS Bank various financial services like Brokerage Services (trading stocks), Mutual Funds (scanning and exchanging Mutual Funds), Fixed Income Investments (Bonds, CDs, Municipal and Government securities, and etc.)

●Reviewed and analyzed Business Requirement Document and wrote Test Plans and Test Cases for various functional modules of the application

●Tested Trade Capture, Trade Process, Trade Confirmation/Matching, and Trade Settlement/ Notification functionalities Full knowledge of Financial products and Capital Markets including Fixed Income and Foreign Exchange.

●Extensively worked with Trade Order Management Systems (TOMS) for testing the Trade Capturing, Processing, Confirmation/Matching;

●Excellent understanding of Capital Market, Financial Institutions, Exchange Markets, Asset Management, Mutual Fund, bond, ETF, Swaps, Options trading and collateralized debt obligation

●Experienced in testing Trading applications and used different FIX Protocol message types like Administration and Application messages.

●Developed Test Scenarios by using Boundary Value Analysis and Positive & Negative conditions

●Provided developer teams with detailed reports on quality metrics, identified bugs

●Participated in review meetings and walkthroughs throughout the completion of projects

●Performed different types of Testing under Agile Methodology: Functional Testing, System Integration Testing, Backend Testing, End-to-End Testing, and Regression Testing

●Wrote SQL statements to extract data from tables and verified the output data of the reports

●Successfully used UNIX commands for data verification

●Established workflows and customized JIRA for managing project-related issues and processes

●Utilized companies other products to learn about trading application architecture

TD Ameritrade Jersey City, NJ

QA Engineer Sep 2016 - June 2019

Veo One – is a comprehensive trading and analytical platform offered by TD Ameritrade. The platform allows self-directed investors and traders to find trading opportunities, analyze those opportunities in many ways and then proceed to placing trades. Application allows users to analyze and trade stocks, options, bonds and mutual funds in one comprehensive trading platform.

●Member of Agile/Scrum QA team focused on equity and FX trading

●Worked closely with Business Analysts, and Project Managers to discuss and analyze business requirements

●Developed estimation, test plans to outline the scope, analysis, approach, resources, schedule of testing as well as writing test cases, test execution, and test completion report

●Manually tested Functionality of trading stock and FX

●Executed Functional, Regression, System and Integration testing of the application

●Tested the GUI of the TOS application based on requirements

●Used JIRA to organize and manage all phases of the software testing process, including planning tests, writing test cases, executing tests, logging defects, tracking defects and creating Test Analysis Report (TAR)

●Performed problem solving and root cause analysis when defects occur

●Interacted with business analysts and developers to resolve software related defects issues

●Used SQL to write queries for Back-End testing to verify data

●Involved in selecting the test cases to be automated as Selenium, Cucumber BDD framework

●Participated in daily (SCRUM) and weekly team meetings and discussed Enhancement and Modification requests

●Helped other team members to improve testing process

EDUCATION:

Bachelor’s degree with major in Engineering from ITU University

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