Accounting/Financial/QA Analyst

Vic Ramdaney

**** ***** **** ****** # ***, Houston, TX 77054

Email:*********@*****.********* # 646-***-****

Summary

●Over 15+ years of experience in Finance/Accounting/BusinessAnalysis & Software QA Analyst in domains and in-depth understanding of the business process models.

●Strong Knowledge of Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivableand Bank and/or statement Reconciliation, Profit & Loss statement, Budget and Forecasting and relevant variance analysis. Payroll Processing - Weekly/Bi-Weekly-Monthly.

●Skilled in gathering and analyzing data, confirming accuracy of financials. Financial Planning and Analysis. Strong account reconciliation and research experience supported by extensive accounts receivable/payables background and daily cash management.

●Excellent problem identifier and solver with theability to work in a team environment or independently. Strong communication skills and effective listener with keen attention to details.● Intermediate to advance working skill of MS Excel.

●Analyst with hands-on experience in creating testscenarios based on business and functional documents (BRD/FSD and User Stories) and then scripting design/test steps. Running the test cases and creating Bug Reports including UAT reports on ALM, JIRA, and other reporting Defects/Bugs reports on Daily/Weekly/Monthly basis.

Experience:

Client : Fidelity Investment Boston, MA.(REMOTE) Software QA Analyst 01/ 2O2O – 10/ 2024 Responsibilities:

●Extensively involved in all stages of testing lifecycle, Software Development Life cycle (SDLC) using Waterfall, Agile methodologies.

●Developed Test cases for manual testing.

●Manually verified the validity of the failed testcases. Performed Positive, Negative, Black box testing and White Box Testing on the application.

●Prepared user manual and performed user acceptancetesting.

●Functional and Cross Browser Testing of DefinedBrowser Stack of the site experience.● Performed execution and logging defect in Quality Center and Verification of defects for System Testing

●Conducted Smoke testing, Functional testing, Regressiontesting, Integration testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Data validation testing and used JIRA as Bug tracking tool● Testing Data warehouse and Database applications for client.

●Designed, and implemented Data Driven FrameworkBy using UFT.

●Worked closely with the developers to resolve thedesign and development errors and to get the software released for system testing.

●Prepare Test Plan and Identify Test Cases

●Worked in Telecom Order Management and Life cycleincluding Provisioning and Service Activation.

●Prepare Quality Center for test execution and defectmanagement

●Test Data Management

●Test Execution

●Working as a manual tester for JIO dot com website.Have done the simulator testing in browser stack for different breakpoints like mobile, tablet and desktops

●Worked closely with Product Owners, Scrum master,Developers, Business Analysts and UI teams attended Vision calls and elaboration calls to understand the complete requirements for functional, integration and database testing.

●Attended release planning meeting, sprint planningmeeting, story sizing meeting, and retrospective meeting

Environment:Manual, HP Quality Center/ALM, Jira, UFT, QTP, Firebug, Putty, Oracle, UNIX, Windows, Version One, Browser stack, SQL Server, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Page Object Model, Postman, POM, Data Driven Framework, XPath, Web Services, Agile, Apache, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome. Wells Fargo Bank Charlotte, NC & Houston, TX Software QA Analyst March/2018 - August/2019

●Perform daily operational activities to facilitatethe management of Budget, Forecast and Operating expenses with strict adherence to department policies, standards and procedures.●Monitor and ensure compliance with System policies and standards as well as internal control processes.

●Build and maintain financial models to support internaldecision making for a variety of business initiatives.

●Develop and maintain various financial metrics usedto evaluate the feasibility of new investments.

●Prepared IT budget and updated monthly forecastfor computer hardware, software and maintenance expenses.

●Preparation and conduct of QA reviews and development/executionof test plans and test design steps. Maintaining consistent test methodology and resolving questions during the test process.● Analysis of test and perform ambiguity review of the business requirements and functional specifications documents.

●Logs, tracks and verification of software and specificationsdefects.

●Mapping of Business requirements with FunctionalRequirements documents.

●Attending daily/weekly Project meetings.

●Execution of test cases assigned with ALM as a trackingtool and reporting test defects on a daily/weekly basis. Use of ALM and JIRA as reporting tools.

●Attending several walkthrough meetings with ProjectManager, Business Analyst, Lead QA, Developers and provided QA related feedback.

●Worked with Waterfall and Agile/Scrum Testing methodologies.

●Elicit business requirements from stakeholders andend users. M3 Accounting & Analytics, Gainesville, GA, June 2015 –September2017 Financial Analyst/ QA Analyst

●M3 Accounting + Analytics offers cloud-based hospitalityindustry accounting, business intelligence, and Payroll solutions across all brands and independent hotels in the USA and Canada.●Their enterprise level solution allows franchisees access to their financial and operating information in real-time with User friendly reports. Projects: Accounting Core - Hospitality industry’s complete Accounting Software - Client-Server application Time Management - (RT -Time Management with Payroll Processing Link)

●Web-Based application Operations Management - (M3Link–Budget & Forecasting) Web- Based application.

●Assisted IT project managers with costs estimatesand financial modeling scenarios to weigh viability of new projects. Managed monthly chargebacks and facilitated IT expense allocation.● Manually test functionality of M3’s various web sites, web applications & Desktop applications.● Analyze and review Business and Product requirements, Technical and Functional specifications. Meeting with BA to understand, clarify and document the requirements.

●Provide analysis of spending levels with the goalof identifying ways to reduce costs and/or increase efficiency

●Collaborated with budget stakeholders to reviewmarketing metrics and campaigns effectiveness. Prepared forecast of expenses and tracked cost of marketing campaigns.

●Use the SPIRA team, TFS, & MSFT Test Manager JIRAtool to execute test cases on a daily basis.● Performed Functional testing, GUI testing, Lab testing, Regression testing, Backend testing, Positive testing, Negative testing and session-based exploratory testing.

●Performed data validation by using SQL Server ManagementSystem and developed SQL Queries to perform backend testing.

●Met with budget stakeholders on a monthly basis to discuss variances to forecast and budget priorities.

●Report daily work activities to QA Lead & QA Manager.

●Attend daily & weekly meetings and participate inretrospective meetings after every sprint NCR Corp, (North America - Retail Division), Duluth, GA September2014 – January2015 QA Analyst

NCR is a global technology company leading how the world connects, interacts and transacts with business. NCRs assisted- and self-service solutions and comprehensive support services address the needs of retail, financial, travel, healthcare, hospitality, entertainment, gaming and public sector organizations.

●Perform overall financial planning and analysisincluding budget oversight, cash management and long term strategic plans and approve cash outflows.

●Worked independently and as part of a professionalservices team for Point of Sales (POS) and Loyalty/Rewards systems.

●Prepare,monitorandanalyzebudgetvariances,financialtrendsandvariousad-hocreports includingreportstodeterminetheamountofadditionalfundingtorequestfromtheregion midyear in terms of FTEs.

●Prepare budgets, track actual performance againstthose budgets and monitor variances from plan, and exercise control to ensure expenditures do not exceed budget without management approval.● Reviewed and analyzed requirements to develop test strategy.

●Reviewed Functional Implementation Specification(FIS) Documents and made changes in test scripts/plans if necessary.

●Attended activities between local and offshore teams.

●Worked along with Systems Analyst in installationof POS images, patches, hot fixes, and various Devices such as Cash Registers, Printers, Pin Pads, Scanners, MRS.

●Participated in release scheduling and planningsessions.

●Utilized JIRA, HP ALM, SharePoint and Excel Spreadsheetsto defects and documents housing.

●Attended several walkthrough meetings with ProjectManager, Business Analyst, Lead QA, Developers and provided QA related feedback. Worked on multiple projects Palatial Technologies, Inc, Alpharetta, GA, January2013- August2014 Financial/Accounting Analyst/Jr.QA Analyst

●Documented the business requirements (BRD), developedTest plans, Test cases, Test Scripts, created database backend testing and test database functionality.

●Prepared and maintained defect tracking spreadsheet.

●Performed Positive and Negative Testing. Responsiblefor writing Manual Testing.

●Worked with Bug Tracking Tool JIRA, and HP QC.

●Worked in the QA Life cycle, including but not limitedto Design, Development, and Implementation of the entire QA process and documentation of Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Procedures and Test Script for Manual & Bug tracking HP Tools by HP.

●Testing & analyzing the Functionality testing, Integrationtesting, System testing, and User acceptance testing.

●Worked with TOAD for Data Analyst, FileZilla, andPutty Exe. as other tools.

●Attended several walkthrough meetings with ProjectManager, Business Analyst, Lead QA, Developers and provided QA related feedback.

●Worked on Online Banking Project, Online Bill Pay,& Insurance (Property/Casualty & Healthcare) domain

Comfort Inn, Lexington, KY, December2010 - December2012 Accounting/Financial Analyst/General Manager

●Developed, administered, and controlled the revenueand expense budgets

●Analyzed profit, loss sales, marketing, and STRreports

●Worked on the reservation system (CRS ) and trainedall department heads

●Developed and maintained hotel programs to meet quality standards set forth by the brand franchise

●Reviewed and approved the hotel payroll as well as monthly tax return

●Handled all bookkeeping & accounting work includingbut not limited to general journal entries, bank reconciliation, monthly/quarterly and year-end entries, P&L statement process through QUICKBOOK Online and working closely with outside CPA

●Insurance – Managing Employees health insurancecoverage, property & Liability insurance. Ramada Inn, Breeze wood, PA, June2004 - August2010 Accounting/Financial Analyst/General Manager

●Developed, administered, and controlled the revenueand expense budgets

●Analyzed profit, loss sales, marketing, and STRreports

●Worked on the reservation system (CRS ) and trainedall department heads

●Developed and maintained hotel programs to meetquality standards set forth by the brand franchise

●Reviewed and approved the hotel payroll as wellas monthly tax return

●Handled all bookkeeping & accounting work includingbut not limited to general journal entries, bank reconciliation, monthly/quarterly and year-end entries, P&L statement process through QUICKBOOK PRO and working closely with outside CPA

●Insurance – Managing Employees health insurancecoverage, property & Liability insurance Downtown Athletics Club of NY Inc., New York, NY September2000– May2006 Financial Accounting Analyst/Controller

●Managed accounts department, vendors supply, taxes,and payroll processing●Managed accounts payable, accounts receivables, general ng but not limited to P&L and balance sheet processed through PEACHTREE/SAGE accounting software App - ledger, and journal entries●Prepared all financial statements and Reports includi

●Insurance-Managing employee health insurance coverage,property/liability insurance EDUCATION:

Master of Business Administration (MBA) Major: Business Management St. John’s University, College of Insurance, New York, NY.

Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Major: International Business, Minor: Marketing Schiller International University, Heidelberg, Germany

Bachelor of Arts (BA) Major: Accounting, Minor: Economics University of Delhi, New Delhi, India. Certification

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