Senior QA Analyst & Automation Specialist - Capital Markets

Shubham Sharma

Quality Analyst Capital Markets Specialist QA Automation ETL Playwright

Phone: +91-989******* Email: **********@*****.*** Location: Greater Noida

Professional Summary

Dynamic and detail-driven Quality Analyst/Business Analyst with 19+ years of experience delivering enterprise-scale solutions across Capital Markets, Investment Banking, Data Platforms, and Financial Products. Expertise in Requirement Gathering, Product Backlog Management, User Stories, Data Analysis, ETL Flows, and Stakeholder Engagement, API and Automation

Strong foundation in QA Strategy, Functional/ETL Testing, AWS Cloud Testing, and SDLC governance—enabling high-quality, on-time product delivery. Skilled in bridging business objectives with technical execution for global organizations.

Core Competencies

Business & Product Skills

Business Analysis & Functional Consulting

Product Ownership & Backlog Prioritization

BRD / FRD / User Stories / Acceptance Criteria

Agile/Scrum Frameworks

Data Mapping, Data Flows, ETL, SQL

Stakeholder & Cross-Functional Collaboration

Product Delivery, SLA & Risk Management

Technical & QA Expertise

Functional, Regression, UAT, System Testing, ETL, Data Testing & AWS Cloud Testing

Cross-Platform, Localization, Security Testing

Defect Management & Reporting

QA Automation Engineer with 7+ years of hands-on experience in web, mobile, and API testing across Agile environments.

Strong expertise in Selenium, Playwright, Appium, REST Assured, Postman, and TestNG/Cucumber frameworks.

Well-versed in functional, regression, integration, performance, and cross-browser testing, ensuring high-quality and stable releases.

AI, Prompt Engineering & Modern QA Upskilling

Completed internal and external training programs focused on modern Quality Engineering practices:

Advanced Prompting in GPT-4

Generative AI for Quality Engineering

Prompt Engineering for Engineers

Advanced Prompt Engineer Certification

Basic Prompting in GPT-4

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Lean & Agile Practices

These skills support faster and smarter QA through:

fast test case generation defect analysis impact assessment automation optimization

exploratory testing support improved productivity and efficiency

AI reduces effort, not ownership… humans still drive quality.

Technologies & Tools Expertise

Test Automation: Selenium, Playwright

API Testing: Postman, REST Assured

Programming Languages: Java, JavaScript

Performance Testing: JMeter

CI/CD & DevOps: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI

Version Control Systems: GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket

Test & Defect Management: JIRA, Zoho, QA Engine

Database & ETL Testing: MySQL, Tivoli (Job Testing)

Platforms & Coverage: Web, Mobile (Android & iOS), Cross-Browser

AI in QA: GPT-based test acceleration, Prompt Engineering, AI-assisted test design

Banking Tools & Platforms

Calypso • Geneva • Security Master • SWIFT MT564 • IDC Feeds• AIM-GAIN • Derivative Operating Systems

Professional Experience

Publicis Sapient (Jan 2007 – Present)

Client: Invesco

Project: DANG – Distribution Alfa Next Generation Program

Role: Product Owner / Senior Business Analyst

Modernizing Invesco’s marketing ecosystem by migrating to AEM, consolidating data into Snowflake, and redesigning workflows.

Led requirement workshops with business, compliance, and technical stakeholders.

Conducted in-depth analysis of legacy data flows, interfaces, and APIs.

Defined data requirements and collaborated with upstream Snowflake teams.

Authored detailed User Stories, Functional Specs, and Acceptance Criteria.

Prioritized and refined backlog ensuring alignment with business priorities.

Performed PO validation, end-to-end functional reviews, and release readiness.

Tools-Postman, SnowflakE

Client: Wellington

Project: DOS – Derivative Operations System

Role: Senior Business Analyst (ETL Tester)

Managed requirements for trade lifecycle of Swaps, IRS, CDS, TRS.

Defined workflows for trade communication and clearing processes.

Worked extensively on Calypso for trade setup and lifecycle maintenance.

Coordinated integration across IMS, Calypso, and Geneva.

Supported sprint cycles with story creation and business clarifications.

Project: iCAMS – Corporate Actions Automation-

Mapped MT564 SWIFT messages to internal corporate action workflows.

Developed and maintained automated test suites using Selenium and Playwright, reducing regression execution time by 35%.

Improved test coverage through POM and hybrid framework implementation.

Performed functional, integration, regression, UI, and UAT testing across environments.

Integrated automation execution into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions.

Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure timely and high-quality releases.

Client: Goldman Sachs

Project: COLT – Client Onboarding & Lending Technology

Role: Business Analyst

Gathering & analyzing requirements, creating user cases and designing test cases for various modules

• Performing smoke and detail testing and raising defects in Jira

• Documentation, reporting, UI testing and coordinating with dev. team in fixing defects

• Performing Regression Testing

• Testing on Middle Office Monitor which for Middle office work on trade.

• Worked on Money Market Regulation Testing

• Testing for various type of STP Trade Parsing Testing

• Testing on Geneva which is a Trade Accounting System

• Checking Trade Price in Price Marker and Security Details on SMC, Bloomberg and Security Master

• Testing on Reports and DB.

Client: Franklin Templeton (ETL Tester)

Project: Security Master – Reference Data

Defined rules for Equity, Fixed Income, Derivatives & Cash Instruments.

Created validation spec flows and functional acceptance guidelines.

Worked closely with AIM team on system configuration and enhancements.

Client: Citi Group (USA)-DB Tester

Middle Office – Trade Processing & Reference Data: Analyzed flows across Securities, Price Marker, and Geneva.

Supported reference data completeness and lifecycle mapping.

Interacting with the client for the requirements.

Requirement analysis, creating test cases in QC (Quality Center).

Maintaining the core regression suite.

Test case execution, test result documentation (using Quality Center) and review.

Involved in writing SQL queries for the execution of test cases.

Defect Reporting and tracking defect to closure.

Status reporting to the client on the daily basis.

Client: TD Bank (TDS)

Wall Street Systems (WSS), eMarkets, TDFX Live – Support & Analysis: Provided L2/L3 functional support for trading & funding systems.

Conducted requirement impact analysis and issue triaging.

Internal – Global Support

Handled enterprise-level application support across Sapient systems.

Early Career

Nethues India Pvt. Ltd. (Jul 2005 – Dec 2006) – Support Engineer / Tester

Worked on Antivirus software suite for US clients with responsibilities in testing, troubleshooting, and customer support.

Education

MCA (CS) – Subharti University, Meerut (2018)

Claritas (CFA Foundation) – CFA Institute (2017)

A’-Level – DOEACC (2002)

B.Sc. – MJP Rohilkhand University (2000)

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (2022)

Awards & Achievements

Client Focused Delivery Award – Derivative Application (Sapient)

Gladiator Award – Best Performance (Sapient)

Sapient Core Value Recognition – Excellence in Delivery

Personal Details

Languages: English, Hindi

Address: A-404, S.S. Enclave, Greater Noida

References available upon request.

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