Senior QA Engineer Manual & Automated Testing, ISTQB Certified

SANKUI GOU

QA Engineer Software Testing Agile/Scrum SDLC/STLC ISTQB Certified Tester

+1-630-***-**** *********@*****.*** Aurora, IL 60502 EXPERIENCE

SQA Engineer (Manual+Automated) Morgan Stanley-E*Trade

07/2012 - 05/2026 Jersey City NJ and Chicago IL

• Participated in all discussions during SDLC phases of Planning, Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Deployment, PRD Verification

• Planned, designed and executed all levels of testing for Smoke, Functionality, Integration, User Acceptance, End to End, and post-Deployment validation

• Conducted comprehensive testing of trading system for order routing, execution, transaction, Donetrade, EBS reports, Admin and Corp actions

• Performed regular testing of order flows for equity, basic option, multi-leg buywrite, and complex options

• Carried out trading transaction testing over Tcp/IP, Apache AMQ, Kafka, GEM btw distributed systems

• Monitored batches of real-time alerts, daily reconciliation, and EOD reports

• Applied FIX4.2/Verifix/QuickFIX to FIX Gateway simulator to validate external market transaction integrity

• Certified the Active Advisor API thru Postman

• Dug into Sybase, Oracle and Postgres databases using SQL to verify static data, trade transactions and daily/EOD reports

• Integrated automated suites into Jenkins pipelines to enforce quality engineering standards

• Developed automated testing tools for the E2E trading flow and CAT report for FINRA by leveraging Java and Python

• Achieved extram low (near zero) defect escape rate for the critical trading system over 10 yesrs

Senior Software Engineer Credit Suisse AG

07/2011 - 06/2012 Raleigh-Durham, NC

• Enhanced, maintaned, and supported an request creation and tracking system

(myParter, myAccess) in the Access Control Engineering team

• Applied C#, WCF, SQL Sevrer, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, ADO.NET, SVN on both back and front ends to streamline user interactions Senior Software Engineer The Thalerus Group

01/2005 - 05/2011 Schaumburg IL

• Designed and built the Vibe ERP, customer query UI, web store UI, report services, eCommerce and supply chain management system

• Extensive hand-on experience in VB6, VC7, SQL Server, SOAP, C#.NET, VB.NET, ASP.NET MVC et al to enhance user experience Software Engineer XipLink & SPSS

04/2002 - 12/2004 Naperville IL

• Built up an enhanced version of the voice and data switches software/hardware system with extensive call features

• Experienced in C, C++, Java, JS, MySQL/ODBC to speed up the data communication capabilities

Software Engineer Armillaire Technologies

08/2000 - 03/2002 Naperville IL

• Developed basic call modles with various call features for a voice and data switches software/hardware system

• Applied C, C++, Java, JSP, TimesTen, SQL, CORBA, Rational Rose, Timesten, and utilized automated dialing to acieve ~300 calls per second SUMMARY

• Results-driven Quanlity Assurance

Engineer with 10+ years in software

testing and deep expertise in SDLC

and Agile Scrum methodologies

• Proficient in all QA STLC phases,

with strong test management skills.

• Experienced in both manual and

automated testing on front and

backend applications

• Hand-on experinece with Python,

Java, SQL, Jira/Xray, and more

• Proven ability to collaborate across

global teams to drive quality standards

and timely delivery of applications

• Extensive experience with continuous

testing to ensure working software

meet user’s needs

• Holding ISTQB® certificates: CTFL,

CTAL-AT

SKILLS

• Quality Assurance & Test

Management: Jira/Xray practice for

test planning, testset creation, test

execution, issue tracking, status

report generation, CR process

• Methodologies & Collaboration:

Agile Scrum framework, embrace

asynchronous work through

Collaboration across multiple

geograpically dispersed teams

• Automation & Scripting: Python, Java,

XML/Json, FIX4.2, Verifix, QuickFIX/J

• Development & Data Process Tools:

Pycharm, Eclipse, Oracle/SQLDeveloper,

MTPuTTy, GEM, Control-M

• Operating Systems & Connectivity:

Windows, Linux, VPN/VDI, Confluence,

MS Teams

• Knowledge of Jenkins, DevOps CI/CD

pipline, use AI for coding/testing

• Hand-on coding experience with Java,

Python for the financial service testing

tools

• ISTQB certified software tester

EDUCATION

The University of Iowa Iowa City IA

PhD, Physivs 05/2003

MS, Computer Science 05/2000

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