Curriculum Vitae

ILA PATHAK *** Wells Street

h77gs6@r.postjobfree.com Hartford, CT

USA

Career Objective

Possessing analysis skills that have been gained through experience in Business Analyst/Quality Assurance of product especially websites/portal from initial conception to completion within budget, scope, timescales & process limitations. I am willing to work as a key player in challenging & creative environment.

Assets

- Result –driven Professional with extensive 4 years of experience mainly in Quality Assurance & Control as Manual tester & Quality Analyst of Java/PHP/.Net Web Applications. And partly as Business Analyst for preparing Business Requirement documents as per client specification.

- Software testing of financial product and web applications using manual testing.

- Developing Use cases and screen shots from requirement documents.

- Fundamental experience of automated performance tool – LoadRunner.

- Experience in creating test plan and test strategies according to the client requirement.

- Domain knowledge in SDLC, Capital Market and Future & Option Market.

- Written and Execution of test cases for functional, Integration and regression testing.

- Proficient in backend testing & SQL concepts.

- Excellent knowledge in SDLC and STLC.

- Experience of interaction for clarifying business needs & project objectives via meeting &

feedback sessions, in collaboration with all stakeholders.

- Met with all the developers & project stakeholders to lead a kick-off meeting.

- Highly motivated to work as a team, effective communication skill and leadership quality.

- Handling defect tracking on Bugzilla, Whizible & Trac tools.

Certifications

- Certified ISTQB (International Software Testing Qualification Board) tester.

- Successfully cleared NSE’s Certification in Financial Markets (NCFM): Beginner’s Module.

- Successfully cleared NSE’s Certification in Equity Derivatives (NCFM): Beginner’s Module.

- Successfully cleared NSE’s Certification in Currency Derivatives (NCFM):Beginner’s Module.

- Successfully cleared level E1* of TCS competency test of core Java Training as a part of TCS

&Government of Gujarat joint initiative College to Career Program organized from September’06 to

November’06.

Technical Skills

Basic Programming Language: JAVA, C++

Database Query Languages: SQL, PLSQL

Scripting Language: JSP, JavaScript

Database: MySQL 2000, MySQL 2005

Operating Systems: WINDOWS(98/2000/XP/NT/Vista)

Applications: EditPlus and MS Office

Performance Testing Tool: LoadRunner

Bug Tracking Tools: Bugzilla, Trac, Whizible

Education

Graduation: BE (Computer Engineering)

Institute: Atmiya Institute Of Technology & Science, Saurashtra University, Rajkot.

Aggregate percentage in B.E.: 72.35%

Professional Experience Highlights

Worked as an associate with NSE.iT Limited (A fully Owned Subsidiary Of National Stock Exchange of India Limited) (BFSI-Capital Markets Domain) Mumbai, since Jan 2010 till June 2011. My areas of experience include software testing of the Capital Market trading system and Future and options trading system.

Worked with Reliance Big Entertainment – Bigmaps Division (Search Engine & Web Application) Mumbai, from May 2008 to Jan 2010.

Worked with Argusoft India Pvt. Ltd. (Web Application) Gandhinagar. As a Programmer Analyst/Quality Analyst from June-2007 to Dec 2007

Worked as Trainee Engineer with Argusoft India Pvt. Ltd, Gandhinagar from Jan-2007 to May 2007

Key Projects

Project -1: XtremeAlgo – Automatic Trading software

Duration: May -2010 to June 2011

Project Description:

The project XtremeAlgo is a step towards Algorithmic Trading (Automation Trading) using different sets of strategies. The orders are placed automatically and system will perform trades without human intervention on getting favorable market conditions. Different strategies place orders as per logic written in that strategy.

The objective is to test the risk computation or margins consumed at order and trade level for different market for clients and user dealer

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of test plan and test strategy.

• Written test scenarios based on functional document for Risk Computation.

• Created test data for Margin Computation Calculation.

• Written and execution of test cases for Risk Management.

• Updating and weekly review of test cases for requirement changes.

• Co-ordination between the developer with respect to business requirement and system analysis.

• Effective defect tracking and reporting to improve communications and reduce delay using whizible track tool

• Created test scripts in LoadRunner.

Project -2: RSX – Reliance Spot Exchange

Duration: Janurary-2010 to May 2010

Client: Reliance Spot Exchange

Project Description:

The project Reliance Spot Exchange is a complete exchange solution for Reliance. It involves the interaction of Front end with OMS (Order Matching System) and Clearing & Settlement System during trading session. The pre-opening session is an addition trading session which takes place before the Morning Trading session. It allows orders to be entered into the trading system.

The pre-market session allow investors to monitor, buy and sell on various stocks ahead of the market opening.

Pre open phase is the session prior to the continuous trading. Begin of day liquidity is pooled during this session by allowing the participants to place buy as well as sell orders. No matching takes place when the market is in pre-open phase. The users are allowed to enter/modify/cancel orders.

The pre-opening session determines a fair opening price and reduces the loading of the system from a large number of order inputs and trade execution messages at the commencement of the morning session.

The objective is to test the Orders and trades perform through Front end in Order Matching Engine System (OMS). Also to test the sync and risk management features across whole system.

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of test plan

• Prepare Functional Specification document by gathering requirement from client

• Prepared Use cases and screenshot from requirement documents

• Written test scenarios and test cases based on Business Requirement Specification document

• Created test data for test cases and executing the cases

• Performed installation of Releases, applying patches along with configuration changes

• Effective defect tracking and reporting of defects at early stages of SDLC so as to improve communications and reduce delays

• Analyzing Change Requests and performing impact analysis on existing functionalities

• User acceptance testing (UAT) and Quality assurance of the above systems

• Co-ordination with developer with respect to business requirement and system analysis.

• Performed exhaustive integration and regression testing for the application

• Review of User manual for benefit of application users

Project -3: BIGMaps – Reliance Big Entertainment

Duration: May 2008 to January 2010

Project Description:

The project BIGMaps is Reliance Big Entertainment initiative to organize India’s information for local search business & even help you to find your way with Direction tool.

Application provides feature for Business search – say nearest pizza hut at Philadelphia USA, Event search in your city, Latest movie details along with theatre and show timing information and the most important is the routing system.

User can route the way from this current location or desired location to his/her destination place. The system provides all the possible routes along with maps.

The aim was to build the testing strategy and methodology for Testing. This includes defining the scope of the testing, identifying the objectives and steps, creation of execution plan, identifying the deliverables. And check the performance of the website using Load Runner tool.

Responsibilities:

• Preparation test plan and test strategy

• Creation of test scenarios and test cases based on Functional Requirement Specification document

• Creation of test scripts and executes them

• Maintaining the test scripts and update scripts when code is updated

• Execution of test cases

• Defect reporting using Bug tracking tool – Bugzilla

• Met with all the developers & project stakeholders to lead a kick-off meeting

• Co-ordination between the user and developer with respect to business requirement and system analysis.

• User demonstration, Production implementation and follow up of end user products.

• Interface testing, Maintenance of various systems, production support.

Project -4: Medic Alert Business Integration & Web Portal

Duration: June-2007 to Dec 2007

Client: MedicAlert Foundation, USA

Project Description:

The project BPR is Medic Alert’s initiative to revamp their existing IT systems that support their PHR & Emergency Medical Business. The system has relayed vital medical information to emergency responders about members’ medical conditions, allergies, medications and dosages, so they receive faster, safer treatment.

The proposed system shall be reimplementation of MedicAlert’s business & shall be tested keeping in mind a changing business environment & opportunity considerations, while catering to the current business requirements. The scope of the project was to test the functionality of the application thoroughly.

Responsibilities:

• Identification of business threads

• Writing test cases for functionality testing

• Created test data and execution of test cases

• Defect reporting using Trac tool

• Interface testing, production support.

Project -5: e-Service Exchange Portal

Duration: Jan 2007 to May-2007

Company: Argusoft India Pvt Ltd, Gandhinagar

Project Description:

Developed & tested an e-Service Exchange Portal as a live project for Argusoft India Ltd. The aim of the project is to have access for all available on-line services registered through our portal. This system is used for performing online marketing for products and services and not for selling any product or items. We have successfully achieved the target. The scope of the project is to develop a tested stable portal.

Responsibilities:

• User Test Plan [UTP] preparation

• Test objective

• Preparation of test scenarios

• Preparation of test cases

• Preparation of test data based on above mentioned test cases

• Test cases execution

• Defect logging for defects found during the course of testing in Defect Tracking system

• Getting the defects fixed

• Conducting regression testing and closing the defects logged upon review by seniors

• Conducting alpha level testing

• Conducting beta level testing

• Release note preparation for release to live environment

• Preparation of functional specification documents like user manuals for the benefit of users

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