E2E Test Delivery & Implementation for Post Trade Match & Repo

• May 2016 - Present

Test Consultant (Contract)

• Aug 2014 - Apr 2016

MA/TRAX is a leading trade matching, regulatory reporting, and market data provider. It provides OTC (Over the Counter) trading for its customers Worked primarily as a Test Consultant with complete E2E test delivery for the products worked for during my tenure: Involved in Stakeholder collaboration and management involving hybrid teams located in different geographical locations: London, New York & India Created Test Frameworks and processes from scratch with more adaptive approach based on the need of the projects. Fine tuning existing automation framework build on Silk test and facilitated to make use of automation whenever and wherever possible to reduce the overall cost for repetitive test data and verification. Making use of an existing framework built several other automated test suites for different projects on the go to reduce the cost of investing into automated tools (based on nature of the projects) Performed Load tests, Analysis & created framework for capturing NFR metrics for Match Project using Silk Performer. Involved in early testing of one of the complex project involving Machine Learning and one of best selling products of MA i.e. CP+. Some of the key projects worked on during my tenure and provided E2E testing solutions: VolTrax (Billing) Migration from HP NSI to Trax Client Migration of Trax Client to SQL 2012 server Trax Insight Trax Reporting MIFID -2 Requirements FeONA IONA Release-One Release-Two Migration of Billing Show less

Senior Test Consultant/Lead (Mobile Auomation)

• Feb 2014 - Aug 2014

Worked as a Sr Test Consultant/Lead (Mobile Automation) through Computer Science Corporation, UK. Responsible for Automating RBS Mobile applications under various RBS group namely NatWest, Isle of Man, RBS,Ulster, UBN,UBR on IOS and Android platform Some of the key activities undertaken in RBS/Natwest as Automation Mobile Engineer Fine tuning, Maintenance of automation framework and legacy scripts built on Junit/Silk mobile across NWB/RBS brands Created a new automated test scripts for iOS NWB/RBS during each development sprint cycle Enhance the existing legacy framework to support iOS7.0 operating system for different Iphone models Execute/Run regression test suites on iOS/Android for NWB/RBS based on stakeholder request and report the results Tested and signed off some of the key features of Natwest/RBS: like Mobile Top up, Transfer between accounts, Bill Payments, Statements, Location services, Registration services on different platforms (IOS,Android) Actively involved in Agile scrum framework, participating in daily stand-ups, sprint planning & retrospection for different releases Collobaratively worked with several different vendors (complex hybrid working model involving atleast 8 different vendors in house and 4-5 vendors offshore) Tools and Technologies- SilkMobile, Jmeter, and JUnit framework Show less

Sr Test Consultant/ QA Lead Consultant

• Mar 2011 - Jan 2014

Worked as a Sr Test Analyst & Lead (Consultant) working through CSC (Computer Science Corporation)UK. Some of responsibilities undertaken during my tenure with Zurich CSP and RP projects Involved in all the major releases of CSP project/product right from requirement analysis phase (i.e. R1.0, R1.1, R2, R4, R5, R6) built on FNZ platform. Involved in RDR (Retail Distribution Review) testing phase of CSP and RP Products/projects Validated and certified Auto Enrolment Pension regulation under Pensions Act 2008 for Migrated users and also New Clients E2E test delivery of various modules with CSP Project. Implemented and created a framework to test some of the missing critical & complex modules of CSP involving calculations like: Accruals (Charges, Interests, rebates, Remuneration, Disinvestment), Lifestyle fund ,TRF Life styling, Finex-Feeds, Dealing, EBC payments, Crystallization of Pensions, Actuarial Projections, Issue Packs, Payment-in, Payment out, Transfers-in, Annuities, MI reports, Authorizations, BWA, AML, BAPS etc. Mentored and Led a group of QA resources to test some of the moduels of CSP by estabilishing frameworks to facilitate testing. Actively colloborated with BA's, Product owners within Agile framework and hybrid frameworks to perform requirement analysis to facilitate early detection of defects & understanding the business flows Reduced the QA effort in recreating huge sets of data to test some of the data features like MI and TAX reports such as AML Reports, Bank Wizard Report, Fees and Charges Report, Client Holding, Business Acceptance, Insured Fund Deals Settlement and PSD Reports etc. by providing invaluable inputs to automation and strategy. Show less

Quality Assurance Specialist

• Aug 2009 - Dec 2010

Oracle Primavera is a leading provider of Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solutions for project-intensive industries. Primavera offers best-in-class solutions focused on the mission critical PPM requirements of key vertical industries including engineering and construction, public sector, aerospace and defense, utilities, oil and gas, manufacturing and high tech, and IT and services. It offers various products like EPPM Suite,P6Web,P6 Professional Client, Contract Manager, Progress reporter (to name few) Responsibilities: Creating automated tests using Silk Test automation tool for New Functionalities for products of primavera: P6Web,P6 Client Products Fine tuning and Silk Script Maintenance for existing functional and regression packs for all the products of Primavera applications and taking full ownership Responsible for Nightly Build Automation and analysis, Fixing, fine tuning and maintenance Code Reviews using Smart Code Collaborator As a Platform certification Test Engineer: Created entire Test bed for certifying Primavera products from scratch which included but not limited to: (Install appservers, Clients, DB, Webservers, Middleware tech like UCM,OAM,OSSO) and then deploying Primavera builds on different client environments (against above configuration) like Linux/Solaris/Mc/Windows and then testing the applications using automated test tools. This also involved fine tuning the automated testing scripts to accept I18 testing, compatible with other languages of Client, appservers or DB machines etc Complete ownership of product automation-Regression, Acceptance, SRS suites. Involved in creating/adding to various backlogs: Master Backlog, Product Backlog, Automation Backlog, and Sprint Backlogs as following Agile/Scrum Methodology. Involved in automation tool analysis for exploring newer tools like OpenScript9.0 to replace Silk Test framework as it was proven to be expensive. Show less

Senior Software Test Engineer

• May 2008 - Aug 2009

Worked within Agile scrum framework, developing automated tests using (Silk Test 2008) for regression pack and other functional tests Testing and validating the Business rules for Big Machines proposal generation software using Python(Jython). Also used XML & XSL for validating the software API testing for Validating SOAP XMLs Fine tuning the automation framework Worked within Agile scrum framework, developing automated tests using (Silk Test 2008) for regression pack and other functional tests Testing and validating the Business rules for Big Machines proposal generation software using Python(Jython). Also used XML & XSL for validating the software API testing for Validating SOAP XMLs Fine tuning the automation framework

Software Test Engineer

• Jul 2005 - Apr 2008

Started my career with AppLabs Technologies as a Software Engineer (Testing) where I was first exposed to the world of software QA testing, Processes, Automation Tools, Load test tools, Metrics etc. Intially started as manual functional tester and later on worked in various roles and responsibilities not limited to : Installation (Build installations on various appservers and platforms -Linux, Solaris, Windows &Mc) Fine Tuning Automation Regression suite using Silk Test automation tool Performing Load tests using Load runner Involved in BIT testing to certify build for acceptance into QA environment Lead and Mentor a group of 10 QA resources in different modules Involved actively in every phase of Test Development Life cycle- Test Planning, Risk Planning/Mitigation, Metrics evaluation (and other CMMI Level-5 related process activities) Responsible for Nightly automated build execution, Maintenance, Fine tuning, Reporting to all major stakeholders helping in Go/No Go decision. One of the primary members of the Blackboard team which started with few resources and finally went on to become 100+ member project. Also involved in cross team training and implementation of automation for Primavera project Show less