Chaitra QA Resume Sacramento, CA only Professional Summary · Over *7.5* years of experience as a *test analyst* and *automation engineer* with strong technical and analytical skills.
· *Lead* and demonstrated success in *managing* test activities for
multiple *million* *dollar* financial projects.
· Extensively worked in client facing role; collated project
requirements and change requests.
· Highly experienced in analyzing business and technical
specifications , developing test plans, defining test cases and engineering
automated solutions using HP Quality Center and QTP
· Knowledge of Agile Methodology for implementing rapid and high
co-ordination environment among Development and QA teams
· Vast domain knowledge in *Health & Insurance, Securities Trading,
Banking, Investment Management, Retirement Distributions and Financial
Analytical Tools.*
· Extensively worked on end to end testing of oracle enterprise
applications *- Oracle ERP, Oracle Advanced Benefits (OAB), Oracle HRMS,
Oracle PLM e-business suite, Oracle Warehouse Management System.*
· Engineered robust automated test scripts for *web applications,
web services, .NET windows forms, Oracle forms* and *Mainframe* screens in
*QTP* using descriptive programming in *VB*.
· Experienced in designing data driven *automation framework* and
delivering reusable modular test scripts.
· Strong Understanding of *SDLC *concepts.
· Skilled at performing *Functional*, *System* *Integration*, *User
Acceptance*, *Regression, Load* and *Exploratory* testing for *java* based
*web* applications.
· Proficient in creating complex *SQL* queries and working with
*RDBMS*.
· Leveraged *SOAPUi* tool to perform functional and regression
testing of *web services*
· Experienced in manual testing of *desktop* and *Client-Server*
based application.
· Extensively used MS excels *Macros, Formulas and *Functions.
· Key member of quality team and helped promote QA standards and *best
practices.*
· Recognized for being a successful team worker, fast learner,
problem solver and solo achiever.
Technical Skills
*Operating Systems*: Windows 2000/XP, UNIX
*Programming Languages*: VB, SQL, PL/SQL, PERL
*Automated Test Tools*: QTP/UFT, Excel Macros
*Testing Tools*: QC, SOAPUI, Confluence, JIRA, Clear
Quest, MS excel Macros & Formulas, Test Advantage, Lotus Notes
MS Visio, SharePoint, MS
office, Adobe Reader
*Databases*: Oracle, Mainframe DB2, MS Access, MS
SQL Server
*Database client*: TOAD, SQL Navigator, RUMBA
*Technologies*: JAVA, XML, HTML5
*QA Methodologies*: SDLC, Agile
Experience
*GOLDMAN SACHS, **Irving, TX
**Apr
2012 – Jan 2015*
*Senior Analyst Developer (Quality Assurance)*
Goldman Sachs owned Archon Group (Archon) is a real estate investment
services and asset management firm with focus on building value through
acquisition, development, management, financing and disposition of real
estate investments, including mortgage loans secured by real estate.
*Business Analytical Models* project was part of an initiative that aimed
at bringing all data- real estate, loan, financing, valuation, disposition
into one single repository, OMNI. This central repository helped analytical
models to work as online models that helped asset managers to get real time
access to data and avoid manual collation of data from various data
sources.
· *Set* up a QA team of three for end to end testing of *22
Financial Analytical Models* used in *Asset Management*
o Engaged with key stakeholders and product owners to assess current
state, define target state and ensure smooth *integration of QA* into the
*SDLC*
o *Lead *a team of three and coordinated with offshore team to meet QA
deadlines.
o Formulated *test strategy* after a thorough analysis of models and
interdependent systems.
o Defined test plan for *onshore-offshore* model
o Owned* 13* of the 22 Models and responsible for estimations, test
deliverables and documentation.
o Gathered, documented and maintained project requirements and related
business documents in *Confluence*.
o Created comprehensive test scenarios that facilitated in detection of *28%
of issues* in the early stages of model development.
o Validated and debugged *views, triggers, stored procedures* to ensure
conformance to business rules.
o Involved in building complex* SQL* queries for data mining and
troubleshooting defects
o Recommended and developed custom *VB Macro* solutions for Portfolio
team to increase efficiency of business processes.
o Performed *functional validations and regression *testing of *SOAP*
based *web services *using *SOAPUI* to kick start test cycle prior to GUI
implementation; performed *groovy* scripting and created automated tests in
*SOAPUI*.
o Performed functional testing *of java based front end GUI *for the
Analytical Models
o Created Requirements Traceability Matrix by mapping test cases to user
requirements
o Recognized as the *Subject Matter Expertise* for Asia Investment Rollup
models to the Portfolio Management Team
o Conducted training sessions and presentation on QA workings to the
globally distributed teams
o Actively participated in sessions with technical & business analysts to
analyze change requests, discuss impact areas and review test scenarios
o Prepared and presented status updates. Documented and reported system
defects (including defect summary, steps to recreate, system configuration,
environment setup, expected, and actual result).
o Performed root cause analysis after a major release to incorporate
learnings into future test cycles
o Tracked bugs in JIRA and worked in collaboration with developers to
resolve issues
o Provided task dependencies , priorities and time *estimates* for
project releases
o *Mentored* new team members on processes and application functionality
o Maintained a high degree of functional expertise on target systems.
· Strategized excel based test framework and developed an *automated
solution* for *web services* using QTP 10 that validated *XML* response
against *DB*. This facilitated validation of *more than 100,000 records of
cash flow* data for accuracy and consistency
o Created, executed and maintained the automated suite
o Responsible for analysis and reporting of web services automation
test results every monthly release cycle
*Real estate management* project involves new *feature based testing* of
real estate management portal (java based web application), RMS that
manages the life cycle of an asset from acquisition to disposition
· Worked in *agile* *development* project for Lease Abstract module
and represented QA in SCRUM meetings.
o Created detailed test cases from user stories
o Involved in Functional testing of Java web application –Real Estate
Management System and interdependent Loan Estate Management system, test
planning and estimations for each user story
o Managed all test artifacts in QC and executed tests from QC
*GOLDMAN SACHS, **Salt Lake City, UT*
*Oct 2010 – Mar 2012*
*Senior Analyst Developer *
*Private wealth management* group of Goldman Sachs enables investment
analysts with information to guide the investors about their wealth, Risks,
Assets, Liabilities and many other parameters useful for managing their
assets.
The project involves functional testing of portfolio front end, Investment
analytical tool- CIO & Presentation builder used by sales representatives
to market portfolio services to high net worth clients.
· Lead *functional* testing of CIO investment analytics tool part
of Private Wealth management web portal; Proposed and implemented *test
strategy* and contributed to test plan
· Engineered data driven automation framework to regression test
CIO
· Set up automation environment and built *automated test suite*
for CIO using QTP
· Designed and implemented *XML compare* and *PDF compare*
automated scripts for Presentation builder module to ensure consistency of
data in QA environment and PROD; The XML file generated in XML compare is
converted to PDF for PDF compare
· Analyzed business and technical specifications to come up with
*requirements* *traceability* *matrix*
· Conducted *Gap* *Analysis* to ensure all Business Requirements
were covered by test cases
· Participated in requirement walkthroughs and design review
meetings
· Performed back end testing by running *SQL* queries
· Attended Change Control Meeting for approval of change requests
and raised testing concerns.
*FIDELITY INVESTMENTS, **Bangalore, India
Dec
2009 – Oct 2010*
*QA Test Engineer*
*Streetscape* is an online (web-based java application) brokerage solution
that integrates trading and service functionality with customer
information, risk management tools, and a single point of access to
real-time market data, news, and third-party research. The project involved
regression testing and new functionality/module testing of Streetscape.
· Lead testing efforts on the implementation of new feature: *Trailing
Stop Orders* in *Equities and Options trading* platform.
o Developed and executed comprehensive test suite to perform user
acceptance testing on the new feature
o Identified possible impact areas and performed regression test
o Managed Test requirements, test cases, execution status and defects in
QC
o Identified automation scenarios and scripted tests in VB using QTP
· Developed, maintained and optimized a *fully automated regression
suite* using QTP 10 to test business critical modules -*Brokerage Accounts,
Portfolio, Securities Trading* and *Order Book* on Brokerage Solutions
platform, a Java based web application. This resulted in significant cost
savings by reducing regression test effort from *40hrs to 8hrs* per monthly
build.
· Created user manual for running the automated scripts
· Developed an automated test suite for workflow management system,
XTRAC (.NET application). It reduced the time taken for on-boarding of new
clients into the system from 3 days to 2 hrs. per client
o Gathered customer requirements, performed feasibility study on the
application under test and investigated the tool –Test Advantage by
Infragistics in integration with QTP 10
o Wrote Proof of concept (POC) and presented gap analysis findings on
QTP to clients
o Worked closely with the sales and technical team of Infragistics to
purchase the tool and understand its working
o Designed data driven automation framework with data stored in external
excel sheet and scripted automated tests
o Documented a training manual for running the scripts and gave a
demonstration to clients
· Collaborated with multiple development teams and technical
analysts across departments to carry out UAT on
Securities lending project-Borrow fully paid. Responsibilities included
test co-ordination, requirement analysis, and test
case preparation and walkthrough, test execution, defect logging and
resolution
· Coordinated with third party vendors to carry out end to end
testing of *Fixed Income Trading* Tool, Bond Trader Pro.
· Involved in Project Estimation and metrics collation for the team
· Actively involved in QA forums to discuss testing experiences,
available tools and techniques and share best practices
· Conducted trainings on developing automated scripts using QTP
· Gave project presentations to business analysts and UAT managers
*FIDELITY INVESTMENTS, **Bangalore, India
Jul
2007 – Dec 2009 *
*Associate Test
Engineer *
*Retirement Distributions* project is aimed at enabling Advisors &
Correspondents using Streetscape.com, NF’s web based brokerage technology
platform, to perform paperless online entry of retirement distributions
through Integrated Cash Platform (ICP).
· Analyzed customer requirements, documented use cases, prepared
test scenarios and performed executions on all the three phases of *Retirement
Distributions* project.
· Worked collaboratively with development teams to drive resolution
of bugs
· Involved in system design review phase of the project
*Health and Other benefits system (HOBS)* is Fidelity customized HR
solutions suite which is built on an *Oracle Advanced Benefits (OAB)*
platform. HOBS maintains employee data and utilizes it to provide the
corresponding benefits to employees (called participants) by sharing it
across multiple *modules such as Eligibility, Enrollments, Rates and
premiums, Literature* (sent to participants, employers and also Carriers).
The project involved ongoing testing of all HOBS modules (oracle forms) for
the fixes provided in-house for either customized code or Oracle provided
Technical patches for core Oracle code on a monthly release cycle.
· Performed requirement analysis and feasibility studies on the
oracle release patches
· Worked on functional testing on technical patches, regression
testing on all HOBS modules and ensured conformance to *HIPAA* guidelines.
· Identified regression test scenarios and worked on building
automated test scripts for the same using winrunner
· Validated employee benefit reports using PERL scripts
· Involved in peer review of test plan and test strategy
· Acquired vast domain knowledge in Health & insurance towards
attaining subject matter expertise
· Evaluated logs in UNIX boxes for debugging issues
· Built complex SQL queries to mine data for test data set up
· Maintained , documented issues, test cases , test execution
status in Lotus Notes
*Outbound Redesign and Virtualization* project was aimed at redesigning and
virtualizing the outbound operations of Fidelity’s Enterprise Processing
Services as part of business continuity program. The outbound applications
involve Correspondence Manager (CM), Oracle ERP suite & e modules, Oracle
Warehouse Management System (WMS) and SMA integrated together.
· Effectively engaged with Functional architects, implementation
teams globally to understand business requirements and working flow of *Oracle
ERP* suite
· Created and documented test cases for functional and end to end
testing of Oracle forms in integration with WMS, Oracle PLM e-business
module and SMA
· Extensively trained on *Oracle e business suite for manufacturing
and supply chain management* module
· Tested mobile interface of java based Oracle warehouse management
system using a telnet client
· Tested upload of flat files to SMA using FTP protocol
· Executed tests under tight deadlines
· Reported daily defect report and execution status; Involved in
daily triage meetings
Education
Bachelors of Engineering, Biotechnology
Jul 2003 –
Jun 2007 [P.E.S. Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India]
Recognition
· Received *'Asia Quarterly Achievement’* team award for
implementation of Asia Investment Rollup .Net Model.
· Recipient of *‘Reach higher’* Team award during the Annual
Business Unit Meet
· Presented with the *‘Hall of Fame’* award from business partners
for leading UAT co-ordination and executions for a cross-organizational
initiative from Securities Finance Desk.
· Received multiple ‘*You’ve Earned It’* Awards
Regards,
ALI
Sr. Recruiter
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