• 3+ years of testing experience in Software Quality Assurance• Experience driving end-to-end software quality and strong knowledge of software QA Methodologies, Tools and Processes• Experience working in an Agile work environment as well as a variety of automated and manual testing methodologies• Tested Web based and Client/Server applications in Waterfall and Agile development processes• Assisted Product owner with UAT testing and made sure there were no issues during release in formal QA environment.• Managed Functional, Smoke and End-to-End Testing of Electronic Trading Systems across number of internally developed Front, Middle and Back office and full knowledge of Capital Markets including Fixed Income, Stocks and Derivatives• Reviewed and analyzed Business Requirement Documents and wrote Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, RTM, TAR• Experience with Test Plan creation, integration, regression, and functional testing techniques• Conduct the test cases and prioritize the defects based on priority and severity.• Work closely with the software developers through the defect lifecycle, from discovery to defect resolution• Reporting and managing QA issues through formal tracking system (e.g. Jira, Bugzilla, HP/ALM)• Attended Walkthrough, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Retrospective meetings• Represent QA on our daily scrum calls and any planning sessions• Experience working with SQL searches, UNIX commands and database structure.• Comfortable and adaptable in a fast-paced environment, analytical and problem-solving skills• Collaborative teamwork skills and experienced with Offshore team members• Able to quickly adapt to changes; flexibility in terms of schedules, changing requirements and priorities• Highly-motivated Manual QA• Participated in Agile Scrum to identify priorities for feature releases and bug fixes• Utilized Jira applications to track and managed tickets for features and defects• Identified and validated defects within the product which are then reported and documented in Jira• Performs technical analysis to identify the scope and schedule for upcoming projects and individual work items• Participating in all aspects of product testing, including test plan development, execution and delivery of well-tested solutions with short time to release