Over 5 years of experience as Software Quality Assurance Engineer in Financial and Banking domains with diversified skills in testing.• Strong understanding of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) within Agile and Waterfall methodologies.• Active involvement in Agile ceremonies as part of the Scrum Team: Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective.• Experienced on writing Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Requirement Traceability Matrix and Test Analysis Reports (TAR).• Proficient in Black Box testing techniques: Smoke/Sanity, System, Integration, Regression, Back-End and End-to-End testing.• Hands on experience working with different ALM tools such as JIRA and HP ALM for defect tracking and test cases.• Participation on investigating production issue by recreating in test environments, working with dev on resolution, releasing hot-fix patches by coordinating with Support team and performing lesson-learned exercises• Experienced on using SQL queries and UNIX commands for data verification and Back-End testing.• Knowledge with Git and Git-Hub as version control tools.• Strong knowledge of trading operations in front, middle and back office applications using FIX protocol message types for executing equities and derivatives transactions.• Maintained Java based automation framework• Hands on manual testing of REST API testing with POSTMAN• Working experience of automating FIX trading API with Esprow ETP Studio• Strong understanding of financial markets including Capital Markets and Trade Life Cycle, Fixed Income, Derivatives (Options, Futures, Forwards, Swaps and Commodity Markets).• Understanding of deposit documentation requirements, complex business banking structures, BSA/AML KYC policies and banking procedures.• Hand on experience of testing Equity module of trading platform and knowledge of full Trading Life Cycle.• Collaboration with development team, product management team and production support team to make certain that the web application working as expected per requirements.• Ability to work in a team environment or independently, strong multi-tasking skills and working in high pressure environments.• Outstanding communication, organizational and interpersonal skills with both a technical and non-technical audience.