SRIKANTH–(201)-565-4565 Email:

Professional Summary

  • Around 8.4years of IT experience in Software Testing (Automation and Manual) of Web based and Client/Server applications.
  • Good knowledge in Fixed Income, Clearance & Settlement and Wealth Management domain.
  • Good knowledge in Preparation of Automated Test Scripts using Quick Test Professional (QTP)
  • Hands of experience in Quality Center
  • Strong programming ability in VB Script and Excel macros
  • Exposure in testing Financial transactions usingSWIFTand XMLmessages via Message Queue (MQ)
  • Good knowledge in writing SQL queries on databases like Oracle and MS SQL to validate the data on front end applications
  • Extensive experience in software development and/or product testing within a SDLC process
  • Expertise in analyzing the business requirements and formulating Test Plan(s)
  • Good Expertise in testing of Assets Services and Banking applications.
  • Hewlett-Packard (HP) Certifications in Quick Test Professional

Educational Qualification

  • Master of Science in Computer Science, Periyar University, India.
  • Bachelor of Science in Computers, Nagarjuna University, India.

Professional Qualification

  • Hewlett-Packard (HP) & PACE certified Product Specialist in QTP10.0.

Technical Skills

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP

Testing Tools / : Quick Test Professional (QTP 8.2, 9.0,10,11)
Test Management Tool
RDBMS / : Quality Centre 9.2
: Oracle, MS SQL and MS Access
Database / : Toad, Advanced Query Tool (AQT)
Web Technologies / : VB Script, HTML
Mainframe / : Job Processing
Domain/Functional Areas / : Fixed Income, Clearance & Settlement, Assets Services
Version Control / : PVCS Version Manager
Repositories / : Project Document Repository [PDR]
Defect Tracking Tools / : Rational Clear Quest (CQ)

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SRIKANTH–(201)-565-4565 Email:

Professional and Project Experience

Client:Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), USA

Project Name:WAS8.5 Migratation
Work Location:New Jersey, USA
Tools :QTP 11.0, IE8, PVCS, CQ
Team Size :13
Duration :Apr 2013 – Till Date

Role : Test Lead

Project Description:

DTCC infrastructure team has moved the hosting of DTCC applications from Web Sphere Application Server 6.1 (WAS 6.1) to Web Sphere Application Server 8.5 (WAS 8.5). The Primary objective of this project is to ensure WAS server migration from 6.1 to 8.5 is not altering/impacting the functional features

Responsibilities:

  • Focusing the team to ensure an on-time delivery of the agreed products
  • Encouraging full participation of team members within their defined roles and responsibilities
  • Ensuring that all testing and review activity is properly scheduled and carried out
  • Managing risks and issues at the Development Timebox level, escalating to the Project Manager
  • Monitoring progress on a day-to-day basis for all activities
  • Reporting progress to the Senior Management
  • Running the daily team meetings ensuring they are timely, focused and brief

Client: Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), USA

Project Name: CMU Re-platform
Work Location: NYC & NJ, USA
Environment :Java, J2EE
Tools : QTP 11.0, IE7, PVCS, CQ,MQ
Team Size: 15
Duration: Sep 2012 – Mar2013

Role : Project Coordinator

Project Description:

CMU’s business processes are distributed into procedures which are controlled by various applications such as RTTM CMU, SMF, EMF and CDTS. The purpose of this project is to transfer CMU onto a new hardware and a new Operating System platform and then retire outdated Open VMS Operating system, which is currently running the backend of CMU.

Responsibilities:

  • Analyzed test results, generated test reports, and interacted with team of 15
  • Involved in team meetings with developers, managers, and other functional members to resolve issues
  • Arranged test scenarios and test cases based on business and function requirements
  • Set up and executed automation scripts from QTP11
  • Used PVCS to supervise version control activities of work products.
  • Training the offshore team in Manual processes and Automation Framework
  • Verify the Expected result with Actual value using DB
  • Manage version control activities of the work products using PVCS

Client: Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), USA

Project Name: Delivery Vs Payment (DVP) Rewrite
Work Location: NYC, USA
Environment : Java, J2EE
Tools : QTP 9.0, IE7, PVCS, CQ
Team Size: 12
Duration: Jan 2011 – Aug 2012

Role : Senior Test Analyst

Project Description:

Current DVP application utilizes a legacy TMX platform as the foundation and is going out of support at year end 2012. TMX and DVP utilize legacy development languages in its code base such as BLISS and Pascal. Given the increased risk that FICC will be exposed to due to lack of support of TMX it is imperative that all existing functionality is re-platformed to supported application and infrastructure which is Java, Web sphere and Oracle technologies. This project comprises Real Time Trade Matching (RTTM), Netting & Settlement, DVP Baseline and Admin & Reports functions. Delivery Versus Payment (DVP) provides real-time trade matching, clearing, risk management and netting for trades in US Government debt issues, including repurchase agreements or repos. The primary objective of this project is to rewrite existing DVP application on a J2EE based platform using IBM Web Sphere and Oracle. These systems are used to compare transactions in eligible Treasury bills, notes, bonds, and zero-coupon securities, as well as book-entry non-mortgage-backed agency securities. The transactions are then netted into one position per issue, whereby the Government Securities Division becomes the counterparty for settlement purposes for each net position.

Responsibilities:

  • Arranged test scenarios and test cases based on business and function requirements
  • Prepared and reviewed test data for automated test cases; involved in GUI, functional, and regression testing using QTP
  • Validate entire functionalities of the application, which includes entering trades (front office), SWIFT messages, batch files and validating the trades (middle office) performing trade actions and verifying the clearance and settlement files, reports and MRO (back office)
  • Involved in creating Function Library files (User Defined and Test Suite Common Functions) to support the QTP scripts
  • Perform regression testing using QTP automation tool
  • Executes the System Integration Test, maintains test statistics and report defects as needed
  • Manage version control activities of the work products using PVCS

Client: Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), USA

Project : New York Portfolio Clearing (NYPC)

Environment : Java, J2EE, Oracle

Tools:PVCS

Team Size: 6

Duration Involved: Feb 2010 – Dec 2010

Role: Senior Test Engineer

Project Description:

NYSE Euro next formed a joint venture called NYPC (New York Portfolio Clearing) with the objective of providing efficient capital utilization by enabling participants of both the organizations to margin through a single pot for their cash positions in US Treasuries held at DTCC’s FICC subsidiary and their US Treasury based futures positions held NYSE Euro next. The purpose of this project is to provide the necessary systems and infrastructure capabilities required for the Joint Venture.

Responsibilities:

  • Involved in understanding the client requirements and project functionalities.
  • Arranged test scenarios and test cases based on business and function requirements
  • Test Approach, Test Scenarios & Test Case creation
  • Maintained log of test results and interacted with team of six, developers, managers, and other functional members to resolve issues

Client: Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, NewYork, USA.

Project : NUWS – New Underwriting System

Environment : J2EE,

Team Size: 5

Duration Involved: May 2009 – Jan 2010

Role: Senior Test Engineer

Project Description:

The DTC Underwriting Department processes Offering and Issues to make Securities eligible at DTC. An Offering consists of one or more Issues, which in turn consist of one or more Securities under it. An Offering is created and/ or modified based on information received from various sources. Towards this, Announcements are used to manage the process of creation/ modification of an Offering, avoid creation of duplicate Offerings and to update Offering information in the system

Responsibilities:

  • Requirement study and identification of business scenarios.
  • Preparation of Test cases and test data’s.
  • Execution of test cases and logging the test results
  • Track the test data and test environment on daily and weekly basis
  • Performing Functional Testing of the Underwriting System.

Client: Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, New York, USA.

Project : General Collateral Finance (GCF)

Environment : J2EE, IBM

Tools:QTP 9.0, IE6, PVCS, CQ

Team Size: 5

Duration Involved: Jun 2008 – Apr 2009

Role: Senior Test Engineer

Project Description:

The objective of this project is to re:platform General Collateral Finance (GCF) from legacy technologies like VMS, Pascal, DEC:Net and TMX to an integrated, DTCC:wide standard. The application is based on the latest distributed technologies and will be implemented using state of the art hardware and operating system software. This application service enables the Government Securities Division's dealers to trade general collateral repos, based on rate, term, and underlying product, throughout the day without requiring intra:day, trade:for:trade settlement on a delivery versus payment ("DVP") basis

Responsibilities:

  • Understanding the client requirements and project functionalities
  • Establishing Estimates of the project
  • Test Scenarios and Test case preparation and execution
  • Scheduling and Tracking the Systems Integration Test activities
  • Executes the System Integration Test, maintains test statistics, as needed
  • Design and Develop Test automation framework
  • Preparation and reviewing of test data for automated test cases
  • Execution of the automation scripts and analysis of the test results
  • Defect logging /Tracking /Closure in Clear Quest
  • Manages version control activities of the work products
  • Status Reporting

Client: Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, New York, USA.

Project : NUWS – New Underwriting System

Environment : J2EE,

Tools: Quick Test Professional (QTP) 9.0,

Team Size: 14

Duration Involved: Dec 2006 – May 2008

Role: Test Engineer

Project Description:

The Depository Trust Clearing Corporation (DTCC) proposes to implement new flexible and scalable Underwriting processing to replace existing system to meet emerging and future business needs. The objective of the proposed new system will be to provide flexibility, reduce risks, improve operational efficiency and reduce cost for DTCC and its customers as part of DTCC services.

The New Underwriting System (NUWS) will facilitate processing old and new corporate action issues. This system provides user interface as well as receive automated offering announcement feeds from other systems.

Responsibilities:

  • Requirement study and identification of test scenarios.
  • Setting up the DTCC Test Environment.
  • GUI Test Automation Suite Scripts Preparation and Execution using QTP9.0.
  • Preparation of Functional Test cases for Underwriting System (Announcement and Parameters modules).
  • Performing Functional Testing of the Underwriting System.

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