AVANICA CHRISTIAN

Team: Capital Markets – Trading Technology

Clients: DGX, NUAM, SGX, Sydney Stock Exchange, Singapore Stock Exchange

• Developed, executed, and maintained end-to-end test plans for trading APIs and gateway components with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance, and compliance.
• Proactively uncovered functional and integration bugs in early stages of development to reduce cost of defect fixes in production.
• Led full-scale regression testing efforts for critical software releases across multiple environments to ensure seamless production deployment.
• Built and maintained test cases in automation frameworks to streamline validation cycles and improve CI/CD coverage.
• Collaborated with DevOps to implement smoke and sanity checks into nightly pipelines for rapid feedback.
• Daily collaboration with customer delivery teams, including direct touchpoints with Business Analysts and PMOs from client organizations to clarify business requirements and technical use cases.
• Participated in requirement validation workshops, UAT cycles, and client release readiness calls to align expectations and address risks upfront.
• Maintained strong working relationships with external customers (exchange clients) by resolving issues efficiently and delivering timely updates.
• Ensured technical and business traceability from requirement to test to release.
• Facilitated daily standups, sprint planning, grooming sessions, and retrospectives within the QA and development teams.
• Created and managed Agile artifacts such as sprint boards, user stories, subtasks, and definition of done.
• Served as a key point of contact between QA and other functions (development, DevOps, product) to remove blockers and improve sprint velocity.
• Ensured continuous improvement through metrics tracking and retrospective action item follow-up.
• Guided team through complex change requests and ensured delivery within committed sprint timelines.
• Contributed to planning and execution of multi-sprint delivery roadmaps, coordinating efforts across internal teams and client-side project managers.
• Created and maintained project timelines, risks/issues logs, and status reports using Microsoft Project and Jira.
• Worked closely with senior management and client-side program leads to address scope changes, delivery delays, and impact assessments.
• Owned validation and sign-off of code packages before production releases, working closely with Release Managers and Product Owners.
• Coordinated go/no-go meetings for major client releases, ensuring all quality gates were satisfied.
• Led regression testing and environment validation during cutovers and client onboarding.

• Responsible for creating framework for Web and Mobile Automation using Selenium and Appium
• Expertise in creating BDD framework from scratch
• Created new automation scripts, refactoring, regression execution test cases and triaging the failed scripts.
• Responsible for preparing weekly and monthly dashboards and presenting the data to senior management.
• Ensure the team follows coding guidelines by reviewing the code/pull requests.
• Assist in the identification and design of automated processes to increase testing efficiency and reliability.
• Used Java as a programming language and Eclipse as IDE for automating the Test Suite with Selenium WebDriver.
• Designed and developed Hybrid Framework using Java and TestNG.
• Used Page Object Model (POM) repository design pattern for storing all the web elements for code maintainability and reusability for Selenium automation.
• Working with JIRA as a project management and defect tracking tool.

• Designed and implemented Jasmine Protractor frameworks from scratch to support Angular and non-Angular app testing.
• Executed and maintained automated test scripts across multiple projects integrated with Jenkins and Azure DevOps.
• Participated in all Agile ceremonies, facilitated test planning and story point estimation with cross-functional teams.
• Led regression testing, smoke testing, and created weekly test status reports for stakeholders and product owners.
• Managed defect tracking and root cause analysis using Jira and Azure DevOps.

• Participating in all phases of development lifecycle by providing input during definition and design meetings, walkthroughs and software testing in an Agile environment
• Analyzing business requirement documents, textual requirements use cases, copy decks, user interface definitions, and error messages to understand the purpose and scope of test cases
• Reviewing documents to understand testing requirement, test environment, test objectives and created Scenarios/ Test Cases based on the Requirement documents
• Performing Sanity, Functional, System, Regression, Smoke, User Acceptance testing (UAT) and End-to- End testing of functionality and their respective integrations
• Working in conjunction with the developers to create and use a Data-Driven Selenium automation test scripts using Selenium WebDriver, Java and TestNG framework

• Perform responsibilities of writing test plans and testing complex softwares.
• Creating and supporting Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.
• Handle tasks of assisting in development and administration of test case management systems.
• Responsible for testing product functionality, researching and filing change requests in the bug/enhancement database.
• Coordinate with testing engineers to debug and troubleshoot defective products.