Gurinder Pal Singh
Mississauga,Canada
Summary
Experienced Quality Assurance Team Lead bringing over 9 years of expertise, with a strong background in the financial services domain. Managed the entire test lifecycle, from requirement analysis to test closure, ensuring efficient and effective testing processes. Led and supervised a team of QA leads, analysts, and engineers (manual and automation), implementing industry best practices for optimal quality outcomes. Demonstrated expertise in designing and executing test automation frameworks, collaborating closely with test and development leads for comprehensive functional and non-functional testing strategies. Also gained valuable experience as a Business Analyst at client locations, adeptly gathering and documenting requirements in an agile development environment to facilitate the creation of new features and functionality.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Quality Assurance Consultant/Team Lead
CIBC
08.2022 - Current
- Successfully managed different phases of software testing lifecycle starting from requirement analysis, test planning, test design & preparation, tests environment setup, test execution, test analysis, test closure, go-no-go & gating.
- Successfully led multiple FX software projects in a portfolio across products and multiple line of business as a SME/program lead. Enhanced product quality by implementing rigorous testing procedures and identifying areas for improvement.
- Involved in providing cost & effort estimations to project managers, maintain project capacity plans and allocate QA resource to different projects.
- Successfully led multiple projects simultaneously managing number of QA leads and analysts. Involved in monitoring team efficiency and reporting to the management.
- Involved in preparing test strategy document, test approach workbook, test suite design and test exit report.
- Involved in providing end-to-end test solutions to management, tech architects, project managers, business analysts and developers.
- Understand project requirements and provide solutions during new intake meetings, HLD/LLD walkthrough and user stories grooming sessions with business, project manager, tech architect, business analyst and developers.
- Collaborate with relevant stakeholders at all levels, both internal and external, to proactively preventing defects and practice best quality engineering practices
Quality Assurance Analyst
CMiC
03.2021 - 07.2022
- Involved in different phases of software testing lifecycle starting from test planning & design, test environment setup, test execution, test reporting and defect logging & tracking in Jira.
- Successfully tested different products such as ERP, project management, accounting & payroll system on web and mobile applications.
- Involved in identifying test automation use cases, developing & executing test scripts using TestComplete for functional & regression testing.
- Participated in regular meetings with cross-functional teams to discuss progress updates, communicate concerns or challenges, and ensure alignment of project goals.
- Involved in test environment setup by deploying SQL scripts in different test environments.
- Involved in test suite design, test case creation and test execution in TestRail. Involved in creating user stories as per the functional requirements, defects & reporting in Jira.
Algo Test Engineer
uTrade Solutions Private Limited
05.2019 - 11.2019
- Successfully led test lifecycle activities such as test planning, test preparation, test execution, test analysis, test reporting and defect logging and tracking.
- Successfully tested different low latency Arbitrage, Execution and Market Making ML based trade algorithms such as TWAP/VWAP/POV etc.
- Involved in testing applications starting from integration, system, regression and UAT on desktop, web and mobile application.
- Involved in testing multi-asset front and back office trade application across desktop, web and mobile, along with comprehensive risk management and global market access.
- Involved in testing APIs interaction with different front end & backend applications using Postman.
- Involved in business analyst activities such as gathering requirements, planning, scoping, monitoring and reporting.
- Designed web application user interface used by brokers for online trade inquiry service to monitor trades and modifications.
Senior Test Engineer
Infosys Limited
11.2015 - 03.2019
- Successfully supported project manager and development teams across all phases of testing from planning to execution, troubleshooting and reporting within high-volume agile environment.
- Successfully supported project manager and development teams across all phases of testing from planning to execution, troubleshooting and reporting within high-volume agile environment.
- Successfully created automated test scripts using Selenium & UFT/QTP with the help of hybrid test automation framework for functional & regression testing.
- Integrated test scripts with CI/CD pipeline and pushed the test scripts to Bitbucket central repository using Git.
- Completed E2E testing starting from unit, integration, system and regression tests under tight deadlines to meet client demands and project timelines.
- Executed test scripts for performance testing using LoadRunner.
- Worked as a Business Analyst to understand the business requirements from the stakeholders and document the requirements in Jira/Confluence that can be taken up by the scrum team.
- Involved in booking trades of different asset classes and product types from Murex front office and performing back office validations.
- Executed UNIX scripts for real time & end-of-day jobs for trades and file processing.
- Executed database queries in MySQL to validate the data and functional testing of the requirements in different test environment.
- Developed functional requirements of web application in Java, running the Jenkins pipeline and deploying the code to test environments using Urban code Deploy (UCD).
- Updated the test results in Jira and followed up with business stakeholders for test results approval.
- Collaborated with developers and project managers to assess application capabilities, features and testing demands.
Education
Post Graduate Certificate - Project Management
Durham College
Oshawa, ON12-2020
Bachelors of Engineering - Electronics & Communications
Chitkara University
Baddi, Himachal Pradesh, India06-2015
Skills
- Test Management, Functional testing, User acceptance testing
- Project Management, Team Management
- Business Analysis, SDLC, STLC
- DevOps, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall
- Financial Services, Regulatory Reporting, EMIR, Dodd Frank, MiFID, CFTC, Fintrac
- Capital Markets, Murex, FIX Protocol, FpML, Global Payments, TANGO
- MicroFocus UFT, ALM, Selenium, TestNG, Cucumber, Postman, LoadRunner, Appium, Parasoft SOA
- Java, VBScript, MySQL, Unix, VBA, API Testing
- Jira, Confluence, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Excel, TestRail
- Jenkins, Bitbucket, Urbancode Deploy, Git
Awards
- Awarded CIBC MomentMaker award for outstanding performance.
- Placed on College Honor Roll for excellent results in project management post graduate certificate.
- Awarded Certificate of Appreciation Recognizing Superior Performance by Infosys Limited in FY19.
- Awarded Certificate of Excellence by client for remediating the most number of Secure Coding Issues among all the client teams.
Languages
English
Hindi
Punjabi
Certification
- Core Java - Piford Technologies Pvt. Ltd. 2015
- Network Specialist - HCL Learning Limited 2015
- Embedded Systems using PIC microcontrollers - Eureka Electrosoft Solutions Pvt. Ltd. 2013
Timeline
Quality Assurance Consultant/Team Lead
CIBC
08.2022 - Current
Quality Assurance Analyst
CMiC
03.2021 - 07.2022
Algo Test Engineer
uTrade Solutions Private Limited
05.2019 - 11.2019
Senior Test Engineer
Infosys Limited
11.2015 - 03.2019
- Core Java - Piford Technologies Pvt. Ltd. 2015
- Network Specialist - HCL Learning Limited 2015
- Embedded Systems using PIC microcontrollers - Eureka Electrosoft Solutions Pvt. Ltd. 2013
Post Graduate Certificate - Project Management
Durham College
Bachelors of Engineering - Electronics & Communications
Chitkara University
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