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Rashmi Linganwar

Mumbai

Summary

Quality Assurance professional with 8 years of experience in manual and automated testing for banking and financial applications. Expertise in analyzing requirements, designing comprehensive test strategies, and executing various testing types in agile environments. Skilled in defect lifecycle management and test planning, with a focus on supporting automation initiatives. Proven track record of delivering high-quality releases on time while mentoring junior team members and collaborating effectively across functions.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Quality Assurance Analyst

Bank of New York Mellon
Pune
07.2017 - Current
  • xecuting manual and automated testing for banking applications like NetX360 and NetXInvestor to ensure quality, security, and regulatory compliance.
  • Analyzing business requirements, functional specifications, and user stories to design effective test coverage.
  • Developing and maintaining test plans, test scenarios, and test cases for multiple banking products and releases.
  • Performing functional, system integration, regression, smoke, UAT, and mobile testing for web, mobile, and enterprise banking applications.
  • Designing and executing regression test suites to validate system stability after enhancements and fixes.
  • Identifying, documenting, triaging, and tracking software defects using defect management tools, and validating fixes.
  • Collaborating closely with developers, business analysts, and product owners to resolve issues and improve product quality.
  • Participating in requirement and design review sessions to identify risks, gaps, and potential quality issues early.
  • Planning and managing testing schedules and deliverables to meet project scope, timelines, and release commitments.
  • Identifying test cases suitable for automation and contributing to automated regression and smoke test execution.
  • Supporting production validation and post-release activities, including issue analysis and verification of fixes.
  • Mentoring junior QA team members and supporting continuous improvement of testing processes and best practices.

Key Projects:

Regulatory Reporting Testing – CAT & CAIS

  • Validated customer data accuracy, reporting logic, and regulatory file generation.
  • Tested historical data downloads and client self-service reporting features.

Next Best Action (NBA) Scoring Model

  • Performed functional and data validation testing on predictive scoring models.
  • Ensured correctness of model outputs across multiple customer segments.

FINRA Compliance Reporting – AMPS Trading System

  • Tested trade reporting workflows to meet FINRA regulatory standards.
  • Ensured end-to-end reconciliation between front-end trades and backend reports.

Historical File Download Feature Testing

  • Tested historical data file download functionality for large data volumes and multiple date ranges.
  • Validated file formats and data accuracy

Greenfield Migration Testing

  • Performed system, integration, and regression testing for greenfield application migration.
  • Executed smoke and sanity testing during releases and cutover phases.

Wealth Dashboard Testing (Net Assets, Top Clients & Top Movers)

  • Performed functional testing of wealth management dashboards displaying net assets, top clients, and top movers
  • Ensured accurate data representation and consistency across user views and reporting metrics.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering

Maharashtra Institute of Technology
Pune
06-2016

Skills

Automation Testing:
Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Cucumber (BDD), Maven

Manual Testing:
Functional, Regression, System, Integration, UAT, Smoke Testing

API & Backend Testing:
REST APIs, Postman

Databases:
SQL Server

Tools & Platforms:
JIRA, ALM/QC, Git

Domain Expertise:
Banking & Financial Services, Regulatory Reporting (CAT, CAIS), Trading Systems

Methodologies:
Agile (Scrum), SDLC, STLC

Timeline

Quality Assurance Analyst

Bank of New York Mellon
07.2017 - Current

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering

Maharashtra Institute of Technology
Rashmi Linganwar