Sumit Kumar
Jefferies
Mumbai
1
Certification
16
years of professional experience
Results-driven Quality Assurance Analyst with over 16 years of experience in equities, futures and options, specializing in the Cash Equities domain across front-office trading and middle-office operations. Expertise in trade life cycle management, FIX protocol, automation frameworks, and DevOps practices ensures seamless processes and high-quality deliverables. Proficient in test management, defect resolution, and production support, with extensive exposure to APAC markets and skilled in GUI automation using TestComplete and Python. Recognized for fostering effective collaboration among operations, developers, business analysts, project managers, and cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions in fast-paced financial environments.
Work History
Quality Assurance
4 Years- Project: Fidessa Front office(ATP & JTP) & Middle office (JCTAC & GCTAC), GETS, Project PJ
- Business requirement Analysis - Involved in analysis of the business requirement and it's impact on the current system functionality. Also, includes requirement sync up meeting with BA/PM & development team.
- Development of business scenarios and test plan
- Creating test condition based on testable requirement
- Coordination with Stakeholders, BA/PM & Dev
- ATP front office monthly release and upgrade testing
- JTP front office and JCTAC middle office release testing on Project PJ
- GETS functional, regression and reports testing
- GCTAC release and upgrade testing for Asia items
- Defects logging, tracking and retesting of ATP, JTP, JCTAC, GCTAC & GETS
- End to End testing (Font office, Middle Office, Back Office)
- Completed 3-months Tokyo onsite to deliver Project PJ
- Automaton using tool Test Complete and python
- Developed automation framework for trading platform ATP and JTP and integrating it into a Jenkins CI/CD pipeline
Quality Assurance
7 Years 11 Months- Project: Program Trading (APAC, EMEA, NA), GMOC, Ecstatic
- Requirement Analysis - Conducting detailed analysis of business requirements and assessed their impact on existing system functionality. Coordinating requirement sync-up meetings with the development team to ensure alignment. It also includes requirement sync up meeting with development team.
- Scenario Development - Designed comprehensive business scenarios and prepared the test plan to validate requirements. Creating test condition based on testable requirement.
- Test Condition Creation - Derived test conditions directly from testable requirements to ensure coverage and accuracy.
- Defects logging, tracking and retesting of NEWGEM (Sales Layer) & NEXTGEN (Trading Layer)
- Attending Defect meeting with developers & Traders
- Run daily NEWGEM Scrum call
- Run regression before every major release.
- Involved in Production deployment
- Involved in Production support & resolving trader's queries
- Working in DevOps model
- Ownership of Greenlight (Sever Automation)- run & analysis
- GUI automation maintenance & execution using tool test complete
- Ownership of application Ecstatic and managing as a BA/PM
Quality Assurance
3 Years 3 Months- Project: Portfolio Trading (APAC region)
- Work closely with QAs and developers
- Understanding requirement and prepare test case
- Test execution and Test Reporting
- Defects logging, tracking and retesting.
- Attending Defect meeting with developers
- Running regression scenarios
- Defect reporting of Workbench/Stealth Equities Order Management System
- End to End testing of Order flow from Order entry in Workbench/Stealth Order executions from Exchange
- Tested development of a new trading platform from order creation to end to end testing till exchange for all APAC market
Production Support/Quality Assurance
11 Months- Project: GPB (Global Prime Brokerage).
- Provide support and perform testing of the application.
- Advising and resolving client's issues related to trading and reporting
- Scheduling reports for clients, generating reports for clients for close of business
- Taking appropriate action on different alerts.
- Monitoring various applications on ITRS-Geneos.
- Test planning & management
- Test execution
- Scenarios execution on System Testing.
- Smoke testing
- Performing smoke test after releases are done and providing sign off
- Involved in weekend releases
Education
MBA - Business Management
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
Skills
Equities
Future & Option
Front office trading
Middle office
Trade Life Cycle
Test Management Tools -Quality Center
ALM
JIRA
FIX (Financial Information Exchange)
Experience on UNIX & SQL
Experience on Automation tool- TestComplete & Python
Functional
Regression & Integration Testing
Experience on AutoSys & ITRS Geneos
Experience in DevOps model
Experience of handling multiple projects & multiple roles
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC)
Certification
- NSE's CERTIFICATION IN Financial Markets: A Beginners' Module
- NSE's CERTIFICATION IN Equity Derivatives: A Beginner's Module
- NSE's CERTIFICATION IN Securities Market (Basic) Module
- Certified by Bank of America in MS Excel 2007- Intermediate Level
- Certified in ITIL 2011 Foundation course
Timeline
Quality Assurance
Jefferies
09.2022 - CurrentRead More
Quality Assurance
J P Morgan
09.2014 - 08.2022Read More
Quality Assurance
Bank of America
06.2011 - 09.2014Read More
Production Support/Quality Assurance
Bank of America
07.2010 - 06.2011Read More
Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS)
MBA from Business Management
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Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT)
Bachelor of Technology from Information Technology
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