Note: candidate will send or present DL at interview stage (GC candidate)

Muhammad Bejan
Current location: New York
Day one Onsite available: Yes
LinkedIn: Not much active
Previously Employed by Genpact: Yes/No: No
Work Authorization: GC
Skill Matrix: Production/Application Support, SQL, Unix/Linux, Mortgage Back Securities Investment
banking

Over 8 years of experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle, such as QA Analyst, Production
Support Analyst, and Business Analyst in financial industry. Deep understanding of the Software Developing Life
Cycle and Software testing life cycle including Planning, designing, implementing, testing, documenting, and
identifying defects on technical specifications or business workflow.

 Member of Agile/Scrum team which works on Equity, Fixed Income, and Options trading applications.
 Great experience in all phases of Agile methodologies and working experience in Financial Industries.
 Good knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), as well as the Software Test Life Cycle
(STLC).
 Working closely with Project Manager, Product Owner, Developers, UAT partners, and Business
stakeholders.
 As a Business Analyst I use analytical, technical, and organizational skills experience to facilitate implementation of
business and systems solutions.
 Working closely with developers within scrum team and attending daily stand-up calls to review the sprint
progress.
 Good experience on writing Business Requirements Documents (BRD) and Functional Requirements
Documents (FRD)
 Excellent analytical skills on reviewing and analyzing user stories, acceptance criteria and specifications to
develop test cases.
 Created Test Plans based on Functional Requirement Document (FRD) and Business Requirement
Document (BRD)
 Well experienced in executing GUI testing, Functional testing, User Acceptance testing (UAT) and
Regression testing.
 Good knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, and Power Point)
 Good understanding in Capital Markets, Fixed Income, Equities, Risk management Over the Counter (OTC) Trading
life cycle.
 Expert in Capital Market and Financial Instruments: Equities, ETF, Derivatives, Bonds and Fixed
Income
 Good knowledge in FIX Protocol, XML, Electronic Trading
 Excellent knowledge of Trade Life Cycle (TLC), Order Management System (OMS)
 Experience with financial industry message protocols - FIX Protocol. Experience in using Verifix tool to
perform End to End testing of Trade Life Cycle.
 Having hands-on experience in doing Level 2 Production Support, Maintenance and Bug-fixing.
 Have good technical skills to fix technical issues escalated from Production Support level 1.
 Report meaningful and detailed bugs to development teams through JIRA.
 Used UNIX/Linux commands to monitor log files and troubleshoot different issues.
 Wrote complex and simple SQL queries using various JOINS, Aggregate Functions, sub-queries, and
other clauses for Backend testing.
 Good experience developing and reviewing Requirement Traceability Matrix.
  Well experience in using Linux Terminal to extract FIX Logs for fix message testing.
 Worked with the QA team in developing a testing strategy for the project, determining the appropriate
manual and automation testing including UI, Web Service API, and Functional testing.
 Created and submitted Test Analysis Report including the status of test cases, defect reporting with
analysis.
 Execute Automated Regression scripts with Selenium WebDriver and identify root cause of failed test
scripts.
 Involved in Backend Data warehouse ETL testing with SQL, checked the data integrity.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

 Languages: JAVA, Python, HTML, VB Script, PHP

 Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Excel, Verifix, Splunk, Json, GitHub, Jenkins, Selenium WebDriver, HP ALM
 Database: MY SQL, ORACLE, MS SQL Server
 Operating Systems: Linux/Unix, Windows, Mac OSX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

TD Ameritade
Production Support Analyst / Business Analyst New Jersey, NJ July 2020 –
Present

This is an electronic trading platform that allows the users to trade different type of financial instruments such as
Equity, Fixed Income, Options, Futures, Forwards, Mutual Fund, and ETF. Also, with this platform you can see the
latest financial news and track the market.

Responsibilities:
 Member of Agile-Scrum team working on fixed Income and Equity trading platform.
 Working with both Business and with Software Development technical teams to estimate development
efforts, project scope, and to construct project plans based on the requirements which I have gathered and
documented.
 Working as a part of Scrum team, in an agile methodology with sprint cycles, daily stand ups and story
implementation large cross functional project and support issues.
 Organizing meetings with Developers to discuss the requirements on how to bring new features
successfully to our platform.
 Collaborating with Product Owner on bringing new changes to the project application.
 Attending BRD meetings to understand the requirements of enhancement requests.
 Updating Requirement document as per Business user feedback and change in functionality of the
application.
 Analyzing and resolving Business issues which requires direct interaction with the Business user.
 Documenting and delivering Functional Specification Document (FRD) to the project teams.
 Providing weekly status updates to project manager on the progress of project development activities.
 Creating templates to perform variance analysis, expense analysis and cash flow analysis using Excel.
 Good experience on different types of capital market products such as Fixed Income securities (US
Treasury Bonds, Corporate Bonds and Mortgage Back Securities) and Derivatives (Futures, Forwards,
Options and Swaps).
 Working closely with Front Office Business to make sure all the trade flow thought STP platform.
 Using Microsoft Excel spreadsheet tool for performing calculations, analyzing data, and integrating information from
different programs.
 Member of Production Support team for analyzing and troubleshooting the support team reported issues.
 Reviewing and analyzing the Level 2 Production Support issues escalated from Production Support
level 1.
  Working on the JIRA tool to provide time-to-time status of the work on the tickets related to any users in
resolving application issues.
 Monitoring the Logs using Putty and Splunk for issue debugging to help Dev team for quicker defects resolving.
 Worked with IT Support to create file location for the clients to get their files successfully transmitted.
 Creating ticket for Enhancement Request and assigning to IT Support/Developer team.
 Escalated the high priority issues to development team and working with them closely to fix the issue
through call meetings.
 Resolved the production support issues assigned from L1 by troubleshooting and Root Cause Analysis.
 Reported status of the weekly tickets assigned from Support team to project manager.
 Organized meeting every week with Development team to overview the existing issues.
 Using Linux/Unix Commands for troubleshooting and maintenance.
 Running SQL queries to perform Data Validation and Data Integrity testing to ensure data quality.
 Writing SQL queries to analyze large amounts of production data from database and server application
logs.

Fidelity Investments
QA Analyst / Production Support Analyst Jersey City, NJ September 2018 –
June 2020

Trader Pro is a dynamic trading platform that provides customizable tools to trade, track the market, see the latest
financial news, and monitor the portfolio. Platform allows users to trade equity, fixed income, mutual funds,
Options, Futures and ETF’s. Also, platform includes advanced functionalities and features such as different Order
types and TIF’s.

Responsibilities:
 Member of Agile-Scrum QA team worked on equity trading of Active Trader Pro
 Analyze business requirements document, prepare test plans, and test cases to validate the functionality being built.
 Participate in daily and weekly team meetings and discuss Enhancement and Modification requests.
 Locating defects and collaborating with developers to resolve technical issues.
 Performed different types of testing like GUI testing, Functional, UAT testing, Regression, Integration,
End to End, Backend, Positive and Negative testing, ETL testing.
 Create Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to make sure that all requirements are covered with test cases.
 Had a JIRA bug tracker tool for Bug Life Cycle
 Expertise running End to End tests with automated scripts using VeriFIX to simulate Exchange.
 Manually performed Functionality testing of trading stocks, ETF and Equity Options.
 Participated in Production Support Level 2 as a Subject Matter Expert (SME)
 Review test cases and other testing artifacts to ensure the accuracy and completeness of all testing materials.
 Create backlog items for Automated Regression and assist QA Engineer in creating End to End scenarios and expected
results that can be converted to Automation script.
 Execute Functional, End to End and Performance testing of electronic trading system via VeriFIX
 Tested Trade Order Management Systems: trade capturing, processing, matching, settlement, and notification.
 Retrieve FIX Logs using Linux Terminal and analyze FIX message (tags and values) with and without FIX translator.
 Create SQL queries for Back-End testing to verify UI tables, transactional functionalities, and filters.
 Used VeriFIX to perform End to End testing and conduct Performance/Volume testing with FIX messages.

Tradeweb
QA Analyst Jersey City, NJ | July 2016 -
August 2018

Trader Web Bonds: it is an electronic platform which allows investments and industry professionals to efficiently
monitor price change and trades of corporate bonds and other types of Fixed income instruments.
Responsibilities:
 Analyzed business requirements, prepare test plan and test cases based upon product specification.
 Developed test plans, test cases, and test scripts for SIT and support for UAT tests.
 Performed GUI, Smoke/Sanity, Functional, Negative/Positive, Backend, End-to-End, and Regression
testing of Web based applications.
 Used Excel to write test cases, executed test cases using ALM, mapped to requirements.
 Used HP ALM to organize and manage all phase of the software testing process, including test planning,
executing tests, tracking defects, and creating Test Analysis Report (TAR)
 Developed Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to track requirements during the QA testing phase.
 Verified data matching, data cleansing process of ETL and validated the reports and tables generated.
 Analyzed and monitored the proper integration of Market data into the system.
 Performed GUI Front end and Backend testing of the application using SQL query.
 Simulated different level of user access to assure that user receives data based on their status.
 Investigated issues and provided suggestive solutions to the QA supervisor to correct issues.
 Worked closely with Developers, Business Analyst and other stakeholders involved in project
development.
 Escalated arising risks to the Business Analyst and Project Manager to avoid project delay.
 Consulted and helped with knowledge transfer to new team members.
 Investigated issues and provided suggestive solution to the QA Lead to fix the issues.

Wells Fargo
Manual QA New York, NY | November 2014 –
June 2016

This is a Web application which was developed for allowing account holders to perform online transactions like pay
bills, personal accounts, transfer of funds and balance enquiry. QA member is involved in the release note validation
and regression validation of the End-to-End scenarios.

Responsibilities:
 Involved in analyzing the Business Requirements and Functional Specification documents.
 Designed and executed of Test Plan, Test Case Execution, reviewing test cases in QA environment.
 Involved in Backend testing for Database integrity by executing SQL queries for validating the data in the
Backend database tables.
 Worked in Agile and Waterfall methodologies depending on the projects assigned.
 Used JIRA tool for trucking bug and create tickets for founded bugs.
 Involved in creating Requirement Traceability Matrix to ensure comprehensive test coverage of
requirements.
 Conducted UAT and reported Defects to Developers
 Performed GUI and Functionality testing of the web application on Windows and UNIX/LINUX
 Facilitate knowledge transfer to team and Coordinating with the team for fixing the issues.

EDUCATION:

BS in Computer Information Systems | Tajik National University | Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 2009

Certificate in Computer Programming and Application | New York Institute of English and Business | New
York, USA