Vanitha Gaddam has over 3 years of experience in software testing for investment banking applications at Cognizant Technology Solutions. She has tested GUI, functional, database, regression, and performance testing for equity and derivatives trading platforms. Some of her responsibilities include preparing test plans, cases, and data, executing tests, reporting bugs, and providing sign offs. She led the testing for migrating a key trading component to Linux and increased productivity by changing testing approaches.

1. Vanitha Gaddam vanithagaddam91@gmail.com
+91 9642875285
PROFILE SUMMARY
B.E graduate with 3.11 years of experience in Software testing under Investment Banking domain.
Rich experience on testing GUI applications covering functional , Database and regression testing for Equity and
Derivative Markets.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Cognizant Technology Solutions : 3 Years 11 Months
Credit Suisse
Mercury Exchange
Links, Investment
Banking
Aug’13 – Present
QA Team size : 8
Dev:QA: 6:1
On-Site Location:
Singapore
Off-site Location:
Pune
OBJECTIVE
A key focus of Mercury is that the system needs to be reliable, fast (low latency), high-throughput
and resilient to support trading applications.
DESCRIPTION
Mercury provides a common trading interface to several exchanges either directly or via an
exchange gateway by using API. Mercury is an order routing and exchange link system that provides
an interface between order management system (agora) and exchange trading systems.
Prime Trade is electronic trading platform. It routes orders to Mercury for listed derivatives,
futures, equities only.
KEY ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Engage with Business Stakeholders, IT & QA from multiple LOBs
• Responsible for preparing Understanding Documents, Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Cases & Test
data
• Conduct Database, Sanity, Functional, Regression, System Integration & Performance testing
• Test Execution, Bug reporting & Defect management through HP Quality Center (ALM) & JIRA
• Preparing and providing QA signoff’s, assisting in Business Signoff & Go-Live
• Daily Status call with developers & weekly status call with Business
ACHIEVEMENTS
• Got deployed at ONSITE location & delivered 10 critical APAC releases for a new agora(Gen3).
• With developers collaboration, created an automation suite which has saved 70% of time taken
for regression test cases.
• Increased the productivity of the team by 40% by changing the testing approach.
• Increased the number of releases delivered by 20% by reducing downtime & implementing
better testing practices
• Got several appreciation mails from Business, DEV & QA managers for timely deliverables &
testing practices

2. Credit Suisse
Mercury Linux
Migration,
Investment
Banking
Apr’13 - Aug’13
QA Team size : 4
Dev:QA: 2:1
Location: Pune
OBJECTIVE:
This project is aiming towards migrating the Session Manager, a key component of Mercury to Linux
platform. This is being done to improve the performance and to get rid of platform dependency.
DESCRIPTION:
As the name suggest, this project involves a migration of a cloud of components from Solaris to
Linux platform. This major leap eliminates major third party components for cost effectiveness.
Agrsql is a tool which enables to insert new orders, modify, cancel into order management system
”agora” by inserting SQL queries into respective tables in agora.
KEY ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Engage with IT & QA from multiple LOBs
• Conduct Sanity, Functional , Database & Regression testing
• Responsible for preparing Test Cases, Test Execution, Bug reporting & Defect management
through HP Quality Center (ALM)
• Preparing and providing QA signoff
• Daily Status call with developers & weekly status call with Business
SKILLSETS
Operating Systems Windows 7 / 8 / 10, Unix
Testing Tools JIRA, HP ALM, QTP
Trading tools
GomanAsia, Goman Test, Prime Trade, Fix Client Simulator, Log Scanner, Prism, Pi, VEX
Order tool, Cnergy
SQL Clients & Other tools SQL Server, AgrSQL, VeriFIX, MS Office, Putty, TFS
CERTIFICATIONS
Software Testing
• ISTQB Foundation level external certification
• Fundamentals of Software Testing (Cognizant Certified)
NSE's Certifications
• NCFM- Financial Markets
• NCFM- Equity Derivatives
Banking & Finance
• Banking & Financial Services L0 certification (Cognizant Certified)
• Investment Banking & Brokerage L1 certification (Cognizant Certified)
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION
Degree Institute, University/Board Year
B.E (Mech) C.B.I.T/ Osmania University, Hyderabad 2012
HSC (M.P.C) Narayana Junior College, Hyderabad 2008
SSC Vivekananda High School, Hyderabad 2006

3. POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY
Cognizant Technology
Solutions
Exchange Links
Lead [ June’14 – Aug'14 ]
• Application Lead for Linux Migration
Mentoring [ Mar’14 – Present ]
• Responsible for training & grooming 7 new members in Exchange Links & Linux Migration
• Responsible for training BA on new functionalities
Process Related [ Oct’13 –Present ]
• Responsible for collecting & consolidating Execution Dashboards across Equities
B.E • Lead for final year project in Engineering for a team of 3 members
PERSONAL DETAILS
Father’s Name Vanitha Gaddam
D.O.B 13th
July 1991
Gender Female
Marital Status Single
Nationality Indian
Languages English, Hindi, Telugu
Hobbies Cooking, Gardening, Watching Movies & listening to Music
DECLARATION:
I hereby declare that the above-mentioned information is correct up to my knowledge and I bear the responsibility for
the correctness of the above mentioned particulars.
Vanitha Gaddam