SUMMARY:

Senior Financial Services professional with significant business/IT experience in all phases of the SDLC, specializing in, Business Analysis, PM initiatives and Quality Assurance for the Capital Markets and Banking industries. An excellent communicator and leader who has liaised as a Senior Business Analyst (BA), Senior Quality Assurance (QA) lead, and Project Manager (PM) roles with developers, analysts, senior C - level management and the user community in launching of new initiatives, business analysis, application design, roadmap strategy, and testing phases. Adept at developing business requirements, project plans, software specifications, test plans, use cases, test cases/scripts under Agile or Waterfall methodologies. Has extensive experience dealing with vendor off-the-shelf software, as well as customization efforts revolving around optimization of user/system functionality to meet enterprise needs. Demonstrates a high degree of leadership, analytical, communication, writing and presentation skills.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Business Analysis
• Testing Management
• Project Management
• Vendor Management
• Capital Markets/Banking (Front/Middle/Back Office Processes and Systems)
• Market//Client Data Management
• Regulatory Oversight (FATCA, BASEL, 871(m), AEI (CRS))
• Compliance (banking/brokerage)

TECHNOLOGY SKILLS:

HP ALM Quality Center (QC)

HP Quick Test Pro (QTP/WinRunner)

IBM Rational ClearQuest / Rational Functional Tester (RFT)

Scarab JIRA / Numara Track-It / FootPrints

MS SharePoint

SQL/UNIX

Crystal Reports - Business Objects

MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

MS Project

MS Visio

Agile Development Methodology

Rapid Application Development (RAD)

Serial Waterfall Methodology

Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Lead Technical Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Tasked with buildout of Agile Epic stories aligned with previously captured Business Requirements.
• Working closely with Scrum master in delivery of User stories per Sprint (2 wk. cycle), inclusive of story points estimation and grooming of backlog.
• Responsible for drafting and approval of Acceptance criteria compiled with business feedback.
• Responsible for delivery of detailed specifications created using Eclipse SVN tool operating within an IDE.
• Responsible for ensuring all completed user stories / specs successfully meet testing criteria and results validated thru a Jenkins automated testing solution.
• Lead weekly Status meeting with Senior management / stakeholders to on report on effort progress, RAG status, escalation items and next planned completion tasks.

Confidential

Consultant - Senior BA/Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Senior BA for the Security Master implementation at BAM including delivery of business artifacts (Business Requirements, project plans, gap analysis, data mining) across multiple back-office initiatives.
• Delivered and tracked business project plan targeting Bloomberg’s Back office (BBG BO) implementation for Equities and Futures investment types working closely with BO technology.
• Responsible for leading, tracking, reporting and obtaining user signoffs on testing efforts for BAM’s “Data Integrity” group.
• Responsible for issues tracking and resolution across multiple Security Master project workstreams
• Interfaced daily with traders, front/back office technology, risk, compliance, fund accounting, valuations and data integrity groups.

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Delivered UAT Test Strategy documentation/Test Plan covering GED/GPF business lines
• Served as main point of contact in production of UAT metrics, status reporting, and updates around the whole end-to-end UAT effort, inclusive of obtaining business sign-offs
• Creation of all UAT documentation, including: test cases, test scripts, testing cycle schedules, status reports and test completion reports
• Interfaced daily with front office, client on boarding, trading, trade support, operations, legal, developers, technical architects, designers, middle-office operations, tax support, settlement and clearing personnel to draft/publish system testing requirements, conduct user testing and obtain business and technology sponsor approval to ensure timely delivery of all testing delivery milestones

Confidential

Senior BA

Responsibilities:

• Workstream Lead for the business on FATCA (withholding and reporting workstreams) and Section 871(m) IRS regulatory initiatives
• Lead BA analyst role tasked with delivery of user stories for the development community (Business Requirements) as well facilitation and transformation from business to technical requirements working closely with the development stakeholder community
• Testing lead for the Business for all user stories, and serving as main point of contact in production of dashboard testing metrics, status reporting, and updates around the delivery effort
• Interfaced daily with trading, trade support, compliance, legal tax teams, technical architects, designers, developers, back-office operations, settlement and clearing personnel to ensure timely delivery of project deliverables/artifacts

Confidential

Senior Practice Manager

Responsibilities:

• As Team Lead for Capital Markets UAT effort, served as main point of contact in production of QA metrics, status reporting, and updates around the whole end-to-end UAT effort
• Creation of all UAT documentation, including: traceability matrices, test plans, test cases, test scripts, release cycle schedules, status reporting and test completion reports
• Delivered UAT Test Strategy documentation for overall firm client data migration effort - ensured all data sources, mappings and ETLs were fully functional and operational in the UAT go live environment and met business requirements.
• Interfaced daily with trading, trade support, compliance, technical architects, designers, developers, back-office operations, settlement and clearing personnel to finalize system requirements and receive business and technology sponsor approval to ensure timely delivery of testing deliverables
• Hired, trained and mentored QA/UAT testing staff

Confidential

PMO Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Delivered and tracked primary IT project plan targeting Confidential ’s phased implementation of the FIS “bank in box” solution
• Delivered testing strategy and executed planning for all phases of testing (Performance/SIT/UAT) through successful execution and obtaining of final business signoffs
• Responsible for management and reporting of the Defect Tracking and Remediation phase cycle of the testing effort
• Developed Testing Project Plan, Test Plans, Use Cases documentation, Test scripts and QA metrics across all phases of testing (Performance/SIT/UAT) effort

Confidential

QA Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Hired and mentored testing and development staff
• Delivered testing strategy and planning
• Completed all QA deliverables and led the UAT effort with the business through to successful execution
• Obtained business signoffs
• Responsible for delivering client data migration strategy documentation; included creation of validation test suite targeting data/functionality being migrated from legacy system to new platform.
• Responsible for management and reporting of the Defect Tracking and Remediation phase cycle of the testing effort
• Developed and delivered Project Plans, Test Plans, Use Cases documentation, Test scripts and QA/UAT metrics

Confidential

QA Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Performed hands-on front-end GUI testing and led back-end data reconciliation effort for data quality team, which entailed intense running of daily scripts (Linux shell) to clean up and transform data to company standards
• Introduced a risk-based iterative testing strategy in line with Agile development methodology
• Wrote all test plans, use cases, test cases, test scripts; and maintained and updated all project documentation, including all business requirements, business process flows and data migration run books
• Reported and tracked status of all defects/new requirements using TrackIt (later migrated to FootPrints) defect management tool
• Provided consolidated daily feedback on QA status to senior business and technology management teams reporting on progress, status, milestone completion and associated QA metrics
• Produced “usability & assessment” reports for each build/phase of the project for senior business sponsors, identifying application gaps/improvements as needed

Confidential

VP - Senior QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed in-house reengineering effort, implementing best practices across entire QA space via introduction of QA engagement paper, formal release cycle schedules, test plan template adoption and tasking QA with greater transparency and accountability across the testing phase
• Manual daily functional testing of development builds before and after release to QA environments along with logging of defects in JIRA for tracking / resolution / metrics
• Created/maintained a 1,500 test case suite along with associated use case documentation in HP Quality Center
• Supervised creation of all QA documentation, including - engagement paper, test plan, test cases, testing cycle schedules, status reports and completion reports
• Launched (on time/budget) a fully automated framework for 800+ test cases using Mercury’s QTP with custom VB Scripting for firm’s REPO and FX electronic trading platforms allowing QA to meet monthly regression testing demands
• Provided weekly metrics reporting to senior management, including progress and approach on all critical product / project issues, including project plan design
• Delivered all key testing milestones for each monthly release along with full completion and release reports

Confidential

Senior BA - QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the day-to-day running of project via a modified RAD methodology
• Managed creation of all project documentation including - Vision document, BRD, FRD, project charter, GUI mock ups, testing plans, use cases documentation and test cases suite
• Provided functional hands-on testing of daily builds, tracking and reporting defects to dev teams using Rational ClearQuest
• Managed project directing a team of 8 (2 offshore) and building a demo version in 10 weeks
• Provided weekly status reporting of project issues/defects to senior management, including highlight, progress and approach on all critical items during QA phase
• Served as liaison between the major IT development groups (architecture, GUI design, database and networking), business groups SMEs (credit risk senior officers, credit analysts), and outsourced developers on all project issues and business decisions