SUMMARY:

• Obtain challenging Systems engineering position in which I can utilize my programming, networking, problem solving and leadership skills and experience.
• Offshore and onshore staff and project management
• Experience in high availability financial institution software development
• Expert at deconstruction complex business requirements into actionable items
• Expert at reverse engineering, modification and re - use of existing applications in various languages
• Expert at communicating with all team members including business partners, management, engineering and QA staff
• Quick to adapt to changing requirements and business needs
• Full life cycle Agile methodologies and project management
• QA test plan creation, documentation and dissemination
• Expert at data mining, data correlation, data parsing and statistics calculation
• Manage daily dev, uat and production releases from scheduling through testing and deployment in an agile environment in 2 week sprints

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior QA

Responsibilities:

• Senior QA responsible for test plan creation and execution for all aspects of the Credit Default swap GUI, front end and back end applications.
• Automate QA and UAT baseline code, including Oracle and Mongo refresh using Jenkins pipeline
• Automate data warehouse / data migration using TEST-NG framework. Implement queries and configurations needed to validate movement of data from application schema to csv to temp tables and ultimately to cache feeding GUI.
• Transform limited specifications to detailed and actionable teste cases and test executions
• Participate in practice installations, releases and production event triage.
• Work daily with oracle, eclipse, git and jira

Confidential

Lead QA / Release Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead QA / release manager responsible for creation and execution of test plans, test code and frameworks needed to evaluate APIs used to create and modify global navigation map data.
• Implement python (pytest) framework supporting 200+ test cases that exercise map data create, update, delete functionality through rest API / json requests
• Full life cycle software project management from intimal requirements through development, code review, deployment and release notification.
• Manage the daily testing and release of features as they proceed through the SDLC

Confidential

QA Lead / Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Technical /QA lead of a Support Team responsible for reproducing and predicting production issues within a series of highly critical trade clearing applications.
• Responsibilities include analysis of production issues, recreation and documentation for the creation of test plans and production SOPs for Deliveries, FEC, Positions and tools.
• Manage on shore and off shore QA and development assignments based on complexity and skill sets.
• Full life cycle software project management from intimal requirements through development, deployment and production support.
• Participated in a Security Scan management Process for the Risk Management team.
• Projects include creating and modifying Perl modules to read scan data and create, populate and modify Jira tickets (restful API) with inputs from excel, flat files, DNS servers and Oracle sources.
• Contribute the development of tools used by the CME Clearing IT Production Support department to identify and repair defects in the creation, matching and completion of real-time commodity trades.
• Other development projects include creation of a Spring - MVC Security Dashboard using Google charts as a means of monitoring security ticket creation and resolution over time.
• Developed internal java/j2ee application which stores, schedules and executes Oracle SQL (jobs),Outputting email reports with excel attachments to a distribution list.
• Utilized, Java, J2ee, Spring, Oracle, JDBC and JavaScript skills to deliver a robust product currently being used daily by the Clearing IT Production Support team as a secure and traceable alternative to query tools such as 'Toad'.

Confidential

Second VP

Responsibilities:

• Implement new features and reports as part of the ‘Fundamentals’ Trust customer facing attribution application which was available to the firms high profile policy holders.
• Application calculates fund manager performance compared to current index values
• Contribute to the server side changes originating from business partners and production bug backlog
• Features supported including but not limited to the calculations of excess, cumulative and annualized returns for investor’s portfolios and indexes.

Confidential

Java Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead Software Engineer responsible for the creation and maintenance of Broadband internet infrastructure dashboard.
• Architecture, coding and testing of a Multi-Thread Java-SQl application, which parses, filters and saves WiMax (Broadband Internet) Statistics and Alarms in XML format, for report generation via a Web interface.
• Designed java modules to calculate cellular Outage/Availability percentages for key customer network elements by correlating alarm data saved to Oracle by the database loading application.
• Work with business team to deliver custom Cellular Equipment Alarm Reports, in near real time, to network providers as a Sold Service.
• Experience with high volume manufacturing including 6 sigma concepts
• Experience with creation of accelerated failure induction processes