SUMMARY:

Senior Testing Analyst with extensive experience in development, testing and maintenance of financial and insurance systems. Experience with Defect Tracking and metric reporting. Able to work productively on individual and team projects. Proven success rate implementing projects within contractual delivery dates.

EXPERTISE IN:

• Functional Testing / SIN Testing
• Health Insurance ICD 9 - ICD 10 conversion
• SDLC
• Asset Servicing - Securities Processing
• Data Security Administration
• Mainframe

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools: COBOL, JCL and JCL Utilities, VSAM and VSAM Utilities, SQL, XML Endevor, Librarian, Panvelet

SWIFT, TSO: SPF, MONTRAN, CICS, MQ, UNIX,IBM DB2 and DB2 / BMC Utilities, IMS DB

Rational Clearquest including: Designer and User AdministratorQuality Center 9/10, Matador, XML Spy, DB2 Catalog Manager, FileAid, Marco 4, SPUFI, myGTM, SQL Developer, EZTRIEVE, TOAD, Putty, WINSCP, Adobe PDF Compare, Team Track

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

QA Analyst /Tester

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of Use Cases to develop and execute Test Cases for Medicare Supplement and Indemnity claims related to the ICD 9 to ICD 10 conversion.
• Detailed analysis of vendor test files.
• Developed backup/recovery process for the test ICD DB2 table. Automated manual processes used for analysis and batch test set up.
• Utilized Mainframe, TSO/SPF, JCL, CICS, DB2/SQL, SPUFI, VSAM, IDCAMS, Fileaid, Fileaid-DB2, Quality Center 9, Team Track, Excel, Syncsort
• Participated in the government mandated ICD 9 to ICD 10 Conversion.
• Utilized Fileaid-DB2 Extract and Load features to facilitate testing of the new ICD DB2 table, replacing Development COBOL programs performing these features.

Confidential

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of Functional Requirements to develop Test Cases to test software scanning for possible illegal NYCE/AMEX trades.
• Reviewed testing results uploaded from Oracle tables into spreadsheets, PDF reports and screen results.
• Utilized SQL/Oracle, Toad, Adobe PDF Compare, Light UNIX, WINSCP, Putty
• Conversion of software from the NYCE environment to the FINRA environment.

Confidential

QA Analyst/ Tester

Responsibilities:

• UAT Validation of Production Implementations.
• Most recent validation of Confidential Project.
• Wrote Test Plan, Test Cases and SQL scripts to validate zero loss of data when Dark and Live Servers are switched for upgrade with no down time to the business.
• Also assisted on other projects with Ad Hoc/Exploratory SQL testing.
• Utilized SQL/Oracle, SQL DEVELOPER, Quality Center 10
• Back end UAT against Oracle tables containing Client data.

Confidential

Mainframe Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Functional and Design Specifications to develop and execute Test Cases/Scripts to support DTC ID (Institutional Delivery) project at the Confidential .
• Utilized Quality Center 10 to execute manual test cases and record defects. Attended daily meetings with offshore developers to discuss testing and defects. Tests set up via INSYNC - DB2
• Utilized CICS, IBM DB2, SPUFI, TSO - SPF, INSYNC-DB2, JCL, Quality Center 10, MQ, COBOL
• Utilized my experience to assist both onshore testers and offshore developers in the participation of delivering fixed cost product to client.

Confidential, New York, New York

Functional Tester

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed business requirements and functional specifications, built test cases and test scripts.
• Created test data for test cases.
• Executed approved test cases.
• Recorded results and entered defects into Rational Clearquest defect tracking system.
• Attended daily Defect meetings and discussed results.
• Tests set up, executed and verified via in-house tools and business CICS transactions.
• Utilized CICS, IBM DB2, SPUFI, SWIFT, TSO - SPF, MONTRAN, MATADOR, XML, MACRO 4FileAid, JCL, DB2 UTILITIES, Rational Clearquest, myGTM, XML SPY, MQ, UNIX
• Supported merger effort of Asset Servicing business of Mellon Bank and Bank of New York into integrated process across legacy systems. Increased revenue due to new features made available to clients of the former individual firms.

Lead Security Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Administered system access requirements for approximately 80 users.
• Trained, supervised and assigned tasks to subordinate Administrators.
• Interfaced with other areas on behalf of users to obtain access requirements.
• Point of contact for network and access issues.
• Reviewed daily reports and followed up on violations.
• Performed access audits.

Lead Analyst Configuration Manager Environment Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Key member of team in the development, testing and implementation of a suite of Matador Automated Testing Tool XML objects.
• Resulting objects utilized to compare baseline and runtime data for differences at various capture points in the transaction life cycle flowing through various applications.
• Data was intercepted within databases, MQs and flat files.
• Oversaw the release of new and modified Matador objects into test environment, backup and recovery of test environment. Collaborated with application areas to determine points in transaction life cycle to capture data.
• Utilized IBM DB2 and DB2 / BMC Utilities, SPUFI, SWIFT, TSO - SPF, MATADOR, XML, FileAid, UNIX, JCL, VSAM and VSAM Utilities, myGTM, MQ, Endevor, SQL, Matador, XML SPY, SWIFT, COBOL
• Pilot project’s review and verification of Swift messages performed in one day versus average of 4 days to manually review.