Business Analyst/qa Manager Resume
Jersey City, NJ
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
- Thirteen years of IT industry experience in Testing, Analysis and Audit of Banking, Financial, Accounting and Compliance applications.
- Seven years of QA Management and Team Lead experience. Highly organized with great attention to detail and proven ability to identify cost - saving opportunities, solve complex problems and improve processes.
- Possess strong management and organizational skills. Establish priorities, effective time management, perform well under pressure, perfect change management.
- Self-motivated, innovative, flexible, willing to learn. Team player, yet equally effective, motivated and hard working independently. Multilingual: English/Russian/Hebrew.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Documentation Tools: (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Share Point).
Project Management tools: Microsoft Project, Sciforma PS8, PsNext, Collabnet TeamForge
Testing Tools: Mercury ALM Quality Center (Test Director), IBM - Rational ClearQuest, IBM - Rational RequisitePro, Mercury QTP.
Databases and Tools: MS SQL, Oracle, Access, DB2, PL/SQL, TOAD.
Financial Applications: Accenture Alnova Core Banking System, Actimize RCM, Norkom, securities trades applications, FIX.
Operating systems: Windows, Unix, MacOS, mainframe, network, communication, hardware.
Development: VBA (Visual Basic for Applications).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, Jersey City, NJ
Business Analyst/QA Manager
Job responsibilities:
- Analyzing and testing solutions for Compliance/Trade surveillance/Fraud detection.
- Improving the quality of Risk Case Management (RCM) software products.
- Maintaining Functional and Technical Requirements documentation for SAM models, including reverse engineering (analysis and documentation for currently operating applications).
- Analyzing rules/alerts/data for AML Suspicious Activity Monitoring (SAM) models.
- Managing QA and testing processes through SDLC from Project Initiation to Delivery.
- Leading local, cross-regional and off-shore users through UAT stage and Regression.
- Establishing and Implementing QA techniques, methodologies and principles for Compliance IT.
- Creating Testing Plan (STP), Design (STD) and Test Results (STR) documents.
- Leading and Maintaining Test Execution in multiple environments DEV, INT (SIT), UAT using CollabNet TeamForge, Quality Center (ALM - Application Lifecycle Management Software) and Share Point.
- Back-end testing (database), creating complex SQL scripts for data mining and manipulation (Oracle and MSSQL based), using PL/SQL, TOAD, MsSQL.
- Front-end GUI testing for web-based applications.
- Functional, E2E, Performance and Regression testing.
- Defect Reporting, Management and Verification, outstanding issues analysis and escalation.
- Collaborating with local and overseas Dev team, Users, Project and Product Managers, Business Analysts.
- Maintaining Waterfall and Agile/Scrum SDLC.
- Participating Design Review, Defect Review, Status Review meetings.
Confidential
Quality Assurance Team Leader/Project Manager/Software Testing Engineer.
Responsibilities:
- QA team lead for banking platform exchange multi-year project, based on implementation of Accenture Alnova Core Banking System.
- Built, trained, led and supervised QA testing team of 5 people at all SDLC of the projects: requirements, planning, coding, testing (Integration, UAT-User Acceptance Testing and Regression), post-production, defects identification and verification.
- Conducted and improved testing and administrative processes, Risk Management assessments and mitigation, detection and elimination of bottlenecks.
- Successfully managed and delivered Banking Accounting Interface related projects during large-scale Rollouts and small-sized Releases for different Banking Modules - Fixed Income, Equities Trading, Derivatives, Term Deposits, Loans, Current Account, Foreign Currency (FX), Transfers, Direct Debits, Treasury (Financial Instruments), Bill Payments, Branch Management, Bank Checks, Check Clearing.
- Developed, reviewed and documented Software Testing Plan (STP), Software Testing Design (STD), Software Testing Results (STR), Post-Test Conclusions processes.
- Created testing scenarios and managed test execution according to specifications and methodologies using Quality Center (Test Director) application, Clear Quest, RequisitePro, QTP.
- Back-end testing (database), creating complex SQL scripts for data retrieval and manipulation (mainframe IBM DB2 SQL and Unix), using different banking applications for data mining (Dealing Room securities trading application, FIX messaging, Checks Clearing application, Foreign Exchange (FX) application).
- Front-end GUI testing for Web and Java based applications.
- Effectively interfaced with High-Level Management, Analysts, Development and Testing teams to facilitate short and long-term plans aligned with company goals.