SUMMARY

• Results oriented software quality professional with commitment to uncovering software deficiencies and delivering well tested applications.
• Certified quality specialist by QAI for CSTE and CSQA. Acknowledged by peers and managers as detailed and thorough tester, focusing on customer needs.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Montvale, NJ

Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed team of 5 onshore / offshore testers for Domestic / International Money Transfer Settlement, including Agent Commissioning and Financial Accounting.
• Set test strategy and delivered 250 releases per year in Settlement, Data Warehouse and ETL for 190 countries and Compliance / Regulatory Reporting for US (SAR & CTR) and 75 countries (i.e. PSD, Australia, Russia, Germany, India, utilizing Application Lifecycle Management (ALM / QC). Testing spanned multiple platforms Tandem, Unisys, AS400 and SQL Server
• Administered and customized code migration database built in Lotus Notes / Domino.
• Saved time tracking open projects for QA team moving from spreadsheet process to Jira on Linux. Support the application at the shell and administration levels.
• Received 41 Recognition Awards for successful customer revenue and regulatory projects.

Technology Environment: Tandem (HP Non - Stop) / TView, Unisys / eQuate / UTS Express, IBM iSeries DB2 and SQL Server, using SQL, Rational Visual Test and AutoIT, iSeries Access for Window, Navigator and IBM DataStage, HP toolset: QTP & QC/ALM. Linux/BASH

Confidential, New York, NY

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Application interfaced with Fund administrators (IFS) data and ADP BKSR processing. Microsoft Access database used for analysis of test data/results.
• QA Lead on a Member Firm Billing application. Analyzed requirements and created the test plan and test cases. Test execution included backend data validation with SQL in Oracle.
• Tested client server application (SAP database) for Market Data subscriptions.
• Validated the data flow from user application to administrative application to the back-end SAP system.
• Technology Environment: Oracle eBusiness, Toad, Oracle, SQLDeveloper, SAP

Confidential, Brooklyn, NY

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Led an in-depth testing and analysis with LoadRunner of ACH application during bank merger. Modified the scripts, designed the testing scenarios, selected monitors for observation, and performed detailed analysis, isolating issues.
• Led the testing effort of Java based risk management application - Horizon.
• Interviewed candidates for expansion of test team
• Designed / deployed case repository in 3 days for UAT group in Lotus Notes for Compliance / Financial Intelligence Unit of payments monitoring application - SONAR, eliminating system based on email exchange of test cases, and reducing errors.
• Ensured compliance with FINCEN data search requirements by testing upgrades of payments monitoring application, and supporting Regression Testing and UAT of application.
• Tested new application portal for ACH, Lockbox, Funds and Check Image Inquiry, and Payment Initiation (Payment types (Fed Drawdown, Fed Payment, Fed Admin, and Chips and Book Transfer)), supporting 15,000 users among 3,000 corporate groupings and processes $400B in payments / day. End to end testing from entry to processing on Federal Reserve Bank (FRB) processing systems. Worked with interfaces to PegaSystems and Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems applications.
• Participated in the creation of Payments Initiation (Fed and Chips) application (Requirements Analysis, Test Planning, Test Scripts, Testing, Defect Reporting, and Management). Analyzed Audit logs and performed backend data verification.
• Wrote dynamic data driven automation scripts in Rational Visual Test for volume and load testing of web applications, using OLE Automation, and logging of results to SQL Server.
• Improved productivity of collecting data from 12 transactions / hour to 1200, supporting merger by creating an automation script for collect and scrape data from Pega / Rumba 3270.
• Performed the setup and documentation of testing environments for Java applications.
• Enhanced defect tracking application in Lotus Notes and acted as Mercury TestDirector Administrator.
• Received Service Star Team award for the delivery of ACH application.

Technology Environment: ADO, COM / DCOM, MTS, MSMQ, ASP, JavaScript, MS SQL Server 7.0, Oracle9i, Rational Visual Test, Mercury LoadRunner, Quality Center, TestDirector, PegaSystems, Visual Basic 6.0, IIS, Visio, J2EE / servlets, Quest SQL Navigator, OLE Automation / COM, ODBC, Rumba, CMM, XML, MVS, Tandem.

Confidential, New York, NY

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Awarded placement on Proxicom Olympic Team for MLX project contributions.
• Ranked as largest producer of valid defects by factor of 4, on new browser based portal - MLX for clients of Confidential in fixed income, equities, post-trade securities services, futures, options, stock lending and investment banking pitchbooks.
• QA lead on outsourced and customer applications (BankNet, OPUS, GreyScan, FactSet and RTS).
• Used Rational ClearQuest to log and migrate QA documents for the versioned application.
• Tested a migrated (DOS to Windows) foreign exchange (FX) application (currency trading / contracting and creating Settlement Standing Instructions (SSI) )
• Performed system testing of various Cash Management (Insight) applications (web and client server) (FX, G/L, Payment initiation, decision support). Verified data integrity from front end entry or backend feed (mainframe and SWIFT)
• Designed a tool for automating the download of daily sales data

Technology environment: Java, CORBA, and Oracle, Gupta, C, C++, VB, Crystal Reports, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Test, CCAP