Developer, Software Quality Assurance Resume New York, NY - Hire IT People

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York, NY

Developer, Software Quality Assurance

Responsibilities:

Currently working for a hedge fund administrator as a Python developer.
Position entails writing testing software that verifies software functionality.
For the past year I am writing testing software for Private Equity Middle Office, but have worked with hedge funds and related financial instruments.
Python programming involve writing scripts that help automate software testing.
The product knowledge required is in depth knowledge of stocks, options, fixed income (Bonds and Swaps) and trading work flow.
Have built server and client side solutions using PHP, Python and JavaScript to web enable manual procedures.

Confidential, New York, NY

Associate Front Office/Middle Office Developer

Responsibilities:

Front Office and Middle Office developer for Interest Rate Swaps.
Developed several VBA applications that helped traders publish trade prices to various ECN’s, enhanced the blotter that traders use to keep track of their position and P&L.
Worked on several enhancements to trade blotters and risk analysis spreadsheets.
Ensured that LIBOR curves were correct for risk management
Managed certain aspects of the traders position database by executing SQL commands.
Help traders with the publishing of rates by setting up codes on Reuters Market Data Services
In addition to Excel/Access VBA and Python development, I also supported several internal pricing applications used by the traders, marketers and middle office.

Confidential, New York, NY

Sr. Back Office Developer

Responsibilities:

Work for the industry’s largest hedge fund administrator as a developer of VBA applications to streamline work flow operations for P&L, Settlements, Back and Middle Offices.
Position required in - depth knowledge of Fixed Income Products, Equities, Indexes, CDS, Interest Rate Swaps, Options and other financial products.
Developed, maintained, tested and trained personnel on various VBA applications that reconciled the client’s portfolios and cash movements for back and middle-office.
Streamlined reporting with the creation of a shared database that would track issues under investigation by various departments.
Used SQL to query our internal client database to cross reference several portfolio products.
Helped create and test various SQL queries for our clients that gave different views of their portfolio with various fundamental data appended from other databases.
Aided the new business department with the conversion of the client’s portfolios to the company’s proprietary database.
Provided company wide training in MS Excel and Macros/VBA.
In addition to the above, I also managed one junior developer.

Confidential, New York, NY

FICC Credit Derivative Operations (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

Main responsibilities encompassed the development of VBA applications (MS Access and Excel) that reconciled the bank’s portfolios, cash movements and gathered statistics on all of the client’s portfolio data.
Built and implemented various VBA applications (MS Access and Excel) for IRP, CDS Back and Middle Office that streamlined much of their work flow.
Provided monthly reports that tracked the reconciliation process of CDS, Vanilla Swaps, Forwards, Futures, Equities and FX trades through various metrics.
Reviewed and thoroughly investigated P&L discrepancies by working closely with the Bank’s controllers, IRP and CDS teams.
Assisted department (FICC Derivative Operations) in the transition from their legacy trade system into a new streamlined application.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: Python, PHP, Javascript, VBA

Frameworks: JQuery, Backbone JS, Underscore JS, Twitter Bootstrap

Tools: Git, SVN, Grep, Sed, Vim, Selenium, Sublime text, Eclipse, Bloomberg, MS SQL Server, MySQL, Tomcat and Apache.