Software Quality Assurance Analyst Resume
Boston, MA
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Operating Systems: Windows
Applications: Microsoft Office, Verifix, TwoFour, Bond Desk, Bond Trader Pro, MarketAxess, Bloomberg, IPREO, Bond One, FBSI, Trade Web, FNX, HP ALM Quality Center, Wealth Central, StreetScape and ION Winfits, Microsoft Access, JIRA, Microsoft Project, and AS400.
Database Languages: Knowledgeable of SQL (Sybase and Oracle)
Programing Languages: Knowledgeable of Visual Basic
Automation Tools: Knowledgeable of HP Unified Functional Testing (QTP)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, Boston, MA
Software Quality Assurance Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Assist with the development and integration of buy side fixed income and forex trading projects.
- Participate in business requirements and functional specifications reviews early in the software development lifecycle process.
- Execute software testing to include functional testing, system testing, regression testing, and performance testing.
- Manage scheduling to ensure efficient and effective product testing; identifies and reports risks to project schedule and product quality and proposes new methods to control and/or mitigate risks.
- Generate effective status and progress reports to the QA Manager and project team managers.
Confidential, Merrimack, NH
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Work as a liaison between Confidential ’s Technology and Business teams to ensure functional requirements are being fulfilled.
- Develop test plans, and execute test cases to ensure applications are free of defects.
- Coordinate a defect triage process between Confidential ’s Technology team and third party vendors to provided resource planning, and resolution of issues that impede the test effort.
- Monitor and measure test progress by using the appropriate quality metrics.
Confidential, Boston, MA
Sales Assistant
Responsibilities:
- Worked as a liaison between Confidential ’ New York based Trading Desks and the Boston Sales Desks for booking of Credit Default Swaps, Interest Rate Swaps, and Credit trades.
- Executed trades on behalf of the sales people when needed.
- Directly supported all facets of client coverage from confirming trades to resolving client trade disputes.
Confidential, Boston, MA
Associate
Responsibilities:
- Worked as a business partner with leading investment banks to be a distribution channel (selling group) for new issues of equities (initial public offerings & follow - on) and debt ( corporate bonds & fixed rate capital securities) deals.
- Oversaw the weekly issuance of taxable corporate bonds under Confidential ’s “ Corporate Notes” program that generated estimated $1.5 million revenue annually by selling medium term notes to institutional and retail channels.
- Assisted the municipal bond trading desk with tax-free new issue offerings by acting as a liaison to Confidential ’s registered retail sales teams.
- Introduced new ideas and participated in every aspect; from trade execution SEC compliance, round table discussions, feasibility analysis, and financial analysis.
Confidential, Boston, MA
Operations Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Performed the daily operations for a securities lending program associated with Confidential ’s mutual funds that represented over $4.6 billion dollars of securities--which encompassed foreign and domestic equities, Confidential (repos), and dividend arbitrage.
- Also, problem solved market-to-market discrepancies and interest rate disputes.
- Provided due diligence to Confidential ’s Fund Accountant team to ensure the net asset valuations of mutual funds accurately reported profit & loss of securities out on loan., and worked to ensure the funds complied with the Investment Company Act of 1940.
- Worked with Confidential ’s Compliance team to ensure controls were maintained while working with outside third parties.
