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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Naperville, IL

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

Led, managed and executed QA process for full SDLC
Gathered, documented and maintained business requirement documents for Mutual Fund Trading and operations proprietary software.
Executed test cases and planned and developed test strategies for system tests.
Provided training to users and coordinated UAT for Portfolio Managers.
Reported and documented defects and offered recommendations and feedback to upper management regarding functionality and best practices.
Introduced new templates and job aids.
SME for junior staff.
Performed full System / Integration / Regression and UAT testing.
Conducted walkthroughs and presented demos to senior management.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Test Lead/BA

Responsibilities:

Helped establish best QA practices for full SDLC of X Trader.
Managed and mentored junior QA staff and acted as SME to junior staff.
Gathered, documented and maintained business requirements during process meetings and reviews.
Created, modified and organized use cases.
Responsible for QA and validation of X Trader of new electricity energy products and strategies launched on ICE Exchange.
Analyzed and validated all supported strategies for futures, options, currencies, bonds and energy products at the eCBOT, CME, LIFFE, Eurex, ICE/IPE exchanges.
Validated futures and option spreads, rolls, butterflies, swaps, volatility trades, synthetic positions, boxes.
Validated X Trader's implied spread creation engine on the CME and LIFFE futures and options exchanges.
Gained familiarity with specific FIX Protocols and FIX messaging for various exchange gateways.
Validated Auto Trader functionality using Excel formulas to create theoretical values for entry and exit strategies into futures, options and energy markets.
Verified P&L calculations in X Trader software.
Created, modified and organized use cases and manual test cases using Mercury Test Director.
Logged and managed defect tracking and recommended enhancements to improve functionality and usability of new X Trader releases.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

Managed staff of 3 and coordinated testing effort of SDLC.
Created test cases, validated expected results, logged defects and recommended enhancements to improve functionality and usability on all Betzold proprietary applications.
Tested Betzold's proprietary fixed Income trading software, including Bond Shape Analysis software and Fixed Income Portfolio Analysis software during full software development life cycle.
Tested and helped implement Microsoft CRM new sales process for Bond Sales desk.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

Managed and executed entire QA process through full SDLC for major release of EnCorr Portfolio Management and Analysis software for each iteration or sprint.
Developed excellent understanding of asset allocation principles, wealth management, portfolio management composition, strategies, and analysis.
Excelled in portfolio composition, input generation, attribution analysis, portfolio optimization, scenario building, and portfolio forecasting based on Monte Carlo and Resampling forecasting methodologies.
Created and maintained requirement documents, high level scope documents, master test plans and test strategy documents for client server applications.
Created use cases based on requirements.
Created and executed detailed test scripts and test cases for Monte Carlo simulation and resampling optimization of portfolios for EnCorr Optimizer software.
Measured test coverage using metrics created from previous software releases and documented project status weekly.
Performed full series of client specific platform, system, regression, and acceptance tests for full development cycle of all new EnCorr releases.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

Performed QA on several new releases in Waterfall SDLC.
Analyzed requirements and wrote test cases.
Performed QA by running test cases and verifying that each requirement was met.
Wrote bug reports for any new bugs detected and kept a record of new defects in log.
Once development fixed the bugs I retested the defects and verified that they were in good working order and moved on with the next software development cycle.