SUMMARY:

• Software Quality Assurance Manager with over 15 years’ management experience in designing, developing and implementing software test solutions for Trading Systems and financial applications.
• Extensive hands on experience in end to end FX Trading Systems and Settlement
• Manage successful cradle to grave project solutions across multiple silos and business lines. Blend business analysis, QA, development, change management and project management skills that produce on time high ROI results from on shore and off shore resources.
• Historic success managing and delivering multi projects /sub projects on schedule with high quality results
• Define and implement long and short - term testing road maps. Introduce techniques and process for improved QA efficiency and effectiveness
• Build rapport across enterprise wide stakeholders. In corporate dynamic wants into systematic solutions
• Successful track record of building and managing QA Best practices, QA teams, enterprise wide test frameworks and “right fit” test tool implementation. Emphasizing a methodical, systematic engineered test automation practice.
• Managed and mentored (hands on) multiple on near and off shore teams ranging in size from 3 to 25.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Testing Tools: Selenium, UFT, LoadRunner, Quality Center, Rational, Aegis, Verifix

O/S: Windows, UNIX, Linux, IBM Mainframe

Development Tools: MFC, Visual Basic, VBA, Java, HTML, SQL, JIRA

Technologies: PVCS, Rational Unified Process, FIX, SWIFT, MQ

Databases: Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Jefferies, NYC

Test Manager/Automated Test Architect

Responsibilities:

• Managed a QA team (7) across 3 projects.
• Jefferies Derivatives Order Execution (JDOE) platform
• GETS - IPM Fix Message order processing
• Risk Compliance Reporting
• Designed, developed and implemented an Automated test engine that produced the following results
• Reduced previous regression execution time from 3 people x 3 week to 1 person 1 day
• Test Scripts were 100% data driven handling both static and dynamic test data
• The automation engine featured GUI, File and MS SQL data base verification
• Organized and ran multi project status meeting and Steerco Meetings

Confidential, White Plains

Technical Lead CCAR Compliance UAT

Responsibilities:

• Lead a 4-person team in across 2 projects (CCAR reporting and Legacy App Sun setting)
• Defining test scope
• Engineer the data validation rules
• Liaised between the BA and development to solidify test specification
• Designing, developing and executing over 600 tests
• Define and developed the CCAR defect process
• Triage, scheduling and reporting
• Testing was completed on time

Confidential, Jersey City

Automated Test Architect

Responsibilities:

• Established test scope for automation
• Created a test automation candidate process which help determine best fit application functionality to automate based on risk
• Over 300 test cases created
• Assisted in the design development and implementation of the Capco automated test harness solution
• The automated solution reduced the preexisting model from 3 weeks to 3 days that included functionality previously not tested

Confidential, NYC

IT Test Manager 5G Reporting

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of 6 testers for the QA tasks of three sub projects under the parent 5G project
• Over 600 test cases created
• Over 300 defects found and logged
• Project was delivered as scheduled with zero severity 1 or 2 defects
• Implemented test script review process
• Established and ran the defect triage/meeting
• Developed Project QA dashboard, Managed the project status, presented at weekly meetings
• Served as Administrator and SME for test management tool ALM for 5G project
• Authored 5G Go Live run book and T+2 test strategy
• Performed role knowledge transfer to existing CS resource

Confidential

Functional Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead a 4-person functional test team for Confidential ’s FIS ACBS 7.0 application rolls out. FIS ACBS 7.0 consisted of four sub projects each with different specs and stake holders and delivery schedule.
• Analyzed requirements established test scope, identified minimal test data requirements and established test rule to optimize the test environment conditions.
• Wrote and conducted peer review of test scripts
• Implemented a refined engineered approach to QA - data selection, test script modular development and emphasize test reuse
• Managed the project status, presented at weekly meetings and mentored team members

Confidential, NYC

Automated Test Architect/ Hands on QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Headed the automated test architecture for CLS’s Star FX Settlement System’s multi business silo quality assurance group of 4 tester /developer resources
• Test Automation/Manager topics included:
• Manage the successful testing of three separate projects
• Functional testing
• Test automation framework
• Centralized SWIFT message conversion and processing
• Designed, developed and implemented an Automation framework in Java within Selenium Web driver
• The framework enabled testers to drive and verify the application under test through the GUI and Database.
• Framework automated 60 % of core functionality tests within the first 3 months of completion
• Co-created the CIT (component integration test) to run on Development machines as a software quality promotion tool/process. This reduced CIT testing from 32 people hours to 4
• Subsets of QA’s automated regression was adopted by Development and run in the Dev environment as part of a formal delta acceptance criteria
• Implemented a refined engineered approach to QA - data selection, test script modular development and emphasize test reuse
• Analyze the Application under test to establish test scope and automation candidates
• Lead root cause defect analysis efforts which quantified reoccurring patterns in defective software
• Managed the project status, presented at weekly meetings and mentored team members

Confidential, Pittsburgh PA

Quality Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated and oversaw all testing phases of testing for Release 2 Customer Service Desk Top application. Release 2 experienced greater test coverage and 60% fewer production impacted defects.
• Implemented test engineer concepts that improved Release 2 test coverage (based on requirements) by 40 % with 70% fewer scripts then Release 1
• Headed up test data design and mining to improve test efficiency and predictability. This resulted in a net saving of approximately 12 people hours a week
• Redesigned the defect writing /review process resulting in a 60% net time saving of logging and reviewing defects.
• Championed stricter accountability for Unit testing resulting in fewer unit type defects being found by QA

Confidential, Warren N.J

UAT Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Headed the UAT project for Chubb HR Services. Team consisted of 5 in NYC and 4 in India
• Define test scope, establish best practices, define and create milestones and test objectives.
• In corporate the subject matter expertise of on sight personnel with the off-shore QA team
• Coordinate and assist in delivery of software, UAT progress and root cause analysis.

Confidential, N.J

Foreign Exchange Trader

Responsibilities:

• Launched private trading company specializing in Spot Foreign Exchange

Confidential, N. J

Automated Test Architect/ Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Headed the automated test architecture (QTP and Selenium) for RBC’s Accel Trading System’s multi business silo quality assurance group of 8 tester /developers, 4 on shore and 4 off shore resources
• Automation Topics tested included:
• Decompose the Application under test to establish test scope and automation candidates
• All GUI based applications
• Implemented a refined engineered approach to QA - data selection, test script modular development and emphasize test reuse
• Identified test need and suggested “right fit” tools such as Aegis Fix Simulator
• Extended Aegis Client and Exchange Simulators with an easy to use Fix Message Order Flow management tool.
• Coordinate AUT efforts by QA and business

Confidential, NYC

Automated Test Architect/ Test Manager Enterprise Financial Messaging

Responsibilities:

• Lead the test efforts for the FNI OnDemand Financial Messaging application based on an Oracle back end using MQ for our electronic messaging
• Met with business, development and end users to generate Functional /Performance specifications.
• Create test plan to include
• Test scope
• Resource allocations
• Test project plan schedules
• Create test data
• Performance min max and means
• Saturation / load testing
• Hands on manager for a test team of four, two on shore two off shore.
• Identify, design and develop automated test solutions for the project
• Created test best practices to leverage off shore testing resources
• Achieved 45% automated test penetration in the OnDemand project within the first 3 months
• Successfully off shored the 80% of the automated tests for daily and weekly test execution

Confidential, NJ

Automated Test Architect/Manager Equities Trading Platform

Responsibilities:

• Lead the automated test architecture which resulted in 20-fold productivity improvement of a 15 person on shore-5 people off shore multi project quality assurance group. Applications included Citi Real Time Trading, Program Trading and Citi’s centralized crossing engine which was built on a Oracle 10 and Weblogic and MQ series
• Set up the new Equities Trading engineering test team
• Recruited and Hire the test tool team
• Re engineered the inherent manual tester on a more data driven test approach
• Identified and procured the “right fit” tool for the environment
• Mercury test suite
• Aegis Fix message simulator
• Established test scope and test team acceptance criteria
• Defined the service level agreement between Dev and QA and QA and UAT
• Re factored the off-shore test strategy, implementing daily objectives, issue escalation process and weekly postmortems
• Partnered with BA's, DBA's and development across multiple silos to define and test performance SLA of our proprietary crossing engine
• Deigned and prioritized application performance test scripts. Developed, executed and reported results from incremental load testing of the crossing engine platform
• Automation Topics tested included:
• All GUI based applications
• Extended Aegis Client and Exchange Simulators with an easy to use Fix Message Order Flow management tool. Championed the beta release of Aegis/TIBCO protocol client simulator.
• System “check out” Unix processes and log files
• FIX, XML and Standard Formatted Messages (ACT,OATS)
• Server Side Order flow
• Coordinated and formalized specification composition with the Business, Development and Platform teams
• Partnered with Non Equities teams ( 3 unique groups) to create synergistic rapport which resulted in scalable tool solutions

Confidential, NYC

Automated Test Architect Trading Systems/Hands on Manager

Responsibilities:

• Built test tool team from scratch
• Recruited in house multi team talent
• Built the in - house test tool APIs and automation framework
• Researched, negotiated the purchase and implementation of 3rd party customized market data tools
• Redefined the QA team composition
• Implemented peer to peer cross making the team more fungible
• Defined and built and conducted a test boot camp to refocus the existing team on more efficient test practices
• Designed and developed Trading System automation best practices process that featured:
• Test automation analysis techniques to identify the most common problems plaguing automation.
• Quick ROI and proper resource allocation right person right role
• Developed a automation tool that allowed > 50 testers (25 from outside Trading System) to generate automated scripts without writing any code
• Responsible for the goal setting employee feedback and third-party performance review for QA personnel