SUMMARY:

• Comprehensive experience in planning and managing software quality assurance activities. Provide strategic QA vision and quick delivery with proven ability to build, inspire and mentor quality assurance global teams in successful implementation of latest QA processes. Demonstrated success in reviewing and applying test strategies and ensuring quality of functional, performance and regression testing for large - scale projects. Expertise in:
• Waterfall | Agile Methodologies
• Test Strategy | Test Planning
• Manual Testing | Automated Testing | UAT
• Test Plans | Use Cases | Test Cases | Stories
• Communication with Cross-Functional Teams | Reporting
• Requirements Gap Analysis| Large Data-sets Analysis | Visualization
• Financial Market Data and Securities (fixed income, equities, etc.)
• Data Delivery Platforms | Wealth Management Reporting
• Trading Platform (basic) | Trading Principles
• Defect Tracking: TFS | Jira | QASAR | Bugzilla
• Sybase | SQL
• Confluence
• Managing Offshore | Onshore Team
• Automated Tools: HP Quick Test Professional (QTP) | SOAPSonar | SilkTest | Scripting (basic)
• UX Testing | UI Testing
• API | XML | HTML
• HP Quality Center
• MS Office Professional | Access
• MS Visio | MS Project
• Windows OS | UNIX (basic)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

QA Lead (contract)

Responsibilities:

• Planned and defined test strategy.
• Reviewed business requirements, hands-on with developing test plans and test cases.
• Examined current processes, reviewed workflows and made recommendations to develop functional improvements
• Collaborated with downstream stakeholders to establish and in corporate testing in SDLC process including auto-deployments.
• Defined QA process and onboarded QA team.
• Planned UAT and assisted users during User Acceptance test execution.
• Worked with Broadridge products.
• Defined automated test process and strategy.

Confidential, New York, NY

Application Architect, QA (contract)

Responsibilities:

• Planned and defined test strategy for Mercury User Management project.
• Reviewed business requirements and user stories, hands-on with developing test plans and test cases.
• Defined test data for automated and manual testing.
• Communicated with cross-functional teams.
• Worked with QA offshore team building test suits and test cases.
• Wrote concise, well-organized defect reports.
• Identified and logged defects in software development tool - Team Foundation Server (TFS).

Confidential, New York, NY

QA Manager, Financial & Risk

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with Development, Business, OPS, Database and Service teams discussing test approaches and strategies, edge cases, and test scenarios.
• Monitored testing results, compiling reports and risk assessments based on feedback from teams, communicating project testing status, progress and risks across multiple projects to stakeholders.
• Analyzed requirements, developed test plans and implemented test approach that ensured adherence of product to application requirements.
• Planned, allocated resources and assigned tasks to global engineers determined by individual experience and technical strengths.
• Designed and implemented Performance Portal for QA and Development teams used for executing performance tests and collecting data, such as execution time, extractions size (number of instruments and fields), server name, and including any delayed and failed extractions, analyzing statistics and generating reports.
• Analyzed and visualized large data sets to define test samples and identify data usage trends to recommend future development. ed ‘Employee of the Month’ for delivering strategic high-visibility project, overcoming resource challenges, frequent requirements changes and tight schedules.

Confidential

QA Team Lead, Financial & Risk

Responsibilities:

• Built repository of over 4000 regression tests used during testing cycle and production releases.
• Introduced HP Quality Center that stored, organized and maintained regression test suites and tracked progress of test execution, enhancing capabilities and overall efficiency than previous methods.
• Increased testing productivity 80% by implementing automated testing (Quick Test Professional-QTP) and batch scripting.
• Designed and implemented library of over 500 SQL queries, along with automatic updates, increasing efficiency of creating and maintaining test data samples 15 times.
• Monitored and remained hands-on with all projects, identifying and filing all issues in clear and concise manner.

Confidential, New York, NY

QA Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Coached, guided, and mentored QA team members, ensuring proper procedures were followed and requirements were met.
• Created test plans, test cases and requirements traceability matrixes, meeting business requirements, technical specifications and use cases.
• Worked with quality management tool, HP Quality Center, managing business requirements, new and regression test cases and test suits, test execution progress and test reporting.
• Documented software issues using bug-tracking system (Jira), reporting defects to software developers.
• Designed MS Access database and modules that helped manage large amount of test cases with limited resources.

Confidential, New York, NY

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Led testing efforts of Web Services API to access market data.
• Created presentations and learning materials for data delivery via FTP.
• Developed and executed test procedures.
• Performed data mining (fixed income, equities, corporate actions, derivatives, mutual funds), creating test sets.
• Analyzed performance statistics and compiled reports.
• Evaluated automated test tools (Silk Test, QTP, SOAPSonar) and established functional automated testing in QA team. Worked with vendors to obtain quotes and demos for selected test tools.
• Defined testing strategies and testing scope for buy - and sell-side for TTMS (Turnkey Trade Management System) project.