SUMMARY

• Leader in IT Quality Engineering with unique blend of experience in CMM, ISO Quality Standards, Healthcare Compliance, Cloud Computing, DevOps, CI/CD, Test Automation, SDLC (Scrum and Waterfall), Databases and People Management. Worked in various industries: Healthcare, Quantitative Analytics, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Financial Market Data, Securities Trading. Banking and Manufacturing. 20 years of extensive experience in Systems Development, Project Management and Process Improvement.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago IL

Quality Engineering and Test Architect

Responsibilities:

• Leading the efforts to implement Quality Engineering and Governance for WK’s Clinical Effectiveness organizations.
• Establishing CMM model to improve software quality and governance standards.
• Implementing High Risk based testing methodology where priority is given to High Risk areas for testing.
• Developed and maintaining a Roadmap and Test Strategy for QE to align with company’s 2020 roadmap
• Working with Business and Technology Leadership teams to prioritize and facilitate Quality Engineering standards.
• Maintaining Metrics and KPIs to facilitate Process Improvement practices
• Review test artifacts to make sure they meet Healthcare compliance standards including HIPAA.
• Setting up RedwoodHQ as a common automated testing framework within WK’s Clinical Effectiveness organization.
• Facilitating common tools and templates to streamline SDLC processes and ISO Quality Standards across the WK’s Health and Clinical Effectiveness organizations.

Confidential, Chicago IL

Manager, Quality Assurance

Responsibilities:

• Managed Software Quality Engineering for Confidential ’s Financial and Risk Quantitative Analytics products which were developed in AWS, Azure, SQL Server, Oracle, C++, C#, Java and Python.
• Implemented QE best practices and Agile software development life cycle methodology across multiple teams. Helped in facilitating common tools such as, JIRA, Confluence and Slack to help in facilitating smooth Agile process.
• Maintained roadmaps to align QE resources with all product development and maintenance.
• Lead software test automation projects involving Selenium, Jenkins, Quality Center, JIRA, Zephyr, SQL, Python, Java, PowerShell, QTP and LoadRunner.
• Lead non - functional testing: Performance, Disaster Recovery and High Availability.
• Managed Quality Engineering for migrating a 10 TB quantitative analytics investment banking content set into Azure IAAS and PAAS. My responsibilities included:
• Partnered with Preposition Managers, Product Managers and Development Managers to review the Scope, Business Requirements and developed a Test Strategy.
• Worked with Technology Leadership to acquire budget and resources.
• Worked with Microsoft to train my team on Azure and CI/CD best practices.
• Involved hands-on in setting up CI/CD framework using Azure DevOps (VSTS).
• Partnered with Development team to implement TDD by pushing testing at the Unit level.
• Lead scrum meetings with Dev, Operations and Product teams to track releases and issues using JIRA.
• Worked with business users to identify business scenarios to accomplish UAT.
• Represented QA in leadership meetings. Provide estimates and project sizing.
• Implemented automated testing using Python and PowerShell.
• Managed testing for strategic content delivery platform being developed on AWS:
• Participated in planning and scope discussions to identify applications, technology and content sets to be moved into AWS micro service architecture.
• Facilitated training on AWS micro services and CI/CD for all QE teams.
• Worked with Architects, Development Directors and Operations to establish KPIs, Test Strategy and DevOps/CI/CD methodology.
• Reviewed business requirements on confluence and provided feedback.
• Established testing team to implement a TDD methodology and deployed fully automated testing framework into CI/CD pipelines. Tools used: Jenkins, Maven and Artillery.
• Partnered with other managers to establish test requirement standards for best practices.

Confidential, Chicago IL

Test Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Managed user acceptance testing for Derivatives and Collateral Management products. This involved coordinating with global teams to ensure seamless integration of third-party products into Confidential ’s Asset management system.
• Used Microsoft Project to manage Derivatives Technology and Collateral Management testing projects, which included managing project estimates, schedules and resources.
• Participated in gathering business requirements, defining scope, and developed test strategy.
• Developed use cases to validate third party applications, such as, Summit for trade capture and Colline for collateral risk management.

Confidential, Chicago IL

Automation Lead and Assistant Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead multiple electronic trading testing projects by shifting focus on different projects based upon the business need. The applications were developed in .NET, AS400 and DB2, and supported primary securities trading business of the company. The applications were capable of trading all the front-line trading instruments, namely, OTC, Equity, Options and Swaps etc.
• Developed and executed Test plans, Test Specification, Testing Scope documents, Risk assessment models, manual test cases and automated test scripts. Tools used were QTP (VB Script and C#) and Load Runner.
• Subject matter expert in FIX simulators, position monitors, order routing, trading rules, and compliance/regulatory reporting concepts.

Confidential, Schaumburg, IL

Senior Software Engineer / Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Performed testing of GSM, CDMA, and Cable Telephony software releases on UNIX platform.
• Developed test specifications, test plans, test cases and automated test scripts in C.
• Participated in process improvement efforts to achieve CMM Level 4 for the organization.
• Developed UAI automated test scripts in Winrunner.
• Tested Integrated imaging radiology software for GE Medical Systems (06/99 to 10/99).
• Implemented test automation for US West using WinRunner.
• Developed software applications in VB & Oracle for Northwestern University (01/98 to 01/99)