Experienced QA Engineer

• Solutions-focused QA Engineer with FIX Forex Trading and managerial experience- high-level proficiency in developing manual and automated testing processes. Proficiency with Fixed income and Equity Trading Systems that make use of FIX protocol and running under all OS's. and middleware. Experience building a QA department with the supported infrastructure from ground zero. Successfully proven multitask abilities. Expertise with the full SDLC and the STLC processes.
• Qualifications include five years of QA software testing experience and seven years of managing off-shore and local QA teams, having as results the improvement of the QA cycle/processes and reducing overall testing time and cost.
• Excel in creating/reviewing product documentation, application requirements, test plans and writing/running test cases and automated test scripts to pinpoint software defects, track bugs, close open defects and validate functionality.
• Excellent personality and interpersonal skills, self-motivated, confident,dent otivatedMS-SQL/SQLceed,Samba,RationaAD, SMART,
• dars environments. distinguished team player, goal oriented, eager for knowledge, well performing under pressure and meet or exceed always the goals.

Testing Proficiencies Skills Summary

QA Testing Experience

QA Team Manager

Confidential

• Manage the product's release cycle and deliverables.
• Analyzing FIX logs and Market data
• make use of FIX protocol and verifying that meet protocol requirements and standards
• Provide daily QA for the institutional proprietary FXCM trading platform and products that
• Manage a QA team that is involving with the institutional side of trading FIX based transactions
• Improving and creating test plans and test cases according the FIX and Business specs.
• Develop in house QA tools that automate - accelerate the testing process and the regression cycle.
• Contributed to high-reliability technology releases and to the improvement of the overall QA processes.

QA/Systems Manager

• Manage a team of three QA engineers and two systems engineers.
• Provide QA support for our health insurance software which supports back office operations, including claims modules, provider modules and authorization software.
• Act as the liaison between the developers and clients in order to define requirements and drive product development.
• Create and customize solutions for clients such as GR-ING Inc, Finix Inc. and Aspis Inc.
• Administering the STLC ensuring that the QA and the development processes, flowing smoothly in order to meet the standards and the delivery/release dates.
• Effectively managed the testing environments used by QA and developers.
• Contributed to high-reliability technology releases and to the improvement of the overall QA processes.

Offshore Hands on QA Team Lead,

Managed an offshore QA team of 7 engineers in Philippines that provide daily QA to all products developed by Javelin Technologies. All products make use of FIX protocol .Often traveled and worked in Manila .This team of QA engineers was responsible for testing Appia FIX engine, Fixometer, cRouter FIX conversion solution, and TradeScope FIX monitoring application.

• Solid background in Human Resources including recruiting/hiring, training, and performance evaluation.
• Coordinated meetings to keep in sync the STLC and the SDLC.
• Applied dynamic administrative skills towards effectively planning and scheduling releases of all Global FIX Technologies products such as Appia, Fixertifier, Tradescope. Instant Trader, Fixometer, and Crouter and verifying that meet the FIX protocol standards.
• Analyzed and prepared product release notes and documentation.
• Exhibited exceptional projects administrative and multitasking skills defining testing environments needs, specifications and project testing procedures.
• Effectively managed the testing environments, test plans, test execution, and QA resources for the NYFIX Manila offshore team.
• Developed in house QA tools that accelerate the testing process and saved company money.
• Contributed to high-reliability technology releases and to the improvement of the overall QA processes.

Senior QA Engineer QA Systems Administrator ,

• Responsible for creating test cases/scenarios bases on FIX protocol.
• Defined performance requirements.
• Defined load/stress testing strategies.
• Performed regression and performance tests.
• Analyzed the test results, make possible corrections and creating reports.
• Effectively making use of Korn shell and Perl scripts automated the testing cycle of each product .
• Automated the UNIX testing environments making extensive use of Korn shell scripts.
• Managed and maintained the QA environments in NYFIX' New York and Manila offices.
• Provided system administration and management of wide range of UNIX platforms including SUN Solaris. Workstations Servers ranging from Ultra 5's, 10's, 80's, Sunfire class, AIX, HP 800/9000 and Intel.
• DBs and Oss Installations and administration, troubleshooting, installing new hardware, new packages, patches, software, upgrades and license managers, keeping the QA environment up to date.
• Performance tuning, capacity and resource management for UNIX Systems.
• Secured the UNIX environment using SSH, PGP encryption and modifying the ACL.

Senior Software Quality Assurance / System Support

• The most senior engineer of a 4-people team in QA department for an award-winning electronic trading platform based on Financial Information Exchange FIX messaging protocol. Javelin system had over 1200 installations at more than 350 major buy-side and sell-side institutions, securities clearing houses, hedge funds in 25 countries worldwide. NYFIX, a competitor of Javelin, acquired Javelin with 55 million dollars in stock and cash in 2002.
• Responsible to create and execute test plans and test cases for Appia and cRouter -FIX base products.
• Responsible to build and maintain the QA environment.
• Maintain cooperative relationships with developers and communicate with both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

Senior Client Support Engineer

• The 12th employee of the company and the 1st engineer in technical support department. At the time of acquisition by NYFIX, Javelin has about130 employees.
• Senior engineer provided client-site and over-the-phone technical support of Javelin Technologies products to financial institutions including American Stock Exchange, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Fidelity, Lehman Brothers, Citigroup, Instinet etc. Also the only person managed Javelin's internal IT infrastructure and system administration.