SUMMARY:

• Dynamic, results oriented professional with more than 30 years of experience in the financial arena, more than 20 years in IT as a Quality Assurance Team Lead and Tester, Business Analyst and Project Manager.
• Always assigned to various highly technical projects with international impact in the financial arena over multiple lines of business.
• Specific areas of concentration in the financial industry are Trading, Wealth Management, Banking, Prime Brokerage, Middle and Back Office areas; instruments include Fixed Income (Corporates, Treasuries, Agencies, Municipal, MBS, and Commercial Paper), Syndicate, FX, Futures and Commodities Markets.
• Have managed teams of testers, with up to 50 people under my charge, both on shore and off shore.
• Capable of understanding complex business requirements, and able to instruct and motivate personnel to achieve stated deliverables.
• Performed various functional testing efforts - Production, UAT, QA, Black Box, White Box, Regression, Fail Over, Smoke, Negative and End to End testing.
• Fluent in the SDLC Process, industry trends and standards as well as best practices to ensure strong and verifiable results. Agile scrum master experienced.
• Well versed in regulatory or compliance requirements, specifically CCAR, Sarbanes Oxley and Dodd Frank, General Ledger and Accounting, as well as Credit Risk reporting.
• Excellent organizational and testing skills; strong verbal, writing and excellent presentation capabilities; demonstrated adeptness at requirements gathering, BRDs and FRDs, Use and Test Cases as well as Test Scripts and Test Plans and Functional Specifications.
• Possess Project Management experience, and have acted as a Scrum Leader. My interpersonal, communication, project management skills and organizational competence have allowed me to lead high profile engagements profitably and on budget.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• SharePoint
• Mercury Quality Center 11 ALM
• Clear Quest
• JIRA
• Putty
• Remedy
• HTML
• XML
• ASP
• Adobe PDF Writer
• PVCS
• Windows 7 / XP / 98 / 95 / NT
• Documentum.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New Jersey

UAT Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing the UAT test team for the DCoE Portal Test effort.
• Utilize HP ALM create Test Plans and Test Scripts, daily reporting documents.
• Manage testing with UAT testers, business owners and SMEs.
• Also acted as Project Manager/ Scrum Leader for the daily technical calls and testing/ development stand ups; and ran the weekly Grooming Sessions for technology and the business.

Confidential,New York, NY

QA/UAT Test Lead

• Responsible for all testing and documentation (test plans, test cases and scripts) for the UAT test effort.
• Utilized HP ALM create Test Plans and Test Scripts
• Prepared a daily update report, and a weekly status report for distribution to Senior Management.
• Utilized knowledge of the SDLC to guide offshore team on testing deliverables for QA and UAT.

Confidential,NJ

QA Specialist

• Employed as a QA Specialist for the current Dodd Frank and CCAR Regulatory project.
• Leading a team editing and writing all testing documentation - 4 testers/documentation specialists.
• Acting as Test Lead, preparing and updating all test schedules and execution statistics.
• Enhance department and organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests, exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments

Confidential,Jersey City, NJ

QA Specialist

• Employed at Confidential & Co. as QA Specialist utilizing my background in the securities industry, manual testing and scripting.
• Maintained and improved execution quality by completing product, company, system, compliance, and surveillance audits, investigating and collaborating with other members of management.

Confidential,New York, NY

Web Applications

• Senior QA involved in testing the EBIS 2 system for all of baseball operations.
• Writing scripts (smoke and regression), manual testing, requirements gathering for several applications.
• Validated quality processes by establishing product specifications and quality attributes; measuring production; documenting evidence, determining operational and performance qualification, writing and updating quality assurance procedures.

Confidential - New York, NY

Senior QA Lead

• Senior QA Lead testing the ELC corporate web application.
• Previously contracted as a Business Analyst and QA Manager for the development of a global Retail Sales Management web application for the MAC Cosmetics Line.
• Collaborate with the Project Managers and offshore Vendors on requirements gathering, design and development. Writing Functional Specifications, Test Plans, Test Cases and Scripting, Test Execution.

Confidential,New York, NY

UAT Test Team

• Lead a team of UAT testers for a proprietary transaction application to insure readiness for production.
• Made presentations to the various fixed-income departments utilizing the application as well as performed training to the testers, and troubleshooting all issues and defects.
• Maintained test team results documentation, and assisted in script writing and published a User Guide.

Confidential,Jersey City, NJ

Senior QA Tester

• Managed a server migration test effort for the Product Management department, ensuring a smooth, efficient transition to the new server site - performed UAT and Production Testing
• Wrote test plans, test scripts and the migration procedures to save time and costs of the server migration.
• Published a User Guide for an administrator application allowing clients to set up their personnel saving Broadridge time and costs involved with new client set up.

Confidential,Jersey City, NJ

Senior QA Test Lead

• Lead Automation effort by working with Automation team to create regression test suites for all applications that created a 50% reduction in testing allowing faster production deployment.
• Entrusted to plan, develop and execute test strategies as well as design new QA procedures and standards to test applications more efficiently.
• Compile daily status reports to present to senior management.
• Managed 2 QA test Teams - one on shore and one off shore - total of eight people
• UAT and Production Testing of three proprietary financial systems.