DIANE P. COLLINS
NORTH CAROLINA, 28104
ab0h09@r.postjobfree.com
OBJECTIVE
Seeking a position in Software Quality Assurance, Testing Project Management or Client software Skills
Implementation.
Adobe
Adobe Flash
MS Office Suite
EXPERIENCE PowerPoint
Sr. QA Lead Engineer, Fidelity.com August 2010 – May 2012 XML
VXML
Fidelity Investments, Raleigh, NC
HTML/XHTML
QC 10
Worked on Telephony team for Personal Workplace Investing. Acted in Lead and Integrated Lead
FSDM
positions to manage Telephony projects introducing new and updated features and functionality to the
AGILE Fidelity
product suite. Created, updated, and maintained Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test Cases, and Bug Logs.
Provided Work Estimates, UtilizedCQ Test tools to maintain and execute test cases and bugs. Java
Produced weekly and AdHoc reports on all projects and participated in Post Mortem Project Audits JavaScript
requested by Sr. Management. SQL
BRIO
Sr. QA Lead Engineer, Fidelity.com .NET
June 1998-May 2005
IE 5 & 6 Broadcast
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA & Raleigh, NC May 2006-Aug 2010
Broadcast
Messaging
Managed Quality Assurance projects, supporting the development, testing and delivery of Web and UNIFY
client/server products to both the correspondent and advisor clients. Provide technical, testing and DB2
product functional support through the project life cycle. Develop effective and cooperative ATT TellMe
IVR
relationships with business and technical personnel. Lead process improvement initiatives, architect
VRS
challenge solutions. Build Forge
Compare Ware
QA Manager, Lead, and analyst consultant roles on Large projects, managing both onshore and global Experience
resources throughout project lifecycle. Manager
Telephony
CASY (SME)
Responsible for managing, directing and resulting productivity of teams ranging from 3-15
Logzilla
engineers from project kick-off to test completion, production validation, and user satisfaction.
OSCAR
Strong FSDM project life cycle experience. (Waterfall)
Lancelot
AGILE project life cycle experience
SOAP 3.5
Works with project teams, review business requirements, application designs, and technical
CISCO Switch
requirements Systems
1st& 2nd Level
Draft formal Test strategy documents
Security
Draft Formal Test Plans
Design structured Test Cases
Review team members test cases/plans for completeness
AIX/Linux/UNIX
Provide technical leadership & training to team members
Windows Vista/XP
Provide technical and lay presentations to Sr. Management Clients Chrome
Netscape
Document to, and maintain Software defects tracking database.
Firefox
Chair daily and weekly bug triage meetings, provide defect metrics, updates and progress notes
Safari
Document test results and provide test progress metrics to project team
TIGER
Issue escalation & management
Execute integration, user acceptance and production validation tests Apache/Tomcat
WebSphere Suite
Develop & extract test data for automation scripts
SME on entire Portal Platform suite of products
SAML 2.0
SME on Self Clearing Solutions business line & Architecture
API’s
Member of Change Control Board
PKI
Works with QA Management to define and implement quality process improvements focused on
Frame Relay
enhanced testing, defect detection and work environment quality
CASY SME for QA, Tech Ops, analyst and deployment business partners
Certifications
Production Troubleshooting for NF Support & Technical Operations
FBSI, MAUI, ALPHA SME
facilitative
All Portal Web and client side products
Leadership
Series 7 (LITE)
Global Teams
.net testing
Certified Tax
Sr. Deployment Consultant May 2005 - 2006
Preparer
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
IRS Problem
Manage the deployment of the National Financial Product platform product offerings to new and
Resolution Officer
existing Broker Dealers. Act as “Face of Fidelity” from onset of platform or function migration Payroll Practioner
through several weeks post first trade date. Deliver high quality results to both internal providers and
Certifications
external customers. Facilitate the delivery of high quality NF products that meet client needs,
(Pending)
Improve Service level offerings, and lay the groundwork for ongoing communications internally
within National Financial. CSSP-Certified
Systems Security
Manage assigned projects through the analysis and project life-cycle stages Professional
Required to meet agreed-upon project deliverables within project timelines, and communicate
project status regularly to superiors, insure that analytic work remains consistent with project
methodologies
Managing projects across a variety of disciplines within NF, working with virtual teams to gather
subject matter experts to participate in analysis and information sharing to insure that Brokers
receive the most relevant effective tools, functions, and services available to insure end users
continued success.
Represents the cross practice perspective. Efforts focus on increasing client, participant, and
associate satisfaction, gaining operational efficiencies, enhancing quality, and reducing costs and
risk.
Provide initial direction to the client, using influential skills to consult with business partners and
coordinate delivery of future enhancements/tools to facilitate meeting the end users business
needs.
Collaborate on business solutions to understand how solutions can be applied.
Works closely with Implementation groups to gather information relating to new correspondent
deployments, establishing relevant contact and procedural information to the Technical Support
organization. Act as initial point of contacts on platform navigation, use, delivery, and fine-
tuning.
Works closely with NF Training to insure that onsite and remote training are relevant and
productive to an end client’s first and second trade date needs.
Deploy new and converting NF clients onto the NF product platform from 3 months prior to
launch through two weeks post first trade date to insure client satisfaction and assess ongoing
needs or outstanding issues.
Escalates Client issues to the appropriate support or client relationship organization.
Works with Relationship Managers prior to and during the engagement process with clients to
insure NF is delivering the “best of breed” solutions to meet client’s needs.
Engages and works with NF clients wishing to implement an API solution into NF’s architecture.
Troubleshooting connectivity and Web Services issues.
Provides on and off hour environment support to high visibility clients accessing Fidelity’s Test
Bed for API testing purposes.
ACTIVITIES& AWARDS
Volunteer of the Year, Road to Responsibility, 2006
Fidelity Cares Volunteer: Various 2000-Present
Fidelity Peer-A-Mid Awards (13) 2000-2007
On The Spot Awards: Various 2006-2012
Presidents Choice Award1999
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