ARTHUR TALLEY

Software Engineer

**W*** Elder Lane Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181

708-***-****

ad2dw6@r.postjobfree.com

Management Information System professional with 30+ years of experience. Proven skills as a Programmer Analyst/Quality Control Analyst with a complete understanding of Agile Scrum methodology. Strong problem solving skills. Ability to learn and quickly utilize a wide range of testing tools. Outstanding interpersonal, communication skills, well organized dependable team player.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Software Engineer

JPMorgan Chase & Co. January 2013 – March 2023 Chicago, IL

●Working within the CIB group on the AFS team; Agile team members, participating in team retro, Sprint Planning, and product backlog stories. Testing UI changes within each iteration.

●Design, write and execute manual and automation test scripts. Continuous build and integration system projects.

●Analyze test results at the story level, providing meaningful reports to project teams.

●Ability to handle multiple projects across multiple teams (AFS, TSP, H2H, CCAP/PS)

●UI testing ADA with NVDA, speech viewing, color contrast analyzer

●Experience creating and running Automation Java Scripts thru IntelliJ/Selenium, validating test results through smartspec reporting.

●Knowledge of GIT, Bit Bucket, Bash, Sourcetree, Maven, ALM and Continuous Delivery tools, LISA 2.0 YAML-based framework for automation testing

●Provide off hours support for PVT coverage

●Lead QA Analyst with the Ops Tools transformation team, created and maintained unit test scripts

●Experience with modern agile software delivery practices scrum, continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), TDD, and BDD, DevOps, and automation using Selenium/IntelliJ

●Ability to work collaboratively in teams and develop meaningful relationships to achieve common goals.

●Advanced working knowledge mainframe application, modifying JCL, Proc and Prams.

●Endevor packages approving/submitting, Changeman implementation

●Great team player, great collaborating with Onshore/Offshore resources

Quality Control Analyst

Allstate Insurance, Co.

August 2004 - December 2012 Northbrook, IL

●Quality Control Analyst working in Protection Data with the HRM group.

●Performing manual and automated testing using Mainframe; COBOL/DB2-SQL, JCL, Loadrunner, QTP, iTKO/LISA, SoupUI, ORACLE SQL developer for changes going into production.

●Primary contact for CyberLife system ABENDS, Allstate Financial (AF) Interfaces processing.

●Working on the production support team resolving system inquiries and problems.

●As a member of the project team, worked closely with team members, especially the business analyst, to validate testable business requirements.

●Also worked closely with project business clients to identify workflows and business requirements.

●Develops test plans, test specifications, test cases and test scripts for each software release based on defined testing standards.

●Execute regression tests, functional tests, testing data scripts.

●Provides guidance to others on test plan creation and on strategic and tactical approaches to Intermediate functionality.

●Proficient in building complex test plans and test scripts.

●Ability to review functional specifications and lead QA portion of walkthroughs.

●SKILLS: Oracle SQL Developer, iTKO LISA, SoapUI, TDQC10.0, UNIX, COBOL/DB2-SQL, JCL, QMF, Execute XML, SCLM-Software Configuration and Library Manager, FileAid, DBMS, AB-Initio, TIBCO Administrator, DSC

Lead Application Developer Analyst

Bankone Corporation-ECIS/DDA-JPMC

June 1997 - December 2003 Chicago, IL

●Worked in the CAS Quality Assurance team overseeing changes for the FI, OIM, CO, T&E, SEM (PRI&P00). Legacy Mainframe systems, Hyperion, EDI and Prads applications as a QA tester in SAP/Mainframe environments.

●Assisted Enterprise Change Management team (ECM) by reviewing ABAP programs, functional Specifications and test script templates.

●Created, tested, and modified GUI scripts.

●Performed manual and automated testing using Mercury Winrunner, track and report defects and executed tests.

●Created graphs and reports using Test Director Analysis utilities, worked with data tables, importing data from a database, also worked on created GUI Web test scripts.

●Created, enhanced, and modified COBOL programs for the Hogan applications under RPM; created new DDA interface files for FTP processing.

●Completed monthly regression testing for RPM and IDS- this procedure included saving Production files, recalling files, running the actual batch test and evaluating the results by doing comparisons of production files to files created during batch testing.

●Ran batch support jobs for CIS, RPM, IDS, and ODS. Created test procedures and JCL.

●Acted as the Gatekeeper for all mainframe changes going into production via ChangeMan (CMN)

●Created, Checked-out package and components, staged audited and Froze promoted/demoted and

●Approval package. Full understanding of Change Man Life Cycle.

●Supervised and trained new hires on the functionality of system operations.

●SKILLS: IBM/3090 TSO ISPF-SPF OS-MVS, COBOL/COBOLII, JCL, VSAM, FILEAID, ELIPS, IBM Tools and Utilities. Syncsort, Change Man, CA7, CA11, ZEKE, ZEBB. Microsoft Word, Excel. Easytrieve and Easytrieve Plus, XPEDITIER, Visio. Class Certificate - Mercury Interactive Test Director 7.6, QuickTest Professional for R/3 7.2, BC400 ABAP Workbench Foundation and CO, and DB2/SQL application development.

EDUCATION

B.S. in Computer Information System DeVry University Lombard, IL

Advanced Computer Training (ACT) Glenview, IL

Mercury Quality Assurance software testing, (TestDirector, Winrunner, Loadrunner, QuickTest Professional)

ADDITIONAL SKILLS:

TIBCO DESIGNER 5.6, iTKO/LISA 5.0, HP Quality Center 10.0, SQL developer, Soap 3.0

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