Project Manager Quality Assurance

BESLEY E. NELSON

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Executive Summary

IT professional with extensive experience in all phases of the systems

development life cycle (SDLC) and system testing life cycle (STLC).

Experience in validating the functionality of new systems, and enhancements

to existing systems in order to ensure compliance with business

requirements. A former programmer able to understand complex application

logic as well as business work-flow. Excellent knowledge of Securities

Lending products in domestic and international markets, and equities and

fixed income securities. Managed team of on- and off-shore testers on

concurrently-running projects of applications and databases in networked

client server and mainframe environments. Excellent organizational and

time management skills. Brought a more efficient organizational structure

to testing team. Initiated use of documented scenarios in test team. Track

record of successful project implementations with fewest defects allowed to

production within business unit. Frequently clarified requirements

testability by reviewing business requirements documents. Managed test

design, development and execution through implementation. Work closely with

business users during user acceptance testing (UAT). Strengths include

building relationships with product management, project management,

application development and business stakeholder teams and working with

them to prioritize projects and drive milestones. Excellent interpersonal,

written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate and

influence at all levels of the organization. Able to work under pressure

and prioritize within tight deadlines while maintaining accuracy.

Excellent analytical abilities. Proficient in MS Office applications.

Technology Experience

Databases, File systems, Tools Oracle, VSAM, PL/SQL Developer, Oracle

SQL Developer,

SQL Navigator

Software MS Project, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Visio,

MS PowerPoint, Lotus Notes, File-Aid

Operating Systems, environments Microsoft Windows, UNIX/Linux, IBM

z/OS, TSO/ISPF

Testing tools HP Enterprise Quality Center, JIRA,

CA-InterTest, Xpediter

Languages COBOL, CICS, JCL

Hardware Windows PC, IBM Mainframe

Professional Experience

JPMorgan Chase & Co., New York, NY 04/11 -

05/12

Business Analyst/Project Manager

1 Treasury and Securities Services

2 Securities Lending

Client Reporting

Implemented client reporting initiatives for major Securities Lending

clients

Liaised with client-service and account managers to certify requirements

and project scope

Documented project scope details and obtained stakeholder agreement

Elicited, documented and reviewed business requirements with stakeholders

Created project plans and managed tasks from Analysis through Production

Verification Testing

Worked closely with development teams to confirm time estimates and

communicate requirements

Designed report mock-ups using iRise and confirmed them with users

Designed test strategies and created test plans

Wrote and executed test scripts

Identified, tracked and reported defects

Provided UAT support

Coordinated implementation plans with development and operation teams

JPMorgan Chase & Co., New York, NY 02/05 -

03/11

3 Quality Assurance Manager

4 Treasury and Securities Services

5 Securities Lending

Supervised Quality Assurance leads and analysts onshore and offshore on

simultaneously running projects

Chaired meetings with product management, project management, application

development, business analysts and User Acceptance Testing teams

Coordinated and communicated testing activities between internal and

external clients and development teams during testing cycles

Performed test planning, scheduling and resource allocations

Reviewed business requirements and functional design documents

Created master test plans, test scenarios and test cases

Set up test data

Provided support to business users during UAT

Wrote and executed functional, non-functional, usability, regression,

system integration and performance tests for multi-platform (client server

and mainframe) applications

Monitored testing activities using Enterprise Quality Center to provide

metrics and to ensure defects were identified, documented, reported, and

resolved

Wrote and communicated performance objectives, goals and reviews

Mentored QA analysts

JPMorgan Chase & Co., New York, NY 12/03 -

02/05

6 Applications Development Analyst

7 Treasury and Securities Services

8 Securities Lending

Designed and code user interfaces

Designed and code transactions and functions

Wrote technical design documents

Coded and tested application modules in Enterprise Tenfold environment

Wrote and executed PL/SQL queries for Oracle database

Wrote and executed unit and integration tests

JPMorgan Chase & Co., New York, NY 05/99 -

12/03

Development Manager

9 Treasury and Securities Services

10 Securities Lending

Managed the new products technology development team

Managed data conversion team

Managed VSAM to Oracle application data migration project

Coordinated and delegated development staff work assignments

Created and maintained project plans

Developed implementation plans and designed specifications for data

extraction programs

Conducted weekly staff meetings

Chaired meetings with business users

Wrote and execute test scripts

Coordinated testing with domestic and International users

Education, Affiliations

Baruch College, City University of New York

B.B.A., Computer Systems

The IEEE (Computer Society), Associate

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