JORGE I. SANCHEZ

Vineland, NJ ***** 609-***-**** ac83qh@r.postjobfree.com www.linkedin.com/in/jorge-i-sanchez

SUMMARY

Bilingual management professional with extensive international exposure as an IT QA Lead with 10+ years of experience in project management with multiple aspects of Technical Documentation, spanning the full cycle of product development. Diverse global background with strengths in development of organizational financial architectures and infrastructure, serving Fortune 500 and top financial services corporations. Interact effectively with executives, managers and interdisciplinary teams globally, in orchestration of organizational programs. Proven track record leading QA teams with global financial information providers. Have accomplished designs and requirement assessments toward successful product implementation. Well qualified with integration of order management systems, QA, User Acceptance Testing and System Software Testing, Business Analysis, Requirements Analysis and Change Management. Fluent in reading, writing and speaking Spanish.

PMP (Project Management Professional) Certification, PMP, pursuing 04/2019

AREAS OF EXCELLENCE

Project Planning Process Analysis Project Implementation

Resource Management Financial Forecasts Earned Value Management

Financial Statements Quality Assurance Risk/Contingency Management

Software: Microsoft Suite, UNIX, QTP, Quality Center, HP ALM, SOAP UI, JIRA

EDUCATION

•PMP, SQL Server, Tableau, Unix, Selenium, QTP, VBScript, & Java Programming, Avtech Institute of Technology (March 2018 – November 2018)

•Bachelor’s Degree, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey

•Financial Markets Overview 1 & 2, Bloomberg Market Data Service, Bloomberg University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Amtrak / QA Lead, Wilmington, DE Jul 2015 – Jan 2018

Led the strategic planning and execution of Integrated Labor Management System for 22k employees.

The iLMS initiative is a multi-year modernization project to improve operational efficiencies around the labor management processes.

Delivered Results:

•Vendor Management responsible for Software Development Lifecyle and Project Management processes saving $6.7M out of $159M by meeting business objectives and project timeline.

•Managed a repository of reports from front end/back office systems to ensure seamless financial and operational activities through and after migration in collaboration with accounting and controlling units.

•Assisted PMO to develop and track activities, scope changes and lessons learned.

•Oversaw change control policies and procedures. Identified business and operational requirements, which addressed IT, Train Operations and travel issues.

•Responsible for Test Case Creation, Manual Test Execution, Defect Management and Process Improvement Analysis.

•Participate in new concurrent product development project teams to ensure that quality issues are addressed during the development process.

•Administer the systems for non-conformities, monitoring their resolution and producing reports.

•Analyze and investigate internal and field problems to determine root-cause and identify corrective actions.

TD Bank / Senior QA Engineer, Mt. Laurel, NJ Jul 2013 – Apr 2015

Randstad Technologies – Contractor - DCTS QA, STB, RIB, SBIB

Solutions driven leader of new functionality and enhancements for the TD Online Banking Platform to facilitate External and Person to Person Transfers using CashEdge as the vendor solution.

Delivered Results:

•Released and managed $259 Million project for TD Online Banking Platform with a bug free production environment release.

•Developed business test cases and oversaw testing procedures; Analyzed results and confirmed product solution matched the documented business needs.

•Designed operational activities and integration plans focused on providing improved online banking platform.

•Collaborated with application developers, designers and architects to ensure a shared understanding of the business model and the detailed function requirements.

•Oversaw the estimation of requirements documentation and testing efforts for various projects and initiatives.

•Managed the progress of projects by tracking activity, manual testing, resolving issues and recommending actions; Provided management and project manager with regular updates on deliverable timelines and project status.

IEEE / Senior QA Lead, Piscataway, NJ Oct 2012 – Jan 2013

Siebel eMedia, Enterprise Oracle Department

Lead Fellows Nomination Redesign Project from initial planning phases to pre-development phases several months ahead of schedule.

Delivered Results:

•Effectively worked with Project Managers, IT Management and Developers to review project scope and requirements to create test cases, manual testing and test plan creation within Quality Center HP ALM several months ahead of schedule.

•Responsible for Defect Management via Quality Center and QTP for automation testing in AGILE and Waterfall environments.

Bank of America / Senior QA Lead, New York, NY June 2012 – Sept 2012

Mercury Portal QA (Contract)

Spearheaded QA Testing execution and Defect Management activities for portal online banking platform.

Delivered Results:

•Effectively communicated status regarding issues, objectives, initiatives and performance according to project schedule.

•Developed and tracked project schedule and resource allocation for QA.

•Established quality standards and practices within Agile and Waterfall techniques.

•Distributed release schedule to internal teams and change management.

•Responsible for all manual testing, test case creations and defect management.

GFI Group Inc. / Senior QA Engineer, New York, NY June 2011 – Jan 2012

FENICS Foreign Exchange Options

Responsible for functionality testing and production release of FENICS Web Platform; a six-month project in an AGILE environment.

Delivered Results:

•Oversaw Defect Management, creation of test scripts and plans validating the application against Business Requirements and company strategic objectives.

•Accountable for all Regression, Manual Testing, UAT, Smoke, Functionality testing of new enhancements and requirements for the FENICS FX Option Platform.

Bloomberg L.P. / QA Lead Analyst Business Group, New York, NY August 1998 - May 2011

Foreign Exchange Group (March 2009 – May 2011)

Implemented Trade Order System for Foreign Exchange platform in 2-year period. Successfully reaching our target from $3 Billion to $100+ Billion Monthly volume.

•Managed and released Bloomberg Market Data Service and responsible for 137 worldwide exchanges implementation onto new BMDS lucrative platform.

•Raised North/South America Price Contributions Offices from 29% output and productivity to 128% consistently over a 7-year period.

•Initiated and Implemented AGILE testing methods for QA team during company-wide transition to AGILE methodology.

•Developed and implemented system test strategies, methodology for large-scale enterprise software development on time and on scope.

•Well versed in maintaining and managing deployments of applications while maintaining proper version control, recovery and rollback procedures.

•Evaluated and streamlined core IT systems for multiple clients. Retired obsolete apps, established scalable trading execution platforms supporting business growth and strengthened information security.

•Responsible for all Manual Testing, Automation Testing, Defect Management and FIX 4.2, 4.4 Protocol testing.

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