IRINA ZAVELSKAYA

Brooklyn, NY ***** 718-***-****

linkedin.com/in/irinazavelskaya acxcpe@r.postjobfree.com SENIOR QUALITY ASSURANCE ENGINEER

Specializing in testing online trading, financial analysis, and real-time market data solutions Expert at implementing QA strategies within the full software development project lifecycle. Experienced in testing mission-critical, zero-downtime, cloud-based and desktop financial applications. Recognized for assessing testing processes and creating/implementing testing strategies using Agile/Scrum methodology. Experienced in writing test plans, use cases, test cases. Proven collaborator, mentor and leader of co-located and globally distributed QA teams.

Key Skills:

Integration Testing Functional Testing User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Black Box Testing Manual Regression Testing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

MUFG UNION BANK, NA Jersey City, NJ 2015 – 2016

Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Validated business requirements and entitlements of different content sets, creating proper test cases and covering all areas that needed to be tested, as well as prioritizing critical bugs.

Reviewed transactional interface files from booking systems and validated completeness and accuracy of transactions. Coordinated test efforts and test results validation with HO.

Collaborated with developers, Product Managers, and other business stakeholders to design QA strategies, analyzed incoming issues, prioritized and owned defects through to resolution. Worked with QA Test Lead/Manager to identify QA activities.

Reviewed requirements, functional specifications, and design specification documents. Provided periodic test reports and effort estimates for assigned tasks. Participated in regular status review meetings and triage meetings with all stakeholders.

Maintained QC bug tracking system and all defect until closure. Products Tested:

LATAM: adding new LatAm currencies into US swap trading market.

Margin Body Requirements: regulatory mandated policy to have Collaterals for applicable transactions. THOMSON FINANCIAL/THOMSON REUTERS New York, NY 2004 – 2014 Quality Assurance Engineer

Developed test plans and participated in cross-functional Scrums for multiple projects running concurrently.

Tested web application UI elements and web services, verifying results.

Performed Functional, Regression, User Acceptance, and Disaster Recovery testing, delivering robust, bug-free software. Worked with real time Market Data components such as Flex Monitor, Charts, News, etc.

Conducted verification of software issues, streamlining processes as each was fixed and rolled to production.

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Participated in production deployment calls, verifying post-production system functionality and identifying possible environmental and software issues.

Analyzed business requirements, created test plans, created/executed test cases, submitted bug reports, and maintained Jira bug database, tracking, verifying and communicating highest priority defects to team. Leaded the team of 4 people in offshore team and spoke on their behalf at scrum meetings.

Products Tested:

Thomson ONE online application: Thomson ONE Analytics and Investment Banking Analytics.

Thomson ONE desktop application: suite of integrated financial solutions providing flexible access to research, market data, news, analytics and connectivity.

Alerts System for Thomson Reuters Eikon: professional platform for market analysis and trading software.

Alerts System for Thomson ONE using single Alerts infrastructure. DIGITRADE New York, NY 2000 – 2004

Quality Assurance Analyst / Data Quality Analyst

Provided test status and test metrics to project teams and project management, including blocking issues.

Interacted with development and business teams to identify, isolate and fix software defects.

Worked closely with project management, development, and QA teams, ensuring product efficiently tested.

Participated in test plan reviews and test requirement workshops. Products Tested:

Online application for trading equities, options, and mutual funds for institutions and individual investors (LPL, Wells Fargo Investments, First Union, T. Rowe Price, etc.).

Online trading systems for registered trade representatives and IVR (Internal Voice Recognition) trading systems for Wells Fargo, Citigroup, etc.

EDUCATION

AS, Business Management, QA Engineering, MBS Business School, Brooklyn, NY Bachelor’s Degree, Civil Engineering, City Engineering and Architectural University, Kharkov, Ukraine SOFTWARE SKILLS

HP Quality Center 11 TeamTrack bug tracking system

AimWare bug tracking system Test Director 8.2

Jira 5.1 Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio

Check Point SecuRemote BareTail Pro

SQL Developer 4.0.3 HTTP Analyzer, Fiddler2 (Web Debugger)

Unify DB MS Office (Excel, Access DB)

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