SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE PROFESSIONAL

Comprehensive experience in planning and managing software quality assurance activities. Provide strategic QA vision and quick delivery with proven ability to build, inspire and mentor quality assurance global teams in the successful implementation of the latest QA processes. Demonstrated success in reviewing and applying test strategies and ensuring the quality of functional, performance and regression testing for large-scale projects. Expertise in:

Waterfall Agile Methodologies

Test Strategy Test Plan

Manual Testing Automated Testing UAT

Test Plans Use Cases Test Cases Stories

Communication with Cross-Functional Teams Reporting Dashboard Metrics

Requirements Gap Analysis Large Data-sets Analysis Visualization

Market Data (fixed income, equities, etc.)

Data Delivery Platforms Wealth Management Reporting

Trading Platform (basic) Trading Principles

Trading Flow Diagrams

Defect Tracking: TFS Jira QASAR Bugzilla

Sybase SQL

Confluence

Staff Hiring Assessment Development Managing Offshore Onshore Team

Automated Tools: HP Quick Test Professional (QTP) SOAPSonar SilkTest Scripting (basic)

UX Testing UI Testing

API XML HTML

HP Quality Center TestRail (Jira add-on)

MS Office Professional Access

Proficient in MS Visio and AutoCAD

MS Project

Windows OS UNIX (basic)

MUFG SECURITIES New York, NY Feb 2018 - present

Project: Securities Borrowing and Lending trade cycle, settlement, and reporting.

Project: Automated Testing Process.

Project: Operational Risk Management – a platform for managing policies, risks, assessments across lines of business.

Project: HCM: Migration to Workday.

Project: Trade Surveillance.

QA Lead (contract)

Defined road-map for the QA team including automation.

Reviewed and analyzed business requirements, hands-on with developing test strategies, test plans, scenarios, test cases, and quality metrics.

Examined current processes, reviewed workflows, and recommended improvements to the department director

Collaborated with stakeholders to establish and incorporate testing in SDLC process including auto-deployments.

Applied QA best practices to ensure the highest software quality delivery.

On-boarded QA resources.

Planned UAT and assisted users during User Acceptance test execution.

Coordinated testing efforts across multiregional QA teams.

Participate in quality assurance activities including monitoring outcome data,

Chaired and attended quality assurance meetings.

Wrote daily and weekly reports about QA activities and project progress.

Designed Workday HCM test scenarios and test cases.

Created trade flow diagrams for Front and Back Office to visualize trading process of equities, fixed income, SBL.

Built and maintained trade flow diagrams library.

BANK OF AMERICA MERRILL LYNCH New York, NY Oct 2017 - Dec 2017

Project: Mercury: an analytical tool that provides a consolidated view of clients' applications, research, market data and electronic trading across multiple asset classes.

Application Architect, QA (contract)

Planned and defined test strategy for the Mercury User Management project.

Reviewed business requirements and user stories, hands-on with developing test plans and test cases.

Defined test data for automated and manual testing.

Communicated with cross-functional teams.

Worked with QA offshore team on building test suites and test cases.

Wrote concise, well-organized defect reports.

Identified and logged defects in software development tool - Team Foundation Server (TFS).

THOMSON REUTERS, New York, NY Apr 2014 - Jul 2017

Project: DataScope Select: Data delivery platform for non-streaming content. Hosted data extraction platform that provides access to global pricing, validated terms and conditions, historical data content, corporate actions, cross-reference data, and legal entity data. Supported instruments include; equities, funds, derivatives, money / foreign exchange, warrants, fixed income securities, and sell-side estimates and are enabled through the browser, FTP and Web service API.

Project: Disaster Recovery environment build-out.

QA Manager

On-boarded, led, mentored, coached a global team of 10 offshore/onshore test engineers. Led and developed a high-quality QA team, with expertise in functional, regression and performance testing for DataScope Select (DSS).

Collaborated with Development, Business, OPS, Database and Service teams discussing test approaches and strategies, edge cases, and test scenarios.

Monitored testing results, compiling reports and risk assessments based on feedback from teams, communicating project testing status, progress and risks across multiple projects to stakeholders.

Analyzed requirements, developed test plans and implemented test approach that ensured adherence of the product to application requirements.

Planned, allocated resources and assigned tasks to global engineers determined by individual experience and technical strengths.

Designed and implemented Performance Portal for QA and Development teams used for executing performance tests and collecting data, such as execution time, extractions size (number of instruments and fields), server name, and including any delayed and failed extractions, analyzing statistics and generating reports.

Analyzed and visualized large data sets to define test samples and identify data usage trends to recommend future development.

THOMSON REUTERS, New York, NY Oct 2008 - Apr 2014

Project: DataScope Select.

QA Team Lead

Defined test sets for software builds and production releases. Provided 3rd-level support for DataScope Select external clients. Participated in testing new hardware and database upgrades.

Built a repository of over 4000 regression tests used during the testing cycle and production releases.

Introduced HP Quality Center that stored, organized and maintained regression test suites and tracked the progress of test execution, enhancing capabilities and overall efficiency than previous methods.

Increased testing productivity by 80% by implementing automated testing (Quick Test Professional-QTP) and batch scripting.

Designed and implemented a library of over 500 SQL queries, along with with automatic updates, increasing efficiency of creating and maintaining test data samples 15 times.

Monitored and remained hands-on with all projects, identifying and filing all issues in a clear and concise manner.

LEHMAN BROTHERS, New York, NY Apr 2007 - Oct 2008

Project: Wealth Management Reporting (WMR): Initiative provided consolidated printed document that included enhanced reporting on hedge funds, performance reporting, portfolio and legal entity summary views of client investments.

QA Team Lead

Provided oversight of quality assurance testing of the WMR project. Led team of 5 offshore/onshore QA testers. Performed review of functional requirements and use cases to develop test strategies. Assisted Business with user-acceptance testing.

Coached, guided, and mentored QA team members, ensuring proper procedures were followed and requirements were met.

Created test plans, test cases and requirements traceability matrixes meeting business requirements, technical specifications and use cases.

Worked with the quality management tool, HP Quality Center, managing business requirements, new and regression test cases and test suits, test execution progress, and reporting.

Documented software issues using a bug-tracking system (Jira), reporting defects to software developers.

Designed database (MA Access) and modules that helped manage large amounts of test cases with limited resources.

EDUCATION

Master in Civil Engineering

RIGA TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, Riga, Latvia

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Management Development Program (MDP), Thomson Reuters, New York, NY

QTP, Borland (Mercury) Professional Training Courses, New York, NY

SilkTest, Borland (Segue) Software Professional Training Courses, New York, NY

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