Gertrude Wray adkso7@r.postjobfree.com

Belvidere, NJ ****3 609-***-****

Professional Experience

BNY MELLON, Pittsburgh, PA 2020- Present

Lead QA

Requirements analysis; author and execute test plans including scenerio and test scripts;

Creating and maintainence of test data;

Skills/Environments: Mortgage & Investor data; XML, JIRA; MS Office Suite, WebEx, Agile

EXPRESS SCRIPTS, Franklin Lakes, NJ 2018 – Dec 2019

Lead QA and Sr BSA

Facilitate, author and manage requirements from Enterprise Stakeholders and internal initiatives;

Monitor and daily analysis of inbound, external daily and weekly data feeds;

Develop and execute test plans / scripts to cover transactional; pharmaceutical-specific; empirical and anecdotal evidence – including creating and maintaining test data; On-going process and root cause analysis;

Maintain continual collaboration between stakeholders and development team to ensure all requirements are understood, addressed and agreements/approvals received.

Skills/Environments: Pharmaceutical and Pharmacy benefits data; Some ETL, SQL, JIRA (User Requirement/Stories; Release and Resource scheduling), Mainframe (COBOL/ BlueZone), MS Office Suite including MS Access, Outlook, WebEx, Agile

GAF, Parsippany, NJ 2017 – June 2018

Sr Dev Applications Support Specialist (QA) / Business Systems Analyst

Business/User advocate: Maintained clear understanding of requirements but more importantly for real-world needs; ongoing validation of dev solutions; UI design with each iteration; strive for synergy; integration accuracy and requirements coverage for desktop, Web, Mobile (Native iOS, Android, Windows);

BSA/QA functions: SDLC tasks; daily interaction with dev/designers; SME for 2 products

Dev Support: automation of E2E tests (Protractor); Code Review; monitor performance factors

Release Mgt: planning, release notes, sanity testing; UAT prep; (Dev is Agile-like while PM and QA still legacy Waterfall); coverage of BRD, FRD, UAT and data requirements; Scope changes;

Dev Test Strategies (QA Engineer): defect tracking / mgt – Root Cause Analysis, solution brainstorming; Validation: continual Integration; API and webservice monitoring; usability; data management: test bed creation (unit testing/scope coverage)

Skills/Environments: .NET, APIs, Webservices, Mobile (Native iOS, Android; Windows); SQL, Outlook, MS Office, SharePoint, TFS, VS Code; VS Team Services; some Protractor (E2E automation built over Selenium in AngularJS, Node.js, typescript)

3D Engineering; FLIGHT CENTRE of Australia; GENISYS Group, NJ 2015 - Dec 2016

QA Engineer / IT Specialist / Business Analyst (Process & Systems) – overlapping contracts

Defect Management, Test Strategies and Automation creation, UAT, ETL / data mapping

System Analysis: Gap Analysis, API design, system conversion planning, implementation management

Business Workflow automation / redesign, Digital Document Repository updates, front office reengineering;

Project Coordination: new project/client onboarding/intake, A/R, A/P, proposal tracking,

Markets: Travel / Marketing; Medical/Dental policy admin & claims; Civil Engineering

Skills/Environments: SQL, MS Office, CA (Rally), XML, QTP, json, work-flow mgt, document storage, general accounting, Agile, Off-Shore/ Virtual team models

MET LIFE (IBM), Somerset, NJ 2013 - Jan 2015

IT Specialist / QA Lead / Business Analyst

Hands-On Lead of On-Site and multiple Off Shore teams of 7 – 12 members

Test Strategies, Plans, Scenarios/Cases, Traceability Matrix, and scripts (manual & automated)

Planning: Resource Mgt/Estimating, Deployment scheduling; Daily Progress / Dashboard updates

Defect & Scope mgt: Root Cause Analysis, Scope Creep monitoring, solution brainstorming

Stakeholder mgt: continual liaison with Stakeholders (AD, PM, Business, Solutions) for Project Plans, BRD, FRD, UAT and data requirements; Scope changes, defects and warranty support.

Enterprise-wide projects for Sales, Commissions, Claims, Policy Admin, Contact Mgt (iContact), Compliance, eCommerce; Digital document storage/retrieval, Work Flow, ACORD ETL, Enterprise Dashboard, job scheduler updates; 20+ data feeds and downstream (some ETL), reworks; conversion of 3 apps to mobile

Skills/Environments: Quality Center(ALM), SQL, Outlook, MS Office, .NET, SharePoint, MicroStrategy, XML, Image and Workflow, eCommerce, SiteMinder, JobTracker, various Web services, DesktTop Intelligence/BO/Oracle, etc.

ANDESA SERVICES, Allentown, PA 2012 - May 2013

Sr. Lead QA / Business Analyst

QA and some Business Analysis of System, UAT, UAR and forecasting for proprietary Web-based admin program offered to Fortune 50 Life Insurance companies.

Develop and execute test scripts; create test data; defect trackingfor manual testing and New Automated Suites: creation and maintenance of new selenium-like framework (keywords, data)

Initiated repository for user documentation, QA artifacts; Data models and data dictionary; etc.

Skills/Environments: Proprietary company-written product(s) (Java / Pascal), Linux, Oracle, WebConsole, FTP Pro (IPSwitch), Apache Subversion, Internet Tracking Mgr (ITM), MS Office Suite, light Shell Scripting, Crystal Reports, SQL, Outlook, Project Insight, QTP/Selenium-like Automation framework.

MERRILL LYNCH / BANK of AMERICA, Pennington, NJ 2010 - Dec 2011

QA Lead / Business Systems Analyst

Delivered high-profile, data sensitive projects on time and under budget in a fast-paced, Agile-like environment – including some Requirements gathering, and test bed management

QA: Create, maintain and execute complete test strategies/ scripts for the UI, back-end, functional, Dark Pod, Black Box, E2E, Regression, UAT and go-live Sanity testing. Intermittent ETL / intergration; Defect Mgt / Scope change

SME for new ESPP product – vendor liaison, ETL (on-boarding); ensured data integrity for regulated systems

Skills/Environments: some Web-Based products (.NET), Mainframe/UNIX, TOAD, SQL, SharePoint, Clear Quest (Defects), Quality Center-with QTP (starting to build), Waterfall/Agile, MS Office Suite, Clarity

LEXISNEXIS (Redwood Analytics Division), Mt. Laurel, NJ 2008 - Mar 2010

Lead Systems Analyst (BSA and QA)

BA/QA-Customer service; needs analysis of custom BI software installations, upgrades and OEM products

Lead Tech BA/QA on new Web-based software product initiatives (i.e.: Benchmarking and Diversity)

Skills/Environments: SQL, Analysis Services, SQL Studio, MSAS, .Net Framework, Cognos, Crystal Reports, Panorama, Cizer Reports, Multi-Dimensional Cubes, SharePoint, Test Track Pro, MS Office Suite, Outlook, WebEx, Law Firm metrics/measures and profitabilities, Diversity and Benchmarking concepts, BluePrint, Agile and Waterfall Testing,

CAESARS ENTERTAINMENT, Atlantic City, Memphis & Las Vegas 1997 - Dec 2007

Sr. Business Systems Analyst/QA (eCommerce, Gaming, Marketing, POS, Promotions, Hotel and Data Warehouse)

BSA, Lead QA and/or PM for complete SDLC of enterprise and world-wide projects requiring abidence of Regulatory Approval and Compliance from all applicable local, state and federal gaming governing bodies (i.e.: Casino Control Commission, State of NJ DGE (Gaming Enforcement) ;

Lead QA – Hands on QA of all E2E, back-end; UI, data and regression; test data/environment set-up and maintenance; Defect Management, Root Cause analysis; UAT; On-going Warranty/ SLAs compliance; coach / mentor local, remote and off-shore IT, Business and SuperUsers

Mission-critical Metrics Project– Created prototype of state-of-the-art Data Model, developed solution archictecture and processes; initiated ETL procedures

SME for several Intranet, Internet and Casino products/programs, World Class IT Award

Programmer / Analyst (First 3 years)

Maintenance of casino (CMS), accounting and hotel systems (LMS) in RPG, VB, and CoLog.

Lead integration projects on multiple platforms (AS400, .NET, DOS/Windows, Mainframe, XML)

Skills/Environments: AS400 (iSeries): CL/RPG/DB2; .NET: VB/SQL; ASP, HTML, XML, web services; ETL, JavaScript, Teradata, Mercury Products (Test Director), Niku (Clarity), MS Office Suite, Outlook, NetMeeting, WebSphere, Flash, Kiosks, Mobile and remote/Mobile Apps

PRUDENTIAL PROPERTY & CASUALTY INSURANCE, Holmdel, NJ 1993 - Dec 1996

Programmer / Systems Analyst and Re-Engineering Design Team

Complete SDLC of enterprise systems - including requirements, regulatory, PM;

Reprogrammed OEM firmware for special re-engineered apps on DOS based platform;

Only non-executive member of the Re-engineering team;

Lead Analyst - TASC study - millions of manually collected transactional data elements; created automated data entry tool, developed analytical reporting suites with Lotus Notes Suite

Skills/Environments: COBOL, JCL, IBM Mainframe, DOS, CoLog, Lotus Notes, Lotus Script Language, Business Process Analysis, Re-Engineering Concepts

EDUCATION

Computer Science Major with Business Administration Minor

Somerset County College, Somerville, NJ

Dean's List, Computer Lab Associate (helped other programmers debug and revise their programs)

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