Manager Project

Andre Parshin

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Brooklyn, NY, 11235 ********@*******.***

POSITION: QA MANAGER LOCATION: NYC / JERSEY CITY ONLY

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Databases: MS SQL SERVER W2K/6.5/7.0, ORACLE 7.0/9i/10g, PVCS, SYBASE

OS: WINDOWS NT/W2K/XP/VISTA/7, UNIX, MAINFRAME, Mac OS X,

Tools: RATIONAL TEAM TEST, HP (Loadrunner, Winrunner, Quick Test Pro, TD / QC), Selenium IDE,

JIRA, BUGZILLA, INFORMATICA, FrogBugz, Embarcadero, Toad, DTS, Business Objects 6.5,

Jenkins, Alfresco, Mingle, iPad 1/2, iPhone 3/4

Software: HP (MERCURY), IBM (RATIONAL), MAESTRO, COGNOS, CITRIX, TIVOLI, PEOPLESOFT 8.4

Languages: JAVA SCRIPT, HTML, C, VB, SQL

OVERALL SKILLS

• Evaluate the approach and methodologies employed by project teams and make recommendations regarding industry best practices. - 10 years

• Perform SDLC and SCRUM meetings. -10 years

• Review selected project plans and reports in detail, identify issues and obstacles and recommend changes or adjustments to project plans, including the adequacy of project team organization, communications, processes, reporting, financial planning, and reliance on in-house versus outside expertise. - 10 years

• Design and provide standardized written reports concerning the project’s progress. - 10 years

• Review project task orders, statements of work, change orders and related project scope documentation and advise the project’s Business Sponsor, Executive Sponsor, and/or Steering Committee on reasonableness as requested. - 12 years

• Schedule, conduct, attend, and document project review meetings. - 10 years

• Assist in the design and implementation of project monitoring tools and methodologies. Evaluate the work products of project teams (including third party consultants) as directed. - 10 years

• Review test plans, test scripts, testing processes and test results. - 12 years

• Participate in design, code and process reviews. - 10 years

• Evaluate test results; recommend tools and best practices as they relate to QA/QC. - 10 years

• Review project plans to ensure that quality assurance and controls are incorporated. - 12 years

• Perform functional, physical and in process configuration audits to insure consistency with requirements and delivered product. - 12 years

• Ensure the use of appropriate tools for documentation, testing, debugging, versioning, and change management. - 10 years

• Review program specifications and related project documentation for completeness, consistency and clarity. - 10 years

• Ensure the awareness and utilization of accepted standards and best practices as they relate to quality assurance and controls. - 10 years

• Review Project Vendor deliverables as defined in the project’s Acceptance Plan. - 10 years

DETAILED EXPERIENCE: QA Manager, QA Team Lead, Business Analyst, Developer

05/2011- LanguageMate, New York

02/2012 QA Manager

Projects: Starling, Canopy, LM, Messenger, Asset Manager, Gnosis

Manage QA team using both methodologies: Waterfall and Agile (certified ScrumMaster and PO), review and create Project Plan, Test Strategy, Test Cases, Test Plans, Scenarios for a manual, functional and automation tests (Selenium IDE) on multi-browser platforms on Windows and Mac OS. Participated in SCRUM meetings. Prepare and manage deployment process using Jenkins. Prepare and maintain devices (i.e. iPhone, iPad) for testing. Conduct and assign daily tasks for QA team.

08/2010- BarclaysWealth, New York

03/2011 QA Manager

Projects: Gamma Instrument Master, Product Catalog

Participated in discussion of Business architecture; reviewing and amending project’s BRD/FSD review meetings. Review and creating Project Plan, Test Strategy, Test Cases, Test Plans, Scenarios for a manual, functional, performance/ stress tests. Conducting and assigning daily tasks for On-Shore team.

01/2008- Citigroup, New York - Jersey City, NY/NJ

07/2010 QA Manager (Private Equity Group)

Projects: PEPS, Investment Cafe, Internal Report, OpenWealth

Evaluate the approach and methodologies applied by project teams and make recommendations regarding best QA practices. Review and creating Project Plan, Test Strategy, Test Cases, Test Plans, Scenarios for a manual, functional, performance/load/stress tests. Schedule and conduct project’s BRD review meetings. Management and productivity evaluation of On-Shore/ Off-Shore teams. Ensure the awareness and utilization of App. standards and best practices of QA process. Responsible for introducing, implementing and maintaining lifecycle QA process to Private Equity Services group. Maintain existing test cases and QTP Scripts. Creating, amending and executing SQL queries using mySQL. Producing proper Daily Status Report, COMPLETE/SIGN OFF according Enter/Exit criteria (QA, UAT, etc…)

05/2006- UBS, NY

12/2007 QA Team Lead

Projects: Business Intelligence, Staff Planning, CorpReporting, Revenue Booking, Expense Management

Responsible for preparation process- Project Plan, Test Strategy, managing lifecycle testing process and roll up process for four (4) projects with Off-Shore/Near-Shore staff, creating Test Plans, Test Cases, Scenarios for a manual, functional, performance/load/stress tests, maintaining existing test cases and QTP Scripts, analyzing Business Requirements and Use Cases. Creating, amending and executing SQL queries using TOAD and mySQL. Producing proper COMPETE/SIGN OFF according Enter/Exit criteria (QA, UAT, etc…)

08/2005- Citigroup, Long Island City, NY

05/2006 QA Team Lead (Performance group)

Projects: Concierge (PeopleSoft 8.42-8.46)

Responsible for managing lifecycle testing process : new scripting requests, creation of the new scripts with heavy parameterizations, extensive modification of existing scripts and scenarios, managing roll up process for the Concierge application, creating Sanity test script for a new releases and builds.

07/2004 - AIG, Jersey City, NJ

07/2005 QA Team Lead (Performance - Automation group)

Projects: eWorldRisk, eCSO_WC, AI_Quick, NYMEX_SoTMS, GPTMS, Piranha, PTHub

Creating, maintaining and executing Scripts/Scenario for Rendering test. Maintaining and executing Scripts/Scenario for Performance Test with in 19 (nineteen) different worldwide locations. Migrating existing scripts from Excel and WORD format to the Test Director and Quality Center. Perform integration of PVCS with Quality Center. Installation and maintaining Mercury suite. Was involved in project for New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX_SoTMS): maintaining and extensive modification of existing Scripts/Scenarios for Trading (brokerage) applications and Credit Suisse/First Boston: GPTMS, Piranha and PTHub

08/2003- Citigroup, New York, NY

06/2004 QA Team Lead (Performance group)

Projects: HROne Portal, TotalComp, CWO, CEO, EMEA, GCS, APAC, NAM, GLOBAL, Data Warehouse

Extensive TSL modifications in performance testing of all testing projects (modules) of PeopleSoft 8.1/8.4 and SiteMinder on multiple client/server platforms (Windows, UNIX/ Solaris) with Loadrunner 7, 6 / 7, 8. Creating Scenario for Benchmarking, Performance and Load Tests and executing test procedures, using Loadrunner 7,8/7.6/7, 5. Analyzing business requirements and based on that creating Scenario, Test Plan and Test cases for CEO module using Quick Test Pro 6.0 and executed test procedures for Regression Test. Analyzed results and produce final Reports. Installation and maintaining Mercury suite.

01/2003- Interactive Edge, Inc, New York, NY

07/2003 QA Manager/ BA

Projects: XP3 Suite - Presentation Builder, Data Workshop, Server Light.

Responsible for managing lifecycle testing process

Analysis of business and functional requirements.

Creation and Execution: test plans, test cases, scenarios for a manual, functional, performance, load/stress test

Maintain Tracking defects (FrogBugz)

Responsible for creation and executing test procedures, analyze results, report all found defects and retest them

after fix and maintaining Baseline and Future Date testing for major modules of the application in different configurations.

Configured test environments on multiple client/server platforms (Windows, UNIX, Solaris)

03/2001- MetLife, Jersey City, NJ

05/2002 Team Lead/Sr.QA Engineer

Projects: Vacation Accrual, Pension Modeling, CIM, Stock Options, EZ-Hire, Cognos, Direct Deposit

Manager:

• Responsible for managing lifecycle testing process

• Creation and Execution: Test plans, test cases, scenarios for a performance, load/stress test (Loadrunner

Winrunner 7, 4; PeopleSoft 8, 1)

• Maintain Tracking defects (Test Director, TDS)

Team Leader/Sr. QA Engineer:

Extensive TSL modifications in performance testing of all modules of PeopleSoft version 8.1 with transferring data from

front end to the back application using Loadrunner 7, 5. Functional and regression testing of PeopleSoft HR modules,

such as CIM, Stock Options, Pension Modeling TCPS, Development Planning. Tested the migration process form PeopleSoft 7.5 to PeopleSoft 8.0 (web based). Interacted with a change management group on a daily bases, using PVCS, to assure smooth migration of content from one environment to another. Creating Scenario for Benchmarking, Performance and Load Tests and executing test procedures on multiple client/server platforms (Windows, UNIX), using Loadrunner 7.2/7, 5. Analyzing results and produces final reports using Test Director.

06/1999- InterWorld corporation, New York, NY

03/2001 Senior QA Engineer

Involved in the testing of the Commerce Exchange 4, 0 an internet-based application (Windows and UNIX platform) using Loadrunner 6, 5/5.02. Commerce Exchange - e-commerce software with B2B2C Sites. Benchmarking, Load/Performance/Stress Test, Scenario, Analyzing results, installation and configuration application on server.

05/1994 - Integrated Technology Solutions, LLC. Baldwin, NY

06/1999 C developer/ Java developer/ QA Analyst

Participated in testing, design and development of the Behavioral Healthcare (BH) and Assets Management (AM) System, defining of Users requirements, detailed system requirements and database analysis based on user input, analyzing and developing the initial structure of the system using Rational 7.1

EDUCATION:

Dec.1989 to Jul.1991 Kaliningrad State University, Kaliningrad Russia (MS in Computer Science)

Sep.1985 to May.1989 Kaliningrad Technological College, Kaliningrad Russia (BS in Computer Science and Mathematics)

REFERENCES: Furnished upon request

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