Aaron Chen Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia

Be accountable for the planning, design and execution of strategic priorities across MasterKey platform.Lead ST/SIT/UAT activities within the MLC/Insignia Financial business for all projects, events, BAU system releases, legislative changes, product and insurance developments, and business/system enhancementsDevelop test strategies/plans for assigned testing tasks, including communication and coordination of sign-offManage the creation of manual and automated test cases in… Show more Be accountable for the planning, design and execution of strategic priorities across MasterKey platform.Lead ST/SIT/UAT activities within the MLC/Insignia Financial business for all projects, events, BAU system releases, legislative changes, product and insurance developments, and business/system enhancementsDevelop test strategies/plans for assigned testing tasks, including communication and coordination of sign-offManage the creation of manual and automated test cases in testing tools using in-depth technical analysis of both functional and non-functional specificationsSupervise test execution across all integration testing types and assess high-severity defects to minimize impacts on quality and the test scheduleIdentify risks, issues, or dependencies that may impact test planning or execution phasesAct as an escalation point for QA/Test AnalystsCommunicate testing progress, project status, and issues/defects to all key stakeholdersManage defects, contribute to defect triages, assess the severity and impact of test defects on the business and clients, and communicate with key stakeholdersContribute to the ongoing development and continuous improvement of testing capabilities and maturityCoordinate with project managers and release managers to ensure that release-related testing tasks are completed in a timely manner and support post-implementation testing activitiesTrain, mentor, and upskill existing or new QA Engineers Show less

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Leading and managing UAT projects and applying agile methodology. i.e. Led scrum meetings and weekly catch up with stakeholders and project team members to keep track of progress, action items, issues towards meeting project deadline. Creating Test Plans & Strategies, Resource Planning and managing Test Summary Reports for all releases on all projectsProviding visibility and open communication with project stakeholders i.e. business and technology. Created and distributed daily… Show more Leading and managing UAT projects and applying agile methodology. i.e. Led scrum meetings and weekly catch up with stakeholders and project team members to keep track of progress, action items, issues towards meeting project deadline. Creating Test Plans & Strategies, Resource Planning and managing Test Summary Reports for all releases on all projectsProviding visibility and open communication with project stakeholders i.e. business and technology. Created and distributed daily status report to effectively and efficiently provide latest view of the project's status.Brainstorming, discussing and providing resolution to any issues arising from testing during project lifecycle.Ensuring all defects are fixed prior to all projects production including effectively managing and minimizing defects throughout project lifecycle.Maintaining project team’s morale and healthiness by creating a motivated working environment and showing appreciation to team’s full commitments. Developing a continuous improvement mindset in team and project interactionsCollaborating with other disciplines to ensure that test outcomes are achieved in the most efficient way Show less

North Sydney

Leading and managing UAT projects and applying agile methodology. i.e. Led scrum meetings and weekly catch up with stakeholders and project team members to keep track of progress, action items, issues towards meeting project deadline. Creating Test Plans & Strategies, Resource Planning and managing Test Summary Reports for all releases on all projectsProviding visibility and open communication with project stakeholders i.e. business and technology. Created and distributed… Show more Leading and managing UAT projects and applying agile methodology. i.e. Led scrum meetings and weekly catch up with stakeholders and project team members to keep track of progress, action items, issues towards meeting project deadline. Creating Test Plans & Strategies, Resource Planning and managing Test Summary Reports for all releases on all projectsProviding visibility and open communication with project stakeholders i.e. business and technology. Created and distributed daily status report to effectively and efficiently provide latest view of the project's status.Brainstorming, discussing and providing resolution to any issues arising from testing during project lifecycle.Ensuring all defects are fixed prior to all projects production including effectively managing and minimizing defects throughout project lifecycle.Maintaining project team’s morale and healthiness by creating a motivated working environment and showing appreciation to team’s full commitments. Developing a continuous improvement mindset in team and project interactionsCollaborating with other disciplines to ensure that test outcomes are achieved in the most efficient way Show less

Sydney, Australia

Liaise with business to gather requirements to produce UAT testing scopes and testing effortsPerform gap analysis in the business requirements and functional specification and advise business analysts on mismatch informationDriving, coordinating and supporting delivery and ongoing refinement of test approaches, plans, test reports/metrics and test summary reportsLeading walkthrough sessions with the Business around test coverage and test traceabilityControlling… Show more Liaise with business to gather requirements to produce UAT testing scopes and testing effortsPerform gap analysis in the business requirements and functional specification and advise business analysts on mismatch informationDriving, coordinating and supporting delivery and ongoing refinement of test approaches, plans, test reports/metrics and test summary reportsLeading walkthrough sessions with the Business around test coverage and test traceabilityControlling and managing difficulties that arise in during manual testing, automated testing and related activitiesContinuous collaboration with team members to ensure that testing activities are shared across team member sand efficiently/effectively achieved according to capacity and skillsetMajor AchievementsSuccessfully led and delivered FY19 MaskerKey Statements SIT and UAT on time with extremely tight resources allocated in business and technology plus initiating a process improvement retrospective session for future reference as a Test managerSuccessfully managed and delivered Expire Plan Service Fee and Adviser Contribution Fee for MKBS and MKPS project for Guardian release within a very tight timeframe as a Test LeadSuccessfully managed and delivered new MasterKey BPAY changes and MCS Hybrid Enhancements as part of eCommerce ATO Simplification Program ad hoc release from end to end process (Agile based)Successfully delivered overall regulatory reporting UAT for Retail Product Trade Ups Project where trade up the legacy retail products to more modern products within MLC Super FundManaged to create the FY 2017 Customer Statements test plan, strategy and daily status report successfully delivered the UAT for Customer StatementsSuccessfully delivered Successor Fund Transfer - Regulatory Reporting Changes and ATO Requirements projects as part of simplification of NAB Wealth’s super and investment business Show less

Sydney, Australia

Coordinate and manage the tasks and requirements of day to day ATO reporting for the MLC business, both to and from the ATOAnalyse, gather and negotiate with business requirements for required system changes in order to comply with regulatory reporting obligationTo ensure quality and timely reporting is produced, project management as requiredLiaise with technology to review and sign off functional requirements. Where required, provide support in the gap analysis… Show more Coordinate and manage the tasks and requirements of day to day ATO reporting for the MLC business, both to and from the ATOAnalyse, gather and negotiate with business requirements for required system changes in order to comply with regulatory reporting obligationTo ensure quality and timely reporting is produced, project management as requiredLiaise with technology to review and sign off functional requirements. Where required, provide support in the gap analysis processesMajor AchievementsSuccessfully delivered the FY 2015 Member Contributions Statements with more than 1.5 million member accounts in MLC to the ATO and data integrity workflows were less than 50% in comparison to previous financial year as a report leadProject managed and successfully delivered non-super unclaimed money to ASIC from 2013 to 2015 with average FUM $5 million each yearDigitise our business by changing the payment methods by cheques to EFT for monthly ASIC reclaim. This change saved an hour each month for cashiering team manually summing up the cheques amounts and cashiering to the suspense account as well as those cheques costs each month Show less

Sydney, Australia

Led the data integrity team to successfully deliver the EOFY database close off for the last 3 yearsSuccessfully resolution of income protection premiums Event whereby all issues were closed and future occurrence prevented within the required timeframeImproved the management of various suspense accounts as part of business obligations to finance risk and control

Sydney, Australia

Other, Business Analyst

Business Analysis Fundamentals

Other, Financial Planning (Rg 146)

Bachelor’S Degree, Economics & Finance