Apinder Bal Email & Phone Number

Titchfield, England, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Remote

Responsibilities: Projects, Schedule, Resource, Revenue• Manage all Work that coming into the tPoint Team through the SDLC (Discovery/Estimates/User Story/Client Sign Off on the User Story/Providing Cost Estimates/Sign off on Costs/Build (Dev/PS/DevOps)/Testing/UAT/Client Sign Off/Release to Live)• Update Finance to review Revenue Planned and Delivered, provide Month End Billing Reports to Business Stakeholders• The Current Client List is External tPoint Clients, Woven Clients, and Internal Woven Clients• Manage New Work/Change Projects/BAU/Support Work Streams• The Support Stream is External tPoint Clients, Media, Woven Clients, and Internal Woven Clients• Manage Offshore consultants from work allocation/leave/sickness and ensuring Invoices are correct

Woodland Hills, Ca

Responsibilities: QA Lead for timely, successful deployment of Data Centre Migration Project• Reviewed Specifications to meet Business Requirements• Created Test Plans accounting for HA/DR• Created and executed Test Cases• Maintained project documents in SharePoint• Participated in daily Agile Scrums with project stakeholders• Participated in troubleshooting sessions for minor issues on deployment

Sherman Oaks, Ca

Responsibilities: Sr QA Analyst for cloud based Universal Music Group Billing Application • Reviewed Specifications to meet Business Requirements• Created and executed Test Cases using Quality Center• Participated in daily Scrums with stakeholders• Created SQL queries for team members to execute

Remote

Responsibilities: Remote Consultant for a Data Conversion Project to move Department of Labor Unemployment Tax records to a modern platform.• Reviewed Specifications to meet Business Requirements• Created Test Plans for the Data Conversion Project• Created and executed Test Cases for the Data Conversion Project and Interfaces to new system• Created SQL queries and executed stored procedures to convert data• Recorded Test Progress in Zephyr and Defects in Mantis

Camarillo And Woodland Hills Ca

Responsibilities: Aligned platform specific projects to ensure that all projects included QA planning, estimates, execution, documentation, and integrated quality improvements for future development. Provided end user training as needed.• Trained, mentored, and led a team of contractors to facilitate the migration of back-end card processing applications to a new Data Center• Lead QA on Billing Engine, Foreign Currency Processing Project and NCNSS Secure Sensitive Data Projects• Execute batch jobs using a global event scheduling tool to extract, transform and load data • Review ETL audits and validate reports for Data Warehouse and Currency Processing Server• Developed log consolidation from MySQL to Oracle, facilitating faster web application response• Tested Web Applications, SFTP site, Oracle, and MySQL Databases

Calabasas, Ca

Responsibilities: Worked with clients in over 40 countries using multiple unique configurations of Global Trader. Primary QA Analyst working with an implementation team to customize and enhance Global Trader for US Bancorp • Tested Global Trader - a configurable real-time application used by traders dealing in a range of financial instruments. Validated data transfer to and from multiple real-time interfaces• Security testing of Profile Server - an application to define user privileges • Tested multiple functionalities of GT Setup a configuration tool• Developed test plans and cases for testing to change the network protocol from NetBIOS to TCPIP• Lead QA on a database migration project from Pervasive SQL to SQL Server

Los Angeles, California, United States

United Kingdom

Responsibilities: Joined a core team of 7 to plan and implement computerization of manual UK Immigration Casework procedures in seven major UK Ports of Entry improving passenger processing time and tracking the immigration process flow by Managers and support teams. • Core duties as an immigration officer at sea and airports as well as in enforcement • Business Analyst on the Port Administration System - A client server application developed by Siemens to manage immigration casework at air and seaports in the UK.• Defined system implementation and training requirements for various sites• Collaborated with developers, system engineers, and test teams. Liaison for HW/ SW vendors.• Wrote the System Manual for end users and system release notes• Developed SQL queries to assist with statistical returns and ad-hoc reports• Coordinated User Acceptance Testing, Training, and Deployment Support• Tested Queue Management System - An application developed by the British Airports Authority to enable “zoning” of arriving passengers to enable efficient processing by immigration staff.