Greg Waters Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, United States

Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

Provide expert oversight for 35 resources globally as well as the testing program in New York, London, Montreal, Budapest and Pune. Perform efficient planning for the day-to-day operations as well as budget oversight, talent management and direction of the regional center of excellence. Manage and direct teams of software quality assurance professionals who are responsible for the quality of middle back office systems which route, enrich, aggregate, allocate, back bridge and report trade flow. Demonstrate proficiency in accomplishing quality assurance programs which saved $15 million of potential IT losses by identifying software defects through automation and tooling, test coverage, procedural changes, and a sound staff mix. - Delivered professional QA services for applications that process 45 million messages per day at a rate of 3000 messages per second while 580,000 business rules drive the Global trade flow through production systems.- Successfully established a collection of services that delivers core test services with a higher degree of efficiency at a lower cost, which involves test environment, build management, and regression test execution support.- Provided expert oversight for software quality assurance group with 35 members comprising 25 offshore resources in India and 10 employees from New York, Montreal, London and New York.- Provided oversight to the center of excellence co-location site in Budapest with dedicated testing functions which enabled the framework to deliver a highly efficient and innovative set of testing services to the development and operations communities.- Made major contribution in streamlining various processes which drove significant effect in the software development life cycle as well as enhanced software defect process and a group-wide defect tracking system. Introduced and imposed guidelines for the prioritization and provided timely resolutions for all software defects.

Greater New York City Area

Established a Quality Assurance organization to create and initiate global deployment of Moneyline Telerate’s fixed income ticker and financial feed system, which provided tick by tick price updates for fixed income products. Gathered data from numerous sources and disseminated a consolidated feed to the interested clients in historical trends and price information. Facilitated the hiring, training, and assisting of staff.- Created process and procedures for independent testing environments and automation test tools.- Administered the defect tracking process and evaluated the defect load against project planning milestones, which brought accurate assessment of the production readiness to senior management.-Successfully built solid working relationship with the development staff and carried out programs that developed defect turnaround cycles and explored defects discovered by QA.- Built and sustained multiple QA test environment, which were isolated and secured from development and production environments. - Efficiently upheld a software staging, production replica, unit test, performance test, and integration test environments.- Provided assistance in managing operational systems by keeping a complete replica of the production software and hardware for repeating defects and authenticating software fixes.- Incorporated customized test tools built from Java, VB and C++, which automated financial page and record comparisons, record and play-back data, as well as white and black box level tests.- Conducted test in every aspect of the Moneyline Telerate technology, and ensured the day-to-day hands-on responsibilities as a Senior QA engineer.

Greater New York City Area

Functioned as the overall project team leader, accountable for budgeting, staffing, and project planning. Assumed full responsibility in building and deploying a web-based workflow order management system to support the products and services of the organization, consisting of over 1000 users.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Application Developer and Test Engineer in Düsseldorf, Germany and Fairfax, Virginia and Denver, Colorado.