QA Lead/Automation Lead Responsible for leading and managing QA efforts on development projects. Working from Phase 0 to deployment. Provide QA Leadership and mentoring to resources on site.Responsible for implementing Automation strategy/framework using IBM Rational Functional Tester, with scripts stored and run through IBM Rational Quality Manager.Experience with projects in Supply Change Management, Enterprise Corporate Security, Asset & Resource Management, and Outage Management.Experienced in Waterfall & Agile (SaFe) methodologies, and executing testing phases using both.Experience with Microsoft Cloud Technologies, API Management, AppInsights, COSMOS, Azure Table Storage.Experience with OAUTH, in conjunction with API testing.

Experienced manual and automation testing engineer. Skilled at writing Test Plans as well as detailed Test Scripts. Ability to manage the QA portion of the SDLC from Requirements to Test Planning, Test Execution and Defect tracking. Responsible for mentoring and training junior resources that join the firm.

Activities included leading resources located in NYC, Canada, and India. Planning and executing releases from start to finish, using HP's Project and Portfolio Management and Quality Center. Fully managed QA portion of the SLDC. Trained and managed resources, provided statistics to Senior Management using Quality Center generated reports and graphs. Extensive experience leading major project initiatives from inception to completion which involved all aspects of Prime Services from trades processing to Data warehousing, Report Generation and Portal and Client Distribution, across Equity, Fixed Income and SWAPS groups. Projects included but not limited to maintenance, new project initiatives as well as major software and hardware upgrades.OSI - Street Test CoordinatorResponsible for detailed planning and execution of (OSI) Options Symbology Initiative Standard Industry Tests involving Broker-Dealers/Data Providers & Clearing firms. Emphasis on Trades processing and Settlement/Clearing/Reconciliation & Balancing for MLPCC Clearing . Wrote detailed test plan and test scripts for simulated trading day and Options Expiration weekend. Managed each of the four Standard Industry Test for OSI (retirement of Options OPRA code), tracked and managed issue resolution as client strived to go live in a non OPRA code environment. Lead Communications with the Options Clearing Corp & each of the Option Exchanges (CBOE, ISE, NYSE AMEX-ARCA, PHLX, NASDAQ), to construct communication in and out of Test Environment.

Manual/Automation tester for Casualty Facultative. Responsibilities included writing test plans, developing test scripts which matured into automation for client and web applications using IBM Rational Robot. Logged and reported defects using IBM Rational ClearQuest. Assets managed using IBM Rational Test Manager.QA Lead for Property FacultativeLead CT and India resources in testing of a major Property Reinsurance application. Worked closely with Project and Senior Management in constructing QA team, formulating testing strategies, managing defect resolution process. SLDC was implemented using RUP (Rational Unified Process