Asst Vice President - Senior Quality Assurance Tester
Greater Boston Area
QA Senior Tester, Global Transaction Services TechnologySenior QA tester and team leader for Hedge Fund Services technology team. Hands on contributor responsible for all phases of the software testing effort. Managed team consisting of both onshore and offshore resources. Involved in all aspects of the SDLC from inception to deployment, including working closely with development team and key business stakeholders.• Automated the Eagle manual regression test suite of 200+ test scripts, reducing the average test execution time by over 80%. • Created Visual Basic library of functions for use with Quick Test Pro that allowed automated test scripts to store, retrieve and analyze information in Microsoft Excel.• Acted as QA Lead, as well as hands on contributor, for CITI’s web-based Fund of Funds Integrated Platform. Managed team of eight QA testers that produced over 12,000 QA test cases in an Agile Development environment. Provided Production ready releases on a bi-monthly basis over a span of two years.• Achieved CITI Metrics’ Goal of UAT defects being less than 10% of QA .• Designed, developed and executed SQL scripts that performed Data Obfuscation on QA region after data refreshes from production environment.• Created Quick Test Pro automated test scripts to recreate QA user accounts and test data in the QA environment after production data refreshes.• Acted as Quality Center administrator for the entire Hedge Fund Services technology team.• Established software installation and tracking procedures for the QA server environment, deployed software and managed team member deployments.• Mentored and on-boarded new hires on usage of HP/Mercury test tools, software deployment procedures, and Citi QA practices.