Responsible for the QA of all test deliverables including Test Activity Plans, Test Completion Certificates feeding into the Commercial Banking Senior Implementation Managers Go/No Go decisions for implementation of the Rind Fenced projects within the Earth and Moon Programme.Actively involved with managing and implementing Test accounts for Live Proving activities and helping to reduce risk across the Logical Separation programme.Areas of responsibility included Client Mgt, Business… Show more Responsible for the QA of all test deliverables including Test Activity Plans, Test Completion Certificates feeding into the Commercial Banking Senior Implementation Managers Go/No Go decisions for implementation of the Rind Fenced projects within the Earth and Moon Programme.Actively involved with managing and implementing Test accounts for Live Proving activities and helping to reduce risk across the Logical Separation programme.Areas of responsibility included Client Mgt, Business Internet Banking (BIB), EChannels, Global Trading and Receivables Finance (GTRF) Show less

HSBC Global Banking and Markets for over 3 years working across a number of workstreams, specifically working with offshore test resources in India and Brazil. Originally brought in to manage and provide quality assurance within the Onboarding and Client Management services, working on:NGT (Next Generation Tool) for US and GlobalKYC services (Know Your Customer)GDR (Global Document Repository)TMD (Trade Market Data)TCS (Treasury Credit System)In early 2015… Show more HSBC Global Banking and Markets for over 3 years working across a number of workstreams, specifically working with offshore test resources in India and Brazil. Originally brought in to manage and provide quality assurance within the Onboarding and Client Management services, working on:NGT (Next Generation Tool) for US and GlobalKYC services (Know Your Customer)GDR (Global Document Repository)TMD (Trade Market Data)TCS (Treasury Credit System)In early 2015 moved to current role of Senior Test Manager for Regulations working specifically on Tracker projects for:EMIR (European Market Infrastructure Regulation) including Resolution Stays, BRRD (Banking Recovery Resolution Directive)DFA (Dodd Frank Act)Canada for OTC Derivatives - Credit / Rates / Equities / Commodities / FX asset classesNon-tracker - RCT (Regulatory Classification Tool)CCD (Customer Contact Data) As part of this role I introduced an overall Test Strategy document and as well as individual Test Plan documents for each project and releaseResponsibilities:Planning and managing test activities and resourcesDefect managementEnsuring Test Deliverable criteria met for audit purposes including exit and entry criteriaTest strategy and overall Quality controlActively involved with introducing SCRUM/Agile methodology and Risk Based Test Methodology Show less

Coller Capital is the leading global investor in private equity secondaries market, with approximately $8 billion under management. It has the world’s largest investment team dedicated to private equity secondaries with headquarters in London, New York and Hong Kong. Coller Capital acquires positions in venture capital, buyout and mezzanine funds, together with portfolios of companies or stakes in companies, from institutions, corporate, government bodies and family offices. Investment in any… Show more Coller Capital is the leading global investor in private equity secondaries market, with approximately $8 billion under management. It has the world’s largest investment team dedicated to private equity secondaries with headquarters in London, New York and Hong Kong. Coller Capital acquires positions in venture capital, buyout and mezzanine funds, together with portfolios of companies or stakes in companies, from institutions, corporate, government bodies and family offices. Investment in any one transaction ranges from $1 million to more than $1 billion.As no test department existed, responsible for the creation and implementation of the Test department and overall Test Strategy which included system testing iterations of the Visualmagic (.net), implementing an Agile/DSDM approach to software development lifecycle and hiring onshore and offshore test resources.Responsibilities:Setting up of Test department from scratchCreation and implementation of Test StrategyPlanning of test resource across multiple projectsCreated structure of High, Medium and Low/Adhoc test procedures for testing of internal and third party software solutionsInterviewing and hiring Test analystsManaging onshore and offshore (Dataart) resourcesCreation of risk based regression packsManaged projects to automate regression packs using QTP and SeleniumCreated and presented defect raising classes to business usersCreated and presented importance of UAT classes to business usersPivotal in introducing Defect management using Team Foundation Server Testing migration from Windows XP to Windows Testing Qlikview 11, US and UK Tax including EW8 for FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act), HR Bowlands appraisal system, Performance of Citrix clients, Sharepoint, web based Front Office Deal capture software Show less

Senior Test Analyst on the Trade Optimised Portfolio System (TOPS), a process-based application which seeks to capture, appraise, optimise and act upon Equities investment ideas generated by Brokers and independent research houses including Stock Borrow short sell restrictions. Ideas are weighted and scaled to produce orders. Worked within a development team to achieve key functional changes required by business users in London, New York and Hong Kong trading offices. Used Target… Show more Senior Test Analyst on the Trade Optimised Portfolio System (TOPS), a process-based application which seeks to capture, appraise, optimise and act upon Equities investment ideas generated by Brokers and independent research houses including Stock Borrow short sell restrictions. Ideas are weighted and scaled to produce orders. Worked within a development team to achieve key functional changes required by business users in London, New York and Hong Kong trading offices. Used Target Process to capture User Stories, prioritise and plan 3-week sprints. Worked closely with users to achieve agreed delivery goals. Responsibilities:Liaising with business users to gather requirements (EU, US and HK) Scrum planning for future 3-week sprints to determine priority and scopeTest estimation based on analysis of change and discussions with users and developersCreating and implementing test schedule using SharepointManagement of test environments including version control and release managementOrganising and allocation of testing to other team members and offshore test resources Creating and implementing test case standardDeveloping test approach & test cases in line with agreed standards using Agile methodologyDaily attendance and contribution to team scrums with regards progress, issuesExecuting tests, recording test results & reporting test statusRegression pack maintenance and executionFault reporting, tracking and resolution to retestProduction deployment assistanceUser demonstrations and training of functional changes Performing daily monitoring of live applications & assisting in first line application supportWriting and maintaining company wiki pages outlining functional changes Coaching & mentoring of all Marshall Wace testersPerformance test data generation and executionGap analysis of regression test pack Regression pack generationDriving the implementation of automated regression testsInterviewing candidates for senior test analyst roles. Show less

Test Anlayst working on Futures Trade Matching Engine.

Senior Test Analyst working on the Company’s Futures and Options exchange software (LIFFECONNECT). The application is part GUI and part character based input running on a Unix Operating system and Oracle and GEM databases. The main focus of the application is to provide a trading exchange for members to trade a variety of financial instruments including for example Stock Options, Equity Index Derivatives, and Commodities