Manage International QA Teams and Projects and provide Quality Assurance services for the Compliance, Trading, Liquidity Risk Management and Data Warehouse applications. Estimate QA services cost and resources for the mega projects. Negotiate contracts with business sponsors and with external services providers. Ensure QA services delivery within tight budget, time and resource constraints. Participate in Internal Audits. Manage projects using Japanese Management Technique (Ringi process).

Manage QA projects and provide Quality Assurance and Process Improvement services for the Institutional Research Services, including Trades Management System, Middle Office Operations, Commissions Calculations, Stocks and Options Trading (FIX protocol), Customer Relationship Management, Research Authoring Tools, Portfolio Monitoring, Quantitative Analytic, Derivatives Trading Platform, and Client Services development and implementation efforts.

Responsible for the Fixed Income applications development and testing in the following areas: currencies, mortgages, derivatives, economic statistics, commodities, bonds, equities, options. Actively involved into the development process assessment and improvement efforts. Established requirements-based testing framework. Provides support for the development teams in unit, system, regression test strategies design and implementation, requirement management and project management.

Established and supervised Quality Assurance team. Responsible for the testing of Corporate Actions application for Citigroup• Supervised QA Team (up to five team members), planning QA resources and coordinating efforts with Development and Product Management teams resulting in products delivery on-time and to meet quality goals • Review project requirements and developed test strategy intended to minimize quality risks• Participated in test planning and design, including testware development using SQL queries for database verification• Developed test automation strategy

Established and supervised Quality Assurance team. Responsible for the testing of Web-based distributed Java/C++ Network Security applications including system, regression testing and performance characterization, Quality process assessment and improvement

Hands on lead a Quality Assurance team comprising three testers, one programmer and two networking specialists. Managed QA resources closely working with upper Management and Development teams. Coordinated QA efforts across US and in Multinational environments. Responsible for the Software Development process assessment, improvement and standardization. Responsible for the testing of Web infrastructure, Java/C++ applications including stress testing and performance characterization. Utilize automatic testing tools in Unix environments. Involved in testware development and implementation based on Perl scripts in distributed environments.

• Spearheaded the product implementation of a QA automation tools (WinRunner & Test Director). Lead TSL scripts programming and debugging efforts. Enabled test effectiveness growth and cost deduction• Created test plans and test cases using various testing methodologies resulting in System, Acceptance, Beta, Sanity, Regression and Performance Test Suites established, managed and executed• Participated in software development process improvement activities by preparing ISO 9000 certification• Prepared test statistic reports by creating SQL scripts providing complete information for management team• Conducted documentation testing by execution procedures resulting in valuable documentation shipped

• Performed financial market data processing Business Rules and Database testing, Data Integrity, Stress, Forced-error, Performance and Load testing providing high-quality data for informed Investment decisions• Designed requirement management approach using UML and modern tools (DOORS by Telelogic) resulting in requirements-to-test traceability established and testing effectiveness improved• Established staging testing environment similar to production providing testing effectiveness improvement• Performed Quality Process Analysis, made recommendations and lead Process Improvement activities• Evaluated methodologies and tools for test automation. Made presentations to Management to motivate them to support the implementation of a Requirements Management system• Created automated test script using PERL and UNIX Shell scripts resulting in testing effectiveness improvement

• Designed and implemented various subsystems of cellular network monitoring and control system using modern network management systems development tools• Involved into software development process assessment and improvement activities using CMM methodology. Enabled Level IV certification achievement• Performed Performance, Stress, Load and Memory testing using test automation tools• Planned and performed Unit, Integration and System testing using white-, grey- and black-box techniques. Enabled complete and effective test execution• Participated in customer support activities