• Performed this role within a large global technology team located across New York, London and Hyderabad locations. • Ensured complete capture and management of requirements across a wide range of analytical platforms through regular contact with business stakeholders to meet the changing business needs and deliver new analytical capabilities used by several hundred financial analysts globally.• Managed estimation and release activities within the project delivery process• Successfully worked with an agile scrum team based in India responsible for the delivery of the new platforms or enhancements to existing systems• Competent user of Excel, SQL and agile scrum tools to facilitate data analysis and project execution.

• Worked with senior executive stakeholders to capture requirements and design the user interface for a management-level project reporting system, which successfully enhanced the project management function.• Led the quality assurance effort for a key strategic data and application migration project from a standalone system to the corporate platform, allowing for the quick realisation of workflow efficiencies and improvements in process lead times within the insurance ratings process.• Provided quality assurance for the ongoing enhancements to several analytical data management systems, including user interface, computational and data testing.• Successfully tested an XML feed product, which made key structured finance rating data available to external customers.

• Engaged specifically to provide business analysis and quality assurance expertise for several IT projects being delivered by the UK-based marketing team.• Established testing processes which enabled the successful launch of a financial product marketing website for corporate ratings within Europe.• Performed business analysis and product management role for a structured finance customer portal product developed using offshore resources.

• Recruited and managed a team of 20+ software testers.• Drove the test management, planning and process implementation efforts, including the use of the V-model framework and establishment of testing standards.• Delivered successfully tested releases of the NHS patient care system, including new electronic booking facility following GP referrals.• Established and managed test environments for integration testing and UAT

• Managed a team of 30 software testers.• Provided functional testing capability for the testing of real-time share price, news and stock exchange trading products. • Successfully designed and implemented approaches to non-functional testing, including the adoption of automated testing techniques to meet high volume data integrity and transactional testing requirements.• Created and ran a specialist third line product support service for providing both off-site and on-site technical product expertise.

• Performed testing of data feed handling systems which collected and stored price data from more than 30 global vendors including stock, derivative and commodity exchanges.• Carried out data operations activities for the maintenance of additional non-exchange based financial information.