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Melbourne, Australia

The FX Trade Processing Team is responsible for the delivery of Foreign Exchange technology solutions for Projects and Business as Usual initiatives and to assist in the analysis, development and testing of changes as required.• Implemented test management tool (Zephr) to streamline testing and allow automated requirement trace-ability.• Designed and implemented JIRA Testing Dashboard to provide visibility on testing status.• Identification of opportunities to implement solutions to perform more effective and efficient testing.• Ownership and enforcement of testing standards and practices so that Software quality is guaranteed.• Provide thought leadership in QA practices and lead and execute testing strategies and process improvements.• Creation of Test Cases from Business Requirements and Design Specifications.• Execution of System, Integration and End to End Testing.• Review of test deliverables to ensure they adhere to software quality assurance standards and making recommendations for improvement.• Configuration and maintenance of testing environments.• Collaboration with Delivery, Release Manager, Development Team and Test Team to continuously develop and improve testing capabilities.

Melbourne, Australia

The HKEX Phase NDF initiative implemented technology to provide ANZ HK with the ability to clear Non Deliverable Forwards (NDFs) through the Hong Kong Exchange. This assisted the ANZ Business in Counterparty risk limit reduction, thereby significantly reducing monetary loss for ANZ.• Created Master Test Plan and Test Strategy from Business Requirements and Design Specifications for System Integration Test and UAT.• Contributed to the implementation of quality processes and on-going development of test standards and best practices to the organisation.• Creation of Test Cases from Business Requirements and Design Specifications.• Execution of System, Integration and End to End Testing.• Coordinated System, End to End and UAT testing activities.• Monitored progress to ensure that the testing activities were delivered on time and within budget, and that they met or exceeded expectations.• Attended weekly meetings with senior management and stakeholders to provide a summary and update on testing efforts.• Logged project issues and risks as and when required.

The FX Trade Processing Team is responsible for the delivery of Foreign Exchange technology solutions for Projects and Business as Usual initiatives and to assist in the analysis, development and testing of changes as required.• Managed a team of 4 onshore testers and 2 offshore testers including the developmental needs and aspirations of individual Test Team members and providing support, motivation and encouragement.•Designed, developed and implemented a Perl script to manipulate and batch load Foreign Exchange trades via XML through WallStreet vendor Application API to identify cause of a performance issue in Production. Due to its ease of use, it is still utilised today by Testers, Business Analysts and Production Support to bulk load trades into Wallstreet.•Worked with the Delivery and Release Manager to continuously develop and improve testing capabilities throughout the life of the project.• SME for in-house automated testing framework and harness for regression testing.• Reviewed test deliverables to ensure they adhere to software quality assurance standards and making recommendations for improvement.• Organised and facilitated Test Team meetings.• Measured and monitored progress to ensure that the testing activities were delivered on time and within budget, and that they met or exceeded expectations.• Ownership of testing processes and quality for all phases of the project.• Configured and maintained testing environments.• Providing a summary and update on testing efforts to senior management as and when required.• Escalated issues and risks to senior management as and when required.• Created Test Cases from Business Requirements and Design Specifications.• Executed System, Integration and End to End Testing scripts.

Melbourne, Australia

The FX Trade Processing Team is responsible for the delivery of Foreign Exchange technology solutions for Projects and Business as Usual initiatives and to assist in the analysis, development and testing of changes as required.• Liaised and working closely with Solution Designers, Developers, Business Analysts and Technical Analysts to assess the cause of defects and subsequent steps for their resolution.• Analysis of Technical Specifications to ensure they contribute to solution as dictated by Business Requirements.• Configured and maintained testing environments. Proposed and was successful in bid for Testers to deploy software to test environments, resulting in time savings of over half a day where this was previously conducted by an offsite team.• Assisted in replication, analysis and testing of fixes for Production issues. • Analysis of database information to determine root cause of defects.• Analysis of log files on Unix Servers to determine root cause of defects.• Creation of Test Cases from Business Requirements and Design Specifications.• Execution of System, Integration and End to End Testing.• Identification and logging of software defects using HP Quality Centre.• Contribution to the implementation of quality processes and on-going development of test standards and best practices to the organisation.• Attendance at meetings with senior management and stakeholders to provide a summary and update on testing efforts.• Escalation of issues and risks to senior management as and when required.

Melbourne, Australia

A short term break between finishing a contract role and commencing a full time position due to the sale of the family home and renovation of the newly acquired one.

Melbourne, Australia

In support of ANZ Global Market’s growth objectives, Markets Technology implemented a Vanilla FX processing and true global risk management platform to improve risk management capability and to display single risk view across all entities.• Created and reviewed automated framework and tests with XML templates and properties and utilising LISA ITKO to verify data/XML message transformation sent to the WallStreet vendor application.• Designed and created automated test scripts using Javascript.• Wrote Test Plans from Functional Requirements and Design Specifications.• Liaised and worked closely with Developers, Business Analysts and Technical Analysts to assess the cause of defects and subsequent steps for their resolution.• Assisted the Test Manager in estimation of time to complete Test Plans.• Reviewed and provided feedback on Business Requirements.• Executed System, Integration, End to End and User Acceptance Testing.• Analysed log files on Unix Servers to determine root cause of defects.• Identified and logged software defects using HP Quality Centre.• Provided support to Environment Manager by shaking out Test Environments after new software deployments.• Provided mentoring and support to peer Test Analysts.• Participated in weekly Test Team meetings.

Melbourne

The acquisition of Aviva by National Australia Bank/MLC has resulted in two competing full service investment platforms in the market, Masterkey Custom and Navigator. Both are supported by separate IT solutions and servicing teams. Release 5 of the Fusion Project involves the Masterkey Custom data migration of client information by transforming the data into the required formats and loading the transformed data into the Navigator platform.•Managed a team of seven automation testers and providing support, motivation and encouragement to an additional fifteen testers.•Raised Change Requests to ensure sufficient budget and resources are available to complete work resulting from increased project scope.•Tracked estimated costs vs actual costs to ensure sufficient budget is available to complete testing work.•Managed and coordinated System, End to End and Production Readiness testing activities.•Managed and coordinated resources from external vendors, UAT, Finance, Production Support, and external Test Teams.•Measured and monitored progress to ensure that the testing activities are delivered on time and within budget, and that they meet or exceed expectations.•Attended daily project meetings with senior management and stakeholders present to provide a summary and update on testing efforts.•Escalated project issues and risks to senior management as and when required.•Created Test Plans and Test Strategies from Business Requirements and Design Specifications.•CreatedTest Schedules to ensure testing effort is understood and completed on time.•Coordinated and managed weekly meeting to agree on and ensure effective testing of business processes between MLC and external systems.•Liaised and worked closely with Developers and Technical Analysts to assess the cause of defects and subsequent steps for their resolution.

Melbourne, Australia

The Reference Data Program is a major component in the National Australia Bank Wholesale division and provides a centralised Transactional Data Management solution by supporting the applications that perform transactions and generate operational data. •Overall accountability and ownership of testing processes and quality for all phases of the project.•Development and definition of the standards for the Test Strategy and Test Plans.•Contribution to the implementation of quality processes and ongoing development of test standards and best practices to the organisation.•Working with the Project Manager, Development Manager and Implementation Manager to continuously develop and improve testing capabilities throughout the life of the project.•Management of project issues and risks, ensuring escalation to Project Manager as and when required.•Development of automated testing framework, scripts and data.•Maintaining strong relationships with testing and other partner organisations to ensure effective engagement practices and maximum benefit are returned to the client.•Reviewing test deliverables to ensure they adhere to software quality assurance standards and making recommendations for improvement.•Management of the Test Team including the developmental needs and aspirations of individual Test Team members and providing support, motivation and encouragement.•Organisation and facilitation of Defect Management meetings and Test Team meetings.•Measurement and monitoring of progress to ensure that the testing activities are delivered on time and within budget, and that they meet or exceed expectations.•Development, maintenance and execution of Manual and Automated test suite.Responsible for management and coordination of system, end to end and production readiness testing activities.

Melbourne, Australia

The purpose of the Efx Replacement Project was to complete the replacement of the existing Reuters RTS-AD application with RET-AD and to perform simplification of the middleware components. This project was completed successfully in July 2008.•Developed a Perl script to identify if components on a server were running. This utility was implemented in Production.•Configured and maintained testing environments which included liaising with the Configuration Team and Oracle Developers.•Promoted packages to be deployed to production•Analysed log file output to identify the cause of a defect.•Assisted the Test Manager in estimation of time and resources to complete Test Plans.•Liaised and worked closely with Developers to understand how a component functions and integrates with existing architecture.•Developed Test Plans from Functional Requirements and Design Specifications.•Developed, maintained and executed manual test suites.•Executed of integration and end to end test phase test cases.

Melbourne, Australia

The Hansen Technologies Group is an information technology systems and services provider. It develops, integrates and supports billing systems software for the utilities (electricity, gas and water) and telecommunications industries. •Developed and executed test conditions for both the network and retail operations of a system for Scottish Power Gas and Electricity.•Developed and executed test conditions for the financial functional areas including payment plans, refunds, payment reversals, write-offs and debt collection.•Assisted the Project Manager and Test Manager in estimation of time and resources to complete Test Plans.•Created automated test scripts using TestComplete for regression testing.•Wrote Test Plans from the Functional Requirements and Design Specifications.•Developed, maintained and executed test cases.•Identified and raised software defects, following up to their resolution.•Liaised with clients to resolve discrepancies between their requirements and the Functional Specifications.•Liaised with Developers to inform them of discrepancies between current functionality of the system and the Functional Specifications.•Provided expert advice to the Project Manager, Test Manager and peer Test Analysts in regard to the product.•Provided timely status reports to the Test Manager.•Configured and maintained testing environments by liaising with the Configuration Team and Oracle Developers.•Provided assistance and executed Test Plans In-House for end to end and Factory Acceptance Testing for the client.

Melbourne, Australia

Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions provides products and services, open technology, data integration, and partners and people to enable successful implementation of GIS and geospatial information-based solutions.•Identified test scenarios based upon the functional specifications.Wrote Test Plans from the Functional Requirements and Design Specifications.•Developed, maintained and executed test cases.Identified and logged software defects.•Liaised with customer to resolve discrepancies between their requirements and the Functional Specifications.•Liaised with customer to resolve issues before they are escalated as a defect.•Liaised with Developers to inform them of discrepancies between current functionality of the system and the Functional Specifications.•Provided expert advice to the Project Manager, Test Manager and peer Test Analysts in regard to the core product.•Assisted Project Manager in estimation of time and resources to complete Test Plans.•Participated in weekly project meetings.•Participated in weekly test meetings involving the customer.•Configured and maintained Testing Environment.

Melbourne, Australia