I am a highly-experienced IT professional working in London Stock Exchange group as a Test Manager . Interested in Permanent or Consultant role, working full time. Able to work in office and remotely. Adaptable individual worked in UK & USA .Excel in working as hands on Test Manager, Lead & Test Analyst to suit different requirements at different times of the project needs.Passionate Quality Assurance IT professional with extensive experience in Investment Banking, Financial services & US Payroll application domains. To carve a niche in the field of Financial Sector and to continue to grow my experience.Test Process and Management End to End Test Management for Equity, Repo releases following LSEG testing process standards to the clearing platforms. Test Planning/Strategy creation with Quality gates engaging with other streams. Quality gate exits & signoff from all stakeholders. Extensive Functional, SIT, UAT, OAT, Regression, NFT, DM, MT & Trade Venue testing experience. Term CFD introduction of new product in financial markets. Proficient in Release, Change, Configuration and Defect Management processes Experience leading defect triage for all quality gates as defect manager. Owning complete defect management with Jira dashboards. Hands on expertise in test execution and management of all test phases using Waterfall/Agile/SDLC, involved in BDD, TDD, CI/CD methodologies of SDLC. Demonstrated and delivered cost and effort savings using innovative test design techniques, reusability, automation, effective usage of test metrics.Technical Hands on testing experience in Unix, JAVA, C++, VB applications. Extensively used SWIFT and FIX messages in middleware testing using MQ Series for trades, settlements, and payment processing. Hands on experience in AWS Cloud migration. Knowledge of SELENIUM, QTP and WinRunner for automated functional testing, HP ALM & JIRA for test and defect management.Business Domain Expertise in Front to back-office suite of applications covering various asset classes including Equities, Derivatives, FX and Fixed Income. Extensive working knowledge on Equities clearing in UK & Europe on two applications (Legacy & MCCP). Expertise in Cash Equity and derivative (CFD) clearing & Settlement. Worked on trade processing platforms, clearing platforms (Equity, Repo Clear) and Risk management tools (ERA-Equity Risk Analysis) Expertise in Equity research and distribution technology including regulatory reporting & compliance.