Will Brooks Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

- QA Analyst for R3's distributed ledger platform, Corda.- Specializing in Corda node, collaborative recovery, and archiving functionalities.

London, United Kingdom

- Specialist in manual testing of Fidessa Buy-Side FIX connectivity integrations, across multiple asset types (Equity, Fixed Income, Futures & Options, FX).- Test duties for multiple FIX ECNs incl Tradeweb, MarketAxess, Bloomberg TSOX & EMSX, Liquidnet (Equity & FI), FXConnect, FXAll, ITG Triton, Fidessa AMS, MarketAxess TRAX, Neptune Fixed Income, Fidessa EMS Workstation- Experienced in both front end UAT, and server-side component testing (black box and white box). Used to operating in multi-component server environments ( including Linux).- Use of various FIX engines, including Cameron, Fidessa FixPlus, Fidessa hosted solution 'XPO'. Also experienced in Fidessa's 'hub & spoke' model FIX network offering 'Fidessa Express'.- Broker & ECN on-boarding certifications- Experienced in various FIX flows: Order flow; IOIs; Allocation & Confirmation; Trade Reporting- Setup up of FIX connections, and network routing configurations.- Setup up & maintenance of UAT environments – deploying patches, running database scripts etc.- Test case planning, execution and bug tracking. - Test automation design (Fitnesse).- Experienced in detailed application log analysis, with proven analytical and problem-solving skills.- Awarded for efforts in assisting Production Support (DevOps aware).- Experience working in both Waterfall & Agile methodologies (SCRUM; LeSS); involved with Agile transformation of Dev department.- Used to creating detailed documentation for both personal and shared usage, and in providing training to technical and Ops teams. - Database interrogation (SQLServer, Oracle).- Maintenance phase development of 'xsl' code.- Experience in all aspects of Fidessa Buy-side products (Latentzero) including Sentinel, Minerva IMS, Tesseract and Portfolio Studio.

London, United Kingdom

- Testing bug fixes & new features, & providing production support, during maintenance phase for 'iRooms' - Imprima's virtual data-room application. - Tackling a wide range of issue types, including: aesthetic/ browser based UI discrepancies; performance & load issues; workflow improvements; security issues; technical debt of database structures; database performance problems; compatibility issues from updates for 3rd party software components.- New feature testing from start to finish of the development cycle: from initial QA checks with developers; unit & system testing; performance & limits testing; to UAT rundowns.

London, United Kingdom

- User acceptance & system testing for bug fixes & new functionalities on Temenos T24 core banking software- Testing custom in-house software e.g. .net applications, upload automations and data transfer systems- Taking ownership of bugs & helpdesk calls - from initial logging stage, through investigative analysis to identifying solutions and testing fixes, and to final resolution with training and documentation to end users- Maintaining and analysing call logs to identify and minimise recurring issues- End to end testing of a major project to set up a remote customer services centre - in particular combining OCR software with form based data capture to successfully reduce manual workloads- Liaising between front end users and developers

London, United Kingdom

- Customer account maintenance- Resolving customer complaints and correspondence- Transaction processing including Swift, BACS, Cheque Lodgements- Implementing new working procedures following upgrade of core banking software