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Strategy |Business Development |Product Development Hands-on leader of a team who supports the on boarding of New Business and New Products to OCC.Communicates new products and business while building strong relationships with Senior Executives/Clients (both internally and externally).Serves as a connection between the business units, the IT organization and support/control groups, in order to recommend and document requirements for systems and operational solutions to meet user needsServes as a liaison between the external business customers - exchanges, members & vendors - and OCC's internal organizations, in order to recommend and document requirements for systems technical and procedural solutions.Serves the role as a Product Development Manager in developing project plans and managing resources for product development and software development techonology team. Analyzes business partner's operations to determine impact of changes to products OCC clears.

Serves as the liaison between business and technical users for all business, and project requirements.Work with management, customers and team members to help identify and specify complex business requirements and processes for OCC and project efforts.Leads discussions with stakeholders and subject matter experts to gather, document, and analyze business needs and requirements using best practices and standard methodology.Responsible for the development of all approved versions of business and functional specifications, including but not limited to Use Cases, Functional Workflow/Data Flow Diagrams and Process Models for New products and development.Analyze business requirements and propose technical web based solutions and designs to address business needs.Create software development lifecycle (SDLC) documentation, provide integrated systems planning and recommends new or different technologies or approaches that will enhance current systems and support corporate, business and system goals.Coordinates change management issues, assists in testing and test planning, and serves as a point of contact for customers and end users.

Lead a team of 4-6 QA Analysts for successful completion of Corporate Projects from the requirements to implementation phase.Created testing team project plans, test strategies, test execution estimates, test execution schedules, requirements traceability, test approaches and plans.Defined test scope and objectives for complex software projects. Review requirements, determine test scope and develop strategic test plans for test assignmentsParticipated in promoting improvements in QA processes. Worked on QA initiatives and process improvements that had impact and exposure to all of App Services.Provided an objective and comprehensive analysis of other department analysts to department manager for inclusion in year-end performance reviews.As a QA project lead, set a positive example for others to follow and motivates others. Assume the role of mentor to other department analysts and help guide their work.Acted as an advocate for our business users following through on all problem inquiries and situations. Interface with multiple application development groups, test groups, and project managers.Created dashboard reports and lead status meetings and capture, manage, and follow-up on action items.Under very aggressive deadlines, designed, developed, and executed comprehensive test plans for functional and system testing. Demonstrated hands-on experience with quality assurance practices, including project plan development, test strategy development, test plan development, test case & test data review, and test automation.Was a subject matter expert for several applications such as FiXML and Trade Validation, held several training sessions for new team members in QA and Application Services. Played an active role in the creation and integration testing for successful implementation of the new Automation tool working collaboratively with the Application Development Automation team

ResponsibilitiesDeveloped test strategies, detailed test plans, test cases, test data, test coverage, test execution, and reported status to multiple Project Managers.Created test data to test the following: Auto Adjust, Trade Posting, Batch Repost, VOI, Proactively identified issues, risks and variances from expected results while providing resolution suggestions and mitigation strategies. Created QA project plans for test planning and execution and led daily testing activities of other testers. Created Test Metrics reports using Crystal Reports and ClearQuest TestManager (CQTM) - Defect Reports, Execution Reports, Test Case Matrix reports, and Traceability Matrix reports.Researched and Authored Best Practice and Conversion manual for migrating and creating Test Cases/Scripts to ClearCase Test Manager toolCoordinated and lead team for migrating/converting Test Cases into ClearCase TestManager and Rational Manual Tester tool to act as a single bed Test RepositoryCreated and executed Functional and Integration Tests to validate conversions of back end applications from CoolGen/Mainframe/DB2 to Java/Unix/Oracle code base.Coordinated all aspects of a system test including coordinating environment setup decomposed requirements into test conditions, cases, and scripts Reviewed test cases and other testing artifacts created by other team members for completeness and accuracy. Work closely with clients to create UAT test plans and oversee the execution of them. Wrote Test Strategies, Detail Test Plans, and Master Test Plans. Wrote SQL queries to test application functionality.Created complex, reusable test data sets. Executed test cases to ensure that requirements have been met.

- Contributed to test planning, test preparation and writing, and test execution according to defined best practices, standards and procedures- Execution of scripts included progress reporting, defect tracking and risk assessments- Interfaced regularly with peers and management regarding test related topics including the coordination of test related initiatives wit QA Test leads, Project Managers, Development Managers, and other Core team members.- Assessed risk to quality service based upon results of verification and validation- Provided QA consultation services to support users of related test processes- Maintain document template libraries and internal project documentation- Daily use of Mercury Quality Center for test writing, executing and defect tracking- Developed and implemented procedures for maintaining and or enhancing the integrity of systems applications- Ensure that requirements are clearly defined ad testable- Created SQL queries to retrieve data from database and created test data for testing purposes- Responsible for the creation of detailed test plans and scripts to verify software functionality and adherence to business requirements