Project / Program Test Manager

Project / Programme Test Manager with experience within the Investment Banking, Asset Management and Finance Sectors. Track record in delivery, including up-to-date and fit-for-purpose test strategies, schedules and repeatable test processes for global operations functions in partnership with the business leadership teams.

Key skills include

• Strong Functional/UAT and Non-Functional/OAT knowledge
• Test Management tooling - Agile, RAD, SCRUM, KANBAN, Lean
• Formulation of QA and Control Boards for the target project and sub-boards over global locations
• Leading teams of 100+ resources on and offshore and from multi-vendor/companies
• SC Cleared, DBS NSV & CTC. PRINCE2, APM, ISTQB and ISEB Practitioner
• MSP certified, fully AGILE/SCRUM trained and operational
• Tooling: Postman/API, Selenium, FitNess, HP UFT/QTP, Jira LoadRunner/Performance Centre, Gatling
• Waterfall, TDD, RAD, W & V-model, RUP, DSDM, Feature Driven Development.

Test Analyst

Highly experienced tester with deep financial services business and systems domain knowledge, including wealth and investment management. An ambitious, dedicated and hands-on individual with a strong track record of delivering complex projects from start to finish.

• Test Script Build
• Test Execution
• Functional Testing (System Testing & UAT)
• Test Planning and Management
• Test Process Improvement
• Defect Management
• Environment Management
• Test Management Tooling - Agile, Sprint Planning, Planning poker, Eagle Pace, SimCorp Dimension, HiPORT, Quality Centre, Rally, Jira, Jira-X-ray, Specflow, Gherkin, BDD, Selenium. Delphi, Java, C#, HTML, XML, SQL
• Relational databases, i-series AS400, VM ware, LDAP, Windows Mobile
• Android, iOS & Android app testing, REST API.

Sample Charles River Experience of interest

• Entered test trades such as SPOTS, FX, SWAPS, FIXED INCOME, EQUITY in the Charles River Trading blotter to ensure the daily JHI end to end accounting data flows were tested.
• Tested trade data from Charles River within the Eagle Pace Data Warehouse application.
• Tested the Charles River IBOR blotter (v21r1) ensuring the daily trades are correctly populated within the RECON / ADD rec tabs.
• Managed trade data in Eagle Pace and ran schedules in order to produce the Charles River Transactions / Position daily data loads.
• Interrogated Eagle Pace database to ensure the SimCorp Dimension and HiPort trade / security master data was correctly transformed for Charles River.
• Tested FX, SWAPS, FIXED INCOME, EQUITY, CASH and CORPORATE ACTION trade / transaction data ensuring the Inbound SimCorp Dimension / HiPORT data was correctly populated in the files provided from legacy systems and into Charles River.
• Worked on the Charles River project and successfully played a key role in implementing this from the requirements stage to a delivered system ready for end users.
• Helped manage the migration of the existing OMS Trading of FX currencies into the CRD v20R1 trading pilot platform and the upgrade from version 17R3 to 20R1.
• Tested POST TRADE reports produced in Charles River based on Alerts, Warnings and Data Exceptions in PDF, EXCEL and EMAIL formats.