Experience

Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario (FSRA)

• Canada
• Financial Services
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Quality Assurance Lead

  • Oct 2020 - Present

  Quality Assuarnce Lead reporting reporting to the project manager responsible for a digital trasformation iniative within the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario. Provide quality assurance for digital transformation projects related to various lines of business within FSRA. Duties included creating test plans, strategies, test cases, test data and automated test scripts using Microsoft Azure Dev Ops, InteliJ, Java, Selenium WebDriver API, and various Test Frameworks for a Google Cloud based product. Executed the various types automated and manual testing within a large scale web portal using a variety of technologies. Show less



Select Vantage inc

• Canada
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Equity Trader

  • Mar 2020 - Oct 2020

  Discretionary trader specializing in North American and European equity markets for Select Vantage. Also provide quality assurance for monitoring performance of various trading strategies to allow proper risk management of trades.

• Trade/QA Analyst

  • Feb 2019 - Feb 2020

  Discretionary trade analyst and QA engineer executing proprietary trades for Canadian equities, US equities and S&P500 futures contracts. Duties included designing, developing, testing and implementing GIT repository and Python scripts to automate trading and test performance of various trade strategies using the Ralota trading platform using the PPro8 APITrading strategiesIPOsEarnings ReportsStock BuyoutsTSX Closing AuctionMilan Closing Auction



FINRA

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• SDET

  • Sep 2017 - Aug 2018

  Senior Developer of Engineering Test within ETL Options group performing automating testing for various big data reporting systems being migrating to the AWS cloud running Apache Spark and Scala. Designed developed and implemented various java frameworks and HIVE scripts to automate ETL migrations for various reporting systems within the organization. Senior Developer of Engineering Test within ETL Options group performing automating testing for various big data reporting systems being migrating to the AWS cloud running Apache Spark and Scala. Designed developed and implemented various java frameworks and HIVE scripts to automate ETL migrations for various reporting systems within the organization.



Scotiabank

• Canada
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior QA Engineer

  • Aug 2015 - May 2017

  Part of transaction delivery services team responsible for performing automated testing for Scotia's Automated Banking Machines and Electronic Fund Transfer services.Created test plans and strategies to design and implement java based automated test frameworks running on windows and Azure cloud that validate various end to end business use cases for various VISA and Debit workflows.

• Quality Assurance Specialist

  • Mar 2013 - Aug 2015

  Quality Assurance Specialist testing various wealth management system and fund accounting systems. Primary duties whwere to migrate parts of Scotia Mutual Funds to SimCorp Dimension using various types of testing methodologies and best practices using Selenium, Java, SQL connectors. FIX4.4 protocol and SQL testing of the order management system using Java to automation tools.Perfromed automated integration testing of OMS with clearing and settlement using Selenium and various java test frameworks.Automated ETL testing of legacy CRM system to SalesForce using Selenium, SQL and Java. Show less



Alpha Trading Systems

• Canada
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Non Functional Test Specialist

  • Oct 2010 - Dec 2012

  Senior QA manager responsible for technical and non functional testing of Alpha Trading Systems Infrastructure. Developed and implemented non functional test strategies and plans to perform various forms of performance, capacity, stress and fail-over testing of a java based Alternative Trading System. Duties also included executing and reporting the various automated test stories to senior management for all sprints and production releases of Cinnober's "TradeExpress" ATS technology. Show less



Alpha Trading Systems

• Canada
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• QA Manager

  • Sep 2007 - Jun 2010

  Responsible for test strategies, planning, hiring, and over site of executing the plan based on various test methodologies, best practices and reporting progress and defects to senior manager. Created comprehensive test scenarios related to Canadian equities trading for various trading phases (Pre-Open, Open, and Close). Other duties included large scale performance, capacity and stress testing of alternative trading systems. Responsible for test strategies, planning, hiring, and over site of executing the plan based on various test methodologies, best practices and reporting progress and defects to senior manager. Created comprehensive test scenarios related to Canadian equities trading for various trading phases (Pre-Open, Open, and Close). Other duties included large scale performance, capacity and stress testing of alternative trading systems.



IBM Canada

• 251 Consumers Road

• Non Functional Test Manager

  • Jul 2006 - Aug 2007

  Non Functional Test Manager at IBM Global Services for Revitalization Program to replace mainframe legacy back office system with new web based work flow solutions related to back office systems . Non Functional Test Manager at IBM Global Services for Revitalization Program to replace mainframe legacy back office system with new web based work flow solutions related to back office systems .



Toronto Stock Exchange

• Canada
• Capital Markets
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Quality Assurance Advisor

  • Jan 2005 - Jul 2006

  Senior Quality Assurance Advisor responsible for the performance and technical testing of the TSX and TSX-V trade enterprise. Responsibilities: Create Automated Test Startegy for the TSX which covers performance, capacity and stress testing of major components of the TSX trading enterprise. Plan, implement, execute and report monthly performance, capacity and stress simulations for TSX Technologies. Senior Quality Assurance Advisor responsible for the performance and technical testing of the TSX and TSX-V trade enterprise. Responsibilities: Create Automated Test Startegy for the TSX which covers performance, capacity and stress testing of major components of the TSX trading enterprise. Plan, implement, execute and report monthly performance, capacity and stress simulations for TSX Technologies.



IBM Canada

• QA Team Lead

  • Nov 2002 - Dec 2004

  Responsibilities include creating proposals, test strategies, test plans, test cases, test scripts and test data for a real time back office work flow application which handles back office trade exception handling, a real time quote server and a WEB based account management system. Responsibilities include creating proposals, test strategies, test plans, test cases, test scripts and test data for a real time back office work flow application which handles back office trade exception handling, a real time quote server and a WEB based account management system.



Optimark Technologies

• United States
• Software Development

• System Test Manager

  • 1999 - 2002

  System testing components within a alternative trading systems running a fault tolerant operating system and hardware (tandem non stop). Also served in the companies professional service division as a senior systems analyst responsible for delivering components of the Optimark Japan project and the Nasdaq SuperMontage project. System testing components within a alternative trading systems running a fault tolerant operating system and hardware (tandem non stop). Also served in the companies professional service division as a senior systems analyst responsible for delivering components of the Optimark Japan project and the Nasdaq SuperMontage project.