Experience

Appcast, Inc

• United States
• Software Development
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Product Manager

  • Oct 2016 - Present



Allied Testing

• Cyprus
• Information Technology & Services
• 400 - 500 Employee

• QA Manager

  • Nov 2012 - Dec 2013

  Customer: London Stock Exchange Two projects within LSE are a subject of testing for my team: Trading Platform (TRM2) and Surveillance platform (SRM2). The platforms are developed in Sri Lanka by Millennium IT. TRM2 is a low-latency, high volume, Trading Platform, functionally and performance tested in Russia, by AlliedTesting (initially) and ExactPro (nowadays). SRM2 is still tested by Allied exclusively. Main responsibilities: Functional and non-functional test… Show more Customer: London Stock Exchange Two projects within LSE are a subject of testing for my team: Trading Platform (TRM2) and Surveillance platform (SRM2). The platforms are developed in Sri Lanka by Millennium IT. TRM2 is a low-latency, high volume, Trading Platform, functionally and performance tested in Russia, by AlliedTesting (initially) and ExactPro (nowadays). SRM2 is still tested by Allied exclusively. Main responsibilities: Functional and non-functional test teams managing QA strategy creation Test plan creation Test environment management Test cases and test scenarios review Team setup (candidates interviewing and training, roles definition) Test results analysis and test progress reporting (in writing, on daily and weekly conference calls) On-site activity (London) Senior specialists growing up Administrative obligations (vocations coordination, salary and position revision escalation, monthly overtime reporting) Proposals for new projects creation Managing test tools updates

• Presenter and Consultant-Analyst on Non-Functional Testing

  • Feb 2013 - Feb 2013

  Activity: On-site workshop on QA strategy and working details for technical testing Place: Colombo Customer: Millennium IT Presentations brief summary: Overview of Allied Testing, Organization Structure and Team Structure Allied’s Test Approach, Test Plan and Test Strategy for Technical (Performance and Failover) and Operational Testing Allied’s Test Scenario and Test Case Development (time estimation for creation and execution) Test Approaches, Test Strategy… Show more Activity: On-site workshop on QA strategy and working details for technical testing Place: Colombo Customer: Millennium IT Presentations brief summary: Overview of Allied Testing, Organization Structure and Team Structure Allied’s Test Approach, Test Plan and Test Strategy for Technical (Performance and Failover) and Operational Testing Allied’s Test Scenario and Test Case Development (time estimation for creation and execution) Test Approaches, Test Strategy, Test Plan and Test Execution (including Scenarios, Cases and Scripts developed for Major CR’s) Templates and Examples of Sing-off Reports Detailed discussion on Allied’s Test Tools (using screenshots and videos) Test approaches for different exchange interfaces Presentation of Millennium Exchange High Level Architecture to Allied

• Sr. QA Analyst

  • Jul 2010 - Oct 2012

  Customer: London Stock Exchange Projects: TRM2 and SRM2 I was positioned as 1) an analyst and consultant on Trading and Surveillance platform testing activities, 2) technical test test team lead on Surveillance 3) regression test team lead on Trading 3) coacher for project needs Main responsibilities: Technical testing of the Stock Exchange backend including capacity, load, peak, performance, resiliency testing, operational testing Test cases and… Show more Customer: London Stock Exchange Projects: TRM2 and SRM2 I was positioned as 1) an analyst and consultant on Trading and Surveillance platform testing activities, 2) technical test test team lead on Surveillance 3) regression test team lead on Trading 3) coacher for project needs Main responsibilities: Technical testing of the Stock Exchange backend including capacity, load, peak, performance, resiliency testing, operational testing Test cases and scenarios creation Business requirement specification analysis Semiautomatic test scripts creation and execution Defect management Communication with developers and business analysts Regression team leading Test scope creation Efforts estimation Team setup (candidates interviewing and training) Progress reporting (in writing) Administrative obligations (vocations coordination, position revision escalation, monthly overtime reporting)

• QA Engineer

  • Apr 2008 - Jun 2010

  1 April 2008 – February 2009 Project: Renaissance Main responsibilities: Manual testing of desktop (Bond Calculator) and web-based (GERF) financial applications Test scripts creation and update according to requirements Functional and regression test execution Working with bug trackers (Jira) Responsibilities delegated from Team Lead who was based in Moscaw: Daily work progress reporting Weekly reporting (including conference calls) On-site… Show more 1 April 2008 – February 2009 Project: Renaissance Main responsibilities: Manual testing of desktop (Bond Calculator) and web-based (GERF) financial applications Test scripts creation and update according to requirements Functional and regression test execution Working with bug trackers (Jira) Responsibilities delegated from Team Lead who was based in Moscaw: Daily work progress reporting Weekly reporting (including conference calls) On-site activity Knowledge transfer to third party company March 2009 – July 2009 and December 2009 – January 2010 Project: Reuters Financial Main responsibilities: Manual testing of desktop and web-based financial applications Test scripts update according to requirements Functional and regression test execution Working with bug trackers (internal and external one) Installation, configuration and localization tests July 2009 – November 2009 Project: London Stock Exchange (Reporting) Main responsibilities: Test scripts creation according to requirements Semi-automated testing of OLAP cubes configuration Weekly progress reporting Summarizing of application readiness February 2010 – June 2010 Project: London Stock Exchange (TRM2) Main responsibilities: Non-functional testing of the Stock Exchange backend including capacity, load, peak, performance, resiliency testing, operational testing Test cases and scenarios creation Business requirement specification analysis Semiautomatic test scripts creation and execution