
Test Lead at VISA Europe
Reading, United Kingdom

Test Lead at VISA Europe
Reading, United Kingdom
I am an experienced software test engineer with over 5 years of commercial experience in the financial sector.
-Financial transaction card originated messages ISO 8583 (2.5+ years)
-Online bond trade market system (2.5+ years)
-Mathematical and analytical bonds modelling (2.5+ years)
-Online securities trade system (1.5+ years)
-Assets and portfolio management, sales and distribution (1.5+ years)
-E-learning systems (1+ years)
Technical skills:
-Heuristic testing, risk-based testing, exploratory testing (3+ years)
-System testing, integration testing (5+ years)
-Performance testing, stress testing, load testing (2+ years)
Programming/Scripting languages skills:
-SQL, HTML, CSS (3+ years)
-Developing small applications/scripts in Perl, Ruby, PHP, C#
-Testing desktop and web application developed in Java and .Net
(Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)
(Public Company; V; Financial Services industry)
August 2006 — October 2008 (2 years 3 months)
•Analysis of change requirements and identification of eventual problems during testing cycle.
•Provide feedback on the impact of the new changes on the current system.
•Identifying the testing conditions and defining the best testing approach (in the context of the changes), with details of testing techniques to be used.
•Cutting down the test effort/increase the testing coverage using various testing techniques (i.e. pairwise testing, equivalence partitioning.
•Defining minimum, ideal and recommended test coverage using risk based analysis.
•Defining and preparation of the test cases and test data using various internal tools and also Unix and SQL scripts.
•Building and preparation of test environment for both server and client part.
•Execution of the tests and result analysis providing feedback and support to the development teem in order to fix the issues.
•Migration of the tests to regression test pack.
•Execution and maintenance of the regression test pack.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2006 — May 2008 (1 year 10 months)
Working for VISA on client site.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2005 — August 2006 (11 months)
•Management of the testing process for internal projects.
•Testers recruitment ant their training.
•Receive tasks from customers, projects risk and problem analysis.
•Process planning, distributing tasks and supervising tasks execution.
•Evaluate project architectural design.
•Establishing user interface design standards.
•Discover eventual testing process difficulty and solutions for crisis prevention.
•Establishing minimum requirements for acceptance testing.
•Allocation of resource, time and costs estimation.
•Business analysis and progress reports analysis.
•Supervising application deployment to live and client live support.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2004 — October 2005 (1 year 1 month)
•Provide system status report to the managers, periodically and on request.
•Developing new user scenarios and execution flows.
•Functionality, integration, regression testing.
•Performance, stress and user acceptance testing.
•Tests preparation and execution.
•Result analysis and defect report.
•Data and bond market analysis.
•Writing statistical reports
(Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2002 — July 2003 (10 months)
•Automated and manual data collection and sort.
•Writing macros to automate collection for more types of data.
•Providing feedback for collection and sorting tools development.
•Writing statistical reports.
ISEB Foundation Certificate , 2008 — 2008
2000 — 2006
Accountancy 1996 — 2000
Software testing, quality definition, automation.