· At Omgeo, the Leading provider in trade management solutions, and processing over one million trades per day, I was part of the Technical testing team for the Trade Settlement Notification application, this application settled and finalized stock trades between DTCC’s many financial institution customers, which over 90% of the market’s stock trades use. Trade Settlements were executed using SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication), the standard for back office trade messaging. · Tested data Validation and Correlation between DTCC’s live applications and the Settlement Notification’s 1200 trade data fields (such as Custodian ID, Settlement dates amounts and taxes, stock names, currency codes and conversions, 11 digit Bank Identifier Codes (BICs) which comprise the bank, country, location, and branch codes). · Assisted the automation lead in executing, debugging and validating IBM Rational SQA Robot’s many scripts and shells to test the applications from black-box/unit testing to release. Validated the Robot’s execution log reports after every regression run. · Daily manual capture and analysis of many logs such as IBM MQSeries, Oracle logs, Audit and Merva error/completion logs, and OASYS Global logs among others. Data flow was stopped along the way, captured and released in buckets for trade execution using mainframe manual/auto release flags, as well as UNIX Perl script, XML validation, and Rational Robot script editing. · Worked with Development team manager and members on a daily basis concerning new bugs / anomalies found, and daily build release into QA environment in Rational ClearCase. Daily interaction and issue resolution with IBM MQ Series development team and managers. · Authored many manual test cases according to technical test plans, Business plan and rules, to be automated by Rational automation lead. Tests included Sun Oracle table manipulation and population via SQL, Queue flags and bucket loads, positive and negative data field tests using Access database, dozens of logs, client profiles, and data correlation and validation. · Weekly build and progress reports to QA Director and managers, as well as working closely with technical and business team leads and automation lead. · Released unique builds into QA environment using IBM Rational ClearCase, as well as tracked and resolved bugs and anomalies using Rational ClearQuest. |