Chris Gallant

Test Manager, leading testing on important, highly visible and strategic projects. This has included implementing and leading testing on projects to extract and report Swiss Derivatives as part of the Bank wide Basel 3 Program. Role has included aligning with both Business and IT teams to help drive, design and improve solutions across regular program and project releases to ensure successful production implementations.

Test Consultant Implementing Manual and Automated Testing on Financial System Integration and Migration Project. Functional Testing of FX (Spot, Forward, TimeOption and Swap) and MM (Deposit and Loan) Trade creation and market operations across Reuters RET (Java Applet), In house Web, Summit 3.7.5, Summit 3.8.3 and Atlas trading systems including Migrating counterparties, Trader and Client users. Improved existing Automation frameworks to include Oracle database test results verification.

Short project to implement Full QTP based Test Automation framework to enable testing of Murex FX, Equity, Credit and Interest Rate Trading Application. Framework included front-end application testing and XML reconciliation.

Consultancy Position implementing QTP based Automated Testing on two projects. Initial project to implement a automation framework (including data intensive automated test cases) for a Java Applet based (Reuters RET) Financial Exchange and Money Market Deposit and Loan Trading application. A second project was then undertaken to convert existing Automated Borland SilkTest test to QTP Tests for Summit Trading Application.

Short term contract leading Test Effort on project to introduce new application and financial loan management system for the provincial government to support newly announced property tax assistance program in an aggressive timescale following an Agile based methodology. The system was split into two parts which were produced by two different external development teams, SAP PSCD / CRM and a complex .Net developed web application system. Testing was planned and executed using Quality Center.

Test Analyst position working on a Infrastructure Migration programme to move systems to new storage and network infrastructure at a new datacenter and to increase resiliency. My role required me to analyse the existing systems and produce test plans for a number of projects and systems that were to be migrated. Test materials were managed in Quality Center.

Implement a automated solution to complete testing of a Ab Initio data warehousing project for a insurance source system as well as assisting in knowledge transfer to outsource company Tata Consultancy Services. Test materials were managed in Quality Center. Automation testing solution produced to extract, compare and manipulate data in multiple Oracle databases using extensive SQL statements.

Short-term contract to assisting in Assurity’s take up of HP testing tools delivering them to their prospective clients throughout New Zealand. My role involved offering consultancy services including leading, planning and executing a SAP performance test project for Kordia Solutions using Loadrunner with some performance statistics captured with custom Unix code. Installing, implementing and customizing Quality Center for Kiwibank. Attending to and presenting to a number of prospective clients

Senior Test Consultant tasked with delivering Mercury Interactive Public Training and Private Client Training courses, Running Regional Office (Melbourne), presenting in sales meetings and onsite consultancy and Implementing Mercury/HP tools for various clients including Quality Center and QuickTest Professional. Key achievements include delivering the Automation Test Framework for the enterprise division of Westpac Banking Group. Lead consultant on a TestDirector to Quality Center Migration project.

Successfully delivered three important projects with one described by the company’s CTO and CEO, as the biggest project the company has ever delivered. Role included testing of the company’s web, high transaction trading platform, front and back office systems. I played a part in successfully integrating and developing a large QA Team of a few long-term members and a greater number of recent additions of all levels of experience and ability. Often taking a role of leading and managing teams.

Starting as a Graduate Test Analyst I quickly proved myself as a competent Test Analyst delivering and at times leading testing across a number of projects.