- revision of audit findings for several processes (emergency management, backup and restore, overall monitoring strategy, failover and disaster test concept, etc.)

- support for the holistic failover, disaster and recovery testing concept;

- coordination of the test planning, test preparation, -execution and -documentation across several involved stake holders;

- Operation of applications (regulatory reporting (EMIR, REMIT, MiFID), transparency, information products)
- Incident-/Problem Management based on ITIL practices
- Coordination and roll-out  of bug fix releases
- Elaboration of a test management concept
- Interface between operation and business departments (analysis and evaluation of business requests)
- Interface between operation and release/project management (analysis and evaluation of requirements)
- Elaboration of several operational documentation (e.g. backup and recovery concept, overall monitoring strategy, fail-over and disaster tests, etc.)

• Design and documentation of the test approach aligned with all stakeholders considering project’s specifics
• Definition of quality gates (entry and exit criteria) for every defined test stage
• Definition of the appropriate bug fixing and change management processes
• Resource planning
• Coordination of all test activities (test environment setup, test data (members, users, products) setup, test execution, bug reporting, test documentation, etc.)
• Test status reporting
• Preparation of the Business Acceptance Test Declaration (Close-out document) as the basis for go-live decision
• Support production go-live activities and post-go-live maintenance phase
• Functional evaluating of the end-2-end solution based on the company’s internal GUI (used as an input frontend), Informatica (ETL), Oracle (data integration from several heterogeneous interfaces), MicroStrategy (analytical output GUI, reports generation)

• Interface between business, operation and IT departments
• Collect business requirements from various stakeholders (clearing functionality, risk analysis, risk methodology, regulatory reporting, etc.)
• Find and align feasible solution alternatives between business and IT departments considering optimal timeline, budget and scope
• Plan and control the build progress for Data Warehouse department resources
• Coordinate test execution with the acceptance test team
• Report status to management
• Expertise in migration of functionalities from external system into data warehouse

• Gap analysis of the IT operation processes
• Improvement measures for the incident and problem management processes in alignment with ITIL methodology
• Improvements of operation service reporting of the service providers
• Operational processes documentation
• Incident management (ITIL)
• Problem management (ITIL)
• Provider Management
• Service Level Agreements
• Reporting
• Jira

• Preparation of Proof-of-concept
• Provider selection
• IT project management of two system releases for transaction monitoring (AML, CFT, MAD) system
• Project specifics: coordination of multicultural teams from different countries (Sweden, Luxembourg, Germany, Czech Republic)

• Interface between business departments (CCP risk management; default management, clearing models, Risk Operations) and IT / data warehouse
• Collect requirements from business departments
• Analyse and align solution alternatives with respective stakeholders under consideration of the efficient resources usage
• Planning and control of the scope implementation and test in time and in budget
• Expertise in SQL, MicroStrategy

• Elaboration of optimal cost-efficient solutions considering the functional and non-functional (e.g. performance) requirements defined by business owners
• Product Owner role for risk anaysis functionalities, interface between project management, business departments, IT Backend (Oracle DB), Data Warehouse/ETL (Informatica), Frontend Developer (MicroStrategy) Teams and Business Acceptance Test team
• Participating in sprints and iterations planning
• EPICs and User Stories using Rally application
• Ensure the availability of the corresponding project documentation (business concepts, functional and non-functional requirements, technical specification and test documentation)
• Expertise in agile system development based on Scrum methodology using Rally tool for iteration planning, tracking the user stories backlog, etc.
• End-to-end implementation coordination, planning, prioritization, tracking of requirements (scope items) in the risk analysis and reporting area
• Single point of contact for project stakeholders (project management; risk management; IT and operation teams)
• KnowHow transfer, Training of stakeholders
• Functional design of the risk management system
• Functional expertise in risk analysis functionalities
  • regulatory requirements (e.g. stress- and backtesting),
  • risk measures analysis (e.g. reporting, decomposition and drill-down)
  • what-if analysis
  • portfolio / model parameters sensitivity analysis
  • etc.
• Preparation and review of the functional specification documentation

• Test management for the test team (>15)
• Project reporting to the Senior Management
• Responsible for communications with all stakeholders (management, business/operational/IT departments)
• Test planning (sprints/iterations), coordination and controlling
• Evaluation of the existing business processes of the new global trading system, gap analysis, elaboration of recommendations for improvements
• Design of the efficient business process solutions and alignment in co-ordination with the business and development teams
• Creation and review of the related functional specifications

• Creation and review of test models focussing on auctions and special order types processing
• Planning, coordination and controlling of fully automated functional testing in the derivatives matching area
• Identification of areas for improvement regarding test processes, test methodology, or test tools and implementation support
• Creation and review of applicable test documentation according to company and project standards
• Design and review of the test scenarios for automated test execution using a company’s internal test tool
• Traning of test teams for fully automated test execution

• Functional expertise for MiFID OTC post trade transparency service of a cash market electronic trading system
• Functional expertise in cash market models (incl. Energy trading, equities, bonds, etc.)
• Functional expertise for quote-driven (market maker) market models for structured products (certificates and warrants)
• Functional expertise for new socket-based FIX interface for an electronic exchange trading system
• Coordination of the end-to-end interface test activities between business departments (trading, CCP, financial data feed, WSS reference data, billing systems, etc), operational departments (market supervision) and IT
• Development, execution, and documentation of functional test models (test scenarios) for up-/downstream data flows of the cash market electronic trading system
• Test-automation using Tricentis TOSCA test suite
• Project status reporting for various management committees
• Analysis of the business needs and development of member simulation activity scenarios in the functional area Trading
• Design, documentation and review of the corresponding member manuals and test scripts
• Integrated process flow analysis of the cash market trading system from functional point of view as a basis for the test cases’ portfolio
• Functional analysis and solution design, documentation, and reporting of software errors/issues and their maintenance