VLAD MURAKCHOWSKY

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Build testing platform that included Manual and Automated test scripts, using QTP, Selenium and Python. Experience
with Risk Strategies, OMS / EMS Financial Technologys and Quad Methodology.
Build and supported financial infrastructur that included Profitability, Cost Allocations and Risk applications.
Documented Business Requirements based upon customers input implementations and Trade Desk.
Strong background in Buy/Sell-side asset management investment.
Daily work flow experience with Operations covering Fix connectivity, Trade Support, Multicast for Front-End,
Middleware and Back-Office software applications.
Monitoring Real Time Data feed platforms for data latency and data verifications.
Online trouble shooting and software resolutions. Tested and documented Multi Strategy Bloomberg AIM environment
for the entire trading platform [ EMSX and TSOX].
Prepared detailed test cases and requirements to be supported in software and verified them in testing under an Agile
framework.
Coordinate new product rollouts, develop and updated project plans and provide regular status updates. Analyzed
product requirements, functional exchange specifications and technical requirements internally and externally for the
end user.
Analyzed Real Time Market Data and performed Data integrity testing using Fix Protocol. Perform Functional, Sanity,
Regression, End to End and Performance testing. Streamline all testing requests, validation of all production
deployments.
Created QA Test templates, Release Notes templates and documentation guide for Operations, QA and End Users.
Extensive experience developing functional scripts written in Perl and Shell. Good understanding of Software
Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Languages & Development Tools:
Operating Systems:
Networking:
Software:

SQL, C, C++, JAVA

WINDOWS, NT, MySQL, Solaris-Unix, Linux, Oracle, Mongo DB, Rapture
DB, JIRA, Wiki
TCP/IP, Multicast, Telnet, SFTP, SSH
Dell Server, Citrix, JIRA Scripting, QA Wizard Pro, GitHub, Xqual, .NET,
Rapid, Selenium, Python

EDUCATION & TRAINING

Odessa University
Bachelors in Finance
ASA COMPUTER COLLEGE
QA Automation
Certificate in Linux, UNIX and Red Hat Fundamental
Certificate in Perl scripting, SHELL Scripting
Introduction to C Language
COOPER UNION COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Systems Administrator
Certificate in Systems Administration
Basic Networking Skills, TCP/IP, UDP
TIAA CREF Wealth Management
10/2015 Present
Consultant
Sr.QA/BA Lead
Created Test Strategies and Test Plans based on functional Testing and non-functional requirements, technical
specifications and customer feedback.
Responsible for overall project defect detection, reporting, tracking and defect resolutions with development.

 Identify areas for improvement in efficiency, test cycles, and test automation, and recommend solutions. Automate test
cases using in house tools and Selenium.
Experience with Front Office Equities trading applications (OMS, EMS, Crossings & Routing engines).
Knowledge of FIX protocol (analyzing FIX messages, setting up FIX sessions etc.). Knowledge of Linux/Unix and
experience with scripting knowledge (Pearl, Python, Shell).
Wrote automation testing using Selenium and performance testing.
InCapture Hedge Fund
09/2014 to 10/2015
QA/BA Lead
Hands on, build the entire QA testing platform that included both Manual and Automated test scripts for Back Office
and Web base applications.
Technical and operational knowledge on developing Automation test scripts using Selenium and Python. Analyzed &
Converted Business Requirements to Technical Designs to detailed Test Scenarios and Test Case Suites for Algorithmic
Trading Systems.
I Setup and maintain test environments, Debugging, conduct root cause analysis, diagnose defects and provide detailed
input to Development. Creating and Documenting SDLC process from scratch.
Testing, Supporting and Troubleshooting UIT and UAT trading platforms, that involved InCapture API to Bloomberg
trading platform. Worked with Bloomberg Developers, Compliance and internal teams in troubleshooting, supporting,
bug resolution, Back-End testing and documentation for Bloomberg API Multi Strategy trading platform.
Tested the entire Fix messaging trading platform for Bloomberg. Knowledge of securitys and portfolio analytics where
I would validate risk models of different asset classes.
Working in partnership with Product, Compliance and Research teams to verify new portfolio analytics products and
models prior to releasing the software into production.
Design and calibrated ongoing QA checks to ensure the correctness of Fixed Income and Equities overnight analytics
and the trading process. Strong experience with OMS and EMS for Equitys Trading Platforms and Options.
Coordinated testing activities across multiple teams and environments, review and analyze business requirement, risk
management, functional requirements and design specs
FIDESSA
10/2012 to 09/2014
QA Lead /BA/Trade Support
Put together testing environment and procedures for commodities trading that included both Futures, Options and Fix.
Created regression Automation test scripts using QTP for Algorithm testing of financial trading application platforms
for Equities, Options and Futures that was Web base.
Communicated testing progress, test results, and other relevant information to project stakeholders and upper
management. Tested new software to ensure integration meets functional requirements and technical specifications.
Analyze formal test results in order to discover and report defects.
Cultivate and disseminate knowledge of quality assurance best practices. Consistently update test cases and regression
test scripts as business and regulatory requirements change.
Strong attention to detail, meticulous and solid analytical skills with problem resolution. I manage and prioritize tasks
with a sense of urgency on the project basis for the rest of the team.
As part of a premier Fixed Income trading group, I review Business requirements, design specifications, created test
plans, write test scripts, execute test procedures and generate defect reports.
WQork closely with Applications Development team and Business Analysts in delivering new enhancements and
maintaining existing applications that support the trading of various fixed income instruments.
Worked with Acceptance Test Driven Development - ATDD methodologies with specific experience on the practice of
Behavior Driven Development BDD testing and certification of trading flows and functionality, carry out
Certification and Connectivity for various markets.
TRADINGSCREEN
QA/BA/ Market Data Lead

01/2011 10/2012

 Work with multiple brokers on multi-asset trading systems for the Buy/Sell-sides, in accelerating the technical
evolution of the financial markets by providing a fully integrated, customer-oriented trading service platform to
institutional investors.
Hands-on proprietary platform that links institutional investors and Sell-Side firms together to facilitate order routing,
algorithmic trading, execution management, clearing, and additional value-added services, such as pre-trade analysis,
real straight-through-processing, post-trade analysis, and prime brokerage enabling across all asset classes.
Provided network global coverage, ownership of the build and release processes, system integration. Document,
coordinate, and reported the build activities and status of software releases across the firm.
Strong contribute to the successful development, testing, quality and efficiency, integration and implementation of
software tools that supported business functionality.
Primary responsibilities included but were not limited to compiling testing data securing and promoting application
source code into a releasable packages, full automation with QTP and Selenium.
Risk Management applications were tested for deviation of portfolio returns and single equity distribution. This was
accomplished by maintaining Historical data that defines the Risk of portfolio.
Performed "Fix Protocol Certification" with clients by sending out different trade options and field details.
US Army Veteran 01/2009 - 01/2011
First Lieutenant Infantry
STANDARD & POORS
09/1999 - 01/2009
QA/BA/Market Data Manager
Analyzed Real Time Market Data and performed integration testing across multiple data feeds [UAT Prod & UAT
Dev]. Daily involvement with Data integrity testing using Fix Protocol.
Strong background in Buy/Sell-side asset management investment.
Daily work flow experience with Operations covering Fix connectivity and Multicast for front-end, middleware and
back-office software applications.
Monitoring multi feed platforms for data latency and data verifications. Created QA Test templates, Release Notes
templates and documentation guide for Operations, QA and End Users.
Analyzed product requirements, functional exchange specifications and technical requirements internally and
externally for the end user.
Online trouble shooting and software resolutions. Excellent understanding of Functional, White-box, Black-box,
Performance, Regression, Unit, Integration and Load testing.
Extensive experience developing functional scripts written in Perl and Shell. Good understanding of Software
Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
ENVIRONMENT:
Familiarity with scripting in a UNIX environment (Shell, Perl).
Working independently and as part of a Global Development team.
Thorough understanding of Build, Change and Release Management concepts.
Configuration management updating.
Work Ethics & Accomplishments
Implemented quick response procedures for online emergency investigations for software or hardware failures,
working closely with OPS.
Project Leader in designing and creating XWATCH exchange monitoring system, including but not limited to Case
Specifications, Functional Specifications, Systems Design Specification (SDS), Systems Requirements Specification
(SRS), Data Dictionary, Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) across the Deliverables of a project.
Financial Markets:
Daily hands on work environment with Commodities, Futures, Options, Spreads, Equities, Bonds, Treasuries,
Principal, Coupon.
VIACOM/SIMON & SCHUSTER/PEARSON TECHNOLOGY
QA Analyst

07/1999- 09/1999

 Work on primary architecture for systems integration, extensive use of SQL, Shell and Perl programming to automate
testing execution and Systems Log investigations.
Develop and execute the following testing including but not limited to, Sequence testing, Mode testing (Manual or
Automated testing), Bug reporting and tracking, Recording initial conditions user actions, Synchronize text verification
for Front-End, Middleware and Back-End testing.