Description

Frederick M. Hiscock

18 Barbara Circle                                                                                                                                       781-935-5460

Woburn, MA. 01801-1934                                                                                                     fredmhjr@gmail.com
QUALITY ASSURANCE/PROJECT MANAGER

With strong track record of delivery of multiple projects on time and within budget

 

Dynamic results oriented, dependable, loyal, Quality Assurance/Project Manager with over 20 years of

experience in the Financial Services, Insurance and Manufacturing industries as an employee and consultant.

Excellent leadership, analysis, design and implementation skill’s
Known for being dependable, loyal, resourceful, solution focused and always finding ways to save money and resources
Managed teams and projects in US, UK, India and Asia
Recognized for ability to provide stability and support to high level projects through hands-on management
Ability to build strong relationships with management and liaison with multiple internal departments
Capable of Managing/Leading 40 or more projects over several releases at the same time
Provided detailed written scope estimates and approvals for all levels of projects
History of acting as subject matter expert ”go to person/SME” on all projects
Experience successfully managing onshore and offshore employees and consultants
Background in Quality Assurance, Business Analysis and Systems Development in both academic and work experience as both an employee and consultant
Converted Test Cases from manual to automated via Agile methodology

 

TECHNICAL SKILLS

 

Quality Assurance, Project Management, Team Leadership, Hands on Manager, Microsoft AX, TPS, Waterfall, Agile, Sprint, Scrum, JIRA, QTP, Dashboard Metrics, HP QC, ALM, Swift, SQL, Automation, MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), MS Visio, MS Project, TSO, CA7, Adabase, Oracle, Java, Endevor, Ezetrieve, Focus, NDM, FTP, Zeke, VSAM,  IBM Mainframes, Windows, iSpace, DB2FileAid, DB2, CICS

EXPERIENCE

 

Elevate-hr                                                                                                                                              2015

Quality Assurance Lead, Microsoft AX HR system

Hired to lead a new QA team, write test cases, searched system for issues, .Net environment

 

JPMorganChase                                                                                                                       2005 – 2014

Quality Assurance Manager, Chase Customer Access Program (CCAP) (2013 – 2014)
Selected by Senior Management to train onshore and offshore resources
Successfully Led, QA tested and installed a high level fxXpress (Foreign Exchange) project
Drove QA testing for the Data Center move project from UK to US
Managed Disaster recovery, Maintenance Release and Automation implementation projects
Led conversion of test cases from manual to automated, via Agile methodology

 

Quality Assurance Manager International Reporting Infrastructure System (IRIS) (2008 – 2013)
Managed a team of 5 to 8 people of both onshore and offshore Employees and Consultants
Projects ranged from under a 1M, 1M to 5M and over 5M in budget
Held the role of a “hands on” Subject Matter Expert Manager, being able fill any role to get projects successfully completed on time and under budget
Provided detailed written project estimates to Management that were very accurate
Interviewed, hired, trained and managed new team of Bank employees located in Mumbai India as well as Consultants in Pune and Bangalore India
Led multiple levels of projects that overlapped several releases.  Often multi-tasking 40 or more projects over several releases at the same time. Provided scope, estimates and approvals for all projects
Acted as Security Liaison for system, providing security access for team to ensure integrity
Wrote training and instructional documents used by many internal and external clients, these were used as document guidelines by other areas in the company
Reviewed all Business, Functional, System Design documents while creating detailed Test Plans, Test Strategy and Testing Recap documents
Continuously developed ways to make processing more efficient saving time, money and resources
Designed a daily project tracker and daily status report, for different partner groups in the organization
Developed strong working relationships with project teams, quickly becoming the ‘go to’ person for project and systems related questions
Provided production support 24/7 when issues arose, including weekend project implementations
Performed quarterly team reviews, keeping employees on target with their yearly Objectives
Delivered projects on time and under budget often saving the company thousands of dollars
Created PVT (production verification testing) documents as well as hands on testing support
Supported sprints for Agile testing
Led conversion of test cases from manual to automated

 

Quality Assurance Manager, Chase Customer Access Program (CCAP) (2005 – 2008)
Hired to be a ‘hands on’ Manager of a team of 5 to 7 on shore Employees and Consultants
Managed various levels of projects, becoming the key Subject Matter Expert for project related questions and support
Led and supported Vendor upgrades as well as Disaster Recovery projects
Provided quarterly team reviews keeping everyone on target with their yearly objectives
My extensive project experience minimized project scope changes, saving time and money

 

SunGard Data Systems Inc. (Business Analyst/Consultant)                                                                    2005

Business Analyst on a compass Client Server environment and a 3 tier architecture Oracle system

using an Oracle Database, Oracle Forms with COBOL and SQL.

 

Modis/Met Life/New England Financial (QA Analyst/Consultant)                                                            2004

Performed QA analysis on the Product 054, Zorro Data Collection, MiSL, Consolidated List Bills, Cost

Basis, Dollar Cost Averaging, Settlement and Gems systems using mainframe, DB2, SQL, Excel,

Access, JCL, Test Director, COBOL and Visual Basic.  Provided development support for a Systems

Integrity System when short handed.

 

Millennium Training Institute                                                                                                               2003

Full time student in pursuit of MCSE and MCAD Certifications.

 

Fidelity Investments (Lead Software Engineer)                                                                2000 – 2002

As a Lead Developer performed research, analysis, design, coding, testing, production support and production implementation tasks.
Lead contributor in charge of the Trade Delivery, Trade Receipt and Position Reconciliation systems on the Mellon Bank conversion, performing analysis through implementation.  This was a top 10 project for 2001 and came in ahead of schedule and under budget (by 30 percent)
Assigned the lead role of the testing and implementation phases of the Citibank conversion.  Learned many Custody systems, setup test scripts, directed correspondence with Citibank to coordinate QA testing, setup an install date and monitored the conversion over two implementation phases
Provided 24/7 production support for one of the most critical systems in the company

 

 

OTHER RELEVENT EXPERIENCE

BankBoston/Fleet Boston (Senior Systems Analyst/Developer and Team Lead)

Performed many roles including individual contributor, team member and project Lead on projects including

Mergers, Y2K and system conversions. Was the first person to receive the Company wide All Star and Super Star awards

 

Computer Assistance (Coopers & Lybrand) (Lead Consultant)

Performed a variety of consulting rolls within the Financial Services, Insurance and Manufacturing industries.

 

EDUCATION

BS, Business Administration in Management and Marketing, Northeastern University, Boston MA.

MCSE, Millennium Training Institute, Woburn MA.