JAY KITOGRAD
Sr. Application Support Analyst – Regulatory Reporting Systems
Ph: (212)
518-1551 Email: JayKitograd@gmail.com Work
authorization: U.S. Citizen
Business
Analysis/QA and Application Support for Regulatory Reporting Services. Guide
application development from concepts and requirements, through implementation
and delivery. Oversee pre-production
testing, UAT and deployment. Provide
first and second level support.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
SS&C Technologies, New York 2018 - Present
Senior Application Analyst
Lead project releases end to end. Set specifications for release enhancements, test and deploy. Track project
progress. Actively assess project requirements.
Assists off-shore QA team to determine and develop test approaches and
methods for unit testing, integration, functional and load testing according to
application complexity and test requirements.
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Set specifications and test Core/Sightline
processing and reporting systems
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Support and test enhancements for Form 13F, Form PF,
TIC and AIFMD
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Plan and coordinate project releases
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Provide first and second level support
for business users processing regulatory and federal filings
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Effectively communicates with managers, peers
and business partners on deliverables, timelines and
support
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Establish and maintain project documentation system
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Act as the point-of-contact for the extended
project team, including the business and technology partners and management
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Set project timlines
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Serve as liaison between business departments
during deployment
Asset Class Technologies, NJ 2015 - 2018
VP – Business Analyst
Lead project to develop an interactive GUI for a new
equity trading platform while at the same time managing staff and projects for
the same technology consulting firm. Assess
client's technology needs. Establish business requirements and process flow. Write flow
charts, functional specification, assign and monitor staff.
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Develop an operating model as a basis for
development teams ·
Work closely with stakeholders to ensure
requirements are aligned with end user needs and compliant with all standards ·
Construct performance metrics and various analytics
by division for business reviews ·
Partner with business and regional management
teams, Capital management teams, Finance and external
vendors ·
Coordination of independent
testing/internal audit reviews · Creation of
business requirement documentation to be used by IT for tool enhancements ·
Serve as a liaison between business departments
during Deployment Tradeweb/Dealerweb, Jersey City, NJ 2008 - 2015 Sr. Business/QA Analyst, Fixed Income Trading and Analytics Responsible for
analysis and testing of Fixed Income Electronic Trading Systems, from front-end
client user interfaces to clearing and settlement. Test TBA-MBS, U.S. Agencies/Agency CMOs, CDS,
Repos, IRS and U.S. Treasuries. Introduced standardized QA practice to increase
efficiency of the department. Manage multiple
projects during each QA release.
Coordinate with development and business support teams to formalize
specifications. Identify and prioritize
risks by module throughout the software development life cycle. Write test cases and test scripts based on
product specs or business models. Test
new functionality and network stress conditions. Investigate, prioritize
and detail issues found during QA test cycle. Test BCP (Business Continuity
plan). ·
Establish and maintain JIRA defect tracking system
and Mercury Quality Center ·
Write QA release reports identifying defect
statistics, critical issues, and milestones ·
Track and report release progress ·
Develop, revise, and maintain test plans during
development phase ·
Test Bilateral Credit Limit ·
Build in house system to track new client set up ·
Draft test plans and test scripts for SEC rule 15C
3-5 (Fixed Income) establishing limits on orders by traders and firms
(Preventing the entry of orders that exceed approved pre-set credit or capital
thresholds) ·
Build New client on-boarding system and train
client support group in its use and implementation Citigroup, New
York, NY 2006 - 2008 Senior QA/BA Mortgage Trading
and Analytics Integrated the Quality Assurance department into design and
implementation phases of Analytics applications for the trading desk. Elicit, analyze and
validate business, aggregation, data collation & logic check requirements
through various techniques (data analysis, process analysis, prototyping, use
cases, business rules definition). Test reports
for business users and the compliance department for AML reporting. Support Fixed income trading desk for
customized and proprietary solutions. · Designed flow for
MBS bid processing system on BPM · Coordinate with
development to create test strategy and create use-case scenarios ·
Create
test plans and test scripts for regression and load testing ·
Tested Risk Analytics application for MBS and CDO
instruments · Tested reporting
applications for Relative Value desk · Tested trade
processing flow through Tradeweb, Orion and MDTS ·
Set up
and maintain HP Mercury suite of tools –QuickTestPro,
Test Director, Quality Center) to conduct functional, regression and performance
testing ·
Evaluate
test results, report and manage defects Security Industry Automation Corporation (NYSE Subsidiary), New York 1998 - 2006 Consultant, Senior Quality Assurance Analyst, Display Book Test the Display Book for the NYSE trading floor. Conduct acceptance
testing of application functionality, independently and integrated with Booth
Broker Support System, SDOT, CMS, Order Entry and ITS. Write test scripts from
functional requirements. Work with development in planning of project
requirements early in the project life cycle. Run manual and automated tests. Report and prioritize defects;
track and review fixes in subsequent releases.
Approve release migration to production.
Assist in architectural design of testware
infrastructure. Tested Inter-Market Trading System as required in Reg NMS. ·
Developing and reviewing Business requirement and
functional specification specific to equity hybrid markets ·
Creating requirement traceability matrix for Hybrid
Market Trading System, and tracking project metrics ·
Tested conversion from SPURS, the Specialist
Portfolio Display book upgrade ·
Test Specialist Portfolio, Direct+ NX and Express
execution ·
Complete test cycle through production roll-out ·
Write test plans and test scripts for regression
and load testing ·
Test Position Minder and Specialist Portfolio -
(NYSE Floor systems) ·
Provide continuous support for Project Management
Team ·
Setup Unix Cron jobs to run EOD and SOD process for
QA environment TECHNICAL SKILLS Trading Systems / Market Data Tradeweb, Orion, MDTS, NYSE DisplayBook,
RMDS, BLOOMBERG Securities Domains Equities, Fixed Income – MBS, CDO Operating Systems Windows Server 2012, Linux (RedHat), Sun Solaris (Unix) Database Systems Oracle, Sybase 12 ASE, MS SQL Server, MySQL Project Management MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio, UML, JIRA Defect Tracking and Tools Atlassian JIRA, Mercury Quality Center, Selenium, QTP,
Visual Studio EDUCATION B.A. Economics, State University of New York
at Buffalo Concentration:
International Studies