Joseph Vinisky

Accomplished PM/Application and Product Support Manager with a solid track record delivering business technologies for Fortune 500 B2B and B2C clients. Expertise in all facets of   product and project life cycles and hands-on experience with a broad range of PM/BA/QA processes including regression, functional, manual, automated, user acceptance testing, data migration and merger, web, database, and backend testing. Training, hiring, and mentoring of personnel, offsite and overseas management.

Technical Skills:

MS Access, Word,  Excel, Project, Visio, PowerPoint, Oracle, SQL, Crystal Reports, Selenium web testing, TeamSite, Mantis, Joomla, Flex, Elementool, WIN, Java, Mac, Test Director, Rational Rose, TCP/IP, Web 2.0, Social Networking protocols, Apache, QTP, TestDirector, Elementool, Bugzilla, Mantis, Jira. Mercury Quality Center, Process & Data Flow, Integration/Systems Testing, UAT,HTML,  JavaScript,

New Era Consulting          New York, NY    PM/Product support       (11/2007-Present)

PM and QA of various multimedia and CRM websites including Liberty Mutual, Ameritrade, Covergirl, Pepperidgefarms, Audi.com, Mars.com , etc. for various clients including Conde Nast,  G2.com, Grey Interactive, etc.

• Analysis, architecture and testing under various browsers, and real-time monitoring
• Managed multiple projects across various platforms
• Creation, gathering, formulation of requirements. Project monitoring.
• Business development process and product management.

• Created requirements and specs and conducted usability studies.

• Translated business requirements into specific developer tasking and workflow.
• Set up and administered  Mercury Quality Center
• Created and modified test plans, test scenarios, test cases.
• Regression, backend, database, integration, black box, unit, acceptance testing.
• Managed defects resolution throughout project life cycles.
• Used Test Director, Mantis and JIRA for defect tracking, reporting.
• In-depth business analysis
• Data migration and remediation of millions of legacy client data
• Managed offshore teams in India, Russia, Bulgaria of up to 75 personnel

• Bug tracking, regression testing.
• Initiated and organized meeting to discuss various issues impacting deadlines, milestones, code reviews.
• Tracked tasks, milestones, and revisions
• Managed project risk and scope changes
• Client education and mentoring
• General strategic issues and direct involvement in integration and acceptance testing.
• Test plans, test cases, test scenarios.

Business Advanced Systems   New York, NY Lead PM        (11/2005-11/2007)

·        Acted as a triage manager. Selected, administered, and maintained the defect tracking system. 

·        Documented and tracked issues throughout the defect life cycle.

·        Direct client and stakeholder interaction. 

·        Detailed functional specifications, use case documents and flow diagrams

·        Scoping of business requirements and resources

·        Managed multiple projects simultaneously

·        Provided descriptive statistics and reporting from MS Excel metrics reporting for pre- and post-sales analysis.

·        Ensured data integrity and successful integration of legacy systems.

·        Developed test plans for the client’s business cases.

·        Defined requirements, constraints and assumptions on critical tasks.

·        Managed the US office in coordination with its off-location consultant before its relocation and handing over of operations to the new Managing Director .

·        Coordinated with consultants to restructure, streamline and realign business objectives.

·        Managed the project’s schedules, dependencies and inter-team communication.

·        Was instrumental in effecting change quickly with minimal expense by managing project scope, allocating resources effectively, overcoming obstacles and being proactive.

·        In critical situations, assessed the objectives and built relationships necessary to achieve success.

·        Created training documentation, conducted training, and provided support for users at all levels.

·        Created Test Plans, as well as manual and automated test cases/procedures from functional requirements.

·        Researched, evaluated, and acquired products for use in the quality assurance/testing process. 

·        Supervised automated testing tools Winrunner/QTP and Loadrunner for the facilitation of rapid regression testing.

·        Developed test bed and test environment configurations. Performed functional, user acceptance, and compatibility testing.

·        Performed formal usability testing and participated in user group testing.

·        Release scope, requirements, schedules, milestones, deadlines, deliverables, developed efficient QA strategies for releases.

·        Analyzed and tested CRM payments portals and multi-role platforms.

·        Worked with Project Management, Product Management, Business Development to coordinate QA  and ensure effective communication and quality products for various clients .

·        Used Teamsite Web Content Management Platform, templating workflow for website development and applications.

·        Prepared detailed documentation and summaries including Test Plans, test cases,

·        Direct involvement in integration and acceptance testing.

·        Business development process and product management.

Application Support/ Project Manager (03/2002 - 11/2005)       Claims Conference. New York, NY.              

Web-based and client server application designed for legacy insurance claims resolution amongst various parties. Activities included:

• Created test environments, requirements gathering and participated in code reviews.
• Participated in new Data Warehouse & assisted with migrating from Oracle Express to Micro strategy.
• Insured proper Data Warehouse data interface and user specifications.
• Revision/evaluation of test strategies and transfer of QA activities to an off-shore site.
• Automated, manual testing, black/whitebox testing (web and client server)
• Regression, unit, and integration testing.
• Implementation of changes in quality control, product revisions.
• Bug tracking database maintenance and code support and centralization.
• Adapted product specifications to end user documentation.
• Interacted with users to gather and streamline requirements and specifications.
• Development and supervision of  detailed and high level testing of various components.
• Responsible for resolution of product functionality and customer usage of the product.
• Project management  of entire SDLC.
• Created on-line support documentation (HTML, PDF).
• Database and backend testing.
• Management of 5 test personnel and 200 end users. Responsible for product functionality, customer usage of the product.

·      Creation, gathering, formulation of requirements. Project monitoring.

·      Responsible for defects identification in every aspect of the product.

·      Managed defects resolution throughout project life cycles.

QA Manager  (8/1999-2/2003)   Barclays Private Banking (Private Wealth), New York, NY.

• Tested Fixed Income, trading applications and performed Y2K and EURO compliance.
• Test cases and scripts. Worked with development to resolve product anomalies.
• Tested FIX gateway software for Knight-Ridder, Reuters, and real-time order routing.
• Implemented an automated protocol testing system for FIX implementations with a web to provide access to and analysis of log files from a remote server.
• FX and FIX testing and certification using client/product specific tests.
• Bloomberg, Reuters Money 3000.
• Ensured the configuration of application with FIX protocols.
• Responded to alerts from monitoring systems, troubleshoot as necessary.
• Used LandMark and FMC financial models.
• Software Requirements Specifications and Business Analysis documents.
• Technical writing: developing and condensing of manuals and code annotation.

• Tested Java API's such as Portal for payments processing.
• Created test plans, test cases, requirements gathering, metrics, milestones.

4/1994 - 8/1999    MasterCard. Purchase, NY Lead QA  Engineer.

Quality assurance testing of  Windows-based software systems.

• Debugged software and implemented software updates via programming. Projects included Rewards Management System, Quotation Management System and Database Manipulation Software.
• Worked closely with development to resolve product anomalies. Performed in-depth testing of applications being developed for customer in C++, Visual Basic and Java, on Windows 95 and NT workstations.
• Tested Graphical User Interface developed in C++, for Client/Server product used to define formats and routes for electronic messages sent among disparate application.

University of California, Irvine. BS Math/Biology

Cal State University, certificates in UNIX admin and Java

NewAge Training Insitute: Business Objects, Business Intelligence

Dubno Tech University. MS Business/Finance

Private Equity Finance Institute, NYC