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Release Manager — UBS

Led QA for FX/MM middle office and trading UIs, covering low-latency flows, risk checks and integration with upstream/downstream systems.

Capital markets Low-latency flows Front-to-back QA
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Trading flows & domain understanding

Quality for systems where latency, correctness and auditability all matter.

  • Gained domain understanding of FX/MM instruments, trade lifecycle and how front-office desks used the platform day-to-day.
  • Designed tests around pricing, booking and lifecycle events rather than purely at screen level.
  • Validated behaviour in both normal and stressed market scenarios, including spikes in volume and price volatility.

Middleware automation

Ensuring the plumbing is as reliable as the UI on top of it.

  • Focused heavily on middleware, message flows and integration points with upstream data feeds and downstream risk / booking systems.
  • Introduced checks around message formats, routing and reconciliation to catch subtle integration issues.
  • Worked with developers to create test harnesses for simulating market feeds and downstream service behaviour.
  • Modernized automation for legacy desktop and client–server applications using UFT, enabling stable, fully autonomous regression execution with zero manual intervention.
  • Implemented database-driven test data creation and refresh mechanisms, ensuring consistent and reliable data setup on every release execution.

Non-functional & operational readiness

Beyond “does it work?” — will it keep working when markets move fast?

  • Partnered with teams to measure latency, throughput and stability under realistic load conditions.
  • Validated failure and recovery scenarios (e.g., component restarts, network interruptions, partial outages).
  • Helped define runbooks for operations teams around incident triage, impact assessment and rollback.

Relevance for your environment

Especially useful if you have complex integration or real-time flows.

I bring capital-markets-style discipline to integration-heavy systems — trading, payments or any real-time workflow that cannot afford silent failures.
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