Alex Kwinta

Senior Technical Consultant

United Kingdom Information Technology and Services

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Alex Kwinta's Overview

Current BASE24/BASE24-eps Test Consultant at First Data Corporation Past Senior (QA) Test Engineer at ACI Worldwide CMS Test Team Leader/Senior Test Engineer at ACI Worldwide Analyst/Tester (Levels 1 and 2) at ACI Worldwide
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Alex Kwinta's Summary

Accomplished Senior System Test Engineer, Test Automation and Regression Testing Specialist contracting Test Services and Consultancy to Electronic Payments Industry. 15+ years career in the Payments Industry team leadership and consultancy experience (BASE24, BASE24-eps and Back Office). Competent, trusted, reliable and consistent through excellent work rate and ethics. Advocate of standards. ISEB/ISTQB Certified. Specialties: Test Automation, Regression Testing, System install and configuration

Alex Kwinta's Experience

BASE24/BASE24-eps Test Consultant
First Data Corporation
Privately Held; 10,001+ employees; Financial Services industry

June 2012 Present (1 year 1 month)

System Testing and Consultancy. International Customer Projects Testing Department (BASE24 and BASE24-eps) - ICICI Bank - BASE24 Classic implementation project for the customer followed by successful go-live in March 2013. - Allied Irish Bank (AIB) - China Union Pay (CUP Acquiring) customer project. BASE24 Classic, TSS and BASE24 EPS implementation.

- Allied Irish Bank (AIB) - 13.04 Mandates. BASE24 Classic. - First Data Merchant Services (FDMS) - BASE24 Classic:DINERS EMV certification, Release 12.10 Q4 Mandates. - National Australia Group Europe (NAGE) - Release 13.01 SP8 BASE24 EPS.

Senior (QA) Test Engineer

ACI Worldwide
Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; aciw; Computer Software industry

September 2009 May 2012 (2 years 9 months) Watford, United Kingdom

ACI Product BASE24-EPS, Testing Solutions Department Responsible for Advancement and development of the product Test Strategy and Infrastructure. Development and running of the existing Automated Regression Testing Suites. Achievements and contributions: - Overseen execution of the Automated Regression Suite (MicroFocus TestPartner based) against the BASE24EPS product release version 11.1 across four host platforms (NSKi, Unix AIX, Unix Sun Solaris and IBM zOS). - Overseen design, development and implementation of the Regression Pack concept for the BASE24-EPS product release version 11.1 project. A method to allow for expansion of the existing Automated Regression Suite by standardising the automation of the new product enhancement test scenarios throughout the projects lifecycle. Hosted presentation and training sessions on the subject. - Designed and written a comprehensive BASE24-EPS Regression Pack Development User Guide (A document outlining steps required to create a Regression Pack). Hosted presentation and training sessions on the subject. - Designed, created and implemented VISA to HISO Regression Pack (First regression testing harness based around Core Transaction Set and the ASSET Simulator to serve as a template for all future Regression Pack development) Hosted presentation and training sessions on the subject. - Designed and written a comprehensive BASE24-EPS Automated Regression User Guide (A document describing a new test strategy concept and detailing how to operate the automated regression testing suite). Hosted presentation and training sessions on the subject. - Migrated MS ISHARE based Test Team artefacts repository to IBM QUICKR web based location.

CMS Test Team Leader/Senior Test Engineer

ACI Worldwide
Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; aciw; Computer Software industry

May 2003 September 2009 (6 years 5 months) Watford, United Kingdom

ACI Product, Card Management System/Back Office (CMS/GenCard) Department Responsible for Quality Assurance of the CMS Product releases during the period. Versions: 3.6.2 - 07.4 (inclusive) Achievements and contributions: - Overseeing hands-on successful completions of System Testing phases of the SDLC (e.g. Product enhancements, VISA and MasterCard/Europay network Mandates). - Expansion and considerable improvement of product Regression Testing Suite spanning across six host platforms (HP NonStop NSK/Tandem S-Series, HP NonStop NSKi/Tandem NS-Series, IBM p-Series AIX Unix (Oracle 9), HP9000 Unix PA-RISC architecture (Oracle 10), HP Integrity Unix Itanium architecture and SUN Solaris Unix (Oracle9)). Creation, running and maintenance of fully automated test environments. - Mastering of Automation tools and development of high quality optimised and dynamic automation framework (QARun/TestPartner, MasterCard Clearing Simulator (MCPS), VISA Pre-Edit Package, verification and Inhouse data manipulation tools, configuration of Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) such as THALES and ATALLA). - Built a team of four enthusiastic test engineers through mentorship and hands-on approach and attentive Team

Leading techniques. - Creation of Proposals, Estimates, Test Plans, Test Specifications and Training documentation (MS Word, MS Excel and MS PowerPoint based). - Upgraded, maintained and kept up to date hardware equipment to ensure better performance and no occurrences of downtime (Dedicated PC Desktops used for running automated tests and hosting of test simulators). - Improved communications through regular reporting to Product Director and frequent liaisons with Product Architects and Project Managers. Provided advice and consultancy to Sale Support personnel.

Analyst/Tester (Levels 1 and 2)

ACI Worldwide
Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; aciw; Computer Software industry

October 2000 May 2003 (2 years 8 months) Watford, United Kingdom

ACI Product BASE24, Integration Testing Department Responsible for creation of in-house test aids and tools. Creation, maintenance and running of ACIs product integration testing. Achievements and contributions: - Creation, development and performance testing of ACIs EMV Easy/EMV in the Box (NSK/Tandem + BASE24 + SCM Package concept). Overseen performance testing activities on-site at ACIs partner HP/COMPAQs plant for duration of two weeks. - Creation, design and development of Automated System Builds and documentation (including conversion into Web based format). Tools designed to aid and automate the installation setting up of BASE24 test systems on the NSK/Tandem platform. - Created and Automated BASE24 and CMS product system integration tests based on VISA (VTS2000), Europay/MasterCard (ECCSS) and SCIL EMV Test Simulators. - Configuration and maintenance of THALES and ATALLA Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) and APACS/UK Cards POS Devices. - Standardisation of the Unit Test templates using GENSIM Simulator.

Programmer/Analyst (Levels 1 and 2)

ACI Worldwide
Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; aciw; Computer Software industry

September 1998 October 2000 (2 years 2 months) Watford, United Kingdom

ACI Product BASE24, Customer Specific Modifications (CSM) Department Responsible for development and unit testing of customer specific modifications (CSMs) for the BASE24 product using TAL/pTAL, COBOL/SCOBOL coding languages. Achievements and contributions: - Completed number of coding and testing assignments throughout the BARCLAYCARDs Trans24 to Base24 migration project. - Completed number of coding and testing assignments throughout the MBNAs BASE24 project including introduction of PRISM/PRM hooks to the product source code. - Participated in high profile negotiations with Polish National Bank BGZ, acting as Polish language translator to ACI, which eventually resulted in successful BASE24 product purchase by the customer.

Alex Kwinta's Certifications

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ISEB/ISTQB Fundation Certificate in Software Testing

Pearson Vue November 2010

Alex Kwinta's Courses

Independent Coursework
BASE24 Technical Overview BASE24-atm Database and Cutover BASE24-atm Transaction Processing TAL/pTAL with Guardian API (NSK platform) COMPAQ/HP, OSS Workshop COMPAQ/HP, Hardware Security Module (ATALLA HSM) Compuware UK, Testing Graphical Applications using QARun (32bit) BASE24-eps Overview, Application Processing & Configuration BASE24-eps Installation & Configuration/UNIX Supporting Application Course BASE24-eps Application Processing ASSET Developers Training ASSET User Training BASE24 Overview Compuware UK, TestPartner Foundation & Advanced Training Course Syndicate Training, Leadership for New Managers Syndicate Training, Appraisal Interviewing Pearson Vue, QA Training System Testing Skillsoft, Introduction to Information Security Skillsoft, Tool Support in Software Testing Skillsoft, Configuration Management, Risks and Incidents in Software Testing Skillsoft, Software Test Management Skillsoft, White-Box Software Testing Techniques Skillsoft, Black-Box Software Testing Techniques Skillsoft, Static Techniques and Test Design in Software Testing Skillsoft, Testing Throughout the Software Life Cycle Skillsoft, Fundamentals of Software Testing