Alfred Cyril Christopher

• Working as Project Manager across various projects in Lloyd's estate across the years

Sep 2012 – March 2025

• As a Project Manager leading a team to supporting the implementation of a strategic international payment engine for Lloyd's Banking Group
• International Payments Platform is a new platform built to support the bank's requirement to process large volumes of payments and to be in compliance with Bank of England’s strategy
• The new upgraded payments platform enables the processing of SWIFT messages for international and sterling payments and SEPA payments, implemented via GPP (Global Pay Plus) as the payment engine for International and High Value Payments
• As an additional role managing the finances of the program worth over £200M, contract management of 4 vendors and internal supplier governance

As a Test Lead, was responsible for co-ordination with Business Analysts for understanding requirements

• Design, review and execute test cases
• Assign & monitor task of Team members towards Quality Deliverables
• Tracking defects and preparing Metrics
• Co-ordinate with Onshore team and SCM team for application build
• Preparing Defect report
• Participate pro-actively in Defect and Project meetings
• Discuss and escalate issues to Project management

As a Test Lead, was responsible for Review & prioritize Test Cases

• ST, UAT and Production Test for new clients as well upgrading existing FIX connections
• Responsible for overseeing Quality procedures related to project
• Co-ordinate with Fidessa Support Team for new connection Setup and as well as upgrade connections

CapitalOne Bank - Mortgage Division, as part of business growth acquired few mortgage institutions

• As part of integrating data of its acquired business into one it upgraded its Data Warehouse platform to read data of other institutions
• As Test Lead, was responsible for Finalizing requirements with development and client
• Prepared Master Rules for testing

Lehman - Nomura, Global Investment banking Unit provides variety of financial solutions to meet broad array of corporate client needs

• Core businesses include equity and bond underwriting, corporate advisory services for mergers and acquisitions
• FIX connectivity team is involved in maintaining and setting up new FIX connections between brokers from all over world with Lehman - Nomura Securities, Japan which in turn connects to all stock exchanges in Japan
• As Senior Test Analyst / Test Lead, was responsible for - Test Plan and Cases
• Developing Automation scripts in Verfix for placing order for DMA and DTM
• Review of tasks completed by offshore team
• Involved in Test Execution
• Reviewing defects and track solution till end
• Getting task from Client for team
• Interaction with Client regarding new assignments or releases
• Execution of task and updating of results in Quality Centre
• Updating of status to Client Manager on Weekly Basis

Prudential leading finance solutions provider in UK.UAPS, this application handles functionality and entire payment structure of UK pension’s scheme handled by Prudential

• In this project core payment structure was replaced the backbone of UK Pensions, entire system was checked to see whether payments calculations are happening correctly
• As Test Analyst, was responsible for Integration and System Test Case / Test Execution for all cycles / Test environments Maintenance / Daily environment checks / Updating of status to Test Manager on daily basis
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MasterCard worldwide leader in providing services to bank with their credit card solutions

• Mcideas DW handles all data warehouse part of service provider
• Projects are DW Debit+, MDS, MPS, Prepaid, ECV and RPPS
• As Test Analyst was responsible for in developing and execution system test case / Data validation done at multiple levels – Mainframe, Unix and Oracle / Updating of status to Test Lead on daily basis