Michael Osuagwu
Vice President - Head of Testing and Quality Assurance @SMBC Group
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WORK HISTORY
Vice President - Head of Testing and Quality Assurance @SMBC Group
London, GB
Currently responsible for Testing and QA at SMBC Nikko Capital Markets
EDUCATION
Goldsmiths, University of London
BSc, Computer Science and Information Systems
SKILLS
ABOUT MICHAEL OSUAGWU
Experienced and energetic Head of QA and Programme Test Manager with over 17 years of experience in growing QA functions to drive standardisation, simplification, reuse, and test maturity whilst ensuring QA targets are met through applying and adapting various industry standard techniques and frameworks across all aspects of test leadership, automation, strategy & development methodologies. Delivery focused with hands on approach in implementing testing within in the financial services industry.I am a certified ISEB and ISTQB Advanced Test Manager, and a Project Manager with PRINCE 2 Practitioner certification, ITIL and Six Sigma certifications. A champion and advocate of agile, SDLC and STLC best practices, whilst engaging with both internal and external stakeholders from technical staff through to senior management delivering substantial improvements and positive change through initiative and innovation. I have managed a wide range of projects across various leadership roles with experience in leading and managing cross functional teams towards delivering large scale transformation programmes to time, cost and quality parameters through an approach that fosters collaboration, adaptability, and innovation with a focus on people, technology, and processes. This is to deliver sustainability, strategy objectives goals and relevance of deliverables to end users, in a fast-paced dynamic agile environment with challenging deadlines and competing priorities.I am commercially aware, adaptable, and agile with experience of external vendor management and offshore team management. I always take a proactive approach to matters that are of importance to the business. I have a keen interest on how the 4th industrial revolution will enhance software testing and software development through machine learning, AI, digital transformation, and automation.Specialties• Great communication in building relationships with business and technology stakeholders.• People management in leading distributed internal and offshore teams.• PRINCE 2 with pragmatic team building skills and a focus on effective delivery.• Establishing QA structure, agility and delivering test automation to drive efficient project delivery.• Test management - DEVOPS, SCRUM, TDD, BDD, V-Model, Waterfall, Gantt Chart, JIRA, XRAY, Zephyr. • Test automation - Selenium, TestNG, Test Complete, UFT, TeamCity, Jenkins, Postman.• Investment banking knowledge - ECM, DCM, Commodity Derivatives, Energy, OMS, Trade life cycles. • Regulatory reporting - FRTB, EMIR, MIFID-II, SFTR, IOSCO, CSDR, CUSO.
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