D'Ani Prosalenti
Highland Mills,NY
Summary
Enthusiastic and motivated Analyst offering 28 years experience of committed service delivering top-quality results through hands-on learning, fearless collaboration with all levels of engagement, willingness to rise to challenges and an unmatched desire to create success for teammates and organization.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Regulatory/Audit Delivery Lead
Bank Of America; CashPro
08.2023 - Current
- Act as the primary point of contact for reviewing responses to potential/existing client's audit of CashPro technical and security practices for accuracy and confidentiality breaches.
- Support external auditors during regulatory/quarterly/annual audits, providing requested documentation, engaging technology partners for demonstrations and addressing inquiries efficiently.
- Support internal auditors during regulatory reviews of technical implementations providing requested documentation, engaging technology partners for demonstrations and addressing inquiries efficiently.
- Collaborate with various technology partners to collect up-to-date evidences in support of CashPro's 2024 SOC2 Type 2 audit report.
- Strengthening internal controls by recommending process improvements to internal, regulatory teams to promote standardized system of record usage supporting increase metrics reporting accuracy
- Conduct regular application health evaluations with technology leadership to identify areas for improvement, providing constructive feedback to reduce introduction of known vulnerabilities, increasing application stability and security.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership on matters related to risk management and application health process improvement opportunities.
- Integrating audit workflow/tracking from SharePoint into JIRA Kanban board.
Software Test Manager
Bank Of America; CashPro
02.2019 - 08.2023
- Managed testing teams in the security and fraud applications within CashPro platform: Authentication engine & global identity service (AEGIS), CashPro Alerts, Global Fraud/Payment Fraud services, CashPro Check mgmt.
- Highly regarded as "Princess of Darkness" by senior leadership due to my unapologetic commitment to quality, zero escaped defects (i.e. issues deployed to production) and positive end user experience.
- Enhanced testing efficiency with the introduction of automated testing tools and processes within applications under my supervision.
- Built strong working relationships with stakeholders; fostered a culture of collaboration and transparency throughout the software development life cycle.
- Regularly reviewed testing metrics and adjusted test strategies, resources, training needs accordingly, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
- Reviewed project requirements to provide test effort estimates (e.g. cost, timelines, resources) incorporating delivery requirements into planning of testing schedules.
- Partnered with develop managers for a shift-left approach to testing, promoting early identification and resolution of defects in the development cycle.
- My teams led the CSOT organization with highest release success rates (lowest defects released to production) with thorough test planning and execution for highly complex software projects.
- Championed automation process improvements that led to significant increases in automation adoption across the CSOT organization.
- Held quarterly meetings for test bed reviews in order to retire stale/outdated cases, optimize manual test cases and identify new areas of automated test coverage.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams for seamless integration and end-to-end system testing to reduce unintended downstream defects and client impacts.
- Ensured compliance with regulatory requirements by developing rigorous validation procedures for all software releases.
- Scrutinized test plans for my applications, as well as the test scope of test plans from other applications within the organization to ensure no impacts to apps I managed.
Scrum Master
Bank Of America; CashPro
06.2017 - 02.2019
- Facilitated Scrum framework across three agile teams (1 Kanban, 2 scrum) – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
- Coached cross-functional teams on Agile principles, leading to an increase in successful project deliveries.
- Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
- Empowered team members to self-organize, boosting morale and overall job satisfaction.
- Advised top management on agile strategy development, improving organizational agility at all levels.
- Acted as go-to resource for engineering team, providing clarity on tasks, gathering missing assets or requirements and handling project changes.
- Monitored and tracked project progress to support timely completion.
- Collaborated with Product Owners to refine requirements, drive adequate test scope, identify impacts to outside tech teams and ensure alignment with business goals and the Bank's change mgmt. standards.
QA Manual Tester
Bank Of America; CashPro
12.2013 - 06.2017
- Established myself as the CashPro Security and Login subject matter expert.
- Collaborated with developers to swiftly identify, reproduce, and resolve critical defects, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality products.
- Championed a culture of quality within the CashPro organization by creating support documents, sharing insights, lessons learned, and recommendations for continuous improvement in testing processes.
- Contributed to an efficient defect lifecycle process by proactively reporting defects along with detailed steps to reproduce them accurately.
- Advised manager of issues that could affect schedule, budget or quality of pristine releases.
- Operated under Waterfall, then later Agile and Scrum frameworks to complete releases and well-organized test efforts.
- Kept manual test scripts updated with current requirements.
Education
No Degree - Commercial And Advertising Art
Midlands Technical College
West Columbia, SCSkills
Software Development Lifecycle
Test Configurations
Automation knowledge
Incident/Defect Management
Process Improvements
Test Plans and Test Methodologies
Planning and Prioritization
Staff Management
Coaching and Mentoring
Scrum Framework
Risk Management
Certification
- Certified SAFe Agilist (SA) - December 2017 to current
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM), cPrime April 2016 to current
Timeline
Regulatory/Audit Delivery Lead
Bank Of America; CashPro
08.2023 - Current
Software Test Manager
Bank Of America; CashPro
02.2019 - 08.2023
Scrum Master
Bank Of America; CashPro
06.2017 - 02.2019
QA Manual Tester
Bank Of America; CashPro
12.2013 - 06.2017
No Degree - Commercial And Advertising Art
Midlands Technical College