JESSICA RIA VALDEZ

Bankfast Online

• Lead development of International Funds Transfer feature using SmallTalk. Developing feature all the while learning legacy language after onboarding.
• Collaborated with clients and internal stakeholders on stages of development lifecycle from requirement gathering to product releases.

BankfastApply

• Responsible for monitoring and updating application's frameworks and dependencies to avoid major and critical security issues.
• Maintained and improved application's unit and integration tests, and keeping code coverage up to a certain standard.
• Documented deployment and configuration setups, proofs of concepts, and onboarding documents to be used by other members in future projects.
• Adhered to strict code review guidelines, checking code and test quality as well as potential accessibility issues introduced during development.
• Created a daily OWASP Jenkins pipeline that prompts a connected Microsoft Teams channel for any major or critical CVEs and promptly resolved vulnerabilities for a more secure product.
• Collaborated with client-facing teams to ensure success of clients' third-party integrations into the application.
• Conducted regular performance testing against the product, and maintained load testing scripts using JMeter.
• Spearheaded design and development of multiple new features such as Document upload, Approval workflow, and Product tranche management using Java EE, Grails, and Spring Boot.