Steven Lai / 賴鴻義

Consultant  •  IBM Malaysia, Contract

May 2021 - Dec 2021

Support Public Bank Berhad in the following areas:

• support the migration project of the legacy payment system MERVA to FTM SWIFT.
• review the plan of applying new SR2021 MT message validation standard in the production system.
• support the design work of the new Cross-Border Payments and Report Plus system (SWIFT ISO 20022 Program). 
• advise the system architecture and solution approach, help to determine the problems in UAT and the production systems.

Advisory Software Engineer  •  IBM Taiwan

Aug 2012 - Mar 2021

• Technical advocate of IBM Payment solutions (WebSphere Business Integration for Financial Network, aka WBI-FN, and Financial Transaction Manager for SWIFT Services, aka FTM SWIFT) for IBM Great China Group clients.
• Leaded the testing activities of FTM SWIFT.
• Participated in designing the CI/CD process for team operation.
  • Setup a Jenkins server as the CI/CD engine.
  • Migrate the test runners to Docker containers.
  • Design the scheduled tasks of checking, downloading, and installing builds.
  • Adapt the test case projects for the Jenkins server to call.

Achievement

• Delivered the fix-pack of FTM SWIFT on schedule with assured quality every quarter.
• Helped the Level-2 Support to investigate and resolve the customer’s problems.
• Improve the efficiency of team operations
  • Automate the daily work routines.
  • Save the effort of managing and preparing the test environments.
  • Simplify the procedure of the regression test.

Staff Software Engineer  •  IBM Taiwan

Jun 2005 - Jul 2012

• Participated in porting WBI-FN for z/OS to UNIX platform (AIX and Solaris).
  • Responsible for SWIFT FIN service which was implemented in C/C++.
  • Adapt the system call, subsystem API, and program logic according to the platform differences.
• Participated in developing the test automation framework based on the testing support routines.
  • Automate the test cases as a Gradle project and triggered by JUnit.
  • Contains information about testing environments and provides the factory methods for testers to access the testing environments more easily.
  • Provides the GUI testing tools based on Selenium.
• Coordinated the support/maintenance activities of WBI-FN.
• The focal point of the laboratory-based service of WBI-FN in IBM Great China Group.

Achievement

• Resolved the platform dependent and incompatible issues, delivered the product on schedule with confident quality.
• Received the award “Outstanding Technical Achievement in WBI-FN for SWIFT Net FIN” in 2006.
• Practicing Scrum – an Agile software development process, improved the team collaboration by an efficient and flexible working model.
• Flew in and supported Bank of China HongKong for a critical problem and had the CRISIT mitigated soon in 2006.
• Engaged in the system migration project of Bank of China Beijing in 2007 and 2010. Received the award “Outstanding Technical Achievement in WBI-FN LBS for Bank of China Beijing Project” and “Unleash the Lab Award”.
• Provided the technical support for a MEGA deal of Bank of China Beijing in 2011. Comforted the customer to secure the deal and won customer's highly appreciation.

Software Engineer  •  IBM Taiwan

Apr 2004 - May 2005

• Joined the QA team of WBI-FN in 2004, designed and executed the test cases for each software development lifecycle.
• The product testing is in the black-box approach basically, and covered the following areas:
  • Build Verification Test
  • Function Verification Test
  • System Verification Test, including non-functional, stress, performance, long-run, and system integration testing.
  • Regression Test
• Developed the Testing Support Routines to support test automation.
  • Written in Java
  • Contains utilities for inputting the test data via IBM MQ message, DB2, text file, command line interface, and all other APIs provided by the product.
  • Contains the result validation tools for many kinds of output.

Achievement

• Catch up with the testing work and the understanding of the target product in a short time.
• The capability of problem determination/troubleshooting was recognized by the development team.
• Received the award “Outstanding Achievement in WBI-FN z/OS R2 Test” in 2005.