SUMMARY:

• Analytical and result oriented professional with more than 10 years of extensive experience in IT and Specialized in Capital Markets Domain
• Experienced in Prime Brokerage, Treasury and financial reporting activities
• Worked as Business Systems Analyst and UAT Analyst in diverse domains in financial services such as Prime Brokerage, Treasury and financial reporting.
• Strong understanding of Equities, Fixed Income and Derivative products
• Extensive Experience on Prime Brokerage Clearing and Settlement functionalities.
• Worked as User acceptance Tester on Mysis SUMMIT Treasury Application which is used for Bonds, Derivatives (Options, Swaps) and FX instruments trading.
• Proficient in Preparing Business Requirements Document and Functional Specification Document.
• Knowledge on Electronic SWIFT Messaging and different Swift message types like
• Wire Transfers (MT - 103, MT-202), corporate actions (MT-56X) and Swift confirmations (MT-54X).
• Experience on Trade Capture, Trade Validation, Trade Enrichment and settlement.
• Experience on Trade booking verification in Broadridge.
• Competent in analyzing and creating Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, Activity diagrams, Class diagrams, Data/Flow/Navigational flow diagram using MS Visio.
• Experienced in working all phases of SDLC throughout the project life cycle.
• Experienced in creating story backlog and participated in grooming sessions and Sprint planning activities.
• Documented user stories and defined the acceptance criteria.
• Worked on different software development methodologies like Agile and Waterfall
• Proficient in working with Agile tools like JIRA, IBM RTC and HP ALM.
• Knowledge on UNIX and Oracle SQL.
• Expert in creating Test plans, Test Scenarios, defining System & Integrating Test Cases and executing Test Cases.
• Participated and coordinated User Acceptance Testing (UAT) efforts.
• Experienced in Onshore/Offshore coordination.
• Great ability to communicate with business teams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: MS Windows NT 4.0/95/98/2000/ XP, UNIX

Operating Systems: Windows 98/2000/XP/NT, UNIX

Testing Tools: Quality Centre, HP ALM,JIRA,IBM RTC

Querying Tools: Toad, PL/SQL Developer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with the Business Owners and SMEs, to gather client specific business requirements and translated them in to Business Requirement Documents (BRD) for the technical team.
• Defined User stories, acceptance criteria and user story sign-off
• Conducted review sessions with various stakeholders on the artifacts
• Collaborated with the QA Group to ensure adequate testing of application both before and after completion, maintained quality procedures, conducted UAT Testing, and ensured that the documentation is in place.
• Defined Traceability between Business Requirements and Test cases
• Facilitated Agile Scrum meetings and bi-weekly Demo walkthrough meetings with stakeholders.
• Worked with business and technology leads to identify the appropriate data for testing, and prepare that data for the test cases.
• Performed detailed data analysis, including creating, running and modification of SQL queries
• Created/reviewed Test Plan and Test Case for UAT

Environment: ALM, Jira, UNIX, Oracle, SQL, Prime Trade Processing, Internet Explorer and MS Windows.

Confidential

Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Led the User Acceptance Testing efforts for State Streets Investment management financial reporting, related to Transactions, Valuations, Pricing, Corporate Actions and Reference Data for clients such as Investec, AM Bank, Babson
• Verified and validated Data loads in Data Categories and Data Marts.
• Generated and verified different types of reports, extracts for each specific client by querying the data base
• Data Analysis between the old and new systems.
• Analyzed the data migrated from EDW to ESP and suggested the required changes to the stories if any.
• Onshore and Offshore Coordination on daily Agile testing activities
• Prepared Iteration Demo for Each Iteration Ceremony
• Comparing data between EDW and ESP for accuracy and raising the defects.
• Participated in daily scrum meetings and discuss about the daily progress and targets.

Environment: ALM, Sybase, Squirrel, EDW, IBM RTC, ESP, Citrix, RKS, SQL, Internet Explorer and MS Windows.

Bank of America

User Acceptance Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with client regarding new changes in Summit, review of functional specifications
• Prepared UAT test Plan, traceability Matrix, test cases, test procedures and test data from requirement documents
• Participated in reviews and defect report meetings weekly
• Deployed the release specific code in to UAT environment from PVCS version control system.
• Prepared the GUI Regression pack covering trade life cycle and other functionalities
• Developed test jobs using JIL (Job Information Language) in Autosys
• Extensively interacted with developers to analyze and resolve the issues that were encountered while testing the application.
• Involved in Database testing to verify data integrity tests.
• Tracked all results, problems and defects throughout the testing cycle and reported status updates for the team.
• Uploaded the test cases to Quality Centre(Test Management Tool)
• Co-ordinated with multiple teams and stakeholders for successful UAT execution.

Environment: ALM, Oracle, Sybase, Citrix, Autosys, UNIX, SQL, Internet Explorer and MS Windows.

Confidential

Senior Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared the test plan and test cases from the requirement and use case documents
• Uploaded and Executed the test cases from Quality Centre(Test Management Tool)
• Raised defects in Quality Centre and assigned them to the onshore lead
• Executed of test cases both in Online and Mobile platform
• Effort & Cost Estimation on Change Requests for the project.
• Prepared and executed Regression pack covering all previous releases functionalities
• Tracked all results, problems and defects throughout the testing cycle and reported to the onsite lead
• Co-ordinated with Business analyst in preparation of test cases and test data
• Performed cross-browser testing using different browsers like IE, Firefox Mozilla and Chrome.

Environment: Quality Center 9.2, Voyager, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, android, IOS and MS Windows.