SUMMARY:

• Subject Matter Expert in SWIFT International Payments, FEDWIRE, SEPA, and TARGET2/EURO1 RTGS Payments, Wires and ACH payment processing.
• Expertise in Oracle Flexcube (FCUBS) - Core Banking system and Flexpay OBPM - Payments Engine
• GPP - Confidential Payments Expert
• CERTIFIED PEGA BUSINESS ARCHITECT - CPBA - PEGA V7.1.6
• PEGA Testing (SMART Investigate)
• Test Automation using QTP
• Knowledge in ETL Migration Testing
• Functional and Automation Testing of Banking application
• Salesforce.com Tester
• Started the career as a Functional tester with core domain knowledge in Banking and advanced to SWIFT Payments Consultant and Subject Matter Expert in International Payments processing including FEDWIRE, SEPA, TARGET2, EURO1 RTGS Clearing Network, Canada Wires an ACH Processing role to provide analyst and consulting solutions in multiple customer environments for Operations. In addition, supporting as Business Architect with certification in PEGA as “Certified PEGA Business Architect (CPBA)”. Supported large-scale enterprise testing projects, test automation and assisted to set testing processes, metrics and test automation plans.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• 11+ years of rich experience in Analyst role with expertise in SWIFT International Payments, WIRES, ACH payments processing, SEPA/TARGET2/EURO1 RTGS Clearing network and BACS/CHAPS of UK payments system.
• 3+ years of hands on experience in Oracle Flexcube (Core banking system) and Oracle Flexpay (OBPM) application and worked on Payments module (Urgent, SWIFT Inbound Credits, FX payments, Non-Urgent (ACH) and IRFT payments processing in Flexcube and Flexpay)
• Strong background in software for Banking and Financial services with knowledge on Payments module, SWIFT Messages (MT103, MTn90, MTn91, MTn92, MTn95, MTn96, MT202, MT300, MT320, MT900, MT910, MT940 and MT950) and Confidential (GPP) system
• Providing support to International Operations team and mentoring them on the latest changes and new modules introduced in each releases.
• 1.5 years of experience in automation testing and performed test automation for smoke, sanity and part of regression suite using Quick Test Professional tool.
• 3+ years of experience as PEGA Business Architect and attended extensive 5 full days of classroom training provided for me by Confidential Client and conducted by expert from PEGA systems in US to work with latest version PEGA 7.1.6 and completed CPBA (Certified PEGA Business Architect)
• Being a Certified PEGA Business Architect, responsible for capturing PEGA requirements using Direct Capture Objective (DCO) method and derive specification documents for Smart Investigate tool which is used for case management at Wells Fargo.
• Good knowledge and experience to perform PEGA (Smart Investigate) Testing
• 11+ years of rich experience in Software Quality Assurance and quality control, manual and automation testing, for development, enhancement and Implementation projects.
• Salesforce tester with thorough hands on experience in Salesforce application by testing difference business capabilities such as Sales Management, Profiling, 360 view, etc., through various sprints using Agile methodology.
• Successfully performed test automation for smoke, sanity and part of regression suite using Quick Test Professional tool and was credited for developing additional functions to the existing homegrown test automation framework.
• Automated previously manual, time-consuming processes to drive gains in data tracking/accuracy, workgroup efficiency and profitability.
• Assisted the development of test automation framework through designing of functions and creating reusable assets, documentation that accelerated the overall test automation efforts.
• Rich experience in test plan development, test estimation, risk analysis, result analysis and quality assurance processes guided by CMMI Level 5 standards.
• Rich experience in Team Management and co-ordination involving Engineers from globally distributed teams.

SKILLS PROFILE:

Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows XP/2000

Technology/Tools: Flexcube (FCUBS), Flexpay (OBPM), Oracle SQL Developer, DB2, WinSCP, Putty, Mainframe (CICS and SPUFI), HP Quick Test Professional 10.0, HP ALM, Quality Center 10.0 and Test Director

Languages: VB Script

Methods: Water fall and Agile Methodology

Domain Experience: Banking & Financial Services, Retail and Insurance

Applications Tested: Flexcube (FCUBS), Flexpay (OBPM), PEGA, Salesforce, IVR, Confidential - GPP, HBOS ALS Database, MINT, HBOS PEGA SI, Stelink, Common system, LCS, VocaSTS, STP, MERVA, MINT, URBIS, CHP, TIP and SSTF

Confidential, NA

Responsibilities:

• Involved in payments processing through Inbound Request for Transfer (IRFT) which includes MT101, Rev MT103 (Customer Transfer), Rev MT202 (Bank Transfer), MT940/MT950 Statement messages, Common group messages (MTn91, MTn92, MTn95, MTn96 and MTn99) and admin
• Responsible for validating the major Compliance functionality in lower environments developed to monitor the cross border payments sending out of Confidential Canada bank through FINANCIAL TRANSACTION REPORT of Canada branch which will be delivered to Financial Transactions and Report Validations Centre of Canada (FINTRAC)and in turn helps in facilitating detection, prevention and deterrance of Money Laundering and Financing of potential hit activities while ensuring the protection of personal information.
• SWIFT Subject Matter Expert for Enterprise Quality Engineer team and International Operations addressing the impact of various types of SWIFT Payment messages changes to Flexcube and Flexpay application.
• Responsible to establish RMA (Relationship Management Access) set up in SWIFT Alliance Access (SAA SWIFT)
• Responsible for creating and maintaining system configurations for the Certification validation for EURO1, TARGET2 and SEPA Clearing networks in lower environments.
• Responsible for integrating Flexcube UBS and Flexpay OBPM with PEGA for Case management process handling and with GSMOS (Sanction Compliance tool of WellsFargo) through Middleware Global Application and Business Services (GABS) in lower environments.
• Being a SWIFT specialist, responsible for administering SWIFT Infrastructure components to be aligned with FLEXCUBE UBS and FLEXPAY OBPM product.
• Responsible for validation of different payments processing within Flexpay OBPM and Flexcube UBS such as LOAN IQ, Wallstreet, HP-GSCF, CEO-WIRES, Payment manager, FX transactions and all International SWIFT payments.
• Role of Senior Lead performing end to end Certification validation with Clearing Networks TARGET2 - RTGS, EURO - RTGS and SEPA low value payments with Banking Operations team and Central Bank of Ireland as part of BREXIT implementation.
• Involved in core validation of changes as part of SWIFT Standards 2018 for Global Payments Innovation (GPI) implementation at Confidential and performing end to end testing within different upstream and downstream applications of Wells Fargo.
• Involved in testing PEGA APPLICATION to perform various validations within PEGA and also verification of behavior of PEGA with different interfaces such as SAA, SWIFT, and Sanction screening application (GSMOS).
• Responsible for preparing Test-Aid documents for all the business functionalities that are impacting banking applications(Flexpay OBPM, Flexcube UBS) such as
• Urgent Payments - LoanIQ, Wallstreet, ITFT, HP-GSCF, CEO Wires, Payment Manager, FXOL, CAS, Incoming SWIFT and IRFT (MT101, MT103 and MT202 - Inbound request for Transfer).
• Responsible to involve in different sprint of testing SMART Investigate tool PEGA application as part of AGILE test methodology also verification of behavior of PEGA with different interfaces such as SAA, SWIFT, and Sanction screening application (GSMOS).

Confidential

E2E test lead coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely in sprint planning meetings to understand the application requirements and assisting the requirement analysis for testability and help in prioritization using risk based testing approach.
• Involved in Test execution to verify the ETL processes thereby ensuring all the records have been transformed to target.
• Hands on experience with Salesforce application by testing different business capabilities such as Sales management, Profiling, 360 View and Hierarchy management
• Hands on experience on Test Management tools such as HP ALM.
• Worked as an E2E test lead coordinator
• Coordinating with client for resolution of queries, reports and the routine follow-up for updates on outstanding defects.
• Conducting fresher’s training.
• Received the Pillar of the month for the effort in IVR Migration project.

Confidential

SWIFT Consultant and Specialist

Responsibilities:

• I have been identified as a SME for the Confidential application and handled several CRs independently right from the requirement phase and delivered it with high quality.
• Raised enough Clarifications and gained a complete knowledge of the GPP application in Knowledge transition discussions with Clients and Oracle team based at onsite and worked on Test Design taking the ownership of several CRs.
• Escalating issues related to test environment or testing delays (potential risk) if any caused by major defects encountered / caused by changes to business requirements which could impact the Production Implementation rollout.
• Assisted the test automation process using QTP.
• Successful performed test automation for smoke, sanity and part of regression suite using Quick Test Professional tool and assisted the test automation process using QTP
• Demonstrated use of QTP to accelerate manual testing through automation of smoke, sanity test cases and that helped in reducing the test effort.
• Received the High Flyer award for the effort in Confidential releases

Confidential

Analyst and Lead

Responsibilities:

• Represented the QA and Business team in various customer meetings and completely involved in the design phase.
• Involved in Project Management and Resource management activities.
• Point of contact for the entire Confidential Payments QA team and managed the project completely from onshore throughout the entire test phase.
• Responsible for identifying the requirements to test the existing Confidential Payments applications - Common system, STELINK, STP, VocaSTS and LCS.
• The Operational Reconciliation project has been initiated as part of the Integration process by Confidential, all the customer accounts of HBOS needs to be migrated to Confidential Accounting Systems. This involves an ETL process (Extract, Transform and Load). The accounts will be extracted from Source (HBOS), transformed and loaded to the Target system ( Confidential system). After the migration of these accounts, Reconciliation was required to improve the confidence and quality of migration. The objective of the Operational Reconciliations (Op Recs) work stream is to assure, ( control and reconcile ) and evidence the quality and integrity of the migration of data from HBOS to Confidential TSB. These objectives have been achieved through the deployment of data reconciliation and sampling solutions into the migration solution. Op Recs is an integral part of each Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) process and it will require thorough testing in order for the migration programme to be confident that the solution will deliver a robust outcome for the data migration events. Op Recs will show that all in scope data on the source platform can be accounted for on the target platform, or from exception reports produced during the ETL processes. Op Recs also includes sampling to provide assurance that the integrity of the data and its key customer and account relationships have been maintained and migrated correctly.
• Worked along with stakeholders (Business team) on 12hrs shift basis during the Weekend migration live events and was involved mainly in coordinating with different customer teams to track the progress of migration.
• Played the role of Incident manager as well to raise incidents if there are any delays in receiving OpRecs reports for reconciliation purpose.
• Received excellent appreciation from Client for the detailed understanding of the activities and order of execution of jobs which is a key part from OpRecs IT team.
• Received excellent feedback from Client on the support provided to them for Operational Reconciliation activity which is a major part during Live Migration weekend events as part of HBOS - Confidential Integration.
• Worked closely with business teams to understand the requirements, functionality and design
• Analyzed system requirements and developed a test plan for the project based on SDLC.
• Responsible for identifying and performing regression testing for the existing applications.
• Provided the UAT support and completed successfully without any issues and within the timelines.
• Completed the OAT Co-habitation test successfully from onshore along with the support from Client.
• Sanctions Integration
• Sainsbury Phase III
• Sainsbury’s Project Unity
• Urbis Upgrade 2008
• Common Processing System
• Deigned scenarios using flow, helped prioritization through smoke, sanity and regression test cases.
• Designed knowledge base documents, which are useful for testing, business and other support groups.
• Support test management activities that includes the effective communication with customer, task management with team and process management with project teams.
• Involved in test data preparation which was a major task and delivered the same on time with great quality.
• Also involved in performance testing in Sanctions - Integration.
• Verified the control reports and extract files effectively
• Monitored the JCL jobs and reported the failure if any.
• Worked in almost all the modules like Payment, Channels, Finance and Data ware house.
• Have done Impact analysis on the defects raised during System Testing.
• Verified the control and overnight reports effectively.