SUMMARY

• An IT & Banking professional offering an experience of 14 plus years across Business Analysis, Business Consulting, Testing, Agile and Waterfall SDLC Methodology in Trade Finance domain currently spearheading as Business Consultant
• Experience on working with industry leading Trade Finance Solutions like Bank Trade, Fusion Banking Trade Innovation, and Flexcube Corporate.
• Extensive experience in documenting Business Requirements Document, Functional Requirements, User Stories, Acceptance criteria, Use cases, UML diagrams, Business Process flows for client requirements.
• Extensive experience in HP ALM tool.
• Well versed with all instruments in Trade Finance like Letters of Credit, Collections, Guarantees, Standby LC’s, Reimbursements, Payments, Pre - Shipment & Post-Shipment Financing.
• Experience in SWIFT Message categories MT7xx,MT4xx,MT202,MT103
• Extensive experience in middle office and back office operations for end to end processing of Trade Finance instruments like Issuance,Booking,Amendment,Payment,Acceptance,Discounting,Claims,Book Off, Limit & Facility Monitoring, Documents Handling,Reporting,Accounting.
• Experience in submitting Request for Information and Request for proposal for Trade Finance solutions and Consulting services
• Possess keen business acumen in understanding business requirements, carrying out analysis on current and future state, finding gaps in processes and devising a road map for enhancing applications. Experience in requirements gathering and developing business requirements documentation and functional specifications and test plans/cases for critical mission accomplishing projects.
• Focused and hardworking professional equipped with thorough domain knowledge with an analytic bent of mind and confident to take challenging assignments.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Acting as SME for Trade Finance and Business Consultant to facilitate the implementation of Fusion Banking Trade Innovation Trade Finance application for the client
• Prepared RFI,RFP document and evaluation questionnaire to vendors
• Perform Vendor evaluation and assessment from RFP responses
• Coordinated and facilitated extensive user interviews and workshops to gather and analyze requirements
• Developed functional requirement specifications, creating detailed use cases and process flow diagrams to support functional specifications
• Documentation of Business requirements and walkthrough with project stakeholders for obtaining sign offs.
• Writing User stories and Acceptance criteria for the Interface requirements
• Conduct walkthrough of business requirements with downstream interface partners
• Act as a liaison between business and technical stakeholders to validate requirements
• Capture business requirements in HP ALM to ensure traceability
• Prepare process maps for AS-IS & TO-BE models of the business processes using Visio.
• Data Mapping with FBTI products data take- on xsd with legacy system data
• FBTI data mapping with downstream interfaces requirements
• Identify and documented the delta log requirements which are not standard features in FBTI
• Document changes to workflows and business internal procedures and recommend changes for process improvements
• Prepare management reports and deck for Project Control Commitee,Project Steering Committee & weekly status meetings and responsible to provide up to date status to senior management and Business on the progress in each stage
• Work with PM to develop project activities and work plans
• Assist Testing team to document Test plans, test scenarios, test cases, monitor test phases, defect analysis and perform User Acceptance testing

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Defining test strategy / test scenarios based on functional specifications analysis.
• Assist in performing User Acceptance Testing (UAT) tests as needed including validation of reports, security, and the correct implementation of process flows.
• E2E integration testing with multiple interfacing system.
• Plan and coordinate the implementation process.
• Guidance and Coordination with Onsite SMEs for Training Material Preparation.
• Training Coordination for UAT & Non- UAT users.
• Offshore anchor responsible for Project Management activities which includes Team Management, Project code creation & setup, Resource mapping, Billing, Invoicing, Coordination with other departments for Project administration
• Defect analysis and bug fixing during SIT, UAT and regression test cycles

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of AS-IS model for the current architecture of the applications
• Liaise with onsite team to understand the applications and requirements mapping
• Use cases preparation for the functional requirements
• Test Scenarios & Test cases preparation for the functional requirements
• Work closely with Trade Finance SME’s to submit the responses for RFP
• Submit Point of View and thought papers on the emerging trends in Trade Finance
• Create Business reusable artifacts for Trade Finance products using in-house BPM tool
• Conduct Domain trainings to Consulting group members periodically and project specific domain trainings for other units
• Business Analyst, Trade Finance Domain and Agile certified