SUMMARY

• Seasoned Business Analyst with strong experience in OTC Derivatives (Margin regulations), Collateral Management, Capital Markets, Payments with Major Banks ( Confidential, Confidential, Confidential )
• Expertise in translating Business requirements and User expectations into detailed specification document such as Business Requirement Document and Functional Requirement Document
• Strong experience in preparing User Acceptance Tests (UAT), System Integration Testing (SIT), Swim lane diagrams, Functional Specification Document (FSD), Process flow diagrams
• Strong hands - on experience in manual testing and automated testing using tools like UFT/ QTP, Selenium and tracking tools like HP ALM / HP QC, JIRA
• Extensive knowledge of the Trade Life Cycle across Front office, Middle office including order entry, validation, execution, booking, confirmation, clearing, settlement, accounting, finance and risk management
• Highly experienced in using MS Visio to create UML diagrams including Sequence diagrams, Activity diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams and class diagrams to extract business process flows and workflows
• Working knowledge of VaR (Historical Simulation, Monte Carlo Simulation), Liquidity Reporting (LCR, NSFR, HQLA), Greeks/Sensitivities, Back Testing, Stress Testing
• Strong experience in creating Functional specifications, Business Context Diagram, Data Flow Diagrams, Test plan documents and creating Functional and Non-Functional test plans
• Excellent knowledge of Financial instruments (derivatives and underlying assets) including Securities Financing, Repo, Treasury, FX, Futures, Forwards, Swaps, Fixed Income, Interest Rate Derivatives
• Practical experience in Software development life cycle (SDLC) employing Agile framework with active participation in Sprint planning, Sprint review, Sprint retrospective and Daily scrum
• Strong RDBMS knowledge, SQL querying experience for data analysis, MS Office experience (Visio, Project, Powerpoint, Access, SharePoint) and Advanced MS Excel skills (lookups, formulas, pivot tables, validation)
• Excellent written and oral communication, negotiation, conflict resolution, facilitation and consensus building skills

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Business Consultant / Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Coordinating with Global Wholesale Operations, Colline Vendor team, Upstream teams (K2, Murex, Scots, Syncova, WSS), Colline support and QA teams to complete the end to end Minimum Viable Plan (MVP) testing
• Leading the team for data standardization from multiple source system and mapping to meet ISDA and Acadiasoft mapping logic for Common Risk Interchange Format (CRIF)
• Working with Quantitative Analytics team for development of sensitivities based Initial Margin (IM) model adopted from ISDA SIMM and standardized Grid (Schedule) based IM model
• Breaking down the Minimum Viable Plan (MVP) Architecture into JIRA stories with detailed Definition-of-Done, documenting the test results, working with the vendor on the failed test cases
• Partnering with business to analyze the impact of Initial Margin project on the downstream reporting process and coordinating with various risk data teams for back testing and benchmarking exercise of IM model
• Conducting Automated testing using UFT (earlier QTP) to test the BESS, FTM and Colline workflow for SWIFT message (MT-527,MT-569, MT-535, MT-558) & Integration testing between Collateral and Triparty systems
• Handling the Incident management process which comprises identifying the root cause, dollar impact analysis, mitigation steps and follow-up steps using ServiceNow application
• Working with the Risk Management team to coordinate the monthly stress testing scenarios of Equity price volatility, Housing Market Collapse (HMC), Interest rate fluctuations
• Building customized ad-hoc reports for Business Operations heads to successively evaluate the impact of Initial Margin implementation by extensively using SQL scripts
• Responsible for evaluating the impact of rolling out Colline application to LatAm region on current reporting processes and assessing multiple methods to identify Regulatory Initial Margin agreements
• Coordinating with Collateral application Vendor Management, Upstream and Downstream teams to ensure application upgrade has no impact on the existing processes

Business Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions with Business owners, Product owners and technology team to define the weights of risk rating factors based on the client types (Hedge funds, Pension funds, Corporates, Special purpose vehicles, Family trusts)
• Worked with Compliance team to identify and escalate clients to Financial Crime Control (FCC) team where we detected a strong possibility of misrepresentation of facts (Eg: Use of Shell companies to conceal correct ownership, indirect dealings with sanctioned countries)
• Worked on analyzing large data sets from multiple sources with extensive designing / development activities in SQL Server and Excel VBA to streamline the existing processes
• Closely worked with Operational Risk team to identify the CRMS tool’s Financial fraud keyword match schema which helped to reduce yearly human effort by 8%
• Involved in feasibility and risk analysis to identify the business critical features, solution impact and high risk areas of the CRMS application through work breakdown structure
• Elicited Business requirements for the CRMS tool by employing multiple techniques (Stakeholder interviews, business process analysis, reverse engineering of existing process) and obtained business signoffs
• Communicated Business transformation logic to technology team and liaised with them to ensure tool functionality as defined in the Business Requirement Document
• Helped the Operations teams to adhere to both internal and external directives from Second Line of Defense including Compliance, Operational Risk, Information Security Risk and Business Continuity functions
• Created and maintained automation test scripts from scratch for the project using Unified Functional Testing and tracked the defects using HP ALM
• Assisted in coordinating the Operational Risk assessment and management program for Global banking business in accordance with the Bank’s Operational Risk framework
• Presented the Business case to the client clearly highlighting the advantages and benefits of the CRMS application, Cost Benefit Analysis and risks involved in executing the project

Business Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Bridged the communication gap between the business and technology stakeholders (Technology, Capital Markets, Senior Management) to ensure alignment by analyzing and solving complex business problems
• Led and supported requirements gathering, elaboration of user stories, detailed analysis including systems analysis and assessment, sprint and release plan, directed, coordinated, and tracked sprint activities throughout the life cycle
• Facilitated the Change Management process for SART application by negotiating with stakeholders and evaluating the changes requests by business stakeholders based on project timelines impact
• Performed quality assurance, system integration and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) facilitating on-time/on-budget and obtained successful approval for ‘go-live’ of enterprise implementations for up to 300 global users
• Curated, stored and preserved all client data in data warehouses during system integration mapping in order to provide insight and draw conclusions for managerial action and strategy
• Translated stakeholder requirements into System Integration Documents (SID) and developed use cases with QA testing team during system integration
• Acted as a primary point of contact for User acceptance testing with active involvement in beta testing and root cause analysis for failed test cases
• Gathered and documented requirements using stakeholder interviews, document analysis, JAR sessions, user stories, use cases and workflow analysis
• Created an impact analysis of MiFID guidelines requiring unbundling of investment research cost and execution services

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked on upstream system data mapping of security prices, security issuer rating, client ratings, bond prices, interest rates into Colline Application
• Documented business requirements for development of ISDA crowdsourcing file based on guidelines provided by InterContinental Exchange (ICE)
• Documented business requirements for development of data files for Initial Margin, daily Backtesting and benchmarking report
• Set up the collateral management system data fields based on credit support annexure components like initial margin, variation margin, base currency, valuation % of various asset classes, asset eligibility
• Trained and mentored Quality Assurance team to review test results and participated in triaging defects to ensure business needs and solution requirements are met
• Created workflow design for data flows and scheduled batch run for end to end IM data processes and assisted with the analysis of regulatory requirements on Margin for non-centrally cleared derivatives trades
• Participated in requirement phase and establishing efficient solution requiring minimal post-delivery support and worked on the transformation logic of identifying the collateral eligibility requirement
• Analyzed and designed data flow/system flow diagrams and created training material for production end users and performed Gap analysis on existing and new ‘Colline’ Collateral Management system

Confidential

Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created UML diagrams including use case diagrams, activity diagrams and class diagrams to extract business process flows and workflows
• Prepared Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts using QFT (now UFT) and logging, tracking and generating the defect reports using HP QC (now HP ALM)
• Performed System Integration, ad-hoc testing Functional, Compatibility, GUI, UAT and Regression Testing for various releases throughout the project
• Organized requirement gathering meetings and facilitated JAD sessions to discuss, review, analyze and document user requirements to ensure accurate documentation
• Researched and created targeted questionnaires and interviews for SME's, Clients and Business users to gather requirements
• Conducted gap analysis process mapping in order to identify missing capabilities, define high level business and stakeholder requirements
• Provided support to the test team with activities like reviewing the test cases and validating the same to be in line with the changes proposed for implementation
• Conducted UAT testing, worked with the development team on the resolution, documented the test cases and worked with the operations team
• Developed and maintained QTP test scripts to support regression testing during Change Request submission
• Tested role-based security which allows/restricts access to system features and data based on roles
• Executed all the test cases and reported defects in the defects module of Quality center