SUMMARY:

• Dynamic and results - driven professional with a record of accomplishment of delivering critical projects under Confidential and Corporate Technology & Confidential programs.
• 9+ years of experience in Business Analysis, Project Management, and conducting/participating User Acceptance Testing.
• Successful in partnering with key project stakeholders to understand business strategies and directions, and in leading on time, within budget and quality delivery of projects, solutions, and services for large programs.
• Collaborative and energetic leader who infuses modern tools and emerging technologies that exceed performance goals in high-volume, rapidly evolving environments.
• Working experience within an agile environment, using tools like Jira, Confluence and SharePoint.
• Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to lead meetings, projects, and facilitate discussions accordingly.
• Worked in diversified roles but not limited to Project Manager, Business Analyst, QA Lead, UAT Coordinator and Agile Scrum master.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Agile Business Analyst/ Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Currently working on multiple initiatives across Confidential and Finance Data consumers to understand and document their business needs in order to identify the possible solution and timeframe for its remediation.
• Liaison with business and Source systems for data validation and gap analysis across Finance asset classes.
• Participating in Agile ceremonies with the technology team and product owners.
• Documenting user stories in JIRA and translating complex user stories into technical specification as needed.
• Coordinating walkthrough and working group sessions of the specifications with the project work group.
• Proactively providing functional support throughout the project lifecycle involving data sourcing for securities finance and other asset classes.
• Support end-to-end User Acceptance Testing process and evaluating progress.
• Identifying issues, risks associated with data sourcing across multiple sources and asset classes and providing the timely and efficient resolutions.
• Kicking-off projects with multiple shareholder teams. Driving closure of requirements by acquiring necessary signoff from all the stakeholders.
• Leading and coordinating the end-to-end delivery of big scale projects across multiple functional teams.
• Facilitating regular calls to ensure proper project closure and provided key support during post-production checkouts.
• Deliver Book of work and prioritized backlogs related to data quality issues, Regulatory requirements, Migrations and Mergers initiatives and platform integrations within the firm.

Confidential, Columbus OH

Lead Analyst/ Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for test delivery management and successful completion for various projects under Corporate Technology & Confidential .
• Supervise the software testing team in implementing quality control to ensure compliance with QA standards, federal regulations and customer specifications.
• Responsible for the End-to-End Test Strategy of the AML IT projects under Financial Crimes with focus on Oracle Mantas as Behavior Detection Platform and Actimize eRCM as the Case Management Tool.
• Participating in project quality reviews while assessing Confidential on projects based on test execution results and validation and making appropriate recommendations.
• Conduct weekly project meetings to coordinate with all users, technical staff to track the progress.
• Participating in Go/No Go project decisions.
• Lead a team of 10+ resources and handled their task allocation.
• Performing Defect Leakage Analysis post every release and report it to the Management.

Confidential, Columbus OH

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for QA Test Management, Resource Management, Project Scoping and Forecasting.
• Co-ordination with various LOB's for controlled delivery management to ensure efficient and highest quality testing. Established strategic quality gates for improved and efficient testing.
• Handling QA Delivery Management of multiple teams spread across different time zones.
• Demonstrated adherence to controls and standards and in charge for continuous improvement and quality of the projects.

Confidential

Sr. Software Engineer - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Determine testing requirements, develop and review scripts and test scenarios, conduct user acceptance testing and generate reports.
• For Graphs/Charts/Reports - SAP XI BI tool testing and for End to end, data testing used Informatica and Tera data to perform tests.
• Defect identification & analysis and establish guidelines for severity and priority for defects
• Attend Defect Reporting and Daily Triage meetings and verify fixes.
• Create and present decks to senior management that clearly articulate the progress updates.
• Organize weekly meetings with offshore managers, Onsite Coordinator to discuss the Project goals and report the health of the overall project status.

Confidential

Lead Quality Analyst for Offshore Team

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for writing and executing test cases and test scripts, linking them to requirements, and logging and tracking defects in Silk central tool.
• Designed test plans and defined cases for functional, integration system testing.
• Trained new resources and QA Testers on Silk Central tool.
• Documenting the project report including Test planning, execution, defect reporting and results.
• Responsible for conducted Regression testing for defect fixes.
• Conducting daily defect triage meetings and verified fixes.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools: Jira, Confluence, HP ALM, Tableau, SAP Business Objects BI, Quality Centre, QTP, Silk Central

Backend: Oracle, Teradata, MYSQL, DB2

MS Office: Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook