SUMMARY

• Experienced Project Manager and Business Analyst with 10+ years of experience in Financial Services industry focused on Regulatory and Non - regulatory applications
• Responsible for advising Client’s Senior Management, Project Sponsors, Steering Committees, Business Users, Audit and Technology teams on regulatory issues
• Experienced in leading one to six member offshore teams and also managing resource dollars.
• Extensive experience in Software Quality Assurance on Middleware, Client/Server, Web-based, Legacy (Mainframe) Applications.
• Extensive experience in Application Development on Legacy (Mainframe) platform
• Experience in various technologies like TABLEAU, HP ALM, HP LOADRUNNER, RATIONAL PERFORMANCE TESTER, SQL, ORACLE, DB2, IMS, COBOL, CICS, REXX, PL/I, MVS JCL
• Skilled in the successfully leveraging comprehensive knowledge of financial risks, infrastructure, in-house software and vendor applications to translate complex financial and banking risk and reporting business requirements into sound systems solutions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• AIX, Microsoft, Z/OS (IBM OS/390)
• Tableau, Qlikview, Python, Cucumber, XML, Korn Shell, HP ALM, HP Loadrunner, COBOL
• Microfocus Cobol, REXX, CICS, PL/I, Rational Performance Tester, Infromtica (ETL), TOAD
• ClearQuest, QualityCenter, Quality Manager, Visio, FILEAID, FILEAID/DB2, ChangeMan, XPEDITOR
• Oracle, SQL, DB2, IMS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Project Manager / Senior Consultant / Associate Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked as Business Analyst/Test Lead to support the FDIC Part 370 Implementation Project. This effort is underway to be compliant with the regulation in case of Bank failure.
• The effort involves designing a solution that can calculate FDIC insurance based on end of day account balances of Deposit Owners and report on those balances within a period of twenty four hours.
• In addition, have the ability to test for this event on a specified frequency.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Produced Data Analytics Reports, Charts, Dashboards using Tableau and SQL queries to provide information on the Renewals Business to Upper Management/Steering Committee responsible for improving Renewals Business.
• Provided drill down capability with ‘if then’ scenarios to see different views and trends in data in order to identify issues/risks with Renewals Business.
• Provided expert analysis in identifying Financial Controls based on Industry Standards and Best Practices by Studying and Analyzing the Business Process Flow of Client’s existing (ChangePoint) Financial application to General Ledger Interface. Based on findings provided recommendations for Financial Controls for the new Implementation of Financial Force - PSA interface to General Ledger.

Confidential

Associate Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provided Functional and Technical support to the Development Team of Loan Level Accounting Workstream. This effort was to integrate the Mortgage applications with Mortgage Cadence who will provide servicing of Mortgage Loans that will now be originated by Confidential instead of PHH.
• This involved IBM Mainframe Development of Online and Batch programs that need to integrated with Mortgage Cadence via Replication of DB2 data and processed by Confidential Applications.
• Worked as Project Manager/Business Analyst on a Regulatory Project involving Portfolio Reconciliation under CFTC and EMIR regulation for Derivatives. This included analysis of determination of eligibility for Portfolio Reconciliation for GS entities, and reporting as per regulation of unmatched breaks.
• In addition, enhancing current functionality to include tracking of unmatched trade breaks using UI based workflows, Delivery of data, capturing Client Preferences regarding participation in Portfolio Reconciliation, etc.
• Involved in addressing Regulatory obligations like Data Retention of Portfolio Reconciliation data.
• Also worked on Infrastructure applications of file delivery to ensure that Portfolio information is sent to Counter Party to facilitate Reconciliation as per Regulation.

Confidential

Senior Middleware Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Performance Testing of Point of Sale transactions from Multiple Stores. In addition, support of infrastructure applications like IBM MQ FTE, IBM Websphere DataPower.
• Responsible for Support of QA effort on the Subsidiary Merger Project that entailed the activities involved in the merger of ManuLife and its subsidiaries including Confidential both on Mainframe and PC platforms.
• Helped testers write Test Plans, Test Cases, and Defects using HP QualityCenter.
• Trained testers on the use of Hp QualityCenter.
• Facilitated the process for getting User Signoff.

Confidential

Senior Quality Assurance Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Led the Testing Effort as a Test Coordinator for Same Day Money Market Settlement Project, involving several groups to do end-to-end testing for various applications.
• Manually Tested the Fixed Income Securities Enhancements involving calculation and printing of Accrued Interest on the monthly statement for account holder.
• Manually Tested the Directed Trustee changes that entailed providing an integrated Direct Trustee Solution for Third Party Administrators.
• Responsible for Manual Testing, writing Test Strategy, Test Plans, Test Cases, and Defect Tracking using HP QualityCenter and Rational ClearQuest.

Senior Quality Assurance Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Manually Tested changes to the Foreign Financials and Private Banking Application, where certain transactions were flagged by matching against a list provided by US Treasury Dept.
• Manually Tested changes to the Short Term Redemption Application where certain redemptions that would be normally charged a fee on early withdrawal, the fee would be waived.
• Responsible for Manual Testing, writing Test Strategy, Test Plans, Test Cases, and Defect Tracking using HP QualityCenter and Rational ClearQuest.