PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Business Analyst/QA/Project Manager with experience in Investment banking in the areas of Equities order management systems, Portfolio Management/Wealth management, Trade reporting and Fix protocol testing.
• As a Project manager, involved in Operations Management, Risk and issue management, stake holder management,Project Strategy and Plan preparation, Preliminary estimation preparation, product and project metrics monitoring and reporting.
• Involved in preparing Business Requirements Documents, flow diagrams, use cases and test scenarios using MS Visio and other tools, for Order management and routing system implementation, Portfolio wealth management systems
• Performed SIT and UAT to test the best execution algorithm (Rules:5310, 5320, 5330 etc) and routing capabilities of Equities execution systems (Retail and Institutional).
• Consult with business users and collaborate with them, gather requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, business process descriptions, use cases, business analysis, and workflow analysis
• Software Testing (QA) Improvement with responsibilites including defining new processes, streamlining and impoving existing Testing processess, performing causal analysis of problems identified, Test process assment, Roadmap definition, metrics management and monitoring and in providing supports in all aspects of tesing.
• BFSI Testing experience
• Capital Markets & Banking
• System Testing and User Acceptance Testing for Order Management and Routing (OMS) systems like BRASS, IOM etc for both Retail & Institutional customers
• Post Trade, FIX & SWIFT Protocols
• Domain Expertise in Equities, DMA, Compliance and FIX protocol Testing.
• Test management and co - ordination for Data center migration projects
• Testing of core-banking applications for retail and commercial banking business units
• Experience in testing Data center consolidation re-platforming and re-engineering projects
• Test Automation: Experience in designing and implementing Test Automation Frame work using QTP, WinRunner, Rational Robot for OMS in Capital Market
• Preparation of test plans, test approaches, test cases, traceability matrix, test reports, and prioritization of tests by risk assessment and schedules
• Experience in implementing various test types System, Functional, GUI, Database Testing
• Experience in Trade Migration Testing and Global testing for Calypso FX asset class
• Successfully demonstrated offshore-onsite model for OMS implementation at Knight Capital Group,On-site experience at USA with major wall street client Knight -Trading
• TOGAF, PMP, CISA, CSQA, CSTE, ISTQB, NCFM certified test professional with around 10 years of experience in Software Testing - Manual & Automation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: Unix, Windows 2003Platform Sharepoint (2007,2010)

Database: SQL, Oracle, Sybase

Functional Areas: Investment Banking, Core banking, Datacenter Migration, Wealth Management, Regulatory compliance, Fix protocol TestingTest Management and MethodologiesTest Assessment, Proposal and Estimation, Stakeholder management, Project Performance measurement and reporting, Defect management, Test automation and solutioning,Test Strategy and planning

Management and Leadership Skills: Engagement management, Delivery and Operations management, Risk and Issue analysis, Communication management

Training & Development: Project Management methods and Techniques, Project Estimation, Tools for Project Management, Software testing basic and advanced

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Requirement Analyst, Project coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Manage delivery and maintenance of Testing Portal in sharepoint platform
• Requirements gathering and design creation through Visio and powerpoint.
• Project coordination for agile based site development.
• Contents creation and development through Wiki library, list, sites, lists webpart

Environment: Sharepoint 2007, Sharepoint 2010, Microsoft Visio 2010.

Confidential

Testing Process Enabler-Testing Process mprovement

Responsibilities include:

• Delivery of all tools, processes, reports required for testing across all levels and testing types.
• Demonstrate Reduce and Reuse of existing processes, through Sharepoint portal design and maintenance.
• Root Causal Analysis of testing issues and problems related to testing processes
• Metrics management and monitoring related to Test Preparation and Test Execution phases.
• Deployment of defect managmeent best practices.
• Defining models for Regression testing and defining proceses to measure effectiveness and efficiency.

Environment: Windows, Policy Administration System, Quality Center, Quick Test Pro, MS-office, MS-Visio

Confidential

Delivery cum Engagement Manager

Responsibilities

• Delivery of all tools, processes, reports as stated in the Test Plans
• Involve and manage Service Delivery related activities such as Contractual Management(MSA, SOW), invoicing and issue resolution, Management reviews, Stakeholder management, Risk and issue management, pipeline management for the program.
• Assist team in performing E2E, Automation, STPV testing across payments applications, to test seamless connectivity between front office(web and Client server based), Middle office (Payment processing systems) and settlement engines.
• Support in delivery of defect management dashboards, extracted from QualityCenter tool and provide MI reporting through MS excel on defect reporting.

Environment: Windows, Payments Processing systems, Quality Center, Quick Test Pro, WINSCP,MS-office, MS-Visio

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities

• Elicit requirements using interviews, data analysis, business process descriptions for scenario description and analysis.
• business analysis, and workflow analysisConduct interview with Users for functional understanding on rebalancing techniques.
• Gather and prepare details for creation of Business Requirements Document, for rebalancing (Tacticaland Strategic), 360 MI reporting.
• Decompose high level business requirements into an appropriate level of business rules and detaileduser, functional, and non functional requirements using alternative views such as flows, diagramsModels creation.

Environment: Windows, Phoenix Confidential

Confidential

Business Analyst, Delivery Manager

Responsibilities include:

• Create trading flows for different functionalities throgh meetings with business, compliance and trading desks personnels.
• Creation of Use cases, Test cases to test best execution algorithms (based on 53XX rules)
• Create “What if scenarios” and models to test the algorithms for commissions and trade reporting.
• Participate in SIT test strategy creation and manage QA Test environment, that includes 20 windows client, 12 Unix servers, Win runner, QC and QTP tools.
• Create and assist automation team in creating automation framework to be implemented for SIT testing.
• Assist team in performing E2E, Automation, compliance testing to test SEC and client specific functionalities on day-to-day basis.
• Assist and deliver defect management dashboards, extracted from QualityCenter tool and provide MI reporting through MS excel.

Environment: C, Swing, Java 1.4, Sybase 12.0.0.3, Exceed, WinRunner 7.5/7.6, QTP, Test Director, TradeTest, Windows XP, Unix, Linux

Confidential

Module Lead

Responsibilities include:

• Develop critical Functional Test Scenarios and Test cases specific to product type, client
• Review and monitor new requirements / change in requirements of the Project.
• Track and report progress of testing activities through test results, test case coverage, defects discovered and their status, performance baselines etc.

Environment: Win XP, Oracle 11 i, TOAD, SQL, Test Director

Confidential

Testing Analyst

Responsibilities

• Provided inputs for the preparation of Master Test plan for application and acceptance testing.
• Involved in training the USERS for UAT testing and data gathering exercises. Also involved in knowledge sharing activities across the business managers, for the phases involved.
• Planning of test activities of applications with Business As Usual kits.

Environment: Win XP, Oracle, SQL, SYBASE