EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• With 11 years of experience in the Information Technology Industry in Business Analysis, Testing and application management of Web Based, Client/Server and Real time application.
• Domain experience include investment banking, insurance, healthcare and education
• Solid understanding of Investment banking domain which includes Fixed Income OTC derivatives Clearing, Equities, Fixed Income, compliance and Audit. Good exposure to front and middle office.

Performed Manual and Automated Testing on both Client-Server and Web-based applications.

• Extensively worked in System Testing, User Acceptance testing UAT , Black Box Testing, White Box Testing, Integration Testing, Data migration Testing, L10N, I18N, Performance testing, Application Security Testing, Cross Browser Compatibility testing.
• Performed extensive Back-end verification using SQL in databases like Sybase, SQL Server Oracle and shell scripts using UNIX.

SKILLS

TOOLS TECHNOLOGY

Platforms

Linux, Windows NT, 2000, XP with sp2, Windows 7

Quality Assurance

Knowledge of Project and Product SDLC, Bug life cycle. Manual and Automated Testing Techs Tools, Project management, Estimation, Test cases Test plans generation, Test Scenario Identification, Test Strategy

Testing Tools

ALM 11, Load Runner 7.2, Performance Center, jTest, SOAP test

Business Analysis methods and tools

Waterfall, Agile, Requirement Documentation, JAD, Use Case development, Wireframes, Screen mapping, Business Rules, BPM

Bug tracking tool

ALM QC , JIRA

Version Control tool

Microsoft VSS6, Microsoft Sharepoint, Perforce

Scripts/ Languages

Unix Shell Scripts, C, SQL, VBS, HTML, XML, XSD

Front-end - IDE

VB 6.0, Eclipse

Database

Sybase, MS SQL 2000/2005, Oracle 8i, MS Access 97/2000, Mongo DB

UML tool / wireframe

MS Visio, Prototyper

Tools

Microsoft Office 2003, Putty, SnagIt7, SQL Advantage, Toad, Hummingbird Connectivity, Verity5.0, Epiphany, Editplus, Beyond Compare, IBM Optim

Proj. Management

Microsoft Project 2003

Financial Tools

Sungard GMI, Kiodex, Bloomberg, Intex Desktop, DBAnalytics, Reference data

WORK EXPERIENCE

Confidenial

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Single point of contact between GMI and various downstream Risk, Regulatory and reconciliation application stakeholders.
• Good Understanding of GMI data structure and able to access GMI DB2 database. Able to write complex SQL queries to extract data to produce various result set for analysis.
• Managing 100 Risk and regulatory feeds. Responsible for establish, maintain and enhance any Risk Credit and Liquidity Risk and Regulatory Volcker, Basel-III, CFTC, etc.. feeds from Global Futures platform GMI to all the downstream system.
• Working very closely with business and stakeholder to establish functional requirement, authoring functional specification document liaising with business stakeholders, tracking development efforts, Quality Assurance and User Acceptance Testing.
• Developed and maintained the Smoke/Acceptance and regression test bed for Milestones.
• Facilitate User Acceptance Testing for the Business Users and Stakeholders.
• Manage various defects /CRs in Jira and holds triage meetings for the full prioritization and align it with the releases.

Environment: JIRA, UNIX, Toad for DB2, putty, shell, vbs, SQL, Sungard GMI, Sungard Kiodex, MS Office, XML, VBA, WinSCP, HP Quality Center, MS Visio, Clearing House Market data, FO Trade feeds

Confidenial

BA-PM UAT Manager

• Worked as Lead QA/BA for dbClear an OTC Derivatives Clearing platform. Performing and supporting Fixed Income OTC derivatives products including Interest Rate Swaps IRS , Credit default Swaps CDS also on major enhancement of platform including CCP and Client onboarding, upstream connectivity and downstream feed and reporting flow and Dodd-Frank Implementation. dbClear platform is Golden source of clearing house data for OTC derivatives clearing.
• Managed dbREX application for Collateral platform. dbREX is critical application in fairly new and evolving OTC Derivatives clearing business CRD IV .
• Managed MNS application which is Firm wide initiative CRD-III which will report Market Risk Standard Approach MRSA floor calculation of risk weighted assets to the Basel2 Capital Requirement Directive III IV regulatory committee.

Confidenial

Responsibilities:

• Established Requirement Traceability Matrix where requirements defined in JIRA as a RTB Defects or CRs or CTB New Development requirement.
• Worked closely with the business users and stakeholder to establish functional requirement, tracking development efforts, Quality Assurance and User Acceptance Testing.
• Responsible for stability, accuracy and expansion of dbClear Platform and helping active business users who are responsible to support OTC trades IRS,CDS,FRA, Basis Swaps, etc. clearing activity for their clients either using Principal or Agency model for Various CCP.
• Working very closely with upstream systems Trading Systems , downstream systems Collateral, Cash and Client Reporting and external entities like Custodians BONY, Harris Bank and Clearing houses ICE, LCH and CME iron out any data/report issues and perform Seamless integration testing.
• Using Quality Center 10 for the defect reporting and tracking. Produce various defect metrics and holds triage meetings for the full resolution
• Create and maintain Test plan and Test Cases and aligned it with Master project plan and Book of Work.
• Developed and maintained the Smoke/Acceptance and regression test bed for Milestones.
• Facilitate User Acceptance Testing for the Business Users and Stakeholders.
• Web services message verification using UNIX shell script and XML verification using VBA scripts by creating test harness tools.
• Leading total of 3 Onshore and Offshore resources in USA and Canada.

Confidenial

Responsibilities:

• Interact with Program Managers, Development Leads, Technical Architects, and IT vendor teams
• Work with the CRD Capital Requirements directives project process covering all business aspects from requirements gathering through implementation.
• Conduct requirements gathering, business analysis, functional design, system and integration testing.
• Ensure that specific project deliverables are produced on time in accordance with the project plan and make sure that all relevant parties are informed of progress.
• Maintain a quality control process and ensure that project deliverables meet the required quality standards.
• Worked as test architect for the applications and performed data integration testing with various up and down stream systems which includes test case creation and stored in HP Quality Center
• Performed Trading data analysis and data verification using various testing strategies.
• Report project progress at regular intervals to management and produce key documentation for distribution.
• Represent UAT coordinator for the Multi-name Services application for CRD-III initiative as a whole.
• Acts as an escalation point for solution issues in the Production environment and during projects.
• Tracking defects in JIRA , produce various defect metrics and holds triage meetings for the full resolution
• Managing 3 resources offshore team in Halifax, Canada.

Environment: JIRA, UNIX, DBArtisan, putty, shell, vbs, Oracle 11, SQL, Bloomberg Ref data API, Intex desktop for MBS Deal structure , Java, MS Office, XML, DBAnalytics, Access VBA, Informatica,, WinSCP, HP Quality Center, Weblogic