SUMMARY:

• A qualified management professional in finance discipline and a Post graduate in Business Management with around 10 years of rich professional experience with excellent record of accomplishment. Work experience includes several Core Banking consulting and implementation assignments in regions like Africa - Ghana, United States, APAC regions.
• Core Banking Consulting and implementation experience for various countries across the globe;
• Worked on Oracle Flexcube Retail, Corporate, Oracle Banking Platform & Flexcube UBS Wholesale Banking, Finacle.
• Specializing in banking domain with experience in both assets and liabilities side of Banking;
• Consulting and implementation experience in Retail and corporate Banking Domain, Payments & Wholesale Banking Domain;
• Utilize user specification to analyse, conceptualize and design graphical user interface (“GUI’s”) those are appropriate to user requirement;
• In-depth knowledge in crucial project phases such as Project Initiation, Requirement Gathering, Gap Analysis and Testing;
• Experience in creating User Stories, Use cases (UML), Screen Mock Ups and Data Samples
• Expertise in testing (IUT, SIT, UAT involving Data-Migration testing), data migration specifications review, Change management and proficient in SQL;
• Extensive experience in writing Master Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Scripts, Test Summary report, Interface testing and Defect report;
• Extensive knowledge in all stages of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) beginning from definition to implementation and support;
• Analyse, Review, and Alter program to increase operational efficiency or adapt to new requirement;

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Project planning and Execution
• Problem solving
• Strategic Planning/Leadership
• Negotiation and Communication
• Process Design/Redesign
• Leadership Development and Training
• Change Management
• Decision Making
• Vendor Management
• Test Management and test script writing

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Application Software\ Core Banking Applications: MS Office 2000/XP, Outlook, TIBCO, Oracle Flexcube Retail and Corporate, Business studio, Blueprint, SOAP UI, Banking, Finacle Banking, HP ALM, JIRA, XML's

Databases\ Office Tools: MS Access, Oracle SQL, MS Visio, MS Office

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Consultant - SME

Responsibilities:

• Successfully Managed team sizing 5-7 members and successfully delivered the project well in advance by 2 weeks. Awarded the Best project of the Confidential in international level
• Prepared the Master Test Document, End of Test Report and Release management document for version Flexcube upgrade from 6.3 to 12.1 to ensure high quality deliverables and accurate project timelines
• Worked closely with the Bank Business Analyst and project manager to manage the implementation activities
• Analysing the requirement and documenting the test scripts for System Testing (ST) and System Integration Testing (SIT) for migrating flexcube from Version 6.3 to 12.1 for modules like Money Market accounts, FX, GL and CIF modules
• Interface directly or indirectly impacting the flexcube were tested thoroughly
• SWIFT Message sent from flexcube to the SWIFT interface were tested through MQ and testing was done through SOAP UI tool for injecting test messages
• End user Requirements BI and BIP Reports were tested as part of the SIT and UAT testing
• Handled the release management to gold copy and various test environments
• Prepared test scenarios and test conditions for various modules of flexcube (FCUBS) functionalities
• Tested end-to-end Money Market module functionality
• Conducted Daily Defect and status call with stakeholder - Project manager ( Confidential internal), Oracle (Vendor) and internal development team
• Coordinated/conducted medium to large group meeting with various levels of business and management, project stake holders
• Successfully handled and supported the internal Project Audit Team from UK
• Complete end to end project status was presented to management on weekly based
• Defects and status were managed through HP ALM
• Post Go-Live (09-Oct-2016) support is in progress.
• Document the deliverables & pending deliverables provided for a smooth transition into production

Environment: Flexcube 6.3 and 12.1

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Senior Consultant (SME)

Responsibilities:

• Analysing the requirement and documenting the UAT test scripts for the Term/Time deposit module and DDA accounts
• Prepared test scenarios and test conditions for various Term Deposits end to end
• Tested end-to-end term deposit products like renewable and non-renewable deposits with interest pay-out monthly and at maturity
• New top-up and grace period features being tested for renewable Term/Time deposits
• End to end lifecycle of term deposit GL entries being analysed and tested
• Execution of test scripts for the term deposit module in Flexcube
• Sign off/GO-NO-GO for the term deposit from UAT perspective was recommended
• Reviewed the interface requirement strategies to determine Gap’s in functional or data flow between different interface partners
• Create master test plan, test ambiguity and test summary report to ensure high quality deliverables and accurate project timelines.
• Handling/Raising defect in ALM, and retesting the defects post fix
• Term/Time Deposit related FATCA, OBIEE reports, Canned reports, DCS notices/ interfaces
• Reconciling OV3 GL balances based on term deposit GL entries
• Prepared CR Documents for any changes in Production Instance

Environment: Flexcube 12.0

Confidential, FL

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Requirement gathering, BRD preparation for various functionalities like DDA, Fund transfer, Customer maintenance, Loan IQ, Loan origination and non-functional requirements for Flexcube
• Use case analysis and documentation for the Flexcube (FCUBS) Modules
• Documenting of requirements using Blue Print tool
• Training the teams on Blue print tool
• Parameterization- Global Definitions, Product Definitions, Transactions & Procedures for test environment
• Participate in configuration setups on different instance, preparing and mapping documents
• Prepared Business and Functional requirement documents for the project
• Mapping client business requirements with Oracle standard functionality, finding the gaps, and delivering solutions in terms of customization
• Helping and supporting client in testing on UAT and working on production systems and help them understand the functionality and layout of the reports
• Working on Lean initiatives and process improvements

Environment: Flexcube 11.0

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Documentation of Product papers for products offered by bank for modules such as CASA, loans, FT and IC modules
• Validation and verification of existing Flexcube product parameters
• Analysis and recommendation on product rationalization
• Gap identification in product set up
• Prepared documents for Test scripts

Environment: Flexcube 11.0

Confidential

Team Lead (Subject Matter Expert)

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of test scope, scenarios and guiding the testing team in understanding functionality
• Work and communicate effectively with Global Markets Operations team to understand requirements and project documentation such as BRDs, FSDs and DSD’s.
• Review the interface requirement strategies to determine Gap’s in functional or data flow between different interface partners
• Create master test plan, test ambiguity and test summary report to ensure high quality deliverables and accurate project timelines.
• Prepared test scenarios and test conditions for various different functionalities like money market, foreign exchange, payments and collections.
• Handling tickets, resolving issues on day to day basis on priority
• Testing on report outputs and sending to the technical team
• Prepared CR Documents for any changes in Production Instance
• Interacting with Project manager on daily and weekly basis and submitting status report
• Handling situations for run time problems and suggesting on work around
• Attended the status calls, weekly review and Month end progress meetings
• Provide support and maintenance to the models running in production

Confidential

Designation: Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Gathering of requirements from client, analysis of the requirement and Documenting the same
• Functional specifications and design and development for Narval Application for the better improvement of the internal reporting system
• Clarify functional queries during development and testing phase.
• Create test scenarios and test conditions for critical release at onsite and execute it in development environment and provide sign off before moving the code to the UAT
• Supported production environments and users on a daily basis by responding to emergency requests
• Analysing user needs, conferring with users to improve procedures and identifying and solving problems
• Monitoring the progress of issues and following up on speedy resolution
• Unit testing execution for each business process
• Testing modules’ setup for inconsistencies and missing steps during Users Acceptance Test
• Analysis of the current system by interacting with business and cross functional team

Environment: Narval Application

Confidential

Associate Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analysing and documentation of functional specification for the payment life cycle and accounting entries for financial messages pertaining to RTGS and NEFT
• Tested and documented RTGS/NEFT payment transaction done through screen and interface pertaining to it
• Tested and maintained using MQ queues for incoming and outgoing messages
• Analysing of third party systems connecting to FCR i.e., Interface for the FCR
• Enhancement testing of ATM/POS and Mobile Banking Interfaces transaction like Extract, Uploads and ATM/POS transaction in the simulator
• Testing of Application Programming Interface (API’s) for FCR Clarify functional queries during development and testing phase
• Create test scenarios, test conditions for critical release, execute it in development environment and provide sign off before moving the code to the UAT
• Documented functional specifications for Fund transfer functionality from CASA to CASA, CASA to GL, GL to CASA and GL to GL for transactions done through different Interfaces channels like OPTF, EDOCS and IBS Channels of Flexcube 3.1
• Extensively Worked on CIF, DDA/CASA and TD accounts
• Translate the business requirement document into functional specifications
• Perform regression testing after deploying the GAP changes or new requirements
• Coordinate with bank users and clarify both functional and product clarifications
• Represent point of contact from product team during UAT phase
• Involve in UAT defect discussion with client, explain functional impacts, and provide workaround
• Involve in Steering committee meeting for project status update
• Tested the above Fund transfer functionality using the various interface XML's

Environment: Oracle Flexcube 3.0.9, 3.1 and 4.0

Confidential

Associate Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of test scenarios, Test cases for the Sweep-in, CASA Fund transfer functionalities
• Presented the test scenarios to the business analyst and leader ship team for the signoff
• Perform test execution and identify system show stoppers and other issues before UAT initiation
• Provide product training to the bank users before UAT initiation
• Translate singed off Functional Specification Documents into Test scenarios and Test cases for the functionalities CIF and CASA modules of retail banking
• Presented the test scenarios to the business analyst and leader ship team for the signoff
• Perform test execution and identify system show stoppers and other issues before UAT initiation
• Provide product training to the bank users before UAT initiation
• Assist bank users during UAT test scenario and condition preparation
• Support bank users during UAT execution phase and identify functional showstoppers.
• Coordinate with product team, business analyst and business users for arriving mutually acceptable solution.

Environment: Oracle Flexcube 3.0