SUMMARY:

• An accomplished IT professional with 9 years of overall experience including 5 years as Business Analyst in Private Banking sector. Experience wearing many hats and managing teams in various roles from Test Lead to Project Lead and Project Manager.
• Exceptional record of delivering cost effective, high performance technology solutions to meet challenging business demands. Extensive qualifications in all facets of information systems methodology from conceptual design through documentation, implementation, user training, quality review, and enhancement.
• In - depth working knowledge of full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), preparing Requirement Specification documents, Use Case Diagrams, High Level and Detailed Process Flows, preparing training materials, giving training to stakeholders about new changes, experience in JAD Sessions and Live Meetings.
• Skilled in performing Gap analysis and Impact Analysis by identifying existing technologies, documenting the enhancements to meet the end-state requirements.
• Hands on experience in creating user stories and guiding technical team to break down large and complex user stories into simplified versions.
• Deep understanding of all phases of testing life cycle and experience in handling Data Quality team, ETL testing team, automation testing team and load/performance testing team. Exposure to Change Request Management tools like ALM, QC, and Clear Quest.
• Experienced in all areas of project life cycle in a highly structured change management environment using agile / kanban methodologies, waterfall model and ‘V’ model.
• Working knowledge on Xpath to identify web elements in UI and maintained test scripts
• Skilled in handling multiple projects and ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Expertise in end to end project management activities individually and as a part of a team
• Adept in creating projection plan /forecast from the current situation and highlighting the risk in advance and providing the mitigation plan for the same.
• Coordinating the production implementation with production support team and leading the production checkout.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Domain: Mortgage domain, Private Banking, Capital Market, Investment Banking, Retail Banking

Project Methodology: Waterfall & V Model, DEV- OPS, ETL projects, Agile Methodologies and Iterative Model

Defect Management Tool: Rally, IBM Doors, ALM, Mercury Quality Center 9.2, 9.0,Test Director8.0, IBM Rational Clear Quest

Database Knowledge: Oracle, SQL Server, TOAD

Programming Language: C,C++, Java

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, VA

Senior System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Working with Web services testing and detailed knowledge in identifying the web elements in XML using the XPath defined for each object.
• Participated in sprint demonstration meeting and retrospective meetings for each sprint.
• Involved in all user stories discussion and estimation session.
• Create and execute test cases in ALM and log and assign defects in Rally and keep track of the defect status.
• Create task and assign to team members, moving the task across various phases and pushing to acceptance.
• Work with Project Managers/Scrum Masters, business analysts, development teams as well as business community to contribute into process of gathering and reviewing of the business requirements
• Work with developers and support teams to resolve defects and environment issues.
• Report the test results to the management in timely manner.
• Participate in identification of performance issues
• Define the scope of testing for minor enhancements, maintenance and bug/fix releases
• Test Strategy, test plan, test estimation and traceability matrix
• Test Cases preparation and execution of test cases and sharing the progress report to the scrum master

Business Analyst / Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Gathered business requirements by conducting storyboarding sessions with business owners/stakeholders, subject matter experts (SME), end users, and developers.
• Analyzed and documented the business and functional requirements, defined use cases, and created workflows by interviewing multiple user groups.
• Provided walkthrough to the end users/Bankers on the newly proposed changes.
• Involved in the preparation of user story documents for each iteration of the project.
• Analyzed the user stories of each iteration with the product owner, and involved in grooming of user stories
• Participated in daily standup meeting with scrum master with status update and impediments.
• Defined project plan and project schedule, scope and defined timelines.
• Responsible for entire QA deliverable (SIT and UAT) for the project, including monitoring the deliverables and defects /issues in timely manner.
• Monitored project status to ensure progress toward completion, required procedural steps are completed fully and timely, participants are informed of the progress.
• Extensively worked in ALM in creating the requirements, mapping the test cases to the requirements, logging the defects and mapping the test cases and creating the report of the same.

BA/Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• As a BA involved in defining frontend reporting fields for various logic changes across the Alternative Investment products.
• Acted as a single point of contact for coordination between stakeholder / business team, operations team, support team, dev team and testing teams.
• Verified data transformation logic from source to destination works as expected.
• Involved in data analysis and verification to ensure the expected data is added in target system.
• Verified that all DB fields and field data is loaded without any truncation, ensured data checksum for record count matches and no duplicate data is loaded.
• Verify that proper error logs are generated with all details for rejected data.
• Validated the frontend data flow along with all the reports, statements and advises across all regions are generated with out any issues.
• Involved in testing newly implemented business logic through ETL testing by validating the transformation logic and verifying the target value with the help of mapping documents.

Project One BA/Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Participated in requirement gathering sessions, documenting all the newly proposed business changes.
• Involved in gathering requirement feedback / follow up’s with respective user’s team.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing for the project along with end users.
• Responsible for evaluating the test cases drafted by the QA team.
• Hands on experience in raising the new requirement in QC, Loading the test scripts to test plan, and executing the scripts in test lab, logging the defects and tracking until the closure.
• Involved in validating and approving the test results / metrics, requirement traceability matrix, maintaining the audit logs.
• Communicated the project status on daily basis to the senior management.
• Involved in ETL testing to verify that the data is transformed correctly according to various business requirements and rules. Ab-initio & Informatica were used as ETL development tool.
• Responsible for making sure that all projected data is loaded into the data warehouse without any data loss and truncation, ETL application appropriately rejects, replaces with default values and reports invalid data.
• Validated that the data is loaded in data warehouse within prescribed and expected time frames to confirm improved performance and scalability.
• Managed the project team, involved in knowledge transition, and mentoring the team.
• Provided ongoing support after Production Rollouts and supported the Production Implementation
• For any production, issue identified prepared the fish bone diagram in analyzing the root cause of the issue and discussing the mitigation plan to avoid those issues in the future.

BA / Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Testing on the Real time submissions & Confirmation submissions were performed
• Involved in test environment management and its availability during the testing phase
• Responsible for preparing Test schedule, Test Strategy/Approach, Test plan, Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) and Scheduling walk through of Test Approach, Test Plan, Test Results, and Post Test Report (PTR) and with Product managers.
• To guide and mentor the team in maintaining the clarification tracker, test design, preparing test feeds with various negative scenarios, documenting the test logs, logging the defects in test management tool to schedule the test for execution and produce quality status and test result.
• Identified and escalated testing issues and write issue/problem reports
• Organized the regular status call and defect call in sharing the progress details of the project
• Demonstrated ability to manage and meet assignment deadlines through personal initiative on several simultaneously assigned tasks.

Automated & Image Workflow Management- Programmer Analyst / Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Offshore- Onsite daily/weekly calls for project discussions, requirement gathering/ understanding/ status updates for the project.
• Preparation of Test scenarios, SIT Test Cases and Test Data & peer review the Test Cases documents & prepare Review Records and upload to QC
• Responsible for Preparation of Defect List, Status update docs & Daily Status Report (DSR)
• Manage deliverable in accordance with project schedule
• Validating the deliverables provided by the team
• Act as a liaison between offshore team and onsite management team
• Involved in multiple small projects during this phase