SUMMARY:

• Results - driven Technology Lead with twelve (14) years of experience in leading and managing teams (10+ members) focused on delivering technology-enabled business transformation solutions for clients in the Financial Services, Telecommunications and Logistics industry

Languages/Web Tools: Delphi, PLSQL, .Net Framework 2.0, Visual Studio 2005, VB 6.0, VBA, Unix/Linux Shell scripting, VBScript, HTML, EXT JS, PHP, Perl, Jasper reports

Databases/RDBMS SQL Server 2005/2000, Oracle, MY SQL

Automation tools Test complete, Load runner, QTP, Robot Framework

Big Data skills Conducted small POCs using on Hadoop stack including HDFS, Map Reduce, Hive, HBase, Sqoop and Flume

Operating Systems Windows, UNIX, Linux

Other Packages/Tools Clarity (PPM), SharePoint, SVN, MS Visual Source Safe

​PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Weehawken, NJ

Capital Markets Test Manager

Responsiblities:

• Leading of team of 10 people in capital markets area especially order entry/trade management/trade flow validations systems including many internal and external applications Bloomberg Terminal, BondDesk/Tradeweb Retail, Jetpac-Julius/ JetWeb, RJO’brien, SunGard VOV, Fidessa
• Hands-on knowledge of various capital markets products such as equity, options, mutual funds, fixed income, annuities, precious metals, structured products, new issue management, currency, Puerto Rico closed end products, next shares for retail as well as managed clients
• Expertise in validating regulatory reporting systems such as Volcker, OATS, TRACE reporting
• Responsibilities include Requirements Analysis, test design and test planning, test execution, documentation, bug reporting covering on various aspects of trade life-cycle and new implementation, End to End workflow validations and Datasets verification- contextual to the Trade Processing.
• Coordinating QA Review and Business Review meetings. Training offshore team members.
• Program status reporting to Executive Management and Business stakeholders.
• Budgeting and invoicing for entire capital markets portfolio.
• Exposure to multi-vendor systems/ architecture.
• Leading the automation initiative within the capital markets space with hands-on experience in robot framework for UI automation and CI/CD integration through Jenkins
• HP ALM administrator for entire wealth management program consisting of 500 active users and 300 projects including day to day activities such as user creation, project customization to upgrades

Confidential, Weehawken, NJ

Big Data Test Manager

Responsiblities:

• Led a team of 10 people on a multi-year Data Refinery project aimed at building a long term data architecture platform based on the Cloudera Apache Hadoop framework.
• Compared and validated 460M data records from 46 mainframe output feeds through Informatica power exchange, Impala, JCL utilities, and Perl scripts.
• Validated profiling of 100 input feeds data through Informatica Data Quality tool.
• Validated Gold Layer Data from 50 categories with data from ingestion layer through PIG/HIVE utilities.
• Performance tested the application for data/node failure, volume and capacity to ensure data refinery is able to handle large volumes of data without failures.
• Upgraded versions of ALM from 11.51 to 12.2 along with work flow customization

Confidential, IN

Test Manager

Responsiblities:

• Led a team of 15 people in wealth management projects across employee advisory services, wealth management framework and trading domains.
• Validated front desk, back office trading application for wealth management Americas.
• Validated over 30MM records on daily basis for key Volcker G1, G2 and G3 metrics such as customer facing ration, inventory turnover, inventory aging, comprehensive PNL, volatility, risk attribution.
• Created automated reporting/tracking applications for WMA QA group enabling senior management to get insights into KPI for various projects

Confidential

Program Manager

Responsiblities:

• Managed a total of 91 projects under ATM Infrastructure Modernization initiative. Led a total team size of over 100 resources including teams at offshore/onshore, multiple vendors and geographies managing total budget of over $2MM.
• Achieved consistent High Performance engagement rating from client by exceeding expectations on timeliness and quality and ensuring program was successfully completed within the given budget.

Confidential

Backup Project Manager

Responsiblities:

• Led team of 10 people in optimizing BT provisioning application performance by 20%
• Managed BT virtualization initiative moving application, databases across shared services platform saving infrastructure cost up to 50% per year.

Confidential

Test Analyst

Responsiblities:

• Led 6-member team in validating service assurance applications for BT iVPN and BT FCE product launches helping providing automated delivery assurance, real time reporting, plus proactive and automated incident notification.

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Responsiblities:

• Designed and developed critical shipment, printing modules for DHL Easy ship application
• Performed DBA role ensuring data availability, maintenance and backup-restore.
• Performed configuration controller role auditing projects for entire portfolio.