Mahesh Malkhede

Mobile: - +91-988******* Email-Id:- ad5aml@r.postjobfree.com

Current Location: - Pune, India

Professional Experience

A delivery focused individual having extensive experience of 15 years in delivery & process management including end to end delivery, Agile releases along with UAT coordination & implementation.

3+ years of experience working as a Tester in the Avaloq space including product implementation & parametrization. Well versed with the Wealth Management/ Investment Banking products.

Experienced Test lead with key business communities to comprehend the overall business vision and improve the end users experience of using a product and handled the key responsibilities as below,

Project Management & Delivery

Served as focal coordination point for communication between key parties including Product Owners, Business Users, Development Team, Quality Assurance Team.

Participating in the Steer Co. meetings and presenting the project progress/ weekly status reporting, project health monitoring.

Conduct workshops and training sessions for teams to them understand benefits of new technology or strategies oversee the implementation of new technology and systems.

Communication with appropriate parties to successfully influence project scope, design, and outcomes and to successfully complete assignments.

High level analysis of enhancements in close collaboration with clients and other stakeholders (i.e. other internal teams or 3rd party providers).

Experience in working with banking industry/systems/Avaloq Banking Experiences.

Well versed with payment platforms and systems like SEPA, CHAPS payments and payment gateways and basic understanding of understanding of SWIFT MT messages.

Experience in the agile practice for various maintenance scrums and facilitated Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, and Retrospective meetings.

Client Relationship Management

Client communication & coordination

Stakeholder Management

Manage client expectations throughout the delivery cycle

People & Team Management

Design & monitor of the Team ramp-up plans

Manage/coordinate relationship, communication between Client and India teams

Educational Qualification

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics from Amaravati University Maharashtra in 2003 with 64%

Executive MBA [Finance as major] from SCMHRD Pune in 2016

Professional Certifications

ISTQB Foundation Certification

ISTQB Advance Certification

MS Azure Fundamental Certification

Technical Skillset

Requirement Management :- SharePoint, Confluence

Banking System :- Avaloq

AML Application :- Actimize

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall

Test Management :- HP ALM, JIRA, TFS

Tools :- Rest API, Test Master, Selenium

Employment details

Currently working with Infosys Technology ltd as a Test lead since March 2012 to till date.

Dec 2008 to Feb 2012 with SunGard Solutions, Pune as Test Lead

Dec’2006 to Nov 2008 with Geometric Software Ltd as Sr Test Engineer

Jan to Nov 2006 with Tech Mahindra Pvt Ltd, Pune as Technical Associate

Project Addendum (Last 3 project details)

Avaloq :-

Client : One of the financial Institution in UK

Project Specific Role : Business Analyst, UAT Manager (United Kingdom)

Duration : March 2021 to till date

Domain : Finance & Wealth Management

Project Description:

This project is related to the upgradation of Avaloq suit for one of the UK’s leading financial institution.

Summary of duties:

Meeting the stakeholders to analyze requirements and determine the impact to business rules.

Worked towards finalizing the initial scope and requirement readiness.

Worked on core Avaloq implementation for the new client including CR deliveries.

Extensive experience in Avaloq workflows such as Client Onboarding journey, Security Transactions, Corporate Actions, Payments etc

Working knowledge of Trade workflow till settlement, Payment processing journey.

Knowledge of job scheduler as like Zena, experience in troubleshooting Zena job failure and ensured that the bank / financial institution received end of day files for their day-to-day operations.

Provided trainings to the newly joined team members on the Avaloq workflows.

Experience in testing the various Payment & STEX scenarios thru RESTAPI.

Planned and handled testing for various change requests related to Fee calculations, Fund subscription, system reports, SWIFT upgrade, third party connections like Fidessa etc.

Performed daily smoke check to ensure that major flows are working and all connections are up & running.

Handled the defect triage call and worked closely with business users to ensure that only valid defects should get locked.

Interacting with Solution Designers to understand the new functionalities delivered.

Developed test strategy, test scenarios, test cases for Business Acceptance testing and User Acceptance testing.

Implemented validation of source data systems along with data mappings.

Provided detailed test reports with findings and recommendations to the program managers.

Worked closely with Global Delivery Test team members in critical defects and cross-functional team members on defect resolution.

Actimize :-

Client : One of the financial Institution in UK

Project Specific Role : Business Analyst, Scrum master

Duration : Dec 2019 to Feb 2021

Domain : Finance & AML

Project Description:

This project is for US telecom client MetroPCS where Infosys is testing their billing solutions.

Summary of duties:

Worked closely with Stakeholders to get better alignment in respective roadmaps.

Facilitated Defect Triage meeting and informing Senior Management of Risks / Issues discovered while testing.

Worked on categorizing, analyzing and reproducing client issues and support to the UAT.

Preparation of weekly status report and reporting the senior management.

Facilitate sprint & release planning, retro spectives, sprint review and other scrum related meetings.

Track and remove internal & external impediments for the scrum team.

Identified potential process improvements which may require system enhancements.

Worked closely with programmers and customers on detailed data conversions.

Facilitated and coordinated discussion between business and technical team to clarify requirements.

Involved in the major system migration. Worked extensively with a multi-functional team to get the new system up and running while maintaining the old system to minimize the loss of revenue.

Leads elicitation sessions using variety of requirements gathering methods such as interviews, documentation analysis, surveys, site visits, business models with executives, managers, developers and subject matter experts.

Make sure Requirements are thoroughly discussed, reviewed, and approved from all the stakeholders and business users.

Determining testing requirements and acted as testing manager on medium to large scale projects.

Credit Insurance Solutions-

Organization : Infosys Technology Ltd

Environment : Java, Oracle, Cobol

Team Size : 35

Duration : Sept 2016 to Oct 2019

Project Description:

This project is for UK’s Credit Insurance Company where Infosys is developing & testing their insurance solution products.

Summary of duties:

Defining program level Test Process and Test Strategy to be used across the entire project.

Interacting with Solution Designers to understand the new functionalities delivered.

Logical estimation of effort and timeframe required for testing after an initial analysis of the requirements using SMC Estimation models.

Developed and executed performance test script scenarios based on the business requirements and specifications.

Developed Test Data Management plan, according to the stage and prioritization of the project. Ensure that sub-team plans are aligned with overall project plans, governance agreed timelines and priorities.

Defining program level Test Process and Test Strategy to be used across the entire project.

Defined project processes for CMMi Assessment for which project got rated at CMMi L5.

Created the transition plan and led the transition from offshore. The phases included Forward Shadow, Reverse Shadow and Steady State.

Logical estimation of effort and timeframe required for testing after an initial analysis of the requirements using SMC Estimation models.

Other Details :

Passport No : Z3551628

Date of Expiry : 2026-10-02

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