QA Manager

Vijaya Mohan

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Summary

Software professional with 18+ years of hands-on experience across various domains in Trading and Clearing Exchanges and International Finance Firms.

Expertise in Functional and Technical Requirements Gathering, System and Performance Analysis, Application Troubleshooting esp. Production Support, Quality Assurance – End-to-End, Functionality, Regression, Integration, User Acceptance and Beta Testing.

Experienced Internal as well as External – Customer and On-Site Client Demo, Trainer.

Prior Consultant Positions involved SME and Technical Expert Roles in various Request For Proposals (RFP’s) of clients in the broad Capital Markets domain.

Expertise in complex real-time high volume IT systems dealing with Equity Trading business in India and UK, Options Trading business in the USA, Market-Ticker data for Finance Exchanges across the US, development and support of Murex (#1 ranked derivative and risk analysis software system) across major international banks in the US, Asia, Mexico and Canada, involving daily interactions with brokers and brokerage firms.

Currently working at client - MUTB (Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corp., New York) on Oracle FlexCube customization project and in-house Master Data Management.

Apart from Business Domain Knowledge, knowledge of complete Software Development Life Cycle with exposure to both – Waterfall and Agile, working environments.

Excellent Communication, Analytical, Design, Development and Documentation skills.

Experienced in working Global Hours and in Remote Teams, besides willing for Domestic (US) as well as International Travel.

Experience

NSD Tech. Inc., New York, NY, USA Mar 2017 – Present

Senior QA Analyst Consultant

Working for the client - MUTB (Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corp.), New York

Lead QA Analyst – An in-house lead responsible for the analysis and testing of the customized Oracle FlexCube product for the Corporate Loans and Guarantee project.

Lead QA Analyst and Lead Tester of the Master Data Management project which is the unified master data repository across the various departments of the MUTB NY offices.

Lead QA Analyst and Lead Tester of the Anti Money Laundering project being implemented on NICE’s Actimize platform.

Inter Continental Exchange, New York, NY, USA Aug 2013 – Feb 2017

Senior QA Analyst

InterContinental Exchange Group is the leading network of regulated exchanges (incl. NYSE, Liffe, Euronext, ICE Futures) & clearing houses for financial & commodity markets.

QA Analyst – An in-house lead responsible for the Back-End Clearing System Releases’ testing and deployment in all the ICE jurisdictions of Europe – London and Netherland, US – New York, Singapore and Canada - Toronto.

Business Process Analysis to Implementation – Sole lead responsible for the analysis, HP QC test suite creation, testing and deployment of ICE’s project – Multiple Custodians.

Lead QA Analyst and Tester of all phases of LIFFE migration of Commodities, Financials and Equities to ICE Futures in the Unified Clearing Platform project, currently LIVE in ICE – All Jurisdictions.

Lead QA Analyst and QTP Automation Tester of the ongoing IRS trading project, interfacing with the vendors systems of – MUREX and Super Derivatives.

In-house SME of Murex (v3.1.33) – Involved in set-up implementation of Murex, system support and troubleshooting and all in-house training incl. documentation.

SAPIENT - Global Markets, New York, NY, USA Dec 2012 – July, 2013

Senior Technology Manager

Sapient Global Markets is a leading provider of consultant services to today’s capital and commodity markets all over the world, with specific expertise in the regulatory domain.

Production Support – A lead in-house production support, involved in troubleshooting the Murex (Base Metal & Fx Trading) system implemented at Bank of Nova Scotia, Toronto.

Business Process Research and Analysis – Sole lead responsible for the Integration Effort Analysis involved in Murex – v3.1 implementations and upgrades at the different clients.

Technical Lead for Client RFPs – Main lead responsible for the technical analysis of the various client RFP’s such as Harvard Management Company, BNS and others

MUREX, North America, NY, USA Mar 2008 – Nov 2012

Finance Derivatives Software Consultant (Workflows Team)

Murex(MX) is a custom product that is a completely integrated front-to-back cross-asset platform, designed to handle derivatives and cash trading in the areas of foreign exchange, energy and commodities, stocks, credit derivatives, and interest rates.

Business Process Analysis & Implementation – Led the feasibility discussions & implementing of business logic for FX trading in Asia and Commodities trading in Europe & Canada for Bank of Nova Scotia.

Troubleshooting & Process Enhancement – Main lead responsible for providing upgrades, QA, and resolving daily business & technical issues for various clients, such as Citibank (Globally – Asia, Europe, and USA) and Harvard Management Company (an endowment fund), besides being involved in onsite client and internal Murex trainings.

Deriv-Serv MX Connectivity – Led the team implementing the real time connectivity to DTCC Warehouse and worked on the 2011 FpML changes in messaging formats.

Support functionality for version upgrades – Provide technical development, resolve user issues for clients in USA & Canada – Metlife, TIAA-CREF, CPPIB, Monex, UN & Nike.

Technical support for Murex clients across versions of MX v2.11 and Mx v3.1.

Market Systems Technology, Boston, MA, USA Apr 2006 – Feb 2008

Systems Engineer

MST’s Market Access (MAX) ticker plant product is designed for high volume, high throughput, accurate, real-time processing of time critical data with extremely low latency and Market Data Direct product is a real-time data acquisition system.

Production Support – A lead production support engineer, involved in troubleshooting the in-house products implemented in Boston Stock Exchange, NYSE, and NASDAQ.

Enhancement of Market Data Network Product – Improved the cost effectiveness of the in-house messaging middleware solution to handle high message rates with minimum latency, designed exclusively to meet the demands of a large number of Finance clients.

Development, QA and Implementation - Involved in the full lifecycle at MST for clients.

TIAA CREF, San Francisco, CA, USA Apr 2005 – Mar 2006

Consultant (Contracted by TEK Systems, San Francisco, CA)

TIAA-CREF, a Fortune 100 financial services company and leading provider of retirement benefits nationwide, uses LongViewTradingSystem – An international Equities trading system with custom FE on windows XP, a Windows NT platform as host, and MSSQL-2000.

International Production Support – Only production support engineer placed at San Francisco site, to perform analysis and troubleshooting of daily scheduled jobs, besides interacting with portfolio managers and traders from brokerage firms in Japan, Australia, Asia, Europe and the US.

Expansion of Fix Connectivity for Clients – Configured new Fix connections for traders and brokerage firms, primarily from Asia–Pacific, Australia, and US regions, incl. testing and certifying with Reuters before implementation in Production.

Hardware Experience:

Stratus Fault-Tolerant System: Continuum 1225, 1252 and VOS Release -13.2.1, 14.2.3

Software Experience:

Custom Applications – MUREX, LVTS - Long View Trading System, Oracle FlexCube

Operating Systems – VOS(Rel.13.3.3o), UNIX-ware SVR4.2, LINUX

Languages, Tools and Scripting –

HP Quality Center and JIRA

MxML – custom XML, PL/1, C, COBOL, JAVA, C++, PERL, MS-VISUAL C++,

PASCAL, BASIC, ASSEMBLY (INTEL 8086/88), PYTHON script

Rational ClearQuest, Clearcase and Crystal Reports and CRM

TOAD, Aqua Data Studio and SQL Developer

Databases/4GL – MS SQL 2000, MY SQL, ORACLE, UNIFY (Unix Platform)

Education:

oMaster of Computer Applications, Goa University, India

(Distinction – Stood First in the entire University)

oBachelors in Science (Hons.) Physics, Goa University, India

(Distinction – Stood First in the entire University)

Other Achievements

Obtained the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial prize from the Government of India, New Delhi, for having secured the 1st Rank in the Merit List of the B.Sc as well as MCA Examinations, conducted by Goa University, India.

Won 2 Silver medals in the Math Olympiad Contests conducted by the Mathematics Teachers’ Association, Delhi, India.

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