MONICA PANWAR

(acd1ju@r.postjobfree.com, Mobile - 214-***-****)

Status : EAD (L2), Visa expires 05/05/2016

Summary

Extensive experience as a Business Analyst in Banking and Financial

Services domain with a leading Investment Bank (around 6 years). Strong

knowledge of Capital Markets and Derivatives with continuous focus on

learning.

Self- motivated with an innate ability to identify critical issues and

provide resolutions. A disciplined, professional and quality centered

approach with strong analytical and problem solving skills. Able to perform

under pressure and in a dynamic cross cultural-environment.

Career Profile

. An MBA possessing strong Business Analysis skills with thorough

understanding of various phases such as Requirements Gathering,

Analysis, Design, Development and Testing.

. Currently pursuing Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Certification.

Passed CFA - Level 1.

. Adept in both Business and Technical documentation - Business

Requirements Documentation (BRD) and Functional Specification Document

(FSD), Test Plans, Test Cases.

. Hands on experience with capital market and trading applications like

Dealaxis(Dealogic), LVTS and Event Manager.

. Tracing requirements throughout the development process and verifying

adherence using the Requirements

Traceability Matrix (RTM)

Work Experience:

Company: Tata Consultancy Services

. Duration: June 2004-April 2010

. Designation: Assistant System Analyst

. Client : Morgan Stanley (Investment Banking Department)

Projects Undertaken:

1. Title: Trade Service Layer (TSL)

Mar 2008- April 2010

Cient Name: Morgan Stanley

Project: The project was to develop TSL to act as a layer between

the trading system (LongView Trading System) and the

Confirmation and Posting Systems. It helped the

trader/operations to know the exact status of the trade.

It processed the post execution functionality of trades

coming from LVTS for financial instruments like Equities,

Convertible Bonds, Options, CFDs, FX and Mutual Funds.

Position: Team Leader

Tools used: Test Director, QTP

Responsibilities:

. Primary interface between the developers, testing team and other

business stakeholders on system issues and Change Requests.

. Prepared/updated Business Requirements document, reviewed

Functional Specifications.

. Designed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams and prepared Business Process

Flows.

. Led a team of 4 resources responsible for end-to-end testing of the

application

. Key role in the planning, testing (UAT), and implementation of

system enhancements and conversions

. Participate in key release milestones; support Release Management

team activities:

a) Release Kick-Off, Go/No Go, etc.

b) Develop Business Acceptance Testing / UAT plans and schedule

activities with stakeholders.

c) Participate in weekly QA meetings.

2. Title: Google TSO (Transferrable Stock Options)

March 2006- May 2007

Client Name: Morgan Stanley

Project: Google TSO is an application build by Morgan Stanley for

Google. This application was developed for Google

Employees to sell their vested Stock Options to financial

institutions through an online auction. Its analytics also

helps the Google employees know the pricing and profit

statistics of their options.

Position: Functional Analyst

Responsibilities:

. Gathered test requirements, conducted functional analysis and

provided guidance to the testing team about functionality of the

product.

. Key role in functionality testing for new features/enhancements.

. Supported regression testing to validate the system after

enhancements.

. Supported UAT in the final phase of software development process to

check the functionality of the software

. Actively involved in analyzing and resolving the issues and

providing feedback to development team related to requirements

. Managing the Defects Reporting and resolution process and follow

ups with development team

. Liaison with Development Team to get the defects fixed

3. Title Deal Axis Jan 2005-

March2008

Client Name: Morgan Stanley

Project: Deal Axis is Equity Capital Market deal

management product developed by Dealogic Inc. This is a

web browser based application used by Investment banks for

managing the issues (IPOs/Secondary Offerings/Convertible

Bonds/Rights Isssue) in the Primary Markets. Its functions

include syndicate formation, tracking Indication of

interest, bookbuilding for issues and help allocation

modelling and pricing the issues effectively.

Position: Functional Analyst

Responsibilities:

. Gathered Test Requirements for quality assurance and controlled the

quality of application by doing Functional Testing for upgrades and

fixes.

. Regression testing support for turnovers, UAT.

. Work with principals and business stakeholders, along with other

third-party consultants to identify and analyzing the Business

requirements for enhancements.

. Identifying the impacted system modules for Regression Testing for

the QA Team.

. Conducted functional testing of ECMSR, which is a reporting tool

used for generating reports from other applications and updating

Dealaxis with appropriate information.

. Involved in Status Tracking, Risk Identification and Defect

Prevention activities.

. Managing the Defects Reporting and Resolution process and follow

ups with development team.

. Participated in the process of preparing verification plans to

clearly and concisely describe the expectations, and approach.

. Identified, analyzed, escalated and facilitated resolution of

issues that arose during testing, and post-implementation phases.

4. Title Account Management System Oct 2004-

Dec 2004

Client Name: TCS Internal Project (Project Management

office)

Position: Team Member

Project: TCS internal Project for providing the Project Management

Office with a database of all the relevant details

about resources. The project needed to develop and

maintain a database of the details which were

regularly required by Project management Office.

Responsibilities:

. Interviewed clients, defined functional & non-functional

requirements, & captured them

. Gathered requirements after conducting extensive user interviews

with stakeholders.

. Validated the requirements gathered for effectiveness and

usability and to see if they can be converted into business and

functional requirements.

Domain Activities:

. Active member of TCS BFSI domain core team

. Actively involved in guiding and providing training in finance domain

to new recruits.

. Providing guidance to colleagues pursuing NSE(National Stock Exchange)

certifications.

Summer Internship:

Organization: Karvy Investors Services Limited, Hyderabad, Andhra

Pradesh, India (April - May 2003)

Department: Merchant Banking Department

Activities:

. The internship included Project titled "Study of Buyback of Shares in

India"

. Involvement in a live project on Buyback of shares by Titanor

Components Ltd.

. Active Participation in day to day activities of the department, which

included ongoing projects like

o Preparing a proposal for SRTCs advising proper utilization of

their funds and assets.

o Preparing Business proposal for Andhra Pradesh Government

related to Tax free Municipal Bonds.

Educational Qualification:

Post Graduation Diploma in Management (Finance)

. IMDR, PUNE, Maharashtra, India (71.59%) - Top Rank in a class of 40

Bachelors of Technology

. G. B. Pant University Of Agriculture and Technology, UA, India (OGPA:

8.49)-Top Rank in a class of 50

Certifications:

. Pursuing CFA certification. Passed CFA level 1 (Jan 2013)

. NSE's NCFM Certification for Capital Market (Dealers Module)

. NSE's NCFM Certification for Derivatives (Dealers Module)

Technical Skills:

. Test Director, Quality Center, Version One

. MS Office, SQL

Achievements:

. Summer Project Awarded the best Summer Project in IMDR

. Bagged prize for being the topper in Japanese Language Module in

Initial Learning Programme at TCS, Trivandrum

Personal Details:

. Immigration Status: EAD (L2)

. Status: Married

. Languages Known: English, Hindi

. Email: acd1ju@r.postjobfree.com

Place: Plano, TX

Date: 4 February 2014 (MONICA

PANWAR)

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