Sowmya Prasad

**** ********* ** *** * Phone: 469-***-****

Colorado Springs, CO Email:acxsnz@r.postjobfree.com

Product/Project Management Professional

Accomplished and result driven project/product management professional with close to10 years of experience in a world class Financial Technology product with strong background in product development, product ownership,management, implementation, upgrade, pre-sales, customization and project/program management. Proven track record of being a key member in development of some of the best-selling modules of Finacle Treasury and driving significant upgrade,support and implementation projects.

Certifications

Project Management Elite

Infosys Quality Foundation

Function Point Estimation Specialist

Domain certifications in Securities, Equities, Banking fundamentals etc

Various technical Certifications in Treasury, core banking, e-Banking etc

Summary of Qualifications

10 years of rich experience in Product Development, Product ownership, Customization, Implementation, support, Pre-sales and Project/Program Management.

Nearly 10 years of experience working on a Financial Technology Product, 4+ years as PM, and 5 years of IT analysis.

Have an extensive international experience having worked for requirements catering to some of the leading banks in different geographies such as Credit Suisse, Switzerland; European Credit Markets, UK; URALSIB, Russia; Raiffeisenbank, Czech Republic; Mediterranean bank, Malta; UNB, Dubai and Republic Bank, Barbados.

Have an extensive experience working in multi geography implementation for investment banks leading teams across geographies at Infosys.

Was responsible for multiple projects (agile and waterfall methodology) managing teams - analyzing business requirements, creating product backlogs, technical specification documents/ user stories, use cases, and identifying business critical feature functionalities for QA at Infosys.

Project Management Elite Certifed and PMP under way.

Skills:

Project Management

Business Analysis

Product Development

Waterfall

Agile

CMM

Inhouse tools similar to Jira / Confluence

TFS 2012; Excel, VSS

MS Project

Visio, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint

Client / Server

Product Development using Solaris, IBM, HP,Linux

SOA

C++, Shell Scripting, AWK Programming, Oracle RDBMS, PL/ SQL

Specialist in Systems Integration – Real Time, Batch and Online; in XML, FpML, CSV, Fixed Length Fields, ISO8583 message formats over MQ, Flat Files, Database Tables and TCP/ IP mediums

Interfacing with Reuters Trading Platforms (RTNS), Reuters Market Data (RMDS), Bloomberg Market Data and Rate Feed

Interfacing with different Core Banking Systems (CBS), GL Systems, Asset & Liability Management (ALM) systems

Business Knowledge Areas

oFinancial Services – Product Development 9.5 yrs –

Forex Products – Spot, Forward, Swaps, Time Options, Non-Deliverable Forwards

Money Market Products – Borrowings & Placements, Call Market, Funding Swaps

Fixed Income Securities – Bonds, Bills, CD, Amortizing Bonds, Asset/Mortgage Backed Securities

Horizontals – Front, Mid and Back Office functionalities cutting across the above modules

oAccounting 5+ yrs

oMisc:

Agile/Waterfall Methodologies;Product Management;Product Road Map;Product Vision/Strategy; Requirement Elicitation/User stories; IT Delivery Management; Change Management; Product Implementation;Release Management; Team Management; Gap Analysis/Solutioning; Product Customization

Education:

Bachelor of Engineering, Sri Jayachamarajendra college of Engg. Mysore, IndiaAvg. Score - 80%

Technical Project Manager, Products – Finacle, Infosys

Infosys Ltd. Aug 2014-Jun 2015

Subject matter expert (SME)/Product owner for all Securities-related product enhancements, implementations and solutioning, especially Asset-backed Securities

Assisted in selection of new product ideas with Product Line Managers and Product Architects. In certain situations, acted as a customer proxy for visualizing and designing Asset Backed Securities module. Created and maintained Product Backlog.

Have successfully led teams and have been the key contributor of various teams including architecture design, product planning, product development, pre-sales, implementation, support, product ideation, roadmap etc

Anchored several end-to-end implementation/ professional services activities – both offshore and onsite, involving Detailed Requirements Gathering (DRG)/ Current System Study (CSS) – including both Functional and Non-Functional requirements, technical and interface aspects (like Reuters Rates, Reuters and Bloomberg Trading Platform), Business Process Definition (BPD), User Acquaintance (UAQ), Data Migration, Integration Testing (IT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Disaster Recovery Design & Setup (DR), Go-Live activities.

Responsible for multiple project teams (agile and waterfall methodology) for analyzing business requirements, technical specification documents, use cases, and identifying business critical feature functionalities for testing.

Other responsibilities:

Review and analyze functional specifications, design and develop test strategy plans, test scenarios, test scripts and analyze test results, track test coverage, provide test metrics to project management

Pre-sales activities such as product demos and briefings for clients

End-to-end project management activities for engagements comprising of team sizes up to 10 - 15 product-engineers, leads and analysts

Release management activities – tracking build activities; reviewing and evaluating release scope; ensuring technical documentation; and tracking release

Anchoring of Customization/ Localization and design activities offshore.

Conduct review, inspection, and obtain sign-off of functional and regression test scenarios with business, ensuring that the functionalities are catered to the user requirements, and to ensure that all requirements are being thoroughly tested. Develop Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to ensure test coverage.

Conduct system test readiness reviews with project team prior to initiating system testing, and obtain sign-off.

Product Team Lead – Finacle Treasury

Infosys Ltd. Apr 2010-Jul 2014

Product Owner of Finacle Treasury Equities and Mutual Fund modules- deal capture, position keeping, P&L management, risk management, accounting and regulatory reporting.

Led team working on Market Analysis and implementation of Corporate Actions Module in Finacle Treasury, comprising of 8 team members, for studying requirements of different regions for implementing various corporate actions into product. Team is responsible for conceptualizing, designing and developing user stories for these modules.

Successfully completed Business process definition and Current system study for implementing single FX instance for a leading investment bank for position keeping, risk management, reporting etc combining different instances in London, New York, Singapore, Zurich, etc.

SPOC for Fixed Income securities and Equities in Finacle Treasury-for the product capabilities and solutioning for implementations in various regions – Middle East, Eastern Europe, APAC and Africa

Offshore lead for UNB Dubai implementation of a team working on solutioning, product development, support and post go live handholding. UNB went on to be awarded for best implemented Treasury solution in Middle East region.

Designed and developed Enhancements which made us pacesetters – ABS/MBS (Asset/Mortgage Backed Securities), EIR Amortization, Simplification of Accounting infrastructure, Amortization Calculators, Stop-loss limits functionality etc. all of which are some of the best selling features of Finacle Treasury. Some of the clients live on these modules: Mediterranean Bank, Malta is live on ABS functionality and EIR Amortizations. HPB Croatia is live in EIR Amortization methodology. AXIS Bank India, about 6 banks in Nigeria, Union National Bank, UAE and IDBI Bank have implemented all of the above mentioned enhancements.

Product Implementation Lead – Finacle Treasury Implementation – Professional Services Group -Infosys Ltd. Oct 2008-Mar 2010

Successfully implemented Finacle Treasury for Barbados National Bank (now Republic Bank of Barbados)

First implementation of Finacle in Caribbean region, and hence most important. It led to Finacle bagging several deals – Republic bank (Trinidad & Tobago), NCB Jamaica, to name a few.

Other responsibilities included -

Support validation of system test environment prior to executing test cases.

Perform smoke, compatibility, functional, regression and end-to-end testing of both web and client/server applications.

Write SQL statements to extract data from tables, and to verify the output data of reports.

Perform root cause analysis for the issues raised in test environment and escalate them to development team.

Evaluate and validate test results, and carry out defect logging for reporting and managing all issues, functionality gaps, and new functionality needs.

Publish and communicate daily status report including test metrics to project team.

Participate in daily status meetings by providing daily status to the team.

Coordinate the final test execution sign-off process by business owners and project team to ensure aims and objectives have been met and that the test summary report has been published and approved. Ensure test deliverables are accurate and complete them in a timely manner and in compliance with IT key controls

Product Engineer – Finacle Treasury

Infosys Ltd. Sep 2005-Sep 2008

Single handedly designed and developed barrier monitoring module for Fx over the counter trades

Designed and implemented Equity Over the Counter trade capture, end of day processing, P&L calculations, accounting

Have worked extensively on various performance enhancements on the product

Was a part of the team designing and developing payments systems for Uralsib, Russia

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