Suresh Gummadi
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Profile
Accomplished Business / Systems Analyst with demonstrated history of 9+ years in Asset management, managed accounts, personal and workplace investments.
Professional expertise includes business analysis, requirements gathering and user acceptance (UAT) testing.
EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
9+ years’ experience in Business/Systems analysis, requirements gathering, UAT validation and test automation involving GUI, Middle tier- Web Services, ETL/Database and OBIEE reports.
Strong background working with business stakeholders, designers, and programmers to identify requirements, assist with creating user interfaces, and develop implementation timelines.
Extensively worked in different projects which follow agile methodology and played Scrum Master/Product Owner Role.
Managed all aspects of new product launches including the creation of training documentation and workforce training.
Managed multiple implementation projects with competing priorities and requirements at various stages.
Backed portfolio managers with daily Fund performance reports by leveraging capabilities with OBIEE, Tableau, OLAP and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) implementation of various Business Intelligence requirements.
Organized review meetings with the stakeholders to discuss on Test strategies/Test plans.
Initiated Cloud migration strategy and published application cloud readiness particulars to Architects and business sponsors.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Programming Languages
Java, SQL, PL/SQL, Python
Databases/Reports
Oracle 9i /10g /11g /12C, MS Sql server, Sybase, MS-Access, MS Visio, OBIEE, Cognos 8.
Web Technologies
XML, HTML, Java Script, RESTful Web Services
Testing Tools
JIRA, HP Quality centre 10, QTP, UFT, FitNesse, Swagger, SOAP UI, SOAP Sonar, SOA Para Soft, Selenium IDE & Web driver,Cucumber, iCEDQ [ETL Test Automation]
PROFESSIONAL EXPEREINCE
Fidelity Investments, Boston/Bangalore, MA Sep 2011- Till Date
Role
Sr. Systems/ Business Analyst
Projects:
Managed accounts and portfolio services –[Asset Management]
Financial Solutions – Financial planning Engine
Equity/High Income Portfolio and trade management systems
Reporting Project – Web focus to OBIEE migration
FIDELITY FIMT Alchemy TIC Loader Migration
Roles and Responsibilities:
Functioned closely with the management team to achieve business goals
Evaluated system specifications to fulfill the business requirements
Assigned the tasks of developing, defining, supporting, and configuring various applications
Documented process flows and developed requirements for functional improvements and enhancements.
Collaborated with business users, product owner and QA testers to determine requirements.
Identified process boundaries and determined opportunities to automate processes and functions.
Team up with users to analyze current processes, then partnered with developers to design and implement new features.
Utilized Product Life Cycle Development processes to ensure adherence to project schedules.
Assisted in the post-implementation troubleshooting of new applications and application upgrades.
Tested programs to validate results.
Implemented quality assurance testing methodologies and controls.
Elicited stakeholder feedback and input through interviews and surveys.
Developed data management plans to collect, manage, and analyze data.
Wrote technical reports on test and analysis results and facilitated presentations to stakeholders.
Played a Role of Scrum master as part of agile track and worked closed with teams in multiple locations
Creation of Repository and Generation of Business Reports, Dashboard using OBIEE.
Validated OBIEE reports which are published to Portfolio managers for Compensation data review on weekly basis.
Worked closely with Dev team in Building Data Governance around OBIEE and Tableau in terms of security, Data Sources, Usage, Quarterly cleanup and adoption.
Played QA- Automation SME in identifying the business flow of financial planning engine and designed a component based test framework.
Extensively used SQL queries in test scripts to get test data from Oracle Database.
Ness Technologies Dec 2010- Sep 2011
Project Name
Channel master for Prime- Dorado
Role
Sr. QA Analyst
Roles and Responsibilities:
Involved in requirements gathering meetings, writing and updating test cases and test plans.
Lead the QA efforts for functionality, integration, system, and regression testing.
Writing Final Test Reports for different channels.
Identified test automation scenarios and played a pivotal role in designing test framework
Automated Integration Test cases for various modules using iTKO Lisa and
SOAP UI.
Automated the test execution by integrating iTKO Lisa with Quality center 10
Involved in validating the web services responses with underlying stored procedures.
Tech Mahindra July 2007- Dec 2010
Project Name
Ticketing system reports using Cognos 8 for Hyundai Australia
Role
BI Analyst
Roles and Responsibilities:
Translated the requirements of the clients into highly technical specification and created the Report specs
Creating Filters, Prompts and Metrics.
Implemented quality assurance testing methodologies and controls.
Generated Adhoc reports for client using Report Studio and Metric Studio.
EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS
Msc(Tech) Information Systems from prestigious Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS-Pilani)
(HP0-M15) HP Quality Center 9.2 Software
Basic Financial Services from University of Michigan – Course era
Advanced Fidelity Services – Silver Brook Training institute [Fidelity Investments]
Portfolio Management – Silver Brook Training Institute [Fidelity Investments]
Scrum cerified Product owner (CSPO) – good Agile [Fidelity Investments]
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