SCRUM MASTER / PROJECT MANGER / LEAD QA / BUSINESS ANALYST

Hands-on scrum master, Project Manager and QA with extensive experience in project management, Agile methodologies and continuous improvement in Capital Markets Technology platform. Proven ability to lead projects from inception to delivery, while coaching and mentoring high performing teams. Adept at incorporating Agile methodologies and QA into team practices and work processes. Analyzes business needs and processes and incorporate team feedback for continuous improvements that enhanced team performance. Currently working on getting certification for Azure Fundamentals.

KEY AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Certified Scrum Master Jira People Management Agile Communication Skills Coaching

EXPERIENCE

Wells Fargo Securities (a Wells Fargo & Co. Subsidiary) New York, NY Sept 2006 – July 2023

Project Manager

Scrum Master

Lead QA

Business Analyst

Project Manager / Business Analyst for OTC Pricer - Equity Derivatives reverse engineering project.

The current OTC Pricer is in .NET and the entire application is being reverse engineered into Java.

Created the Project Scope Statement for stakeholders and Project teams defining Business Requirements and high level milestones for each phase, Roles and Responsibilities and Team dynamics.

Defined the Project Charter laying out the Project Scope and Deliverables.

Created the Major Activity/Scope, Cost and Time document for the initiation of this project.

Created the Detailed Tasks document with boundaries of requirements.

Created the Baseline Work Breakdown Structure for deliverables in 3 phases breaking the project into smaller deliverables.

Created the Risks register, Compliance and Reporting requirements which will be the highest priority deliverables.

Defined the dependency document to ensure that all front to back end to end deliverables are accounted for.

Initiated/led all project related meetings with Steering Committee, Stakeholders, Sponsors, Development team.

Created the end to end flow diagram, mock-ups, wireframes of the OTC process flow starting from UI to Caches, Database, Downstream reporting systems, P&L application flow and other dependencies.

Created list of Data Elements and Data Type for each OTC product type.

Created the process flow diagram of the Trade Creation, Approval, Execution and Lifecycle of the trades.

Certified Scrum Master for 3 projects in a fast-paced software development team with weekly Production releases for Data Management-System of Records, Equity Swap Tool and Sunsetting of Market Data Providing application (SAMI)

of Equity Derivatives-Capital Markets technology platform.

Trustworthy Servant Leader who facilitated resolution of issues, addressing risks and escalating concerns.

Coached the team to create Description on Product Backlog refinement, create Acceptance Criteria and User Stories.

A team player who facilitated Product Owner and Stakeholders to deliver working product by Agile Development through Jira board by creating User Stories and Product backlog.

Facilitated Sprint Planning by creating User Stories, Epics in JIRA, prioritized work items in coordination with Product Owner and Scrum team.

Passionate for coaching scrum teams and stakeholders on scrum guidelines of iterative and incremental approach, be self driven, work interactively, be cross functional, capacity planning, sprint goals, use velocity charts and Burn down charts to track progress.

Managed Scrum Artifacts in coordination with Product Owner, Development team and Stakeholders, i.e. Product Backlog and Sprint Retrospective.

Learned how to achieve scrum teams’ effectiveness by instilling the scrum pillars of Inspection, Adaptation and Transparency. Helped team be compliant by facilitating removal of vulnerabilities displayed in GitHub and Jenkins, readiness for Definition of Done (DoD) which updated stake holders on Product status on each sprint deliverables and become high performing through focus on details and execution.

Organized and facilitated scrum events, i.e. scrum calls, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Backlog grooming, Sprint retrospective, start and end sprints on Jira board. This helped scrum team achieve quality and effectiveness in deliverables.

Working with multiple cross-functional Data Management scrum teams for release management, stay Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) compliant as per organizational standards. This helped deploy consolidated code changes with continuous integration of each Increment and support business value delivery.

Worked with team of developers (Onshore and Offshore) and Product Owner to create and set overall scrum standards for scrum team.

Service Now experience for Release Management with details of items being released are code reviewed, and code scans updated for Release Audits.

Perform and share regular Agile team health checks and enable team to incorporate targets into Test Driven development and continuous improvement goals.

Maintain and grow Agile networks both Internal and External by attending bootcamps and professional events for continuous learning and connection to Agile communities.

Create confluence pages for every resolved impediments with resolution steps for future use, and maintain confluence page for Sprint Retrospectives to monitor required actions.

Excellent project management, communication, motivating and decision making skills/abilities.

OTC Pricer: Responsible for Project Management, Requirements Gathering, Functional, Regression and Integration testing, Documentation, Project Implementation and Post implementation support for OTC Pricer project.

Project Management and Lead QA for Equity Derivatives-Capital Markets technology team. Worked closely with core technology teams and stakeholders to manage, develop, test and deliver the product.

Understanding the Business Requirements and translating them into Functional test cases for Functional testing and Regression testing.

Monitoring Regression and Functional testing activities for bi-weekly production releases which resulted in timely delivery of the project and additional enhancements.

Managed the OTC project and supported all areas of responsibilities within the 15 person team.

Facilitated that all test cases have Behavior Driven (BDD) functional test cases developed during initial business scenario coding.

Good knowledge of Compliance reporting on SEC, FINRA, CFTC, TRACE related Fixed Income and Equity Derivatives products (All Swaps, OTC Products, Debt Instruments)

Updating the development team, business users and stakeholders with project Earned Value status and Defect reports and ensuring they are recorded in Jira for timely fixing and prioritization.

Ensuring with the development team that each function coded would include an API test case incorporated in the code change to validate the change. These API test cases were run as Unit testing scenarios.

Maintaining Book of Work and managing timely completion of deliverables as per the schedule.

Business analysis and testing of Options Expiry tool incorporating Expiry Trade rules for options with various settle types. This tool helped users enhance early action required for falling due/expiring options and eliminating manual processing.

Business analysis and testing of Trade lifecycles for new trades, amend, unwind, termination and cancellations for equity swaps, options and several other OTC products. This entire suite of applications deployed to Production for trading desk to create Product shell, Pricing Trades for each lifecycle event and downstream reporting.

Worked with technology and business users to Integrate the pricing excel sheet into the tool. This automated the manual task for trading desk for Trades pricing.

Created test cases and assisted the Quality & Testing Teams to generate automated scripts. This helped the enterprise run Regression testing before all production code releases thereby eliminating Production issues.

Trigger regression testing on daily basis so as to comply with Continuous Integration of code changes and finding timely defects.

Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) Symbology Initiative: Responsible for Project Management, Requirements Gathering, Documentation, Functional, Regression and Integration testing, Project Implementation and Post implementation support for Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) Symbology Initiative. This project overhauls the existing methodology of identifying exchange-listed Options Contracts to decrease the current limitations in today's marketplace.

Perform gap analysis on all applications affected by the changes, i.e. Market Data, Front end applications, settlement application, execution application and Product Master.

Coordinated with the external vendors to make modifications required on PnL and Settlement applications.

Performed scripted testing with all the Options exchanges and the OCC.

Ensured Market Data connectivity with Bloomberg, Reuters and ACTIV to receive their data in the required amended format and testing the modified data.

Achieved the completion/implementation of all phases of the OCC Symbology initiative for the enterprise.

Executed the end to end testing scenarios Internally and Externally with the exchanges

Algo / DaVinci: Worked with Algorithmic trading team at Wachovia/Wells Fargo Equity Algorithmic trading desk. Entailed testing of routine enhancements based on the requirements from the traders and trading desk management to enhance the systems scalability and robustness for automated trading.

Requirements gathering, debugging and testing of new requirements

Performed the weekly release engineering and audit and compliance requirements.

Ensuring the Service based application design conformity with all other applications.

Facilitated the end to end integration testing of enhancements and additions of new products and services

DMA (Direct Market Access) - NOVA: This project automated trading between internal trading desks and external clients providing better execution performance, reduced latency to market centers, price improvement, reliability, scalability, streamlining processes for order management, order routing, execution and order processing. Responsible for Product development, Project Management, Requirements Gathering, Functional, Regression and Integration testing, Documentation, Project Implementation and Post implementation support.

Tested Trading flow infrastructure for performance, scalability and robustness. Direct connectivity to major market centers, smart order routing capabilities, access to automated trading strategies, internal crossing capabilities for orders from various sources within the firm, including program trading, institutional, derivatives, and retail, as well as order management systems necessary to accommodate these products.

Supported development team by providing Regulatory/compliance analysis/design and requirements specific related to these products.

Flextrade Replacement: System Analysis, Business Analysis and QA testing for the Order Management system for Automated Trading of Front Office Equities primarily replacing a vendor application called Flextrade.

Business Process Re-engineering for Algorithmic Strategies (Boxed strategies for quick order placements and full strategies for Automated trading. Allow sending trades to multiple markets allowing the best market price, sending trades directly to specific markets and set specific destinations on waves of orders by splitting the parent order into multiple child orders to various destinations.

Facilitated and Support sending single orders or group of orders at any price points (Bid, Ask, Strike, Close, Bench, Market on Open, Market on Close, Value Weighted Average Price).

Tested all the downstream systems for Reporting, Operations, Compliance and Profit & Loss applications.

Facilitated connectivity to live market data and provide market depth screens for related testing.

Galaxy: Galaxy is a software application that generates Value at Risk (VaR) and Stress scenario feeds for the Market Risk Oversight group, in addition to providing traders with nightly "what if" scenario reports for changes in various market data inputs. In addition to computing real-time prices and greeks, VolServer also computes P&L and P&L attribution (Spot, Vega, Rho, RhoDiv, Theta) by full re-evaluation in real-time.

Implemented, tested this real-time Risk Management system to calculate real-time price and risk (the greeks) of exotic derivatives for the New York and London Equity Structured Products desks. Responsible for continuous maintenance and enhancements to this platform.

Business process re-engineering, functional testing, implementation and post implementation support.

J.P. Morgan Chase, New York, NY Dec 2005 – July 2006

Senior Business Analyst

Enhancements to the global Credit Monitoring system called SELM (Strategic Electronic Limits Management): Responsible for Business Process Reengineering and Gap Analysis to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the firm's global credit risk and exposure management.

Analyzed, gathered requirements for several projects under the Credit Infrastructure Transformation initiative (CIT):

Business process re-engineering for the Global Credit Risk Management project.

Documented business requirements, functional specifications for conceptually unique model pertaining to trades of various securities for performing the real time liquidity management.

Functional Analysis document specifying road map in multi-phase systems project for Investment Operations (Brokerage, Corporate Trust, Institutional Services Group, Securities, and Treasury)

Analyzed user requirements for major Credit Infrastructure Transformation initiative responsible for making strategic recommendations to migrate off redundant application platforms supporting Investment Bank, Financial Services, and Private Bank.

EDUCATION

Bombay University, Mumbai, India

Bachelors of Commerce

Diploma in Computer Applications

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Scrum Master (PSM-1)

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

Languages: Worked on Projects with Microsoft.NET (ASP.NET/VB.NET), Visual Basic, Java, SQL, C++.

Methodology: Rational Unified Process (RUP)

Tools: MS Word, MS Excel, Powerpoint, MS Visio, MS Project, UML, Rational Rose, RequisitePro

Databases: Oracle 9i/8i/7.x, MS SQL server, MS Access, DB2

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX (AIX), Mainframe MVS

Quality Management: Concept and Tools of Quality Management, ISO Concepts, Six Sigma techniques.

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