Data Analytics Scrum Master

Name: Sriharsha Nuti *************@*****.*** Cell: 980-***-****

Summary:

15+ years of experience in Data Analytics, Data Analysis and Decision / Data Science

10+ years of experience in Finance (Capital Markets), Operations, Audit, Risk, Investment banking domains

5+ years of experiencing leading and managing data analysts and data analytics professionals

MBA in Business Finance

MS in Computer Science

Strong experience using analytics tools such as Tableau, Power BI, SAS to decipher trends, identify anomalies and issues for executive leadership reporting

Designing and developing innovative automated technology solutions with a focus towards risk management or compliance and to satisfy regulatory reporting

Identifying areas for improvement and continued enhancement, and implementing solutions in SDLC workflows

Strong knowledge of financial products (Fixed Income, Derivatives) and corporate finance

Led and managed different quality controls for various software applications

Applied analysis and project management skills to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application requirements and various test scenarios

Strong project management, software development and testing experience

Performed Product Manager/Owner and Scrum Master roles in Agile framework and facilitated Agile meetings (for multiple teams) such as daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint grooming, sprint retrospective and sprint demo

Experience with leading the design, development, implementation, and adoption of corporate investment, wealth investment management data products.

Provided significant project related metrics such as burn down charts for accurate program management milestones

Experience with release management tasks including code deployments

Experience implementing solutions for regulatory requirements such as CCAR, Dodd-Frank (DFAST)(UDAAP), and Basel 3

Strong experience in data flow design, data sourcing and provisioning for Market Risk and Credit Counterparty Risk platforms especially for Basel III regulatory reporting

Played leadership role on various projects, hired, trained, mentored and managed human resources

Strong experience applying Scrum (Agile) framework to complex projects (Scrum Master- PSM I)

Experience in financial budgeting, planning, analysis and reporting

Identified design and quality issues that saved more than a billion dollars’ worth of trading data from being incorrectly reported

Technical skills:

Operating Systems

Windows, LINUX, UNIX

Testing Automation Tools

Quick Test Professional 9.x, Win Runner 8.0, Selenium (WebDriver), Quality Center, JUnit, Groovy, TestNG, SoapUI (TestRunner)

Programming Languages and Analytics tools

VBScript, Java, HTML, PL/SQL,T-SQL, Python, ETL tools(Informatica), SAS, Tableau, Power BI, R, Microstrategy

Database Environments and tools

Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access, DB2, IBM, Toad, Aqua Data Studio, Squirrel SQL Client, AWS and Cloud technologies

Work Flow Tools

MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Access), Bloomberg, DevOps

Domain Knowledge

Health Care, Finance, Accounting, Insurance, Mortgage, Retail

Methodologies

Waterfall, V-Model, Agile

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Wells Fargo since Mar 2020

Executive Director, Senior Lead Risk Analytics Consultant

Independent Risk Management Group (IRM): Market Counterparty Risk Management team in the IRM group is responsible for data sourcing, data governance, and data analytics reporting of Market and Counterparty trading data.

Responsibilities:

Developed data governance process and procedures to mitigate operational risk and produced valuable analytics for executive leadership

Contributed technological expertise for efficient data mart modeling and design

Led Basel 3 effort to source Secured Financing Transactions (SFT) data for data analytics and federal regulatory reporting

Provided requirements for source to target mappings and, influenced database models and data normalization structures for efficient data persistence and provisioning of Market and Counterparty Credit risk data platforms

Developed SAS, PL/SQL, Python scripts for data analysis to frame accurate regulatory requirements

Vice President, Principal Analytic Consultant (Lead)/ Audit Analytics Manager

Internal Audit Group (SAOG): Innovation team in SOAG (Strategy and Operations Group) division is responsible for transformation and modernization of Internal Audit by providing advanced analytical solutions to the Audit programs by improving efficiency and coverage.

Responsibilities:

Led and developed strong analytic solutions that improved efficiency and coverage for Performance Management and Incentive Compensation Audits in Enterprise Functions arena

Identified, logged and reviewed high rated audit issues using data analytics

Reviewed and assisted team with issuance of I&R (Issue and Recommendation) memos

Developed Tableau dashboards for reporting various liquidity risk breaches of the organization for executive level management reporting

Periodically mentored team of experienced data analysis and visualization professionals in achieving audit analytics objectives and reviewed their work

Utilized AMP/AMS tools to document and review Audit Engagement and Audit Planning documents

Developed SAS programs for data analytics including data mining/extraction and validation

Evaluated current audit approaches and practices, led and implemented innovative analytic solutions and demonstrated efficiency, quality and coverage gains across different audit groups

Signature (Client- Wells Fargo) July 2019 – Mar 2020

Analytic/Data Management Consultant

Data Management and Insights (DMI): Counter party pod team is responsible for data validation and remediation efforts for CCAR FR Y-14Q/M schedules.

Responsibilities:

Developed SAS programs for data analytics including data mining/extraction and validation

Extensively using MS Excel for data organization enrichment and validation of FR-Y14 Q/M accounting schedules

Doran Jones (Client- Wells Fargo) June 2018 – July 2019

Sr. Automation Engineer

Collateral Management Technology: Collateral management technology group is primarily responsible for hosting, clearing and managing collateral assets information, generating statements, calculating and maintaining Initial Margin and Uncleared Margin Rules. COLLINE, a core app, generates exposures and manages end-to-end margin call workflows.

Responsibilities:

Developed automation solutions using Selenium framework (Java)

Analyzed the requirements, prepared technical workflow for Security Builder State Transitions that is responsible for straight through processing of securities in to COLLINE (collateral system)

Developed and gathered user requirements for regulatory reporting of trade data

Built SQLs to analyze COLLINE database structure

Uncovered various defects during quality assurance process that helped build a robust and reliable software

Architected integration and functional test plans involving payment technologies: SWIFT messaging system, for Straight Through Processing (STP) of collateral assets (via MT569 custodian messages) in to COLLINE

Besides being an agile team member facilitated daily Agile meetings and led sprint retrospectives for team and product owner feedback and problem resolution

Bank of America, NC, USA November 2011 – June 2018

Vice President, BA Professional MKTS

Global Funding and Investments Technology: Worked on myriad of applications interwoven around Corporate Investment Data Warehouse, which is one of the major enterprise data provisioning points for Finance and Risk Management groups. These applications perform various tasks such as booking trades (Middle Office Blotter), providing trade positions with enhanced profit, loss, General Ledger reconciliations, and risk metrics calculations (CI); and supporting regulatory requirements such as DFAST, CCAR, Basel, and aggregation as well as distribution of Cash and Cash Equivalents (including Wholesale trades) to various down-streams clients.

Responsibilities:

Developed and analyzed complex functional requirements, and prepared business requirement documents (BRDs) and technical design documents

Worked with lines of business, effectively engaging with key stakeholders to agree on action plans and follow-up reviews

Developed and generated automated reporting routines to communicate and escalate status of various risk remediation process or controls for stakeholders and senior management

Established Quality Standards and Quality Controls for effective data management and insights

Developed python scripts for automation of deployment process across various environments

Synthesized various data sets of products for business customers, and leadership team to evaluate operational risk practices

Ensured and coordinated appropriate prioritization, status reporting, escalation, and closure of outstanding backlog, defect, and operational risk items using various stages of Agile process workflow

Identified issues by performing root cause analysis using various database tools

Strong experience with database schema design and developing complex PL/SQL queries for retrieving and reporting various data sets from database

Made key contributions to the work flow design and implementation of the Middle Office trade capture system which included Straight Through Processing (STP)

Created system integration test (SIT) plans to verify end to end data workflow of various financial products (Cash/Fixed Income and Derivative products)

Worked with Agile tools such as VersionOne, JIRA (JADE), HP Quality Center for defect tracking and requirement gathering tasks

Monitored and communicated progress of stories and bottlenecks to senior management

Strong Agile Scrum master experience in facilitating agile meetings and resolving impediments for incremental software delivery in sprints

Programmed and performed functional, regression, and performance testing using SoapUI

Developed batch scripts to automate SoapUI functional tests via the TestRunner

Developed VB Scripts in QTP to address regulatory requirements which functioned as reconciliation process checks between the software application systems

Performed various audit related activities such as requirement documentation, test evidence captures, business (UAT) sign offs, SLA adherence etc... and, interpreting formulating other audit related requirements

Performed Data Analytics by developing and executing complex SQL and PL/SQL scripts in a large relational data warehouse environment

Architected and developed reconciliation processes for data source migration projects to align with key enterprise risk initiatives

Collabera, USA June 2010 – November 2011

Software Quality Assurance Analyst (QA)

Corporate Investments: Performed quality analysis on major applications in the corporate investment group (CI). Corporate Investments and Asset Management (CIAM) is real time data storage for all the investment banking trading activity. Trade life cycle events and details from different trading platforms are listened using queues to process and persist the data into corporate investments operational database. PAM, investment accounting system, which is developed over Princeton’s PAM for securities software manages accounting, portfolio management, mortgages etc... XAB also known as Cross Asset Blotter is a UI based application which helps business users review the trading activity.

Responsibilities:

Served as a key leader in the QA management team, providing guidance and leadership to enhance the division’s risk culture

Analyzed the requirements, prepared test specifications including test plan formulation from requirements, and test scenarios development from use cases.

Tested new, old and enhanced functionalities as per the specifications and design documents.

Extensively worked in manual and automated testing.

Delegated assignments to other QA testers while working closely with developers and management.

Validated XML files to check for the Data Consistency.

Worked with various check points and output values using QTP.

Improved quality assurance process by developing various automation frameworks.

Designed test cases and performed manual testing using positive and negative test case scenarios.

Executed the test cases, analyzed the actual results against the expected results to provide feedback on the application.

Created integration and functional test plans to verify end to end data workflow of various financial products.

Performed manual testing by following the end user business processes on the entire application to test for real world scenarios collaborating with the business testers.

Developed automation scripts for end-to-end functionality testing using HP’s Quick Test Professional.

Responsible for co-coordinating with developers and business analyst teams to discuss the design and testing scenarios of the application.

Used JIRA as a defect tracking tool.

Participated in defect review meetings

Provided sign off for releases before they were deployed to production environments.

Retested the defects that were fixed and updated the defect tracking sheet.

Experience using HP’s Quality Center to document test process including test cases, test execution details and, defect tracking.

Interviewed and trained new hires on complex trading systems.

Performed extensive SOAP or Web Services testing using SoapUI

Built and maintained SQL and PL/SQL scripts for data analysis and data validation

Designed and developed TIBCO process in TIBCO designer as a part of testing process

Environment: Manual Testing, (HP products) Quality Center 9.0, QTP 9.0, Test Director, Visual Studio 2005, C#, SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle 10g, MS Excel, MS Word, XML, Webservices, TIBCO RV

FDA/CDRH/ORISE Lab, Washington DC January 2009 – December 2009

Computer Engineer

Research: The research involved integration of electromechanical and software systems to study and process patient’s data as a result of his or her bodily movements.

Responsibilities:

Developed software (OOPs) for data analysis and data acquisition from electromechanical systems

Developed LABVIEW programs to process and test the data

Administered the database which recorded the acquisition data

Awards/Certificates:

Recognized by Bank Of America with Gold and Silver awards

PROFESSIONAL SCRUM MASTER- PSM I

Awarded with ORISE Fellowship

SUN CERTIFIED JAVA PROGRAMMER (Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 5.0 certification), 2008.

ORACLE DATABASE 11g ADMINISTRATOR CERTIFIED ASSOCIATE

Won University Chess championships (2002, 2008)

Education :

Master of Business Administration from University of North Carolina, NC

Major: Business Finance

Master of Science from George Washington University (GWU), DC

Major: Computer Science

Bachelor of Technology from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

Major: Electronics and Communication Engineering

Graduated First Class with Distinction

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