North Carolina Life Cycle

Alka Singh

Raleigh North Carolina ****.***@*****.*** Mobile # +1-984-***-****

Synopsis: Dynamic and motivated professional with a proven record of building and designing testing strategies and execution. Skilled in training individuals, demonstrating exceptional communication skills, and making critical decisions during challenges. Adaptable and transformational with an ability to work independently and developing opportunities that further establish organizational goals. Professional Summary

9+ years of progressive consulting experience in Requirements Gathering, Design the new applications using mainframe, distributed, Testing, Contingency Planning, Implementations on varying size and complexity including complex production support for level 2 and level 3.

8+ years of experience in designing and modernizing the applications, databases etc.

4+ years of experience migrating workload from mainframe to distributed.

4+ years of experience integrating mainframe with Distributed Testing.

Extensive experience in Investment & Securities domain with trade settlement and clearance, Trade Life Cycle, Client Account Opening and Maintenance, SWIFT messaging and payments.

Widespread experience in COBOL/DB2/CICS/JCL/VSAM APA-Application Performance Analyzer/EXPLAIN/SQLEASE.

Well acquainted with Software Development Life Cycle and Agile Methodologies.

Well experienced in estimation methodologies, resource and schedule planning, tracking and reviews.

Extensive experience in Unit and Systems Integration Testing, End to End & parallel testing. Possess strong knowledge of business workflows.

Working experience in QC tools like – JIRA, Quality Center, qTest.

Problem Solving Attitude - Ability to go to the core of the problem.

Ability to meet tight deadlines and work under pressure

Dynamic and assertive team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Technical Skills

Industries - Asset Management, Card and Payments

Development Languages - COBOL, CICS, JCL, Core JAVA, JSON.Node.JS Databases - DB2, VSAM, MySQL, RDS

Application/Web Servers: WebSphere

Network/Security: TCP/IP, SSL/TLS, FTP/SFTP, HTTP, HTPS Middleware/Messaging: IBM MQ

Operating Systems - z/OS, Windows, Linux

Tools – Changeman, FileAid, File Manager, SPUFI, Platinum, CA Intertest, Xpeditor, Abend Aid, PQ Edit, CA-7 Scheduler, JIRA, qTest etc.

Experience and Achievements

Worked with Hexaware Technologies Ltd from Feb 2016 – Till date May 2022. Client Name: Brown Brothers & Harriman

BBH is a privately held US based bank providing banking and advisory services. The firm is among the leading providers of global custody, foreign exchange, private equity, merger and acquisition services, and investment management services.

Project: Trade Processing and Settlement (Feb 2016 to till May 2022) Role: System Analyst – Team lead

Duration: 6 years 4 months (Mumbai India)

Trade processing is a centralized clearance and settlement application which facilitates clearance and settlement of domestic and foreign trades. Project has 2 tracks of maintenance/support activities and web enablement / screen rationalization of complex business work flows into simpler and easy to use web screens. As part of system enhancement initiatives, settlement and cancellation work flows are redefined as per the industry standards.

Recognized as ‘Most Valued Person’ and ‘Continued Excellence’ client award for modernization project Responsibilities:

● Coordinating with onshore/offshore/nearshore and business teams for technical/functional assistance and tracking

● Requirements gathering and Brainstorming sessions with client SME and business users

● Effort sizing, estimation, resource loading and timelines.

● Preparing technical design documents and POC

● Overseeing Development and Testing. Performing reviews.

● Coordination with the web (java) team and share the interface requirements.

● Developing programs using COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL, Developing Stored Procedures.

● Debugging CICS and Batch programs using XPEDITOR.

● Writing SQL queries for data analysis

● Project tracking and status reporting.

● Maintaining and supervising organizational quality processes and audits.

● Assisting program management team in RFP, SoW preparation, cost optimization initiatives. Employer: L&T Infotech

Project: P&C insurance

Duration: Sep 2009 to Feb 2013

Role: Software Engineer

o During the project, I worked upon a policy center for mainframe and Duck Creek. o Collaborated with clients from concept through final delivery of product or service. o Requirements are reviewed for test planning and any GAP in requirement. o Responsible for test design of legacy to duck creek data migration project for Home and Dwelling LOB.

o Actively participated in test execution for the data migration project. o Prepared effort estimates for change requests/Defects. o Prepared test cases related to the regression test suite, Change Request, and Defect testing using MTM.

o Actively involved in the execution of test cases. o Completed regression tests of new software builds to assess performance and the success of bug fixes.

o Followed defect life cycle with TFS tool. Maintained defect log and published to the team for further activities.

o Prepared Status report daily for internal team and weekly basis for a weekly status call with a client.

o Played reviewer role for peers or junior team members to review all deliverables prepared by them.

Part of five engineers for Unified Account File application. This application is the central part of bank IT infrastructure to maintain addresses, products, services, banking instructions, foreign currency accounts.

Recognized as ‘Ace of the Month’.

Responsibilities:

● Perform Development, Unit Testing and Integration testing of work products as per SDLC

● Ensure in time and accurate delivery

● Helping team to understand the business requirements

● Interaction & Coordination with onsite, client & business teams for technical/functional assistance

● Provide technical and functional assistance to team members

● Support the test batch cycles

● Perform Design, Development and Testing of work products as per SDLC

● Maintain organizational quality processes

Awards and Certificate

Corporate Mainframe Training within L&T Infotech(LTI Mindtree) topper in the year 2009

Email Etiquettes in the year 2010

Role-based training (RBT) in the year 2010

Quality Assurance in the years 2011 and 2015

Software Configuration Management (SCM) in the year 2011

Microsoft Visual Basics Macro in the year 2012

Insurance domain training in the year 2012

BBH Star Award in 2020

POB (Pat on Back award)

SPOT Award for August’2018

Education

Post Graduate in IT: 2008

School of Computer Science, DAVV Indore MP with 7.2 CGPA

Graduate in BSC Math 2006

Govt. M.H College of Home Science and Science for Women Jabalpur MP with 65%

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