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Summary

Experience primarily in functional, System Integrated and Workflow testing on Capital Markets, Investment Banking and Wealth Management Domain.

Expertise in Croesus Portfolio Management System.

Hands on experience in Bloomberg ANYWHERE PX7000 for Orders and Trade Management System.

Proven skills in Functional testing, System Integrated testing and Test Data Management System.

More than 10+ years of experience in Agile project life cycle.

Proven leadership capabilities in coordinating and managing the testing team Onshore-Offshore model.

Experience in Functional system analysis, Test plan preparation, Test Scenarios, Test Cases & Test Data Suite development.

Detailed experience in testing Trade life cycle for various instruments such as Equity, Fixed Income, Equity Derivatives, Mutual Fund and Derivatives –Trade Capturing, Trade Execution, Reference data management, Confirmation, Clearing and settlements and Fail trade investigation.

Experience in Functional system test executions, Defect life cycle management, Test result review, and Client Communication.

ISTQB – Foundation level Certified Tester.

NCFM Equity Derivatives Certified Capital Market Professional.

Experience in Co-ordination with developers, Business Analyst and other Project Stake holders.

Positive working altitude, hardworking Self-motivated, strong team player, open-minded, always willing to learn new technology.

Flexible to work as Business System Analyst as well as QA Lead.

Skills and Tools:

Testing Tools ALM, JIRA, Selenium, Cucumber and QC

DBMS Hadoop HIVE SQL, SQL Server 2000, 2008, 2012

Job Functions Requirement Analysis, Test Plan, Test Case, Test Data Management, Defect Reporting and Test Result review.

Other Technologies Bloomberg AIM, CROESUS, Sun Guard – Trade Flow, Findur, CA WorkLoad Automation etc.

Clients TD Wealth Management, Manulife Financial, State Street Corporation, JP Morgan Chase, Merrill Lynch, AMEX and other industry leaders.

Education

Master of Science in Information Technology, T.S.Narayanaswami College of Arts and Science, University of Madras, India, 2003.

Project Information

Current Role Senior QA Lead Duration Nov 2018 to till date

Client TD Wealth

Technology/Software: CROESUS – Portfolio and Trading management system.

Responsibilities:

Review Functional Business Requirement document, use cases and derive test scenarios.

Prepare test scripts for scenarios depends on the Line of Business.

Setup valid test data for the SIT testing and UAT testing.

Create Models and Sub-Models for Rebalance.

Mapping Models and Sleeves for test Scenarios.

Create and Execute Orders for Equity and Mutual Fund asset classes.

Review Low touch and High Touch Equity Orders on the feed files(FIX).

Review and coordinate Mutual fund orders successfully loading into Prime OE.

Review JSON Mutual fund files are correct and accurate.

Involved in preparation of test case design document for system testing.

Manage QA defect life cycle and update status to test manager.

Review Show Stopper issues found during testing and report to project team for resolution.

Provide required UAT support.

Employer Syntel Canada Inc Duration Dec 2015 to Oct 2018

Role Senior QA Lead

Client Manulife Financial

Technology/Software Bloomberg Terminal-PX7000, SQL Server 2008, ALM, JIRA, General Accounting System and Downstream Applications.

Project Name: OTM – Order and Trade Management System

The OTM Interfaces and Feeds project is one of the streams under the GO Program. This stream consists of feeds and interface analysis of the Bloomberg AIM platform, to support both the current & future state of Manulife front, middle, and back office trading & accounting processing. These activities will span:

Coordinating the Bloomberg AIM platform major version upgrade, and consolidation of the 3 disparate trading platforms into a single global platform.

Support for the intermediate state during the AIM platform upgrade and consolidation to ensure that there is no impact to either current state of front, middle, and back office processing, as well as supporting the deployment and configuration of new middleware, SimCorp accounting platform, and associated DataMart & reporting systems.

Iterative AIM feed upgrades where required to support processing capabilities of new middleware components

Comprehensive testing of feeds for each major application release to ensure ASIS and data equivalence & compliance

Post production warranty support on each major release

Responsibilities:

Review Functional Business Requirement document, use cases and derive test scenarios.

Assist with test script preparation and test data/environment setup.

Prepare valid test data for the SIT testing and UAT testing.

Involved in preparation of high level test design document for system testing.

Enter testing trades in Bloomberg AIM based on functional scenario.

Execute CA Workload scheduler automation job to review end result.

Discussion with Subject matter experts and developers on daily basis to facilitate offshore team clarification points.

Execution of the Test Scripts in ALM with proper detailed test evidence.

Communicate daily QA status during Standup meeting.

Manage QA defect life cycle and update status to test manager.

Review Show Stopper issues found during testing and report to project team for resolution.

Assign resources for retesting defect fixes and review retesting results.

Coordinate QA test artifacts reviews with Business Analyst and project team and key stakeholders (test plan, test cases, test results etc)

Provide overall QA Sign-off for assigned stream(s)

Provide UAT support

Employer Syntel Canada Inc Duration Feb 2015 to Dec 2015

Role Senior QA Lead

Client Manulife Financial

Technology/Software Findur, SWIFT Messaging, CA Work Load and Quality Center.

Project Name: GDS Program - SWIFT

The SWIFT Gateway sends the formatted SWIFT message to Bottom Line. Once both systems have confirmed that the transfer was successful, the settlement status will automatically update to “Message Sent.” This status indicates that the message is “out the door” on its way to the Custodian. The Maximis Report is an exact replica of the Custodial Settlement Instructions Report, except it excludes all SSI-related columns.

Responsibilities:

Estimate the time for the FINDUR-SWIFT Message functional testing.

Coordinate with BNY & HSBC Custodian to acknowledge the message type.

Perform core validation on the MT202/210 and MT900/910 messages.

Work and facilitate the UAT test environment for business user testing.

Involved in data identification for Middle Office apps and executed manually.

Discussion with Subject matter experts and developers on daily basis to facilitate offshore team clarification points.

Employer Syntel Canada Inc Duration Dec 2013 to Jan 2015

Role Senior QA Lead

Client Manulife Financial

Technology/Software: BOXI, MicroStrategy Reporting Tool, Quality Center and Beyond Compare, EVAN, Pricing Strategy and OnBalance Connections.

Project Name: Inv Reporting Tool (MicroStrategy), Middle Office Applications

Employer Syntel Limited Duration Nov 2012 to Dec 2013

Role Senior QA Lead

Client Manulife Financial (Offshore)

Project Name Middle Office Applications

Employer Syntel Limited Duration Apr 2011 to Oct 2012

Role Test Lead

Client State Street Corportation

Project Name: Front Arena Upgrade

Employer Syntel Limited Duration Nov 2011 to Mar 2012

Role Test Lead

Client AMEX - Cards

Employer Syntel Limited Duration Apr 2010 to Oct 2011

Role Test Lead

Client JP Morgan Chase

Technology/Software: Trade Flow, SWIFT Message Validtion

Project Name: Trade Flow – Securities & Cash Transaction

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LTD Mar 2006 to Mar 2010

IT Analyst – Software Tester

Clients: Merrill Lynch, Nielsen

Sumeru Soft Pvt Ltd Feb 2004 to Mar 2006

Test Engineer

Clients: Abirami Securities, Yoha Securities, Standard Chartered Bank and Cancer Institute.

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