Paul Sumanth Sarella adhmt4@r.postjobfree.com

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15+ years IT experience in Technical Product Management, Systems and Business Analysis, Quality Assurance and of web-based, Client-Server applications, developing business processes and system solutions primarily for Banking and Financial domain for large scale projects from conceptualization to implementation.

Prepare, present, track and review digital product plan, Product Backlog, Test strategy and Implementation plans in close collaboration with the Business, and IT Operations partners across the globe.

Manages product plans by ensuring changes in business priorities including Regulatory/ financial integration needs, and technology upgrades are reflected. Presents status updates at periodic stakeholder meetings.

Excellent conceptual and working knowledge of System Development Life Cycle, Risk Based, Agile and Test Driven Development Methodologies.

Demonstrates leadership by establishing and articulating a clear vision of success and how product goals and objectives will be achieved

Plan and prioritize the product requirements to align with IT strategy, Global and regulatory requirements and regional needs.

Collaborate with Cross-Functional Technology partners to assess overall impacts and determine technology solutions

Identifies risks and challenges, opportunities and growth strategies, business integration needs, and process streamlining.

Engages and interacts with end users during feedback sessions, user groups, and requirements gathering sessions. Practices open and honest communications with clients

Works closely with Business Analysis and Technology SMEs to drive detailed product definition.

Provides presentations during business reviews, prospect briefings, and internal group meetings

Collaborates with senior management to provide content for market messages, sales collateral, and as needed RFPs (request for proposal)

Thorough knowledge of Financial Services and Regulatory/Compliance capabilities.

Requires general business and technology skills, industry knowledge, financial management and planning skills, long-term vision, and executive presence

Thought leader in the internet space, current with new internet trends, tools and technologies

Practical problem solving and strategic thinking skills. Investigate and resolve (where appropriate) issues / concerns raised by Business/users.

Ability to utilize judgment in decision making process and decisions related to job tasks

Customer service skills, understanding and focusing on clients’ needs, establishing credibility and building positive, professional, relationships with clients

Team skills, including ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with all levels within organization, internally and externally.

Strong in writing User and Functional Test Cases and reporting the test results to the business team. Working in conjunction with testers (QA), developers and Deployment team members in validation and Implementation of complex project scenarios and in the maintenance of Quality Standards of projects.

Ability to lead and work with internal and vendor teams across multiple locations and time zones. Experienced in working onshore-offshore model and Worked as a Lead Onsite coordinator in UK and USA.

Strong project management skills; ability to prioritize and complete tasks using JIRA.

Certified Scrum Product Owner from Scrum Alliance (CSPO).

Responsible for Design, Analysis, Testing, deployment and Production Support phases of the implementation of Complex IT systems.

Exposure to manage and coordinate Incident management, Global Risk Analytics (GRA),Data reconciliations, Data Quality and reporting.

Excellent technical writing skills to create Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Specifications Document (FSD), Technical design documentation, Nonfunctional Requirements Documentation and Use Cases Specifications.

Requirement Traceability Matrix mapping and Translating user requirements to appropriate IT solutions.

Well versed in defect tracking tools: Quality Center, JIRA and Impact Analysis/ Gap Analysis.

Experience in deployment of Banking regulatory requirement changes for more than 60 countries across 6 different instances.

Proficiency in: SQL, Quality Center, JIRA, Agile process methodology, Data Analytics tools like Tableau, Control-M and vendor applications such as Norkom, BAE Systems, Detica and Oracle Watchlist Screening products.

Work Experience

Senior Analyst Business Systems

HSBC Technology & Services, USA

March 2015 till date

• Technical Product Management of Compliance/AML Systems and Single IT point of contact for Name Screening for Americas.

• Responsible for the Application analysis and Business Requirement Analysis of Oracle Watchlist Screening (OWS) application in the Compliance/AML IT in the Americas region for USA, Canada and LATAM.

• Responsible for identifying and documenting business rules and creating detailed Use Cases.

• Involved in coming up with a global roadmap for US regulatory requirements.

•Responsible for Design, Analysis, Testing, deployment and Production Support phases of the implementation of Compliance/AML IT system changes.

• Involving in initiatives such as the GRA and Data Reconciliations, US Data Quality anomalies, Mexico and US feed rejections, Mexico Special character issues, Legacy Application decommissioning, screening defect investigations and Helios Risk Assessments.

• Creating and maintaining documentation for change management process.

•Demonstrable knowledge of Banking Compliance systems.

• Supporting the area for the local Skilled Person and Audit engagements and also IMR.

• Involving in all the interactions with Testing and deployment teams in the implementation of OWS application in Americas.

• Conducting monthly application review meetings with the operations groups to understand the impact better.

• Collaborating with project manager in tracking and managing project Change process following SDLC and RBPM methodologies.

• Analyzed the gathered requirements, verified requirements and created business requirement specifications (BRS).

•Excellent Project Coordination between multi located IT and Business teams based across the globe.

•Exposure to coordinate Incident management, Global Risk Analytics (GRA) and Data reconciliations and reporting.

• Actively participating in daily team meetings and discussed the Action Items.

• Chairing and attending the meetings with across the Global and Regional Transformation, Risk Analytics and Risk Screening, Business and Compliance teams.

• Creating on - call escalation ticket procedures.

• Conducting mass user interviews and gathered business requirements using JAD sessions with SMEs, US and CA Compliance teams.

• Coordinating and Interacting with teams based in US, UK, India and Hong Kong and efficient in planning and task allocation.

• Apart from the testing and deployment activities, also involving in the effort estimation, resource management, planning and scheduling.

Environment: JIRA, SharePoint, IT Metrics, MS - Office, SQL, Windows, Quality Center,

Product: Detica (Formerly Norkom) and Oracle Watchlist Screening

Senior Software Engineer

HSBC Software Development India Pvt Ltd

January 2010 to February 2015

• Responsible for the Application analysis and Business Requirement Analysis for deployment of SCDM application in the various regions/countries.

• Involved in all the interactions with Testing and deployment teams in the implementation of SCDM application in all global sites of HSBC.

• Analyzed the gathered requirements, verified requirements and created business requirement specifications (BRS).

• Actively participated in daily team meetings and discussed the Action Items.

• Chaired the meetings with Global Business and Compliance teams.

• Responsible for identifying and documenting business rules and creating detailed Use Cases.

• Involved in coming up with a global roadmap for US regulatory requirements.

• Created on - call escalation ticket procedures.

• Instrumental in interacting with the various regions and understanding the functional Requirements as well as Change Requests, Preparation and review of test plan and test strategy and execution of the Test cases manually.

• Conducted mass user interviews and gathered business requirements using JAD sessions with SMEs, US and CA Compliance teams.

• Created, maintained and evolved documentation for change management process.

• Documented the MOM after every meeting.

• Coordinated and Interacted with teams based in US, UK, India and Hong Kong and efficient in planning and task allocation.

• Apart from the testing and deployment activities, also Involved in the effort estimation, resource management, planning and scheduling.

• Conducted monthly application review meetings with the operations groups to understand the impact better.

• Collaborated with project manager in tracking and managing project development process following SDLC and RBPM methodologies.

Environment: JIRA, SharePoint, IT Metrics, MS - Office, SQL, Windows, Quality Center,

Product: Detica (Formerly Norkom)

Senior Software Engineer

Mahindra Satyam Computer Services Ltd.

August 2007 to January 2010

• Developed a project plan using Microsoft Project based on details contained in the HL BRS and also a project plan to schedule and assign work and manage the project.

• Worked closely with project managers, business users to formalize a business idea and define requirements for wealth management applications specialized in Australian Superannuation used by Suncorp Professional Services

• Interacted with the business users and division supervisors to gather the requirements.

• Developed test cases and participated in UAT (User Acceptance Testing) and FAT.

• Participated in capturing best practices and Assisted with understanding the domain requirements.

• Came up with Test Approach and Methodology Documents like Risk Based Testing.

• Involved in Setting up the Centre of Excellence for Retail Banking.

• Conducted JAD and brain storming sessions with the business users and stakeholders.

• Conducted meetings with all the department supervisors to ensure that all the requirements are met.

• Implemented the approved suggestions and modified the current process flows.

• Created Requirement Traceability Matrix to make sure the current project requirements are being met.

• Acted as a liaison between the technical, businesses and testing groups to provide them with required specifications/documentation and to resolve any issues in between.

• Also involved in responding to Request for Proposals and Request for Information for upcoming Projects.

Environment: Test Cases, Quality Center, SQL, FTP, MS-Office,

Products: Composer, Tamenos T24.

Test Coordinator Support (CSE)

HSBC Data Processing India Pvt. Ltd.

May 2005 to July 2007

• Worked closely with project managers, business users and developers to formalize a business idea and define requirements using rational requisite pro.

• Assisted in development of Test Plans and assisted QA team in System testing to ensure the new system satisfies all User requirements.

• Functioned as the primary liaison between the business line, operations, and the technical areas throughout the project cycle.

• Analyzed the gathered requirements data, verified requirements and created functional specifications (FRD/FRS).

• Gathered requirements for building a sub-ledger that hosted day to day trading activities of various hedge fund clients and assisted in reporting and accounting.

• Assisted in development of training materials for new technology and process improvements.

• Followed CMMI to improve the quality of process outputs and reduce defects.

• Queried relational databases using SQL on a daily basis to resolve operational issues and assist business and IT in better understanding of business requirements.

• Developed business requirements and process workflows.

• Defined requirements for new disclosures, coordinated systems testing, and supported UAT.

• Involved in Business Process flow development, and Business Analysis.

• Developed Requirement Traceability Matrix to record the relationship of the requirements to the design, development, testing and release of the software.

• Worked with Development and QA teams to transition business requirements into QA test cases and assisted in UAT.

• Supported the development of the test plan and test cases to be used in testing based on business requirements, technical specifications and/or product knowledge.

• Managed enhancements and defects promptly to assist the operations in resolving issues.

Environment: Use Cases, SQL, JAD, Test Director, MS-Office, Windows.

Products: Vision Plus

Education

Nagpur University Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Technology

Aug 1999- June 2003

Additional Information

TECHNICAL SKILLS

MS Access, SQL Server, SQL, TOAD for Oracle 11i, DB Visualizer, GUI/Tools MS Project, SharePoint, Visio, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access), XML & HTML

Data Analytics : Tableau

Platforms Windows NT/2000, HP UNIX (Servers)

Defect Tracking Quality Center (QC), JIRA, Quick Test Pro (QTP)

Methodologies Agile, SDLC, RBPM, Scrum, CMMI,

Other Skills Requirements Gathering & Management, Application design, testing, Deployment, Application Migration. SIT, UAT, FAT, Risk Based testing, Boundary Value Analysis, Equivalence partition, Combinational pair wise testing, Exploratory testing.

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