Rangana Patra

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SUMMARY

About 15 years of total work experience in the IT Services Industry. Having a diverse Experience working in major financial banks like Deutsche Bank, UBS, JP Morgan Chase, Citi Banamex, Wells Fargo, UBS in various financial domains

Over the past 7+ years, I have hands-on experience transitioning 3 organizations (CITI, Wells Fargo and UBS)from Waterfall to Agile-based development. Proficient in Scaled Agile/Scrum, Kanban, as well as extensive leadership in performing training, coaching, mentoring and “Scrum Mastering” over 100+ sprint cycles. Ability to quickly assess impediments, whether technical, or performance-related, allowed to address it head-on and keep teams on the right track. With Finance domain origins, strong communications skills, and passion for Agile, has proven to be extremely effective in getting buy-in from all verticals of an organization.

My other Skills sets include

Derivative (trade life cycle), both OTC and CDS,

Assist in enhancing the operational risk framework of both the OTC middle office and valuation teams

Risk Management: Collateral Management – Risk Margining, Mark-to-Market for trades and collateral positions, Regulatory Reporting, Margin Statements, Margin Call Management and Collateral Movements, Clearing and Settlement. Counterparty Credit Risk- Credit Value Adjustment (CVA) calculation. Credit risk modeling (PD, LGD, EAD, Expected/Unexpected loss). Market Risk measurement (Var, Expected Shortfall)

Regulatory and Compliance: EBA- CAD II Prudent Valuation, Dodd-Frank Act Title VII, BASEL III, CCAR, DFAST, Dodd Frank Enhanced Prudential Standards, market in financial instrument derivative (MIFID I and II)

Investment Products: OTC and Exchange Traded Derivatives (Forwards, Futures, Options, Swaps, Interest Rate Derivatives, Credit Derivatives), Fixed Income Securities and Equity

Client onboarding for Retail banking customer (onboarding system), update the MLI with the customer information (KYC complaint),AML knowledge.

Retail Banking-Creation of wholesale lending transaction flow platform

Knowledge in Wealth Management

Expertise in Zelle and ACH payment process

Front end client experience like onboarding, utility bills payments generation, Transaction security, Client login Security,

Develop a detailed knowledge of the Middle Office service offering to assist with any client queries

Work within the teams to ensure full support for operational efficiency initiatives

Continuously identify opportunities for improvement

Experience in VAR calculation, back testing, and stress testing

Experience working as Business Analyst with SDLC knowledge, requirement documentation, elicitation, Quality assurance and project coordination

Experience with Quality assurance team in area of preparing the test cases, defect tracking, UAT and Exit reports

Coordinating JAD sessions with project sponsors and development team

Experience in working with UI team designing and development and knowledge of UI/UX design methodologies such as wire frames, creating protype, use cases, workflow diagram and activity diagram

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Microsoft office, excel, Word, PowerPoint, MS Visio, (Process Maps and Mind Maps, UML Use cases);

SDLC methodologies (both TDD and BDD), waterfall, Agile and Journey

JAD session, GAP analysis, SWOT, Vendor Assessment, Interface analysis, Decision

analysis, Document Analysis, Functional Decomposition, Retrospective sprint meeting,

Sprint review, planner scrum in Agile (JIRA Scrum and Kanban)

Database-MS SQL server,

Requirement analysis, business rules, data flow diagram, flowcharts, business process

modeling & improvement, decision tree, BRD, FRD, RTM, TOR, DTP’s and QRG’s,

Swim lanes/ Flowcharts using MS Visio, Blueprint, RTC, JIRA and Rational rose tool, Business Reporting (Thought Spot)

API XML Schema Mapping & Testing

TCS bancs Application (Corporate action)

Balsamic tool

QC-ALM, HP QC

Summit

CERTIFICATION

Scrum Master Certification from Scrum Alliance (2020)

Certifications programme in Investment Banking competency.

Certifications programme in Risk management competency.

Certifications programme in Banking competency.

AGILE certification

WORKEXPERIENCE

UBS Dec 2019--Till date

UBS as part of its Cares Act, Secure Act, Reg BI, Risk harmonisation project facilitated its various clients dealing with changes in IRA contribution, Advisory fees, and changes in the risk level.

As Agile Coach, facilitated adoption, implementation and sustainability of Agile processes, principles, and practices across departments.

Acted as Scrum Master for multiple scrum teams across the program with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work

Facilitated daily stand-ups, sprint planning, release planning, retrospective, and sprint demos

Reached out to the teams and stakeholders for impediment removal

Maintained relevant metrics that helped the team to inspect and adapt towards Continuous Improvement

Supported the management as necessary and provided timely reporting and escalations

Suggested metrics for the team as catalysts for change and reminded the team of their arrangements and helping them to continuously improve their process

Help creation of user stories, story pointers, coaching team.

Act as a Change Agent, to resolve conflicts and shift the organization through any resistance to change and into high performance

Transitioned the teams from Waterfall to Agile. Walked through the Definition of Done and provided guidance as an agile coach.

Set up standards and processes for an Agile development and created and managed team dynamics to promote an open culture.

Conducted backlog reviews, planning poker sessions, sprint planning, customer reviews and retrospectives for two teams during concurrent 3-week sprint cycles.

Managed global teams by utilizing tele-presence meetings and standard calls.

Managed the development, test, and product management and software configuration management (SCM) teams while also Prioritizing work items and ensuring high availability of the SaaS application per our SLA's.

Facilitated Agile teams for innovation, including the setup of R&D teams for product research and prototyping.

Assisting Product Owners and teams in story writing, backlog maintenance and prioritization and planning.

Servings as teams’ information radiator, representing the team to senior management, stakeholders, and sponsors.

Effectively using metrics and data visualization to report progress and support data-driven decision making.

Facilitating estimation and planning both at the team and organizational level

Coaching developer, designer and product team members in Agile practices, values and principles.

Helping teams and individuals clarify goals, and actions to achieve them.

Shielding the team from outside distractions, context switching and interferences.

Tracking and removing impediments.

Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching to higher levels of maturity

Building a safe environment with an emphasis on collaboration and problem solving

Wells Fargo -Charlotte, NC Feb 2019-Dec-2019

Worked for two projects as Scrum Master/Sr Business Analyst(Role)

Liquidity analysis and risk management-This project was based on the flow of information from one upstream to various downstream systems that would help generate information which comply the FR2052US regulatory norms

Also involves the calculation of the price decline threshold for asset classes like Cash and Equities (Liquid Assets) Details of the data like stress price, clean price coming from various Risk systems

Calculation of the Price decline threshold on quarterly basis for following categories like

Trading, Investment portfolio, the ones which have CUSIP and the one that does not have CUSIP

Recording the price decline information in the table

Achieve the data using following methods to retrieve the information and pass on to the downstream systems

Data Gap, Exception reporting, MTM (Mark to Market) differences.

Wholesale lending platform -CBTW—Creation of a common platform facilitating the lending and underwriting process for various businesses like, Small, and Middle market business (MMB). This project deals with loan IQ and consumer lending

Promote and guide Agile Transformations, including training executives, functional managers, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and teams.

Coach executives, organizations, leaders and teams on Agile Values and Principles.

Guide teams to achieve results through being Agile versus simply doing agile practices.

Work with teams, programs, architecture, and business levels to understand and achieve ‘inspect and adapt’ approach to delivering quality.

Act as a Change Agent, to resolve conflicts and shift the organization through any resistance to change and into high performance.

Provide Agile Leadership coaching, influence and training to Team leads, Product Owners, Program Managers, Technical Teams, Functional Managers and Executives on agile principles/values and how to build, grow and maintain a thriving agile organization at scale.

Deliver hands-on coaching and leadership of teams in scrum and Kanban– from daily meetings, planning, self-organization, estimation, and removing obstacles to enhanced performance of the team.

Collaborate directly with software and operations teams to coach and guide them on Agile methods to achieve optimal team effectiveness.

Facilitated daily stand-ups, sprint planning, release planning, retrospective, and sprint demos

Reached out to the teams and stakeholders for impediment removal

Maintained relevant metrics that helped the team to inspect and adapt towards Continuous Improvement

Supported the management as necessary and provided timely reporting and escalations

Suggested metrics for the team as catalysts for change and reminded the team of their arrangements and helping them to continuously improve their process

Help creation of user stories, story pointers, coaching team.

CITI Bank-Irving, TX April 2014- Feb2019

Scrum Master/Senior BusinessAnalyst/Product Owner

CITI AVATAR - Enhance and maintain its online application of Banca net modules like Dashboard, Investment module, Payment and Transfer module(Like transfer between own account, transfer between other account, local interciti transfer or external transfer in same currency or different currency) Card payments module with credit card or debit card various other cards like departmental cards .also worked on enhancement of other services related to card like block card,increase card limit, change pin, various security methods. Also having inclusions of facility like Pull Pdf to download the banking account statement. Onboarding of new clients and OTP using MLI facility, WSDL,Webservices.Transaction Security (API)

Responsibilities

Transitioned the teams from Waterfall to Agile. Walked through the Definition of Done and provided guidance as an agile coach.

Set up standards and processes for an Agile development and created and managed team dynamics to promote an open culture.

Conducted backlog reviews, planning poker sessions, sprint planning, customer reviews and retrospectives for two teams during concurrent 3-week sprint cycles.

Led daily scrums and scrum of scrums to communicate current day’s goals, previous day’s achievements, and any impediments or concerns in an Agile Scrum environment.

Managed global teams by utilizing tele-presence meetings and standard calls.

Managed the development, test, and product management and software configuration management (SCM) teams while also Prioritizing work items and ensuring high availability of the SaaS application per our SLA's.

Facilitated Agile teams for innovation, including the setup of R&D teams for product research and prototyping.

Assisting Product Owners and teams in story writing, backlog maintenance and prioritization and planning.

Servings as teams’ information radiator, representing the team to senior management, stakeholders and sponsors.

Effectively using metrics and data visualization to report progress and support data-driven decision making.

Facilitating estimation and planning both at the team and organizational level

Coaching developer, designer and product team members in Agile practices, values and principles.

Helping teams and individuals clarify goals, and actions to achieve them.

Shielding the team from outside distractions, context switching and interferences.

Tracking and removing impediments.

Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching to higher levels of maturity

Building a safe environment with an emphasis on collaboration and problem solving

Facilitating FRD creation, MLI creation

Citicorp Credit Services Inc

CITI Card eBusiness North America-Citi Cards wanted to enhance and maintain its Account Online (AO) applications in Internet Group. Process called Acquisition is performed to acquires customers for Credit cards via the following channels Internet, Retail Bank, Telemarketing, Citibank Retail Banks

Servicing – Accounts Online (AO) provides Citi card members the facility to manage their accounts online

Bankcards can be categorized as Consumers Cards and Business Cards

Responsibilities:

Analyze business data processing problems and perform system analysis to ensure technical projects are delivered within the defined project budget, timeframe, and quality.

Responsible for end-to-end solutions delivery to automate or improve existing software.

Further review system capabilities and ensure all testing resources are fully utilized on projects.

Review all assigned projects and liaise with business partner regarding all project and service deliveries.

Liaise with Business and Tech team regarding project deliverables.

Develop testing strategy for new and existing codes used in projects.

Analyze the feature requirements in context of the overall project feature set and existing implementation and translate requirements to technical concepts for quality testing.

Facilitated team scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint review and retrospective, resolve impediments and shield team from interruptions, capture and report team performance metrics.

Coordinated with stakeholders and extended teams for resolving impediments and blockers

Analysing data, identifying the gaps recommending suggestion to fill the same and monitoring the same.

Estimating future requirements through client interactions

Run planning sessions to continuously refine, prioritize portal wide enhancements on desktop and mobile interfaces to manage prioritization of new BOW and backlog

Preparing FRD using Blueprint, User stories in JIRA and RTC, (Agile /Scrum projects)

MLI creation

Update Jira or RTC for the queries from the scrum team

Maintaining product backlog

Facilitating SIT and UAT testing

Defect management

Run Sql Queries to get the data., Data Ingestion by cloud (nosql)with the help of developers

Deutsche Bank-London, UK Mar 2013-Mar 2014

Risk Analyst

DB –MRO (Market Risk Operations) This project dealt with calculation of various market risk which Bank faces each day and the maximum Loss which the bank would incur for the day, Generating the reports with respect to the various product groups like Equities, Emerging markets, commodities, GCT. Basel norms

Responsibilities

Calculating VAR (using Macros in Excel) (Market risk)

Generating VAR reports based on countries and regions and sending it to the clients also providing the solution to the movements in the positions.

Handled VAR calculations for Emerging markets (Movement pertaining to currencies), Commodity market and Equities market.

Help guide the customer relationship managers of the bank in London providing them with details around the position in the market the trader must curtail as in to safeguard the market risk.

Calculation of VAR for the different commodities pertaining to the movement of prices in the market related to various metals, gold, silver, and Crude oil prices

Market Risk reporting supporting Basel 2 norms

Was involved in understanding the “back testing” or performing the analysis of the reports generated by individuals in order to arrive at a near accurate VAR.

Involved in regression and stress testing of various systems to check on performance under load.

Deutsche Bank (DBOI), London UK Sep 2012-Mar 2013

Technical Lead

EMIR (European Market Information Regulatory)

Deutsche Bank project dealt with regulatory reporting EMIR, and ESMA

Domain Competency required was:

Regulatory and Compliance: BASEL III, MIFID norms for European union regulatory

Investment Products: OTC and Exchange Traded Derivatives (Forwards, Futures, Options, Swaps, Interest Rate Derivatives, Credit Derivatives), Fixed Income Securities and Equity

Responsibilities

• Booking trades, checking, and validating the reports generated mostly the Eod files in the various attributes matching to the current regulatory limitations set by regulatory authorities.

•Mandatory reports including the Unique identification number, LEI number

• Work experience in ALM and defect management.

• Involved in the UAT Testing

JP Morgan Chase -Bournemouth, London Sep 2010-Sep 2012

Business Analyst /Tech Lead

DB –CA-SIT (Corporate Actions) The corporate action project involved the Integration of various systems with that of TCS BaNCS application. The project had Corporate action execution such as Bonus, Pari-Pasu, and Spin off, mergers etc.

Responsibilities

•Creating system integration documents based on business requirements (FSDs)

•Perform functional Testing

•Analysing the Gap Documents

•Ensuring that the team members fully understand the functional aspect of the Gap Documents & Requirements of the client.

•TCS Bancs: Developing System Test Cases & carrying out extensive System Testing of TCS BANCS®,

•Creation of the Test data like Xml files, Swift files and Excel files having test data.

•Swift messages understanding, creating the messages for testing to check the flow of the information through the system. Swift messages like (MT5XX, MT1XX)

•Performing Integration testing of TCS BANCS® & identifying defects

•Training of technical team on functional aspects of TCS BANCS®,

•Defect analysis & Reporting

•Executing test cases in the HP QC

•Also, was involved in the SIT and UAT testing

Deutsche Bank-London, UK Sep 2008-May 2010

Business /Test Analyst

DB –CA-SIT (Corporate Actions) The corporate action project involved the Integration of various systems with that of TCS BaNCS application. The project had Corporate action execution such as Bonus, Pari-Pasu, and Spin off, mergers etc.

Responsibilities

•Creating system integration documents based on business requirements

•Perform functional Testing

•Analysing the Gap Documents

•Ensuring that the team members fully understand the functional aspect of the Gap Documents & Requirements of the client.

•TCS BaNCS: Developing System Test Cases & carrying out extensive System Testing of TCS BANCS®,

•Creation of the Test data like Xml files, Swift files and Excel files having test data.

•Swift creation, testing using the xml messages pertaining to Swift for corporate action was a major part of this project Used putty to push in the swift messages to see the flow of the messages

•Performing Integration testing of TCS BANCS® & identifying defects

•Training of technical team on functional aspects of TCS BANCS®,

•Defect analysis & Reporting

•Executing test cases in the HP QC

•Also was involved in the SIT and UAT testing

UBS-London, UK Sep 2007-Mar 2008

Derivative Trade Analyst

Derivative Documentation

The project dealt with Execution of Trade and settlement and verification of legalities of trade documentation.

Responsibilities

Drafting legal Derivative trade documents for major derivatives products like Swaps, options, (call and put options) straddles, strangles.

European regulatory norms ESMA

Experience in working with Reuters and Bloomberg trade systems

Knowledge about Algo trading

Experience in working with multi-currency Interest Rate Swap products, including in-depth practical knowledge of full trade lifecycle from pre-trade credit check and all aspects of post-execution workflows,

i.e. STP, confirmations, clearing and regulatory reporting, Cleared OTC middleware –Market Wire

Deutsche Bank -London, UK Apr 2006-Sep 2007

Derivative Analyst

Derivative Trading

The project dealt with derivative trading between various interbank and intercorporate clients

Responsibilities

•Analysis of interbank documents,

•Chase respective interbank clients and resolve the issue like fixed rate issue, business day convention.

•Also clearing off unidentified trades

•Liaising with Middle office and Front office to resolve trade related discrepancies

•Was also involved in matching Documents and indexing them.

•European regulatory norms ESMA

•Experience in working with Summit, Reuters, and Bloomberg trade systems

•Knowledge about Algo trading.

•Experience in working with multi-currency Interest Rate Swap products, including in-depth practical knowledge of full trade lifecycle from pre-trade credit check and all aspects of post-execution workflows,

i.e. STP, confirmations, clearing and regulatory reporting, Cleared OTC middleware –Market Wire

Middle level Companies- Hyderabad, India Feb 2005-Mar 2006

Audit Assistant

MGRK associates

Responsibilities

Conducting financial audit for middle tier companies

Preparing trial balance and balance sheets

QUALIFICATION

Degree and date University

SAP ERP 6.2 version SAP Germany

MBA Symbiosis Centre of Distance learning

M.Com Berhampur University

B. Com Khallikote college

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