SOUMYA JAYARAMAN

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Location: New Jersey

Professional Summary

** *****’ experience in BFSI domain with over twelve years extensive experience in Business Analysis and Quality Assurance with leading Investment banks and Hedge Fund

Extensive knowledge in capital markets space specializing in Order Management systems and sound knowledge in area of Equities, Derivatives, Options, FX along with back and middle office Operations, alternative investment products like Real estate and Private Equity

Experienced in testing various applications (web / client-server)

Experienced using Quality Center, Quick Test Professional, JIRA and, Visual studio and Power BI

Strong Analytical skills and problem-solving techniques

Experienced with the On-site and Off-shore model

SKILLS

BUSINESS ANALYSIS

TEST MANAGEMENT

HP ALM

AGILE AND WATERFALL

DEFECT MANAGEMENT

PRE-SALES

TFS, JIRA

QUALITY CENTER

POWER BI

SALESFORCE CRM

SHARE POINT

FIX PROTOCOL

SWIFT

SQL

AS 400

DATA ANALYSIS AND COMPARISON

DATAWAREHOUSE

CHANGE MANAGEMENT

EXPERIENCE

Palnar Inc (Oct 2014 – Present)

Client: Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (NEW YORK)

June 2020 – Oct 2020

Test lead for the Missing persons Integration project.

Functionality and regression testing of the inhouse Application which handles Missing person reports

Operated under Agile and Scrum frameworks to complete releases well-organized sprint.

Understanding the Requirement and formulate Test Data and Scripts

Document Management in SharePoint and upload Test data and share results with Project manager and other Stakeholders

Used Next Gen for Data verification from the Regional Health Offices.

Creating and Validating XML input with the responses received from the external application using Next Gen as the middleware for end-to-end testing

Experience in Web Services, SOAP and REST API Testing using Postman and SoapUI.

Client: Angelo Gordon & Co (Senior QA)

Jan 2015 – Feb 2020

Functionality and regression testing of various Web based and desktop applications for various projects involving Real estate Valuation, Pricing and other projects.

Operated under Agile and Scrum frameworks to complete releases every two weeks and well-organized sprints in a hedge fund environment

Sound knowledge of test management tool HP Quality Center, HP Application Lifecycle Management

Effort estimation for each release cycle

Document Management in SharePoint.

Experience in Transformation and continuous improvements on quality process.

Test case reviews with QEs and lead and mentor the QA team

Experience in Transformation and continuous improvements on quality process.

Work closely with Development team, Business analysts and Users

Experienced in scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).

Tested application compatibility on different platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac OS).

Coordinating, tracking and updating Testing issues to relevant stakeholders that impact the go live date

Daily scrum and defect triage calls

Work with automation team to define, build and maintain changes to test data and scripts

Created Reports and Dashboards in SF for the Real Estate manager focusing on Realized and Unrealized status of the RE investments across geographies.

Ability to bridge and develop mutually beneficial and accountable relationships with key technology partners, business stakeholders, and various cross functional teams

Work closely with Development team, Business analysts and Users

Participate in User acceptance testing and address issues before go- Live.

Release management and Post production verification

Interacted with teams located globally

Operated in the CI/CD environment and knowledge of VSTS and TFS release applications

Tata Consultancy Services

May 2007- June 2013

Client: JP Morgan Chase, Broker Dealer Services (Senior QA)

Managed multiple testing projects simultaneously

Project Plan, Weekly Status Report, effort estimation, and Impact analysis, Onsite-Offshore coordination

Develop Manual Unit and System Test cases bases on business requirements

Ensured all client and/or partner issues were addressed within the scope of established requirement processes

Review the requirements, develop extensive functional Test cases to cover all requirements to achieve expected results

Conduct daily dashboard meetings to update project status and reporting to top management

Suggest Process improvements and provide recommendations

Facilitated change management across entire process from project conceptualization to testing through project delivery until Production

Perform Gap analysis and identify the root cause of Production issues after the release

Extensive knowledge of the life cycle of exchange traded instruments (Equities, Bonds) and OTC products including FX, Rates, Swaps and Credit

Employed effective time management when dealing with coordination and accountability

Client: Morgan Stanley, Swaps Pune, India (Business analysis and Quality)

Analyzing and understand client business processes and implementing appropriate solutions for CAPS, Floors, IR Swaps and Swaption Workflows

Responsible for writing business requirements for IR Swaps and Swaption workflows and document various data sources for upstream and downstream systems

Interfaced with multi-functional teams on a global delivery model with teams in New York and London

Performed gap analysis between the old and the new application

Collaborate with the product managers and developers to provide a high level of functionality, usability, and testability expertise during the requirements phase

Interact with users during UAT test cycle before the go live phase

Participate in the future development of in-house automation frameworks/tools

Third Party Capital Market Products – Centre of Excellence: Analysis, Pre-sales

Active involvement in Pre-Sales Activities, and RFPs

Prepare business cases, Market Analysis of Third-Party Capital Market Products Configuration and Implementation of Smart Stream TLM Recon 2.5

Yes Bank Limited (Assistant Manager)

Nov 2006 – Apr 2007

Oversee Back office FX settlement

Liaising with Clearing Corporation for fund management and RTGS payments

Resolved large trade breaks ranging from 10 mm to 400 Mn and reduced risk through daily reconciliation

Generation of MT299s SWIFT payments for interbank foreign exchange trades and making timely settlements

Promote enhancement of treasury systems and processes through collaboration with Technology teams

Onboarding process of new accounts

Lehman Bros Ltd

May 2006 – Oct 2006

Assist in Clearing and Settlement to ensure timely and efficient trade settlement of Spot and Forward trades

Resolve post trade issues and escalate to PB and middle office

Met multiple deadlines for processing millions of dollars through SWIFT

Led effort to create SOPs and trained cross-departmental teams on subject expertise and mentored junior analysts

Investigate and escalate any trade erroneously booked with traders and middle office

Monitor affirmation platforms and ensure all booking is as expected by matching with incoming SWIFT confirmations

JP Morgan Chase India Pvt Ltd

Feb 2004 – Apr 2006

Part of migration of the biggest process of Global Interbank Foreign Exchange Operations

Perform and monitor day-to-day processing of Forex Spot, forwards NDF and CLS trades including matching and settlement of trades in complex markets

Investigate discrepancies of booked trades not recognized by counter parties and escalate any high potential loss to upper management

Led the Standard Settlement Instructions project to improve the Straight Through Processing by setting up of Nostro accounts reducing risk by 20% and reduction in daily FX volumes by 30%

Led the CLS Direct Membership project to reduce manual intervention for FX interbank settlements

Client account set up, account maintenance and related activities in EMEA and America regions

Domains

Equity, Swaps, FX, NDFs, CLS, credit default swaps, Real estate, private equity, Loans, CDS, Derivatives.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Commerce

Mumbai University, India

1998-2001

Post graduate Diploma in Treasury and Forex Management

ICFAI university, Hyderabad

June 2007

MBA Finance

Keller Graduate School of Management, DeVry University, Chicago

Aug 2016

Availability: Immediate

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