Software Engineer Analyst

Saritha Chinthapally

E-Mail: ******@*****.*** ~ Contact No.: +91-095********

SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST - BANKING SERVICES

Seeking career enhancements across Banking / IT industry at senior level positions

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

A result oriented professional with expertise as a Senior BA in Lending domain.

Expertise in Loan Origination and Loan management.

Excellent exposure to Credit risk and Core banking modules like CASA/TD.

Proficient in understanding and implementing end to end solutions including requirement gathering, solution designing, and support during testing phases.

Experience in transforming legacy applications to Digital

International experience in handling clients/stake holders during requirements gathering and UAT facilitation.

Worked with banking giants Bank of America, Barclays & State Bank of Mauritius with Onshore/Offshore model.

An effective communicator with good people management, analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to handle tasks under high-pressure environment

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Pennant Technologies as Senior Business Analyst from Dec 2018 to till date.

Quinnox, Bangalore as Senior Consultant from Oct 2011 to Dec 2018

BA Continuum India Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad as Analyst from July 2007 to Sep 2011

InfoSTEP India Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad as Sr. Software Engineer from Aug 2006 to Jun 2007

MIC Electronics Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad as Software Engineer from Sep 2004 to Jul 2006

PROFICIENCY MATRIX

Requirement gathering, Requirements management.

Defining Scope and Preparation of User Stories, FSD, Flowcharts & Workflow diagrams

Reviewing BRD, HLD with technology and project team members and partnering with UAT members to ensure proper coverage of testing.

Expertise in studying the existing business processes and systems of client, carrying out As-Is and To-Be study, suggesting process improvement

Experience with MS Office, JIRA, ALM, MS Visio tools

Handled projects in different software life cycle processes like water fall, Agile SCRUM

Hands-on experience of banking products like Transact SM, CRM(MS-Dynamics), FinnOne – LOS, CMS and LMS, FLEXCUBE and Finacle.

Involved in facilitation of SIT and UAT.

ACADEMIA

Master of Computer Science in Nov 2000 from Osmania University.

Bachelor of Computer Science in Apr 1998 from Osmania University.

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Scrum Master

ITIL Foundation level certified.

ISTQB Foundation level certified from International Software Testing Qualifications Board.

Domain certification in Consumer Banking & Mortgages from Stradigm with partnership of Bank of America.

ACHIVEMENTS

Achieved Best Performer Award in State bank of Mauritius Project.

Received Global Recognition Gold Award (Internal) twice in the project from US Client for best performance in handling complex project and providing training to Onsite team.

Gold Medal from Lion’s Club for standing top in the town in the Intermediate Public Examination.

Scored State 3rd rank in the APRJC Entrance Examination conducted by the Government of AP.

Key Projects Handled:

Product Name: Pennant Lending Factory(PLF)

Duration: Dec 2018 to Till date

Role: Senior BA

Clients: Multiple NBFC's - Avanse, Profectus, Mahindra

PLF product is aimed to cater all the lending needs of the business. It has modules Customer Onboarding, Loan Origination and Loan Management. It is single platform based lending software with Rule based Workflows, Rule based Fee & Charges,Event/Trigger based Accounting which is user friendly.

Key responsibilities:

Understanding business requirements

Preparation of FSD/UD

Handling Requirements traceability/Change management

Facilitation of UAT & End to End Implementation.

Leading daily status calls/reports

Project Name: CSSP

Duration: June 2018 to Aug 2018

Role: BA

Client: Shawbrook(UK)

Customer self-service portal is service portal for Shawbrook’s consumer lending customers to view and manage the details of the loans that are sanctioned. Customers can take loan account statement, enquire about pending dues, interest paid, Principal remaining etc., Customer can also raise any request to do partial/full payment or any reschedulement.

Key responsibilities:

Understanding business requirements

Preparation of FSD

Handling Requirements traceability/Change management

Managing the risk and issues

Review of Test Strategy

Leading daily status calls/reports

Facilitation of UAT

Project Name: ELCM

Duration: Feb 2018 to May 2018

Role: Business Analyst

Client:Mashreq Bank (UAE)

ELCM is Oracle’s Enterprise and Collateral management system serving the Corporate & FI lending process of Mashreq. An efficient centralized system for limits and collateral management which assist banks in effective management of exposures to customers with a holistic view and enhances efficiency in utilization of funds. Banks can avoid over exposure to any specific customer segments and inefficient usage of collateral leading to lower credit facility to customers.

Key responsibilities:

Current system (as-is) study

Preparation of FSD

Create & Review Visio diagrams for Business processes.

Review of TSD/Test plan/Test scenarios

Guiding team in identification of test data

Facilitating SIT and UAT execution

Resource task allocation and tracking resource utilization

Requirements traceability/Change management

Defect management

Leading daily status calls/reports

Project Name: IRIS/BPM

Duration: Sep 2016 to Nov 2017

Role: Business Analyst

Client: Mashreq Bank (UAE)

IRISis a retail Loan/CC originating application developed on BPM platform. It integrates with various applications for score/credit policies and for loan and card creation. It is integrated with FLEXCUBE& Select.

Key responsibilities:

Understanding the business requirements.

Preparation/Review of FSD

Review of Test plan/Test scenarios/Test conditions

Facilitating SIT and UAT execution

Resource task allocation and tracking resource utilization

Requirements traceability/Change management

Defect management

Leading daily defect &status calls/reports

Preparation of Test closure reports

Project Name: FinnOne

Duration: Aug 2013 to Aug 2016

Role: Business Analyst

Client: State Bank Of Mauritius (SBM)

FinnOne is a product of Nucleus software which is customized for the purpose of Retail/Corporate lending for SBM which is integrated with Finacle, Core banking solution from Infosys. Handled 3 modules of Finnone -CAS, CMS and LMS

Key responsibilities:

Business process analysis, requirement elicitation and gap analysis

MRD/BRD/FSD reviews

Preparation of FSD

Create Workflow diagrams for Business process of Retail Assets.

Preparation of Test plan/Test scenarios/Test conditions

Requirements traceability/Change management

Managing the risk and issues

Facilitation of UAT testingand Client handling at Onsite (Mauritius)

Leading daily status calls and Defect calls.

Preparation of Test closure reports

SME input for the Core banking applications

Project Name: Strategic Billing (miRevenue)

Duration: May 2012 to Jul 2013

Role: Functional Lead

Client:Barclays (UK)

miRevenue product from Zafin labs is customized for Barclays to mitigate the revenue loss when charging the Corporate customers for the services provided by Barclays bank.

Key responsibilities:

Understanding of FSD.

Test plan preparation/review

Test cases/script review

Test data support

Defect management

Status reporting and Client handling.

Leading team with task allocation and tracking,

Dash board/Closure report preparation

Project Name: Transact Strategy Manager (TSM)

Duration: Oct 2011 to Mar 2012

Role: Senior Tester

Client:Barclays (UK)

Transact strategy manager is decision analytical system used for Account opening and origination of Credit facility.

Key responsibilities:

SIT/UAT execution,

Test cases/data preparation

Defect management

Attending daily status calls

Project Name: EDGE

Duration : Jul 2007 to Sep 2011

Role: Functional Test Analyst

Client: Bank of America

Edge application is used in Bank of America for Mortgage Lending in US.

Key responsibilities:

Discuss and document the change requests from business.

Test scenarios preparation

Test cases/data preparation

SIT execution

Defect management

Training new team members

Languages known: English, Hindi, Telugu

Date of Birth : 27 July, 1977

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