RITESH KUMAR, Vice President,, Dallas, USA

ado0w5@r.postjobfree.com Phone : 609-***-**** https://www.linkedin.com/in/ritesh-kumar-baa29520/ PMI ID: #3129874 Technology Project Management and Quality Assurance Fixed Income Wealth Management FX

• Enthusiastic Engineering, MBA and PMI-educated PMP professional with Over all 14 years of QA and Project Management in Global Wealth Management and Markets Technology on Client/Server and web based applications. As a Senior Associate, works as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. Niched experience of working in the Bank with several Business, Operations and Technology, ensuring that the Project initiatives are delivered according to plan, quality and organizational process.

• Managed several activities in a project life-cycle (initiation, planning, executing, controlling, and Release) across various lines of business initiatives and demonstrated capabilities to the investment solution group businesses

• Deep Understanding of the project scope, milestones, delivery, Creates and executed plans. Revise them as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements

• Interacts with senior leadership including CIO, Line of Business, IT Executives and major stakeholders to establish project plans and objectives

• Very well hands on and overseen Global QA Delivery team by Leading 20+ Member Team (onshore and offshore), Works collaboratively with Business Analysts, Dev and Test Leads and Engagement partners, Act as a individual contributor Technical Test and Project Lead/manager

• Liaises between Technology staff and Change Managers and act as the main contact for well-organized presentations across projects

• Engaged in multiple initiatives simultaneously, executing multiple projects, and work on initiative to meet deadlines and set priorities without close supervision.

• Managed the risks/issues throughout the projects within technology and business teams to improve process and quality of delivery

• Facilitated and chaired status meetings with the technology teams,Participate as required in steering committee and governance meeting.

• Taken ownership including coordinating the technical resources across multiple platforms throughout the project life-cycle

• Ensured implementation of project and program metrics/KPIs and other business artifacts according to PMO governance

• Strong team player internally and across teams within a project. Delegate others to stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results

• Pro-active, adaptable and results driven, Sets objectives and enables individuals/teams with training & resources to achieve them

• Provide performance and career development of individuals through performance reviews, coaching, and building development plans that are needed to develop competencies and skills, Provides feedback and reviews to my team members with transparency each level

• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct. Electronic Trading, Fixed Income, FX, Rates and Credits, external trading partners,(ECNS),Regulatory Reporting (SEC, Finra, MIFID), Dodd- frank, Trade Surveillance Systems, Pre and Post Trade controls, Best x price Exec, Pricing, RFQ /RFS, Front Office Trading apps Merrill Edge, Charles River, Tradeweb, Bonddesk, MarketAxess, knightbond,Bloomberg, Intercontinental Exchange(ICE), Calypso, SWIFT, FIX

• Test strategies, code coverage validation, unit tests, front end tests, manual/automation integration and functional using appropriate skill in team Identify and drive efficiency and create automation opportunities in in order to maximize impact and reduce defects

• Perform functional and integration testing in GUI, Putty(Unix),FIX and DB and code, Maintains UNIX /DB/GUI/DB environment for testing, Deployment in environment from Unix and Jenkins

• Manage incident logs, track them in Jira and update on desired timeframes, perform task to remediate and Documents for Dev, Business syetem maintainance, requirement analysis and help in creating design

• Defect Tracking, reporting and maintenance in JIRA/QC, raises and create the change request, Keep track of lessons learned and share with team members and across the department.

• Managing UAT (user acceptance testing) cycles, bug fixes cascading from UAT testing cycles, and providing regular status reports on UAT results;Demo to client, product owner and reporting to the Customer any issues that need fixing, ensuring no compromise to quality.

• Writing Production release notes, Post Release Verification and validation in production

• Well-equipped in delivering technology using SDLC environment like waterfall and Agile Scrum methodology

• Taking care of application performance in production (app health, resiliency, performance, security, enterprise data management standards, audit and reviews and feedback).

QA Delivery and Mgmt. Responsibility

Business Domain Experience

Technical Experience

Technical Skills:

Business Apps :MerrillEdge,Bloomberg,Tradeweb,ICE,Bonddesk,Calypso, knightbond, TMC, Fxconnect, MareketAxess

Databases and Technologies :MS SQL Server, Test director, JIRA, Git, Bitbucket, SQL, Test complete, Junit, Maven, TestNG, Jenkins, and Deployment, HP Quality Center, Linux, Jenkins, SharePoint,, Java, Selenium, Internal Project Reporting and Metrices tools, Tableau(learning)

BOFA - Fixed income Bond Market & FX Platform:(Jan 2010 – MAR 2011), (Nov 2013 – Dec 2015) (July 2016 – cntd.)

• Gained Deep Understanding and experiences in delivering MerrillLynch retail/online and advisory bond market wealth management platform (Global Rank 2) products which are used for trading variety of US taxable and International bonds

,New issues bonds and Equity products including pricing,RFS,RFQ, Trade booking and routing of trades to/from different channel like internal desk/Tradeweb, Bonddesk, MarketAxess, knightbond and streets for broker and dealer, trace reporting from Bloomberg and traqcs

• Demonstrated excellence in developing & maintaining appropriate project plan, delivering the project according to defined process/methodologies., considered as GO To GUY & Subject matter expert

• Responsible for Stakeholder, Communications, Cost/Resource, and Risk Management

• Involved in Internal and external negotiations stakeholders to achieve the business case given in the project charter

• Chairing meetings to implement change management strategy to perform execution of strategic initiatives

• Timely Reviewed project decks and metrics prepared by team leads and make sure all information are accurate

• Developed and revised complex project plans with WBS and Schedule, work with users to understand complex problems, focus on bringing issues to resolution, and escalate as necessary to meet time-lines, while adjusting for shifting priorities

• Helped to improve release cadence (8 weeks to 3weeks) for faster time to market by adoption of Agile across teams

• Gained Experienced in taking decisions based on the schedule and cost variances, re-prioritizing the activities and resources

• Implemented program and project level processes, procedures, and Project performance metrics according to PMO and governance framework

• Closely worked with MerrillLynch wealth management Traders and successfully completed the Integration projects with Internal and third party trading platforms such as Tradeweb, Intercontinental Exchanges and MarketAxess

• Successfully set up Multiyear Initiative projects and started delivering based on direction received from onshore heads with newly hired contract and full time positioned employees for Fixed Income apps from Plano, Texas, Onboarding QA and Dev resources

• Delivered several phases of Broker dealer separation projects between Merri lynch and Bofa in front office trading

• Delivered Technology upgrades Projects such as (Chrome, Linux and DB Upgrades, JDK, HTTP)

• Delivered Urgent Projects during Covid pandemics such as security Sanctions and traders requests despite of tough Working conditions

• Delivered the new IMM/BDS/MIFID2 regulatory project which implemented in the bank in 2017- 2018, Assisted the mgmt. team in utilizing funds/resource for current fiscal year for USD 1.6 mn., Forecasting fund/resource/cash flow with my mgmt. team to bring the cost down to USD 1mn for 2017, Successfully reduced the project cost by utilizing the resources at appropriate assignments and using available technologies

• Implemented risk based testing approach in the team to achieve project milestone for long term reference data Projects

• Managed QA delivery for several program under Wealth and Marketing Mgmt., Release planning to meet the Project timelines, participate in taking timely decisions to rolls Manual effort to Automation

(Best FX option platform award team for year 2014 & 2015)

• Delivered Electronic Front Office Foreign Exchange trading projects on Spot, Forward, Swaps, NDF, Dual Ccy Products, Volatility Matrix, vanilla, Barrier and Digital Option, Auto risk mgmt., raw price feed from EBS and Reutters, Cross pricing and hedging, Publishing on user GUI for single and multileader, FXALL, Fxconnect, Static set up for pricing the currencies pairs, client static data and trading rules set up

• Handle multiple project delivery on cash and option platforms, precious metal trading platform testing legacy to new app, fix risk mgmt. platforms, regulatory projects

• Managed projects, implemented process /risk management and learnt to build/manage the team based on onshore management’s expectation, helped Automation team to transform manual effort

• Hired new team members, set up goals and made them productive

***2020 Innovation winner for presenting idea to create shared data repository from Bloomberg

** Several Gold Award winner every years of service in Bank for Excellent work and achievement

** Several time received Exceeds expectation during my tenor to Bank

***Bank of America We can Deliver Bran Ambassador to share BOFA Products in Markets through various channels, Experiences

*** Selected as risk Spoc and auditor to review and Audit internal applications internally in Bank Statestreet Bank as senior consultant contract QA: Feb 2016 – July 2016

• QA architect and QA project lead for FX MAD-MAR and Market Surveillance product –new product, successfully tested in 5 month and delivered to prod

• Worked multiple products for Electronic Front Office Foreign Exchange for FX trade capture Spot, Forward, Swaps, NDF,RFQ apps on Fx-connect platform

RBS Calypso QA Lead, Fixed income, Equities and structure products Technology (June 2011 – Nov 2013)

• Sr. Business System Analyst on multiple calypso projects in middle office in the bank

• Successfully transitioned QA project from vendor based to perm resources

• Taken ownership and responsibility of QA Projects deliverables from Gurgaon Dev center

• Testing Electronic infrastructure for Swift,Calypso trade Mgmt., Transfer payments and messages,

• Testing EQUITY front office Application FOR Dodd-Frank Analysis, Regulatory reporting to DTCC,CFTC and SEC, reporting to FSA

• Testing standard Settlement instruction and account setup condition, Partial Settlement/Split,

• Testing for Trade Exception, Messages and payment authorize, reference data, static data

• Testing Swift template Testing, SDM, Equities trade flow and processing implementation on calypso

** RBS excellence Award winner in RBS for Excellent work done in Delivering Dodd -Frank HCL:- Software Engineer on QA project for CITI and Deutche bank (June 2007 - Jan 2010)

• Worked on New OTC Citi CDS Front office testing for Input of Credit trades from Calypso Applications,Trade flow to Downstream and finding the breaks, testing for various FO Batches that generates the EOD reports across all regions and test with the prod data, Trader and sales report, Calculation Agent, CDS Trade capture and verification of trades

• Established co-ordination with Development, Production and Environment team and perform Full cycle of Trade,BULK Trade and Amend Trade,Sales Trader Matching scenarios

• Partial buy back and partial Assignment,Fee testing like upfront, Assignment, Expected Values and Broker Trade

• Analysis of Diff and Missed Section of Feed generated and preparation of report after Batch Regression Testing

• OTC Front to back office Foreign Exchange Trade capture for Spot, forward and Swap, NDF, Static and refrenece data,Confirmation and Settlement of these trades using Swift, Capture and clearing of exception trades

• Trade entry, customer confirmation, broker confirmation, telephone confirmation and settlement. Trade, Customer phone confirmation. Customer hardcopy confirmation e.g. Swift, fax, mail, Static Data Set up for Each Interfaces,Environment Setup

• Accounting and Settlement to Nostro and Current Account through Netting and Gross interfaces from FXPCA

• Confirmation Generation and messaging via Swift

** HCL STAR Award winner in HCL for delivering various Solutions on time to clients

Graduation BE(2007) Bachelor of Engineering (Information Technology) MSRIT, Bangalore

MBA(2013-14) Indian institute of foreign Trade, Delhi, Specialized in Capital and Financial Markets

Certificates: ISTQB, SCJP(Java), IIBF Banking and Finance, PMP, ITIL Six sigma(ongoing), Scrum Master(ISM)

Leverage past and current experience to continue gaining expertise in delivering technology projects, products and services that meet business outcomes. Become Accountable for solution delivery within organizational compliance polices and standards, by utilizing organizational resources and inspiring the development of innovative solutions by collaborating with Key stakeholders.

Implement critical and Transformative Projects that thrive growth opportunity, new revenues, Improve efficiency and increase productivity consistently overcome business and competitive challenges to deliver successful outcomes. Learn New tools and techniques which helps in Project deliverables Visa Status : H1B – Green card in line, I140 Approved, Priority date (Sep 2020), DALLAS,USA Academic Education and Certificates

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