Apr 2021 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Apr 2019 – Apr 2021 · 2 yrs

• Possess a good understanding of Capital Markets, Bonds, Derivatives, Equities, Fixed-income, Asset Allocation, Wealth Management.
• Created user stories by eliciting information from SME’s, business owners, and referred to previous project artifacts to analyze the As-is system and To-be system. Drafted process workflow using Lucid Chart.
• Assisted PO and PM in ROI Analysis, and GAP Analysis in order to be prepared for potential business and technical risks. Created Risk Traceability Matrix (RTM) to validate all requirements to their test cases.
• Drafted Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD) and Systems Requirements Specification (SRS) by virtue of multiple teams involved in the enhancement of the system.
• Decomposed the elicited information into user stories by conducting a story writing session with the Product owner and define the acceptance criteria for the PSPI.
• Estimated Product Backlog Items (PBI’s) using Planning Poker and prioritized them using MoSCoW.
• Actively participated in Sprint planning, Daily Stand-ups, Review and Retrospective meetings.
• Strategically handled requirement churn by making sure the current sprint is not affected by the change.
• Proficient in creating UML diagrams like Use-case, Activity and Sequence using Lucid chart.
• Created Mock-ups and Wireframes for the dashboard using Balsamiq to test the aesthetics of the system.
• Conducted UAT and maintained a feature-file that listed all the activities of the tests.
• Executed ad-hoc SQL queries to using joins to fetch data from SQL server database system.

Aug 2017 – Feb 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Worked with Fixed Income trading desk to discuss, encapsulate, and finalize the data migration process.
• Maintained coordination within data modeling, data migration, integration, extraction, loading, maintaining decision support and reporting systems.
• Involved in position reconciliations by researching all outages through comparison of internal accounting systems as well as with the positions held at the fund.
• Collaborated with SMEs to gain knowledge on Counterparty risk control, credit, and market risk exposure, monitoring and reporting, risk assets and capital cost limits setting on all product types and business units.
• Collected and filtered different static reference data like Calendars, Index, Bonds, and Customer Ratings etc. Work included comparing Pricing, Risk Numbers generated by various systems.
• Elicited requirements by visiting client sites, authored User Stories and Business Requirements Document.
• Conducted Walk-through sessions with development and testing teams to help them break down large user stories and understand the end user business requirements
• Created a pre-production matrix document that profiles all identifiers used for reconciliation. Mapped raw data; flow charts, technical designs, multiple application field identifiers.
• Created SDLC Data flow diagrams for the developers to assist them in understanding the workflow and constructing the system architecture.
• Conducted impact analysis, reviewing the Client Requirements and Business Specifications, analyzing the impacts and feasibility.
• Administered user, user groups, and scheduled instances for reports in Tableau.

Jun 2015 – May 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Gathered data and conducted a SWOT analysis to understand the premise “where we are now” to plan moving forward.
• Interviewed users, primarily Advisors and Planners (group and one-on-one) and other stakeholders to understand the domain, gathered customer requirements through surveys, along with JAD sessions.
• Creation of requirements, business use cases, and functional specifications (FRS).
• Incorporated BABOK Practices for requirement gathering and facilitating walk through meetings and Generated various reports which were used by senior members in the organization.
• Proactively managed systems development, implementation and risk via the use of SDLC.
• Led the creation of prototype for risk based scoring system to assess risk tolerance of individual clients. This resulted in additional benefit of advisory compliance.
• Responsible for communicating with stakeholders to provide accurate reporting and information regarding the ongoing projects and initiatives.
• Trained field application support Team on various application roll outs.
• Utilized involved in all stages of testing process–Development of Test Plans, Test procedures and Test cases based upon requirements for Functional, Regression, Integration and User Acceptance Testing.
• Worked with Visio to create use case diagrams and used SharePoint to facilitate Communication between the team.

Jun 2012 – May 2015 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Worked with development team to understand technical design and architecture for test planning.
• Updated Test Scenarios and Test Cases periodically to manage changes in requirements.
• Executed approved test cases manually and recorded snapshots for each execution.
• Performed regression testing of existing test cases in case of new changes affecting old functionality.
• Used Quality Center for Test management and Identified, tracked and reported defects to the developers with proper priorities and severities.
• Prepared traceability matrix to ensure the adequate coverage of the test cases.
• Wrote SQL queries and used them to perform Back End Testing.