May 2019 – May 2021 · 2 yrs

Sep 2013 – May 2019 · 5 yrs 8 mos

•  Worked closely with clients (Onshore) on Re-engineering the entire Allocation logic for different Fixed Income asset types. Lead the entire end to end track performing requirements closure, setting up/driving the review calls with stakeholders, conducting functional testing integration testing and regression testing.
•  Drove integration for business transformation projects with various Electronic Communication networks (ECN) such as Bloomberg, Tradeweb, MarketAxess, Calypso
•  Introduced Zephyr for JIRA at team level. Educated the team leading to better tracking.
•  Test Resource management through JIRA
•  Conceived test strategies and resource plans for monthly deliverables for fixed income securities.
•  Worked collaboratively with the development team, business analysis team, testing team and project management to ensure thorough test coverage for every functionality.
•  Performed in capacity of a Business Analyst (Onshore-US) in getting the requirements closed directly from business/traders and taking the track to a logical closure.
•  Mentoring the associates and the new comers, capturing their performance, creating growth plans and collecting feedback

Sep 2013 – Sep 2013 · 0 mo

• Roles and Responsibilities:
• Delivered projects related to different Fixed Income products like Bonds, Swaps, FUT etc
• Drove various end to end testing for FI projects incorporating the FIX protocol ensuring the communication with Tradeweb, Bloomberg went smoothly.
• Actively involved in stakeholder management by getting the requirement closure, contributing to key design and review sessions with business/dev and providing the estimates for the release milestones.
• Test management in an agile framework through JIRA
• Created test strategies and resource plans for various tracks in the project.
• Worked collaboratively with the development team, business analysis team, external testing team and project management to ensure thorough test coverage of every functionality.
• Identification and communication of the Risks early in the cycle and brainstorming over the solutions in order to mitigate the same
• Mentor the associates and the new comers, capturing their performance and collecting feedback

Jun 2012 – Aug 2013 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Client: Royal Bank of Scotland,
• Designation: Lead Consultant/Team Lead
• Project Description:
• The Project Source System Testing revolves around capturing data from various source systems such as Wall Street, Calypso etc and then processing the trades to get them to post to the ORACLE GL on daily basis. The incoming data gets refined using various accounting rules and validation at each stage. Several reports are generated from the GL which are analyzed and studied to fetch the trends and gather important statistics. The system uses two databases ORACLE and SYBASE. The reports/data, Business Validation Errors generated in the process of posting the data are then discussed/analyzed in conjunction with the End Users.
• Role/Responsibilities:
• Liaising with Client to understand the business requirements and cascading those to the QA team.
• Working closely with the client stakeholders in understanding the business requirements to define and implement the test processes, strategies and approaches.
• Involved in Automating the entire process of source system processing via QTP.
• Creating scheduled time plan for the data center relocation pre-go live, go live and post go live activities.
• Creating Problem management records for finding root cause and to have a permanent solution for reoccurring issues
• Resolving environmental/configuration issues faced during END to END testing of trade life cycle using complex SQL queries & UNIX commands

Aug 2011 – May 2012 · 9 mos

• Organization: Headstrong, Noida, India
• Client: Morgan Stanley
• Designation: QA Consultant/Team Lead
• Project Description:
• Client Suitability application is part of Risk Platform application which pertains to Morgan Stanley’s Private Wealth Management module. Based on certain inputs from a client, application calculates that how much a client is suitable for a particular investment. Inputs taken from client are Risk Tolerance, Investment Objective and Investment Experience. These inputs are fed to the Client suitability application and an algorithm calculates the client suitability.
• Role/Responsibilities:
• Involved in Full STLC, Coordination with Onshore team, Defect Reporting and preparing DSR/WSR
• Working as business analysts for requirement understanding and sign off on the test cases and SIT entry criteria
• Worked prudently in analyzing the gaps and improving the process thus facilitating savings of 14000USD in 3 months for Morgan Stanley
• Managing a team of 3 in the extensive manual testing of the Client Suitability application.
• Working closely with the client (Morgan Stanley) in understanding the business requirements to define and implement the test processes, strategies and approaches.
• Shared/ implemented best practices within the team and encouraged the focus on delivery excellence.
• Involved in Test effort estimation for testing tasks involved during the release

Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 · 0 mo

Aug 2008 – Jul 2011 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Organization: CSC India Private Ltd
• Client: Aviva UK
• Designation: Senior Test Engineer/B.A. (Onshore).
• Project Description:
• Aviva UK has an online call center application with the name of Exceed, which has different screens which assist the call center staff to issue the policies and notify the claims. Aviva UK also maintains an online portal from where the common man can issue the policies through WEB. Our work involves in testing the various changes requested by the business and other stake holders. The project is spread across all the levels of testing.
• Role/Responsibilities:
• Worked closely with the client as UAT Lead/B.A. at the onshore (Aviva UK) and facilitated the creation of UAT Test Strategy, UAT Test Plans and UAT defect reports coordinating a team of 5.
• Worked in all the phases of software test life cycle including system testing, integration, regression impact analysis and UAT.
• Managing a team of 4 (offshore) in the extensive manual testing of the insurance application.
• Strong working Exposure to the SQL commands and Database Testing
• Ensured timely delivery of test execution results and do proper reporting based on relevant matrix.
• Creation of defect analysis reports identifying the weak/strong areas, defect closure rates which helped in process improvement
• Involved in mentoring the new joiners on the application flow and basic testing concepts.

Jan 2008 – Jul 2008 · 6 mos

• Organization: Satyam Computer Services Ltd
• Client: Cisco Systems Inc
• Designation: Software Engineer (Pl/Sql Developer)
• Project Description:
• This “QTC Monthly Release (IC-Engine Process)” is an Interfacing Application system which acts as the interface between Ordering Tool (Initial level database) and the Oracle Application Sales Order (standard Database). This functionality of this Interfacing Application Process (Consisting of PL/SQL Packages, Concurrent Programs) consists of standardizing the Error Messages (SQL Errors) in order for easy error task identification, batching of similar types of orders, several levels and types of validations on the sales order, importing the successful orders in to ERP and processing the orders till they are in BOOKED status.
• Role/Responsibilities
•  As a member of the team I was involved in development and enhancements of different packages as per the changing functionality of Interface Applications.
•  Involved in enhancing and adding new packages for various new validation rules.
•  Involved in testing and analyzing all the standard functionalities and validation rules.
•  Involved in defect analysis and reworking defects in existing modules.
•  Responsible for preparing various test cases and performing unit testing, generating month end report for entire module.
•  Involved in extending post-implementation and maintenance support to the client.

Mar 2006 – Dec 2007 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Organization: Satyam Computer Services Ltd
• Client: American Express
• Designation: Technical Analyst
• Project Description:
• The AMEX-GIO (Risk Capabilities of Credit Card Customers), deals with the calculation of various scores for a particular prospect applying for the card. The data collected from various Credit bureaus and financial institutions is being fed periodically. These files are then mined, churned and all the risk analysis for the prospects is done using SAS. Thereon the data is fed into SQL Server, to be picked up and displayed at the front end.
• Role/Responsibilities:
• Designing and Testing of Credit Card Acquisition Tracking applications using Base SAS®.
• Involved in End to End implementation of applications from development in SAS to migrating the data from SAS to SQL SERVER ensuring data integrity at both ends.
• As a member of Continuous Data Integrity Team I was involved in analyzing the present and past trends and working upon the alerted or out of pattern variables.

Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 · 1 yr