SUMMARY:

• Nine years as Business Analyst leading a Testing team with Confidential in Princeton, New Jersey.
• Four Years as Operation Analyst in Investment Management with Confidential, India.
• Areas of Competence: Business Analysis for Record keeping application, User Acceptance testing, Regression testing, Automation testing, Managing Offshore Onsite model.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages/Tools: SQL Editor, MS Office, Rational Suite (including Rational Robot for automation), Defect Tracking Tool (Case tracker build In - house).Various SQL editors, Unix, MS Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, Project), Visio, Rational Suite (including Rational Robot for automation), Black Box, SharePoint, different Issue Tracking softwares.

Databases: Oracle, MS AccessMS Access, Oracle, ASP 400

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Asst. Vice President

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for test management throughout a project’s life cycle.
• Prioritize the delivery of a project based on the total effort and criticality estimated in conjunction with the Design & Development team.
• Interact with client as a part of the early involvement process to finalize the requirements.
• Review high level requirements with the appropriate project teams (i.e. Development, Business, and Vendor).
• Gather and publish productivity metrics of offshore testing team for Dashboard Reporting.
• Provide release notes to Technical Writers on documentation of the software.
• Prepare test strategy on each project for User Acceptance Test.
• Review test plan and detail the test cases designed.
• Identify critical, high & low priority test cases.
• Review, track and close every defect for a release cycle.
• Perform, review and manage testing of client reported defects.
• Real Time Data Warehouse (RDW) for Confidential .
• Real time data replication from the Record Keeping System (RKS) database tables to a data warehouse staging area using Oracle’s Golden Gate.
• RKS Multi Instance architecture (ASP) for State Street Global advisors (SSgA)
• Multiple RKS instances for each client region for maintaining the data in sync through Oracle Streams. Each region has its own Time zone and set of jobs running in parallel.
• Multi-Currency Corporate action processing for SSgA.
• Corporate action changes for cash treatment, book cost and gain/ loss involving multiple securities and currencies. Event types included tax free exchange, taxable exchange and spin offs.
• Automatic trade reversal (ATR) processing for SSgA in close periods.
• ATR processing change for contractually settled transactions in the close period when they get modified with the period remaining closed.
• Emerging Market corporate action processing change for SSgA.
• To exclude Emerging Market countries’ securities dividend income and coupon payments from the Contractual Settlement job as these income payments are not regularly settled/received on the pay date.
• Closing Period Enhancement for SSgA.
• Functionality change to do transaction, valuation and bank closes on a portfolio simultaneously along with the Re-open of the close period.
• FX Delivery Processing.
• Ability to create Single or multiple Receivable or Payable based on NET/DO NOT NET logic on Portfolio header for FX Delivery.
• Dividend Reinvestment Processing (DRIPS).
• Enhance processing of cash dividend and allow user to receive Stock in lieu of cash.
• Automation project - Automated 52 logical day test cases that can run in 3 physical days unattended. Each logical day covers business process flow of transaction posting (add / update/delete), running of various jobs and reports.

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Onsite Test Lead handling an onsite team of three and an offshore team of 15 for support.
• Providing functional support and guidance to developers on defects logged.
• Accountable for:
• Each build delivered to the UAT environment.
• Defect retest for fixes deployed to UAT environment.
• Weekly update to the client on the testing progress.
• Resource planning and recruitment process for the testing team
• Review UAT plans, Regression test plans and test result reports. the testing team members on the business functionality aspect and prepare self-study materials for new inductees.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Cash reconciliation on a daily basis for equity and fixed income funds. Reconciliations were done on an automated SWIFT based tool viz. Smart Stream Reconciliation (SSR).
• Security reconciliation on fortnightly basis with the custodians.
• Corporate actions processing including tax reclaim processing and follow up with custodian banks.
• Monthly performance tracking and reporting for various client dedicated funds.
• Preparing monthly risk reports.
• Escalating issues to the custodian on cash & corporate action breaks and getting them resolved within the stipulated turnaround time.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Depository Back office operations which included:
• Demat Account processing.
• Registrar follow-up for shares sent for dematerialization.
• Resolving client queries on pending corporate actions and holding differences

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Processing of Delivery Instruction for Sales or Purchases (DIS/ DIP).
• Confirming trades with brokers and custodians for trade instructions processed.
• Security and bank reconciliation on a monthly basis for client bank balances.
• Client interface for pending corporate actions.