Keywords
Skills
Core Competencies:
- Business Analyst/Tester having experience of about 13.5 years in the financial market projects.
- Primary roles of analysis, functional design and user acceptance testing.
- Technical background with deep understanding of architecture, databases, interfaces etc.
- In depth knowledge and experience in various financial products; cash and derivatives (options and futures) of equity, index, energy, interest rate, volatility, dividend, fixed income bonds, FX etc.
- Expertise in custody, security settlement, corporate actions, derivative (option and futures), collateral.
- Rich experience of software projects involving trade life cycle (i.e. order matching, trading strategies, clearing and settlement processes, risk calculation) in leading stock exchanges.
- Expertise in standard interfaces like FIX, FIXML, SWIFT, T2S.
- Certified FRM and Passed CFA level 2. Deep understanding of quantitative methods, financial reporting (IFRS, US-GAAP), corporate finance & portfolio management, risk analysis (market, liquidity, credit, operational risk etc.).
- Experienced in agile methodologies (scrum, kanban) as well as in traditional waterfall and v-model.
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- Languages: Python, Excel-VBA, C, C++.
- Database: SQL Queries, PL SQL, Postgres, MS Access.
- Fix Protocol, FIXML, ISO15022 SWIFT MT54x/MT56x, ISO20022 T2S messages.
- Knowledge of XML, XSD, XSLT, DTD.
- MS Office (Word, Power Point, Visio & excel macros), HP ALM, Jira, Rally, Eclipse.
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- Good Team skill, Co-ordination, Self-organizing and planning.
- Analytical skill with futuristic view, Quick learning, Problem solving, Attention to details.
- Language skills English (Excellent), Hindi (mother tongue) and German (B1 Level).
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- CFA Level 2 Passed, Certified GARP Financial Risk Manager (FRM).
- ISTQB Testing Certification (Foundation level).
- NCFM Certification in “Security Market Dealer Module”, “Capital Market Dealers Module”, “Commodities Market”, “Derivatives Market Dealers Module”.
Project history
# Deutsche Bank –T2S Security Settlement/Custodial Services:
Period : Jul 2016 to till date
Role : Functional Analyst and Acceptance Tester
Tasks. :
Period : Apr 2013 to Jun2016
Role : Business Functional Analyst and Tester
Tasks. :
Period : April 2010 to Mar 2013
Role : User Acceptance Tester
Tasks :
Period : Oct 2008 to Mar 2010
Role : User Acceptance Tester
Tasks. :
Period : Oct 2005 to Sep 2008
Role : Software Developer
Tasks :
Period : Jul 2016 to till date
Role : Functional Analyst and Acceptance Tester
Tasks. :
- Coordination with business team to understand the requirements.
- Interacting with CSDs and analyzing of their interfaces.
- Analyzing critical defects and issue and deriving functional solution.
- Modeling of test scenarios, prioritization cases, execution and reporting of status, HP ALM, Jira
- UAT environment & data preparation, test execution and defect tracking.
- Corporate Action processing of Equities and Bonds. Bonus, Dividend, Interest, Redemption, Merger etc. Market Claims and Transformation processing.
- Processing of instructions, amendments, linking, allegements, ISO20022 SESE Messages and ISO15022 MT54x messages (T2S DCP/ICP mode).
- Proxy Voting, Withholding Tax calculation on capital gains, dividend, interest etc. Tax reclaim services of the clients.
- Impact of MiFID II Transaction Reporting, Regulatory reporting.
Period : Apr 2013 to Jun2016
Role : Business Functional Analyst and Tester
Tasks. :
- Analyzing the business requirement and designing its functional flows.
- Definingf small, achievable and demonstratable user stories, sprint planning.
- Solutioning and fitment of various products and their processing in the system.
- Modeling test scenario, defining acceptance criteria in scrum methodologies.
- Test execution and automation of regression tests, bug tracking, re-test.
- Post trade; trade and position management, premium/variation margin, risk monitoring, mark-to-market, open Interest, late closing fees calculations.
- Loading master data from Reference Data System.
- Settlement flow and expiration handling of Options and Futures.
- Alignment of equity, index, fixed income, commodity derivatives, FX derivatives (OCUR, FCUR) in the same settlement model.
- Corporate Action processing on equity derivative positions.
Period : April 2010 to Mar 2013
Role : User Acceptance Tester
Tasks :
- Test narrative preparation, test modeling including test conditions and test data.
- Planning and co-ordination with different interfaces and systems during acceptance test execution and support end-to-end test.
- Defect raising, tracking and re-testing in acceptance. Regression and sanity tests.
- Order management, Order entry, Matching logic, Conformation.
- Client Asset protection, Exercise/Assignment. Client reporting.
- Strategy trades, FIXML.
Period : Oct 2008 to Mar 2010
Role : User Acceptance Tester
Tasks. :
- Test preparation from specifications, modeling and execution.
- Defect raising, tracking and re-testing the defects in acceptance.
- Planning and co-ordination with different entities for End-to-End test.
- Regression test and shake down tests before production release.
- Collateral Management real time link with CBL and CBF
- Post Trade of Pan European Services, Post trade for Eurex-ISE link
- Automation tool for report comparison the SWIFT reports.
Period : Oct 2005 to Sep 2008
Role : Software Developer
Tasks :
- Feasibility analysis of the requirements, preparing technical design for the requirement.
- Analyzing the critical production problems and providing solutions within the SLA.
- Design, Development with performance and capacity testing.
- Maintaining the modularity of the components. Ensuring coding standard of PL1 and C, Refactoring and cleaning up of redundant codes.
Local Availability
Only available in these countries:
Germany
