Experienced Test Lead with over 13 years in Payment industry. Excellent reputation for hard work, resolving problems and improving customer satisfaction.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Subject matter expert, Test Lead
Tata Consultancy Services
Belfast, Belfast
03.2022 - Current
Working as SME in ISO Instant Payment for US, Instant Payment AR, Instant Payment BR, SEPA Instant Payments.
Experiences in Pacs, Pain, Camt messages includes Mandate Creation Request for Payment, Credit Transfer, Request for Return of Funds, Request for Information
Experienced in GPPSP
Reviewing requirements and helping Testing team to creating test cases and ensuring coverage.
Identifying Requirement gaps and works with Product Owner to create story to cover in next sprint or next iteration.
Working in Agile Methodology.
Running Daily Defect calls, WAR room discussions if any blockers.
Worked in all phases of testing from Standalone, Near Partner Testing, End to End testing, Regression Testing.
Applied critical thinking for analysing issues, evaluate solutions and giving best decisions.
Successfully delivered on tasks within tight deadlines.
Demonstrated End to End Business scenario Matrix, End to End Testing Demo to all stakeholders including Operations, Local and Global application product team for approval for Production sign off.
Test analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
Belfast, Belfast
03.2016 - 03.2022
Worked in US Instant Payments for Integration Testing.
Experience in Standalone, Near Partner, End to End, Regression Testing cycles
Collaborated with Partner applications for Sanctions, Posting, Earmarking checks.
Experienced in Analysis of Master Strategic Reports.
Contributed to continuous improvement initiatives within QA team.
Participated in Agile sprints; kept pace with iterative developments.
Experience in different Test management tools like HP ALM QC, JIRA, Zephyr.
Worked closely with development team analyse root cause for bugs.
Senior analyst - investment banking
State Street HCL Services
Coimbatore, India
02.2013 - 04.2015
Manage daily cash and asset reconciliations of Fixed-Income and Equities products.
Handling settlements of prepays, marks to market and return of collateral to borrowers.
Managed settlement of trades using European settlement systems such as Euroclear and Clearstream
Have prepared standard operating procedures (SOP) and got signed off for all processes.
Acting as Team player in training new resources onto various functions of process. Also to drive day today activities of team.
Worked along with project team to reduce pain areas in daily tasks.
Officer
Scope International Limited
Chennai, India
12.2011 - 01.2013
Handled entire Fixed Income settlement process of Indonesia
Settlement of securities in European settlement system Euroclear and Clearstream
Handled all settlement and confirmation related queries from counterparties
Investigation of Unmatched trades flown to back-office system for settling in market.
Handled Free of Payments responsible for sending confirmations to counterparties for all executed trades
Familiar with SWIFT messages related to money transfer
Preparation of failed trade report each day to settle trades with brokers.
Education
Master of Business Administration - Systems and Human Resource
Kumaraguru College of Technology
Coimbatore, India
08.2009 - 06.2011
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Sri Krishna Art and Science College
Coimbatore / India
07.2006 - 05.2009
Skills
Analytical thinking
Agile practices
JIRA expertise
Communication abilities
Task management
Solution-oriented mindset
Timeline
Subject matter expert, Test Lead
Tata Consultancy Services
03.2022 - Current
Test analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
03.2016 - 03.2022
Senior analyst - investment banking
State Street HCL Services
02.2013 - 04.2015
Officer
Scope International Limited
12.2011 - 01.2013
Master of Business Administration - Systems and Human Resource
Assistant Delivery Manager at Tata Consultancy Services, Global Shared ServicesAssistant Delivery Manager at Tata Consultancy Services, Global Shared Services