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Abhijeet Sahu

Abhijeet Sahu

Oakville,ON

Summary

  • Highly motivated Business Analyst / Jr. PO in Swift Payments, Capital markets, results-driven Scrum Master with a success of delivering solutions & assuring Quality efficiency in data management for global projects.
  • Provide business solutions for data optimization, project delivery management in Front, Middle & Back Office operations for different Apps. Provide Risk base solutions for different payment systems i.e., Swift, ACH etc. with multiple beneficiaries. Validate swift formats from MT to MX conversion as part of ISO 20022 program.
  • Proficient Business Analyst (Foreign Exchange & Derivatives Market domain) with 15+ years of experience in analyzing, developing, implementing, and validating systems.
  • Lead the conceptualization, development, and implementation of system test platforms for testing software and systems for various Investment Banking Apps.
  • Experience on Project Implementation based on Agile manifesto. Working knowledge of Securities, FX and Cash trade processing.
  • Experience with Capital Markets (Equity, FI, Money Markets, Short Terms, Listed Derivatives, FX and Cash products) and Middle Office Servicing is required.
  • Experience with Middle Office and Back office processing and additional experience with Trade Order Management. Systems is beneficial. Gathering and analyzing security requirements from various stakeholders. This includes understanding the security goals, processes, data, and functional needs that drive project initiatives.
  • Creating and documenting security control specifications, user stories, use cases, process flows, data models, etc. to comprehensively capture business needs.
  • Supporting the Domain Leads and Team Lead in building the requirements.
  • Conducting impact analysis to understand how proposed changes may affect different parts of the business, including processes, policies, teams, or technologies.
  • Identifying, assessing and mitigating risks related to scope, requirements, dependencies, assumptions and constraints. Gathering project progress and KPIs to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery that fulfills business objectives.
  • Expertise in daily SCRUMs / standup, sprint planning & review, burn down charts and product backlog refinement. Tracking sprint velocity.
  • Experience with modern software development tool sets (i.e. Jira, Confluence, Test Case Management, Traceability Matrix, SharePoint). Knowledge of multiple agile frameworks (i.e. Scrum, XP, Kanban, SAFe, TDD, etc), and understanding of software development life cycle models as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices.
  • Experience in working as QA Specialist for creating and reviewing test plans, test requirements, test scenarios, test scripts, test cases and conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) & Performance Testing.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience

Work History

Business Execution Consultant (Jr. Agile Product Owner)

Wells Fargo
08.2022 - Current
  • Working with multiple cross-functional teams supporting Swift ISO 20022 migration program
  • Create JIRAs & stories for new requirements for apps having faster payments and cheaper settlements
  • Provide functional details to development / Ops teams relating to the introduction of SWIFT ISO 20022 messaging
  • Working upon different apps taking care of MX to MT Translation & routing rules to process translated MT messages
  • Provides subject matter expertise internally for ISO 20022 training and the preparation of proposals for CBPR+ and Target2 payment messaging requirements
  • Provided detailed subject matter expertise to development teams relating to the introduction of SWIFT ISO 20022 messaging
  • Working closely with the bank’s business application users and technical personnel to identify and document the requirements for migration of messaging activity for the new BIC Codes
  • Validation of message flow Swift MT 103, 202, 210 & Cancellations MT199, MT299 and their formats
  • Optimizing responses to database queries for faster application performance
  • Worked closely with the bank’s business application users and technical personnel to identify and document the requirements for migration of messaging activity to the new BIC Code
  • Creation of design documents & flow diagrams using MS Visio
  • Data analysis using SQL
  • Review Test Plan document & perform volume testing.

Scrum Master, QA Lead & Business Systems Analyst

JPMC (Foreign Exchange & Investment Bank)
10.2018 - 08.2022
  • Assist Product Owner and project manager with Agile, Scrum sprint activities and ceremonies by developing project plans and development timelines
  • Drive Feature & System Integration testing for the new changes in UI and collaborate with cross functional teams to get them tested before any production release
  • Capture Requirements, organize requirements into Epics, document them as User Stories & Acceptance Criteria, assist Product Owner with Backlog grooming, User Story development and prioritization
  • Experience with modern software development tool set (i.e
  • Jira, Confluence, Test Case Management, Traceability Matrix, SharePoint)
  • Responsible for handling all aspects of testing including design validation, maintenance, and generation of test automation software, developing documentation for testing, and providing reports to engineering, business, and other functional groups
  • Lead and support fellow test engineers to provide a consistent test strategy and improve effectiveness, quality, integrity, performance and of the system
  • Work closely with Unit Testers and Developers to clarify functionality, resolve issues and provide feedback to nail down the bugs for all Java Core projects
  • Created the Jenkins file for the Jenkins build and deployed into Jenkins and ran the Jenkins build file for builds
  • Participates & partner with clients in functional testing, UAT and go-live planning and user checkout.

Business Analyst & L3 Support Lead

JP Morgan Chase (DCPP)
08.2012 - 10.2018
  • Derivative Core Processing Platform consists of 5 applications (Setts, Affirms, Advices, CLS & FXPM)
  • All of them have been running from last 2 years in production 24/7 & small minor enhancements are being delivered every 3 weeks
  • Validation of outbound and inbound payment messages
  • Validation of Swift Payment systems which includes MT series MT202, MT103, MTX99, MT210 etc
  • ACH and CLS payment systems
  • Developed crucial functional requirement specifications, creating detailed use cases and process flow diagrams to support functional specifications
  • Monitor Qpid Browser for regular parkings in Payment messages and assign Parked messages to then team for RCA
  • Take toll of alacrities and triage with BA / Operations team for analysis
  • Coordination with Development Team for Hot fixes for P1/S1 based on RCA
  • Send Daily Parked message report analysis to wider management with RCA & planned code fix details
  • Performance Tuning for throughput & SLA breach
  • Mentor team for Continuous integration in terms of process improvement to manage alacrities (Bot & parking dashboard UI)
  • Developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, using UML and Business Process Modeling.

Consultant

Deloitte Consulting India Pvt Ltd
02.2010 - 08.2012
  • Followed Agile (Scrum), bi - weekly Sprints, stand up meetings and customer reporting backlogs
  • Organized backlog grooming, creating epics and user stories
  • Created Mapping documents of all in-scope Credit Card and payment systems in their product features
  • Analyzing Credit Risk Methodology requirements and assessing functional impact
  • Assisting in writing business requirements documents for the existing legacy regulatory reporting system
  • Helped QA team to during Test Plan and Test Cases for UAT
  • Preparation of Performance Test Plan & Estimates for project
  • Preparation of Test scripts, script augmentation & debugging
  • Creation of Test Scenarios & workload plan
  • Test Execution & monitoring
  • Identification of bottlenecks & performance tuning
  • Creation of Test Reports.

Team Member

Satyam Computers Services Ltd
05.2008 - 06.2009
  • Client: Standard Bank of South Africa
  • Project Name: SBSA GMR CDS Revamp
  • Role: Team Member (Performance Testing & System Testing)
  • Domain: Banking & Finance
  • Duration: 14 months
  • Project: CDP4 Revamp
  • Environment: UAT
  • Software: JAVA
  • Tools: LoadRunner 9.0, O/s: Windows XP, Linux, Unix
  • The overall objective of this test is to confirm that the GMR application will perform up to Standard Bank's expectations with respect to volume, response time, and system utilization as outlined in this document
  • This system is used for managing and distributing economic research contents in fields such as Economics, Equity and Global Markets
  • Standard bank is keen to re-design the contact and distribution tool of Global Market Research system to meet the following business objectives
  • As a Team Member at offshore, I was responsible for: Discussion with Client on daily basis for requirement gathering & updates
  • Preparing estimates for SIT testing & Performance Testing
  • Test plan preparation, Test Strategy, Test case design and execution, Bug reporting and Tracking
  • Prepared Performance Test Plan
  • Resolution of issues during SIT testing
  • Reviewing SIT test cases
  • Helping fellow team members with defect fixes & bugs
  • Creating scripts in Loadrunner Vugen for Performance Testing
  • Creating Test data for scripts for Performance Testing
  • As a Performance Tester at onsite, I was responsible for: Creation of setup for Performance Test execution
  • Load testing on CDP4 application from 100 Vusers to 500 Vusers
  • Analysis & reporting for each round of execution
  • Finding bottlenecks & Performance Tuning
  • Discussion & resolution with Client's technical team for issues in performance testing
  • Analysis for CPU & memory usage
  • Analysis for transaction response & benchmarks
  • Preparation of Performance Test Report
  • Presentation of performance Test Report to Client's technical & business team
  • Signoff for the Performance Test report.

Team Member

Satyam Computers Services Ltd
09.2005 - 03.2008
  • Client: Lowe's Companies, Inc
  • Project Name: Tradestone System Stress & Volume Testing
  • Role: Team Member (Performance Testing & System Testing)
  • Domain: Retail Management
  • Duration: 18 months
  • Project: Import PO Management
  • Module: Tradestone Application
  • Environment: QA
  • Software: JAVA
  • Tools: LoadRunner 8.1, Performance Center 8.1, Test Director 8.0, O/s: Windows XP
  • Lowe's Billion Dollar Retail business is not running on IT supported systems, but primarily on Access database and manually created and maintained spreadsheets
  • The stress test conducted with double and triple the anticipated load brings out possible hardware and software bottlenecks that need re-configuration or tuning in the wake of enhanced number of users or functionality
  • The volume test ensures that the TradeStone system can handle the forecasted volume of 4000 vendors and 14000 items with respect to the Sourcing functionality
  • This test will ensure will be no loss of critical data when the specified volume of data is applied to the system
  • As a team member, was responsible for: Analysis of the specifications provided by the clients
  • Identifying & Creating Scenarios as per the application requirement
  • Preparing & recording scripts in Loadrunner Vugen
  • Changing the scripts using Parameterization & Correlation techniques
  • Run the scripts in PC & analyze the response time
  • Preparing 2500 no
  • Of test data for test execution & recycle it for the test re-run
  • Preparing the test report discussing with client
  • Performed scalability tests with incremental load
  • Performed sustainability tests to ensure that the TradeStone system can deliver the assigned functionality without any disruption in service.

Education

B.Tech - Electrical Engineering

KIIT DU
Bhubaneswar
06-2005

Skills

  • CSM Certified
  • Quality Assurance
  • SWIFT Payments
  • Capital Market
  • Business Analysis
  • Sprint Planning
  • Stakeholder Collaboration
  • Agile Methodology
  • MX to MT Translation
  • CBPR and Target2 payment messaging
  • Derivative Core Processing

Tools Technologies

  • Project Methodologies - Waterfall, Agile (Scrum, Kanban), TDD, SDLC
  • Certifications - CSM (Scrum Alliance)
  • Programing Language - Java, Unix shell scripting
  • Databases - MySQL, MS SQL Server, PL/SQL
  • Project Management Tools - Confluence, SharePoint, JIRA
  • Business Modeling - MS Visio, Powerpoint
  • Defect Management Tools - HP ALM/ HP Quality Center, JIRA
  • Testing Tools - Selenium, Cucumber, HP LoadRunner

Area Of Expertise

  • Product/Business Analysis
  • New Tool/Technology Evaluation
  • Business Development
  • Client Management
  • Business Process Modeling & UML
  • Effort Estimation: Function Point Analysis
  • Sprint Backlog Analysis
  • Poker Planning
  • Sprint Velocity tracking
  • Sprint Retro / Review

Timeline

Business Execution Consultant (Jr. Agile Product Owner)

Wells Fargo
08.2022 - Current

Scrum Master, QA Lead & Business Systems Analyst

JPMC (Foreign Exchange & Investment Bank)
10.2018 - 08.2022

Business Analyst & L3 Support Lead

JP Morgan Chase (DCPP)
08.2012 - 10.2018

Consultant

Deloitte Consulting India Pvt Ltd
02.2010 - 08.2012

Team Member

Satyam Computers Services Ltd
05.2008 - 06.2009

Team Member

Satyam Computers Services Ltd
09.2005 - 03.2008

B.Tech - Electrical Engineering

KIIT DU

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