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Purvi Mehta

Toronto,Canada

Summary

  • Results-driven IT project management professional with over 15+ years of experience leading successful Agile and Waterfall projects in the Banking and Financial Services, Retail platforms, Insurance sector.
  • Experienced in directing and coordinating all aspects of large and complex IT projects, including scope, development, schedule, cost, risk optimization, people management, and change management.
  • Specializes in risk management by identifying potential risks and developing mitigation strategies to prevent project roadblocks and ensure a smooth migration process.
  • Effectively communicate with client executives and their respective teams, leveraging technical, business, and financial acumen.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

SDET Engineer

Citibank NA
07.2024 - Current
  • Contributed to the design and implementation of quality frameworks to the Rates Data Intelligence team, which is aimed at delivering cutting-edge, data-centric solutions to support sales, risk, pricing, quants, algorithmic trading, execution and trade processing
  • Conducted SQL-based testing for data validation across large datasets (100s of TB) to support data accuracy and integrity, critical for business insights and decision-making
  • Built reusable, scalable components for testing framework architecture, supporting both REST API (using Cucumber) and Selenium automation, which improved testing efficiency by 30%

QA Lead

Optimus SBR - Royal Bank of Canada (Short Term Contract)
10.2023 - 02.2024
  • Managed QA activities for Market, Credit, Liquidity Risk Systems complying to Basel III and Basel IV guidelines in Finance Resource Optimization (Treasury Services) for one of the largest M&A for Canadian Bank (HSBC-RBC)
  • Tested the data transformation logic from Upstream to main data layer (Corporate Treasury Data Layer) and ensured the capital calculations are in-line with the standards defined by Capital Measurement Team
  • Performed Month over month analysis for wholesale and retail clients referencing Positional Valuation Source for the instruments and facilities associated and reported any variances observed for the source system
  • Effectively collaborated and coordinated defects with various upstream (40+) and maintained the remediation plan for the complex processes involved in defect lifecycle

QA Lead

Bond Brand Loyalty
11.2021 - 08.2023
  • Expert in working with Agile and Waterfall teams in a matrixed environment including onsite, offshore resources, and Business stakeholders spread across multiple geographic locations
  • Facilitated Sprint Retrospectives and tracked Burndown chart
  • Conducted Daily Stand Ups (DSU) and triaged defect calls to ensure all the application defects are addressed and communicated to respective SPOC
  • Traced and tracked each SSIS packages, Web Apps, Service Apps identified for migration from On-Premises to cloud that required coordination with different stakeholders to complete each tasks identified for PBI successfully
  • Automation: Designed and implemented test automation frameworks for CRM apps using Selenium WebDriver, Java, Pytest framework reducing manual efforts by 60% and enhancing overall test coverage
  • Built GUI automated tests using API library like Rest Assured and tools like Postman
  • Integrated Automated tests with multiple platforms like BrowserStack and Jenkins to stimulate cross-browser testing for applications under test
  • Mentored junior team members, fostering growth and enhancing team performance.

Senior Test Coordinator

CIBC
06.2019 - 10.2021
  • Handled the QA team of 6+ members in the Wealth Management domain for the Cash Management Online portfolio that includes planning test efforts, strategies, and execution
  • Designed and implemented test automation frameworks using Selenium Webdriver and Python
  • Performed cross platform testing for web application in different browsers like Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox and mobile devices like iOS and Android
  • Designed, developed, and implemented User Acceptance Testing (UAT) protocols as the final phase of applications development
  • Performed Web Accessibility Testing following WCAG 2.0 Level A and Level AA standards

Test Lead

Bank Of Montreal
04.2018 - 06.2019
  • Led the project team to test the upgrade of an application CRIMS (Charles River Investment Management Solution) that involves Re-balancing portfolios, trading Equities, Options, Fixed Income, and Mutual Fund securities
  • Validated Interface Application like FIX Messaging system for trading Debt and Equity instruments
  • Performed SIT and UAT testing of CRIMS application

Test Lead

RBC – Capgemini
11.2015 - 03.2018
  • POS testing using physical test credit and debit cards to see how the payment is flowing
  • Experience with CDN Base24, Tandem Screens, Pega, TSYS, and Host
  • Participate in Requirement Analysis meeting and Project Kick Off
  • Assessed software bugs and compiled findings along with resolution techniques in documentation to disseminate to project lead
  • Lead, upgraded and modified BASE24 to route transactions to a new host

QA Consultant

QA Consultants
11.2014 - 11.2015
  • Effectively interacted with clients and project team to develop an efficient test plan and strategy and maintain the project schedule on time
  • Involved in various types of testing like Functional, System Integration Testing (SIT), UAT to ensure application functions as expected
  • Worked on projects from various domains like Insurance, retail and banking products

Senior Process Associate

Tata Consultancy Services (Citibank)
11.2009 - 10.2014
  • Planned and estimated test activities for retail banking application (Sawgrass) to determine effort needed to validate quality of product under test
  • Wrote and optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing with consistent, thorough approaches and used BI tools like Cognos

Functional Tester

Barrierbreak Technologies
05.2008 - 11.2009
  • Performed Accessibility Testing, Functional & User Acceptance Testing of websites using screen readers & screen magnifiers like JAWS, NVDA, and Dolphin
  • Provided support to the clients to implement accessibility standards including Section 508 standards, WCAG 1
  • 0 & 2.0 guidelines for Government Websites like National Portal of India (NPI) (https://india.gov.in)

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University of Mumbai
10.2008

Skills

  • SQL Server (SSMS 18)
  • ETL methodology
  • Data Extraction
  • Data Transformation
  • Data Loading
  • Query Management
  • Stored procedures
  • VBA
  • Selenium WebDriver 38
  • Jenkins
  • Cypress
  • TestNG
  • Java 8
  • Git
  • Rest Assured API
  • Postman
  • BrowserStack Automation
  • SIT
  • UAT
  • Functional Testing
  • Non-Functional Testing
  • CI/CD pipeline
  • Azure DevOps
  • JIR
  • Service Now

Languages

English
Full Professional

Timeline

SDET Engineer

Citibank NA
07.2024 - Current

QA Lead

Optimus SBR - Royal Bank of Canada (Short Term Contract)
10.2023 - 02.2024

QA Lead

Bond Brand Loyalty
11.2021 - 08.2023

Senior Test Coordinator

CIBC
06.2019 - 10.2021

Test Lead

Bank Of Montreal
04.2018 - 06.2019

Test Lead

RBC – Capgemini
11.2015 - 03.2018

QA Consultant

QA Consultants
11.2014 - 11.2015

Senior Process Associate

Tata Consultancy Services (Citibank)
11.2009 - 10.2014

Functional Tester

Barrierbreak Technologies
05.2008 - 11.2009

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University of Mumbai

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