Rajan Aggarwal
Brampton,Canada
Summary
- Possessing deep Product Management experience in retail, consumer banking and credit cards, has helped global banks and financial institutions for their large banking transformations programs by driving business-technology, strategy, and implementation.
- Excellent in implementing Lean principles to identify wastage, problem-solving through design thinking principles, business process modelling, taxonomy, mapping, and process automation.
- Involved in creating road map and implementation of MVP for new products at bank.
- Deep knowledge in TDD automation framework and service virtualization and have got these implemented across various platforms.
- 15 Year experience working on core banking - deposits, cards, lending, and corporate payment system. Expertise in Test Strategy, Test Planning, Test Co-ordination, Test Data Management, Defect Tracking, Defect Prevention and working in multi-vendor environments.
- Managed multiple workstreams (Collections, recovery, and Customer Communication) for a Core banking Finacle implementation for one of the digital banks in US.
- Responsible for end-to-end Testing and rollout of requirements including regulatory & operation, business process, design, mapping, gap assessment, migration, infrastructure support.
- Experience in test automation using Selenium TDD framework and service virtualization.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Business System Analyst
TD Bank
11.2022 - 10.2024
- Gathering business requirements for new features along with product owner
- Rough estimate for new features
- Creating technical documentation for features including sequence diagrams, mapping with backend and frontend systems etc
- Discussion with architects to finalize the design for new features
- Create epics, features, and user stories in the project
- Maintains team backlog, work closely with product management, senior management, and stakeholders, and prioritize the backlog
- Work closely with development, testing and other teams to ensure timely delivery
- Coordinates dependencies with other feature delivery leads/Product Owners
- Works with the team to determine PI objectives, provides necessary clarifications, assists team with their story estimates
- Participated in team demo and retrospective, reviews, and accepts user stories in the sprint
- Primary Responsibility in Inspect and Adapt, Iteration Planning, PI Planning, Retrospective and Daily Standup
TD Bank - Product Owner
Avanade
07.2021 - 10.2022
- Owned and prioritized product backlog.
- Oversaw entire product deployments from vision and creation to rollout and delivery.
- Collaborated with development team on services and tasks.
- Analyzed customer feedback to identify areas for improvement.
- Managed implementation of new features by outlining plans and specifications such as how, where, and when each component would work.
- Coordinated with software developers to create custom applications and trackers to achieve client goals.
Project Manager/Digital Product Owner
Cognizant Technology Solutions
07.2019 - 07.2021
- Identifying impacted banking regulations for new product development and changes to existing bank functions, and to make sure those are being considered as part of testing strategy
- Play leading role in delivery of successful implementation for new product- line of credit including requirements gathering, MVP, end to end testing process and supporting technology migration
- Implemented service virtualization for external parties and vendors to start integration testing for new product development
- Recommended and implemented macros for origination pricing validation in production to detect issues early and reduce manual validation efforts from 1 week to 1 hour
- Road map and test strategy for technology migration
- Monitoring metrics and SLA and reporting to Senior director daily
- Part of customer consent order review and analyzed over 3000 production incidents, categorizing into impacted regulations, exploring impacted population, and required remediation to make customer whole.
Senior Associate
Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2016 - 06.2019
- Testing and data strategy for migration of existing student loans from Mainframe to core banking platform (Finacle) migration
- Handled multiple work streams- origination, payments, collection, recovery, and finance
- Implemented parallel testing to create the same scenario as production for same set of customers to find issues in new software before going live
- Involved in requirement gathering, creating requirement traceability matrix, created test strategy, test planning, estimation, and execution of same in defined SLA’s
- Reporting progress and challenges on daily basis to management
- Implemented selenium TDD framework for web-based applications for faster execution of regression scenarios.
Senior Software Engineer
Wipro Technologies Pvt Ltd
03.2014 - 01.2016
- Collaborated with cross-functional development team members to analyze potential system solutions based on evolving client requirements
- Business analyst for migration from mainframe to pega systems and captured all requirements related to payments, collection, and recovery for credit card
- Created proof of concept for innovative new solutions
- Consulted regularly with internal customers on application development project status, new project proposals and software-related technical issues
- Contributed ideas and suggestions in team meetings and delivered updates on deadlines, designs, and enhancements.
Software Engineer
Wipro Technologies Pvt Ltd
01.2010 - 03.2014
- Worked closely with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance
- Led development initiative as Subject Matter Expert for collection/recovery and primary point-of-contact for project management staff
- Conducted regression testing, analyzed results and submitted observations to the development team
- Partnered with development team on product development, application support plans, and prototype programs.
Education
Bachelor of Technology -
Thapar University
Patiala, Punjab06.2009
Skills
- Product Management - Core Banking (Credit card, deposit, personal loan, student loan, line of credit), Grooming and MVP
- Banking products - Hogan, Debt Manager (FICO),FIS and Finacle
- BPM products - Pega and IBM BPM
- Technical- Automation and service virtualization
- Test Planning and execution
- Agile and waterfall Delivery
- Software Development Lifecycle
- Project Management
- End to end testing and planning
- Test Strategy
- HP-ALM
- Rally
- Data Migration
- Workflow Design
- Requirements Gathering
- Business Case Development
- Gap analysis
- Research and analysis
- Agile expertise
- Root Cause Analysis
- Data Mapping
Certification
- Certified Safe Practitioner by Scaled Agile Inc
- Certified Product Owner
Timeline
Business System Analyst
TD Bank
11.2022 - 10.2024
TD Bank - Product Owner
Avanade
07.2021 - 10.2022
Project Manager/Digital Product Owner
Cognizant Technology Solutions
07.2019 - 07.2021
Senior Associate
Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2016 - 06.2019
Senior Software Engineer
Wipro Technologies Pvt Ltd
03.2014 - 01.2016
Software Engineer
Wipro Technologies Pvt Ltd
01.2010 - 03.2014
Bachelor of Technology -
Thapar University