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Sarika Sinkar

Mississauga,ON

Summary

Experienced UX designer adept at collaboration with teams across technology, business and design departments. Eight years of experience in fin-tech space; eager to leverage problem-solving skills to create user-centric designs that enhance overall experiences.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

UX Designer

Client - CIBC | Techspan QA
Toronto
03.2023 - Current

· Gained hands on experience by actively participating in the designing of user interfaces for CIBC's online platform redesign.

· Used existing and evolving brand guidelines and design systems to modernize UX while maintaining a holistic visual appearance across the different lines of business.

· Collaborated with cross functional teams on user interaction documents for options trading and content cards design.

· Conducted user research for implementing UX, leveraged Figma for designing wireframes and prototypes based on business and user needs.

QA Analyst

Client - TD | Techspan QA
Toronto
09.2020 - 05.2022

Web Broker platform facilitates trading, monitoring and managing stocks, bonds, ETF's and Mutual funds.

· Planned, scheduled, tested and released products for trading system within equity, fixed income, ETF's and mutual funds.

· Gathered business requirements, developed business requirement document, and functional specifications.

· Collaborated with engineering and business stakeholders to coordinator in an effective and timely fashion to assure delivery of all assigned tasks on time.

QA Analyst

Client - Franklin Templeton | Techspan QA
Toronto
08.2018 - 08.2020

Franklin's in house oneTis platform offers data storage, client accounts and investment management.

· Prepared and managed Test Plans and Test Cases for corporate actions of executing and processing trades, calculation for funds and report generation.

· Handled Testing for account management including managing investments, tax status and regulatory compliance.

· Collaborated with development team, identifying, documenting and rectifying defects

QA Analyst

Client - Meridian Credit Union | Techspan QA
Toronto
10.2016 - 08.2018

Sales and Service Portal project involves accounts, balance transfer, credit card application and insurance account. All user activities would be captured in the Enterprise Data Warehouse and used for report generation.

· Translated business requirements into test cases. Responsible for test development, execution for account management, processing and managing credit, and insurance management.

· Responsible for overseeing the defect management process for assigned projects and ensured all defects are resolved in a timely manner.

QA Analyst

Ralota Technologies
Toronto
06.2015 - 09.2016

PPro8 client offers equity day trading platform to its clients.

· Designed and maintained test cases as a basis for testing equity day trades including pricing, execution, processing of trades, report generation and account management for Client and Managers.

· Provided bug reports with detailed descriptions to development teams and tracked defects.

· Coordinated with teams in implementation of new features of watchlist and alerts to Pro8

Education

UX Certification -

Nielsen Norman Group
05-2022

Bachelor of Commerce -

Ryerson University
Toronto, ON
01-2011

Skills

Effective communication

Teamwork & collaboration

Design thinking

User experience design

User interface design

Analytics

User Research

Wireframing & prototyping

Usability testing

Information architecture

Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD

HTML, CSS, JAVA, SQL

Timeline

UX Designer

Client - CIBC | Techspan QA
03.2023 - Current

QA Analyst

Client - TD | Techspan QA
09.2020 - 05.2022

QA Analyst

Client - Franklin Templeton | Techspan QA
08.2018 - 08.2020

QA Analyst

Client - Meridian Credit Union | Techspan QA
10.2016 - 08.2018

QA Analyst

Ralota Technologies
06.2015 - 09.2016

UX Certification -

Nielsen Norman Group

Bachelor of Commerce -

Ryerson University
Sarika Sinkar