Amol Kadam

Delivery Head with experience in managing and delivering large, critical multi million programs for Financial Services clients

• Currently owning Strategy, Sales & Delivery Management for Wealth and Investment Management Portfolio [$39.8M++] at leading Wall Street client.
• Experience in delivering Transformation Programs [$15M++] with handson involment in drivign strategy, innovation, architecture and implementation of cost effective solutions with gauranteed YoY efficiency gains
• Complete Delivery ownership for Programs across Insights & Data, Application Development Management, Testing & Digital skills
• Good 'People devlopment skills' - Facilitated numerous sessions for Employees, Clients actoss Technology, Leadership and Management Skills
• Won Multiple awards for (a) Delivery Led Sales (b) Delivery Excellence (c) Best Mentor

• Fixed Income Cash and Equities Trading QA
• Team Size: 97
• Technologies: .NET, UNIX TCL-TK, Java, Mainframe, Sybase, DB2, FIX, SWIFT, ALM and JIRA
• Scope: FIC-ET-QA practice area group partners with ISGT development to deliver high quality trading and risk management systems to various ISG trading and sales desks. FIC-QA is particularly concerned with cash traded securities spanning asset classes in the Foreign Exchange, Securitized Products, Interest Rates Cash, and Equities spaces. In addition, there is a heavy focus on all asset classes across electronic trading for Matrix, Interest Rates Trading, Equities, and Trade Flow Analytics.
• Responsibilities:
• Responsible for end to end delivery of Projects governed by stringent SLA’s
• Define & Shape transformation plan for each PAG
• Led teams across broad technical, financial and business disciplines. Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results
• Mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data. Anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving global business environments

• Strategic Risk Engines (Basel III Accord Programme)
• Duration: Since Nov’12 to Sep’14
• Team Size: 20
• Role: Senior QA
• Location: Pune, India
• Technologies: .NET, Java, SQL Server 2008, Solace, App Servers, Quality Centre and JIRA
• Scope: Market Risk Systems provides a platform with end to end solutions to Risk Officers and Traders for effectively managing the risk for any movement in financial markets. SRE provides with core Risk engines to multiple clients to calculate the Pnls and account for any Add-on charges which forms an input as well to arrive at the final VaR – Value At Risk which is widely used risk measure of risk of loss on specific portfolios or financial assets. The underlying models use Historical based Simulation approach to calculate VaR numbers.
• Responsibilities:
• Perform daily health checks using Autosys, App Servers, Solace systems, Message Queues, Heat Maps and Batch Monitors to ensure Strategic Risk Framework systems are up and running.
• Project Pipeline review and prioritization calls with the Dev Managers and Market Risk Projects teams in London and Singapore.
• Requirement or release notes analysis with the Business Analyst and developers in London and Singapore.
• Prepare Visual Test Strategy using Mind maps, test cases document and get it reviewed.
• Perform test execution and prepare daily summary reports.
• Prepare and review automation datasheet for automation testing.
• Perform project closure; update all the relevant documents, metrics, SharePoint etc.
• Team management and other day-to-day activities
• Senior Panel member involved in interview screening within Market Risk Teams

• Foreign Exchange (FX) – Cash and Options BackOffice (Fixed Income Division)
• Duration: Since Apr’08 to Oct’12
• Team Size: 11
• Role: Onsite Coordinator/Test Lead
• Location: New York, USA
• Technologies: .NET, UNIX TCL-TK, Java, Mainframe, Sybase, Quality Center 9.0 and JIRA
• Scope: Cash and Options BackOffice is currently the highest priority and critical item from the Client perspective driven by the recent changes that led the firm to be a “Bank holding company” rather than an “Investment Bank”.
• Backoffice involves all the applications used by the Bank Operations and the Controllers people to manage the workflow, confirmations and pre-settlements/settlements process.
• Responsibilities:
• Perform daily Ready For Business (RFB) checks using autosys jobs, Message Queues, Heat Maps) to ensure end-to-end trade flows.
• Project Pipeline review and prioritization calls with the Dev and Operation managers in New York and London.
• Requirement or release notes analysis with the client / developers in New York and London.
• Prepare test strategy, test cases document and get it reviewed.
• Perform test execution and prepare daily summary reports.
• Prepare and review automation datasheet for automation testing.
• Perform project closure; update all the relevant documents, metrics, TWIKI etc.
• Team management and other day-to-day activities