DEEPAK RAI

15+ years of rich experience covering Business Analysis, QA, Project management, coordination & Testing automation in most of the banking domain projects. Currently working with HSBC and designated as a 'Lead Business Analyst, driving various aspects of IT transformation.

• Business Analysis, Project management, change management and solution implementation.
• Providing SME inputs for solution design and architecture, for driving business, operations and technology initiated projects
• Building strong relationships with senior stakeholders based on understanding their business objectives and ability to work with business sponsors.
• Team management for high & low cost, with end to end large scale and major projects.
• Logical reasoning and Problem Solving ability, to adapt and thrive in an ever evolving technology space.
• Ability to proactively identify and mitigate risk to service or performance and continuously review QA process to bridge gaps.
• Good interpersonal and consultancy skill with written & verbal communication.
• Practitioner of SDLC/STLC process like Agile, V-Model and Waterfall.
• Good hold over core java & test automation framework, automation testing in Selenium, TestNG, cucumber, Maven & POM. UNIX commands and SQL queries.

• Hands on experience in various banking Payments application like Channels, Transaction Monitoring, Sanctions - Regulatory Screening, Exception & Investigations, Payments data lake.
• Core banking system (Bancs & Finacle) and exposure of Investment banking.
• Sound knowledge of multiple payments including MT/MX Swift standards, ISO20022 migration, SEPA CT/DD, PAIN, PACS, CAMT and other misc formats pseudo, ACH, cheques.
• Fircosoft transaction monitoring & screening product SME across multiple versions (v4, v5, v5.7 & v6).
• Excellent understanding of nomenclature for payments messaging and CSM.

• CBPR+ training by Swift trainer.
• Certified Payment Processing Specialist (CPPS).
• ISTQB Foundation.
• Sun certified Java programmer (SCJP).

• Quarterly STAR performer - Awarded by HSBC head for leading ATOM initiative for test automation & delivering critical MI reporting solutions.
• Leadership Award - Presented by HSBC payments head for successfully delivering multiple work streams in parallel, including Selenium Automation, Project Coordination, Business Analysis, Cross Functional Engineering & Implementation.
• Barclays values : Stewardship Award for automating critical regression suit.
• CIB CAO Excellence Global Award - Presented by JPMorgan Technology head for end to end QA delivery of a critical database upgrade project.
• Innovation Award - Presented by Cognizant BFS Head for innovation.
• Spot Award - Presented by Zensar for most promising emerging management trainee.

• Regulatory Sanctions Screening (HSBC, Barclays, JPMorgan) - Driving Firco Continuity adoption, implementation, version upgrades and enhancements, ensuring regulatory requirements of sanctions screening is met by bank.
• PCNG Sanctions (Barclays) - Legacy Sanctions Screening application, prior to Barclays adopting Fircosoft.
• FINET (ANZ) - Systems supporting core, retail & treasury functions further classified into Deposits, Loans, Contingents and GL categories.
• BND Re-write (Strate) - System to disclose beneficiary holdings info to the issuers, it carried out file validation, reconciling holdings and generating final holding output reports.
• SAJO (Cisco) - Integration of SPVTG system with CISCO ERP offered the end customer, a single point of contact for placing orders, check order status and generate invoice.