Gagan Jain

OASYS

Governance application for managing Kafka topic and cluster onboarding within UBS, ensuring compliance and effective topic governance across all applications.

Responsibilities :-

• Developed an automation framework using Playwright (Java) and Cucumber BDD for Kafka topic and cluster onboarding governance.
• Automated validation workflows for topic creation, schema approvals, and compliance checks, reducing manual effort by 50%.
• Integrated PostgreSQL-based database validation to ensure consistency and accuracy in Kafka metadata.
• Optimized the CI/CD pipeline, reducing deployment failures by 30% and improving test execution efficiency.

Trade Lifecycle Validation & Post-Trade Processing

Responsible for the E2E validation of trades with different flows for the whole Europe and Middle East region in the Trade Validation and Control EMEA project. This was a massive testing activity that required close collaboration with cross-functional teams and stakeholders

Responsibilities :-

• Developed and maintained a Selenium-based test automation framework (Java, Cucumber, TestNG) for Trade Validation & Lifecycle Control, improving efficiency by 50%.
• Automated 1000+ trade validation workflows per week, ensuring 100% compliance with financial regulations.
• Created data-driven automated tests for trade lifecycle events, reducing manual effort by 60%.
• Integrated SQL-based backend validations to ensure trade accuracy and proper reconciliation.
• Implemented Jenkins CI/CD automation, reducing deployment time by 35%.

UK LE TV&C EMEA

Responsible for the automation and maintenance of a middle office application that performed post-trade and pre-settlement activities. The application was used by traders and operations teams to manage trade validation, confirmations, and allocations.

Responsibilities :-

• Developed and executed Java-Selenium automation scripts for trade validation, allocations, and settlements.
• Automated regression testing using Cucumber BDD, reducing test execution time by 60%.
• Conducted database validation using SQL, ensuring accurate financial transactions.
• Created a test data-generation utility, reducing data preparation time by 50%.