Gajendra Prakash
Murex Business Analyst/QA Professional
Bengaluru
Summary
Overall, 14 years of experience in Product and Service based IT industry as Software Development in Functional, Automation and Performance Testing using various tools and technologies. Well acquainted with the concepts of Agile, Devops, SDLC, STLC, Defect Life Cycle and Testing Concepts. Have good techno-functional knowledge on Capital Markets, Retail & Corporate Banking domains. Have experience in Murex Front Office, Back office, Workflows, EOD files. Have good experience in Back office OSP, Confirmations, Settlements, Cash management Worked on Mifid-II regulatory reporting, EMIR reporting and Murex Binary Upgradation. Well versed with Murex Automation using ORQA tool. Good hands on experience in performance testing tools like LoadRunner and Jmeter. Good team player in a agile team, played roles like scrum master, business analyst, also involved in stakeholders meeting for deliverables. Customer-view, Quality Oriented Mind Setup, Quick-grasp, Self-learn professional, self-motivated, value-added attitudes, Delivering Quality results with good process and planning.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
3
3
Languages
Work History
Associate Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services
11.2022 - Current
- Project: Treasury Management System Migration (Simcorp to Murex)
- Client: Yorkshire Building Society (YBS)
- Duration: Nov 2022 to till date
- Role: Business Analyst/Functional Tester
- Team Size: 8
- Environment & Tools: Windows, Muex, Jira
- Project Overview: TMS migration (Simcorp to Murex): Clients are using the old Simcorp application for their treasury operations and they have decided to move to new TMS system Murex.
- Roles and Responsibilities: As a team member in a team of 8, involved in the analysis, design and testing of Ops area (BO) of application by
- Involved from analysing the existing TMS to drafting/mapping requirements to Murex in Jira as a Business analyst for Back office area.
- In Back office area involved in Trade Validation, Confirmations, Settlements and Nostro Vostro accounts requirements drafting and validation of them.
- Settlements (Nostro & Vostro SSI) creation, Deposit accounts creation with respect to old TMS to Murex system.
- Worked on Designing the Test packs based on BRD, booking trades and Evaluation of trades in Murex system also involved in data mapping to murex system and migration exercise.
- Project Overview: TMS migration (Simcorp to Murex): Clients are using the old Simcorp application for their treasury operations and they have decided to move to new TMS system Murex.
Technical Test Lead
Infosys Technologies
10.2013 - 11.2022
- Project1: Tradestore, MaRRS, Murex
- Client: ABN-AMRO BANK(DUTCH Bank)
- Duration: Oct 2014 to till date
- Role: Functional, Automation & Performance Tester, Business Analyst
- Team Size: 8
- Environment & Tools: Windows, Linux, Postman, Bitbucket, IntelliJ, Jmeter, Marklogic(No-Sql), Oracle, LoadRunner , Muex, HP-ALM, HP-PC, ORQA
- Project Overview: Murex is a trading application to manage financial trading activities. Worked on Automation and Performance testing of Murex application. Developed automation test cases and executed regression test from ORQA tool for every release.
- Currently involved in Binary upgradation of the Murex, strategy and discussions are in place to validate the new patch delivered from Murex.
- Tradestore: It is a one stop repository for ABN Global-Markets domain, storing the entire global markets trading data in Marklogic database. Based on the need of data for different stakeholders we were refining and sharing the data. Shared data to MIFID-II regulatory reporting, FRAAI etc.
- MaRRS: It is also one of the similar regulatory reporting projects, used for reporting to EMIR, MMSR. Storing data from Murex, Sophis, 4Sight other trading platforms and refining data as per the requirement and sharing with regulators.
- Roles and Responsibilities: As a team member in a team of 8, involved in the testing, development and analysis of application by
- In murex responsible for automating the test cases related to FO, BO, Swift message validation etc… Regular execution of the regression pack for monthly releases.
- Using ORQA tool automated the Trade booking, OSP, Netting, Swift message and many other flows and validated them as part of regression test and publishing the results to stake holders before the release go no-go meeting.
- Discussing with teams on the new test cases to be automated and discussing the scope of test case to include it in regression set.
- Automated the Murex trade insertions and other functional flows using Mxml scripting
- Involved in migration of Murex from On-premise to Azure migration. Performed several tests as part of its Functional, regression, performance.
- In Tradestore project, As a Agile team member, took small stories in development of Marklogic and successfully delivered them as per the requirement
- Using Jmeter tool tested the Marklogic database for the trade inflow from trading systems like Murex, Sophis, THIS etc.
- Involved in release activities and played major role in production releases.
- In MIFII-II and EMIR reporting projects as a BA/Tester involved in analysis, requirements gathering and testing the application according to different reporting regulations.
- Project Overview: Murex is a trading application to manage financial trading activities. Worked on Automation and Performance testing of Murex application. Developed automation test cases and executed regression test from ORQA tool for every release.
- Currently involved in Binary upgradation of the Murex, strategy and discussions are in place to validate the new patch delivered from Murex.
- Tradestore: It is a one stop repository for ABN Global-Markets domain, storing the entire global markets trading data in Marklogic database. Based on the need of data for different stakeholders we were refining and sharing the data. Shared data to MIFID-II regulatory reporting, FRAAI etc.
- MaRRS: It is also one of the similar regulatory reporting projects, used for reporting to EMIR, MMSR. Storing data from Murex, Sophis, 4Sight other trading platforms and refining data as per the requirement and sharing with regulators.
Software Test Engineer
Wipro Technologies
03.2012 - 10.2013
- Product: BAS)) Recon (Investment Banking)
- Role: Tester
- Team Size: 6
- Environment: Windows, Linux, Jmeter, Mysql, Mule Server
- Project Overview: Joined the company as a ‘Performance Test Engineer’ for Base product. Base stands for ‘Business Accelerator Services’. Base is a product which provides solutions to customers to handle their Business Processing Operations. This product well fits to their business flow in terms of Accounts payable and Accounts receivable to customers and having a clear report on payments regarding approvals and duplicate checks. Worked on Reconciliation project for Investment Banking. (Barclays Client)
- Roles and Responsibilities: As a team member in a team of 6, involved in the testing of application by
- Designing and executing the TestCases based on TestScenarios.
- Created Test Data based on different test cases.
- Designing and executing the TestScripts using Jmeter tool.
- Defect Reporting using Bugzilla and Testopia tool.
- Coordinated with Architecture Team , Dev team and BRD team for enhancement requirements and supporting for reproducing production issues.
- Project Overview: Joined the company as a ‘Performance Test Engineer’ for Base product. Base stands for ‘Business Accelerator Services’. Base is a product which provides solutions to customers to handle their Business Processing Operations. This product well fits to their business flow in terms of Accounts payable and Accounts receivable to customers and having a clear report on payments regarding approvals and duplicate checks. Worked on Reconciliation project for Investment Banking. (Barclays Client)
Test Engineer
IRIX Technologies Private Limited
11.2010 - 03.2012
- Product: OLiO (Micro-Banking & Micro-Insurance)
- Role: Tester
- Team Size: 5
- Environment: Windows, Linux, Mobile OS, Oracle, Apache-Tomcat server
- Project Overview: Joined the company as a ‘Test Engineer’. OLiO is device agnostic, platform driven, feature rich product that provides solution for micro-banking, micro-insurance and MFI’s. It’s a mobile based application which can be used by banks, insurance and MFI’s to provide banking services to rural and economically backward people.
- Roles and Responsibilities: As a team member in a team of 5, involved in the testing of application by
- Designing and executing the TestCases based on TestScenarios.
- Designing and executing the TestScripts using Selenium Automation Tool.
- Defect Reporting using Bugzilla tool.
- Coordinated with sales team and development team for Delivery of the product as per business expectations.
- Project Overview: Joined the company as a ‘Test Engineer’. OLiO is device agnostic, platform driven, feature rich product that provides solution for micro-banking, micro-insurance and MFI’s. It’s a mobile based application which can be used by banks, insurance and MFI’s to provide banking services to rural and economically backward people.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - ECE
VTU
Skills
Primary Skills: Performance, Manual and Automation Testing, Business Analyst
Interests
Playing Chess, Reading inspirational Books, Cooking, Cycling, Swimming, Travelling
Disclaimer
All the information furnished above are true and correct to the best of my knowledge. Place: Mysuru Date
Personal Dossier
- Full Name: Gajendra U P
- Date of Birth: 1985-05-15
- Sex: Male
- Marital status: Married
- Nationality: Indian
Timeline
Associate Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services
11.2022 - Current
Technical Test Lead
Infosys Technologies
10.2013 - 11.2022
Software Test Engineer
Wipro Technologies
03.2012 - 10.2013
Test Engineer
IRIX Technologies Private Limited
11.2010 - 03.2012
Bachelor of Engineering - ECE
VTU