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Gowri Sankar Natarajan

Assistant Manager - Technical Lead
Chennai

Summary

PROFILE SUMMARY

A dynamic professional with over 16 years of experience in Banking and Financial Services, with a proven track record of successfully delivering digital banking solutions for both banks and captives. Skilled in engaging with stakeholders to identify business needs and effectively communicating technical requirements to implementation teams, ensuring seamless project execution and alignment with strategic objectives.

S U M M A R Y O F Q U A L I F I C A T I O N

  • Skilled in transforming business and stakeholder visions into effective software solutions through accomplished business and data analysis, stakeholder engagement, project management, and test management.
  • Successfully transitioned solutions encompassing Web, Windows, Mobile and Digital applications, API development and integration, Data Migration, Data Extraction and Enrichment.
  • Delivered solutions across various Retail and Corporate Banking modules - Account Origination (Deposits & Loans), CRM, KYC, Cards, Teller, Sales and Services, Regulatory Reporting, and Reconciliation.
  • Ability to collaborate with stakeholders and communicate effectively across all technology departments.
  • Proficient in Agile - Scrum and Kanban, Iterative, Incremental and Waterfall approaches.
  • Facilitate Project/Program increment planning, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Stand-ups, Retrospect, and Sprint Review ceremonies.
  • Skilled in translating requirements into Epics, Features and User Stories, overseeing the process from initial gathering to final implementation.
  • Proficient in preparing and maintaining artifacts like BRD, FRD, and RTM throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Adept in Agile - Scrum & Kanban, iterative, incremental, and waterfall approaches.
  • Assist QA team with test plan and test strategy preparation, as well as reviewing test scenarios and test cases.
  • Conduct functional testing and user acceptance testing (UAT).

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications

Work History

Lead Business Analyst

BNP PARIBAS INDIA SOLUTIONS
5 2018 - Current


POSEIDON :

Poseidon is a Centralized repository to provide data to multiple stakeholders (Front-end, Dashboards, extracts) by extracting data from various source systems, apply control procedures and enrich data to generate standalone balance sheet for business lines - ALMT, Corporate Banking, BP2S (Securities services) and Wealth Management. Calculate liquidity indicators such as LCR, NSFR, NFB, RNFB for regulatory reporting in NAR, EMEA, APAC regions.


Touchpoint Sales & Service :

TPSS used by Bank of West bran users which solves the purpose of customers to open the account for BOW products, transact the cash, check, DDAs and to avail for various services offered by bank. TPSS provides a system to gather and store customer and prospect’s profile, manage follow-up contact with referrals, task reminders and appointments. TPSS primary user interface includes Touchpoint Admin, Touchpoint Teller and HOST mainframe systems.

Software Test Lead

FIS GLOBAL BUSINESS SOLUTIONS
12.2010 - 05.2018


Sales & Service (SAS Insight):

Sales and Services Insight is a Banking product of fidelity which supports all areas within a financial institution and multiple contact channels, including branch, teller, contact centre operations and the Internet. It includes various projects like Deposits origination, Loan Originations, Service Request Manager, Sales Management, IBS Mobile Banker, Relationship Value Management and CeB. All these applications are authored and configured using a tool called ACT. These solutions help the customer for a transition from a traditional product focus to a more customer-centric, sales-oriented culture that leverages one-on-one interactions

Senior Test Engineer

UST GLOBAL
06.2008 - 12.2010


Enterprise Provider Database Solutions (EPDS):

Enterprise Provider Database Solution is a consolidation & replacement project for several existing applications that maintain the Providers (doctors & hospitals) information for WellPoint. The objective is to build a foundation to enable the entry of Provider Data once into a central repository, streamlining and standardizing Well Point business processes. The EPDS centres on the heart of Well Point’s business model of creating, tracking, marketing, and managing flexible, quality provider networks to support all lines of business, products and services. The intent of the project is to not only support existing business, but to also provide a flexible, configurable solution to enable future business initiatives and growth.

Education

Master of Computer Applications

SRM University
Chennai, India
05.2007

Skills

Domain

  • Retail and Corporate Banking

  • Liquidity Reporting & Reconciliation

Business Analysis

  • Requirements gathering

  • Grooming/elicitation

  • RTM, UML/Use case

Data Analysis

  • Data Extraction & Enrichment

  • Regulatory Reporting & Reconciliation

Project Management Tools

  • JIRA

  • Confluence

Validation & Verification

  • Review & Walkthrough

  • Functional and Acceptance Test

Validation Tools

  • Soap UI

  • POSTMAN

  • MS Excel

Data bases

  • SQL

  • PL/SQL

Agile

  • Scrum

  • Kanban

Test Management Tools

  • HP ALM

  • X- Ray

Certification

ISTQB Foundation level

Timeline

Software Test Lead

FIS GLOBAL BUSINESS SOLUTIONS
12.2010 - 05.2018

Senior Test Engineer

UST GLOBAL
06.2008 - 12.2010

Lead Business Analyst

BNP PARIBAS INDIA SOLUTIONS
5 2018 - Current

Master of Computer Applications

SRM University
Gowri Sankar NatarajanAssistant Manager - Technical Lead