Jeremiah Monteiro

• Domain: Banking – Payments
• Application : Payment Processor, Transactions Limit Management, ISO Repository
• Development Integration Testing and System Integration Testing
• Tools: JIRA, Postgres, Oracle SQL, Postman, Kafka

1. Barclays Partner Banking Project (Current):

• Objective: Enabling local electronic currency payments for Barclays' corporate clients in the Nordic and Central/Eastern European markets by integrating with partner banks.
• Functionality in Scope (Payment Processing):
• Payment initiation: Handling mass payment files (PAIN.001.001.03 and PAIN.001.001.09 CJSON) from Barclays' clients.
• Format translation: Transforming PAIN messages into partner-specific ISO 20022 formats, Pain.001.001.03 and Pacs.008.001.08 via PSH (Payment Services Hub).
• Payment Processing: End-to-end payment with various financial institutions in different markets
• PSRs: Receiving and processing Payment Status Reports (Pacs.002.001.02, Pain.002.001.03) from partner banks.
• Processing, Credit notification (Return, Reversal) received from Partner Banks.
• Exception Handling: Managing and resolving payment exceptions, returns, and rejections.
• Message Formats: PAIN.001.001.03 (Customer Credit Transfer Initiation) (from Barclays)
• PACS.008.001.02 (Payment Status)
• CAMT.054.001.02 and CAMT.054.001.08 (Bank to Customer Debit Credit Notification) (from Partner Banks)
• PACS.004.001.09 (Payment Return), PAIN.002.001.03 (Customer Payment Status Report), PACS.002.001.08 (FI to FI Payment Status Report)
• Key Systems: Barclays Core Banking, PSH (Transformation Hub), Partner Bank payment systems- FAC
• Key Testing Deliverables to be focused on
• Verify the payment messages, accurate mapping, enrichment and data type validation
• Validating high volume of ISO messages
• Validating and monitoring end to end Payment lifecycle

2. TLM (Transaction Limits Management) Project:

• Client: Société Générale (Socgen) Bank, Belgium.
• Domain Alignment: While not directly generating ISO messages, TLM validates transaction limits which is an important part of payment processing.
• Purpose: Real-time validation of transaction limits for fund check requests, contributing to a secure payment environment.

3. ISO Repository Project:

• Client: CIBC Bank, Canada.
• Domain Alignment: This project was focused on the storage and management of remittance information within ISO 20022 payment messages.
• Purpose: Centralized repository for remittance data (purpose codes, etc.) used across various payment message types.
• Payment formats tested : PACS.008, PACS.002 PAIN.001, PAIN.003 and CAMT.054

• Domain: Banking – Treasury and Trade Services
• Application : Flexcube,CitiKYC
• User Acceptance Testing
• Tools: JIRA, SQL, Tectia, Autosys, Zephyr
• Individual task and responsibilities
• Understanding Business and Functional Requirement Document and analyzing the Requirements basis on Acceptance criteria.
• Conducting Review Meetings within the Client and Stakeholders.
• Participate in preparing Test Strategy and Test Plans. This included preparing and sharing the timelines for the project completion before the deadline.
• Writing Effective Test Cases.
• Execution of the Test Cases. Ensure the output is as per specification.
• Defect handling per Defect Management Lifecycle.
• Management Information System reporting.
• Quality Assurance by validating the end results are as per Acceptance criteria.
• Prepare Exit criteria – sign off document and co-ordinate with other partners to ensure verification and validations of the requirements are met and accepted.
• Maintain a high standard of workmanship by using only approved data, materials, tools and test equipment.

• Roles and Responsibilities: Customer Service Executive (Voice)
• Quality Assurance
• Was a part of the organization located in Mumbai, who work in the advanced 3G (3rd Generation) technology space and provide end-to-end CRM (customer relationship management) solutions for the Three and Vodafone networks in Australia.