KARTHIKRAJ SETHURAMAN

Project Name: State Street - Alpha Data Implementations

• Tested and executed 60+ Third-Party Applications (TPAs) for complex capital markets interfaces, achieving 98% first-pass success rate and reducing integration defects by 35%.
• Support UAT activities by clarifying requirements, preparing test data, and assisting business users with validation.
• Participate in effort estimation, resource planning, and workload distribution for multiple parallel releases.
• Define and implement QA strategies aligned with capital markets business goals.
• Lead QA teams across multiple projects, ensuring consistency and quality.
• Mentor and guide onshore/offshore QA teams; review test deliverables and ensure adherence to quality standards.
• Collaborate with stakeholders including developers, business analysts, and product owners.
• Understand capital markets instruments (e.g., equities, fixed income, derivatives).
• Translate complex trading workflows into testable scenarios.
• Oversee functional, integration, regression, and UAT testing.
• Develop test plans, test cases, and test scripts tailored to capital markets applications.
• Automated ETL processes and conducted end-to-end testing to ensure data integrity and quality which saves 5% of working time.

Project Name: State Street - Alpha Data Implementations

• Validated ETL workflows covering trade capture, enrichment, position calculations, P&L, risk metrics, and market data feeds, achieving 98–100% accuracy across daily batch and intraday processes.
• Validate complex business rules such as: Trade matching and allocations Pricing calculations Corporate action adjustments Margin & collateral data End-of-day (EOD) and intraday processes.
• Executed automated and manual data quality checks (nulls, duplicates, referential integrity, threshold breaches), identifying and preventing 30+ defects per quarter before downstream impact.
• Work closely with ETL developers, data engineers, business analysts teams to analyze issues,Perform full source-to-target data validation.
• Participated in root cause analysis (RCA) for data mismatches and calculation discrepancies, contributing to long-term fixes that reduced recurring issues by 60%.

Project Name: State Street - DataGX

• Facilitated daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives for 3–5 agile teams, improving sprint predictability by 30%
• Collaborate with Product Owners and stakeholders to gather, clarify, and prioritize business requirements, ensuring business goals are accurately captured in Business Requirements Documents (BRDs), Functional Requirement Documents (FRDs), and user stories.
• Prepare, update, and maintain core BA documentation including BRDs, FRDs, process flow diagrams, use cases, traceability matrices, and reporting dashboards, ensuring 100% audit compliance.
• Validate solutions during SIT, UAT, and production deployment to confirm alignment with business expectations.
• Identify, track, and coordinate the resolution of cross-team dependencies and blockers, ensuring smoother delivery flow and reducing project delays.
• Drive backlog clarity and effective prioritisation, resulting in a 20% reduction in mid-sprint requirement changes and ensuring alignment between business needs and development output.
• Analyze source systems, data models, and transformation logic to validate enterprise data workflows, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and alignment with documented business requirements.
• Removed blockers and coordinated cross-team dependencies, reducing delivery delays.
• Led ETL testing activities for 15+ enterprise data pipelines, ensuring 98–100% data accuracy and 100% completeness across all loads.
• Performed full data validation across staging, warehouse, and downstream layers, reducing data mismatch issues by 50%.
• Partner with ETL developers, data engineers, QA teams, and business stakeholders to resolve requirement ambiguities and data issues, improving resolution timeliness by 40%.
• Ensured test reports, traceability matrices, and defect logs were maintained with 100% audit compliance.
• Organizes, documents, and reviews work items in scope from technical viewpoints and approaches in order to ensure completeness and consistency in scoping of project.
• Prepared Test Plan, Effort Estimations, and Daily Status Report, Weekly Status Report and Test Summary report and share to the respective stake holders.

Project Name: WBG - Cognos to BO Migration

• Gathered, analyzed, and documented 50+ business requirements across reporting, dashboards, and analytics, improving requirement clarity and reducing change requests by 30%.
• Conducted workshops and discussions with 40+ business stakeholders, ensuring 100% alignment between business goals and reporting deliverables.
• Translated business requirements into detailed functional and technical specifications, reducing development rework by 25%.
• Reviewed SAP BO report design documents, universes, and data models for 60+ enterprise reports, ensuring 98% accuracy and compliance with business rules.
• Collaborated with developers, data engineers, and QA teams, improving cross-team communication and cutting issue resolution time by 35%.
• Validated report output against source systems and business rules, achieving 99% data accuracy across all reports.
• Performed root-cause analysis on report defects and data mismatches, contributing to permanent fixes that reduced recurring issues by 50%
• Participated in UAT, supporting 20+ business users, resulting in 100% UAT sign-off with minimal defects.
• Performed rigorous report validation and testing—filters, prompts, drill-downs, ranking, sorting—detecting 35% more defects before production compared to previous cycles.

Project Name:ITOC Operations

• Prepare test plans, test scenarios, and test cases for ETL workflows, data pipelines, and data validation processes.
• Reviewed and analyzed ETL/Data Integration requirements, source-to-target mappings, and data models for 20+ enterprise data pipelines, improving requirement clarity and reducing design defects by 30%.
• Perform source-to-target data validation ensuring completeness, correctness, and data integrity.
• Validated ETL transformations—joins, lookups, aggregations, filters, and business rules—ensuring 98% transformation accuracy across all data flows.
• Execute functional, regression, integration, and system testing for ETL processes.
• Verify data loads in staging, warehouse, and downstream systems.
• Write and execute complex SQL queries for data validation and reconciliation.
• Compare source vs. target data counts, totals, duplicates, and data quality issues.
• Conduct performance testing for long-running ETL jobs.
• Log defects in tools like JIRA, QC/ALM etc.
• Work closely with ETL developers and data engineers to analyze, debug, and resolve issues.
• Track and retest defects until closure.
• Document test results, data issues, test summary reports, and traceability matrices.
• Maintain test artifacts following quality standards.
• Provide daily status updates to project managers and leads.
• Work closely with data engineers, DBAs, business analysts, and QA teams.
• Support UAT and production validation (post-deployment checks).
• Contribute to reviews and improvement initiatives.
• Join review meetings and support process enhancements.
• Keep project documentation accurate and audit-compliant.

Project Name: Webi Creations

• Create and maintain Universe (IDT/UDT) objects such as classes, objects, joins, and contexts.
• Write and optimize SQL queries to extract data from underlying databases.
• Work closely with business users to understand reporting needs.
• Translated functional requirements into detailed technical specifications, reducing development rework by 25%.
• Analyze existing BO reports and suggest improvements or optimizations.
• Perform unit testing, data validation, and reconciliation to ensure accuracy of reports.
• Conduct performance tuning of reports and universes.
• Prepare technical documentation, including design documents, test cases, and user guides.
• Managed version control and change logs for all report updates, improving traceability and reducing deployment errors by 30%.
• Schedule and manage reports using BO CMC and BI Launchpad.
• Handle user access requests and folder/report permissions.
• Troubleshoot and debug report-related problems.
• Attend review meetings and provide status updates regularly.

Project Name: Unisys - Reports and Universe Creations

• Created 15+ Web Intelligence reports with advanced features and implemented security measures.
• Developed technical documentation and managed service requests for end-users.
• Design, develop, and enhance Web Intelligence (WebI), Crystal Reports, and Dashboard reports based on business requirements.
• Creates and maintain Universe (IDT/UDT) objects such as classes, objects, joins, and contexts.
• Writes and optimize SQL queries to extract data from underlying databases.
• Work with SAP functional teams, data warehouse teams, and business analysts to resolve issues.
• Troubleshoot and resolved 30+ report issues, reducing average issue resolution time by 40%.
• Attend review meetings and provide status updates regularly.