Maheshwar Katepalli

Client- CITI BANK (Platform- GPP Classic)

Role - Test Lead

• Leading a team of quality assurance analysts in ensuring compliance with ISO20022 standards for payment systems within TCS’s Client - Citi Bank's infrastructure.
• Conducting End-to-End testing of CBPR+ payments for Citibank's External Clients across multiple Financial Market Infrastructures ensuring seamless transaction processing and adherence to regulatory standards.
• Employed Agile methodologies for testing, actively leading in Agile ceremonies such as Sprint planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint reviews, and Restrospectives.
• Utilized Jira and Zephyr extensively for test case management , defect tracking and task assignment ensuring streamlined communication and collaboration within Agile teams.
• Sending daily status reports for multiple projects providing stakeholders with transparent insights into project progress, milestones achieved and potential challenges.
• Providing training and guidance to team members on ISO 20022 standards, payment processes and Agile methodologies.
• Proficient in Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Defect Life cycle.
• Proficient knowledge in writing SQL Queries.
• Extensive experience in SWIFT messages MT (MT103, MT202, MT202COV, MT900, MT910, MT204) and ISO20022 MX (pacs.008, pacs.009, pacs.009COV), pacs.004, pacs.002 messages for various countries within the regions APAC.
• In-depth experience in payment processing and testing with SWIFT network.
• Have knowledge and experience in processing of payments from various Staging server (MQ’s)
• Preparation of Test Data, Test scenarios, scripts and test execution.
• Have good understanding about rules and profiles/MOP as part of GPP-Classic application as it is a rule based payment application.
• Designed and executed Business, Functional, Regression and End-to-End test Strategy, scenarios and test cases for a Release.

• Processing Payments via Swift MT 101,103,202, 202 COV etc
• For Middle East countries (Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and UAE)
• Liaising with world's best banks by using Message Types such as MT199, MT299, MT195, MT196, MT292 etc
• Dealing with Treasury department for FX rates to process foreign exchange payments
• Regular Controls & Checks on Payments outstanding for signing and informing Onshore about the same as per the cut-offs
• Funding of account wherever required, to avoid any overdraft charges or withholding of payments
• To come up with process related ideas and improvements to make work more streamlined
• Handling process training and improvement within the team
• Updating daily MIS Reports and sharing the performance data with Team members and providing timely feedback
• Assisting IT team in UAT at operations level to enhance payment applications and systems to increase the STP rate

• To handle Global Electronic Funds Transfer for currencies GBP, USD, EUR etc
• Through GPP (Global Payments Processing) for Barclays Bank UK
• Processing Electronic Payments (MT1XX & MT2XX) initiated by/for Barclays Customers across all global currencies using GPP platform (Global Payplus)
• Investigating on various swift queries such as Cancellation of Payment, UNAP (Unable to Apply Funds), Return of funds, BCNR (Beneficiary Claims Non-Receipt of funds), Amendment of Payment Information
• To ensure all Service Level Agreements are met & team losses are kept to the minimum

• Updating Customer's Account and Data Processing as per Company's policy