MANAS KUMAR

• Led teams of 6 personnel, supervising daily performance as well as training and improvement plans.
• Murex Development, L3 Fixes & QA.
• Reduced costs by identifying inefficiencies and implementing cost-saving measures in various departments.
• Issue prioritization with ASR & MO
• Fixes and Development across Murex Front office and New Business onboarding
• EM Rates FO development & Market Data for new business - TRY, THB OIS
• Curve and Generator SetUp
• Murex Binary Upgrade Testing – v38 to v54 and v54 to v63
• Regulatory Reporting testing for ESMA
• Automation testing using MX Test/Cucumber and Fitnesse
• Murex/MarkitWire Static configurations
• Murex Chatbot for different OPS use cases
• Tools: JIRA, SQL, Unix, FPML, XML, GIT, Murex

• Involved in testing from FO side, and MX implementation for Inflation Swaps, Interest Rate Swaps, Loans & Deposits, FX Swap and FX Spot products. Further worked on Bond borrowing, collateral, margin call, expected margin calls, NDF and product backlogs.
• Accomplished multiple tasks within established timeframes.
• Murex implementation for Regulatory Reporting project on SFTR through SFTR accelerator package of Murex for Security Finance products.
• Conducting Scrum Meetings, sprint planning, retrospective
• Created BRD, user stories for the project.
• Prepared requirement documents for Collateral and Bond Borrowing
• Involved in progression, regression, user acceptance testing
• Automation of regression tests using Onyx
• Worked extensively on Murex Modules – e-tradepad, P&L, Simulation, OSP, MXML Exchange, Workflows – Pre Trade and Post Trade, Deliverables, Settlement Instructions
• Trade Pricing and Booking – FX Cash, FX Derivatives
• Writing Test Cases for progression testing
• Running EOD batch & Status Reporting

• Multiple products were on boarded from Murex including Cap Floor Straddle, Inflation ZC Swap, Inflation Yoy Swap, FRA, CDS amongst others.
• Organized daily stand-ups, scrum ceremonies, backlog refinement, sprint, and release planning.
• Created BRD, user stories for the project.
• Prepared mapping documents between Murex (FO) and TPS (FO) and Oasys (BO) for each product.
• Performed Stakeholder Management and user acceptance testing
• Analyzed and implemented the MXML- citiml flow (fpml to citiml)
• Supported product and Packaged products implementation and scripted migration
• Overall project management for the project.
• Testing and Sign off from business users on project completion

This project involves the creation of a strategic front office order booking system designed to book various structured equity derivative products, notes, certificates, swaps, options, listed derivatives with ultimate goal to demise Sophis. Worked on Sophis, CADET, MarketWire, BARX, Atlas Web, MX front and middle office systems on multiple releases as BA/QA/PM and Product Owner.

• Created user stories, business scenarios and test scenarios across new bookings, top up, unwind allocations, redemptions, Trade Life Cycle and corporate actions for multiple products.
• User demo and training on the new features built on Murex.
• Participated in QA/UAT activities across releases
• Organized Scrum Meeting and user demo on new products developed

• Part of the Murex capability in HSBC and involved in building of knowledge assets, imparting functional training on various asset classes including FX and MM to the team.
• Managed testing cycles, including test plan creation, development of test scripts and co-ordination of user acceptance testing. Implemented & participated in user acceptance testing with a focus on documenting defects and executing test cases. Good exposure on MX 3.1 Trading Platform - in Front Office space. Well versed with FX, IR & MM Products- Spot, FX swap, Barrier, Asians, Flex, IRS, Loans & Deposit, Repos etc.
• Worked as Test Lead
• Performed User Acceptance Testing
• Worked on Murex FO modules: e-tradepad, Simulation

• Worked on Front, Middle and Back Office and across asset classes including FX, FXO, CFDs amongst others in Equity, Derivative & Commodity in OTC market. Front Office Applications - Front Office Commander, Mits Administrator, Saxo Trader, Web Trader and Order Commander applications. Back Office Application – Borrowing cost, CFD interest and commission modules.
• Involved in Requirement Analysis
• Performed Regression Testing, progression testing
• Defect tracking to closure

Argus is a Compliance Surveillance and Reporting system for the Institutional Research Services Sanford C Bernstein (SCB) sell side unit.

• Created Test Plan, Test Cases
• Daily standup and project update with client
• Performed UI , reports and database testing
• Monitoring Production environment and fixing data load failures
• Data Analysis using Sybase

• Tested Bank applications like BOSS, COIN, DARTNET, MBNA, WEASLESS, and OFR
• Prepared test cases and performed functional testing