Rashika Chandna
London
Summary
Results-driven Squad Lead / Scrum Master with 15+ years of experience delivering large-scale enterprise and banking transformation programs across Investment Banking, Credit Risk, and Trade Finance domains. Skilled in Agile and hybrid Agile-Waterfall delivery, SDLC compliance, and stakeholder engagement. Proven ability to align business objectives with technology outcomes by driving process improvements, managing dependencies, and ensuring delivery within scope, time, and budget. Experienced in mentoring Agile teams, facilitating strategic discussions, and coordinating cross-functional collaboration between business, technology, and vendor partners to achieve measurable results.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Squad Lead / Scrum Master
TCS - Deutsche Bank (Investment Banking)
06.2016 - Current
- Led the migration of data onboarding processes across Credit Risk and Trade Finance, covering data ingestion, transformation, and loading from legacy systems to modern, SQL-based Cloudera OpenShift platforms.
- Delivered digital transformation initiatives using both Agile and Waterfall methodologies, ensuring adherence to SDLC standards, governance checkpoints, and gateway approvals.
- Facilitated collaboration between technical and business teams, driving discussions with architects, BAs, and senior stakeholders to define requirements, manage dependencies, and ensure alignment with strategic goals.
- Engaged senior executives and steering committees through regular progress updates, risk assessments, and delivery roadmaps, maintaining transparency and accountability across all program phases.
- Partnered with third-party suppliers and technology vendors to align delivery milestones, integration timelines, and SLA commitments, ensuring seamless execution across dependent systems.
- Tracked project budgets and delivery costs, working with program leads to ensure optimal resource utilization and value realization across multiple parallel workstreams.
- Enabled risk-managed delivery by implementing test automation, proactive defect monitoring, and iterative feedback loops—reducing post-production issues by 50%.
- Mentored multiple cross-functional Agile teams to drive continuous improvement, strengthen collaboration, and ensure consistent sprint outcomes aligned with product vision.
- Supported strategic business case development, providing analytical insights into cost, risk, and benefit realization during the planning and review phases of transformation initiatives.
- Led a data distribution modernization project within the Credit Risk Department, resolving REST API performance bottlenecks through a transition to HDFS and Spark DataFrames, reducing processing time by 50%.
- Strengthened SDLC compliance through governance frameworks, quality assurance checkpoints, and documentation best practices—ensuring readiness for audits and regulatory reviews.
Technical Trainer
TCS - Deutsche Börse AG (Financial Services/Capital Markets)
03.2016 - 06.2016
- Specifically approached by the Deutsche Börse AG account to train teams in the ExtJS framework, leveraging my prior success with this technology at Avaya when it was still new and niche within the organisation.
- Led the development of a proof-of-concept for the New Trading Platform (NTP) for Eurex, aimed at delivering a modern, flexible trading platform connecting 200+ banks across Europe.
- Delivered a functional prototype ahead of schedule, earning client commendation for its enhanced look, feel, and performance, which influenced the project's decision to adopt ExtJS as the primary technology due to its open-source advantages.
UI Developer with ExtJS
TCS - Avaya (Telecom)
12.2015 - 02.2016
- Joined a fixed-term project at Avaya to develop a UI dashboard integrating the Fault & Performance Management (FPM) module with the SMGR application, enhancing real-time monitoring and resolution of voice system alarms.
- Quickly mastered the ExtJS UI framework and successfully delivered the dashboard within a tight 3-month deadline, meeting all project goals.
- Recognized as an ExtJS expert, with multiple project teams across the organization seeking my guidance and training in the framework.
Java Developer
TCS - GE (Financial Services)
03.2013 - 11.2015
- Led the end-to-end development of the Decision Gate project, a credit decision-making system that interfaces with credit bureaus to assess customer credit requests based on their credit history. Managed development, quality assurance, and support activities independently from offshore.
- Enhanced the Leasing Source application for Vendor Financial Services (VFS), developing web services and GWT components to support credit applications, vendor funding reports, and automation of key processes like application tracking, auto documentation, and deal management.
Java Developer
Infosys - BOFA (Banking & Finance)
03.2010 - 02.2013
- Enhanced the Cash Pro Online Application by adding features that enabled customers to track accounts across multiple banks, improving user experience and functionality.
- Improved the Offers Management module for Bank of America's retail banking solution, optimizing the lifecycle management of offers from creation to access by other systems, streamlining operations and enhancing system integration.
Education
B.Tech - Electronics & Communication Engineering
ABES Engineering College
06.2009
Skills
- Agile Methodologies
- GCP cloud
- Automated Testing
- Extjs
- Hadoop
- Java
- Scala
- Scrum
- Spark
- SQL
- Stakeholder Management
- Web Services
- SAFe
- Project management
- Risk identification
- Agile coaching
Accomplishments
- Strategic Delivery Success: Delivered multiple global transformation initiatives across Investment Banking, ensuring SDLC compliance, on-time delivery, and measurable business outcomes within scope and budget.
- Risk Management Success: Achieved zero escalations in critical projects by implementing effective risk management strategies.
- Testing Process Automation: Cut testing time by 80% through process improvements and automation and ensuring on-time project delivery and enabling rapid turnaround during critical post-production issues.
- Defect Reduction Achievement: Reduced post-production defects by 50% using proactive testing strategies and advanced tools.
- Awards: Recognised for exceptional performance with multiple awards (e.g., On-the-Spot Award, Technical Excellence Award)
- Quick Learner: Quickly mastered the ExtJS UI framework and successfully developed a client dashboard within just 3 months
Certification
- Certified Scrum Master
- Supervised Machine Learning: Regression and Classification
- Project Management Professional (PMP) – In Progress (Target Completion: 2025)
Timeline
Squad Lead / Scrum Master
TCS - Deutsche Bank (Investment Banking)
06.2016 - Current
Technical Trainer
TCS - Deutsche Börse AG (Financial Services/Capital Markets)
03.2016 - 06.2016
UI Developer with ExtJS
TCS - Avaya (Telecom)
12.2015 - 02.2016
Java Developer
TCS - GE (Financial Services)
03.2013 - 11.2015
Java Developer
Infosys - BOFA (Banking & Finance)
03.2010 - 02.2013
B.Tech - Electronics & Communication Engineering
ABES Engineering College
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