RAVI KIRAN
Murex Consultant
Bangalore,Karnataka
Summary
Accomplished IT professional with a successful history of fostering collaboration among business and teams, encompassing engineering, build, support, implementation, and production support. Expertise lies in the Financial Services sector, specifically Capital Markets.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Consultant
NatWest
11.2020 - Current
- Work with operations team to deploy and troubleshoot operational issues
- Troubleshoot build and release management issues
- Performed upgrades single handily from DEV and Non-Prod Env
- Documented all solutions for issues occurred in SIT and UAT testing cycles
- Delivered Upgrade proposals, reviewed with all business owners and IT teams
- Planning and participating in organization level patch upgrades such as UNIX, DB and MQ
- Coordination with infra teams in planning outage of murex environments
- Review build results, debug optimize complex builds
- Resolve build issues with development team
- Hold retrospectives to improve release process, roles, procedure and documentation
- Hands on Experience in working on version control systems like subversion, git and used source code management client tools like GitHub, Source tree and other command-line applications.
- Built strong relationships with clients through consistent communication and proactive problem-solving efforts.
- Prioritized projects and project tasks depending upon key milestones and deadline dates.
- Managed cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery of high-quality solutions for various projects.
Senior Consultant
ICICI Bank Through Luxoft LLC
04.2020 - 11.2020
- Providing support and handling environment related issues for ICICI bank in the version upgrade of V24 to V43
- Setting for new environments for Performance Testing team
- Documented all solutions for the issues occurred in SIT testing cycles
- Prepared Run book for the dress rehearsal program in the weekends
- Analyze and troubleshooting of Data mart reports.
- Evaluated clients' needs and created plan of action to provide solutions.
- Troubleshot issues by understanding issue, diagnosing root cause and coming up with effective solutions.
Senior Consultant
Jefferies LLC Through CAPCO
10.2017 - 03.2020
- Providing end to end support on all Dev/SIT/QA environments including resolving day to day user issues and running EOD batches on environments whenever requested
- Providing day and over-night (on-call) support for Murex EOD/Month-end batch jobs scheduled in TWS, this involves monitoring, fixing batch job failures, performing post run checks and report errors
- Weekly deployment of murex changes on to Pre Prod environment and running EOD to ensure that there are no integration/regression issues before actual implementation of these changes
- Coordinating with dev team/change owners in event of job failures to prevent similar issues occurring in production environment
- Conducted business requirement(s) gathering and review meetings
- Allocation of environments to new projects, individual development/testing teams
- Maintaining inventory of environments, frequent audit on usage of environments to ensure that are used optimally
- Performed upgrades single handily from DEV and Non-Prod Environment
- Documented all solutions for issues occurred in SIT and UAT testing cycles
- Delivered Upgrade proposals, reviewed with all business owners and IT teams
- Planning and participating in organization level patch upgrades such as UNIX, DB and MQ
- Coordination with infra teams in planning the outage of murex environments
- Monitoring the health of key environments, servers on a regular basis
- Identifying any infrastructure related issues and raising them with the concerned teams to better improve performance and stability
- Analyze & Troubleshoot Trade flow, Market-wire issues and Datamart End user reports
- Deploying and testing the changes at UAT level, validating changes, moving tested QA changes to production
- Providing support during DR Switch
- Trade Purge, Market Data Purge, MxML Purge, etc
- Weekly status reporting and risk analysis of the project
- Prepared Run book for all of the dress rehearsals & go-live weekend.
Technology Lead
Commerzbank AG Through Infosys
10.2015 - 10.2017
- Trade Floor support for Summit System application
- Regional APAC support Lead
- Responsible for providing technical production support services for applications that run for Derivatives business of Commerzbank
- Monitoring batch and interface processes and take remedial action where necessary according to predefined SLA
- Production Support Incident Logging and Tracking and provide MIS and Trend Analysis
- Perform configuration, housekeeping and data changes to system
- Liaise with IT Infrastructure to resolve database and infrastructure issues
- Liaise with service providers to resolve issues
- Outage Management and provision of incident outage reports.
- Maintained exceptional uptime of 99% for Summit Environment availability to sustain continued operations at CommerzBank
Project Lead
Deutsche Bank Through HCL Technologies Ltd.
11.2008 - 10.2015
- Responsible for providing technical production support services for applications that run for Derivatives business of Deutsche Bank
- Investigation on Trade Capture Issues, solving issues relating to accounting, document generation, feed Issues
- Monitoring batch and interface processes and take remedial action where necessary according to predefined SLA
- Handling of Bulk Activities like Trioptima, Unwinds and Book Move's through scripts as business cannot handle it manually
- Production Support Incident Logging and Tracking, and provide MIS and Trend Analysis
- Involved in Coordination and planning with different teams for production releases
- Developing applications on day-to-day user and client interaction and system checks
- Optimized resource utilization by accurately forecasting project needs and allocating resources accordingly throughout the project lifecycle.
- Increased stakeholder engagement by conducting regular status updates and addressing concerns proactively.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Mechanical Engineering
JITM
OdishaSkills
- Extensive experience in understanding big picture, delivering projects from hardware procurement through implementation and providing post go-live support
- Flexible, proactive and self-motivated with proven ability to assimilate and apply information rapidly and effectively
- Consistent in demonstrating integrity, fairness and professional conduct
- Strong collaborating skills
- Experienced in handling stressful situations
- Murex 31x
- SummitV38
- Oracle
- Sybase
- Shell Scripting
- JIRA
- Confluence
- Tortoise SVN
- GIT
- Team city
- Bit Bucket
- ERWIN ERX35
- HTML
- Beyond Compare
- WinScP
- Jenkins
- Ansible
- MxConfig
- MxPipeline
Accomplishments
- Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for the execution of projects
- Delegate project tasks based on junior staff members' individual strengths, skill sets and experience levels
- Use and continually develop leadership skills
- Working as Change/Release Manager for Murex-Jefferies from Offshore
- ITIL V3 and Scrum Master Certified
- Deep understanding of MxConfig and ability to treat Murex config as code.
- Excellent understanding of the end to end continuous integration process and capable of implementing the process from a Murex perspective.
- Comfortable in working across the entire spectrum of the CI/CD tool stack
- Well versed in the Git branching strategies for Murex
- Good Understanding of end to end Automation Testing via MXTEST(ONYX) for Murex Functional core modules like (Trade Insertions/Verfications,Events, OSP Validations,Simulation views)
- Help define and implement to compare the EOD Reports between Source and Target environments using ONYX for regression testing during binary upgrades
Financialskills
Migrations / Upgrade and Environment Management, Backoffice
Certification
- ITIL V3
- Scrum Master
Timeline
Senior Consultant
NatWest
11.2020 - Current
Senior Consultant
ICICI Bank Through Luxoft LLC
04.2020 - 11.2020
Senior Consultant
Jefferies LLC Through CAPCO
10.2017 - 03.2020
Technology Lead
Commerzbank AG Through Infosys
10.2015 - 10.2017
Project Lead
Deutsche Bank Through HCL Technologies Ltd.
11.2008 - 10.2015
Bachelor of Technology - Mechanical Engineering
JITM
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