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SAKTHISARANYA NATARJ

Erode

Summary

Lead Business Analyst with 13 years of extensive experience in Business Analysis, Strategic Planning, Requirement Life Cycle Management, Validations, ETL Testing and Enterprise Content Management using structured methodologies. Extensive application knowledge in Credit Risk Management in Banking. Well experienced in Client Management, Vendor Management & Team Management in onsite-offshore delivery model. Extensive experience in working in both Waterfall and Agile methodologies. Adaptable to the latest technologies and new environment , with working experience as Business Analyst in Data Visualization tools - Power BI, Tableau, Business Objects. Worked for HSBC, the second largest bank in Europe, as Business Analyst Lead - Regulatory Stress Testing. Worked onsite for Northern Trust Bank, Chicago, IL, one of the leading Investment Banks in United States, as BA and Test Lead, coordinating various analysis and testing activities. Worked for Dun & Bradstreet Credit Bureau, as the Test Lead for their mission critical credit bureau application.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Business Analysis Lead

HSBC HDPI
Chennai
11.2021 - Current
  • Company Overview: Holistic Environment for Retail Analytics and Stress Testing (HERAS) is a central data repository and execution engine to support Banking Regulatory authorities like PRA, EBA and Retail Risk Analytics
  • HERAS system receives inputs from multiple sources within the bank, ranging from legacy sources to advanced cloud platforms
  • Acted the BA lead and requirement owner for multiple requirements in the project release cycles
  • Created standard templates to be used for the business analysis and testing artifacts within the Project/Business Domain
  • Prepared Detailed Technical Design documents (DTD) which describes end to end mapping of the parameters from source till reporting within the Project scope
  • Recognized by the significant stakeholders for proposing tactical solutions during the critical delivery cycles
  • Independently co-ordinated entire Requirement Life Cycle Activities for the project and ETL runs for testing of the requirements
  • Played a key role in resource estimation and defining timelines in the Agile-setup
  • Efficiently designed solutions for the complex user requirements, levering the techno functional knowledge and enabling smooth co-ordination to close any logical gaps in the design
  • In depth testing of the requirements ensuring all possible decision and results coverage
  • Handled complex data analysis using dashboards and by creating user defined tableau reports
  • Played a vital role in UAT by representing Project Scrum team in daily UAT calls, discussing and resolving issues raised by the business users
  • As a member of the Scrum team, participated in daily status meetings, weekly project status meetings as well as retrospective meetings and iteration reviews
  • Identified, analyzed, and documented defects utilizing JIRA as defect tracking system to capture and organize issues, assign work, and follow team activity
  • Provided UAT support and involved in discussions with the wide range of stakeholders from multiple work streams and processes within the organization
  • Holistic Environment for Retail Analytics and Stress Testing (HERAS) is a central data repository and execution engine to support Banking Regulatory authorities like PRA, EBA and Retail Risk Analytics
  • HERAS system receives inputs from multiple sources within the bank, ranging from legacy sources to advanced cloud platforms

Senior Business Validation Analyst

HSBC HDPI
Chennai
12.2016 - 06.2020
  • Company Overview: The objective of the process is to generate stress testing projection results to cater the down streams with the projection numbers for wide range of global (PRA, EBA) and country specific regulations
  • Provided realistic and reliable project estimates for the Business Analysis activities to the project management team
  • Involved in stress testing preparation activities for various regulatory exercises, which includes, liaising with up streams to ensure the availability of actual source data, co-coordinating with bank’s global analytics team to gather input parameters and MEVs
  • Acted as the BA lead in the project release cycles
  • Validated the input T0 actual files and input parameters for data accuracy before being fed into MSA
  • Extracted and analyzed the projection results to ensure the accuracy of the calculations
  • Involved in in-depth query analysis for the queries raised by business users on the generated projection results
  • Created impactful dashboards in Excel and Tableau for data reporting by using pivot tables and VLOOKUP
  • Extracted, interpreted and analyzed data to identify key metrics and transform raw data into meaningful information
  • Handled Business Analysis activities for Annual stress testing exercises (PRA, EBA) and country specific exercises
  • Single handedly coordinated Singapore stress test (both internal and regulatory) handling all the work book activities intended for the process by providing 18 hrs support
  • Provided UAT support and involved in discussions with the development team and respective business partners in analyzing issues
  • Trained new team members with the process knowledge and the approach on complex query analysis
  • The objective of the process is to generate stress testing projection results to cater the down streams with the projection numbers for wide range of global (PRA, EBA) and country specific regulations

Domain Lead - Analysis and Testing

Cigniti Technologies Ltd
Chennai
03.2015 - 12.2016
  • Company Overview: Silver Blade is highly advanced credit bureau software which has been developed by Dun & Bradstreet
  • Silver Blade provides quantum leap in performance and will be capable of processing large volumes of Commercial and Microfinance data into decision ready reports and insights
  • Provided realistic and reliable project estimates to the project management team
  • Test Planning, allocating resources and tracking project progress on release basis
  • Have lead 3 different project releases simultaneously with high efficiency in very tight time schedules
  • Review of the Business Requirement and Technical Design Documents
  • Derive and Decide the Test Coverage approach for the data processing and application level components
  • Derive the Context level diagrams and Mind Maps for the complex logical functionalities
  • Preparation of the Test Plan and Test Strategy documents
  • Proposed XML configurations for implementing subject matching algorithms in credit bureau
  • Created a macro simulator to enable efficient test data preparation
  • Test Execution and Defect Management using Microsoft TFS defect tracking tool
  • Defects discussion with Data Architects, Business Analysts and Development team
  • Trained team members to implement newest test methodologies and processes to optimize the effort required
  • Providing Testing support during UAT and involved in discussions with the client partners in analyzing issues
  • Preparation of Test Summary Report after the completion of each Testing phase
  • Prepare / update weekly metrics to the Project Manager and related stake holders
  • Silver Blade is highly advanced credit bureau software which has been developed by Dun & Bradstreet
  • Silver Blade provides quantum leap in performance and will be capable of processing large volumes of Commercial and Microfinance data into decision ready reports and insights

Testing Lead - Coordinator

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
Chicago
04.2009 - 03.2014
  • Review of the Business Requirement and Technical Design Documents
  • Actively engaged in interacting with Business Partners and gathering requirements for some of the critical requirements and change requests
  • Preparation of Requirement Traceability Matrix which maps the Business Requirement Document against the Technical Design Document
  • Walk through the Technical Design Document with the Data Analyst
  • Preparation of the Test Plan and Test Strategy documents
  • Reviewing the design and mapping documents to verify the business rules at table and column level with all the data structures defined in Northern Trust standards and conventions
  • Preparation of Test Scripts using Oracle SQL developer or Rapid SQL, covering all the scenarios to meet the requirements
  • This is done by validating the data that is transformed and updated in the target tables
  • System Test and System Integration Test Execution and raising issues and following up with Development Team, testing the fixes done by the development team using HP Quality Center 10.0, 11.0
  • Responsible for planning and facilitating User Acceptance Testing of integrated projects with a team of Business Leads, Users
  • Presented UAT kick-off, Trained the business users for applications to be tested and on usage of QC
  • Onsite – Offshore coordination and attending status and defect issues meeting
  • Prepare / update the metrics dashboard at the end of a phase or at the completion of project

Assistant Systems Engineer Trainee

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
12.2008 - 03.2009
  • Undergone vigorous training in TCS as Assistant Systems Engineer Trainee on various technologies including J2EE, Data warehousing and testing concepts

Education

Bachelor of Information Technology -

St. Joseph’s College of Engineering
Chennai, India
12.2008

Skills

  • Planning and incorporating Business Analysis Approach and Stakeholder Engagement approach
  • Requirements gathering, process mapping, and documentation
  • Analyzed business issues and provided appropriate solutions
  • Elicitation and documentation of detailed business requirements
  • Requirement Life Cycle Activities in Agile set-up
  • Data warehousing (ETL process) and Data reporting/visualization tools
  • SAS EG - Data management and Analysis tool, SAS Data Integration Studio (SAS DI) and JIRA
  • Python scripts for automation of manual testing activities
  • Complex end to end Data flow diagrams and Process flow diagrams
  • Creating Mind maps, Decision trees
  • Functionality Testing, Regression Testing of ETL and Web applications
  • Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills
  • Exceptional ability to maintain and build client relationships

Certification

  • HSBC Internal Certification on Testing and Banking concepts
  • TCS Internal Certifications on Business Analysis, Data Analysis
  • TCS Internal Certifications on Software Testing
  • TCS Internal Certifications on Wealth Management, Capital markets and Treasuries
  • TCS Internal training on Java and Data Warehousing

Personal Information

Date of Birth: 03/19/86

Timeline

Business Analysis Lead

HSBC HDPI
11.2021 - Current

Senior Business Validation Analyst

HSBC HDPI
12.2016 - 06.2020

Domain Lead - Analysis and Testing

Cigniti Technologies Ltd
03.2015 - 12.2016

Testing Lead - Coordinator

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
04.2009 - 03.2014

Assistant Systems Engineer Trainee

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
12.2008 - 03.2009

Bachelor of Information Technology -

St. Joseph’s College of Engineering

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