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Santhanalakshmi Sivasankar

Senior Product Engineer - Testing

Summary

Quality assurance senior product engineer with 6+ years of experience in analyzing the requirements and designing test statergies, test plan and test cases in Banking domain - Payments, Trade and Settlements.

Sound knowledge in ISO20022 standards with working experience in SWIFT CBPR+, TARGET2 and SEPA.

Working experience in Temenos Payment Hub (TPH) which supports multiple payment formats and global payment mechanisms.

Extensive experience in Sanity testing, Functional testing, Regression testing and Integration testing.

Strong communication and presentation skills, ability to work independently and equally well as a team.


Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Product Engineer

Temenos India Pvt.Ltd
06.2021 - Current

Project - Temenos Payments Hub (TPH)

Designed and executed comprehensive test plans, test cases, and test scripts based on functional specifications provided by business.

Identified, reported, and tracked defects using JIRA and collaborated closely with development teams to resolve issues promptly.

Worked in migration of ISO15022 to ISO20022 standards in following payment and cash management message types, pacs008, pacs009, pacs009cov, pacs009adv, pacs004,pacs002, pain001, pain002, camt055, camt056, camt029, camt054, camt057, camt106,camt107, SWIFT GPI and gSRP messages.

Tested various ISO screens used for payment initiation and ensured mapping of respective field inputs in outgoing message.

Tested the payment product's (TPH) capability to process, send and receive various payments and cash management messages.

Ensured generated message passed XSD validations and meets corresponding SWIFT/clearing standards.

Demonstrated success in leading test activities during each sprint.

Demonstrated the enhanced features to the banks and addressed the queries during DEMO.

Automated test cases using SEAT tool and API testing using Postman.

Associate Consultant

Atos Syntel
06.2018 - 06.2021

Project - The Northern Trust Company

Involved in Testing the end to end Functionalities of Settlement Instructions flow for Trades and Loans in different applications like Money Transfer System (MTS), Fund Master (FM), Unavista (UVA), Global securities lending (GSL)

Construction and processing of SWIFT messages (MT54X and MT54Y) based on ISO - 15022 standards with mandatory and optional tags.

Process Block Trades with different allocations and validation of same in downstream applications.

Process Collateral Transactions through both manual and STP methods and validation of transactions in downstream applications.

Process Security lending transactions in NT's Global securities Lending Application and validation of transactions in downstream applications.

Experience in testing of Trades and Settlement processing for different European markets such as T2S and CREST markets.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering

S.A Engineering College
Chennai
04.2001 -

Skills

Functional Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing

Test management - JIRA, Qmetry, Bitbucket, Confluence, HP ALM

API Testing - POSTMAN

Agile Methodology - Experience with Scrum and Agile testing practices

Accomplishments

Received various quarterly and SPOT awards for being Quick learner, Effective team player and providing excellent support in delivering the project deliverables.


Timeline

Senior Product Engineer

Temenos India Pvt.Ltd
06.2021 - Current

Associate Consultant

Atos Syntel
06.2018 - 06.2021

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering

S.A Engineering College
04.2001 -
Santhanalakshmi SivasankarSenior Product Engineer - Testing