Saravanakumar Veerakumar

ISO20022 Migration of CHAPS, TARGET2 and RITS

• Prepared the project scope, objectives and deliverables relating to ISO20022 implementation.
• Have identified technical and operational risks associated with ISO20022 implementation.
• Facilitated collaboration among stakeholders to ensure alignment on project goals and requirements.
• Facilitate workgroup discussions with product owner and business stakeholders for requirements gathering.
• Conducting workshop sessions across teams for analysis of complex business requirements.
• Document the Functional Requirements, Non-Functional Requirements in Program backlog (Jira Epics).
• Oversaw the implementation of ISO20022 messages in payment systems, including validation of message formats to ensure compliance with industry standards.
• Provides an oversight to projects and necessary support to keep project on track.
• Explaining the defects and key factors triggered the defects with Scrum Team in defects analysis meet.
• Prepare knowledge building artefact and to share training materials to the project members involved.
• Developed test cases for end-to-end testing of ISO20022 message migration, lead User acceptance testing and live confidence team.
• Conducted gap analysis and developed mapping strategies for migrating from legacy messaging standards to ISO20022.
• Communicate project progress and status using RAG analysis to project stakeholders on a weekly basis.

• Client: Standard Chartered Bank
• Collaborated with the product owner to understand the requirements for migrating data, ensuring a smooth transition.
• Ensuring alignment with the technology architect, scrum team, and business leaders on scope and migration timelines.
• Lead the data mapping process between the legacy and newly developed applications to ensure data accuracy, data integrity, and data retrieval.
• Preparation of RAG analysis for stakeholders to keep informed on project status on a weekly basis.
• Address issues that arise during migration, working with technical teams to ensure timely resolution.
• Facilitate discussion on data transformation business rules and validation.
• Prepared process workflow and standard operating procedures for the data migration process.
• Conducted a risk analysis on the new platform to ensure that no possible risk failures occur during or post-migration.
• Facilitate the workgroup discussions with delivery, IT teams, and business for SIT and UAT testing approaches and plans for the application.
• Preparation of a high-level plan on project migration deadlines, and ensures adherence.

• Involved in continuous interaction with project management and development teams to develop a strong understanding of the project and testing objectives
• Played a vital role in liaising between the business and the IT team to ensure business requirements and functional specs are comprehensively captured in order for IT to develop their tech specs
• Correlated with the development team to capture and reuse automated unit test cases, test stubs and drivers, and other Development test objects and determine the key risk areas in the scrum development test mitigation
• Created a list of milestones and checkpoints to check the quality by software testing both manual and automation testing, etc., based on requirements
• Automated Functional/Integration/Regression/Performance/Security Testing as part of the CI/CD pipeline
• CMB Application

• Client: HSBC Technology (I) Private Limited