Work with clients to understand their requirements, discuss them thoroughly with architects and SMEs, and design a solution for their implementation
Draw technical & functional flows and take necessary signoffs before implementation
Coordinate with the team (BAs, Developers & SDETs) and assist in translating them into JIRA stories
As per the Scaled Agile Framework of Broadridge I manage one GrowTheBank squad of 9 associates (2 BAs + 5 Developers + 2 SDETs), ensuring that the client deliverables are prioritized as required
Responsible for opening the required Features & Epics and linking the JIRA stories for proper tracking
Attestation to be sent to Senior Management by the end of the sprint for timesheets and their utilization
Responsible for sitting with the BAs & SDETs to come up with the required test plans for E2E testing at a feature level
Include the E2E tests in the CI nightly builds, failing test cases are analyzed and resolved
Work with the Ontology team in designing the data model that suits the integration of Gloss (IPE), Impact (NAPE) & BPS systems since the initial model was not suited for all the systems requirements
Ensure the transformation logic along with various other things like the data types, triples data, and so on are defined correctly for proper mapping, the logic implemented for one client should not affect another
Work on proper mapping of elements from Gloss (IPE), Impact (NAPE) & BPS systems to GPTM, ensuring integration is smooth, and test for any issues by ingesting dummy XML documents and analyzing them
Once data is properly ingested and transformed then it is sent to the downstream components of GPTM Global Profit & Loss (GPL), Global Sub Ledger (GSL) & Global Position Management (GPM)
Worked with the architecture team to build a bridge through which the required data for GPL, GSL & GPM is sent, using the same bridge updated data after the calculations are done is sent back to DataFabric
Latest versions or updated documents are available in DataFabric, GPTM Portal/Ops Console connects with DataFabric to fetch the latest version for any given document and display them to the client
Worked to provide the requirements for consolidation of positions from Impact (NAPE) & BPS for GPM
Worked on providing the requirements for building a few screens on the GPTM portal/Ops Console and the data to be displayed to the client on those screens
Provided inter-system reconciliation rules for GPM positions before they were sent to the client
Worked on designing the rules for some calculations like MBDR & MFDR on the GPL side along with their proper posting in GSL and a few rules by which proper cash & position balances are calculated
Provided the requirements for building the inter-system reconciliation process to ensure that both GPL & GSL are showing the same cash balances at each account level by the end of every day
Worked with the testing team and provided proper test plans and test data to ensure that reconciliation was working properly and picking up the differences if any correctly and then after proper UAT by the client, it is deployed to production
Worked to provide the requirements for Reference Data project where both Security & Account data are consolidated, monitored, and maintained centrally in GPTM, in the current structure every system (Gloss (IPE), Impact (NAPE) & BPS) has its reference data set up and their way of identification
Worked to provide the requirements for reference data harmonization of records coming from all three post-trade systems (Gloss (IPE), Impact (NAPE) & BPS)
Worked with architects and SMEs to develop an environment/pipeline for running the integration tests before they are caught in the CI nightly run to reduce the CI run time
Working on getting the CI refactoring done by analyzing all the existing tests to reduce the number of tests and redundant tests for improving the accuracy and the CI run time
I am involved in talking to the clients, prepared the finalized technical & functional flows, provided the requirements, test plans and test data, manual testing results, UAT results and addressing issues that are identified, provide deployment support for the projects done in GPTM
Work with Senior Management and the HR team and conducted interviews to build the GPTM team
Promoted as Business Lead/Product Owner effective from 1st September’21
Senior Business Analyst
Broadridge Financial Solutions (India) Pvt. Ltd.
01.2019 - 11.2020
Worked with various departments and gathered all the requirements from Broadridge BPO and translated them into User Stories, in an understandable format both for developers & testers which helped in the smooth automation of a lot of reports
Worked on automating the current manual process of report generation in Broadridge BPO
Full automation was planned to be achieved in three steps, the first step involves the traditional way of coding the maximum possible steps done by the BPO using JAVA and the second step involves using RPA (UI Path) to automate the next possible steps using a Bot and the final step involves using Machine Learning to automate the remaining steps
Due to budgeting constraints, the project was halted at the second step
Worked on writing the functional requirements relating to the BEES portal including the screen designs done using MS Visio & MS PowerPoint
Worked closely with the UI/UX designer and finalized the portal screen designs done using Balsamiq and also worked closely in getting the prototypes built using Unqork, they helped show the capabilities of the product before the whole product development was completed
Worked with the development team closely and provided the requirements for building Gamification functionality in BEES
To highlight a few important capabilities of Gamification, managers, and supervisors can know the current standing of a given associate in the whole pack, Skills Metrics, and so on
Worked with Broadridge BPO to get the requirements relating to building new functionalities in BEES for Internal Metrics
Worked with Broadridge BPO teams in India & US in the UAT phase and ensured that around 26 clients were onboarded smoothly onto the BEES platform
Worked with the technical communication team in providing the required data relating to the creation of a video on various functionalities of BEES
Worked as a Senior Business Analyst for BEES product and owned complete deliverables till handover was done to Broadridge BPO and moved to GPTM project
Senior Business Analyst
Tectoro Consulting India Pvt. LTD.
07.2017 - 01.2017
Worked on analyzing the report's data generated by Broadridge BPO sourced from different internal systems like Impact, BPS, Postedge, and Ascendis to ensure that the manual process they are following is automated to the extent possible and show the resultant report on the Portal
A new database that will have data relating to the fields that are required for preparing the reports of BPO is being built
This database does not use relational database (RDBMS) concepts however data is stored in XML format
Worked on Gloss, IMPACT, and BPS products of Broadridge for pulling the data required for preparing the reports and also for their integration with the new system BEES
Prepared BRD for knowing the scope of the project that clearly defines what activities are to be included and what activities are to be removed from the tasks list for this project, and got it signed off by the stakeholders
Prepared FRDs to document the functional requirements that are required in BEES UI and get the signoff from the stakeholders
Prepared Use Cases, User Stories & Functional Flows (MS Visio)
Preparation and getting signoffs from the stakeholders for the User Stories after a series of discussions to arrive at a common solution regarding the functional requirements
Involved in developing the test strategy, and defined the scope of testing, test scenarios, and test cases
Providing support as a tester by involving in Manual Testing and leveraging subject matter expertise as and when required to the peers
Liaise with various technical teams, project stakeholders, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) teams to deliver the project on time
Collecting the reports processing data from BPO associates and documenting the requirements for BEES and putting those in the User Stories
Get in touch with the development team to help them in building the system as per the requirements
Get in touch with the QA team to help them in testing different scenarios in making the new application free from bugs to the extent possible
Converted from consultant to on rolls of Broadridge from 21st January’19
Recognized as one of the best consulting employees from Tectoro to Broadridge for 2018
Senior Business Analyst
Tectoro Consulting India Pvt. LTD.
11.2016 - 06.2017
Worked on integration of Gloss (IPE), Impact (NAPE) with GPTM and took part in designing the database called DataFabric
IPE is the International processing engine used for processing of Equity & Fixed Income trades in all other markets except the US
NAPE is the North America Processing Engine used for processing of Fixed Income trades in the US market
DataFabric is the data storage as well as the transformation layer that sends the transformed data to the downstream components and updated data to the portal (UI)
Preparation of BRDs to kick off the projects including AsIs & ToBe flows using MS Visio, cost estimates, implementation schedule, and project planning along with the sprint plan
Preparation of FRDs from BRDs once they are signed off by the stakeholders
Preparing Use Cases, User Stories & Functional Flows using MS Visio
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