Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Software
Accomplishments
Additional Information
Certification
Hobbies
Extras
Timeline
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Vaibhav B. Kulkarni

Functional Analyst
Mumbai
Vaibhav B. Kulkarni

Summary

Hardworking and action oriented professional with 2 years and 3 months of experience on working with business projects following the Software Development Lifecycle and Project Management lifecycle. Effective communicator with friendly and open nature with ability to work both individually and in-teams. Motivated to join a group of experienced Business Analysts and cross functional teammates where I can anticipate career growth and seek opportunities to prove my competencies and take charge of new responsibilities.

Overview

2
years of professional experience
14
years of post-secondary education
4
Certifications
1
Language

Work History

HDFCBANK
Kanjurmarg, Mumbai

Deputy Manager - Functional Analyst, TradeFinance
11.2020 - Current

Job overview

  • Understanding and discussing Business requirements with Operations and preparing Business Requirements Documents (BRD) and discussing the same with the Vendor.
  • Analyzing Functional Specifications Document (FSD) and preparing test scenarios for performing both Functional and Technical rounds of UAT tests.
  • Performing technical rounds of tests using Oracle SQL Developer and PG Admin for Database test scenarios.
  • Performing API testing using Postman application for request and response test scenarios.
  • Using JIRA for maintaining and tracking of bug fixes, enhancement progress.
  • Preparing interactive dashboards and pivot tables on MS Excel for presenting status updates on SCRUM and Review meetings.
  • Collaborating with peers and representing the domain on project meetings with Internal/External stakeholders.
  • Go-Live readiness and performing Post Verification Tests (PVT) on Production environment.
  • Currently involved in 3 critical TradeFinance applications:
    1. Tradestream: Application with workflow of bank side trade initiation through Trade Branches and processing from Trade Desks.
    2. TradeFlow: Revamp of the above existing Tradestream application for enhancing the UI UX with integrations with multiple surround applications and built using latest tech stack.
    3. Trade On Net (TON): Industry wide recognized customer facing trade application with customer side trade initiation and backside processing.

Education

NES International School
Mulund West, Mumbai

IGCSE, IB
04.2005 - 05.2015

University Overview

NMIMS MPSTME
Mumbai

B-Tech from Information Technology
05.2016 - 05.2020

University Overview

Skills

Professionalism and strong work ethic

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Software

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Power BI - ETL data analysis and creating dashboards

JIRA

Microsoft Office suite

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Postman - API Testing

SQL joins and DB management

Accomplishments

Accomplishments
  • Implemented the SWIFT MT199 acknowledgment status update on customer facing TradeOnNet application hosted on ENET and CBX.
  • Implemented the Trade-Finance auto Email acknowledgment and Bill payment due date alerts from Bank directly to customer.
  • Auto case creation for load generation and Optimization of case fetching logic at CPUT. Improved the case fetching time by 80%.
  • Implemented the Customer Vintage check and Document Mark for Return functionality involving API integrations with FC Retail core banking system – RBI Requirement.
  • UI-Path BOT project of Automating Outward Remittance BC09, BC10 cases from Customer facing TON application to Core Banking system FCUBS.
  • Implemented the TradeFlow NSI application involving integrations across multiple tradefinance surround applications.

Additional Information

Additional Information
  • Knowledge about EDPMS, IDPMS and Trade Finance Products from an Import and Export journey of an trade transaction.
  • Gained knowledge about implementation of an NSI project and opportunity of being involved right from the concept note stage till the final Go-Live of the new TradeFlow trade platform.
  • Experience of working with applications like Microsoft Power BI, Postman and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
  • Learning the Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) process for analyzing and presenting the data insights using interactive dashboards on Microsoft Power BI business intelligence platform.
  • Understanding the components and architecture of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for working with the new Tradeflow NSI project.
  • Introduced to API testing and workflows for performing request and response tests using Postman application.
  • Significant knowledge about types of SQL Joins, creating pivot tables and presenting data insights on MS Excel.

Certification

Agile Software Developments - EDX

Hobbies

Hobbies

  

Listening to Music

Workout for fitness

Digital Graphic design using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator

Analyzing indexes, stock charts

Extras

Extras

  

Research paper publication for International Journal for Research  in Engineering Application & Management (IJREAM) UNIASSIST- IMPLEMENTATION OF MACHINE LEARNING BASED HIGHER EDUCATION UNIVERSITY RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM.

UniAssist is an Higher Education University Recommendation system developed using Android Studio with machine learning principles like collaborative filtering and KNN implemented for recommending universities to students based on their scores, preferences.

Timeline

Deputy Manager - Functional Analyst, TradeFinance
HDFCBANK
11.2020 - Current
NMIMS MPSTME
B-Tech from Information Technology
05.2016 - 05.2020
NES International School
IGCSE, IB
04.2005 - 05.2015
Vaibhav B. KulkarniFunctional Analyst