Vijay Rajagopal
PUNE
Summary
PROFESSIONAL SYNOPSIS Experienced IT professional offering around 17 years of demonstrated experience in handling Payments/Core Banking projects An effective communicator with excellent analytical & client interfacing skills EXPERIENCE Consulting experience in 8+ Core Banking transformation programs (Both domestic and overseas) Extensive product implementation experience which includes planning, requirements gathering, gap analysis, strategy formulation, scope management and resource utilization Profound knowledge in Payment systems-SWIFT/IMPS/RTGS, payment products-GPP(D+H), OPF(Clear2Pay), Finacle (Infosys), VolPay Adept in stakeholder/vendor/team management Project Management Process Innovation Data Migration/Transformation Methodologies Solution Design/Functional Specification Defect management Cross-Functional Collaboration Requirement Gathering Gap Analysis Vendor Management Change Management
Experienced Senior Project Manager with top-notch implementation and project management abilities. Highly organized, methodical and skilled at overseeing daily milestones across high-performance teams. Well-versed in payment products planning and deployment
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
7
7
Certifications
Work History
NORDEA
- Review and analyze integration requirements
- Led sprint reviews and daily scrum meetings to touch base with whole team and ensure that all members were performing satisfactorily
- Define defect management process, establish standards around defect turnaround time, identify and set defect classification parameters aiding in defect prioritization
- Provide walkthroughs of solution documents and obtain sign-off
- Define product roadmap and create backlog in conjunction with product owner and key business partners
- Manage governance call with client/vendor and provide weekly updates to stakeholders through dashboards.
Reliance Jio Payment Bank
Mumbai
- Played the role of a solution anchor for Reliance Jio payment bank project
- Activities involved requirements Analysis, solution Design & strategy formulation
- Anchored the business process definition activities for CRM and CASA
- Interact with various external stakeholders like SAP-CRM, TIBCO, NPCI etc
- To ensure the interfaces are in sync and is in-line with overall payment bank architecture.
MCS Mutual Aid Association Ltd
- SBM (Mauritius)
- Spearheaded the entire implementation activity which included preparation of implementation plan, data-migration, UAT/SIT support and Go-Live
- Handled the UAQ (training) sessions for the bank business users
- Responsible for data analysis and assessment, migration strategy and planning
- Devising the migration strategy for overall implementation
- Mentoring and leading the installation and implementation team from delivery side
- Involved in project management activities like preparation of project plan, change management, planning, tracking, and ensuring timely delivery of project related artefacts.
Tetrad Bank
- Liaise with the bank team to identify, analyse, and document the existing business and functional requirements
- Effort estimation, planning and tracking of activities to logical closure
- Work closely with cross-functional teams, including business analysts, developers, project managers, and business stakeholders, to coordinate data migration activities
- Debugging and closure of issues at each stage of implementation cycle – Business process definition (BPD), installation, UAQ, UAT, SIT, Mock uploads and post go-live.
Bancolombia
- (Colombia)
- Provide inputs for overall implementation plan and monitoring closely to ensure that project gets delivered on agreed metrics
- Guide the team in developing optimized high quality code deliverable (code configuration, documentation), perform code review, unit test plan reviews etc
- Liaising with development and testing teams and suggest customization/configuration changes to meet the business requirements.
Business Analyst
Credit Information Bureau of India Ltd
- Retail Banking and Technology Consulting group (RTG), Coordination and gathering of business requirements from CIBIL
- Feasibility study, preparation of BRS and timeline estimation
- Involved in design and development of CIBIL Report for commercial as well as consumer housing finance customers
- Impact Analysis, Pilot testing and roll out of deliverables.
Associate Consultant
ICICI Bank Ltd
- Design, development and streamlining a step charging process (Privilege/Family Banking Customers)
- Process based requirement gathering which involved use of Use case (UML) and workflows
- Preparation of software requirement specification (SRS) and Functionality Test plan for the testing team
- Process Automation in FINNONE (Loan Management System) which enabled 50% reduction in process execution time
- Interface with cross-functional teams to identify problem areas, perform gap analysis and suggest improvement options., in Retail Banking Delivery Group
- IDBI-UWB Data Migration Project
- Elicited Requirements in the Initiation Phase of the project by interviewing stakeholders (UWB employees), conducting JAD sessions and sending out questionnaires
- Provided key inputs during the Company quarterly Audit process
- Managed data migration of 177 manual branches of UWB with maximum data accuracy
- Impact Analysis, Pilot testing and roll out of deliverables
- Design, development, and Deployment of Applications in Oracle & Unix Environment
Senior Project Manager
Volante Technologies
07.2020 - Current
- In PaaS (payment as a service) practice Unit
- Investec/SCB (UK/Germany/Malta)
- Manage Volpay application delivery on cloud platform
- Establish a delivery roadmap and plans that support the client's business strategies and objectives
- Manage release planning, estimation, capacity planning, proposal building and managing project financials
- Manage changes in business and technical requirements by effectively suggesting solutions or contingency plans at the appropriate stage of projects
- Liase with BA’s, product owner, bank technical team to understand all interface touchpoints and ensure all migration requirements related to legacy system are catered to
- Closely work with technical architects and ensure scalability, stability, and stress tests getting done on final application using standard industry tools
- Coordinating with compliance team to ensure all tests related to security are done – Veracode, pen test etc are done and get necessary signoffs.
Project Manager
Capgemini
07.2017 - 07.2020
- Currently working as business consultant in payments practice unit of Capgemini
- HSBC (Pune)
- Multi-country ACH Implementation which included requirement gathering, devising solution, preparing E2E TC scenarios, and coordinating with business for UAT sign-off
- Review test cases, responsible for getting UAT testing completed and signed-off from business
- Prepare CR’s and use cases for new enhancements/business critical scenarios.
Project Lead
Infosys Limited
03.2011 - 06.2017
- Worked as Lead SME in Core Banking Transformation/Upgrade programs
Business Analyst
Infotech Limited
01.2008 - 03.2011
Management Trainee
IDBI Intech Limited
01.2008 - 03.2011
Summer Intern
SBI
06.2007 - 08.2007
Education
Master of Management Studies (MMS-Systems) -
University of Mumbai
B.E - Instrumentation
University of Mumbai
Skills
TECHNICAL/FUNCTIONAL SKILLSundefined
Certification
Project Management Professional –PMP (PMI)
Timeline
Senior Project Manager
Volante Technologies
07.2020 - Current
Project Manager
Capgemini
07.2017 - 07.2020
Project Lead
Infosys Limited
03.2011 - 06.2017
Business Analyst
Infotech Limited
01.2008 - 03.2011
Management Trainee
IDBI Intech Limited
01.2008 - 03.2011
Summer Intern
SBI
06.2007 - 08.2007
NORDEA
Reliance Jio Payment Bank
MCS Mutual Aid Association Ltd
Tetrad Bank
Bancolombia
Business Analyst
Credit Information Bureau of India Ltd
Associate Consultant
ICICI Bank Ltd
Master of Management Studies (MMS-Systems) -
University of Mumbai
B.E - Instrumentation
University of Mumbai
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