Vyankatesh Sinhasane

· Result-oriented professional with 11 years of experience in Software Testing and Quality Assurance for banking and financial markets.

· Current Lead Software Engineer at Dexian India Pvt. Ltd., specializing in capital market applications.

· Demonstrated expertise in FIX protocol (versions FIX4.2, FIX4.4, FIX5.0), Unix, SQL, and trading methodologies.

· Reviewed requirements specifications for completeness and accuracy prior to beginning the QA process.

· Executed end-to-end software testing encompassing requirement analysis, test planning, design, execution, and reporting.

· Proficient in various testing types including Sanity, Functional, Integration, Regression, Performance, User acceptance testing and Automation using Cucumber.

· Developed and maintained comprehensive Requirement Traceability Matrix, Test Plans, Test Cases, and Test Specifications.

· Established test environments, executed tests, reported incidents and documented, triaged, and managed defects in defect tracking systems and worked with developers to facilitate timely resolutions.

· Worked closely with development teams to ensure quality assurance standards were met throughout the project life cycle.

· Monitored performance metrics such as response time, memory usage during performance testing.

· Performed root cause analysis for detected defects and developed corrective actions.

· Participated in product development meetings, providing input on quality considerations.

· Experienced with test management tools such as ALM, JIRA, TestRail, and AR Remedy System.

· Worked with Agile and Scrum methodologies to accomplish project milestones and meet demanding timelines.

· Created detailed reports outlining results from testing activities and presented findings to stakeholders and Business team.

· Preparing and sharing Daily/Weekly testreport on given time and also involve in Backlog Refinement process and conducting Agile Ceremonies for team.

· Tracked project timelines and milestones ensuring timely completion of tasks within budget constraints.

· Identified opportunities for improving the efficiency of the QA process through automation or other means.

• Project Title: InfoReach/ Liquidnet Dark Algo Trading
• Liquidnet Dark refers to the class of algorithms collectively using the core dark liquidity-seeking functionalities. All region (US, Canada, EMEA and APAC) specific behavior is to be defined by configuration and market specific reference data. The Liquidnet Dark trading algorithm allows the definition of multiple strategies, each with different configuration. The specification makes use of concepts and terms from FIX protocol and it describes observable aspects of FIX behavior as needed in order to fully specify how the algorithm should make trading decisions and interpret client instructions such as Order creation, Amendments, Cancels etc.

• Project Title: Middle Office
• Citi offers comprehensive middle office applications and services for investment managers like Trade Processing, Trade Enrichment, Trade Allocation, and Reconciliation, Post Trade compliances, Investor Reporting and Risk management. Utilizing asset manager-specific expertise in tandem with advanced technology, CITI provide operations that allow you to concentrate on your core competencies, lower internal costs, allow for expansion, and significantly reduce exposure to operational risk

• Project Title: Stream Gateways & ClearVision
• Clearvision is a real-time Middle-office trade matching, allocation and acceptance system for listed and Cleared OTC derivatives. Fully integrated with front-office, exchange and back-office systems, Stream Clearvision matches orders with executed trades in real time and sends clearing instructions to clearing houses using FIX Protocol. Stream Gateways (SGW) is very powerful application which mainly deals with sending and receiving various fix messages (fix/fixml) from/to Stock Exchange Servers and performs trade accordingly. Messages are read from exchange servers, mapping is done according to the requirement and is sent to clearing house for clearing.

• Project Title: MIFID – II Regulatory Reporting
• MIFID II is a regulation implemented across all the European financial institutions. This is a legislation framework which strengthens investor protection and improves functioning of financial markets making them more efficient and transparent. This project mainly focuses on System Integration testing which involves End to End testing for all the business flows like DMA, AES Algorithmic trading, High Touch flows etc. across all the work streams covered in Equities line of business.
• Project Title: Assurance Testing for Screen Based Trading Applications (Functional Testing and Performance Testing)
• Option Exchange has a distributed trading application engine which is continually enhanced - either for Performance improvements or because of business logic changes per the Regulation National Market System rules. (Governed by SEC), so I have been part of Functional testing (both Manual & Automation Testing) in validation of all the requirements requested by client to Business team located at client side. This project also takes care of Automation Testing of screen based testing Application. Being a part of this team my work along with onsite team to automating existing Manual test cases into Automation scripts using ITG test tool (Client developed test tool quite), identification & modification of Scripts due to Functionality Enhancements.