Experience

The Mizen Group Inc

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal Consultant- Independent Consultant (Monitorship)

  • Sep 2018 - Present

  Review, test, evaluate and document the adequacy of AML, OFAC controls that are documented in the Bank’s enterprise-wide and targeted risk assessments. Recommend controls or improvements to enhance and update the Bank’s AML, OFAC and Compliance Program, policies and procedures. Conduct gap analysis to ensure that payment types and products identified by AML Compliance as high risk for money laundering and terrorist financing are monitored. Conduct reviews of the functionality of the monitoring system on a regular basis to evaluate the appropriateness of thresholds used in the monitoring process. The review will include at a minimum a validation that each rule is still working as designed and the parameters for each rule are producing quality alerts. Review and analyze AML and OFAC current trends and news in order to identify high-risk areas, counterparties or keywords to incorporate into monitoring filters, rules, or profiles. Investigate and assess alerts relating to potential money laundering risks in the organization Help in identifying potential weaknesses in processes Review Requirements/Test Plans/Functional/technical specifications prepared by the bank and file the observations/gaps to DFS For issues identified in Validation, provide recommendations for control enhancements and follow-up as necessary to ensure proper resolution



Agricultural Bank of China -Client

• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• QA Test Manager- AML/KYC Product Validation

  • May 2017 - Aug 2018

  Test Management, AML SME, Prime System Validation, Model Validation, Data Mapping, End to End Testing, UAT Management, Project Closure, Test Management, AML SME, Prime System Validation, Model Validation, Data Mapping, End to End Testing, UAT Management, Project Closure,



Independent Monitorship

• Anti Money Laundering Validation Expert

  • Nov 2015 - Oct 2016

  •Understand and execute the AML QA policies and procedures. •Conducted QA reviews, covering, at a minimum, alert/case investigation processes, SAR filings, CTR filings, Customer Due Diligence/Enhanced Due Diligence reviews, and OFAC monitoring• •Review, test, evaluate and document the adequacy of AML, OFAC controls that are documented in the Bank’s enterprise-wide and targeted risk assessments. •Recommend controls or improvements to enhance and update the Bank’s AML, OFAC and Compliance Program, policies and procedures, Conduct gap analysis to ensure that payment types and products identified by AML Compliance as high risk for money laundering and terrorist financing are monitored. •Analyze false positive alerts to identify opportunities for improvement; recommend changes to thresholds and parameters to ensure effectiveness and efficiency of the AML and OFAC monitoring process. •Ensure that the workflow in monitoring system is adequately managed •Conduct reviews of the functionality of monitoring system on a regular basis to evaluate the appropriateness of thresholds used in monitoring process. The review will include at a minimum a validation that each rule is still working as designed and the parameters for each rule are producing quality alerts. •Assist with development of user friendly case management system that is easily queried and provides reporting and metrics. •Develop manual monitoring tool to conduct targeted account reviews that identifies red flags, classifies specific activity and provides details on geographies involved as well as data visualization tactics to identify unusual activity or issues with a particular account. • Assist with addressing queries from corresponding banks relating to money laundering matters • Provide advice to management on issues relating to correspondent banking • Review Requirements/Test Plans/Functional/technical specifications prepared by the bank and file the observations/gaps to stakeholders



Quinnox Inc

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Test Lead

  • Oct 2014 - Oct 2015

  Test Management, Manual Testing, Database Testing, ETL Testing, Ant Money Laundering Domain, Testing Expertise, System Test Plans/Strategies, Software analysis /Testing Techniques, Estimation and planning Risk Analysis and mitigation, Test Metrics and reporting, Preparing Business Requirements,Project Closure Documentation  Test Automation  Test Process Improvements  Defect Management  Test Status Reporting  Gap Analysis/ Data Mapping  Testing Methodologies  SDLC/STLC



Quinnox Consultancy Services (I) Private Limited

• India
• Consumer Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Test Lead

  • Mar 2007 - Oct 2014

  ● Documenting and responsible for developing Test Strategy/Plan procedures by coordinating with QA Analyst ● Providing scope, resource and time estimates for projects presented to QA for testing and analysis. ● Delegating the work to the team members on a priority basis and also basing on the skill set. ● Review the test cases and test data generated by the Software Test Engineers and get them to address the review comments ● Check the status of each assigned task daily and resolve any issues faced by the team members with their tasks ● Deft at verifying and validating user requirement based Software Prerequisites ● Experience in Functionality Testing, User Interface Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing of various applications. ● Interacting with clients for system study, requirements gathering and analysis. ● Source System Analysis, Data Points identification for ETL Testing ● Handled responsibilities of supporting QA Analyst in fixing database issues to meet client requirement ● Expertise in defect tracking system such as bugs reporting, bug tracking and management tool. ● Define/Prepare Defect Management Process .Quality Center Administrator activities which involve configuring QC per project requirement, adding users.etc. ● Owner of Change Control Board meetings


HSBC Global Technology India
• AML Test Lead

  • Jul 2010 - Sep 2014

Barclays
• India
• Outsourcing/Offshoring
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Test Analyst

  • 2009 - 2011