Strategic Management Partner

• May 2019 - Present

Vice President

• Nov 2012 - Apr 2019

•Joined as a first employee in Citi CPB (Citi Private Bank) Pune captive center and worked with senior management and developed strategies for long-term development of the center. •Built off shore Brokerage and Testing COE teams, increased domain and testing skills of the center and built both capability and capacity of the center to handle multi-million-dollar test projects.•Managed Capital Markets testing Portfolio worth of $ 30mm per year. Managed a Program of Account opening STP… •Joined as a first employee in Citi CPB (Citi Private Bank) Pune captive center and worked with senior management and developed strategies for long-term development of the center. •Built off shore Brokerage and Testing COE teams, increased domain and testing skills of the center and built both capability and capacity of the center to handle multi-million-dollar test projects.•Managed Capital Markets testing Portfolio worth of $ 30mm per year. Managed a Program of Account opening STP worth of $ 70mm. •Designed and executed the strategies to test compliance with US financial standards, including regulatory reporting standards. •Initiated and managed test automation testing process and moved 70% of manual regression test use cases to automation. Introduced automated sanity testing which boosted resource productivity by 30% and allowed the team to focus on more value-added work. •Successfully contributed / managed Testing CoE e2e vendor transition .Several Global and regional application functional testing responsibilities along with Automation and Performance testing projects were migrated. This activity saved 35% of total cost spent per year. •Defined the processes between CITI and third-party vendors/partners to improve the defect resolution time by 15%•Escalate issues to the relevant Stakeholder, as appropriate, with recommendations and/or solutions. Show more Show less

Sr Project Manager

• Jul 2003 - Nov 2012

India ,New York and Singapore.•Managed a CITI migration project where 10+ CPB applications impacted. More than 100+ interface files mapped or re-routed, number of mapping issues addressed. •Worked on Various Domains like Credit approvals, Collateral Monitoring, Risk Analytics, Cross Border, Cross Currency, Concentration, Basel II. •Played a key role from initial planning and set up of the program office, liaising with key global stakeholders to ensure program delivery within… India ,New York and Singapore.•Managed a CITI migration project where 10+ CPB applications impacted. More than 100+ interface files mapped or re-routed, number of mapping issues addressed. •Worked on Various Domains like Credit approvals, Collateral Monitoring, Risk Analytics, Cross Border, Cross Currency, Concentration, Basel II. •Played a key role from initial planning and set up of the program office, liaising with key global stakeholders to ensure program delivery within timelines.•Managed Onsite-Offshore Co-ordination, Onsite Offshore Model Process Consulting, and requirement Management, Defect Management, Release Management Gap analysis and Team Management.•Identifying the systems in scope for CPB conversion/migration projects for CPB. Consolidate the direct and indirect interface details for CPB. •Setting priorities, developing work schedules, monitoring progress towards project goals, tracking project details, data, information and activities in relation to project reporting and auditing•Played a key role in removal of MSSB dependency on Citi systems. •Formulate and maintain strategy for meeting informational and business needs. Investigate and evaluate IT solutions across all functions of the organizational operations.•Gathered Requirements for Basel II, Credit approvals, Collateral monitoring. •Prepare/refine Business requirements document (BRD) and other in-progress project documentation like BRD, Test Strategy, Project progress charts, Impact Analysis etc. •Worked closely with Operations team to understand the opportunity to automate the process and document. Show more Show less

Verification and Validation Engineer

• Jun 2000 - Jul 2003

India and United Kingdom• Developing Test scenarios by reviewing Functional Specifications and Business Requirements.• Develop business scenarios , Test data Setup • Unit Testing ,Functional testing ,Regression Testing and Environment Setup• Defect Reporting and Tracking.

Analyst

• Aug 1995 - May 1999

Customization of the product, Impact analysis, Designing and developing Reports, Report analysis ,