Candidates About

 

Goutam Wajapeyi 

Summary:

·         Goutam brings over all 10.5 years of  Functional Consulting experience in BFSI domain in Retail, Investment Banking, Securities and Capital Market Domain

·         Excellent exposure to Operations in the area of Securities Financing, OTC Collateral Management, Fixed Income/Derivatives/Equities, Futures and Options in area of Trading,  Reconciliations and Risk Management.

·         Served as Business Analyst for Enhancements, and Development of Investment Banking Applications- Global One, ICQ, Coma, CMS, PIMS, MySS.com

·         Well versed with SDLC methods like Agile and waterfall

·         Experienced in requirements gathering through JAD sessions, Group Discussions and Use Cases.

·         Experienced in working with the architect to translate the requirements into a feasible solution.

·         Experienced with creating and modifying Process flow diagrams and Use Case Diagrams using MS Visio.

·         Excellent communication, analytical, interpersonal, and presentation skills; highly adept at handling the expectations of Multiple Stakeholders.

·         Experienced in performing and leading Functional Test Case Design and Execution. Experienced in Managing Bugs using issue management tools like JIRA and HP Quality Center.

·         Skilled in project planning, project management, team building and budgeting. Experience in business process modeling, gathering & managing requirements from project inception through deployment.

·         Worked in Waterfall & Iteration based Agile Model of Software Development.

·         Proficient in gathering, analyzing, validating, and documenting business requirements; transforming them into functional specifications; preparing BRD and FSD, Creating Story Boards and Backlogs

·         Expert in clarifying business requirements, performing gap analysis, and designing process and system improvements to increase productivity and reduce costs.

·         Experienced in Running Scrum Meetings, daily stand-ups, Retrospective Meetings, Backlog review Meetings,

 

Education

 

MARC College of Management and Technology – India (year of Passing 2005)

 Master of Business Administration - Finance

Osmania University (year of passing 2003)

Bachelor of Commerce

 

Certifications:

Six Sigma Black Belt – Anexas Denmark

Six Sigma Yellow Belt – UBS India Service Centre Pvt. Ltd.

Bloomberg – Equity Product Certification

Bloomberg – Fixed Income Product Certification

 

 

Areas of Exposure:

·         Focuses on client requirement understanding, analysis and documentation.

·         Has worked in projects covering the domain areas of Securities Lending, Collateral Management, OTC Derivatives, and Fixed Income & Equity Instrument Pricing.

·         Has good understanding of trade life cycle of Front, Middle and Back office.

·         Has worked on projects involving FX Order Management Systems and Web Trading Portal involving Equities, Fixed Income and Options (Single and Multi-Leg Options), Securities Lending, Collateral Management System (CMS).

·         He is well versed with Agile and Scrum Methodology.

·         He possess  very good functional knowledge on vendor products like 

1.     SunGard Global One,

2.     Bloomberg

 

Key Competencies

§  Securities Lending – SME Level understanding

§  Collateral Management – SME level understanding

§  Risk Management

§  Consulting – Business Process Transformation, Lean and Six Sigma

§  Transition

§  Agile & Scrum (Performing a Scrum Master Role)

§  Functional Testing

 

 

 

Technical competencies:

§  Systems – Business & Systems Analysis, Testing and implementation.

§  Modeling Language & Tools:  MS Visio

§  Utility Tools: Microsoft Office packages 2003 & 2007(Excel, Word, Powerpoint)

§  SQL

 

Work Experience

 

STATE STREET CORPORATION, BOSTON                                                                                                 APRIL 2012 – PRESENT

BUSINESS ANALYST/CONSULTANT

 

Project 1 – MySS (mystatestreet.com): State Street Corp. reporting tool used by end clients for their day to days reporting requirements. MySS caters to the reporting needs of various business units like Securities Finance, Collateral Management, Hedge Funds, and Custody to name few. The reports were generally developed for products like Derivatives, Fixed Income, and Equities

Project 2 – AIS AMS: IFS - AIS AMS team provides Development of new functionalities services to IFS Arm catering to Hedge Fund clients of State Street Corporation. Hedge Fund Services applications in the area of Collateral Management, Reference data management are developed using Agile Process. The team caters to the new development/Maintenance requests of the Business accessing the applications in area of Treasury. Collateralization for OTC derivatives products like Interest Rate Swaps, Credit Default Swaps,

Applications worked on:

1.     CMS – Collateral Management System

2.     PIMS – Payments Instructions Management System

Project 3 – AIS ADM Architecture: AIS ADM team provides Development of new functionalities services to Global Services application of State Street Business. Global Services applications in the area of Reporting, Financial Accounting and Reconciliation are developed. The team caters to the new development request of the Business accessing the applications in area of Financial Accounting and Reporting, Reconciliation.

Project 4 – SSGM Application Support –SSGM AMS team provides support to Global Markets application of State Street Business. Global Markets applications in the area of Securities Financing, Foreign Exchange and Risk Management are supported. The team caters to the daily production support issues and queries raised by Front Office, Middle office and Back office for critical applications like Global One and FX OMS (Order Management System)

 

Role in above projects:

·         Meeting with various business stakeholders to understand requirements, prepared Story boards and reviewed with business to make sure requirements correctly articulated.

·         Partner with key business and technology stakeholders to define work deliverables, and Project task list

·         Created Data Point Gap Analysis documents, meeting with System Users, business and key people from cross functional applications.

·         Involved and supported in creating User Stories with Business by providing current system requirements.

·         Created Business/Functional Specification requirement documents.

·         Involved in reviewing and approving the High Level and Low Level design documents.

·         Conducted daily scrum meetings, standup meeting, retrospective meetings, back log review and scrub meeting, iteration planning meeting.

·         Worked on RTC for project management and status reporting in Agile Methodology of Product Development.

·         Participated in various release testing meetings and communicated project status and raised any issues to higher management.

·         Worked with various upstream and downstream applications to ensure seamless communication and information transmission.

·         Worked closely with Technical Delivery Managers to prepare and track project testing timeline.

·         Designed and developed System Flow Charts, Use Cases, and Business Process Models using MS Visio

·         Designed and Developed Data mapping matrix.

·         Organized meetings, mock-ups, and system walkthroughs

·         Hands-on experience in using SEQUEL query.

·         Conducted various work group sessions with compliance and business lines to elaborate on the developed requirements, discuss and resolve open issues

·         Used and maintained SharePoint site to store/share information and documentation with team.

·         Conducted User training to train the users during product roll out.

·         Consult with the testers during testing involved with every release.

·         Coordinate monthly releases by involving all the relevant support groups

·         Demo to Product owners and Internal Clients

 

 

CHARLES SCHWAB / WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES                                                                                         NOV 2010 TO MARCH 2012

BUSINESS ANALYST/CONSULTANT

 

Charles Schwab Web Solutions QA team performs the End to End testing of the retail web trading application like Schwab.com, Sac.com, SSEdge.com and SSpro.com

The testing cycle starts with the Integration branch testing and ends with the Production testing covering a testing life cycle phases of IB Testing (Unit Testing) MVT and RVT testing (Regression), Pre-production testing (UAT) and Production Testing.

 

The products involved Derivatives like Futures and Options (Single leg and multi leg options), Fixed Income and Equities.

 

Role in the Project:

·         Prepared Functional requirement documents for the enhancements.

·         Provide Functional support for the ongoing project to resolve and rectify the pre, post development issues, queries, and defects logged from Business and Testing QA’s

·         Prepared test Scenarios and test plans, executing test cases of the developed code.

·         Conducted various work group sessions with compliance and business lines to elaborate on the developed requirements, discuss and resolve open issues

·         Used and maintained SharePoint site to store/share information and documentation with team.

·         Conducted User training to train the users during product roll out.

·         Consult with the testers during testing involved with every release.

·         Coordinate monthly releases by involving all the relevant support groups

 

 

 

UBS INVESTMENT BANK / COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS                                     AUGUST 2006 TO OCTOBER 2010

BUSINESS ANALYST/CONSULTANT

 

Project 1: Xcoll and Coma Development and Maintenance - Collateral Management:

A Collateral Management and Reporting system (XCOLL) used for the calculation of margin of OTC Derivative, Repo, Financing and FX products.

A Collateral Optimization Management Application (COMA) used by collateral managers to value the NET collateral positions of counterparties. COMA processes feeds containing static, pricing and position data and publishes data to reconciliation, FX, Fixed Income, credit reporting and settlement systems.

 

Role in the Project: Involved in creating the Business Requirement Document and Functional Requirement Document for the project. Prepared the functional test Plan, test cases and scenarios to do the functional and UAT testing. Provide Functional support for the ongoing project to resolve and rectify the pre, post development issues, queries, bugs from Operations /Traders, collateral managers and other desks.

 

Project 2 - Global One Development and Maintenance - Securities Financing        

Global One (product of SUNGARD). Global One is a system used extensively by major banks to carry out their securities Financing/lending activities which includes trading, pricing, margin management, settlements and reconciliation of all kinds of instruments.

 

The project undergoes releases with Customization and Integration of Global One with other downstream systems in Securities Finance such as Equilend, Pirum and ICQ with proposed changes and enhancements.

 

Role in the Project: Involved in creating the Business Requirement Document and Functional Requirement Document for the project. Prepared the functional test Plan, test cases and scenarios to do the functional and UAT testing. Provide Functional support for the ongoing project to resolve and rectify the pre, post development issues, queries, bugs from Operations /Traders, collateral managers and other desks.

 

 

BANK OF AMERICA / BA CONTINUUM SOLUTIONS                                                                                                MAY 2005 TO JULY 2006

TEAM MEMBER - OPERATIONS

 

Role in the Project:

·         Processing banking back office transactions like Stop Payments, Inter Bank transfers, Banking transactions and Account maintenance requests.

·         Investigating client queries related to missing fund transactions, missing bank transfers

·         Identification of Process Improvement opportunities.