Candidates About

                 Salabh Mishra                                                                   

Summary

15+ years of diversified experience in Quality Assurance, Test Automation, Business Analysis, Change Management, Application Support, Application Development, Application Control and Technology Audit. Highly Organized IT professional with a proven track record of using best engineering practices to increase productivity and software quality. A Good team player and worked with Product Owner, Relationship Managers, Traders, Operations Team, Development Managers, Business Analysts, Solution Architects, Application Support and Deployment Teams to deliver high quality software. Worked on various projects for REPO, Collateral Management, Securities Lending, Global Loans, Corporate Banking, Program Trading, Order Management System, FIX Order Trading (Equities, Derivatives & FX), Private Equity, Mutual Fund, Structured Products, Term Deposit, Supply Chain Management, Healthcare and E-commerce. An excellent exposure of Global working environment and coordination with teams across the globe including Australia, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, India, Poland, London, Raleigh and Canada.

Specific Expertise

·          Proficient in Project Management, Project scoping, Requirement Analysis, Test Planning, Test Design, Test Execution, Test Environment setup, Test data preparation, Troubleshoot issues, Perform root cause analysis, Front to Back Test co-ordination, Defect management and Reporting.

·          Possess excellent exposure of functional testing, security testing, Backup & recovery testing, volume testing, Load & stress testing, data centric ETL testing in Unix/Linux and Windows platforms.

·          Exposure of various projects including platform upgrade, architecture rebuild, product upgrade, product migration, database migration, Rules & regulatory reform in onsite – offshore delivery model.

·          Broad Technical and functional expertise to oversee and manage Test Management, Quality Assurance, Test Automation, Test environment Management, UAT, Release Management and Application Support.

·          Hands on implementation knowledge of Agile (scrum), Dev-ops, Waterfall.

·          Hands on Testing exposure of UNIX UI, UNIX Processes & Jobs, Windows Services, API’s, Dot Net Client, Ruby jobs, Control M Jobs, Automate Jobs, Data warehouse (ETL, Business Object Reports, Data Feeds), FIX Protocols, Compliance Engine, Exchange connectivity for trading of Equities, Listed Derivatives and Foreign Exchange.

·          Manage and support UAT and QA environments for various Fixed Income, Equities and Program trading applications.

·          Jira & Confluence Administration including user management, setting up JEMH Profiles, projects, workflows, screen scheme, custom field’s management, Jira boards and developed Jira based reporting using Rest API.

Skills

Professional Experience

MacKay Shields LLC                                                                      Apr 2015 - Present

MacKay is a fixed income focused investment management firm that specializes in the management of income-oriented investment strategies. It provides discretionary investment advisory services primarily to  institutions such as SEC registered investment companies, corporate pension funds, endowments and foundations, public funds, investment funds not registered with the SEC, wrap fee programs, non-U.S. pooled investment vehicles and other non-U.S. clients.

Responsibilities as Applications Controls Coordinator/QA Manager:

·          Coordinate with Business Users, Operations team, Business Analysts, Development Team and vendors involved for Functional, SIT and UAT Test.

·          Provide Test Estimates, review Test Artifacts, Defects, Test Results and Test Summary Report to ensure that the potential issues and break points are covered.

·          Create Test Strategy, Test Plan and review / monitor the progress to ensure on time completion.

·          Prepare and send daily, monthly and other ad hock Reports to senior management, Operational Risk Committee and Change Management Review Board.

·          Discuss proposed changes, production issues having Business or high Support Impact in CMRB meeting and suggest mitigation plan to avoid such issues in future.

·          Ensure correctness and completeness of the deployment tickets and provide level 1 approval for all prod releases.

·          Ensure Prod Incidents are resolved as earliest possible and follow-up with teams involved for any post-mortems.

·          As a Jira Administrator – Managing Dashboards, Project Administration, Workflow changes, User permissions, configure JEMH and other system settings.

·          Writing C# scripts to automate the framework testing and generate various reports using LINQPad from Jira, SVN and Splunk.

·          Participating in weekly/bi-weekly Meetings with Operations, Settlements, GFI, High Yield and Muni Teams.

·          Coordinate Internal and External major system upgrade with Business, Development Team, Product Vendor and IT.

·          Vendor Management (On Boarding, Escalation, Performance review, Rate negotiation, SOW and Invoice processing)

·          Involved in Internal & External Audit and working with Auditors.

·          Provide application support on rotation basis.

Environment: C#, Python, SQL Server, Power Shell, Groovy Script, ETL Datawarehouse, SSRS/Excel Reports, SSAS Cube, SQL Server Management Studio, LINQPad, Jira, Microsoft project, Automate 9 & 10, Portia, CRD, Cadis and  OpenStaars.

Cognizant Technology Solutions                                                   Oct 07 – Apr 15

Client: KKR & Co. L.P.                                                                                                 (Nov 14 – Apr 15)

KKR & Co. L.P. is an American multinational private equity firm, specializing in leveraged buyouts, headquartered in New York. Investran is an integrated private equity software suite that automates front, middle and back-office processes for private equity firms, including general partners, limited partners, service providers, fund of funds and family offices.

Responsibilities as QA Lead:

Coordinate QA schedule with IT Manager, Development and Support team for all the changes or enhancements. Manage testing activities from test preparation and test execution and reporting for Functional, SIT and UAT testing. Involved in end to end QA delivery starts from requirement Analysis, test Planning, design, environment & test data setup, execution and reporting for Functional, SIT and UAT testing. Handling a team of 8 people, responsible for task assignment and supervising their work on day to day basis. Create a regression/end to end testing strategy for a Major rollout in US. Build defect tracking and reporting daily, weekly and monthly progress to senior management. Working as application support manager for client queries and defect prioritization.

Environment: .NET 4.0, VBA, Investran Accounting, Investran Report Wizard, Investran Relationship Manager, Report Console, SQL Server, ServiceDesk Plus, SharePoint and Microsoft project.

Credit Suisse Fixed Income: REPO, Global Loans, Corporate Banking             (Jul 12 – Nov 14)

Collateral Optimization was a multi-year project addressing both remediation of existing technology, process issues and strategic development of the Collateral Management. This project included ETL Testing, BO Report Testing, UI testing, and Functional Testing.

Credit Suisse's top tier global Securities Lending platform provides deep access to securities across more than 70 markets globally to source an extensive and stable supply of securities. As a top borrower with extensive experience, our counterparty relationships extend across more than 200 lenders globally, providing top tier access to security allocations, access to hard-to-borrow equities, and stability for our clients.

Loan IQ is being used for managing the Loans and provide integrated support during all phases of the deal life cycle, including loan origination, servicing and distribution. It records the bank’s entire loan and exposure related credit activity.

Global Loan Blotter is software solution arising from the business needs of Leverage Finance Desk. It will automate the new trades capture by the Loan’s trading desk in the secondary markets and eliminate the paper blotter.

Portfolio Risk Management provides consolidated global view of Bank Loan and Bank Loan Hedge positions. It has been designed to ensure that Portfolio Management has daily information covering CSFB's global Loan Exposure, established risk management strategies, and management reports that support on-going changes of the Loan Portfolio.

Credit Suisse Equities: Global Program Trading, LLDMA, Exchange Links  (Oct 07 – Jun 12)

Program Trading desk has few global and regional applications which are used in US, Canada, UK, South Africa, Japan and non Japan Asia. These systems are used to receive trade and book these baskets out. MAKO was a migration project to replace old legacy winform GPTMS system to .dot net application.

LLDMA (Low Latency Direct Market Access) is an electronic order routing system that uses a single API, based on the FIX / Binary protocol, to facilitate efficiency in electronic communication of securities transactions between CS clients and a wide range of exchanges. It enables both external and internal clients to trade with minimal latency. It involves testing of Fix Engine, Compliance Engine and Exchange link functions for specific client and exchanges along with new features driven by business or Exchange specific upgrades.

Responsibilities as QA Manager/UAT Manager/Integration Manager/QA Lead:

·          Manage manual and automation QA deliveries including UNIX UI, UNIX Processes, UNIX Jobs, Windows Services, Dot Net Client, Windows processes, Control M / Ruby jobs, Data warehouse ETL, Business Object Reports, and Feeds.

·          Involved in end to end QA delivery starts from Requirement Analysis, Test Planning, Test Design, Test Environment & Test data setup, Test Execution, Defect management and Reporting for Functional, SIT and UAT testing.

·          Create an end to end QA strategy for global releases and coordinate with up & down-stream application owners.

·          Organize defect triage meetings and prioritize them with Business, Development & Support managers.

·          Worked as an Integration Test Manager for various strategic projects, Collateral Management, Dodd–Frank and NASDAQ symbology changes and coordinated with various front, middle and back office applications teams.

·          Conducting Annual internal Audit for all the applications to review requirements, test cases, requirement traceability matrix, Test Plan, test execution Report, defect leakage, defect density, Sign-off, JIRA items are kept in place.

·          Analyze the Business requirements, identify the test scenarios, design test cases, develop, maintain and execute test cases which provide full coverage for load/stress, scalability, regression and functional testing.

·          Setup UAT environment and coordination with business users for ascertaining business sign off.

·          Validate XML messages between the client & server as well as the front-end application.

·          Create test environment, deploy QA builds and coordinate with upstream/downstream application teams for their availability during Integration testing.

·          Coordinate with client connectivity team, business analyst and development managers to prioritize the QA releases and help client connectivity team for new Fix client setup.

·          Execute Fix orders (Pre-open, Open, Market on Close, Market, Limit, Funari etc…) end to end using Aegis client simulator, Fix engine (Cameron, ULLFE, MAGic), Exchange Links, order management system and analyze the application log for any error/exception.

·          Providing daily, weekly and monthly reports to senior management for all the ongoing QA projects.

·          Handling a team of 15 people, responsible for task assignment and supervising their work on day to day basis.

Environment: Quality Center ALM, QTP, Load Runner, Jira, Microsoft Project, Winform, .NET 4.0, WPF, C++, Java/J2EE, WebLogic, Business Objects, VB Script, Perl, Shell, XML, Unix, Sun Solaris, Informatica, Sybase, Oracle, IBM DB2, Rapid SQL, DB Artisan, PL/SQL Developer, Toad, Fix / Binary Protocol, Aegis simulator, VeriFIX, Putty.

Accenture Services Private Limited                                                        Jun 06 – Oct 07

Client (Development Bank of Singapore)

DBS was implementing Finacle which is a leading Banking software of Infosys. I was involved in the testing of customized requirements & enhancements requested by DBS to integrate Finacle with 150 legacy systems. I worked as Test Lead for Wealth Management system (Mutual Fund, Structured Products).

Module Lead: Identify Test Requirements and create Test scenarios, Test cases from Business Requirement Documents. Maintain Requirement Traceability Matrix by mapping BRD to high level Test Requirements, Test Scenarios. Analyze ongoing changes, do the impact analysis and update the impacted Test scenarios and Test cases. Prepare a Test Plan with timeline, resource requirements and deliverables. Create TCCS Test Cycle Control Sheet to documents high-level definition of each test cycle. Create, execute test scripts and track defects in Rational Clear Quest. Coordinate with Infosys and Onsite co-coordinator for defect resolution and assist other team members.

Environment: Java, C, C++, Oracle, PLSQLDeveloper, Rational Clear Quest and Rational manual Tester

Eclipse Systems Pvt. Ltd.                                                                  Nov 04 – Jun 06

Client (Maidenform Inc, USA)

DCMS is an enterprise warehouse management system which manages the complete flow of inventory in a distribution center right from receipt of goods or stock units to their shipment to the customer. DCMS is designed to track the activities performed in a distribution center. It streamlines the flow of inventory right from its receipt up to shipment in a systematic manner - recording and tracking each activity for effective control and review.

Software Engineer: Communicate with Business users for new Requirements, Enhancements and Bug-fixes release schedules. Involved in Design, Development, Testing and production rollouts and participate in end User training. Creating Requirement specifications, Functional specifications, design documents and user manuals. Developed 6 modules for DCMS which scans the inventory on their arrival and place them to warehouse. Migrated 4 oracle forms applications on dot net to make them compatible with ring scanner. Involved in Unit Testing, Integration Testing and System Testing; used stub and drivers.

Environment:  .NET, Visual C++, Oracle Forms, Oracle 9i, SQL Server 2000, PL/SQL, Toad, Win 2000

eBIZ.Com Pvt. Ltd.                                                                            Sept 02 – Oct 04

eBIZ.Com is an eCommerce company with the unique and revolutionary model which allows users to Learn and earn. It is a web based interface provided by the eBIZ.Com where user can register and learn the online courses available and become part of eBIZ Multi-Level Marketing business. It deals with the commission calculation and distributes it to the users.

Software Developer: Involved in development and maintenance of ebizel.com, ebizmatrimonail.com websites. Analyzed new requirements received from client and add new enhancement/features. Perform functional, white box and Regression testing and performance test using Load Runner. Preparing functional specifications, use cases, release notes and user manuals for new modules. Responsible for deployment and testing the changes in UAT and production environment.

Environment: Linux, PHP, MYSQL, Java Script, Front Page, HTML, DHTML, Windows 98/2000.

Education

Master of Computer Applications, Dr. Ambedkar University Agra, INDIA – 2002

Certifications

1.    CFA Institute Investment Foundations Certificate

2.    ISTQB