• Automated new and existing features. Increased automation coverage by 300% and achieved more than 90% code coverage over a period of 4 years. • Enhanced automation framework to support the continuous integration of test cases, which reduced automation set up time by half• Collaborated with the development team to create test plans and business scenarios for financial data sourced from different vendors like Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg and Interactive Data services• Performed FMEA exercise for each feature, which resulted in a decrease in the number of testing cycles• Managed creation, maintenance and upgrade of the client databases on SQL server. Investigated and troubleshooted issues encountered during the upgrade.• Monitored daily data feeds, and ran complex SQL queries on the database to validate the data. Generated the validation report and investigated any discrepancies in the report to detect the root cause• Carefully analyzed the data and executed trading workflows on Charles River Investment Management System to ensure seamless integration of data with CR IMS• Organized SWARM testing sessions with cross-functional teams to ensure quality assurance throughout SDLC• Lead an exercise to improve the agile process, which led to ~20% increase in number completed story points per sprint

• Created test cases for trade management process and coordinated with offshore QA team to automate the business scenarios.• Performed in-depth analysis of Endur/Findur modules such as Settlement Desktop, Trading Explorer, Market Explorer, Report Builder, as well as various sharable and non-sharable financial and commodity trading instrument classes.• Performed product testing on each certified client release, making sure that the minimum acceptance criteria has been achieved and product has been released without any major issues.• Interacted extensively with the Product Manager and Business Area SMEs to understand the Business Processes thoroughly. Identified opportunities for business process improvement through various meetings with business users and developers and initiated efforts to make improvements.• Worked with product owner to groom the product backlog and deliver the high quality tested software.Managed team relationships, Conducted stand up, planning and retrospective meetings, and tracked the daily progress through JIRA.• Prepared a high level test plan for each iteration and created testing tasks based off it.

• Retrieved a list of ADR firms from Datastream database with their listing date, parent company information, industry, DSCD code and other relevant financial information.• Performed daily research and analysis of domestic stock market on Bloomberg terminal and submitted the weekly performance report highlighting the important global events and their effects on domestic stock market• Collected macroeconomic data of emerging markets from Factiva, LexisNexis, Countrywatch and other relevant sources, analyze them, and put forward my own views on their economic forecast and future performance.

• Assisted portfolio managers in their research on stocks, bonds, mutual funds and other financial instruments• Collected, examined and analyzed financial and investment information, including profile of companies, stock and bond prices, yields and future trends and other investment information• Implemented ideas on various products and promoted investment in funds by which brought in more assets to the company• Interacted actively with investment analysts and trading desk to devise fund products that give maximum returns and minimum trading costs