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London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Managed front-to-back UAT testing of Equities, Debt, Capital Market and Deposits programs towards meeting strategic data sourcing and regulatory reporting, working closely with Technology, Treasury Change and Liquidity Risk Management teams.

London, United Kingdom

Worked on Equities and Derivatives risk management platforms responsible for intraday risk suite of applications, P&L calculation, Risk and Regulatory reporting. In addition, I was responsible for Market risk applications including VaR generation and reporting, scenarios, stress and price testing as well regulatory projects such as Consent Order, Volcker, FRTB, NCMR, CCAR working closely with Front Office, Product Control, Market Risk and Quantitative Research teams.Key Achievements: Established QA and UAT function and processes which were non-existent and was required from Consent Order agreement with regulators. This included defining UAT processes, procuring and building test labs, hiring and mentoring teams based out of Glasgow and Mumbai, and providing governance and reporting to key stakeholder and senior management. Delivered 100% automation using BDD model, leveraging jenkins and in-house built automated solutions.

London, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for global Regulatory programs including Dodd Frank CFTC and ESMA EMIR projects delivery for Pyramid platform (application suite for Equities derivatives and cross-asset trade capture, position and event management and regulatory reporting). Key Achievements: Defined and executed on UAT Strategy for CFTC part 43 and part 45 across global teams within JP Morgan. This was difficult program with tight timelines and complex requirements that required global coordination, working with cross asset teams and external parties

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for quality of Equities front-office technology required by the cash, flow, delta one, warrants, convertible bonds, exotics & structured products desks. The applications covered included electronic and algo trading, order management, trade capture, trading analytics, warrants market making, market risk, P&L attribution, external customer trade valuations, and regulatory reporting.Established and managed global Quality Assurance function in London, New York, Singapore and India to support global and regional releases. Managing keys stakeholders and clients such as front, middle and back-office senior managers, desk heads, equity and hybrid quantitative leads, product controllers and risk managers.Production of metrics surrounding the quality of software, trend analysis of the underlying causes, and implementation of remedial actions.

London, United Kingdom

Estimating, planning, scheduling and monitoring of all testing related activities within the department Defining, selecting and implementing standards, methodologies and tools for testing Represent Derivatives IT on a firm-wide QA Council to leverage solutions and best practices Leadership and line management of Quality Assurance team in London and offshore centre Responsible for determining staffing levels and recruitment of QA staff Implemented low cost offshore strategy in India and nearshore strategy in Poland Lead the Business Analysis and Quality Assurance activities for exotic risk management greenfield project, a strategic replacement of spreadsheet based technology to provide intraday pricing, risk, profit and loss attribution and end of day functionality. Business Analysis, Specification, Project Management and global roll-out of Price testing and Market Simulation capabilities on flow risk management Hydra program

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for business analysis and end-to-end testing for Sales and Trading platforms, such as Trade Management, Confirmation, Settlement Systems and Risk Management platforms.

Responsible for the quality of Global Funds Administration System (GFAS) deliveries.

Responsible for Acceptance Testing of legislative changes, client correspondence and prime services for external clients. Pioneered offshore development model based out of India for BT Financial Group (formerly Bankers Trust), and included working in Sydney and India.

System level programming in C++Responsible for testing automation and quality assurance of imaging and document management products for Canon Inc.