Murali Kappally Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Canada Area

Working as business analyst for trade finance products and services

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Working as BSA for Scotia bank's Global Wholesale, Wealth and Risk technology .

Toronto, Canada Area

Working as Business System Analyst for project Comet . Comet is integration of a back-office workflow management application and reporting solution to support trade finance processing. The workflow application will support back-office processing of trade finance products and Supply Chain Financing. The application will replace the Trade Innovations Standalone Application (TISA) system, which will be fully decommissioned once all customers and products have been migrated to the new platform. The feeds from the legacy system will be replaced by new feeds from target system. The reporting is changed from Cognos to Business object

Toronto, Canada Area

Worked as Senior Business Analyst providing consulting services for Techmahindra

Hyderabad Area, India

PROJECT 4: Financial Data Collection Lite (FDCA-3) CLIENT: Standard and poor’s Capital IQ ROLE: Business Analyst DURATION: April 2010 – May 2011 Description: FDCA -3 is a .net cut over application replacing the legacy FDCA 2 (VB application) which is used for the financial research by the analysts and this data is then delivered using the sync job to NY server .After the standardization the financial data is reflected in the Capital IQ Platform.Responsibilities:•Data migration from FDCA 2 to FDCA 3 Data model using DB copy(using local server) , SQL Queries and Reports •Use Cases and Mapping requirements for workflow system of FDCA3 •Performance Testing of FDCA 3 using the Test harness•Implemented agile methodology•Data retrieval in Microsoft SQL server 2005 environment•Knowledge Transfer session in Financial Checks and Workflow.•Root cause analyses for the data issues on the platform. •Participate in prototype (GUI) development•Transfer of Domain Knowledge to the development TeamPROJECT 4: Financial Data Collection Lite (FDCA-3) CLIENT: Standard and poor’s Capital IQ ROLE: Quality Analyst DURATION: Aug 2008 – March 2010 Description: FDCA -3 is a .net cut over application replacing the legacy FDCA 2 (VB application) which is used for the financial research by the analysts and this data is then delivered using the sync job to NY server .Responsibilities:•Creating the business scenarios, requirement traceability.•Data validation /verification and using SQL queries for database testing •Root cause analysis for production issues and involved in PAT testing •Defect triage meeting and preparation of status reports and test case point estimation •Test Lead for the testing team consisting of 8 members •Change request testing and providing on call QA support •Participate in User acceptance Test(UAT) and production support•Writing Test case on the basis of software requirement specification(SRS)

Hyderabad Area, India

PROJECT 4: PR Newswire QA ROLE: Quality Analyst DURATION: May 2007 – Nov 2008Description: I have been a part of PRNQA team since May 2007 .It is the Quality Assurance Team for the entire PR Newswire account in Cognizant.PR Newswire Association LLC (www.prnewswire.com) provides electronic news distribution, targeting, and translation and broadcast services. Various projects worked in PRNQA are Comprehensive Work Flow.CWF was a development project and were involved in the requirement stage .We ( QA Team) also played the role of business analyst and were responsible for the SRS review and business clarifications, Responsibilities:•Read through requirements specification and discussed with Subject Matter Experts (Client side) to understand the business flow.•Designed Test Strategy•Given Estimates using the Test Case Estimation method •Designed Test Cases as per the Functional and Non Functional.•Test execution and reported Bugs.•Participated in Bug triage with Business users and developers•Prepared Test Summary Document•Deployment of the code into the development environment and sending the doc to the OPS team.PROJECT 4: S & P Index integration system CLIENT: Standard and Poor’s ROLE: Test Engineer DURATION: Aug 2006 – May 2007 Description: S & P IIS is a development project for end of day calculation of the Indices in S & P.The project is about integrating the index calculation and data from three different systems i.e. - SPICE, FAME and EMDB. It is a new system that is being developed, which would work as a unified platform for business users from the 3 systems.Responsibilities:•Authoring Test Scenarios and Test cases from the Use cases •Executed the test cases and reported Bugs•Database testing , manual testing and regression testing •Involved in process discussion with the client •Understanding the domain of information•Involved in Bug Triage and impact analysis on weekly basis

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