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Jersey City

Managed Risk Client Analytics and VaR calculator which provides users summarized and detailed real-time trade, position and VaR results. Provided users the ability to experiment with placing various trades and analyze the subsequent effect on VaR charge. Product generated over $9M per year in revenue and is used by all top investment banks. This helped the clients to reduce their deposits with DTCC by 20%.Designed and delivered internal machine learning (NLP Sentiment analysis) product to… Show more Managed Risk Client Analytics and VaR calculator which provides users summarized and detailed real-time trade, position and VaR results. Provided users the ability to experiment with placing various trades and analyze the subsequent effect on VaR charge. Product generated over $9M per year in revenue and is used by all top investment banks. This helped the clients to reduce their deposits with DTCC by 20%.Designed and delivered internal machine learning (NLP Sentiment analysis) product to assign a new internal credit rating to Clients (investment banks) based on their latest news - positive/negative which helped DTCC protect itself by adjusting the deposit needs of clients.Partnered with key stakeholders in product management, business, development and sales teams to create the strategy and roadmap for the product.Led cross-functional teams through the software development lifecycle using the Agile/Scrum development process (utilizing JIRA) across all phases: ideation, planning, prototyping, implementation and delivery.Conducted interviews/workshops with users and performed research to identify product features and develop user stories for product backlog.Prioritized user stories based on client needs and business value. Designed wireframes and mockups of the user interface.Managed each bi-weekly /3-week sprint with Scrum Master, development and QA teams.Defined OKRs to measure success/failure, created small-scale pilots to validate concepts, refine them to achieve product-market fit.Conducted usability studies, user research and user testing (Created models in python to verify results) and transformed valuable insights to product features based to enhance user satisfaction.Responsible for communicating regular status updates to internal project team, and executive stakeholdersCollaborated with teams across the organization where the product could be leveraged and identify new product opportunities. Show less

Jersey City

Managed creation of Risk Pricing where prices from all vendors were integrated and identifying secondary pricing sources. Pricing analysts could use this product to identify any abnormalities in the security prices.Designed and delivered NSCC Stress Testing system, that enabled analysts to apply various stress conditions on existing trades for different clients and verify if deposits collected from clients were enough to cover them over the settlement cycle.Launched NSCC Back Testing… Show more Managed creation of Risk Pricing where prices from all vendors were integrated and identifying secondary pricing sources. Pricing analysts could use this product to identify any abnormalities in the security prices.Designed and delivered NSCC Stress Testing system, that enabled analysts to apply various stress conditions on existing trades for different clients and verify if deposits collected from clients were enough to cover them over the settlement cycle.Launched NSCC Back Testing system, that enabled analysts to measure if charges applied to clients (Investment Banks) based on their trading history, did not deviate from expected results.Managed projects in agile/scrum and waterfall methodologies. Led team through all phases of project lifecycle, ensured the documentation met the policies and procedures, reviewed the deliverable and presented it to various stakeholdersDefined user stories and business requirements based on user interviews/workshops.Owned and maintained product roadmap, product backlog of requirements in collaboration with multiple product managersLed grooming sessions, sprint planning, backlog review, release planning on bi-weekly basis. Ensured products met or exceeded client expectations. Excelled at gathering feedback and new requirements, communicating needed changes to development team.Participated/conducted daily scrum, defect triage, project status meetings with all cross-functional teams.Recommended improvements to produce more effective solutionsConducted high-level usability test with usersResponsible for estimation of the Project hours, Stakeholder Management, Resource planning, Contract &Relationship management with the clients. Show less

Jersey City

Secondary Vendor Pricing: The project involved identifying a secondary vendor for all types of security and using their prices as the final price in case the primary vendor price was unavailable.Responsible for test requirement gathering with clients, presentation of testing documents to all stakeholdersManaged all areas of testing - system testing , enterprise testing and User Acceptance TestingPrepared and presented test approach and test cases documentsManaged all client… Show more Secondary Vendor Pricing: The project involved identifying a secondary vendor for all types of security and using their prices as the final price in case the primary vendor price was unavailable.Responsible for test requirement gathering with clients, presentation of testing documents to all stakeholdersManaged all areas of testing - system testing , enterprise testing and User Acceptance TestingPrepared and presented test approach and test cases documentsManaged all client level activities as Issue resolutions, demand forecasting, resource forecasting, estimation of the project hours.Involved in data mining and data setup activity.Working closely with Business Users, Development team and other vendors.Held monthly senior stakeholders meeting to update status on various testing engagements.Managed all the resources across projects Show less

Bangalore

The NBP program involved integration of the newly acquired Beta system by Ameriprise to the existing system. The trade data from the Beta system has to be made understandable in terms of Ameriprise lingo and the data from Beta system had to be correctly processedProjects involved in NBP Program:NBP 2.0 Clearing Finance, the project involved reporting modules calculating the Net flow into and out of an account & another module was reporting of the Fee calculated for each accountNBP… Show more The NBP program involved integration of the newly acquired Beta system by Ameriprise to the existing system. The trade data from the Beta system has to be made understandable in terms of Ameriprise lingo and the data from Beta system had to be correctly processedProjects involved in NBP Program:NBP 2.0 Clearing Finance, the project involved reporting modules calculating the Net flow into and out of an account & another module was reporting of the Fee calculated for each accountNBP 2.5 Consolidated Advisor Fee, The Project involved charging the customer one consolidated fee, i.e. combining the Financial Planning Fee & Financial Account feeResponsible for system testing, creating test approach and test strategy. Partnered with development team for defect triage. Preparation and presentation of test cases. Reporting daily status to upper management. Show less

Bangalore

Contactless Debit Cards: This project enables the low-value payments (LVP) of contactless debit cards, up to £10, to be made using contactless technology. This will target payments currently made by cash, rather than card at Point of Sale (POS)Responsible for system testing, creating test approach and test strategy. Preparation and presentation of test cases.