Sameera Weerakkody Email & Phone Number

Technology Delivery for Client Operations, Financial Crime, Finance, Tax, HR, Legal, Compliance, and Financial Planning & Accounting

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Client Operations, Financial Crime

Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

• Projects: Introducing ITG Dark Pool (POSIT) to Philippine market. • Significantly reduced the POSIT related production issues since taking over the testing of POSIT system• Second level support for POSIT and Triton GUI• Documentation of Product Release Notes, Test Plans and Test Reports• Conducted product demos for internal teams, developed test strategy, installed new releases, managed QA environment(s), and liaised with Development team, Project management & Support team, during production roll-outs.

Malabe

A member (Technology Services) of the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), MillenniumIT is a premier technology solutions provider for capital markets.• Team Lead for Tullett Prebon project (with both onshore and offshore testing teams) • Requirement elicitation, Documenting Change Requests & System Specifications, Root Cause Analysis• Test Planning and Effort Estimation • Defect Management (JIRA)• Documentation and Review: QA Mind Maps, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Business Specifications• Liaising with the client/UAT team regarding QA deliveries and providing client support• Training the QA team• Conducting Sea trials prior to releasing new builds to the client• QA Reports (Traceability matrix, Regression Reports, DSI calculation)

• On-site client support (ICAP-US) - for 8 months in New Jersey, United States(while working onsite I was involved in resolving client queries and analyzing issues, live-production support, onsite testing, test automation, requirement gathering, drafting requirement specifications and liaising with the client to manage scope of the releases) • Documentation of test artifacts : Mind Maps, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, System Specs and Change Requests• Training and coordinating with the testing teams (outsourced)

Malabe

• Was a member of the project team which unveiled the world’s fastest trading platform in 2009 – Turquoise Baikal• Successfully delivered several large projects on extremely stringent deadlines for premier stock exchanges such as ICAP- Electronics, ICAP – VOICE, London Stock Exchange, and Colombo Stock Exchange • Documentation –Test Plans, Regression Documents, Test Reports• Issue reporting, Issue Analysis and Issue Verification• Manual Testing, Test Automation (ITE and Test Complete). • Functional Testing, Fault Tolerance testing, Smoke Testing, Unit testing, Integration Testing, Regression testing etc. • Emergency Bug Fix (EBF) Releases• QA Release Management

Colombo

• Liaising with customers and internal departments to resolve debit card related complaints within SLA (debit card fraud, disputes, ATM fraud and other complaints.) • Suggested process changes to reduce complaints• Retained customers by effectively handling difficult situations (ex: ATM fraud) • Debit card fraud investigation

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management, General

B.Sc. In Computer Information Systems, Magna Cum Laude (Honors)

IT/Business