Usha R. Email & Phone Number

Jersey City, Nj, Us

Jersey City, Nj, Us

Purchase, Ny, Us

• Authored various solution architecture diagrams, data privacy, Technical requirements, Road Map, Vision for First Party Fraud project. SME for First Party Fraud.• Played the role of Agile Coach, Product owner, Technical Project Manager, Solution Architect, Strategist in the delivery of Fraud Insight for Merchants.• Mentored best practices and set of values to encourage individuals and teams as a whole to continuously increase knowledge, competence, performance, and innovation.• Monitored team milestone completion; identify process and operational roadblocks; owns and consults solution development with stakeholders and escalates critical decisions to reach alignment

Purchase, Ny, Us

New York, New York, Us

• Coaching 3 scrum & cross functional teams to become high-performing by re-establishing Agile best-practices. • Improved existing practices of Agile by 95 %. These are Facilitation, Iteration Ceremonies, WIP, Collaboration, Scaling, making sure everyone in the team gets to talk, conflict resolution. • Improved confidence and trust by making the road map and vision mapped into iteration goals and making them visible to everyone. Improved collaboration with offshore development team based out of India.• Coaching the teams in following SAFe core value of Alignment. This led to increase in delivery by 30%. • Creation of the PI board. This led to improved transparency, confidence and trust by 90%• Creation of Metrices, Dashboards, Kanban boards using JIRA tools to capture the team’s progress. This helped in sequencing, dependency. This led to reduce in bottlenecks by 30 %.• Guiding the Definition of Done. • Guiding/Creation of Dependency Board, Epics, Features, User stories, Backlogs.

Digital PaymentResponsible for guiding & delivering User stories , Acceptance criteria , Process flows for below Digital Payment products in Agile environment using ACH.Quick Pay (P2P): Sending money from customer account to another using email/mobile to internal & external accounts. This could be internal or external bank (ClearExchange).Bill Pay : Pay bills like credit card, utilities, landscaper one time or repeating automatic payment electronically Home Mortgage : Ability for mortgage customers to enroll/update/cancel into monthly, semi-monthly, biweekly and weekly automatic payment drafting.AML, OFAC/Sanctions, Rego and FinCen , Electronic Trading Successfully migrated Home Loans sanction screenings from Current to New platform.Successfully converted upstream .txt files to XML for sanction screenings for Home Loans.Successfully enhanced the Residential Rego and semiannual stock loan sanction screenings.Created FRDs and updated rule files to suppress alerts and Responsible for conducting daily Scrum.Exposure to Actimize tool.Experience with Electronic Trading and Clearing and SettlementSuccessfully converted T+3 to T+2 settlement date and validated T+2 conversions in the mainframe systems.Successfully validated clearing and settlement of T+2 conversions with respect to DTCC.

• Security Policy Management, a cloud native application developed using Springboot, Rest API, PCF, Jenkins, GIT ,Mongo , Redis . SPM is responsible for authentication and authorization of incoming service requests using OAuth before forwarding them to the provider services• Responsible for creating/delivering User stories, Acceptance criteria in ALM using SAFe Agile.• Responsible for conducting daily scrums, Retro, Iteration demo for multiple squads (offsite and onsite).• Responsible for conducting pre PI planning, PI planning, Capacity, Release, Iteration Planning.• Responsible for creating various dashboards/reports in ALM.

Prime Brokerage, Margin & Dodd-Frank Title 7 Margin Regulation. (Capital Market)Created business & functional requirements documents for enhancement of Margin applications for equities , fixed income and OTC derivatives (Options, Futures and Commodities). Worked with front office users and dev team to enhance the functionality of OTC products reference data.Designed & created functional specs for the enhanced Margin Reports in SQL Server.Created functional specification doc for NewClientOnBoarding Tool. This tool calculates the Margin for hypothetical positions for Equities, Fixed income and OTC derivatives (Options, Futures and Commodities).Conducted weekly scrum meeting with margin users. Conducted high level functional testing in UAT and post prod validation & sign off after the release.Informed the Stakeholders of Status, Problems and Time line associated with the Projects.Coordinated the release efforts to QA, UAT & Prod environment with the release team & stakeholders. Conducted daily scrum between Dev, QA and BA team for Uncleared Margin ReportingCreated various artifacts like process flows, alert error reports etc., for the Uncleared Margin Reporting.

Rewrote the Business Requirements, Business Rules, Mock up of EOD files, and Current and Future state diagrams for CRD 2,3 for securitized trading application.Created Functional Specification/Solution doc, Mock Ups, Use Cases for CRD 2-3.Lead the CRD 4/Basel 3 Business requirement creation effort for securitized trading.Created CRD 4 business requirements document.Created complex data mapping for NCOU and gap analysis.

Created and analyzed business requirement documents and As Is State and To-Be State process flows. Created functional specification documents for equity, fixed income and derivatives applications for domestic and international after interacting with the business stake holders.Conducted daily scrum and scrum of scrum.Interacted with upstream and downstream users to understand their data need and created file specification document.Created data dictionary and functional data specification document for reference data project.Precipitated in recon between SQL Server & ORACLE databases and data validation. Worked with Operations team/client facing team to create enhancement specification document to improve the performance and usability of existing applications. Informed the Stakeholders of Project Status, Problems and Time line associated with the Projects.Informed the stakeholders of production release notes.Created specifications document for client reports in Micro strategy for Data Warehousing project.Created functional specs for Profit and Loss reports for Multi-Currency Rate Management system.Coordinated the release efforts to QA, UAT and Prod environment with the release team and DBA.

GPS, Global Payment SystemGlobal Payment Processing SystemWealth (Portfolio) Management/SMAForeign Exchange (Spot, Forward and SWAP)Risk Analysis and Processing of Securities Reference Data

Mba, Finance

Bs, Engineering (Electrical & Electronics)