MANAS KUMAR
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12 years of IT experience in Testing Capital Market/Investment Banking/Risk domain
Responsible for communication, including status reporting, risk management, escalation of
issues that cannot be resolved in the team, and in general, making sure the project is delivered
in budget, on schedule, and within scope.
Involved in manual, database, automation testing, process automation and test management
Automation testing using Java, Selenium
Worked on tools Maven, Jenkins, GIT, GIT Kraken, TestNG
Interacting with development leads and users to ensure quality of delivered software product
Hands on in Financial Market domain: Investment Banking/ Capital Market – Debt and
Equity, Foreign Exchange, FX Options, CFD, Derivative OTC, Money Markets, Forwards,
Swaps, Future and Options, Fixed Income & Retail banking.
Expertise in preparation of Test Plan, Effort estimation, Test Cases and Status Reports
Expertise in Defect Tracking and Bug Reporting using QC, Jira, Test Manager and Clear
Quest.
Experience in people and line management, vendor resource management, hiring and
retaining talent and keeping the team motivated
Hands on Robotic process automation using Blue Prism
WORK EXPERIENCE
Working with CRISIL- An S&P Global Company as Automation Test Manager from Feb
2018 to Till Date
Worked with Barclays as Automation Test Lead from May 2015 till Feb 2018
Worked with HSBC as Consultant Specialist from July 2012 till May 2015
Worked with Saxo Bank as Test Consultant from July 2011 till May 2012
Worked with Nuware Systems as a Senior Test Analyst from March 2010 to July 2011
Worked with Accenture as a Software Engineer from May 2007 to March 2010
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Testing Tools
Databases
Operating Systems
Languages
: Quality Center, Clear Quest, Test Manager, Selenium, Jira
JENKINS, MAVEN, TESTNG, GIT
: SQL Server 2005/2008, Sybase IQ 1.5, SQL Developer
: Windows 2000/XP, Vista
: SQL, VB Script, XML, UNIX, JAVA, Python
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ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION
B.E. in Information Technology (2006 BATCH) from BIT Sindri, Dhanbad (Jharkhand)
ISTQB Certified in Software Testing
PROJECT DETAILS
Project 1
Company
Client
Title
Tools
Testing
Domain
Duration
: CRISIL – An S&P Global Company
: Citi
: Murex
: JIRA, Toad
: Database Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Automation Testing
: Investment Banking
: Feb 18 to Till Date
The project is on migrating trades from Murex to TPS. This includes building of TPS platform to
handle new products.
Trade pricing gets triggered at TPS which sends request to Simplicity on demand. Simplicity returns
PV and schedule. Trade is booked in TPS, Risk and Oasys. Payments are generated by Simplicity and
sent to TPS. TPS routes payments to Oasys. Oasys sends trade to Ocean. Ocean sends trade to
Volcker Aggregator for Volcker reporting.
Migration via manual, rebooking and scripted methods are used and subsequently these are reported
downstream to the reporting system. The transactions are reported to DTCC and acknowledged.
Multiple products tested and signed off including Cap Floor Straddle, Inflation ZC Swap, Inflation
YOY Swap, FRA, Credit Default Swap amongst others.
Performed downstream testing, package products testing for New and Lifecycle Events and backend
testing.
Leading the Murex Test team and managing the testing delivery. Test Planning and estimation and
use of automation to reduce the testing cycle and improve cost and efficiency.
Roles and Responsibility:
Sprint Planning
Prepared Test Plan
Requirement Analysis
Prepared Test Cases
End to End Test Management
Bugs reporting, defect triage with developers
Status Reporting and Risk mitigation
Team Management
Performed functional and automation database testing on a host of Core Banking applications
Project 2
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Company
Client
Title
Tools
Testing
Domain
Duration
: Barclays Technology Centre India
: Barclays Bank Plc
: ATLAS Equity QA
: JIRA, Toad, ATLAS Web, CADET, SOPHIS, BARX, MarketWire
: Database Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Automation Testing
: Investment Banking - Regulatory
: May 15 to Feb 18
Description:
ATLAS Equity and Derivative is a front office order booking system designed to book various
structured equity derivative products, notes, certificates, swaps, exotic options with the aim to demise
Sophis.
Testing business scenarios across new bookings, top up, unwind, allocations, redemptions and
corporate actions.
Worked on Sophis, CADET(Corporate Actions and Derivatives Expiry Tool), MarkitWire, BARX,
Atlas Web front and middle office systems.
Multiple back to back releases and various new features on Structured products.
Regulatory projects:
Nexus delivered for Equity stream for Atlas for all asset classes in Atlas. The change was related to
recording the Related Sales person and Responsible Trader on each trades and deriving a Nexus
jurisdiction based on Sales and Trader location so that the jurisdiction associated with the trade can be
traced.
871(M) – Played primary role in delivering 871(M) which is high stake regulatory project related to
Tax witholding on dividend for a US underlier for a non US counterparty. Eligibility screening via
Tax Utility and With holding payments for Total Return Swap and Price Return Swap.
HKMA, MiFID II, TTE, Trade Hydration, ESMA RTS
Component level testing and end to end testing across different stakeholders from Trade Capture to
Trade Transaction Reporting at DTCC.
Roles and Responsibility:
Requirement Analysis
Prepared Test Cases for SIT, UAT
Test Management
Bugs reporting, defect triage with developers
Status Reporting and Risk mitigation
Team Management
Project 3
Company
Client
Title
Tools
Testing
Domain
Duration
: HSBC
: HSBC Bank Plc
: Fixed Income Asset Reengineering (FIAR)
: Quality Center 9.2, SQL Server 2008, MS Access, Oracle 11i, Murex 3.1
: Database Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing
: Investment Banking - Regulatory
: Apr 14 to May 15
Description:
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Global Banking & Markets (GB&M) uses different post trade systems for processing fixed income, cash
and securities in different hub sites. These are Treats in LN & HK, Summit in Paris and Impact in NY.
For securities the Fixed Income Architecture Reengineering was initiated as a global program to address
these processing differences with the aim of consolidating global fixed income securities processing in a
single platform. The SPARC delivery is part of overall FIAR program which is Front to back initiative
to implement the Sun guard RIMS fixed income settlement system. The complex requirement to
account for global market product specifically bonds and repos have required the use of specialist tool
in order to apply the desired accounting rules to the GBM transaction data. The Sparc delivery will
replace the legacy TREATS accounting model for bonds and financial trades with strategic accounting
via Finance owned accounting rules engine within SPARC using business events sourced from upstream
FO and BO systems.
Trades for bonds and repos will be processed and standardized and cash schedule will be generated.
Valuations and Position files will be created by Martini for repos and RIMS for bonds and these will be
processed. Settlement messages will be received along with Corporate Actions which are processed for
various events.
Roles and Responsibility:
Requirement Analysis
Prepared Test Cases for SIT, UAT
Test Management
Bugs reporting, defect triage with developers
Status Reporting and Risk mitigation
Team Management
Project 4
Company
Client
Title
Tools
Testing
Domain
Duration
: Magna Infotech(July 12 till Feb 13)/ HSBC (Feb 13 To April 14)
: HSBC, UK
: Finance Transformation Platform
: Quality Center 9.2, SQL Server 2008, MS Access, Murex 3.1
: Manual Testing, UI Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing
: Capital Market/Investment Banking
: July 12 to Apr 14
Description:
FTP(Finance Transformation Platform) is a bespoke system, unique to HSBC, that is designed to
provide Global Finance with a single source for financial control – working from common data
repository that feeds the mandatory reporting for the group, produces regulatory reporting and delivers
internal Management Reporting.
Data flows in from source systems like TREATS(Treasury Trading System), OTP, ISD, Core IMS,
Global Calypso and is processed by FTP and is then delivered or output to users and other systems
through the various reports or extracts.
Roles and Responsibility:
Requirement Analysis
Prepared Test Cases for SIT, UAT
Test Management
Bugs reporting, defect triage with developers
Status Reporting and Risk mitigation
Team Management
Project 5
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Company
Client
Title
Tools
Testing
Domain
Duration
: Saxo IT India, Formerly Initto Technologies, Gurgaon
: Saxo Bank, Denmark
: FX, FXO, CFD Regression Testing, Risk Tool
: Test Manager, SQL Server 2008
: Manual Testing, UI Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing
: Capital Market/Investment Banking
: July 11 to May 12
Description:
Saxo Bank is an online Danish investment bank. Saxo Bank has bought 100% stakes in Initto
Technologies. Involved in creation of a regression test suite across Front, Middle and Back Office and
across asset classes including FX, FXO, CFDs amongst others in Equity, Derivative & Commodity in
OTC market.
Front Office Applications - Front Office Commander, Mits Administrator, Saxo Trader, Web Trader
and Order Commander applications were regression tested.
Back Office Application – This was used in order to create and test regression test suite for Borrowing
cost, CFD interest and commission modules.
Further, worked on below enhancements:
1. Risk Tool: Instruments across asset classes, containing details of margin requirements and
changes to margin there on filtered based on profiles and categories.
2. Automated Desk Exposure: Desk Exposure is a daily task where the exposures on the various
EGO accounts are compared to the client’s exposures that are trading on these accounts on CFD
and FX inventory. These exposures will have to be opposite of each other. If this is not the case,
the exposures on the EGO accounts are adjusted so they are aligned. The aim is to automate this
process.
Roles and Responsibility:
Requirement Analysis
Regression testing
Test Planning and Execution
Scrum Meetings
Project 6
Company
Client
Title
Tools
Testing
Domain
Duration
: Nuware Systems, Bangalore
: Alliance Bernstein
: Argus
: Sybase IQ 15.1 on a RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Quality Center
: Manual Testing, ETL Testing, UI Testing, Functional Testing using Agile Methodology
: Investment Banking
: Mar 10 to July 11
Description:
Argus is a Compliance Surveillance and Reporting system for the Institutional Research Services
Sanford C Bernstein (SCB) sell side unit. Argus scope is global covering all regions (US, Pan Europe,
Asia and other emerging markets) all products traded by SCB (Stocks, Options and Futures) and all
trading desks (NY, London and Hong Kong). Storage data and Data growth is expected to be 1.5 TB
for Trade Data and 1 TB for Market Data. Argus shall contain all order information from various
trading systems and link the movement of order between them. Orders, Routes, Executions and
market data should be linked in order to create a complete audit trail of the order. Additionally, both
internal and external order routes should be captured. Information regarding internal crosses and all
relevant information for an order should be captured. In addition, the data should identify the currency
the order and execution is conducted in. FIX protocol is used for trade related messages.
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Roles and Responsibility:
Requirement Analysis
Functional Testing
Database Testing
Project 7
Company
Client
Title
Tools
Duration
: Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore
: Best Buy
: Mobile – Online
: Clear Quest, Manual Testing, Yantra, SQL, UNIX, XML
: Oct 09 to Mar 10
Description:
Best Buy Co., Inc. is a Fortune 500 company and the largest specialty retailer online of consumer
electronics in United States accounting for 19% of the market. It also operates from Canada, Mexico
and China.
Mobile online deals with online purchase of phones with post paid or pre paid plans and unlocked
phones. The customer has the choice to choose the preferred carrier. The functionality has been
introduced to enable customers to purchase the mobile phones and plans directly from Best Buy.
The enhancement enables customers to build a mobile package and choose plans along with
accessories for mobile device. The mobile package is added to cart and the customer has an option of
number porting. There on there is a credit check happening for the customer and on successful
validation the customer is able to make his purchase online using credit card.
Roles and Responsibility:
Requirement Analysis
Functional Testing
Database Testing
Project 8
Company
Client
Title
Tools
Duration
: Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore
: Best Buy
: Dotcom – Online Store & Order Management
: Clear Quest, Manual Testing, Yantra, SQL
: Aug 09 to Sep 09
Description:
The Online Store (OLS) is used to buy various products by customers using multiple payment types
such as Credit cards, reward zone points, and pitch in card, pay pal, digital coupons and gift cards.
Customers can track their orders online and also create wish lists. The wish list can be emailed to
friends, who can contribute to the pitch in card. This is a new enhancement to the online store.
The Order Management System (OMS) is the online application used by Best Buy to manage the
orders placed by customers. The order once placed by customers passes through various stages
starting from Created to Shipped and Invoiced. Fraud rules are tested using Clear Commerce Engine
which is used to create fraud rules.
Store User Interface (SUI) is used to Pick/ No pick and return an item.
Roles and Responsibility:
Requirement Analysis
Functional Testing
Database Testing
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Project 9
Company
Client
Title
Tools
Duration
:
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:
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Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd., Chennai
Bank of America
E – commerce Data Management & Online Banking (OLB)
Quick Test Pro, Manual Testing, Regression Testing, Quality Center,
SharePoint, SPUFI, DB2
: May 07 to Jul 09
Description:
Online Banking (or Internet Banking) allows customers to conduct financial transactions on a secure
website. Online banking offers many features such as funds transfer, bill payment, apply for a loan
open a new account, Electronic bill presentation and payment (EBPP), Investment, online statement
and alerts.
Customer profiles are created using various Bank applications like BOSS, COIN, DARTNET,
MBNA, WEASLESS, and OFR with the various account types, credit cards and offers as per the test
case requirement and tested. Credit cards with promotional offers were tested.
ISSP stands for Integrated Sales and Service Platform. An application Touchpoint is a web based
application and it was expected to replace BOSS. All the offers for customers could be booked in
Touchpoint.
Roles and Responsibility:
Requirement Analysis
Functional Testing
Database Testing
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