Vinod Kumar A

Experience

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  HSBC

  Oct 2008 - Mar 2010

  Quality Assurance Specialist

  - Involved in functionality testing and writing Test Cases according to the Functional Specifications.- Preparation of Regression test pack and execution of the Test Cases to validate the Functionality of Transactions.- Preparation of Defect report and reporting defects by defect reporting tool.

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  Credit Suisse

  Mar 2010 - Apr 2011

  Quality Assurance Specialist

  - Test execution review. - Contribution to Test execution status and Defect status reports. - Preparation of Test data. - Preparing traceability matrix, Test plan and Test strategy documents.- Involved in Test Environment deployments and Release Management process.- Design, develop and maintain Build and Release management processes and tools. - Coordinate with multiple project teams on the build and release management requirements.- Has undertaken responsibility of performing health checkup of application, reporting application downtime. Show less

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  Fidelity Investments

  May 2011 - Sept 2012

  Quality Assurance Lead

  - Preparing Test plan, Tracibility Matrix, Test case Use case/Requirements mapping.- Has taken responsibility of Defect Prevention Champion (DPC) in the project. (Logged and maintained Defects.)- Interacting with onshore regarding daily project status.- Status reporting for the test runs and bugs are stored into the bug database.- Involved in Test Environment deployments and Release Management process.- Design, develop and maintain Build and Release management processes and tools.- Coordinate with multiple project teams on the build and release management requirements.- Responsible for performing health checkup of application and reporting application downtime.- Involved in Test Environment deployments and Release Management process.- Design, develop and maintain Build and Release management processes and tools. - Coordinate with multiple project teams on the build and release management requirements.- Has undertaken responsibility of performing health checkup of application, reporting application downtime.- Managing relationships working on interrelated processes- Communicating crucial release plans and changes - Measuring and monitoring progress to achieve a timely software release within defined budgetary limits and defined quality standards - Coordinating processes between different teams (possibly in various locations) - Communicating necessary release details to business teams.- Managing, planning, and negotiating release activities.- Initiating and overseeing progressive release processes. Show less

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  Societe Generale

  Sept 2012 - Jun 2014

  Quality Assurance Specialist

  - Managing risks and resolving challenges that impact release scope, quality, and schedules - Planning release windows and cycles across portfolios, components- Coordinating enterprise release content and efforts based on OS updates and third-party apps- Producing deployment, implementation, and run books plans - Conducting release readiness and milestone reviews- Maintaining release schedules for every core service and ensuring it aligns with major vendors and other stakeholders- Working with release engineers to comprehend code merges and branch ramifications - Leading and coordinating checklist and deployment plan execution - Developing automation and release management tools along with scripts necessary for the construction, continuous integration, and deployment of software release - Researching new software development and the best methods and techniques for managing configurations regarding a business’s existing needs- Ensuring that releases operate as per expectations - Ensuring that requirements are clear across dependent project streams with an effective release- Initiating and overseeing the development of technical guides and training for external functionality - Managing the development of deliverables into production environments and validating release notes- Deployment management of deliverables to test environment particularly guaranteeing that the attached external dependent items are available during the testrun. Show less

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  Societe Generale Global Solution Centre

  Jul 2014 - Jun 2022

  - Leveraging requirements analysis skills through collaboration with business teams and facilitating client sessions for elicitation.- Managing Agile projects by supervising Scrum ceremonies, prioritizing user stories, and scoping for Product Increments/Sprints.- Engaging in comprehensive data gathering from diverse sources, collaborating with stakeholders to inform promotional strategies and identify business trends.- Reproducing and analyzing root causes of functional and technical issues using GitHub, providing temporary workarounds, andcoordinating with development teams for permanent fixes.- Performing functional testing, database testing, and BA acceptance testing in each monthly sprint, ensuring the quality of deliverables.- Coordinating with upstream and downstream applications for functional testing requirements and addressing production issues. Show less - Served as a Cloud Data Engineer handling data ingestion, pipeline creation, incremental loads and merge processes using Snowflake to ensure seamless data integration.- Architectured and implemented large-scale data intelligence solutions around the Snowflake Data Warehouse, demonstrating expertise in ETL pipeline development using a combination of Python and Snowflake.-Hands-on utilization of Cloud ETL tools such as ADF, Snaplogic and Matillion, while also contributing to the design and development of sophisticated reporting data models within the Snowflake database.- Employed best practices in Snowflake DB design and reporting data models, along with leveraging testing tools and modern cloud-based automation techniques to enhance data pipeline efficiency.- Building impactful data visualization dashboards using Tableau to convey insights efficiently.- Leveraging Python scripting for data cleaning, pre-processing, and automated reporting with data accuracy.Business Analyst :- Involved in Business Requirements Gathering, Analysis, Documenting Requirements, Sharing solution design and mock ups with Product owners. - Ensure change of requirements are tracked, maintained and implemented in accordance with defined change management procedures. - Worked closing with Product owner to Prioritizing sprint catalog. Maintained product backlog, participated in Backlog grooming and Requirement prioritization meeting. - Good experience in writing user stories, mapping stories with epics and Business Initiatives. Good hands on experience in BDD scenarios using Jira , ADO and Confluence tools.- Performed functional testing and BA Acceptance testing for each monthly sprint.- Worked on Gap Analysis and Impact Analysis. - Since users where globally situated, I am also responsible for giving demos on the new features released to Production on each monthly sprint. Show less

  • Business Analyst, Scrum Master

    May 2021 - Jun 2022

  • Data Engineer

    Jul 2014 - Apr 2021
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  Standard Chartered Bank

  Jun 2022 - now

  Business solution manager

  • Contributing in activities like analyzing project requirements, market & competitor products, creating solutions, designs & stories (BDD scenarios), and prioritizing stories, epics & themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy.• Liaising with business, development, testing, operations, and cloud teams for functional requirements and data visualization requirements. • Collaborating closely with up-stream and down-stream application teams to prioritize requirements and ensure timely delivery for product releases. • Working closely with business stakes to convert business vision to Epic to Stories in the product backlog. • Analyzed key aspects of business to evaluate factors driving results and summarized into presentations. Show less