Kaustubh Bhagwat, PMP®, CSM®, Azure 4X, MBA Finance

Experience

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  Syntel

  Jun 2007 - Apr 2010

  Analyst Programer

  As Analyst Programmer, I worked for a payment processing leader in the world providing electronic commerce and payment solutions to individual merchants, financial institutions, large and small businesses. I worked in various teams which supported operations including Merchant Account Initiation, Host Data Capture and Funding Settlement And Account Management. Working in different teams supporting a variety of functions helped me to understand the payment processing system in detail.The project work consists of creating new COBOL/CICS Programs and JCL, modified existing programs and JCL to implement projects. Unit testing changes, support UAT cycles, provide production support, performing quality audit for project, provide emergency fix to issues, analyze recurrent issues and finding root cause and implement a permanent fix. Show less

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  Wipro Technologies

  May 2010 - Oct 2021

  The project involved working in the backend system of trade processing architecture of one of the leading Investment Bank. The development team implements new projects as per strategic, regulatory and business requirements.Gather requirements from stakeholders and analyzing and eliciting it.Develop project plan, create work breakdown structure, estimate efforts, create project schedule and determine project budget.Identify project risks, create and manager risk register, document risk response strategy, take preventive and corrective actions, create project closure report.Perform stakeholder management, cost and scope management.Team and resource management, conducting and arranging trainings for team.Knowledge management, creating system maintenance technical documents to preserve and document knowledge, lessons learned, known issues and responses.Handle IT Audits, internal and external audit, maintain IT control and IT security.Achievements:Implemented an automation solution that can quickly book test trades in batch mode and helped to reduce system testing time. The tool is able to book large quantities of various flavors of trades like equity, debt, forex, cash to provide adequate test coverage. The tool saved around 1.5 Person Days of efforts per testing cycle and around 18 Person Days of efforts per year. The tool helped to eliminate human dependency and prevent human errors. Show less I worked as Senior Software Engineer in Application Development and Maintenance team which supported Unit Life Insurance Products of a leading Insurance Provider. The client offered products for individual customers, commercial businesses and other institutions including life assurance, pensions and investments.As a team member, I used to work on various issues related to improper payment of bonus, improper allocation of units, improper allocation of premium etc. To resolve the issue, I had to dig into code and analyze the system processing, find out root cause of the issue and implement a permanent fix to resolve the recurrent issue. Also, I worked to implement new projects based upon client's regulatory and development requirements. The work included requirement understanding, creating design documents, building new programs and modifying existing programs, unit testing the changes and to support testing in UAT region. Show less

  • Senior Consultant

    Jul 2015 - Oct 2021

  • Senior Software Engineer

    May 2010 - Jun 2015
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  Infosys

  Oct 2021 - now

  Senior Consultant

  The project involves creating and implementing a data model for migrating data from legacy Db2 and IMS database to PostgreSQL database, build data pipelines for migration and develop next generation system over distributed platform.As a technical project manager, I am managing a cross functional team of data architects, DBA, Mainframes Technical Leads and Mainframes Developers, Business Analysts for a transformation initiative to transform legacy systems on Mainframes Technologies to next generation micro services bases distributed systems.Work with stakeholders for creating user stories in Rally, conduct daily scrum meeting, perform sprint planning, sprint review and sprint retrospective.Perform resource planning, managing billing for resources, managing IT security audits, taking corrective actions to close gaps observed it IT audits.Conducting discussion with stakeholders, business teams to understand the requirements and elicit user stories, managing product backlog. Show less