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ISHRAT CHAUDHARY

ISHRAT CHAUDHARY

Mumbai

Summary

A dynamic, result-oriented professional with a strong record of performance and around 10 years of IT experience in Software Design and Development with expertise in techno-functional analysis, technical documentation & content management, project and product management for complex technology solutions within financial markets.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Specilaist Product Manager

Nasdaq
06.2025 - Current

Identify use cases for automation of customer account and environment creation.

Write detailed techno-functional requirements, including expected inputs and outputs for use cases so that the engineering team can efficiently implement the functionality

Provide product guidance to the engineering team as the features are being implemented

Act as a quality assurance tester to confirm that the implemented automations deliver the expected functionality for each use case

Write the migration and upgrade strategy for customers upgrading to higher calypso versions and impact analysis for the same.

Identify customer profiles and expected modules and interfaces of the capcloud solution required for each customer profile

Provide quality assurance and validation for each customer profile maintenance and customization automation functionality

Interact in real time with engineering as they develop the automation functionality and provide immediate feedback and guidance as technical issue arise


Application Management Team (Senior Manager)

NASDAQ, MUMBAI
11.2017 - 05.2025
  • Leading a globally distributed team of over 11 staff through analysis, technical implementation of the calypso application on cloud platform.
  • In-depth, hands-on involvement facilitating the integration of our Calypso solution (interfaces, modules, tools, capacity of the components and non-functional/performance requirements).
  • Analysing Customer requirements and mapping them distinctly with detailed attention to develop techno functional specification.
  • Bridged the gap in information deficit or missing links among any stakeholders – from developer, QA, Support, Infra, management or customer perspective.
  • Collaborate with the platform/operations team and evolution team on identifying the issues by analysing the technical setup, debugging logs, replicating bugs, and providing technical guidance that assists in issue resolution.
  • Coordinate with Dev ops and R & D to facilitate and drive the areas of automation for activities that are manual, error-prone, and time-consuming.
  • Provide the technical strategies and the technical ownership of complex upgrades performed on the Calypso Cloud platform.
  • Responsible to groom and mentor individuals on understanding the integration aspects of the product on Cloud.

Business Analyst

TRAVELEX, MUMBAI
01.2014 - 01.2017
  • Delivered a fully integrated RTS platform, key responsibilities included understanding and mapping the requirements to integrate the upstream and downstream interfaces.
  • Gained significant exposure to TALEND middleware technology.
  • Good understanding of the SDLC, AGILE (Scrum meetings) with proficiency in mapping business requirements, technical documentation, application design, development, integration, unit testing and debugging code.
  • Recommends resolutions to complex matters of significance and coordinate the implementation across various teams development, QA, infra, implementation.
  • Lead Client Contact managing the 360 Technical, Operational and Business functions for various clients across the globe.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Mumbai University
01.2014

Higher Secondary Education - undefined

St Xaviers College
01.2010

Skills

  • Analytical Mindset & Problem Solving skills
  • Technical Curiosity
  • Excellent Communication skills
  • Innate Leadership qualities
  • Logical thinking and an eye for details
  • Requirements gathering
  • Data analysis

LANGUAGES

English (Fluent)
Hindi (Fluent)
Urdu (Fluent)

Timeline

Senior Specilaist Product Manager

Nasdaq
06.2025 - Current

Application Management Team (Senior Manager)

NASDAQ, MUMBAI
11.2017 - 05.2025

Business Analyst

TRAVELEX, MUMBAI
01.2014 - 01.2017

Higher Secondary Education - undefined

St Xaviers College

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Mumbai University

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY

  • Exceptional Techno functional knowledge of calypso implementation on CAPCLOUD
  • Excellent understanding integrating third party system like Bloomberg , Reuters , Swift etc with calypso application. Understanding on Restful API’s and how they enable systems to communicate.
  • Basic understanding of Kubernetes infra , Oracle Cloud , VPN and MQ set ups.
  • Experience with Agile principles and scrum methodology. Including sprint planning, backlog grooming and daily stand ups.