Nitika Walia
Product Owner
Concord,NC
Summary
Techno-Functional Quality Analyst Lead for Investment Banking, Finance and Insurance domain with close to 8 years of experience in Information Technology involving in-depth understanding of, Testing, Software Development Life Cycle, Business Process Flow and Requirement Gathering. Professional Summary Have around 8 years of work experience includes 4 years as QA Lead, 3 years and 9 months as Calypso Product Specialist in Investment Banking Domain and 6 months as IT intern. In-depth knowledge of Calypso Configuration, Implementation, Testing, Requirement Gathering. Also has gained experience through studies & projects. Knowledge of different Asset classes like Equity, Fixed Income, Derivatives products and Money Market. Knowledge of Front, Middle and Back office and trade activities like Trade life cycle, clearing and settlement. Fully conversant with testing life cycles - functional, regression, integration, user acceptance testing using tools like HP ALM, Jira. Experienced in working independently as well as part of a coordinated team; exposure to Test Lead/Management activities like test reviews, estimation, defect reporting, UAT co-ordination, EoD Monitoring. Experience in developing, writing and implementing test plans, recording and tracking defects in ALM. Expertise in preparing test plan, test cases/scenarios, test procedures from analyzing requirements & use cases for manual testing. Experience in requirements analysis, providing guidance in translating complex program requirements into testable objective and developing requirement traceability matrices. Proficiency in testing applications developed in Java, .NET, J2EE, Java script, SQL server. Excellent team player to work in conjunction with designers, developers and testers. Extensive client facing experience worked with various clients including large global banks, premier exchanges both at onsite and offshore locations. TIAA Release Champion Award in 2015 – For successful client implementation for one of the TIAA’s Big 10 clients. TIAA Release Champion Award in 2014 – For above and beyond work on client on boarding and diligently following each and every phase of implementation and putting an additional effort towards the client demo which led to successful demonstration and was the catalyst for great client experience and satisfaction at go-live. Cognizant Difference Maker Award in 2014 - Appreciation of exemplary leadership – For doing an impromptu demo for one of TIAA’s referenced clients. Awarded with Cognizant Applause 2009-2010 for the exceptional performance in the project. Cognizant Certifications : Level 0 – Banking and Financial Services Level 1 – Investment Banking and Brokerage Level 1 – Derivatives Level 1 – Retail Banking Systematic Product Owner with a detail-oriented and thorough approach to defining requirements, outlining specifications and working with team members to bring to life high-quality products for customers. Good planner and problem-solver with in-depth understanding of Retirement products. Ready to offer 11 years of experience and take on a dynamic new position.
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Product Owner
Cognizant Technology Solutions, TIAA - CREF
Concord, NC
12.2017 - Current
- Owned and prioritized product backlog.
- Managed implementation of new features by outlining plans and specifications such as how, where and when each component would work.
- Focused on building critical features up front in order to identify constraints and technical challenges.
- Coordinated with software developers to create custom applications and trackers to achieve client goals.
- Managed multiple projects effectively in demanding environment with tight deadlines.
- Brainstormed with peers and other members of design team to determine enhancements and product features.
- Contacted proper stakeholders to share changes to project scope and timelines.
QA Lead
STAC-MVAS, TIAA-CREF
Charlotte, USA, USA
03.2015 - Current
- Project Abstract Multi-Vendor Administration Services (MVAS) project was initiated to provide administrative services to select institutional clients.
- In order to accelerate the delivery of a full service offering, the Service Tracking and Calculations (STAC) has been initiated to build out remaining services in a parallel effort with MVAS.As part of a broad suite of solutions, these services will provide front-end salary reduction and enrollment facilitation for retirement plans by consolidating the enrollment process, contribution and remittance functions, the monitoring of compliance limits and a back-end system that generates client reporting Technologies ALM 11.5/12.2, OMNISTATION, SQL Developer, Unified Desktop, Plan Focus Reporting tool, WinSCP SFTP/FTP client, Mobius reporting, SPLUNK, WinMerge Role STAC-MVAS QA Lead.
- Primary responsibilities include.
- Coordinate with multiple teams across the different channels (Retirement, Brokerage, Data Leads and BA) of the TIAA-CREF to conduct the testing of the application.
- Established and reviewed QA sign off criteria, software build and test process with scrum team.
- Actively Participated in Scrum Meetings and reported the testing status covering the relevant Sprint testing.
- Ensuring the accepting criteria is met for each build increment at the end of iteration.
- Effectively lead issue triage meetings with scrum team to plan defect fixes for sprints by reviewing the defect priority and severity with Project team.
- Developed and tested test scripts for the User stories and CRFs developed for the client.
- Developed SQL scripts using joints in Sql Server to perform backend testing when required.
- Collaborated with Development team and Product BAs to triage defects and help in getting it resolved.
- Used Mobius Reporting tool to generate and review User related reports and communication letters.
- Used Plan Focus Reporting tool to verify Plan admin role for user enrollment, Salary deferral information, user reports management.
- Used WinSCP tool to process test data for testing using Filehub methodology.
- Used SPLUNK tool to generate error reports while processing test data and verify cases created for other user transaction while testing.
- Preparation of various test management reports using ALM.
- On-boarding Client Integration Testing, TIAA-CREF.
QA Lead
Cognizant Technology Solutions
10.2013 - Current
Lead
10.2013 - 03.2015
- Abstract Client On-boarding is a package launch where the requirements are mapped as per the enhancements of the on-boarded clients (in production) or with the new business strategy for blooming clients (new to the system).
- The complete package services include Eligibility calculation, Vesting determination, Service tracking and Employer match computation through the admin system.
- The testing process comprehends the online registration, salary deferral changes, Compliance limit alerts, contribution updates and tracking the Participants balances in the different retirement plans.
- Worked on various client implementations during this duration and involved in client demos and testing.
- The main objective of this project is to test and provide the signoff for the SRK or R@W application which provide complete information about the retirement investment plan offered to user from their respective organization.
- Role Client On boarding,.
- Primary responsibilities include.
- Responsible for understanding business requirements and articulating the same in Test plan comprising the walkthrough and signoff from the business as part of Requirement phase in Testing life cycle.
- Actively participate with UAT team / Business during the validation and if require initiate the CR (Change Request) document for enhancements or the bug fixes.
- Facilitating our QA teams to articulate the requirements in various Test Design artifacts.
- Crop up with quick resolution in case of any issues during Client integration testing.
- Worked on Excel macros to push and pull the reports from ALM to support ongoing needs.
- Participated in the Defect triage meeting as part of daily scrum meeting.
- Actively participated in the Test Plan, Test phase Summary report Walkthroughs with Project team.
- Defect reporting through ALM 12.5 version 3) Calypso Professional– Reconciliation and Bond Options implementation, United Overseas Bank.
United Overseas Bank
02.2012 - 11.2012
- Project Abstract Working as Calypso Professional with UOB Singapore.
- Monitoring EoD jobs, reconciliation reports from various interfaces- DCD, GTD, and WSS with Calypso.
- Performing regression testing on Bond Options.
- Interacting with users to understand the requirements and preparing functional specification documents.
- Functional Skills Trade Level - Bond options, Downstream Interfaces- DCD/WSS and GTD.
- Role Functional Test Analyst .Primary responsibilities include.
- Testing and Production Support: Monitoring EoD Jobs and raising the issues to the concerned team/users.
- Gathering requirement from users and creating functional specification documents and test scenarios.
- Analyze functional test results and work with respective developers to resolve bugs.
- Configurations of static data, confirmation template, reports, scheduled tasks etc.
- Log monitoring using Unix and reporting bugs.
- Raising help desk calls with Calypso team in case of core issues.
Functional Tester cum Business Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions
02.2010 - 01.2012
- Back loading- Clearing(Client/Exchange) Module Calypso MarkitWire Integration ,, MarkitWire (MW) is a front office application for creating derivatives trades.
- Clients use MarkitWire for creating trades and affirm with counterparty.
- Once the trade gets affirms then the trades gets transferred into Calypso using Dealsink server.
- In Calypso using engine we ping Dealsink server for trades, once trades notification is generated we take the trade from Dealsink in the form of SWML XML and transform this xml in to Uploader xml.
- This Uploader XML will use Calypso SAAS Uploader Framer and save into Calypso Backloading - Enhancement to the existing MarkitWire interface to handle bulk uploading of trades from Calypso to MarkitWire and re-importing into Calypso after matching.
- In the existing MarkitWire interface, users enter new deals manually in the Markitwire GUI and these trades are fed into Calypso.
- New functionality is to upload existing Calypso deals in bulk to MarkitWire, and once these trades are matched against the counterparty’s trades, to re-import them into Calypso.
- Clearing - Enhancement to the existing Markitwire interface to handle clearing information originating from Markitwire clearing deals.
- Markitwire deal clearing information will saved as Calypso trade keywords and synchronizes clearing events occurring in MarkitWire to lifecycle events in Calypso.
- Functional Skills Interest Rate Derivative - Interest Rate Swap, Cap-Floor, Swaption, Basis Swap, OIS, Cross-Currency Swap, ZC Inflation Swap , Money Market(FRA) Role Primary responsibilities include.
- Testing: Understanding functional specification document and Creating and executing test cases for new requirements or enhancements.
- Actively involved in Functional and QA testing for Products –Interest Rate Swap, Cap-Floor, Swaption, Basis Swap, OIS, Cross-Currency Swap, ZC Inflation Swap and FRA.
- Regular communication with clients regarding status, priorities, timelines and milestones.
- Work with various upstream and downstream teams as per requirement.
- Test any change in workflow (trade/message) including workflow rules and SD filters used in any workflow.
- Analyze and verify static data as per business requirement in case new static data needs to be added or old data modified.
- Ensuring the high quality and timely delivery of the project through adherence to defined standards and procedures.
- Test any defect fixes and perform regression- Execute regression test suite and analyze results before every release Understanding all the HDs raised by the clients and to prepare test cases based on that.
- Understand and analyze functional testing requirements to prepare functional test plan and test design Analyze functional test results and work with respective developers to resolve bugs.
- Running of backend SQL database queries to validate stored backend data, and populated values Validating XML messages sent across through the multiple components being tested Manage functional test activities and ensure the planned functional test activities are completed as scheduled Prepare and ensure readiness of test data and test environment to carry out the functional test execution Tracking issues in JIRA, and re-test software corrections to ensure problems are resolved.
Product Specialist
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Pune, India
02.2009 - 01.2012
Functional Tester cum Business Analyst
Fast Track, Cognizant Technology Solutions
07.2009 - 01.2010
- Abstract Upload static data related to Calypso via csv and xml files Functional Skills Component Level - Accounts, Accounting Event, Accounting Rules, Commodity, Commodity Reset, SDI, Future Contract, Future Contract Option, Currency, Currency Pair, Rate Index Definition, Legal Entity, Legal Entity Contacts, Legal Agreement, Legal Entity Credit Rating, Trading Book, Calendar code, Calendar rules, Quotes, Valuations, Users, User Defaults, User Groups, Trade Level - CDS ABS, CDS Nth Loss, Bond, Equity Derivatives.
- Role Primary responsibilities include.
- Testing: Prepared all testing scenarios and actively involved in Functional and QA testing.
- Communicating significant issues or developments identified during quality assurance activities and provides recommended process improvements to management.
- Preparing reports to communicate involvement and results of quality assurance activities.
Functional Tester
Cognizant Technology Solutions
04.2009 - 06.2009
- MarkitWire Parser, Calypso SaaS Development ,, Abstract ICE Link is the most widely adopted affirmation and Novation consent platform for credit derivatives.
- The trades from Ice link in the csv format will be parsed in xml format and will be uploaded by Uploader Framework Functional Skills Credit Derivatives Role Primary responsibilities include.
- Testing: Actively involved in designing test scenarios, and testing for Products- CDS, CDS Index, CDS Loan and CDS ABS-Index.
- Calypso COE Product Training.
Nitika Walia
02.2009 - 03.2009
- Abstract Develop expertise in Calypso, explore different aspects of Calypso Technical Skills Java, Calypso API, Oracle, JAXB Role Primary responsibilities include.
- Completed functional training on Calypso Introductory courses.
- Completed training in the Calypso Technical APIs by Calypso University.
- As a part of training performed exercises to extend calypso system to add new product, new screen, reference data, engines, events.
- Creating new reports, workflows, workflow rules, messaging templates etc.
- Also performed exercise for connecting client application to Calypso.
- Exploring various interfaces of Calypso from technical perspective.
- Understanding Calypso’s various processes in the Java technology, Date of Birth 7th Oct 1986 Sex Female Marital Status Married Verbal Language English, Hindi Passport H3963290 Valid till 2019 Visa USA – H1B Valid till Dec 2017, H1B extension filled, I-140 Approved.
IT Intern
KHD Humboldt Wedag Limited
, India
01.2008 - 06.2008
Education
B.Tech - Information Technology
YMCA University of Science & Technology
12th - Physics
C.B.S.E
10th - undefined
C.B.S.E
Skills
SaFe Certified Product Owner
Agile frameworks
Self-Motivated
Scrum methodology
Technical expertise
Certification
Certified SAFe 4 Product Owner/Product Manager Scaled Agile, Inc.- [Timeframe]
Timeline
Certified SAFe 4 Product Owner/Product Manager Scaled Agile, Inc.- [Timeframe]
11-2018
Product Owner
Cognizant Technology Solutions, TIAA - CREF
12.2017 - Current
QA Lead
STAC-MVAS, TIAA-CREF
03.2015 - Current
QA Lead
Cognizant Technology Solutions
10.2013 - Current
Lead
10.2013 - 03.2015
United Overseas Bank
02.2012 - 11.2012
Functional Tester cum Business Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions
02.2010 - 01.2012
Functional Tester cum Business Analyst
Fast Track, Cognizant Technology Solutions
07.2009 - 01.2010
Functional Tester
Cognizant Technology Solutions
04.2009 - 06.2009
Product Specialist
Cognizant Technology Solutions
02.2009 - 01.2012
Nitika Walia
02.2009 - 03.2009
IT Intern
KHD Humboldt Wedag Limited
01.2008 - 06.2008
B.Tech - Information Technology
YMCA University of Science & Technology
12th - Physics
C.B.S.E
10th - undefined
C.B.S.E