VIDHYA RAMADAS
Edison,NJ
Summary
- Highly accomplished individual with 15+ years of experience in Managing Complex Large Scale Transformation projects, Critical Regulatory Projects and Strategic Change Management Initiatives for Tier 1 Financial Institutions while managing global teams.
- Proven history of delivering Change Programs that help firms to grow assets, realize cost savings and attain operational efficiencies.
- Certified Scrum Master with rounded knowledge of Agile methodologies.
- Quality focused Test Manager bringing years of experience in leading and executing multiple End-2-End testing phases.
- Experienced Business Analyst proficient in gap and impact analysis, business process engineering, process optimizations and requirement gathering/documentation.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Vice President, Project Manager
Morgan Stanley
10.2022 - Current
- Managing cross-functional initiatives for Ultra High Net-worth Family clients, which brings-in net new assets under management for the firm.
- Mobilized and led regulatory based projects to set-up Broker-Dealer entity (with FINRA) for private placements Reg D business and Audit impacted projects that deal with Third Party Risk Management.
- Revamped existing processes around client onboarding, service fees and performance reporting to streamline operational efficiency.
- Fostered strong relationships with stakeholders by providing regular updates on progress towards objectives.
- Collaborated with senior management to develop strategic initiatives and long term goals.
- Managed financial planning and budgeting processes, ensuring fiscal responsibility and maximizing return on investments.
- Developed training programs that enabled employees to reach their full potential as individuals and teams.
Principal Consultant, Project Manager
Capco
01.2022 - 09.2022
- As a Project Manager, managed delivery of various features pertaining to Wealth Management Advisory platforms.
- Managed multiple agile squads for various sprints and handled release management across squads.
- Given previous QA/UAT background, I coordinated various QA focused activities like demos, maintaining test repository and supporting automation for Regression suites.
- Proactively implemented a Production checkouts Runbook and support roster among QA to coordinate check-outs.
- Managed multiple QA teams for delivery of E2E testing of inter-dependent functionalities
Senior Consultant, Project Manager
Capco
07.2020 - 12.2021
- Led effort for multiple operations in identifying various exceptions pertaining to client statements and confirmations that have FINRA and CFTC regulatory impact.
- Demonstrated leadership and collaboration skills supporting compliance, operations, and technology to identify issues and quickly address them.
- Devised comprehensive procedure documents for remediating 12 complex exceptions and responsible for improving exception remediation by 90%.
- Trained and provided multiple walkthrough and demos to 15+ operations teams (30+ VPs and EDs) globally on exception remediation procedures.
- Developed remediation project plans, determined resources, timelines and established governance using methodologies to guide projects from conceptualization to implementation
- Led gap analysis sessions and delivered tactical and strategic enhancements for robust Front-to-Back process, which increased efficiency by 30%
- Provided outstanding service to clients through effective communication and project management skills in effort to promote future business opportunities
Senior Consultant, Project Manager
Capco
07.2017 - 07.2020
- Managed End-to-End project phases including requirements review, sprint planning & prioritization, communication with operations users and turnover support.
- Managed implementation of trade confirmation changes (language, address, disclaimers, etc.) to abide by BREXIT and MiFID II regulations for over 3 complex products.
- Oversaw 8 small enhancements projects simultaneously which increased operational efficiency and contributed to firm's cost savings.
- Identified plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives by setting realistic timelines and checkpoints.
- Orchestrated projects within strict timeframes and budget constraints by solving complex problems and working closely with senior leaders.
- Managed stakeholders across business users, multiple line operations, QA and technology teams across NA, EMEA and APAC for project delivery.
Senior Consultant, Test Manager
Capco
07.2016 - 07.2017
- Defined test requirements for 10+ Financial Advisor desktop modules, through real time interactions.
- Published Scope summary documents to educate global operations groups and prepared test strategy for various modules.
- Optimized test cases to maximize success of manual testing with consistent, thorough approaches.
- Coordinated UAT and regression testing among impacted FA groups and Operations.
- Led review of bug reports and error logs for remediation and followed up with regular triage calls.
- Built custom reports and dashboard with data digestible for senior management which helped in tracking and closure of risks and issues.
- Encouraged teams to retrospect and document lessons learnt and best practices.
Senior Consultant, Project Manager
Capco
04.2015 - 06.2016
- Reviewed and understood business requirements of money movement project (ACHs, Checks, Wires etc.).
- Lead Gap Analysis sessions with Business Analysts and identified business improvements to determine and implement solutions.
- Identified risks and dependencies, and proposed mitigations.
- Developed and led walkthrough of test artifacts with global operations stakeholders.
- Coordinated functional & regression test execution of UAT phase.
- Drove defect triage calls and participated in root cause analysis which contributed to 30% defect prevention in upcoming sprints.
Senior Consultant, Test Analyst
Capco
11.2012 - 03.2015
- Reviewed requirements and devised impact analysis presentations for walkthrough and trainings.
- Created accurate and precise test scripts to manage efficient testing and delivery of product features.
- Addressed client queries during UAT process and ensured quick resolution of issues.
- Validated incremental product functionality and gathered periodic feedback from the client during sprint demos.
- Evaluated results against design and customer standards.
Systems Engineer, Test Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
04.2011 - 08.2012
- Reviewed requirements and understood functional scope of project through BA workshops.
- Designed and led walkthrough of various test artifacts to Technology and business users for effective testing.
- Devised test scenarios for different test phases.
- Managed test execution across various test phases; and delivered regular test reports highlighting test execution status to key stakeholders.
Developer Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
01.2010 - 03.2011
- Analyzed legacy code used for development of various legal policy documents.
- Converted and designed them into readable documents using HP Exstream Dialog Tool.
- Ran rule set to generate new document with same content, look-feel, and legal language of policy documents.
- System tested document generation with various parameters of rule set and supported Integration testing.
Education
BACHELORS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY -
ANNA UNIVERSITY
Coimbatore, India05.2009
Skills
- Project Management and Execution
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Strategic Planning & Process Improvement
- Change Management
- Agile Framework & Test Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Business Process Engineering & Process Optimization
Certification
- Scrum Master - PSM 1
- Testing Certification - ISTQB
Tools/Applications
- MS Suite (Project, Visio, PowerPoint, Excel, Word, OneNote)
- Roadmunk Roadmapping
- JIRA
- ALM
Timeline
Vice President, Project Manager
Morgan Stanley
10.2022 - Current
Principal Consultant, Project Manager
Capco
01.2022 - 09.2022
Senior Consultant, Project Manager
Capco
07.2020 - 12.2021
Senior Consultant, Project Manager
Capco
07.2017 - 07.2020
Senior Consultant, Test Manager
Capco
07.2016 - 07.2017
Senior Consultant, Project Manager
Capco
04.2015 - 06.2016
Senior Consultant, Test Analyst
Capco
11.2012 - 03.2015
Systems Engineer, Test Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
04.2011 - 08.2012
Developer Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
01.2010 - 03.2011
- Scrum Master - PSM 1
- Testing Certification - ISTQB
BACHELORS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY -
ANNA UNIVERSITY
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