Vismitha Bommagowni

Data reconciliation with the customer: The project will allow migration of DLK messaging from ISO15022 to ISO20022 standard, mandated by SWIFT. In addition, we created resiliency capabilities for the DLK messaging as specifies in the DTC Business Resumption Guidelines

The management of the Market and Liquidity Risk Teams has requested that the Risk Technology and Risk and Data Services teams construct a New System to Manage Real and Simulated Closeouts. Having a reliable system to be able to perform the critical tasks that the Market and Liquidity Risk teams must engage during a Closeout Imperative, for integrity of our department wide risk management strategy

The project is to deliver client-facing automation of voluntary reorganization instructions through APIs and Standardized messaging. It involves providing Internal Automation Platform that will be leveraged for multiple future purposes such as submission of client instructions via API, ISO 20022 messaging and further migration of instructions activity to CA Web form PTS/PBS where instructions are submitted manually. The project allows clients to automate a manual process, which will reduce risk, create operational efficiencies and lower costs

Other Projects:

In order to provision Software Infrastructure, I have worked with Eight different applications such as Treasury Clearing, FICC Internal Accounts, Fedwire Transactions, Federal Funds Processing, European Pre-Issuance Management which is a collaboration with Clear Stream International and European Bank, Closeout Re-Platforming and Reporting, Fund Processing in Supplemental Liquidity Deposits and Trade Settlement in NSCC accounts

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Acquired extensive knowledge on domain technologies like FINRA, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) rules and regulations
• Experienced in understanding the financial technologies such as Fedwire transactions and SWIFT rules and regulations
• Gained experience on understanding of the standards provided on Software Asset Management and Anti-Money Laundering
• Facilitated communication and collaboration between various departments, such as compliance, legal, IT, and operations, to ensure alignment and coordination in Anti-Money Laundering (AML) efforts
• Assisted in conducting risk assessments to identify and prioritize AML risks faced by the organization and develop strategies to mitigate these risks effectively in the project
• Actively assisted in conducting GAP analysis to understand the AS-IS and TO-BE process and procedures of the project
• Collaborated with multiple teams to determine the Scope, cost and timeline of the project within the given projected timeframe
• Conducted One-One interviews, and team workshops with stakeholders to have a better understanding of the requirements
• Co-ordinated with Application Development team to gather the technical requirements to build the infrastructure for the projects
• Actively participated in creating, reviewing and approval of the Technical Design and Server Build Requirements of the project
• Captured Minutes of Meetings for the workshops conducted to understand the progress, task and action items of the project
• Participated in scrum ceremonies such as Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Daily Scrum and Sprint Retrospective
• Actively collaborated with Scrum master, Product Owner and Scrum team in Backlog Refinement for the phase of the project
• Collaborated with Project Manager to identify and assign the resources in accordance with Work Break-Down Structures (WBS)
• Worked closely with Scrum Master and Product Owner to identify the gaps in the work-flow process and filled in the gaps
• Assisted Product Owner to Prioritization, resource allocation, cost estimation and delivery timeline of multiple projects simultaneously
• Created multiple documents to capture the Process-Flows, Project-Tracker with the help of MS Excel and In-Take forms
• Extensive use of tools like MS Visio and MS Office Suite in creating Business Process Flows and Use Case Diagrams
• Collaborated with Scrum Master to Estimate the Story Points for Initiatives, Epics and Stories using T-Shirt Sizing method
• Co-ordinated with Network Engineer in order together and implement Firewall requests which were raised through ServiceNow
• Associated with Private Cloud, Public Cloud, Unix Linux team to implement the Operating Systems on self-service platform
• Worked with PING team and AWS Cloud team to identify and implement the Security related requests from Technical Design
• Collaborated with Database Engineer, Middleware Engineer and Mainframe Queue Engineer to build On-Premises Servers
• Facilitated Change Requests through performing the Change Assessment and business and technical impact analysis, documenting in the Change Request Document and getting approval from the Change Control Board (CCB) through ServiceNow
• Assisted in team in creating Test Cases, Test Plans and get Production Readiness
• Participated in various Testing Workshops
• Generated and shared various documents with users in the form of Dashboards, Tables and PDF with the help of Power BI tool
• Managed JIRA dashboard for the project, trained development team members and program stakeholders with JIRA tool, monitoring the workflow on daily basis using Scrum Workflow and Information Radiators (charts) to measure the performance
• Experienced in using ServiceNow to raise, approve and manage ServiceNow requests according to the necessary changes and implementation
• Worked with external teams to provision servers on Self-Service Platform – an internally built software to automate the process

Environment: Agile Scrum, MS Visio, MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint), JIRA Version 9.4.7, MS Project, Self-Service Platform (SSP), ServiceNow.

The scope of the project is to provide effective oversight of the firm’s Cyber Security and Information Technology processes in alignment with ORM Risk Management frame work. The project enhances the key activities of First and Second line of Defense in order to remediate the MRAs by creating multiple artifacts such as RACI, Conceptual Design, Process Flows and IT & IS Risk Assessments in collaboration with the third-party vendor

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Worked on policies and standards related to Cyber Security and Information Technology in alignment with Operational Risk Management Framework within the company
• Broad knowledge in various levels of Risk management within the company
• Conducted the GAP analysis by recognizing the AS-IS and TO-BE processes in order to complete Statement of Work (SOW)
• Establish accountability and monitor implementation of risk management across the company, including, implementation of risk appetite and tolerances, risk identification, risk collation, a better and understanding assessment, and mitigation processes flow
• Acted as a liaison between Business owners and Development team in order to communicate the Status of the Project
• Conducted various workshops such as one-one interviews with key stakeholders in order to capture detailed requirements
• Elicited requirements by conducting various analysis like stake holder analysis, Document analysis and other workshops
• Analyzed and documented project requirements, business requirements, data requirements, functional and non-functional requirements
• Captured Minutes of Meetings (MOM) for the requirements workshops, daily check-points and regulatory examination meetings
• Conducted and incorporated multiple review workshops with stakeholders to challenge the activities drafted in the artifacts
• Created Project Plan using tools like MS Project
• Also, assisted in creating other artifacts such as RACI and RAID matrices
• Worked on identifying and allocating the resources and created Work Break-Down Structures (WBS) within the organization
• Assisted team in creating and maintaining Use Cases, Process Flows drafts, Process Modelling, Activity and Sequence diagrams
• Assisted product owner to track and improve Team Velocity using Sprint Burn-Down Chart and Product Burn-Down Chart
• Used JIRA for allotting tasks, user story writing, backlog management, issue tracking, user story management & Estimation
• Experienced in gathering, implementing various Security Requirements and Documented the same as User Stories
• Acceptance Criteria for User Stories to perform User Acceptance Testing
• Designed Test Cases, Test Plans and Test Scenarios to perform Functional Testing, Smoke Testing and Regression Testing and logged down defects and managed by JIRA
• Analyzed the data and made recommendations to the product owner about how to use Business Intelligence (BI) tools
• Conducted extensive Data Analysis and creates multiple reports using Tableau, MS Excel, MS Project, MS Word and MS Power Point
• Created test results dashboard using Tableau through maintaining a live connection with spreadsheet files generated as output pertaining to different test suites executed providing test coverage report for senior management
• Maintained and provided the access of various artifacts and deliverables of the project with the help of SharePoint tool

Environment: Waterfall-Scrum Hybrid, MS Visio, Mock-Up Screens, MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint), JIRA Version 7.12.3, Tableau, MS Project.

The scope of the project is to update ACH rules and regulations given by NACHA (National Automated Clearing House Association) to enhance the quality and improve risk management within the ACH Network by supplementing the existing account information security requirements for large-volume Originators and Third Parties and limitation on Warranty Claims. Participants are required to protect deposit account information collected for or used in creating ACH transactions by rendering it unreadable when it stored electronically.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Extensive acquaintance with domain terminologies such as Wealth Management, Retirement Management Plan, Asset Management, NACHA rules and regulations, EFT act, regulation E and Underwriting, Banking Security Act (BSA act)
• Broad knowledge in Third party policies and ACH payments given by NACHA rules and regulations and EFT act
• Acquired knowledge on understanding and implementation of standards provided for Anti-Money Laundering within the project
• Conducted GAP analysis by identifying AS-IS and TO-BE process models, process models also conducted Document analysis
• Identified Business Rules for credit line approval by conducting extensive one-to one interviews with Subject Matter Experts
• Organized JAD sessions and requirements workshops, prepared agenda and facilitated the meetings with the SMEs, product owner & stakeholders to elicit requirements, document outcomes, and capture Minutes of Meetings (MOMs)
• Assisted project manager in Creating and implementing Work Break Down Structures (WBS) within the team
• Analyzed and documented functional and non – functional requirements, data and project requirements, and data dependencies
• Assisted team in documenting Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, also created Business Requirement Document (BRD)
• Designed use-case diagrams, process flow diagrams, activity diagrams, Process modelling and sequence diagrams using Balsamiq and created wireframes and low fidelity mockups to provide visual insights to business stakeholders
• Created Graphical User Interface (GUI) mockups using Lucid charts and Created Evolutionary and Throwaway Prototypes
• Assisted the Product Owner by using Vertical slicing and SWAG estimation for Epics during High level grooming sessions
• Participated in scrum ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Daily Scrum and Sprint Retrospective
• Facilitated Scrum Workshops to familiarize the team with Scrum as a concept and process skeleton
• Also, conducted User Story Writing Workshops for the stakeholders not proficient in the art
• Helped in delivering Potentially Shippable Product Increment
• Assisted product owner in prioritizing epics using MoSCoW approach, vertically slicing epics to user stories with Acceptance criteria and scrum team in estimating story points using Planning Poker to prepare Product Backlog Items (PBIs)
• Assisted product owner to track and improve Team Velocity using Sprint Burn-Down Chart and Product Burn-Down Chart
• Assisted the development team in Performing API Testing using Postman tool to check if API interacts correctly with the data in JSON, XML format using REST standards which were defined in the API documentation prepared using SWAGGER tool
• Drafted and uploaded various business artifacts to Confluence to maintain a shared, centralized, and easily accessible site while linking JIRA issues to relevant spaces to promote information accessibility among team members
• Participated in Smoke, Sanity, Load/Stress, Regression, End-to-End, and Integration testing and documented the reports
• Collaborated with QA team to create and implement Test plan, Test cases and Test Scenarios for User Acceptance Testing (UAT), also used it for tracking the process
• Involved with the whole UAT to ensure the performance of the system
• During UAT analyzed issues raised by the end users and created and prioritized defects based on the criticality of the issue
• Experienced in using ServiceNow to raise, approve and manage ServiceNow requests according to the necessary changes and implementation
• Keep track of environment stability by defining the smoke test suite and worked directly with the Devops team for issue resolution
• Worked on Data modelling by using tools like MS Azure Data Factory, also involved in transferring data through pipelines using tools like MS Azure synapse
• A deeper understanding of MS Azure database and Azure API Management

Environment: Agile (Scrum), JIRA 7.12.3, Confluence 7.11, Azure RP, NoSQL, Postman 9.9.0, Swagger 2.0, RESTful, MS Azure database, MS Azure data factory, MS Azure synapse, MS Azure API Management.

The scope of the project is to integrate our banking application’s payment processing system with Third party platform which allowed users to transfer and receive money in real-time. Our bank collaborated with a vendor that allowed customers to use existing contact information on the mobile for any kind of money transfer or money request in real time processing.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Worked on various banking concepts such as Anti-Money Laundering, Bank Secrecy Act, ACH Transactions and FINRA
• Experienced in understanding the financial technologies such as Software Asset Management and Fedwire transactions
• Consistently bridged the gap between business and technical stakeholders through providing walkthrough sessions and requirements clarifications resulting in significant reduction of risks associated due to communication gaps
• Worked with Project manager to ensure Triple constraints – Scope, Cost and Schedule were adhered to within limits
• Performed extensive Document Reviews to develop a thorough understanding of business processes to aid Business Processes Improvement (BPI)
• Devised complete process model of state of the art processes and to-be processes
• Collected requirements from the stakeholders using elicitation techniques like Stake holder analysis, Focus groups with SMEs, Semi-structured Interviews, Market benchmarking and analysis, Task analysis, Document Analysis, and interviews
• Outlined project deliverables in the forms of Business Requirements Document (BRD), Functional Specification Document (FSD), Software Requirement Specification (SRS), Release plan Document and Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)
• Created Epics according to the requirements and the transformed them into User Stories with Acceptance criteria and DoR
• Assisted Product Owner in ROI Analysis and SWOT analysis in order to be prepared for potential business and technical risks
• Designed multiple wireframes, mockups and created Sequence diagrams, use case diagrams, process flows and activity diagrams to provide business stakeholders a perspective regarding the flow of events using MS Visio and Lucid charts
• Participated and assisted in conducting Scrum ceremonies like Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, review, and retrospective
• Assisted Product Owner and development team in prioritizing Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, and product increments
• Worked with Scrum master in organizing Daily Scrum meeting and resolve various impediments facing by the team
• Assisted Product Owner in prioritizing product backlog using techniques likes MoSCoW, Kano, Walking Skeleton, 100-Point
• Collaborated with the team in estimating user stories using techniques like T-shirt sizing and Planning poker methods
• Assisted project manager and product owner to track and improve efficiency and Team’s Velocity using Burn-down charts
• Assessed end to end flow of data and performed testing of XML based SOAP API and Web services using SOAP UI and documented through Swagger to identify the request and response of data at different integration points
• Actively involved in system testing like Regression testing, Systems testing, Sanity testing and created testing artifacts such as Test cases, Test scenarios and Bug reports
• I was also involved in performing User Acceptance Testing (UAT) testing
• Facilitated Change Requests through performing the Change Assessment and business and technical impact analysis, documenting in the Change Request Document and getting approval from the Change Control Board (CCB)
• Created and document reports such as Ad hoc reports, Dashboards, write back reports, also documented technical reports
• Managed JIRA dashboard for the project, trained development team members and program stakeholders with JIRA tool, monitoring the workflow on daily basis using Scrum Workflow and Information Radiators (charts) to measure the performance
• Created multiple charts in Tableau such as Heat maps, Tree maps, Bar charts, Line charts, Pareto charts, and Histograms
• Experienced in conducting Data Analysis and created test results dashboard using Tableau through maintaining a live connection with spreadsheet files generated as output pertaining to different test suites executed providing test coverage report
• Extensively involved in generating Ad hoc SQL queries using Joins, database connections to fetch the data from the servers
• Using results from the test lab in HP ALM would focus on sensitive and error prone areas of the application for correction
• Fetched data for analysis of robustness of the data using SQL queries like min, max, inner joins, and transactional queries
• Presented functional demos to clients before go-live to validate expectations and mitigate any post-production risk

Environment: Agile - Scrum Hybrid, MS Office 2019 (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint), MS Visual Studio 2019, Tableau 2020.3, JIRA 7.12.3, MS SQL Server, HP ALM, Confluence 7.12.5, MS Visio, SOAP, XML.

The scope of my project was to introduce a new loan scheme, wherein a loan is provided to the clients by taking their financial securities as collateral to the amount of loan. The aim was to build a new system which can monitor the securities in the market and the system should be capable of recording, analyzing, and valuing the financial securities of a client, checking the credit information, and estimating an appropriate amount which can be loaned.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Understood the solution fit in the organizations Portfolio vision and analyze the alignment with the long-term Strategic themes
• Actively participated in Product Increment (PI) planning for the upcoming IP Iteration and drafted the dependencies involved with the teams of the Agile Release Train and helped the team to come up with committed and un-committed objectives
• Collaborated with Release Train Engineer (RTE) and participated in scrum of scrum meetings in delivering the goals
• Worked with the Devops and shared services team to ensure the Continuous Delivery Pipeline was functioning for Continuous Exploration, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment and Release on Demand
• Helped PO and PM in ROI Analysis and SWOT analysis in order to be prepared for potential business and technical risks
• Gather Requirements through activities involving elicitation practices like JAD Sessions, Focus Groups, and Document Analysis
• Documented GUI requirements, Data requirements, Policy regulataries and non–functional requirements like security, reliability, performance, maintainability, scalability, and usability, project requirements, processes and data dependencies
• Prepared and analyzed UML diagrams like Process Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Business Process Model Notation using MS Visio and Balsamiq to analyze and design structure, behavior and interactions in the system design
• Created Mock-Up Screens and Wireframes using UI components such as Radio Buttons, Data-Entry Fields, Check Boxes, Drop-Down Lists to retrieve data for Client Side Verification and Graphical User Interface (GUI)
• Assisted the product owner in prioritizing and estimating Product Backlog Items (PBIs) to pick Sprint tasks by incorporating suggestions from cross-functional IT team and Created Data Models using Logical and Conceptual ER diagrams
• Facilitated, conducted and established agendas for Sprint Ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective and Backlog Refinement/ Grooming) and helped in maintaining Cadence accordingly
• Also, strategically handled requirement churn by making sure the current sprit is not affected by the desired change
• Develop, and support BI/CRM related database, also developed Complex ETL processes using Informatica PowerCenter 9.1
• Assisted product owner by facilitating product demos and backtracking them to the requirements to determine when it is DONE
• Assisted creation of Test Cases, Test Plans and Test Scenarios
• Conducted User Acceptance Training (UAT) and actively facilitated testing in Smoke Testing, Black Box Testing and Regression Testing
• Also facilitated with System Demo and worked with the System team for integration of different Agile Release Train (ART) and errorless execution of Solution Demo
• Facilitated DA in Creating Staging Area for ETL and mappings within CAL, ACBS and collateral accounts using Informatica
• Created Deployment Flowchart in conjunction with the development, infrastructure, and network teams containing instructions for maintaining the application and Created training scripts, training module and training curriculum

Environment: SAFe, Balsamiq, MS Office 2018, SharePoint 2016, MS Visio 2018, JIRA 7.12.3, Informatica PowerCenter 9.1.

The scope of the project is to facilitate online banking to its customers. The project includes building software that would facilitate viewing of multiple account balances, statements, pending transactions and cancelled transactions, tracking deposits, transfer of funds between accounts, mortgage activities, transfer history and maintenance of customer profile

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Conducted extensive GAP analysis by identifying the AS-IS and TO-BE ‘s for the process vision and process flows
• Performed Document Analysis, Interface Analysis and reviewed the Project Scope to thoroughly understand the project
• Conducted JAD sessions involving the user community to identify, analyse and formalize requirements and establish working relationships with business functions and solution delivery teams to meet the individual needs of the business functions
• Involved in the complete SDLC and handled key responsibilities in Project Management
• Documented various artifacts like Business Requirement Document (BRD), Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)
• Extensively worked in Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) phases – Requirement Analysis, Test Planning, Test Case Development, Environment Setup, Test Execution and Test Cycle Closure and logged the defects in SharePoint
• Comprehended the requirements from testing perspective to identify different test scenarios and create test cases
• Participated in various meetings to identify test scenarios along with QA lead and documented the scenarios to each requirement to capture the test coverage through Requirements Traceability Matrix and created Issue logs using SharePoint
• Contributed to defining the Entry and Exit criteria for all the STLC phases along with the senior executives
• Documented test scripts, test data, test results and defects using Selenium Web Driver maintaining Defect Life Cycle
• Performed GUI Testing, Sanity Testing, Regression Testing using both manual and automated test cases
• Generated and shared various documents with users in the form of Dashboards, Tables and PDF with the help of Tableau tool

Environment: Waterfall model, Tableau 8.1, SQL v2013, TestNG, MS Office v2013, STLC, Selenium Web Driver v2, Eclipse v4.3, SharePoint 2017.

The scope of the project is to enhance ACH to new Same day ACH rules and regulations. The proposed solution will enable the customers with same-day ACH payments, Credit entries through ACH Network functionality, without affecting ACH current schedules. The project also involved redesigning business process flows to streamline and automate current manual process

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Conducted GAP analysis to understand the AS-IS and TO-BE process models and Business models
• Also assisted Product Owner in conducting Feasibility analysis and Cost Benefit Analysis to assess Solution implementation
• Apprehended transformation logics for individual data sources to design a data repository capable of capturing insights of user behaviors and interactions for ACH transactions and Warranty Claims
• Elicited requirements using techniques like focus groups, Observation, one-one interviews, Interface and document analysis
• Collaborated with the team and created UML diagrams like sequence diagrams, Activity diagram, use case diagram, Business Process Model Notation (BPMN) and have a working knowledge of Class, Component, Package, and interaction diagrams
• Involved in conducting Scrum ceremonies like Backlog refinement, Sprint planning, Sprint review and Retrospective
• Aided in creating and prioritizing Product Backlog
• Also assisted in determining User stories and Acceptance criteria for them
• Assisted QA team in developing test plans, test scenarios and performing progression testing, regression testing UAT testing
• Conducted Risk analysis as required by NACHA rules and communicated effectively with the teams using JIRA and Confluence
• Involved in generating and communicating various documents through various tools like Tableau

Environment: Srumban model, JIRA, Confluence, SQL, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Tableau, UI designs – Balsmiq, Lucid charts.