Asha K Nagarajashetty

• Handled four internal applications as Business analyst related to order and trade entry, order validation, and order search blotter used by client advisors managing UHNW clients.
• Requirement Analysis: Evaluate change requests and new feature requirements, translating them into detailed user stories for development.
• Agile & Scrum: Participate in sprint ceremonies, including backlog grooming, sprint reviews, and quarterly big-room planning.
• Supported with all the Product Owner and Scrum Master duties during their absence.
• Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with client advisors, developers, and impacted teams, addressing concerns and ensuring smooth delivery of changes.
• Fostered effective collaborations with IT teams and technical architects to ensure seamless solution delivery.
• Interacted with internal customers to understand business needs and translate into requirements and project scope.
• Continually monitored business stakeholder needs and industry updates to stay informed about recent trends, regulatory changes, new technologies within the banking industry, and leverage them to improve our order entry and validation widgets.
• Assisted the Product Owner in creating the backlog aligned with quarterly , Preparing for the Quarterly big room planning and red line assessment.
• Supported testing on behalf users, operations and testing teams including reviewing test plan, test cases and test scenarios and when required support testing with interface partners.
• Supported Application management area (L2 support team) for functional as well as technical area trouble shooting and resolution to production incidents reported by users well within the SLA

Active participation in all the scrum ceremonies

• Responsible for all Test management activities: Monitor test environment deployments and QA Sign-off, Regression Test suit preparation and Test automation
• Responsible for all the QA activities including analyzing the requirements and designing test cases, test data preparation based on business and functional requirement, Functional test execution, Integration testing based on business scenarios by simulation the real time order creation in test environment
• Test environment maintenance and raising issues to the respective teams in the event of application break down or errors in the flow in test environments
• Functional and System Integration testing of web applications and webservices using SOAP-UI and supporting business testing
• Root cause analysis of the issues and providing the detailed description about the bugs
• Coordinated with Test automation team to onboard the new features to the Automation framework to automate the regression test cases which resulted significant reduction of regression test execution effort (approx. 4 man days for each release) for every release for 3 applications
• Co-ordination with all project stakeholders and other scrum teams during project integration testing

• Perform data validation between the old database and the new data warehouse built based on Unified data modeling
• Analysis of BRD for the BI reports and create test scenarios based on the requirements
• Creation of test data to achieve full test coverage based on the identified scenarios
• Creation of Test cases and test queries based on the BRD and functional requirements
• Perform review of the test cases and the test results of the fellow team members
• Creation and retesting of defects
• Active participation in scrum ceremonies

• Validation of different security restrictions on each view based on User groups and related Line of Business
• Validation of column level restrictions, sensitive data masking
• Row level restrictions based on hierarchy, customer segment and site id
• Validation of various source systems data, both structured and unstructured, ingestion into Hadoop data lake
• Validation of transformed data loaded in Data Lake against source data and then to the HDFS Hive tables using HQL scripts (Hue)
• Validation of huge data set by creating complex source target query pairs using Query Surge tool
• Validation of Hashsum reconciliation and validation of unstructured or semi structured data (attachments) in HDFS and data load type in data mart tables from the HDFS
• Validation of business requirements by creating user reports on subject areas like Cards, Channels, Products and Merchants from data mart
• Test Script preparation based on source target mapping to validate data integrity in target table, Test execution and Status reporting
• Control-M job validation for source - target and scheduling configuration details
• Identification of test data requirements based on business scenarios
• Validation of Fact and Dimension tables structure in Hive against Data Model

• Creation of Test plans, test strategies, test cases for user stories against business requirements in IBM Rational Quality Manager
• Coordinating with the data modeler and ETL developer to create the data mapping based on the design document
• Verification of synchronization between Business requirements, mappings, Stored Procedures and Fact Data produced by DS ETL Master Jobs
• Data Validation for its Quality, completeness, accuracy, and data integrity
• Reconciling records between Source and target table
• Extensively used DataStage, Infosphere Data Architect (IDA), Cognos and DB2 to analyze mappings, create ETL Test strategy, Test plan and test scripts
• Validation of the IDA (infosphere Data architect) data model and mappings
• Verification of the stored procedures against the business requirements
• Verification of the data that is extracted, transformed, produced by the DS ETL Master Jobs, and loaded in Fact Tables
• Running stored procedures against the real time data to load the Fact tables and reporting tables and validate the data loaded against the Business rules
• Data validation on extracts against sources and further down to load table
• Verification of the integration between Fact data and related dimensions
• Participated in User Acceptance Test and post deployment Sanity testing in production against the requirements

• Led and coordinated onsite and offshore teams, ensuring seamless collaboration and effective communication across stakeholders.
• Facilitated Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and story point estimation, while managing stakeholder expectations.
• Worked with business analysts, developers, and project managers to develop test plans, produce test scenarios and repeatable test cases/scripts through all parts of the development life cycle
• Managed whole test execution phase, prepared Test Exit reports and release sign-off artifacts for a high volume of data validations and releases for successful project delivery

• Performed comprehensive data validation against specifications using Teradata, ensuring accuracy and consistency of loaded data.
• Verified data transformations and ETL processes by executing complex SQL scripts in Teradata SQL Assistant, ensuring alignment with mapping documents and business requirements.
• Mentored team members, provided training, and drove process improvements to enhance efficiency and project success.

Worked as a test engineer for a web application which offered Professional Storage and Networking solutions services for mid-level organizations with data centers. I was responsible for analyzing business and functional requirements, creating and executing functional and regression test cases, and reporting functional and UI defects.