Shanthi Uppada

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ABOUT SHANTHI UPPADA

Having 17+ years of varied IT experience as Business Analyst, Senior QA Analyst and Developer.• Combined Business Analysis and Quality Assurance experience with strong skills as a BA and strong focus on QA testing.• Business Analysis skills include liaising with stake holders, requirements gathering, Functional specs, business process models and workflow diagrams,critical thinking,use cases elicitation sessions and self managing.• Quality Assurance specialist including designing and implementing test strategies, test plans(with entry and exit criteria), test processes traceability matrix and test scripts with error free audits. Proficient in Functional testing (Component, SIT, Regression, E2E and UAT) and Non Functional testing (Stress, OAT and disaster recovery).• Work extensively across numerous e-trading (electronic trading) platforms both in-house and off- the self products- ION and Charles River. Full Trade life cycle management(Front office to middle office and back-office) for multiple asset classes: Equities, Fixed Income, FX, Derivatives including Exchange Traded (ETD’s)and OTC products in Rates, Credit, Structured Products, Money markets, Repo and Emerging markets.• Working knowledge of Global trade regulations including Dodd-Frank, EMIR and MIFID1.• Worked on reporting and record keeping surrounding the metrics required for Volcker rule.• Well acquainted with Central Counterparties (CCPs), Mandatory Clearing and Bilateral Margin requirements for OTC derivatives and Collateral Management for centrally cleared derivatives.• Strong knowledge of trade and Order management workflows with experience working on off- the-shelves products ION trading platform and Charles River • Good knowledge of Selenium Gherkin scripting• ISEB certified with proficiency in SDLC and STLC, conversant with broad range of project management methodologies including working in V-model, Scrum, Lean, RUP, TDD and Agile models.