Vinayak Ghate

Experience

1. Global Head of Quality Engineering Futures Clearing and Execution, Market Making

   Citi

   Nov 2020 — Present · NJ, US

   Responsible as global lead for QA and Test automation of Futures Clearing and Execution applications. Responsible for software quality, delivery and test automation for more than 35 applications in NAM, EMEA and APAC covering front to back for futures clearing and execution business flows. Established a robust and transparent 7 stream QA strategy for test automation with strategic goal of ‘Daily Release’. Achieved 100% automation adoption, with more than 60% apps having daily test execution and integrated on central dashboard. Successfully introduced and implemented “automation first” strategy for new strategic applications.Responsible as global lead for quality assurance and test automation for Market Making ORION class applications. Continuously improving automation coverage and integration of test automation in CI/CD pipelines for market making applications for NAM, EMEA, APAC and AUS. Integrated and aligned regional QA teams with uniform test automation strategy and standardized QA processes. Increased cross regional team collaboration across regions resulting into efficient on-boarding, training, sharing of BOW and 24x5 coverage for critical applications.Encourage people strategy to empower teams to learn, participate and benefit from latest cutting-edge tools and technologies. More than 90% of the staff is actively engaged in test automation, CI/CD. Team members are encouraged to use strategic automation technologies and reporting tools such as ECS, TeamCity, LightSpeed, QoD with strong emphasis on JIRA tracking.Significant achievements in hiring and onboarding resources globally especially during challenging times of Covid. Strong hiring record with more than 70% diverse candidates, twice the guidance of Citi diversity and inclusion initiative. Established UAT / QA environment support team. The team is successfully monitoring daily checkout for 2 critical applications and more than 125 processes for NAM.

Education

• Rutgers Business School

  Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

  2010 — 2012

• Vishwakarma Institute of Technology

  Bachelor’s Degree

  1990 — 1994

Skills

• Market Risk
• Low Latency
• Options
• Requirements Analysis
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Fixed Income
• Trading Strategies
• Management
• Leadership
• Derivatives
• Middle Office
• Market Data
• Fx Options
• Financial Markets
• Trading
• Equity Derivatives
• Prime Brokerage
• Equity Trading
• Financial Services
• Hedge Funds
• Interest Rate Derivatives
• Business Strategy
• Back Office
• Sybase
• Trading Systems
• Capital Markets
• Fx Trading
• Unix
• Business Analysis
• Mentoring
• Order Management
• Sdlc
• Exchange Connectivity
• Electronic Trading
• Equities