1. Profile of K. Subramanian
Professional Summary
• Extensive experience (approx. 20 years) in managing and delivering projects for the Banking & Financial
Services industry for in both Indian and International customers.
• Business Analyst(BA) on Banking products; Led teams in Testing / deployment of products in the
Financial Services industry
• Key skills in RBI - CBS, Retail / Corporate Banking, Trade Finance, Investment Banking, Cash
Management System
• Involved in Requirement gathering, System analysis and finalization of functional specifications
• Knowledge Transfer to the team & Guiding the team on functional for Test scenario and test case
preparation
• Preparation and Review of End to End Business Scenarios, Test scenarios and test cases based on the
functional specifications
• Test Automation using QTP, Selenium. Performance Testing Load Testing, Stress Testing, Functional
Testing, Data Base Testing, ETL Testing, Data Warehouse Testing.
• Runner & Vin runner
• Good knowledge of Banking products such as Intellect CBS – RBI, Temenos T24, Flex cube and
Intellect - Cash Management System (CMS)
• An entrepreneur since December 2014 in Chemical & Panel Board for Water Treatment plants; looking to
return to the Banking / IT Test industry.
Brief Personal Data
Email id: ksubu54@yahoo.com Contact Number: +919840229799
Address: Flat 16, Sai Dharsan Flats, 2nd
Main, Kasturibai Nagar, Adyar, Chennai – 600 020
Experience Summary
• 13 years’ experience in BFSI domain and 6 years in Trade Finance & 5 Years in Retail / corporate Banking
• Hands-on experience in FexBee (Trade finance package), SERVISYS (Clearing house package), INTRAC
(Inter branch reconciliation package) and Cfex (Centralized Trade Finance Package), Flexcube Core Banking
Applications.
• Test Automation using QTP, Selenium. Performance Testing Load Testing, Stress Testing, Functional
Testing, Data Base Testing, ETL Testing, Data Warehouse Testing.
• Understanding and documenting business processes and workflows and their relationships to current and
future software solutions
• Defining use cases to articulate new functional software needs and the roles of each class of application user
• Ensuring test adequacy & Traceability to the functional Specifications
• Analytical skills for transforming defined business needs into software requirements
• Analyzing the impact of change requests.
• Supporting traceability from requirements through to QA; assisting in the definition of test plans and testing
strategies and in the creation of test cases.
• Presenting concepts in a concise and focused manner, including narrative, process diagrams, role and
accountability diagrams and business-focused story boards.
• Cooperating & communicating with other team members for efficient functional understanding
• Understanding of Business Requirements and specifications and help team in preparation of Business
Scenarios
• Creation of System Integration Test Strategy and implementation; Involvement in System Integration
Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Test Automation using QTP, Selenium. Performance Testing Load Testing, Stress Testing, Functional
Testing, Data Base Testing, ETL Testing, Data Warehouse Testing.
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• Full responsibility for System Integration Testing; Post Delivery defects / Test Defect
Containment Effectiveness
• Ensuring test adequacy & Traceability to the functional Specifications
• Defect tracking, Work with different stakeholders in Defect Review meetings and Defect Closure activities
• Hands on Experience in HP QC Administration
• Providing post-implementation, application maintenance and enhancement support to the client with regard
to the product / software application
• Delivering & implementing the projects as per scheduled milestones
• Managing & providing functional/technical guidance/support to the project team
• Cooperating & communicating with other team members for efficient management work
Technical Skills
Languages : C, COBOL, Basic and Clipper
ERP : Navision 2009 (Microsoft)
Front End/Web : PowerBuilder 6.0 with PFC, CA - Visual Objects 2.0, VB 6.0, ASP, VB Script,
JavaScript, D2K, Java, Servlet, JSP, JDBC and PL/SQL
RDBMS : Oracle 7.0 & 8, Sybase SQL Anywhere 5.0, UNIFY, Microsoft SQL Server 6.5
Test Management Tool : Quality Center 9.0
Test Automation : QTP, Selenium
Performance Testing : Load & Stress – NeoLoad. Load Runner, JMeter.
Projects undertaken at Polaris, Chennai, Oct 2010 – Dec 2014
Last held position: Sr. Project Manager
Project Title : SIT & UAT – Automation – Performance – Temenos T24 – R8 to R11 & R11 to R13
Client : Alinma Bank, Riyadh
Role : Sr. Project Manager – Manual – Automation – Performance Testing
Team Size : 25
Duration : Sep 2011 – Dec 2014
Project Description
Temenos T24 R8 to R11 & R11 to R13 Upgrade testing for Investment Bank, Retail Banking, Corporate Banking,
Trade finance, Business workflow for Securities Trading Life cycle & Securities Modules and SIT & UAT test
Preparation and test execution. Test Automation using Selenium. Performance Testing – Load & Stress Testing
Responsibilities
• As Functional Consultant for T24 R8 to R11 & R11 to R13 Upgrade Implementation
• Defines and documents customer business functions and processes
• Creating Functional Requirement, all the Modules
• Automation Testing & Performance Testing Plan & Business Flow Identification
• Reports of Automation & Performance Testing to Technical Team
• Coordination with different stack holders like (Business User
• Understanding of Business Requirements and specifications
• Ensuring test adequacy & Traceability to the functional Specifications
• Conformity of functional coverage, in liaison with Business Users team
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• Consults with functional unit management and personnel to identify, define and document business needs
and objectives, current operational procedures, problems, input and output requirements, and levels of systems
access
• Analyzes the feasibility of, and develops requirements for, new systems and enhancements to existing
systems; ensures the system design fits the needs of the users.
• Conduct Interactive Sessions on Securities and Mutual fund modules with Brokerage and Operations team
• Create Business scenarios, Traceability Matrix, Test scenarios and Test cases for the Back Office
Application T24 and Other Trading Interface/Channels like Temenos Trading Platform (TTP), SAXESS,
Customer Configuration( ICAS), eTrade, Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
• Resolved functional clarifications to the team during the Test preparation and Test execution Phase
• Participate and conduct defect review meeting with development team on both functional and nonfunctional
defects on a daily basis
• Publishing the daily and weekly status report
• Defect management in IBM Rational Clear Quest v7.0
• Test Artifacts and Test results management in HP ALM v11.0
Tools : Selenium, Load & Stress – NeoLoad. Load Runner,
Project Title : SIT - Flex cube - Core Banking Solutions – Manual – Automation – Performance Testing
Client : NBE (National Bank of Egypt)
Role : Business Analyst /Test Manager - Manual – Automation – Performance Testing
Team Size : 35
Duration : Oct 2010 - Sep 2011
Project Description
National Bank of Egypt is implementing Flexcube Core Banking for all its branches across Egypt. Core banking
implementation spreads in three Phases consisting of Flexcube Core, Flexcube Retail, Flexcube Corporate, Central
Bank Reports. The Scope of the engagement is analyzing the bank requirement; understand the products, preparing
business scenarios and End to End Functionality testing along with business users. Test Automation using QTP.
Performance Testing – Load & Stress Testing
Responsibilities
• Working as Lead Functional Consultant for Flexcube11.4 Testing / implementation project
• Partnering with business users to fully surface their requirements; conducting interviews with key project
stakeholders and document and presenting the results.
• Ensuring test adequacy & Traceability to the functional Specifications
• Reads and interprets case management systems and functional technical literature and translates in terms
understandable to the End-User
• Automation Testing & Performance Testing Plan & Business Flow Identification
• Reports of Automation & Performance Testing to Technical Team
• Primary responsibility as Functional Consultant for Consumer Lending CIF, GL, Collection & SMS
modules
• Conducting Functionality knowledge transfer to Testing Team
• Creating Functional Requirement, Gap documents and Product Template Docs
• Conducts change impact analysis to assess the potential implications of changes and documents court
business rules, functions and requirements.
• Provides technical assistance in training, mentoring, and coaching professional
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• Develops training curriculum and conducts formal training sessions covering assigned systems module.
• Conformity of functional coverage, in liaison with Business Users team
• Creating stagy for Data Migration from Legacy systems and Interfaces
• Converting the requirements into Functional Specification & Gap docs
• Leading the Functional Spec walk thru to business users and testing team
• Conducting CL Interface RS preparation review
• Make sure the system / Product maintenance according to FS and Gap Doc
• Conducting Test Scenarios, Test Case & Test Data review
• Addressing Business users review comment
• Logical Day planning for each round of testing as part of Test Execution Plan
• Test Management tool QC is used for maintaining all the test deliverables
• Quality Centre administration and maintaining test deliverables
• Coordinating with multiple stakeholders for each deliverable and new requirement
Tools : QTP, Load & Stress – NeoLoad. Load Runner
Project Title : RBI - Intellect Core Banking Solutions
Client : RBI
Role : Business Analyst /Test Manager - Manual – Automation – Performance Testing
Team Size : 60
Duration : Jul 2010 - Sep 2011
Project Description
Reserve Bank of India was established in on April 1 1935 in accordance with the provision of the Reserve Bank of
India Act, 1934. RBI has 26 Regional offices across India. The Banking and Issue Department function under the
jurisdiction of the Regional Offices with mainly 3 departments such as:
• Deposit Accounts Department (DAD)
• Public Accounts Department (PAD)
• Public Debt Office (PDO)
The banking functions are conducted on behalf of the customers of RBI, such as Banks, Financial Institution (FIs),
Central and State Governments etc. Test Automation using QTP. Performance Testing – Load & Stress Testing
Responsibilities
• Understanding of Business Requirements and specifications
• Help team in preparation of Business Scenarios, Test Scenarios and Test Cases
• Ensuring test adequacy & Traceability to the functional Specifications
• Conducting Functionality knowledge transfer to Testing Team
• Automation Testing & Performance Testing Plan & Business Flow Identification
• Reports of Automation & Performance Testing to Technical Team
• Creating & Ensuring Test planning and delivery
• Plan resource allocation and teams for upcoming releases based on development capacity
• Tracking project tasks
• Prepare Status reports (Daily, Weekly and Monthly) to the stakeholders
• Conducting Status meeting with different stack holders
• Used defect tracking tool HP Quality Center for tracking defects to closure
• Collect, track metrics and take appropriate action before flags are raised
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• Provide directions to team – both technical as well as non-technical
• Participate and conduct defect review meeting with development team on a daily basis
• Meeting every day goals and ensure smooth handshake of status for business continuation
Tools : HP Quality Center. QTP, Load & Stress – NeoLoad. Load Runner
Environment : Windows and Oracle 10g
Project : SIT - Flexcube - Core Banking Solutions
Client : Citi Bank
Role : Business Analyst /Test Lead - Manual – Automation – Performance Testing
Team Size : 16
Duration : Oct 2010 - Jun 2011
Project Description
The client is a leading banking service provider specialized in Institutional/Government Payment and banking
products. The bank had planned to migrate from their legacy system - “Mysis” to a newer Core Banking System –
Flexcube involving modules like Retail Banking (including Cash Deposit & Withdrawal, Buying & Selling Foreign
Currency, Demand Draft, Standing Instructions, L&D,), Liability Accounts (including CASA Term Deposits),
Various Payment Systems (including Clearing, RTGS, ECS, SWIFT), Asset Products (including Commercial,
Retail, Syndication, Overdraft, Islamic Loans), Flexcube CRM etc.,. I was part of Flexcube User Acceptance
Testing in the role of SME where the testing was performed by bank’s business users.
Test Automation using QTP. Performance Testing – Load & Stress Testing
Responsibilities
• Creating Test planning and Ensure the delivery
• Plan resource allocation and teams for upcoming releases based on development capacity
• Automation Testing & Performance Testing Plan & Business Flow Identification
• Reports of Automation & Performance Testing to Technical Team
• Tracking project tasks and status reporting
• Understanding of Business Requirements and specifications and help team in preparation of Business
Scenarios, Test Scenarios and Test Cases
• Used defect tracking tool HP Quality Center for tracking defects to closure
• Collect, track metrics and take appropriate action before flags are raised
• Provide directions to team – both technical as well as non-technical
• Participate and conduct defect review meeting with development team on a daily basis
• Meeting every day goals and ensure smooth handshake of status for business continuation
• Prepare Status reports (Daily, Weekly and Monthly) to the stakeholders
Tools : HP Quality Center, QTP, Load & Stress – NeoLoad. Load Runner
Environment : Windows and Oracle 10g
Projects undertaken at IIHAA Solutions (P) Ltd, Coimbatore, Aug 2008 – Sep 2010
Project Title : Implementation of Microsoft Navision
Client : Dynamic Techno Medicals Pvt. Ltd
Role : Project Manager - Implementation
Team Size : 18
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Project Description
The client is a leading Medical Equipment, Orthopedic Equipment and Bandages Manufacturing Company. The
Project involved implementing Microsoft Navision enterprise resource planning (ERP) of Production control, Web
Integration for Sales team.
Responsibilities
• Managing requirement gathering, system analysis and finalization of technical / functional specifications
• Designing, developing, testing, troubleshooting and debugging of the applications
• Providing post-implementation, application maintenance and enhancement support to the client with regard
to the product / software application
• Cooperating & communicating with other team members for efficient management work
• Managing & providing technical guidance/support to the project team
• Delivering & implementing the projects as per scheduled milestones
• Defining suitable methodology to undertake the project with the available inputs for the requisite output
• Identifying documents related to components and maintaining detailed study of the same as per the product
changes, by getting in touch with the product developers
Environment: Citrix Met frame XP, Terminal Service
Projects undertaken at TradingBell India (P) Ltd, Coimbatore, Aug 2007 – Jul 2008
Project Title : Implementation of Distribution Management System
Role : Project Manager – Development
Team Size : 15
Project Description
TradingBell India is the development center of TradingBell US. TradingBell is in operation since 2002 providing
solutions and service for wholesalers, distributors, manufacturers and catalogers who need to produce effective
catalogs - with experience and capability to provide end-to-end catalog solutions.
Its’ catalog publishing solutions are the result of more than four years of research – the products and services are
focused on simplifying the catalog publishing process and reducing costs for customers.
Responsibilities
• Managing requirement gathering, system analysis and finalisation of technical / functional specifications
• Designing, developing, testing, troubleshooting and debugging of the applications
• Providing post-implementation, application maintenance and enhancement support to the client with regard
to the product / software application
• Cooperating & communicating with other team members for efficient management work
• Managing & providing technical guidance/support to the project team
• Delivering & implementing the projects as per scheduled milestones
• Mapping clients’ requirements and providing them best solutions involving evaluation and definition of
scope of project and finalisation of project requirements
• Holding review meetings to ensure timely completion and delivery of the project to the client
• Defining best practices for project support and documentation
Environment: Visual Basic & Oracle 8.0
Projects undertaken at Bannari Infotech (P) Ltd., Bangalore, Oct 2005 – Aug 2007
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Project Title : GIS and GPS
Role : Project Manager – Development & Implementation
Team Size : 20
Onsite Program manager - Accenture – Bangalore
Project Description
GIS and GPS based solutions - GIS based software solution that ensures timely and effective planning of cost
effective routes keeping in view employee shift schedules. It selects the optimum way to pick-up / drop employees,
dividing the list into sub groups of people (numbers in each subgroup varying depending on vehicle seating capacity
and availability). The entire city is divided into various geographical zones / routes / sub-routes so that one area is
covered by one vehicle. All employees falling under a particular zone/ route are picked up in a single round. The
main parameters used for selecting the routes being least travel time and cost. It also allows ad hoc Route Analysis,
Perimeter Analysis and Transport cost estimation for alternate locations. It offers Vehicle / Contractor Management.
Support for multi-modal transport (Indica / Qualis / Bus etc.) with varying contractor terms (24 hrs. Fixed Time /
Distance rates, Over-time usage), Automatic vendor bill generation, tracking of Payments, Manage Fleet Data
(Registration, FC, Tax data with automated pop-up alarms on expiry) and Dynamic Reporting - Custom design
Operations Reports.
Responsibilities
• Strategizing and implementing project plans within preset budgets and deadlines
• Developing and deploying key execution strategies across businesses
• Mapping clients’ requirements and providing them best solutions involving evaluation and definition of
scope of project and finalization of project requirements
• Holding review meetings to ensure timely completion and delivery of the project to the client
• Defining best practices for project support and documentation
• Configuration Management & Quality Assurance & Control
Environment : PB6 with PFC, Oracle 8.0
Projects undertaken at Nalli Soft Solutions, Chennai, Oct 1998 – Oct 2005
Project Title : Corporate Banking Implementation - FexBee (Trade finance package)
Role : Project Manager – Development & Support
Team Size : 60
Project Description
FexBee (Trade finance package), SERVISYS (Clearing house package), INTRAC (Inter branch reconciliation
package) and Cfex (Centralized Trade Finance Package) - the scope of the project is to execute the customization
and implementation of the following banking products including enhancement, statutory changes and maintenance:
• B – Category Trade finance package
• Clearing House Package
• Inter Branch Reconciliation Package
• Centralized Trade Finance Package
Responsibilities
• Lead and managed development through SDLC - right from requirement gathering & analysis to
maintenance and support
• Oversee the project planning, scheduling, monitoring and reporting
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• Analyzed and reported the project economics including costs, operational budgets and resource
requirements
• Ensured adherence to quality standards
• Conformity of functional coverage, in liaison with Functional team
• Estimated and communicated the impact of change requirement
• Identified and imparted the training needed for the development
• Provided the support for pre-sales activities
• Environment: Forms 6, Oracle Reports 6 and Oracle 8.0 / 8i
Education Qualification
• PGDCA from Gobi Arts College, GOBI, India, 1990
• Master of Science in Mathematics from Gobi Arts College, Gobi, India, 1989
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