Contact
Tel : +91-7738004950
Hiral Damaniya. e-mail : [email protected]
Date of birth: 26th August 1992.
Summary
• A competent professional with 10.5 years of experience with leading global financial services firm.
• MBA in Finance, ISTQB Certificate.
• 3.7 years into Trade Finance operations as a Operation Analyst.
• 4.4 years as Team leader- Software Tester. (User Acceptance Tester- Manual Tester)
• 2.6 years as Manager. (IT Project Management)
• Managing Project E2E, providing sign-off and tracking till successful go-live, meeting business targets,
supporting post go-live system stabilization production activity.
• Skilled User Acceptance Tester understand the need to meet all functionality requirement for business
client end-user of new applications. Possesses a terrific understanding of testing protocol and design.
• Focused and goal driven with strong work ethics, continuously striving for improvement coupled with
commitment to offer quality work.
• Projects working on: ISO20022 Trade Finance
Highlights
1. During the course of my professional experience as Software Tester and Project Management, I have
developed a strong understanding of -
- Requirement gathering for BRD preparation.
- Jira/Bug prioritization discussion with stakeholders for final enhancement/fix request and sharing
the data with product for subject delivery.
- User acceptance testing protocols and methodologies.
- Brainstorming session and End to End system testing project planning.
- Jira reading and analyzing the impact and preparing test case book.
- Strong facility working within Agile and Waterfall development environment.
- Solid analysis of results and fine-tuning of developed application to improve functionality. -
Knowledge transfer session for all the stakeholders, what all functionality will be delivered
and will go-live in production.
- Work closely with stakeholders and clients.
- Participating in Sanity Testing and attending ‘GO’, ‘NO-GO’ call.
- Provide Sign-off for Go-live, being representative from IT project management team.
- Utilized Jira and ALM application to track and manage tickets for features and defects.
- Basic FRD preparation.
- Create power point presentations for operations training.
- Managed project deliverables within approved timelines. - Meeting respective BA, IT,
Product leads for project road maps discussion and plan.
- Coordinate internally and externally with stake holders to ensure that projects adhere to scope
and as per schedule timelines.
- Schedule meeting with management and other project stake holders to provide information on
project, UAT status and issues occurred during testing
2. During the course of my professional experience as Transaction processing Specialist, I have
developed a strong understanding of –
- Documentary credits (Export and Import LC)
- Collections
- Standby LC
- Swift Message Management.
Work
WorkExperience
Experience RolesRoles
and Responsibilities
and Responsibilities
BNP Paribas India Solutions Pvt, Ltd. Mumbai Manager level
16th Nov, 2022 – Till Date
IT Project Management in Global Trade Finance Operations.
Handling trade product, payment message processing application.
• Jira/Bug prioritization discussion with stakeholders for final enhancement/fix request and sharing the
data with product for subject delivery.
• Requirement gathering for BRD and FRD preparation and getting reviewed by Manager.
• Planning and Preparing comprehensive Test case book for the enhancement, defects/bugs fixes.
• Closely working with the operations and get the test case execute/inputted by the respective team.
• Documenting the execution outcome, and the expected results to determine the quality of the software
product.
• Preparing power point for Operations training and handover.
• Providing Sign-off from Project management perspective.
• Simultaneously providing training and grooming new joiners and juniors.
• Meeting respective BA, IT, Product leads for project road maps discussion and plan for current and next
year releases. • Participating in Sanity Testing and attending ‘GO’, ‘NO-GO’ call.
JP Morgan chase India Private Limited, Mumbai 502 Team lead level
7th July, 2018 – 31st Oct, 2022
UAT Tester in Corporate and Investment Banking Department (Cash Operation).
Handling Payment Transaction processing application.
• Conducted user acceptance testing to ensure that developed systems satisfied the needs of business clients
as specified in the functional requirements.
• Designed developed and implemented user acceptance testing protocols as the final phase of applications
development.
• Planning various test case scenarios to detect bugs, classify the errors on the basis of severity, priority, and
informing the development team, and assessed its quality to make it bug-free.
• Captured and tested all modifications to proposed functional requirements.
• Documenting the test cases, their outcome, and the expected results to determine the quality of the
software product.
• Met all project timelines and deadlines.
• Assisted clients and team in producing high-quality applications.
• Close co-ordination with BA and communicate frequently with clients regarding applications functionality
requirements.
• Used strong time-management skills to juggle multiple projects simultaneously.
• Timely escalation for any issues during testing as per escalation matrix with given SLA.
• Closely working with operations team to understand requirements for enhancement ideas.
JP Morgan chase India Private Limited, Mumbai 420 Operation Analyst
Dec 2014 - 6th July 2018
Transaction processor in Trade finance.
Handling products like Documentary credits/ Collections/ Standby LC/ Message Management.
• Significant knowledge and expertise in Trade Finance operations
(Documentary credits/ Collections/ Standby LC/ Message Management)
• Expertise in Export/ Import Letter of credit advising including advising, confirmations, Oil LC
confirmations.
• Expertise in Processing Collection Product (Import Collections and Export Collections)
• Expertise in standby lc’s which includes performance, financial bond issuances.
• Handling Message Management queue incoming swift with appropriate registration and routing to correct
team.
• Handling priority customers and maintaining a report, which is further communicated to the top
management
• Interacting with the Branch regarding queries related to trade products.
• Handling Day Today reports, reconciliation and other miscellaneous activities.
• Monitoring all the queues and meeting the deadline as and when required.
• Handling priority customers, monitoring all the queues, day-to-day activities and reconciliation.
Education
2021 to 2023 MBA in Finance 8.33 CGPA
Jaipur Manipal University
2010 to 2014 Bachelor of Commerce “Financial Markets” 68.00%
K.E.S Shroff College of Commerce and Art’s, University of Mumbai, Mumbai
2008 to 2010 Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) “Commerce” 57.17%
Nirmala Memorial Foundation College of Commerce and Art’s, Maharashtra Board, Mumbai
1998 to 2008 Secondary School Certificate (SSC) 64.76%
St Thomas High School, Maharashtra Board, Mumbai
Achievements
• Received appreciation within the team and from senior management for the error free
processing and delivering urgent transactions in a short time and in a compliant
manner.
• Star performer in the team for several months.
• Received various appreciation by e-mails and appreciation card within team and from
various stakeholders for timely completion of the projects.
Professional Strengths
• Vision: Always making sure there are set aims & that the team is on the right track.
• Influence: Able to establish influence over the team when needed and drive it towards success.
• Making things simple: Able to boil down complex subject. Gives enough information about small
details and is patient with others.
• Coaching: Helps team member fight difficulties.
Soft Skills:
Project Management: Waterfall and Agile Module, Jira, Scheduling, Risk Management, Project Roadmaps,
BRD and FRD preparation.
Activities and Interests
Self-spiritual growth, Traveling, Dancing and Listening to Music.
Project or System Handled
SR2023 Release, ISO20022 MT to MX, Swift Alliance Application, Trade Processing System (TPS), Cash
Operation (Cheque processing system).
I hereby affirm that the information in this document is accurate and true to the best of my knowledge.
