1. Prasanth Namana
E-Mail:nprasanthb@gmail.com Contact: +91-8897507551
Summary:
A resourceful professional with multi-disciplined experience in Stand Alone Applications in theFinancial Services,
Web/client based server and progressively expandingresponsibilities.Akey member of technical staff with
experience in product analysis.
 Well-rounded professional with 11 years of IT experience holding professional experience as a Quality
Assurance Analyst.
 Well versed with manual testing procedures and strongdomain knowledge in Capital Marketproducts
such as Clearingand Settlement, Reference Data, Bankingapplications & EnterpriseResource Planning
applications.
 A good team player with excellent communication skillsand has an ability to work in a team and
individual environment.
 Very good understandingon stock market front, middle and back office systems.
 Expertise in writingtest scenarios,testcases,test plan,defects reporting, defects tracking and test data
preparation.
 Meeting deadlines and turnaround time without compromisingon quality norms and adheringto SLA’s.
 Proven success in multi-tasking,handlingmultipleprojects and responsibilities with greatdeal of
enthusiasm.
 Excellent problem solvingskillswith a strongtechnical background.
 Experience of collaboratingwith developers and subjectmatter experts to build the technical vision and
analyzetrade-offs.
 Well verse in data migration mappingand test planning’s.
 Strong in business analysisand clientrelationship.
 Knowledge on SDLC and good working experience on Waterfall and Agilemethodologies.
 Strong workingexperience in testing Mainframe, .Net and Java based applications.
 Exposure in developing, executing and maintaining automation scriptsusingHP QTP/ALM.
 Strong leadership qualities and commitment to meeting the project deadlines and deliverables.
 Leading a team by training,guiding,assigningresponsibilities and evaluatingperformances.
 Very good troubleshootingskillsand knack of findingapplication issues.
 Quick learner,team player and ability to meet tight deadlines under work pressure.
Educational Qualification:
 Completed BE in Electrical And Electronics Engineeringfrom Madras University.
Professional Organization:
 Product Specialist at Broadridge Financial Solutions from Sep 2008 to present.
 Lead Consultant at Kanbay (A division of Capgemini) from May 2005 to Sep 2008.
Onsite Exposure:

2.  Having valid USA B1 VISA for 10 years, as part of business training had close to 1.5 years of training
experience in US.
Technical Skills:
Defect Tracking Tools : HP ALM and BMC Remedy Software
Platforms / Domain : Windows, UNIX, Mainframe, Capital Market Banking Module
Databases : IDMS, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle 10g
Mainframe : Terminal Emulator 3270
Languages : VBA macro, .NET, HTML, XML
Other Software’s : Putty Unix Server, psftp, Autosys, Toad, FileZilla, IBMPCOMM, Excel Macro
ProjectExperience:
Project #1 Clearing and Settlement (CAGE3)
Period Feb 2014 to Till date
Role Senior ProductSpecialist– Lead and Functional Tester
Description CAGE3 management system is an online,real-timesystem that automates the daily Cage
functions within the cashieringoperation.Cage is availablein multiplelevels of services to meet
the requirements of both largeand small firms which aredealingwith clearingand settlement of
tradingtransactions.Itprovides the major processes to its clients likemulti -currency processing,
onlinereceive and deliver activity setups,cleanups,reclaim,market to market, open master
maintenance, inquiry and history,Two-way link to DTC (automates 70% of the cage operations
receive and deliver workload),Broker and customer name and address allowingfor maintenance
of multipledelivery instructions.
Skills Functional Testing,HP ALM, Mainframe(TN 3270), BMC Remedy Software
Responsibilities:
 Understanding business requirement specifications provided by the Clients and provide KT to team on
new requirements
 Attending daily calls (debugging/testing) with CFT teams
 Involving in identifying / reviewing test scenarios as per the requirements and preparing test plan
 Participating in functional and regression testing for both manual and automation
 Reporting and tracking the bugs using HP ALM and BMC Remedy software tools
 Preparing complex manual regression suite and associated test data
 Coordinating with onsite and offshore teams in providing UAT and Production support
 Working with Utility team for enhancing automation regression suite
 Assessing Impact analysis of new enhancements or defect fixes
 Involving in root cause analysis for any product problem events
Project #2 Global CorporateActions Solution (GCAS) & Global Reference Data Solutions (GRDS)
Period Sep 2008 to Feb 2014

3. Role Product Specialist–Lead and Functional Tester
Description GCAS is a Managed Data serviceProduct. A Corporate Action is an event initiated by a public
company that affects the securities (equity or debt) issued by the company. GCAS as a managed
data serviceproduct covers processingof the entire corporateactions lifecycle,aggregates
corporate actions data frommultiplesources,applies clientspecificrules to identify exceptions,
cleansedata and generate a clientspecific "Golden Copy" of announcements. GCAS automates
the entire corporateactions process by reducingoperational risks,reducefinancial risks by
identifyingexposure and increasecustomer satisfaction.
Skills Functional Testing,HP ALM, HP QTP, Mainframe(TN 3270),BMC Remedy Software
Responsibilities:
 Understanding business requirement specifications provided by the Clients
 Attending weekly status calls with CFT teams and reporting testing status
 Involving in identifying the test scenarios as per the requirements and preparing test plan
 Participating in functional and regression testing for both manual and automation
 Reporting and tracking the bugs using HP ALM and BMC Remedy software tools
 Coordinating with onsite and offshore teams and providing UAT and Production support
 Maintaining and executing automation regression suite for every planned and adhoc releases
 Assisting Product Management team in preparing test data for critical client demos
 Complete ownership in providing sign off on releases to UAT and Production
Project #3 PeopleSoft GHRS 8.9 Upgrade Testing
Period Sep -2006 – Sep -2008
Role Lead Consultant
Description By the end of Q1 2006 there will be 81 countries making useof the Group HR System. The
primary purposeof the 8.9 upgrade is to transition the GHRS to a supported platformfor the
future. The solution defined and currently used by HSBC in version 8.3 is to be the solution
deployed in 8.9. There are likely to be a few variances whereeither functionality isgreatly
improved in 8.9 and there is a strongbusiness caseto deploy additional functionality without
impactingthe projecttimeline or customizations in 8.3 can be made redundant by new
functionality in 8.9.
Skills Windows XP, People soft 8.9, Backend: MainframeDB2.
Responsibilities-
 Understood the business requirement specification provided by the Clients
 Involved in Identifying the Test scenarios as per the requirements
 Participated in functional and regression testing for both manual and automation
 Reported and tracked the bugs using HP QC/ALM and BMC Remedy Software
 Participated in the Functional Testing, Regression Testing and Database Testing.
 Attended weekly status calls with CFT teams and reported testing status

4. Project #4 Consumer lending
Period May 2005 to Aug 2006
Role Software Test Engineer
Description Vision systemis used by HSBC to assistitin its consumer lendingbusiness.The scopeof vision
system tracks a loan’s lifecyclefromsolicitingthelead, processingthe loan application,
approvingto loan closure.Itcovers various types of consumer loans,evaluates the credit
worthiness.Intended users are Account Executives (AE) to process an application for the
customer, Underwriters (Senior and Junior) to approve/declinethe application,Account
Executives to closethe loan or turn down the application based on the Underwriters decision.
The post loan closeactivities arecompleted usingVISIONApplication/CII (Mainframe).The data
for the system is distributed acrosstheMainframe databaseand the ClientServer database.
Skills Windows 2000 .Front-end: JAVA, Power builder 8.0 Backend: MainframeDB2, Sybase
.Applications:Prism,CII,Mortgage Serv.
Responsibilities:
 Executed and maintained regression automation test scripts using HP QTP.
 Extensively performed regression testing on a cycle basis to ensure the quality of the software, reported
and tracked defects using HP ALM and BMC Remedy Software tools.
 Analyzed functional regression requirements of the application.
I hereby declare that the information provided above is genuine to the best of my knowledge.
Prasanth-