Pallab Kumar Kar has over 8 years of experience in IT support roles within the banking and finance domains. He currently provides L2 support for critical pre-production and production applications at Barclays, focusing on risk and analytics generation. Previously he held roles in development, testing, QA, release management, and incident resolution at Goldman Sachs and other companies. Kar has strong skills in Java, J2EE, Oracle, and other programming languages, databases, scripting tools, and operating systems.

1. Pallab Kumar Kar
57 Sip Ave,2A, Jersey City, NJ-07306
Phone: +1-551-208-5951 E-Mail:Pallab.Kar@icloud.com
Professional Summary
8+Years IT experience in banking domain. Currently performing L2 support for critical pre-production and production
applications in Barclays for Risk and Analytics generation team. Skilled to setup and maintain production standards
and implement quality-control. Roles I have worked: Development, Manual Testing , Quality Assurance ,Release,
Incident, Change and Problem Management.
Technical Skills
• Programming : Java,J2EE,JSF,Servlets,JS,jQuery,HTML,CSS
• Scripting: Perl/CGI,VB
• Database: Oracle, SYBASE, MS SQL, DB2
• Operating System: Linux, UNIX, Windows
• Tools: Autosys , JIRA, IPM (incident management),Service-Now,CVS,Nolio
Experience
L2 Risk and Analytics Application Management Support Aug 2015- Till Date
Barclays , Risk & Analytics Application Management team is a business-facing support team focused on the management
of pricing and risk management technology for products across the Investment Bank’s asset classes. The primary
responsibility is to ensure maximum system availability and timely delivery of key trading risk to the desk and
downstream systems, as well as help to deliver the level of change that the business requires. Along with it I do
production support activities, interaction with trading desk and PCG users, investigating issues with the delivery of risk,
and working on various escalated incidents around other parts of the stack. I work extensively with both local and global
development teams to help deliver improvements to the applications and processes we support, and help onboard new
applications and support activities.
Tools/Technologies used: VB, Oracle, MSSQL, JIRA,Service-Now, Autosys and other inhouse applications.
Level2 Application support and QA/Testing Sep 2012- Aug 2015
Switched to application support role in September 2012 in London for Goldman Sachs, Global Investment Research
Group and continuing it till date. The key responsibilities have been to maintain test suite for QA team using in-house
developed test case management dashboard and automating manual test cases with extensive use of HTML, jQuery,
Perl/CGI . Maintain, end-to-end healthy infrastructure for research analysts . Help resolve technical issues. Automation
of manual support activities. Plan and organize application releases on a monthly basis. Managing infrastructure
upgrades and migration of applications. Lead the project of windows server upgrade. Decommissioned 123
windows 2003 servers , by migrating all applications to run on windows 2008.
Tools/Technologies used: HTML, CSS, Perl/CGI, jQuery, JS, VB, Java, Sybase, SQL,SSIS, JIRA, Autosys
QA/Testing July 2011-Sep 2012
Joined Goldman Sachs , Global Investment Research Team, as Quality Assurance and Tester role, in Singapore. Key
responsibilities were to test application and addins , as a manual tester. Testing included regression, integration and
load testing of the whole research application. Additionally, was responsible to build an in-house test case
management dashboard for QA team and to automate the manual test case using Quick Test Professional ,VB Script.
The test case management dashboard provides QA team to add new test cases for new application(s), records the testing
effort of a QA member, creates a targeted test suite and provides testing metrics for all the testing done till date.

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Tools/Technologies used: HTML, CSS, Perl/CGI, jQuery, JS, XMLRPC, VB, Java, Sybase, JIRA
Prime BrokerageIT- Support Tools Developer Aug 2008-July 2011
Was working as support tools developer in Bangalore, India for Goldman Sachs, Prime Brokerage-IT team.
Responsibilities included to observe, plan, design and implement a batch monitoring support tool which enables support
team to track daily issues, maintain and search issue resolution artifacts and report generations. The manual
Achievement: Was awarded Best Peer award as part of this project for single handedly completing the project while
organizing the necessary requirements details from support team.
Tools/Technologies used: HTML,CSS, JSF, Servlets, VTL
Education
Bachelor of Technology, in Computer Science 2003-2007
Completed my bachelors from Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Orissa, India .
Matriculation and Higher Secondary School 2001-2003
From Air Force School-Jamnagar, Gujarat, India