1. PRASAD GANDHI, FRM, prasadgandhi84@yahoo.in, 9952082036
Objective
My goal is to place myself in a role where I can utilize my skills in exploring challenges and gain
further experience while enhancing my responsibilities and company’s productivity
Professional Experience
Bank of America Continuum India Pvt Ltd, Chennai
Job Title : Senior Analyst (09-June-2010 to Till Date)
Roles and Responsibilities
• Gathering Business & Functional Requirements from the Desk Analyst, Senior Business
Analyst onshore
• Expert on testing e-trading flows [trade negotiation, execution and post trade] by
interpreting specifications and working with more than eight external online trading
platforms.
• Experience in implementing end to end trade life cycle events like Novation, Clearing,
Affirmation , Allocation, Cancellation through different clearing houses ( Icelink, CME,
LCH) , in a new product ‘Credit Trade Capture’ from legacy application. Experience in
working with different ECNs Bloomberg, Tradeweb and other Brokers in capturing
trades through FIX messages
• Expertise on various credit derivative products like Credit Default Swaps, Credit Default
Swap Index, Credit Default Index Options.
• Provide Quality Assurance for Bank of America’s comprehensive proprietary electronic
trading system.
• Proficient in managing offshore and onshore QA teams to work on various initiatives and
projects.
• Follow Agile methodologies (Scrum Framework)
• Experience on testing Compliance, Mandatory Client Clearing, Dodd Frank Regulatory
Requirements and implementation for the credit line of business
• Documented functional requirements and filing detailed JIRA items that aid the
development team in coding functional specs, fixing bugs and enhancing user experience
for the Derivatives Front Office and Middle office teams
• Analyzed business requirements and compiled detailed test cases for Fixed Income,
Credit Derivatives and Interest Rate Derivative products being developed for the banks
proprietary trading platform.
• Developing Scenarios and performing End to End testing of the trade tickets involving
different derivative products within the banks proprietary trading platform to ensure it
meets the requirements of the business end users.
• Demonstrated the application to all major stakeholders located in different geographic
locations before deploying the application into the Production environment.
• Validated the deployed code in production environment to ensure the application is
stable and working as per user expectations
• Escalate issues found to the respective build teams by raising JIRA tickets and assigning
it to the appropriate developer.
• Providing detailed trouble shooting/user manuals to production support teams to tackle
day to day issues with the functionality deployed into the production environment.
• Interface with the business users on functional aspects and provide subject matter
expertise to the technology development teams throughout the project lifecycle.
• Extensive experience automating front e-Trading application by creating test cases in
BDD format using Lettuce [Feature and Step files], scripting underlying functions using
python and Test Complete.
• Coordinate with development and product management teams to resolve application
issues and defects as well as implement and test new business requirements.
• Provide detailed trouble shooting/user manuals to production support teams to tackle
day to day issues with functionality and test the code patches deployed to production
systems.

2. PRASAD GANDHI, FRM, prasadgandhi84@yahoo.in, 9952082036
• Compile business requirements with development and business analyst teams for the
design and implementation of business solutions.
• Manage pre and post release expectations and coordinate defect/change requests.
• Direct a team of testers in executing manual and automated test scripts with the goal of
improving quality as well as efficiency of released software.
• Responsible for reporting weekly testing status to higher management and taking
ownership of highlighting potential risks and possible solutions.
• Expertise on various credit derivative products like Credit Default Swaps, Credit Default
Swap Index, Credit Default Index Options.
• Develop and maintain test cases for regression testing as well as new scope testing for
Interest Rate Derivative products.
• Investigate, follow-up, resolve and document all issues identified during regression
testing.
Syncfusion Software Pvt Ltd, Chennai
Job Title : Software Testing Engineer (Feb-2007 to April-2010)
Roles and Responsibilities
• Test case design and checklist preparation
• Fix and features validation in maintenance cycles
• Testing of installation, portability, compatibility, usability
• Automation of functional regression testing by QTP and TestComplete
• Performance analysis of web modules by VS Team Suite
• Managing defects life cycle by OnTime ( defect tracker )
• Manual testing of portability, compatibility, usability
• Database testing at the application backend
Educational Qualification
• M.Sc (Information Technology) with First Class from University of Madras in April 2010
• B.Sc (Maths) with First Class from D.G. Vaishnav College in April 2004
Technical Skills
Operating System Windows, UNIX
Defect Management JIRA, Quality Center and OnTime
Database SQL Server 2005 and 2008
Version Control Subversion
Functional Automation TestComplete, QTP
Scripting VB Script
Market Data Bloomberg, Market Axess, Reuters, TradeWeb,
Retail, KBP, Bond Desk
Professional Certification
• Financial Risk Manager (FRM) – Completed in Nov 2016
• Professional Scrum Master (PSM) Level 1 – Completed in Aug 2016
• Have been certified by the National Stock Exchange (NSE) of India on the following
modules:
o Financial Markets: A Beginner’s Module
o Equity Derivatives: A Beginner’s Module
o Derivatives Market (Dealers) Module
o Options Trading Strategies Module
• ISTQB (International Software Testing Qualification Board) certified software testing
professional