Venkateswarlu Dama has over 16 years of experience in business analysis, testing, and financial analysis. He is currently a business analyst at GENPACT, where he works on the Fixed Income Content team. Previously, he spent over 4 years as a Senior Product Specialist and Business Analyst at S&P Global Market Intelligence, where he led several projects involving requirements gathering, design, and testing. He also has experience developing tools like a client database and sample generation tool.

1. VENKATESWARLU DAMA
 venkateswarludama@gmail.com  818 705 7888
Career Brief:
 Currently working as a Business Analyst in GENPACT.
 Offering 4.6 years of experience in Business Analysis, testing, Process Migration, UAT and
Enhancement in S&P Global.
 12 years of experience in Financial Analysis in S&P Global.
Professional Experience:
GENPACT, Fixed income Content Oct-2016 – As of now
Business Analyst
Currently working as Business Analyst in GENPACT for Finxed Income Content team.
S&P Global Market Intelligence, Fixed income Content July 2012-Sep 2016
Sr. PRODUCT SPECIALIST (BUSINESS ANALYST / PLOTFORM CHANGE
MANAGEMENT)
Worked as a Sr.Product Specialist (Business Analyst / Platform Change Management)
in S&P Global Market Intelligence. As a Sr.product Specialist my roles and
responsibilities are:
 Gather/elicit requirements using interviews, surveys, business process
analysis, use cases, user stories, scenarios, task analysis, user studies, etc.
 Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile
conflicts, decompose high-level information into details and abstract low-level
information to a general understanding.
 Design solutions to business needs and translate them into software/hardware
functional/non-functional requirements and specify application and database
requirements.
 Work closely with business owners to understand desktop/enterprise product
requirements and translate those into detailed technical requirements that are
used for generating new data feed products / new features and functionality.
 Generate ideas/solutions based on data analysis and research.
 Proactively communicate and collaborate with product owners, business
analysts, project managers, developers, and QA teams to deliver solutions on
time, on budget and as expected.
 Participate in / drive design reviews, tech design reviews, test plan and test
case reviews and contribute to achieve the objectives of such collaborative
efforts.
 Perform preliminary testing along with developers and QAs
 Help monitor and track progress of projects and coordinate overall project
management
PROJECT -1
NAME: Client DB for all SPSE clients
ROLE: Business Analyst, Developer
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
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2. VENKATESWARLU DAMA
 venkateswarludama@gmail.com  818 705 7888
Client Data Base tool that is comprehensive to accept and display the entire client
related data for Evaluation Operations. This tool can be used and accessed by the
entire operations teams in NY and HYD. By using this tool user can be able to send
any notification to all clients.
RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:
 Gathered the requirements from the NY team.
 Prepared requirement document and designed the User Interface.
 Developed the Client Data base application in house.
 Conducted awareness sessions to the Global Business Operations NY and
HYD teams regarding the application.
PROJECT-2:
NAME: Un-Priced Securities Tool (UPST)
ROLE: Business Analyst
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
Create a web-based application that will allow users to manually upload securities that
are not currently pricing in the database. This application should track the specific
reason for un-priced securities as well as track the life cycle of these un-priced
securities.
RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:
 Gathered requirements from Global business operation NY and Hyderabad
teams.
 Prepared a detailed requirements document, process flow charts and the
prototype.
 Maintained calls with IT and Operations teams on progress of the tool
 Prepared the different test cases and conducted UATs.
 Conducted awareness sessions to the Operations team on functionalities of
the application.
PROJECT -3:
NAME: Odd Lot Pricing Project
ROLE: User Acceptance Test
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
This project generates Odd Lot Prices for the bid and offer sides of the market using a
new odd lot pricing methodology; both Interdealer and Full Odd Lot Prices will be
calculated as part of this project. A range around the Interdealer Odd Lot Bid Price and
a range around the Interdealer Odd Lot Offer Price will also be generated.
RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:
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3. VENKATESWARLU DAMA
 venkateswarludama@gmail.com  818 705 7888
 Prepared test cases for all Offering, Quotes and Transaction files.
 Tested the Bond Desk Data Ingestion process.
 Identified and reported the defects in Ingestion process to IT team.
PROJECT -4:
NAME: Japanese Securities Dealers Association (JSDA)
ROLE: User Acceptance Test
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
Ingest Japanese fixed income securities pricing/trade data from JSDA via Quant
House API for downstream products consumption.
RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:
 Prepared test cases based on the requirements.
 Developed SQL queries to compare JSDA data with S&P Shared Data Layer
(SDL).
PROJECT -5:
NAME: Application programming interface (API)
ROLE: Prepared test cases and Monitor application
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
A tool itself should hit the database to know the availability of database options like
every periodic Interval. If the tool is not able to access the database then the email
recipients should get the email message.
RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:
 Prepared test cases by using SOAP UI.
 Uploaded into Alert site which is third party tool to monitor API.
 Setting the locations globally and intervals.
PROJECT -6
NAME: Client Support and Product Delivery in Global business Operations
ROLE: Team lead
RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:
 Supervise the pricing feed delivery to clients for 600 portfolios which contain
Fixed Income.
 Manage client notifications on file availability and holiday pricing schedules.
 Help clients in submitting the price challenges.
 Run various SQLs on database and pull the price tolerance exception records
and update the reasons with strong analysis
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4. VENKATESWARLU DAMA
 venkateswarludama@gmail.com  818 705 7888
 Attend different queries from clients and ensure to clear all of them on time.
 Prepare different reports on Quarterly, Monthly, Weekly and Daily basis to
understand the current state of the products and services.
 Develop the software development requirements document for IT team in
developing the process applications.
 Develop the process Automations and save the process time.
External Quality Assurance team Dec 2005 – July 2012
Sr. FINANCIAL ANALYST
RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:
 Process the quality checks for production done files and IQC records
 Identify the errors and report the same to the production team
 Suggest modifications to check logics to enhance the quality of data
 Prepared daily and weekly reports of EQA financials team.
PROJECT:
NAME: EQA Sample generation Tool
ROLE: Business Analyst, Developer
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
External Quality assurance department takes sample documents and Internal Quality
Assurance check records for various teams by segregating the Error and No Error
records and on the basis of each employee which are processed in Production and
IQA teams. “EQA Sample Generation Tool” has been developed to generate sample
records. By using this tool EQA team has saved 8 hrs per day.
RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:
 Gathered the requirements
 Prepared requirement document
 Design and developed MS Access back end table
 Developed the EQA Sample generation tool.
Financial team March 2000 – Dec 2005
Financial Analyst
 To check the quality of the data of production done files in IQC records.
 Identifying the errors and reporting the same to the production team.
 Suggesting new logics to enhance the quality of data.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
 Knowledge on .Net , SQL, ORACLE 11 g
 MS Access, MS Excel, MS Power point, MS Visio
ACADEMICS & CERTIFICATIONS
 Master of Commerce from Nagarjuna University in 1998
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5. VENKATESWARLU DAMA
 venkateswarludama@gmail.com  818 705 7888
 Bachelor of Commerce from Nagarjuna University in 1996 (Commerce)
 10+2 from Board of Intermediate Education, Andhra Pradesh (Maths,
Economics, Commerce)
PERSONAL DETAILS:
 Date of Birth : 10th July, 1976.
 Contact : venkateswarludama@gmail.com
 818 705 7888
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6. VENKATESWARLU DAMA
 venkateswarludama@gmail.com  818 705 7888
 Bachelor of Commerce from Nagarjuna University in 1996 (Commerce)
 10+2 from Board of Intermediate Education, Andhra Pradesh (Maths,
Economics, Commerce)
PERSONAL DETAILS:
 Date of Birth : 10th July, 1976.
 Contact : venkateswarludama@gmail.com
 818 705 7888
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