Personal Profile: Ashish SharmaE-mail: Ashish_Sharma2012@hotmail.comMobile: +91 8130636366

Summary

Ashish Sharma holds CFA Level 2 Certificate and is currently a CFA Level 3 candidate. He is a Business Analyst with 6+ years of work experience across a variety of spheres. He is well acquainted with Investment Banking, Asset Management, and Wealth Management & Portfolio Management Domains. He also has knowledge of Corporate Action Reporting, Trade Processing, and Asset Management Obligations as he has worked closely with clients to manage requirements. Highly accomplished with a verifiable track record in fields such as analysis and gathering, business process mapping and the development of interactive prototypes.

Ashish Sharma has thorough knowledge of Equity and Fixed Income instruments and their related derivatives - Swaps, Options, Futures, Forwards and CDS. He is currently working on a Trade Capture Process for UBS, which processes Captured Trades and manages Product Control.

Work Experience

Cognizant Technology Solutions, June 2016 To Present

Cognizant Technology Solutions provides business and technology services and solutions to capital and commodity market participants, intermediaries and regulators.Business Analyst– UBSUBS AG is a Swiss global financial services company, co-headquartered in Zurich and Basel. The company provides wealth management, asset management, and investment banking services for private, corporate, and institutional clients worldwide.Responsibilities:• Serve as a liaison with managers and stakeholders to identify, define and

accurately document business requirements of Trade Capture and Product Control Applications.

• Propose Solutions and manage their implementation.• Interact consistently with Client to monitor requirement deviations.• Manage requirements and maintain requirements traceability throughout

the project lifecycle to ensure that requirements are delivered as specified, and change impact assessments can be made.

• Oversee development of solution prototypes and ensuring issues are identified, tracked, reported and resolved.

• Conduct Demos to Stakeholders.

• Assist the development/testing team to resolve the defects/ change requests.

• BA Demo of Implement Stories and BA Review of Test Deliverables. Skill/Domain:Business Analysis,Release support, Functional Analysis, SQL, JIRA, Asset Management

Sapient, May 2014 To May 2016

Sapient Global Markets provides business and technology services and solutions to capital and commodity market participants, intermediaries and regulators.Business Analyst– Wellington Management CompanyWellington Management Company is a private, independent investment management company. The firm has client assets under management totaling over US$904 billion. Assets are invested using a broad range of asset classes and investment approaches. Responsibilities:• Serve as a liaison with managers and stakeholders to identify, define and

accurately document business requirements of Fixed Income Portfolio Management Applications.

• Propose Solutions and manage their implementation.• Benchmark relative risk and return analysis.• Asset Allocation and related exposure analysis.• Manage requirements and maintain requirements traceability throughout

the project lifecycle to ensure that requirements are delivered as specified, and change impact assessments can be made.

• Oversee development of solution prototypes and ensuring issues are identified, tracked, reported and resolved.

• Conduct Demos to Stakeholders.• Assist the development/testing team to resolve the defects/ change

requests.• BA Demo of Implement Stories and BA Review of Test Deliverables. Skill/Domain:Business Analysis,Release support, Functional Analysis, SQL, JIRA, Asset Management.

TATA Consultancy Services (TCS), March 2010 To May, 2014

Functional Analyst –Rabobank

Rabobank is a Dutch multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in Utrecht. Rabobank is in Asset management and Brokerage services. It also deals in derivatives, mutual funds, SIPs.

Responsibilities:•Elicit requirements from client and create approach notes.•Requirement and Delivery Management and Reporting.•Prepared UAT plans in consultation with Business users.•Manage requirements and maintain requirements traceability throughout the project lifecycle to ensure that requirements are delivered as specified, and change impact assessments can be made.•Proposing functionalSolutions to Dev Team.

Skill/Domain:Functional Analysis, Brokerage and Asset Management, SQL.

Manual Tester/Functional Analyst - Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)

The Royal Bank of Canada or RBC Financial Group is the largest financial group in Canada. RBC provides Investment Banking services and custodian services. RBC is also into Personal and Business Banking Services.

Responsibilities:•Functional Analysis and Risk Assessment of requirements.•Requirement Management and Reporting.•Processing of Corporate Actions and generation of related reports.•Analysis of functional and technical design documents to write test scenarios and test cases.•Defect logging and maintenance of test cases, test data etc.

Skill/Domain: Manual Testing, Functional Analysis, Unix, SQL, Investment Banking

Manual Tester - Saudi Financial Group

Saudi Financial Group is one of the leading financial institutions in the Middle East and one of the most profitable retails banks in Saudi Arabia. SAMBA is also into Brokerage and Asset Management Services and deals with HNIs and Retail

Customers.

Responsibilities:•Coordination with business team to understand and gather testable requirements.•Analysis of functional and technical design documents to write test scenarios and test cases.•Test execution in UAT phase.•Design and development of SQL queries for test data preparation and test execution.•Circulation of Daily and Weekly status reports to all the stakeholders and responsible for obtaining sign off for project deliverables from respective signatories.•Documentation of technical knowhow, milestone achieved and lessons learnt for continuous process improvement.Skill/Domain: Manual Testing, Unix Commands, SQL, Brokerage and Asset Management Domain

CompetenciesBusiness Knowledge

Asset Class Fixed Income, Equity, Derivatives-Swaps, Options, Futures, Forwards, CDS. Alternative Investments

Domain Knowledge Investment Banking, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Portfolio Management, Trade Capture and Allocation, Product Control.

Consulting Skills

Consulting Skills

Communication, Presentation and Writing Skills, Workshop Skills, Quality Mindset, ResultOriented Mindset, Time and Task Management, Relationship Management, Expectation&Conflict Management, Stakeholder Management

Domain Skills

Business Analysis Skills

Requirement Analysis & Documentation, Stakeholder Management ,Business requirement delivery, functional specification development, Use cases preparation and UAT participation ,Product Backlog Management

QA Skill

QA -Manual ExecutionManual Testing, SDLC, Test Reporting, Test Execution, Defect Management, SQL, JIRA, Zephyr ,Smoke Testing, Regression Testing, Functional Testing, UAT, Agile Methodology

Education

B. Tech., Electronics and Communication: Galgotia's College of Engineering and Technology, 2009

Additional Details

Certification/TrainingsChartered Financial Analyst – Level 2 (June 2016)Chartered Financial Analyst –Level 3 Candidate (June 2017)