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Hemant Kolhe
hemantskolhe100@gmail.com
+91 9822944178
OBJECTIVE: Seeking a challenging position in the area of Software functional Testing in a Professional
Organization, where my skills and banking domain knowledge along with Test management can add value to
the growth of the organization.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
 9 years & 06 months work experience in Software Testing/Functional testing along with Banking
domain & Test management.
 Currently working with CLSA as Senior QA Analyst in Equities domain - Front Office on Equities Trading
platform/products similar to Fidessa like Cobra & Viper & OMS for the Agency/DSA/DMA flows.
 Previous experience with HSBC Software Development (GLT) as Consultant Specialist where extensive
experience in Black box testing (manual testing) covering Usability and Functional testing which
includes Smoke, System Integration and Regression testing.
 Extensive experience in multiple projects from various Banking domain – Private banking, Payment–
Cash Management, Anti Money laundering & Investment banking which includes 3 years strong
Front-office experience in Equity/Stock Trading Project HSBCInvestDirect for retail customer.
 Expertise and experience in defining, developing, reviewing, maintaining and implementing test artifacts
like Test Plan, Test strategy, Estimation, Requirement Traceability Matrix, Test Scenarios, Test Case
Design, Test results, Defect Matrix, Defect Dashboard, Test Summary Report, User Manuals,
Calculation template & Training material of domain, process and projects.
 Dexterous Test management as well as strong Project & People Management capabilities along with
knack to lead, manage, direct and co-ordinate team. Also worked as Individual contributor for various
projects.
 Strong acquaintance to all phases of SDLC viz. Requirement review, Test Planning, Validation, Peer
Review/Walkthrough/Inspection, Defect management & Reporting along with Tracking,
Monitoring & Client Interaction.
 Prudent knowledge of Equities, Bonds, Mutual Funds (MF) and Equity Derivatives, also of tools to
be used viz. Quality Center (QC), JIRA, UNIX, SQL and Japanese (linguistics).
 B.E (1999-2002) - 60% - Kavikulguru Institute of Technology & Science, Ramtek.
 ISTQB, BEC and NCFM Certified (Fundamentals of Financial Markets, Mutual Funds and Equity
Derivatives).
 Highly motivated, good analytical & Inter-personal skills with proactive and positive approach. Efficient
Team Player, Quick Learner, and effective presentation abilities & having a flexible attitude.
 Fervently participated and organized team development activities. Also initiated trainings and
walkthroughs, had driven presentations and technical discussions of applications/projects, organized and
conducted sessions for domain knowledge and testing processes to new joiners, existing test team,
development team, BA team, Users and other testing team to enhance their knowledge and resulting in
improved quality levels.
 Conducted seminars of Fundamentals of financial markets, Equity trading, Testing process, defect
prevention/defect management activity, application/product, test plan & test strategy workshop at
department and organization level.

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ROLES/RESPONSIBILITIES
 Requirement Analysis & Estimation: Participated in requirement workshops, brainstorming sessions &
involvement in preparation of estimation & ensured that the project is within the business scope.
 Test Management: Preparation of Test Plan, Test Summary Report/ Test Phase completion certificate,
Daily/Weekly execution status report & Reporting Test design & Test Results status.
 Test Preparation & RTM: Extensive involvement in creation, review and updating of functional Test
Cases Design/Test Scenarios & in creating Requirement Traceability Matrix and Regression suite after
analyzing the requirements of upcoming releases.
 Review: Involvement in Peer Review, Walkthrough and Inspection to analyze business requirement
documents, functional specification, test scenarios, test scripts and other test artifacts to improve quality,
reduce effort and cost in upcoming phase.
 Test case Execution: Involvement in Test execution, monitoring and tracking to ensure that all
elements of the product are thoroughly tested as per the requirement.
 Defect Management: Upfront involvement in logging review based defect, documentation defects
and application bugs in QC. Also engaged in tracking, review and analyzing, and regularly follow up
with the development team to discuss the defects and their resolution. Driving daily/weekly defect
meetings and progress updates. Also ensuring that involved entities follows defined defect life cycle.
 Defect Prevention Activity and Matrices: Development of Defect Dashboard in defect analysis for
project to present the overall status using various measurements like Defect Density, Defects by
Severity, Defect age, Defect Leakage ratio, Defect Fix Rate. Also Analyzing and developing Fish bone &
Pareto chart. Preparing Action Plan for Defect Prevention activity which reduced efforts, cost and
improved quality.
 Co-ordination with Teams : Interacting skillfully with client, onshore test manager, BA, Users, UAT
team development team, for requirement analysis, test design, daily task execution. Effective
involvement in status meetings and calls for project updates.
 Trainings: Conducted Trainings/seminars of banking domain, project and software testing process.
 Reporting: Preparation of Daily/Weekly execution status report, Test design Status report, and Test
Summary report/Test Phase completion certificate.
Achievements/Certifications/Recognition
 Thank You Award for CAMP Project
 GBM Star Award for UserManual HSBCInvestDirect project
 One HSBC team award for GLE project
 Rise award for GLE project (UKHUB releases)
CLSA Work Experience
CLSA is Asia’s leading and longest-running independent brokerage and investment group. The company
provides equity broking and execution services, corporate finance and asset management services to global
corporate and institutional clients.CLSA has been an unconflicted provider of research, sales and trading
CLSA has built its reputation on its unrivalled equity research and economic analysis.
 Organization : CLSA Pune, India
 Duration : 03-Nov-2014 to till date.
 Designation : Senior QA Analyst.

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Project Name: Viper & COBRA/OMS –Front Office
 Role : Senior QA Analyst Domain : Equities/Investment banking
 Team Size : 8 Duration : 03-Nov-2014 to till date
Viper (similar to Fidessa) Overview: It is Stand alone application used by Dealer for DSA/Agency flows
for all the Client for all the Asia Pacific CASH markets. Main Features: Single/Multiple order execution,
Orphan orders, late trade, match/unmatch execution, Combine orders, Group orders, Algo executions ,
Housefill, Crossing opportunities: Crossing (broker to broker ,Client to Client), Orphan cross, Late trades,
OAS, Price volume chart, Market data, Execution summary.
Viper product consists of Client Order blotter: Provides summary of all client order. Dealer is able to
perform standard trading from here such as order execution, housefull and crossings. Execution can be
matched & Unmatched from client orders. Crossing Opportunities: Displays all crossing opportunities for
the selected client order. Dealer is able to initiate client-to-client crossings from this panel; execution can be
matched and unmatched from client orders. Unallocated Execution: Displays unallocated trade matches
when user matches executions from client orders. Orphan Order: allows dealer to send an order to market
without a client order. Market Depth: Order book for the given stock. Broker Que: Displays for given stock.
Child Order Blotter: Provides summary for all floor orders for the selected client orders. Dealer is able to
amend or cancel any floor order here. Order are allows for manual and algo slicing takes place and order gets
executed.
OMS (Order Management System) Overview: It is Stand along application for Agency which is used by
Sales Trader to create, Sales complete. Amend and cancel a Client Orders for all the Asia Client Orders for all
the Asia Pacific CASH markets.
Cobra (similar to Fidessa) Overview: Is inhouse development for sales trading desk which is replacing
existing OMS (Sungard product) used by the Sales traders. It is having a Order request blotter for various
sales trading desk and fix clients. It is having Bloomberg ,PTC, PVC, Trade history (per stock, per client).Also
sales trader can view in Cobra what dealer is performing with the client order at execution level whether
executing order in exchange, executing via Algo strategies ,Crossing Engines ,performing C2C or
B2B cross .
Main Features: Request blotter for fix clients, and various sales trading desks; Venom for Position
management; Single/Multiple Order creation and routing to dealer or dealer group. Amendment and
termination request to Dealer; Trade History, Market filters based on the various exchange ; Sharing
information for each activity on execution at real time.
HSBC Work Experience
HSBC Global Technology (GLT) Services Centres main purpose is to provide technology solutions and
services to a large spectrum of customers spreading across multiple business functions & geographies.Global
Banking and Markets, Retail Banking and Wealth Management, Commercial Banking and Private Banking.
GLT also develop and maintain systems for all the support functions including from Finance, HR, Risk and
Compliance plus other
 Organization : HSBC (GLT) Pune, India
 Duration : 01-Aug-2005 to 31-Oct-14
 Designation : Consultant Specialist
Project Name: Client Relationship Management
 Role :Consultants Specialist/Team Leader Domain : Private banking
 Team Size : 6 Duration : July-13 to 31-Oct-14
Overview: CRM is an application for managing basic information on clients, prospects and contact activities
in the different regions at one place which will help the client to have a single system that offers all global
customers to serve them better. The application provides the combination of the business process and
technology to understand company’s customer profile.CRM application provides functionalities such as Know
your customer create and maintains client profiles, client risk calculator etc. CRM applications also enables
relationship managers to get update the reports like call or visitation.

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Project Name: HSBCInvestDirect (Equity Trading)
 Role :Consultants Specialist/Team Leader Domain : Investment banking (Equities)
 Team Size : 5 Duration : Aug-10 to Dec-13 (40 months)
Overview: HSBCInvestdirect is a full service broking house offering end-to end trading solution to
customers. Customer can trade with HSBCInvestdirect in cash and Derivative segments through NSE and
BSE. Online trading allows customer to buy and sell share on exchange through internet. Application allows
placing order with product type Delivery, Margin, SRS and with order type-Limit, Market, Stoploss, to verify
status of order in order book and confirm trade in trade book. Application allows placing order intraday
stocks, SRS, holdings from intraday screen, receivable positions and from DPholding screen respectively.
Application also provides fund calculation, DPHolding credit, Receivable credit calculation and margin
calculation.
Project Name: GLOBAL LIQUIDITY ENGINE
 Role : Senior Software Engineer Domain : Payment-Cash Management
 Team Size : 10 Duration : April-07 to July-10 (40 months)
Overview: If there is need (by Client) to keep their accounts balances separate at the same time they want
to maximize their interest earnings and to reduce interest expenses and also holding accounts in different
currencies, regions, countries and on different back office system (host system), he may opt for the pooling
product of all those accounts. Pooling involves the notional offsetting of debit and credit balances, our
customers pays less interest without any movement of funds between accounts. As funds do not move,
pooling is used where balance interest offset is required. Pooling essentially offers reduction in borrowing
costs. It also offers the ability to reduce fund transfer costs (since there is no physical movement of funds).
Interest calculation methods are: Absolute Balance Percentage Distribution, Fairshare Distribution.
Project Name: CUTOMER ACTIVITY MONITORING PROGRAM
 Role : Software Engineer Domain : Anti Money Laundering
 Team Size : 9 Duration : Aug-05 to Mar-07 (20 Months)
Overview: The Customer Activity Monitoring Program (CAMP) has been developed in response to increase
regulatory and government focuses in regard to prevent money laundering activities throughout the bank.
CAMP is basically a potential means to detect as well as to prevent the tarnishing of reputation for financial
institution by managing Risk in addition to that it helps in minimizing the exposure to suspicious activities.
CAMP application generates alerts whenever a transaction or Activity is felt suspicious. More prominently the
reports generated from the application can monitor the flow of money for a particular period of time.
Software Courses
 Courses : Manual testing, Training of testing on LIVE Project, SQL and UNIX.
 Duration : Jan -2005 to July-2005
WORK EXPERIENCE (NON IT)
 Organization : Dhote Construction & Associates
 Designation : Site Engineer
 Projects : Road Project and Building Work.
 Responsibilities : Layout Work and Site supervision
 Duration : Aug 2002 to Dec 2004
PERSONAL DETAILS
 Date of Birth : 04-05-1978
 Address : Pune, India