• Successful as Senior Business Analyst in large Banking, Finance Services and Insurance(BFSI)projects with over 7.5 years’ experience inIT industry.
  • Diverse experience with understanding of Business Process Flows, Business Process Modeling, System Analysis, CASE Tools and Requirement engineering.
  • Experience in implementing regulatory requirements for large banks primarily around Basel II reporting requirement which involved ETL Process, Data Warehousing and feeding data into Basel II engines like FERMAT CAD.
  • Experience leading medium sized Teams spread across multiple time zones and countries
  • Experience working with huge volumes of data, analyzing record sets for Data Quality, Data Validation and  Metrics using SQL and / or PL/SQL
  • Proven ability to coordinate medium sized project from initial conceptualization through implementation
  • Experience working with various software development methodologies including Agileand Waterfall
  • Dynamic team player who is consistently motivated toward success and completion of projects with an ability to work independently
  • A quick learner who can swiftly adapt to new challenges

Summary

Requirements Management

Requisite Pro, Test Director, HP QC, ClearCase, Microsoft Office 2010 Suite

Project Management

MS Project, MS Excel, MS Access

Agile

JIRA+GreenHopper, Mingle, TargetProcess, VersionOne

Documentation

Office 2010 Suite, Adobe Pagemaker,ConceptDraw Suite

Wireframe/Prototype

Axure Pro, iRise, Firefox Pencil,

Requirements Workshop

Mindmap, Freemind, Powerpoint

UML

Microsoft Visio 2010, MagicDraw 12, SmartDraw 2010

RDBMS

IBM DB2 UDB, SQL, Oracle 7/8-i, 10-xe, MS-Access, MS SQL Server 2000/2005

Testing

WinRunner, LoadRunner, QuickTestPro, HP QC, Testdirector,  Rational ClearQuest, Firefox (iMacros, Firebug,Pagespeed,Yslow)

Configuration Management

Rational ClearCase, AccuRev

Content Management

WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Moodle

Operating Systems

Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/VISTA, UNIX

BPM

SmartBPM® PegaRULES Process Commander (PRPC)

ETL Tool

IBM DataStage 7.1/7.5/8.0.1

Business Intelligence Tools

SAS BI, Business Objects XI, Cognos 9

Core Skills

Virtusa Inc.                     Feb 2008 – Present
Senior Business Analyst

Virtusa

Virtusa Corporation (NASDAQ: VRTU) is a global information technology (IT) services company providing IT consulting, technology and outsourcing services.

Virtusa focuses on delivering business results by modernizing, rationalizing and consolidating the critical applications that support our clients’ core business processes. The company uses an enhanced global delivery model, innovative software platforming approach and deep industry expertise to provide high-value IT services. This approach enables its clients to improve their customers’ experience, expand market reach, improve time to market and lower costs.

Virtusa serves Global 2000 companies and leading software vendors in Communications & Technology, Banking & Financial Services, Insurance, Telecommunications, and Media, Information & Entertainment industries.

Virtusa has extensive experience and in-depth expertise in Business Process Management, Enterprise Content Management and Data warehouse and Business Intelligence. The company’s service offerings include technology consulting, application development and maintenance, systems integration, custom software development, product development and Testing services.

Founded in 1996, and headquartered in Massachusetts, Virtusa has offices and technology centers throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Specialties IT Consulting, Technology and Outsourcing Services

Co. Size:

1001-5000 employees

Website: http://www.virtusa.com
Industry: Computer Software

RBS Business Services  Feb 2006 - Jan 2008
Business Analyst

Royal Bank of Scotland

Formerly known as ABN AMRO is a highly reputable and stable banking partner for its customers, with a rich history dating back to 1720. We are proud of both our heritage and our potential for the future, our ambition is always to help customers and their business as effectively as possible.

The new ABN AMRO offers a complete package of products and services in retail banking, private banking and commercial and merchant banking. In the Netherlands we serve more than 6.8 million retail customers and offer a wide range of financial products and services for private clients, entrepreneurs and large businesses through multiple distribution channels (banks shop, business center, telephone, advice & service center and the Internet ).

At our bank employed about 28,000 people, more than 5,000 outside the Netherlands. ABN AMRO is present in 28 countries and territories.

Co. Size:

10,001+ employees

Website: http://www.abnamro.nl
Industry: Banking

Mascon Global Ltd.    Jun 2005 – Jan 2006
Business Analyst

Mascon Global

Mascon Global Limited (MGL) is a global provider of IT and ITES services with offices and software development centers across USA, Mexico, Europe, and Asia. MGL has been assisting companies accomplishing their goals by providing a wide range of technology solutions by leveraging its domain and business expertise and strategic alliances with leading technology providers.

MGL has been the innovation partner of choice for blue-chip firms around the world, ranging from large Fortune 500 companies to start-ups. Our employees are out strength that helped us completing more than 100+ offshore application maintenance and development projects involving 10,000 person-years of effort. MGL has been empowering its clientele that ranges from Finance, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Education and Media, Travel and Hospitality, Manufacturing and Telecommunications.

MGL’s quality-based global delivery methodologies have given clients the competitive edge to excel in their industries and also augmented the organization’s drive towards achieving ISO 7001, TL 9000, PCMM level 3 and SEI-CMMI level 5 certifications which are testimony of the company’s thrust in quality and innovation.

Co. Size:

1001-5000 employees

Website: http://www.mgl.com
Industry: Information Technology and Services

Kernlabs Pvt. Ltd.       Mar 2004 - May 2005
Software Consultant

Kernlabs Pvt. Ltd.

Kernalbs was an offshore development center of Mirabilis Design Inc., USA (http://www.mirabilisdesign.com) which is a systems simulation software company for the performance and power optimization of electronics and embedded software architectures. Using our software, design teams can conduct ad-hoc trade-off between cost, power and performance to create the optimal product specification. Our graphical modeling environment, VisualSim, contains a complete suite of library and application templates to quickly construct a new design.

Specialties Systems engineering, system modeling and simulation, electronic system level design, ESL, SLD, architecture exploration, performance analysis, power estimation

Co. Size:

11-50 employees

Website: http://www.mirabilisdesig…
Industry: Computer Software

Work History

  • Business Process Analysis and Requirement Documentation/Engineering:

  • Participated in various projects throughout the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) understanding business need and gathering and documenting business requirements (BRD), user requirements, system requirements and function and non-functional requirements (FSD)
  • Excellent technical writing skills with hands on experience creatingBusiness Requirements, Functional Specifications, Mapping Documents, E-R Diagrams,Test Plans, Test Scripts and Status Reports
  • Strengths include big picture focus while developing strategic business solutions which can include: mission statements, value propositions, critical success factors and facilitating functional design meeting for documenting requirements, with an eye for minute details
  • Proficient in planning and execution of projects in time critical environment
  • Experience of business process modeling and analysis utilizing Business Process Modeling Tool (eg: Visio)
  • Experience doing Analysis and Design using Entity Relationship (ERD), Data Flow (DFD), Structure Chart and Flow Chart documentation
  • Experience with performing business and financial analysis including ROI, GAP and risk analysis, Cost-benefit analysis and developing related documentation
  • Analyzing workflow for Manual to Automated Processes.
  • Efficiently liaise between the business stakeholders and technology teams and also act as an SME for offshore teams

  • User Testing/Training

  • Experience in working closely with testing team in development of  test plans, test cases and strategies for QA testing and  User Acceptance Testing (UAT) of systems and systems fixes and enhancements
  • Defining and developing communication plans, User manuals and training materials

  • Specialties

Swift Messaging Standards, PAYMUL, EDIFCAT, RequisitePro, Business Objects, Quality Center 9.2, MS Project, Visio, ConceptDraw and SmartDraw (UML), Axure RP / iRise, SIT, UAT and PAT Testing, RUP, AUP, XML, HTML, CSS, Java Scripts, PHP, MYSQL, Web Designing, UI Designing, Open-source Content Management software (WordPress, Joomla, Drupal Customization), Search Engine Optimization, Social Media Integration and Website optimization, Social Media Optimization, Web Analytics using Google Analytics, Yahoo Web Analytics, Omniture InSight, Omniture SiteCatalyst, WebTrends and Urchin.

Experience



Connect

Bachelor of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, University of Madras, 2004

Education

”Dennis Mes”
“had the oppertunity to work with Karthikeyan at the start of my professional career at LogicaCMG. He is a men that works with a good focus to achieve his goals, which are always set at a high level of quality. Karthikeyan is a colleague you enjoy working with. He shows interest in co-workers, always friendly and ready to help out. Kathikeyan is a colleague with a positive mindset. He will help to set a positive focus within the group. I would love to work with him any time soon.”
”Dennis Mes” ”LogicaCMG”

”Sunil Kumar”
“Karthik worked 12 months for me. During this period he worked in Chennai and some parts of Europe. He was working on a project in international payments and settlements at ABN AMRO. Karthik has good analytical skills. He has techno functional background. This really helps as he understands technology and business. The intensity of knowledge he has compared to his age is very good. He is a very quick leaner and is able to work alone as well as in teams of small and large sizes.”
”Sunil Kumar” ”Royal Bank of Scotland”

”Elvira Beekman”
“Very good analytical skills combined with good communication skills. Karthik was able to quickly grasp the business needs of the application and reported issues seen in relation to the business needs. The phycial distance (Amsterdam – India Chenai) did not in any way hindered us in a good communication.”
”Elvira Beekman” ”Accenture”

”Bart van Dulst”
“In short you will really notice the added value of having Karthikeyan on your team. Karthikeyan is quick in assessing, analyzing and solving problems. In addition he is a teamplayer, a motivator and is able to train people, thus leveraging his knowledge & skill-set, which also results in better cohesion within the team.”
”Bart van Dulst” ”ABN Amro Bank”

”Henk Hutink”
“Karthikeyan is a very knowledgeable business consultant. He knows to combine IT and business knowledge to create an added value in the team. He is appreciated by the whole team en is a truly teamplayer. Undoubtedly you can rely on his integrity. The quality he delivers is by far more than you expect to get.” Top qualities: Great Results, Expert, High Integrity
”Henk Hutink” ”Programme Manager,RBS”

Testimonials

Requirements Management

Requisite Pro, Test Director, HP QC, ClearCase, Microsoft Office 2010 Suite

Project Management

MS Project, MS Excel, MS Access

Agile

JIRA+GreenHopper, Mingle, TargetProcess, VersionOne

Documentation

Office 2010 Suite, Adobe Pagemaker,ConceptDraw Suite

Wireframe/Prototype

Axure Pro, iRise, Firefox Pencil,

Requirements Workshop

Mindmap, Freemind, Powerpoint

UML

Microsoft Visio 2010, MagicDraw 12, SmartDraw 2010

RDBMS

IBM DB2 UDB, SQL, Oracle 7/8-i, 10-xe, MS-Access, MS SQL Server 2000/2005

Testing

WinRunner, LoadRunner, QuickTestPro, HP QC, Testdirector,  Rational ClearQuest, Firefox (iMacros, Firebug,Pagespeed,Yslow)

Configuration Management

Rational ClearCase, AccuRev

Content Management

WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Moodle

Operating Systems

Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/VISTA, UNIX

BPM

SmartBPM® PegaRULES Process Commander (PRPC)

ETL Tool

IBM DataStage 7.1/7.5/8.0.1

Business Intelligence Tools

SAS BI, Business Objects XI, Cognos 9

Core Skills

Virtusa Inc.                     Feb 2008 – Present
Senior Business Analyst

Virtusa

Virtusa Corporation (NASDAQ: VRTU) is a global information technology (IT) services company providing IT consulting, technology and outsourcing services.

Virtusa focuses on delivering business results by modernizing, rationalizing and consolidating the critical applications that support our clients’ core business processes. The company uses an enhanced global delivery model, innovative software platforming approach and deep industry expertise to provide high-value IT services. This approach enables its clients to improve their customers’ experience, expand market reach, improve time to market and lower costs.

Virtusa serves Global 2000 companies and leading software vendors in Communications & Technology, Banking & Financial Services, Insurance, Telecommunications, and Media, Information & Entertainment industries.

Virtusa has extensive experience and in-depth expertise in Business Process Management, Enterprise Content Management and Data warehouse and Business Intelligence. The company’s service offerings include technology consulting, application development and maintenance, systems integration, custom software development, product development and Testing services.

Founded in 1996, and headquartered in Massachusetts, Virtusa has offices and technology centers throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Specialties IT Consulting, Technology and Outsourcing Services

Co. Size:

1001-5000 employees

Website: http://www.virtusa.com
Industry: Computer Software

RBS Business Services  Feb 2006 - Jan 2008
Business Analyst

Royal Bank of Scotland

Formerly known as ABN AMRO is a highly reputable and stable banking partner for its customers, with a rich history dating back to 1720. We are proud of both our heritage and our potential for the future, our ambition is always to help customers and their business as effectively as possible.

The new ABN AMRO offers a complete package of products and services in retail banking, private banking and commercial and merchant banking. In the Netherlands we serve more than 6.8 million retail customers and offer a wide range of financial products and services for private clients, entrepreneurs and large businesses through multiple distribution channels (banks shop, business center, telephone, advice & service center and the Internet ).

At our bank employed about 28,000 people, more than 5,000 outside the Netherlands. ABN AMRO is present in 28 countries and territories.

Co. Size:

10,001+ employees

Website: http://www.abnamro.nl
Industry: Banking

Mascon Global Ltd.    Jun 2005 – Jan 2006
Business Analyst

Mascon Global

Mascon Global Limited (MGL) is a global provider of IT and ITES services with offices and software development centers across USA, Mexico, Europe, and Asia. MGL has been assisting companies accomplishing their goals by providing a wide range of technology solutions by leveraging its domain and business expertise and strategic alliances with leading technology providers.

MGL has been the innovation partner of choice for blue-chip firms around the world, ranging from large Fortune 500 companies to start-ups. Our employees are out strength that helped us completing more than 100+ offshore application maintenance and development projects involving 10,000 person-years of effort. MGL has been empowering its clientele that ranges from Finance, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Education and Media, Travel and Hospitality, Manufacturing and Telecommunications.

MGL’s quality-based global delivery methodologies have given clients the competitive edge to excel in their industries and also augmented the organization’s drive towards achieving ISO 7001, TL 9000, PCMM level 3 and SEI-CMMI level 5 certifications which are testimony of the company’s thrust in quality and innovation.

Co. Size:

1001-5000 employees

Website: http://www.mgl.com
Industry: Information Technology and Services

Kernlabs Pvt. Ltd.       Mar 2004 - May 2005
Software Consultant

Kernlabs Pvt. Ltd.

Kernalbs was an offshore development center of Mirabilis Design Inc., USA (http://www.mirabilisdesign.com) which is a systems simulation software company for the performance and power optimization of electronics and embedded software architectures. Using our software, design teams can conduct ad-hoc trade-off between cost, power and performance to create the optimal product specification. Our graphical modeling environment, VisualSim, contains a complete suite of library and application templates to quickly construct a new design.

Specialties Systems engineering, system modeling and simulation, electronic system level design, ESL, SLD, architecture exploration, performance analysis, power estimation

Co. Size:

11-50 employees

Website: http://www.mirabilisdesig…
Industry: Computer Software

Work History

  • Business Process Analysis and Requirement Documentation/Engineering:

  • Participated in various projects throughout the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) understanding business need and gathering and documenting business requirements (BRD), user requirements, system requirements and function and non-functional requirements (FSD)
  • Excellent technical writing skills with hands on experience creatingBusiness Requirements, Functional Specifications, Mapping Documents, E-R Diagrams,Test Plans, Test Scripts and Status Reports
  • Strengths include big picture focus while developing strategic business solutions which can include: mission statements, value propositions, critical success factors and facilitating functional design meeting for documenting requirements, with an eye for minute details
  • Proficient in planning and execution of projects in time critical environment
  • Experience of business process modeling and analysis utilizing Business Process Modeling Tool (eg: Visio)
  • Experience doing Analysis and Design using Entity Relationship (ERD), Data Flow (DFD), Structure Chart and Flow Chart documentation
  • Experience with performing business and financial analysis including ROI, GAP and risk analysis, Cost-benefit analysis and developing related documentation
  • Analyzing workflow for Manual to Automated Processes.
  • Efficiently liaise between the business stakeholders and technology teams and also act as an SME for offshore teams

  • User Testing/Training

  • Experience in working closely with testing team in development of  test plans, test cases and strategies for QA testing and  User Acceptance Testing (UAT) of systems and systems fixes and enhancements
  • Defining and developing communication plans, User manuals and training materials

  • Specialties

Swift Messaging Standards, PAYMUL, EDIFCAT, RequisitePro, Business Objects, Quality Center 9.2, MS Project, Visio, ConceptDraw and SmartDraw (UML), Axure RP / iRise, SIT, UAT and PAT Testing, RUP, AUP, XML, HTML, CSS, Java Scripts, PHP, MYSQL, Web Designing, UI Designing, Open-source Content Management software (WordPress, Joomla, Drupal Customization), Search Engine Optimization, Social Media Integration and Website optimization, Social Media Optimization, Web Analytics using Google Analytics, Yahoo Web Analytics, Omniture InSight, Omniture SiteCatalyst, WebTrends and Urchin.

Experience

”Dennis Mes”
“had the oppertunity to work with Karthikeyan at the start of my professional career at LogicaCMG. He is a men that works with a good focus to achieve his goals, which are always set at a high level of quality. Karthikeyan is a colleague you enjoy working with. He shows interest in co-workers, always friendly and ready to help out. Kathikeyan is a colleague with a positive mindset. He will help to set a positive focus within the group. I would love to work with him any time soon.”
”Dennis Mes” ”LogicaCMG”

”Sunil Kumar”
“Karthik worked 12 months for me. During this period he worked in Chennai and some parts of Europe. He was working on a project in international payments and settlements at ABN AMRO. Karthik has good analytical skills. He has techno functional background. This really helps as he understands technology and business. The intensity of knowledge he has compared to his age is very good. He is a very quick leaner and is able to work alone as well as in teams of small and large sizes.”
”Sunil Kumar” ”Royal Bank of Scotland”

”Elvira Beekman”
“Very good analytical skills combined with good communication skills. Karthik was able to quickly grasp the business needs of the application and reported issues seen in relation to the business needs. The phycial distance (Amsterdam – India Chenai) did not in any way hindered us in a good communication.”
”Elvira Beekman” ”Accenture”

”Bart van Dulst”
“In short you will really notice the added value of having Karthikeyan on your team. Karthikeyan is quick in assessing, analyzing and solving problems. In addition he is a teamplayer, a motivator and is able to train people, thus leveraging his knowledge & skill-set, which also results in better cohesion within the team.”
”Bart van Dulst” ”ABN Amro Bank”

”Henk Hutink”
“Karthikeyan is a very knowledgeable business consultant. He knows to combine IT and business knowledge to create an added value in the team. He is appreciated by the whole team en is a truly teamplayer. Undoubtedly you can rely on his integrity. The quality he delivers is by far more than you expect to get.” Top qualities: Great Results, Expert, High Integrity
”Henk Hutink” ”Programme Manager,RBS”

Testimonials

Clients