Peter Mohan

Email: [email protected]
Phone: 416-417-3380

Professional Summary

 8 years of diverse experience in Information Technology with emphasis on Business system Analysis,
Quality Assurance of Client/Server, multi device and Web based applications under multi browser
environment.
 Understanding of Capital markets, Trade Lifecycle, Investments, Banking, Financial, Insurance,
Cyber Security, Threat orchestration, IT Risk and E-Commerce domains with strong functional
experience
 Experience in Risk analysis and Mitigation Projects, compliance and regulatory reporting
Requirements with specific Knowledge of BASEL III and Volcker Rule.
 Strong experience in managing multiple stakeholders across various projects, eliciting, analyzing,
documenting and communicating requirements. Expertise in Change Management and Negotiations.
 Experience in regulatory constraints requirement, specific experience with Cash life cycle.
 Excellence in producing various documents like functional specifications, test cases, BRD, Business
Process Documents, user manuals, user interface specs, Gap analysis documents, Return-on-
investment analysis documents and functional decomposition tree.
 Experience in Using Lean Six Sigma Principles, Expertise in Providing Business recommendations.
 Proficient analytical skills to understand the business process and Functionality, Requirements and to
translate them to System Requirement Specifications. Developing Functional specifications for business
process refinement and automation, data modeling, system Architecture, conducting Feasibility
studies and Scope.
 Experience in business process design, research, & implementation methodologies, diagramming data
& process mapping, applying Unified Modeling Language (UML), implementation of performance
measures and MVP introduction.
 Extensive experience in analyzing and creating Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams,
Business Flow Diagrams, and Navigational Flow diagrams, Wireframes and Sequence Diagrams.
 Conducted Requirement Gathering Sessions (RGS) and Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions
and interviewed Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), asking detailed functionality aspects of business
process and carefully updating the information to the requirements in an easily understandable format.
 Experience and expertise in data analysis and presentation. Having sound knowledge of TABLEAU
for presentation of data through dashboards.
 Hands on experience in preparation of Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Reports and Defect Lifecycle.
 Accomplished Sanity, Functional, GUI, Regression, Integration, System, Database, Exploratory,
Black Box, Browser Compatibility, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Business Acceptance
testing (BAT) and post production Validation Testing.
 Complete the mapping of Requirement Traceability Matrix RTM and managed defect lifecycle using
tools like Quality Centre, Red mine, JIRA, MS excel and MS office.
 Exceptional ability to quickly master new concepts, enthusiastic and professional team player, good
communication and interpersonal skills and self-motivated.

Employment
 Senior Business system Analyst / QA Analyst Jan 2022 -
Present
SCOTIA Bank, Toronto, ON

Ringfencing exposure reports for SFT Transactions are two days i.e. T+2. This Lags common practice
in the market and does not adhere to the expectations of U.S regulators. The Ringfencing project aims
to reduce the Credit risk and Liquidity Risk exposure reports to T+1 in Capital Markets while
enhancing quality of the reports and establishing control mechanisms for Risk management.

PROJECT B
Lancelot project would allow more timely monitoring of counterparties in portfolio limits. It includes
Data quality of credit Risk reporting, Automate manual repair files and improve the performance of
batch run to provide timeliness of Credit risk reporting and establish controls to ensure data accuracy.

Responsibilities:

 Worked closely with End users to create a Dashboard for Data Quality check for credit Risk reporting
to regulators and applied Fallback Logic for SFT Reporting.
 Conducted Gap analysis and created document to support the recommendation for integrations.
 Worked closely with Reporting analysts to assure the timeliness of Credit Risk reporting for stake
holders to make key decisions on Business with Minimal risks.
 Worked closely with Data Analysts to write Data transformation rules, ETL rules and Business rules.
Created Data mapping and data modelling diagrams along with Data dictionary documents.
 Worked with Investment SME’s, Financial Advisors, Portfolio Managers as well as other Business
teams on requirement gathering to write Business Requirement documents
 Worked with internal users to help define system requirements with the Use of the AGILE
methodology for software development.
 Worked collaboratively with the User Experience Analysts, and System Analysts to help document
custom and system modifications using Business intelligence.
 Worked closely with project manager for Scope analysis, Risk analysis, Functional decomposition and
assisted in Estimation of Time constraint and Business value. Provided recommendation on Mitigation
and Business process improvements.
 Worked closely with QA team in Generating and executing test cases. Hands on experience in
preparation of Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Reports and Defect Lifecycle.
 Worked on Test case execution, Cross browser Testing, Browser extensions User Interface (UI) testing.
 Worked with Security and Threat Orchestration team as a link between the inbuild processes and the
Implementation of Vendor products. played important role in deciding the benefits of Automation
along with Business Value achieved.
 Worked on CRM Report Builder and TABLEAU to generate reports and cleansing.
 Worked on SQL for data query, Having experience in data integration. Worked on data mapping for
multiple databases using SSIS.
 Developed Traceability Matrix for maintaining/updating current and new system requirements using
MS Excel.
 Created and managed Use case trackers for real time updating of multiple automations across many
departments assuring seamless interactions through API integrations.
 Senior Business system Analyst / QA Analyst                                  Feb 2019 – Dec 2021
AGF Investments, Toronto, ON

Risk management system enables risk managers of AGF to manage and mitigate credit risk, market
risk and liquidity risk in trading transactions through thorough credit adjudication, collateral
management, VaR analysis, historic simulations, maturity reports in compliance with SOX, Basel III
and OSFI

B Project
Wealth management/ Portfolio Management system enables the Financial Planners to most accurately
analyses the needs of Investor and the best suited products for them. The application had four modules
namely KYC(AML – ATF), Assets, Liabilities and Goals. Implementation of Salesforce as CRM for
loading data and building Reports

C Project
Capital market trade management system enabling traders to perform trading transactions involving
capital market instruments like stocks, derivatives and mutual fund products. Volcker Rule was
implemented to prohibit from proprietary Trading, investing or sponsoring Hedge Funds.

Responsibilities:

 Gathered requirements from front, middle and back offices through interviews, storyboarding,
wireframes and user stories techniques. provided support in prioritizing deliverables.
 Worked with Investment SME’s, Financial Advisors, Portfolio Managers as well as other Business
teams on requirement gathering to write Business Requirement documents including system
requirements and Functional requirements.
 Worked as a liaison between Business users and IT team for the seamless implementation of Vendor
product.
 Worked with Regulatory and Compliance Analysts to elicit the requirements for integration and
implementation of Volcker Rule
 Created GAP analysis documents and Return-on-investment analysis documents provide
recommendation for vendor product implementations.
 Worked closely with Data Analysts to write Data transformation rules, ETL rules and Business rules.
Created Data mapping and data modelling diagrams along with Data dictionary documents.
 Worked closely on system integrations, created and documented process flow documents for API
Integrations.
 Worked with internal users to help define system requirements with the Use of the AGILE
methodology for software development.
 Worked collaboratively with the User Experience Analysts, and System Analysts to help document
custom and system modifications.
 Developed Traceability Matrix for maintaining/updating current and new system requirements using
MS Excel. Test cases were stored using AZURE.
 Created and managed Use Case project templates.
 Developed system Use Cases using UML, for FIPA system. Enabled developers and other stakeholders
to understand the business process.
 Used problem and change management software to document work requests for release activities.
 Worked closely with the testing team in test plan, test strategy and test case creation
 Generated and maintained test data through SQL, boundary value analysis and equivalence
partitioning technique
 Raised, managed and reported defects through HP Quality Centre

Sr. Business system Analyst Mar 2016 – Jan 2019

Worked on multiple projects involving mortgage insurance, mortgage underwriting and collections
applications which were used by the back office mortgage officers for processing entire back office
operations. SalesForce implemented as CRM for cross dealer platform.

B Project
Worked on a project involving KYC customer onboarding application in adherence to corporate AML
compliance program, identification, verification, record management and reporting. The application
helps case analysts in risk behavior analysis and monitoring. It was cloud based application.

Responsibilities:

 Worked with Investment SME’s, Financial Analysts as well as other business teams on requirements
gathering to write the Business Requirements Documents.
 Processes and created use case and process flow diagrams.
 Involved in all phases of software development life cycle.
 Worked on eliciting, analyzing, documenting and communicating Business requirements for new
CRM. Provided recommendations for Vendor managed product.
 Created GAP analysis documents to Return on investment analysis documents to explain the Business
Value and Time Liberation to Business users
 Followed the AGILE methodology for elicitation and representation of requirements.
 Contributed in defining the scope of the project and defined functional specifications.
 Analyzed and documented the system specifications, Business requirements; used the tool DOORS for
documenting, tracking and analyzing the requirements.
 Used DOORS to link requirements to test cases, business rules and design items to maintain
traceability.
 Actively participated in scrum meetings, sprint planning meeting, retrospective meeting, reviews and
developed test scenarios.
 Participated in creating detailed test plan and detailed test cases for each unit’s merger.
 Responsible for interacting with business analyst, developers and support team to define and develop
the test scenarios/cases.
 Involved in estimation and scheduling of testing efforts.
 Created and executes test cases for mobile applications for platforms iOS/Android/Blackberry. AZURE
used for cloud computing.
 Executed SQL queries to retrieve data from the database in order to create test data. SSIS to integrate
multiple databases
 Responsible for knowledge transfer to new testers in QA team. Supported with User acceptance
Testing
 Created inputs for daily status reports and scheduled defect resolution meetings on a daily basis
during testing phase with development team.
 Maintained testing log and provided testing status to test lead.

Business Analyst / Tester Jan 2014 – Feb 2016

The Policy Management Application was being migrated from the legacy system to the .NET
technology with SQL server as the backend database. The application had four modules namely
Underwriting, Accounts, Claims and System Administration.

Responsibilities: 

 Used UML to produce Use-Cases, Use case diagrams and Activity diagrams to explain process flows
and functional specifications.
 Used the tool Systems Architect and MS-Visio to create use case diagrams and process flows.
 Involved in identification of business rules, business and system process flows, user administration,
requirements and assumptions.
 Regularly interacted with onshore and offshore teams to communicate requirements and review test
cases and test plans.
 Performed manual testing for the validity of data migration from a legacy system to the latest version.
 Prepared test data for positive and negative testing.
 Executed SQL Queries to test the validity of the data migration process.
 Responsible for identifying and reporting defects to application developers by using QC.
 Documented Test cases for Functional testing, Integration testing and End to End testing.
 Executed Test cases for the verification of form generation. Executed UAT demo
 Actively participated in the weekly status meeting to discuss the upcoming releases and changes in the
hardware.

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Marketing and International Business April 2008
GGSIP University of Management Studies, Delhi, India
Key Impact Areas
Business management
Operational research
Marketing Analytics
International Business

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science May 2006