Urvashi Kumari
Director at Morgan Stanley
Mumbai
Summary
Experienced QA Manager with strong expertise in planning and managing reporting, leading cross-functional teams through strategic planning, collaboration, and effective people management to achieve business objectives. Comprehensive knowledge of the end-to-end testing lifecycle, including Test Management, Functional Testing Automation Testing and Regression Testing, along with requirements analysis, estimation, test planning, execution, and defect management.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Director
Morgan Stanley
07.2021 - Current
- QA Manager with experience in leading 10-member teams, delivering end-to-end testing for regulatory and derivatives platforms in investment banking environment.
- Delivered OTC Derivatives regulatory reporting across North America (CFTC, SEC, CSA) and UK (ESMA and FCA) regimes, ensuring compliance and data accuracy.
- Strong hands-on knowledge of ETD and OTC trade processing for Credit, Interest Rate and Commodities and validation to regulatory submissions to DTCC
- Led production support and QA governance, managing high priority incidents, performing root-cause analysis, and ensuring timely resolution within SLA.
- Partnered with business, technology, and regulatory stakeholders to drive on-time delivery and improve QA efficiency and effectiveness.
- Planned and tracked test strategy, milestones, and deliverables, providing regular status reporting to senior stakeholders.
- Defined team scope and objectives, hired and evaluated associates, and mentored team members to scale QA capability and domain expertise.
Senior Software Engineer
Diebold Nixdorf
01.2021 - 07.2021
- Executed ATM system testing in lab environments in line with functional and business requirements.
- Represented QA in defect triage meetings, highlighting risks, dependencies, and QA blockers to stakeholders - resulting in 0% defect slippage in production environment
- Developed and executed automated regression test scripts to improve test efficiency and coverage.
- Performed Smoke, Functional, Integration, Automation, and Regression Testing across releases.
- Logged, tracked, and managed defects using JIRA, ensuring timely resolution and closure of tickets.
Senior Test Engineer
Larsen and Toubro Infotech
02.2018 - 01.2021
- Worked extensively on SWIFT payment (MT192,101,103,202,592,Free formats), creating and validating incoming and outgoing SWIFT messages and ensuring accurate end-to-end processing.
- Analyzed requirements and prepared test plans, estimations, and test strategies to support Agile releases.
- Designed and executed manual and automated test cases, logging and tracking defects through resolution.
- Supported User Acceptance Testing (UAT) by preparing test data, coordinating with business users, and obtaining formal sign-off.
QA Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions
04.2013 - 02.2018
- Analyzed test cases and prepared test data to ensure smooth and accurate test execution for Swift payment testing with 0% defect slippage in production
- Executed and maintained regression testing, including automated test scripts to improve coverage and efficiency.
- Conducted peer reviews of test cases and performed Smoke, Functional, Integration, Automation, and Regression Testing.
Education
B Tech (Bio-Medical) -
Vellore Institute of Technology
TamilNadu05.2013
Skills
Ability to learn quickly
Personal Information
Date of Birth : Mar 1st,1991
Gender : Female
Marital Status : Married
Disclaimer
I have declared that above all information is correct in my knowledge.
Timeline
Director
Morgan Stanley
07.2021 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
Diebold Nixdorf
01.2021 - 07.2021
Senior Test Engineer
Larsen and Toubro Infotech
02.2018 - 01.2021
QA Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions
04.2013 - 02.2018
B Tech (Bio-Medical) -
Vellore Institute of Technology