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Harish Nirmal Balamurugan

9 years IT experience in Banking/Payments domain worked for top tier banks in UAE and
India with a versatile exposure towards Project Management, Deployment (ITSM)
Management, Test Management, Business/Product/Cash Management and Software
Testing across various domains like Corporate Banking, Retail Banking, Core
banking (Flex cube, T24 & Finacle), UAE Central Banking Payment Systems,
Mobile Banking and E-Channels.

Date of birth: 19 Dec 1990 Gender: Male Nationality:

Indian

Mobile: (+971)
561149895

Email address:
b.techitnirmal@gmail.com
Whatsapp Messenger: 971561149895

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harish-nirmal-85654553?
originalSubdomain=ae

Home: Flat 202, Progoti Exchange, Electra Street, ,
Abu Dhabi,
United Arab
Emirates

WORK EXPERIENCE
Scrum Master
First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB)
14 Nov 2018
–
Current

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

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·       Facilitate scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-

ups, etc.)

·       Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of

defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery.

·       Involved in Retro meetings with Build team & Business for future releases and scope
defining

·       Met goal of addressing and resolving issues within 24 hours.

·       Manage the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment.

·       Coordinate and manage code releases and shared APIs with other IT groups.

·       Communicate with other management, engineers, product managers and support

specialists on product issues

·       Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.

·       Managing 3 Agile projects for over a year - successful conversion of these projects
from Waterfall to Agile/Scrum.

·       Working with offshore teams, managing time and resources to meet deadlines.

·       Use multiple tools to manage projects efficiently, i.e. JIRA, Confluence, Clarity, Agile
Central, etc.

·      Attend weekly calls with senior management and business groups, presenting project
status and sprint reports

·       Systematizing Code Drop availability with Release/Change Management Team

·       Co-Ordinating Testing team, Vendor & Build Team for the Defect Resolution aimed
for an on-time SIT/UAT sign off

·       Defect Triage handling & effective Test Management based on the Go-Live deadline
dates

·       Reviewing and approving the ITR’s raised by Build Teams

·       SIT/UAT Test and defect management and get the Final regression preparation for
Go-Live consolidated package 

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·       Managing Daily Status call & Weekly status calls with business and Bank
Management 

·       Verifying the correctness of the build includes Build number, DEV-SIT-UAT test
status and code Review document and Change impact analysis document

·       Representing the Monthly Release CR Delivery in Bank CAB/Pre-CAB Meeting

·       Pursuing CR Approvals from Bank Stake Holders

·       Preparation of Global Run Book at Program Level Project Deliveries

·       Taking in charge of 

a.     Security Testing

b.     Penetration Testing

c.       Performance Testing for every Monthly Release

·       Change Impact Analysis (CIA) & Post Implementation Review (PIR) preparation 

·       Prioritizing the Deployment based on the urgency and the sequence with the Build
Team concurrence

·       Following up with Release Management Team and Deployment Team related to the
ITR Deployment completion

·       Co-ordinating with Build Team and Dev-ops team if any issues in Deployment and
assisting in completion of the same

·       Managed on time delivery of all Production Issues (PRM’s) gone through

development, testing and deployment

Dev-ops Management
First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB)
2 Oct 2018
–
14 Nov 2018

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

1.     Review and analysing the SIT/UAT Deployment ITR and processing the same

2.     Alignment of Release management & Non Production Deployment teams for the
deployment
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3.     Problem solving and the clarification of an offshore team queries related to the ITR
deployment and Change Request Processing

4.     Plan, organize and lead the Non Prod & Prod Deployments 

5.     Based on the management expectations, plan and scope the requirements of all
deployments

6.     Plan and align the resources in both onsite and offshore based on the shift routine
and following up the TAT for High, low, Medium ITRs and CRs 

7.     Involved in the development of ITSM Tool which plan and track all the lifecycle of
ITRs and 

8.     Evaluate and identify the required ITSM automation and ITSM management tools

9.     Estimate the effort and team (size, skills, attitude and schedule)

10.  Create the Deployment schedule (tasks, dependencies and assigned team members)

Senior Test Engineer

RAK Bank/ADCB Bank/Standard Chartered/Barclays
19 Nov 2012
–
10 Sep 2018

Dubai/India, United Arab Emirates

1.     Review and analyse the project requirements

2.     Plan and organize the knowledge transfer to the Software Test Engineers and self

3.     Collect the queries related to the requirements and get them resolved by the
business person (e.g. the client, business analyst, product manager or project manager)
assigned to the project

4.     Plan, organize and lead the testing kick-off meeting

5.     Scope the required tests

6.     Design the required test strategy in line with the scope and organization standards

7.     Create the software test plan, get it reviewed and approved/ signed-off by the
relevant stakeholders

8.     Evaluate and identify the required test automation and test management tools
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9.     Estimate the test effort and team (size, skills, attitude and schedule

10.     Retail Banking Group Projects

a.     Performed End to End ADCB Xpress Money UAT in Mobile App for Retail

Customers

b.     Involved in Retail Banking Interface Testing as part of Flex cube 12.03 Core
banking upgradation

11     Whole sale Banking Group projects

a.     Virtual Accounts as part of Flex cube Core Banking upgradation 

                                               i.     Standalone Virtual Accounts functionality Testing in Flex

cube

                                              ii.     Planning and Test Scenario preparation for Virtual

Accounts Impacted Interfaces such as Procash, Internet Banking, Mobile Banking, Cash
Deposit Machine, ICCS and CCSS

b.     Data Mart – ADCB In-house Report Generation system

                                               i.     Report Generation

                                              ii.     Report data Validation and Verification

                                             iii.     Worked closely with Business and IT for the Successful

project completion

c.      ‘Mobility’ UAT project

                                               i.     Tested the Mobile App which Facilitate corporate

customer to approve Payment transactions 

d.     Procash SER’s - Corporate Banking Functionalities Testing

                                               i.     Tested the below functionalities in ADCB as part of

Procash corporate banking SER’s

Worked on below Test Systems

1. GPSSA Payments (General Pension and Social Security Authority, UAE     

2. Fund Transfers
3. WPS Payments (Wages Protection System, UAE)
4. H2H File upload

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5. Connect Direct utility 

6. Bill Payments
7. Direct Debit System (DDS)
8. Corporate Cheque Scanning (CCSS)
9. File uploads
10. Single File Upload
11. Bulk File Upload

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Anna University
B.Tech - Information Technology
7 Aug 2008
–
4 May 2012

LANGUAGE SKILLS
Mother tongue(s)

Tamil

Other language(s)

German
Listening

B1

Reading

B1

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Spoken interaction

B1

Spoken production

B1

Writing

B1

English
Listening

C2

Reading

C2

Spoken interaction

C2

Spoken production

C2

Writing

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C2

DIGITAL SKILLS
Other
Scrum Methodology
Project Management: Microsoft Project
Defect Management

Sprint Review
Sprint Planning

SQL
Functional Testing
Regression Testing

DevOps with CI
change management

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