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ASHIQ BASHA

TECHNICAL LEAD
HOMEBUSH WEST,NSW

Summary

Experienced Technical Lead with over-all 9 years of IT experience (5 years at client location) in Core Banking, Lending, Financial Services and Insurance. Excellent reputation for resolving problems, improving customer satisfaction, and driving overall operational improvements. Currently managing technical teams providing application support and maintenance at client location for the leading bank in Australia.

Overview

5
5
years of post-secondary education
9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Technical Lead

HCL TECHNOLOGIES LTD
SYDNEY , NSW
2019.01 - Current
  • Develop technical solutions to diverse operational problems.
  • Investigate and address application issues to enhance usability and improve functionality.
  • Manage technical teams who provides L2/L3 functional/technical support to different applications.
  • Established a process within team to manage tickets effectively.
  • Utilize Scrum and Kanban methodologies to keep operations moving smoothly.
  • Liaise with different product owners, customers and application owners to better understand customer needs and recommend appropriate solutions.
  • Organize governance meeting with clients to provide project updates and progress.
  • Troubleshoot high priority production issues to identify cause and implement fix.
  • Creating, updating and maintaining technical documents, end user manuals and Service Management Plan document.
  • Analyze code logic and provide data from database to application owners, service managers and legal team to address various notices from regulation authorities.
  • Perform code review within team before it gets deployed through Change Management to avoid post production defects.
  • Provide tactical fix to design gap issues to lower business impacts.
  • Manage escalated Incidents and Problems to provide resolution to stakeholders.

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER

HCL TECHNOLOGIES LTD
CHENNAI , TAMILNADU
2016.10 - 2019.01
  • Performed L2/L3 investigation and delivered resolutions.
  • Troubleshot performance related issues and delivered resolutions to avoid high financial impacts to customers.
  • Reviewed application from functional and technical perspective, identify technical limitations and present ideas to Service owner / product owner to improvise system. Also, provide recommendations to current and future systems.
  • Maintained application source code using source control management tools such as Team Foundation Server, Stash, and GITHUB.
  • Created, updated and maintained technical documents, end user manuals and Service Management Plan document.
  • Interacted with product owners and end users for issue discussion and resolutions and for testing sign off.
  • Recommended solution to application vulnerabilities and End of Life software’s to Service owner for application availability.
  • Co-ordinated / worked with integration systems to complete , testing and implementation.
  • Adhered to Service Level Management and handle Incident / Problem / Change Management.
  • Guided team members to troubleshoot / implement defect fix on time to avoid customer impacts.
  • Identified Root cause for Problem Records and implement PCA to avoid recurrence of Incidents.

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

HCL TECHNOLOGIES LTD
CHENNAI , TAMILNADU
2013.12 - 2016.10
  • Writing PL/SQL stored procedures, functions, tables, etc.,.
  • Utilized SSIS to develop jobs for extracting, cleaning, transforming and loading data in to data warehouse.
  • To resolve moderately complex issues identified through code analysis; and resolve customer technical issues to overcome limitations within product.
  • Identifying out of date software’s and technologies and proposing solution to increase stability of application.
  • Develop high quality software applications by producing clean and efficient code.
  • Working closely with Business Users and internal teams to fix and improve quality of products.
  • Prepare and install solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards and programming.
  • Ensure software is up-to-date with latest technologies.
  • Managed to deliver project without high priority incident or discrepancy in data which extracted to data warehousing system.

ASSOCIATE SOFTWARE ENGINEER

HCL TECHNOLOGIES LTD
CHENNAI , TAMILNADU
2011.06 - 2013.09
  • Analyzed and identified critical batch database jobs and documented with impacts and re-run instructions.
  • Monitored critical jobs and sent out reports to stakeholders
  • Worked on service requests to provide data extracts to business users for different purposes
  • Troubleshot L2 tickets and provided resolution to customers on time
  • Adhered to Service Level Agreement and performed Incident Management effectively.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics

JAMAL MOHAMMED COLLEGE, TRICHY TAMILNADU
2008.06 - 2011.04

MBA - Information Systems

BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY [DISTANCE EDUCATION], CHENNAI
2012.06 - 2014.05

Skills

Agile Methodologies

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Project

COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA:

Commonwealth Bank of Australia is an Australian multinational bank with businesses across New Zealand, Fiji, Asia, USA and the United Kingdom. Commonly referred to as the Commonwealth Bank (or Commbank), it provides a variety of financial services including retail, business and institutional banking, funds management, superannuation, insurance, investment and broking services.

Branch Telling Application is being used by Commonwealth Bank branch Customer Service Representatives to perform financial transactions for the customers who visits bank. The major functionalities are Passbook enquiry, Deposit, Withdrawal, Fund Transfer and Device Maintenance.

Safe Custody Application is being used by Commonwealth Bank branch users to Open, Maintain and Close safety locker to its customers to safe their valued things. It has different types of products such as packets (small size), vaults (medium size) and boxes (large size).

CommSee application is being used by Commonwealth Bank branch staffs, Lenders to build a Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Over 1,100+ branch users are performing their day-to-day tasks with the aid of this application. The major area includes Commercial Loans, Home Loans, Personal Loans, Overdrafts, Credit Cards, Insurance and various types of accounts.

Empire Margin Lending application supports all aspects of applying for and managing the loans / deposit accounts. It includes charging interest and fees, producing statements, managing the margin call processes, reporting and data extracts etc. It is a standalone application and it is the primary system of use for approximately 700 internal users that manage the Margin Lending and Deposits business. The system is critical to the Bank's ability to manage all loans contained therein. It is highly critical as it deals with huge amount of money every day. This system is primarily used for the management of cash-related products managed by PBS Global Markets.

Timeline

Technical Lead - HCL TECHNOLOGIES LTD
2019.01 - Current
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - HCL TECHNOLOGIES LTD
2016.10 - 2019.01
SOFTWARE ENGINEER - HCL TECHNOLOGIES LTD
2013.12 - 2016.10
BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY [DISTANCE EDUCATION] - MBA, Information Systems
2012.06 - 2014.05
ASSOCIATE SOFTWARE ENGINEER - HCL TECHNOLOGIES LTD
2011.06 - 2013.09
JAMAL MOHAMMED COLLEGE - Bachelor of Science, Mathematics
2008.06 - 2011.04
ASHIQ BASHATECHNICAL LEAD