Madhuri Nalamothu

BA Continuum is one of the top investment banks globally with very effective and powerful market research technology.

As the researcher, I managed entitlement, subscription, distribution and pricing of research content to our institutional and retail clients. With Postman, I automated the APIs used by BofA Insight, Research Library, compilations, and Mercury user management. Additionally, as part of SDM best practices, I automated the web UI using Selenium with Cucumber framework and placed it in the build pipeline, reducing the time to market by 40%.

BofA's event management system (GEMS) provides events, presentations, and meetings to investors while integrating various research apps to get and post data as upstream and downstream links.

My role was to automate the APIs using REST Assured with Selenium BDD framework to ensure the downstream and upstream applications show the correct data with every internal release. Furthermore, I automated the web using Selenium with Cucumber BDD framework and the mobile application using Kaspresso. Such action saved a good amount of QA time during regression for each release.

Price charts are web applications developed for BA Continuum - Merrill Lynch that show the company's price graphs through a certain period, including the analysis, rating changes, and corporate actions. The end-user can easily analyze a ticker's performance for a certain period, including corporate activities with the associated company.

I automated the APIs from the upstream application for price data using REST Assured with Selenium that has reduced price data issues in production to zero.

Research Data Warehousing (rdw) is a data warehousing project that takes data from various internal systems such as IQ, RDR, and Research Library and external source systems such as Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, Capital IQ, and FactSet. Since the research data warehousing is integrated with other technology research teams of Merrill Lynch, collaboration is an essential part of day-to-day tasks and activities.

My role was to manage data transformation from all source systems and store it into the rdw database using SQL Server 2008 Integration Services. Such action resulted in the loaded data shown in reports used by Merrill Lynch market analysts for their research. We also provided ad-hoc reports by developing SQL transactional code on business demand and refreshed source systems regularly using Autosys.

BofA Insight mobile application is a solution with unified experience for employees and clients of Global Banking and Markets. It is aimed at research and sales purposes related to the financial markets.

Once authenticated, the app allows the client to research the company, read the research reports, interact with bank employees, attend one-one or group meetings and conferences, and invest. The app is developed for both iOS and Android users.

As the API calls were made from desktop applications to obtain data and then utilized in the mobile app, my role was to automate the API calls with REST Assured using Selenium with BDD framework. I automated the mobile application using Appium.